A true and exact account of the celebration of the festival of Saint John the Babtist [i.e. Baptist]...

A true and exact account of the celebration of the festival of Saint John the Babtist [i.e. Baptist]...

A True and Exact Account of the Celebration of the Festival of Saint John the Babtist [sic], by the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons, at Boston in New-England, on June the 26 1739. Taken from the Boston Gazette and Rendered into Metre, That Children May More Easily Commit It to, and Retain It in Their Memory.

A satirical and anti-Masonic account of the celebration of the Festival of Saint John the Baptist held by Freemasons in Boston. Written by Joseph Green, a poet, merchant, and British Loyalist, based on an account published in the July 2, 1739 edition of the Boston Gazette.

In hand at foot: "Gave me August 1739"

Collection of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.

MM 001.008

1739

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English

A1980/001/1

Walgren 3

1 item ; 31 x 21 cm.

Museum purchase.