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Agents Wanted for Scarlet Book of Free Masonry

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Broadside soliciting agents to sell book entitled Scarlet Book of Free Masonry. Contains endorsements from Daniel Sickels, 33°, and John W. Simons, 33°, and others. The Scarlet Book of Free Masonry was first published by Redding & Co. in 1879. This…

Appointment of Edmund B. Hays as First Lieutenant Grand Commander in the Atwood Council

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This manuscript certificate issued to Edmund B. Hays appoints him as First Lieutenant Grand Commander of the Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction of the Western Hemisphere or the Atwood Supreme Council. The certificate is dated November 19,…

Certificate of Appointment to the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, for Giles Fonda Yates, 33°.

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This patent, dated July 5, 1828, admitted Giles Fonda Yates, 33°, as an Active Member of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. Document in the hand of John James Joseph Gourgas, who was Grand Secretary General of the Supreme Council at…

Certificate of Healing and Regularizing for the Cerneau Masons of St. John's Lodge, No. 1 (Newport, Rhode Island)

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This document is a certificate of healing and regularizing for Newport, Rhode Island, Masons previously working under a charter granted by Joseph Cerneau. Masons named in this certificate as having been "regularized and healed" include Jeremiah…

Circular Responding to the Attacks against the Legitimacy of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, from F. T. B. Clavel and Others

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This circular issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, responds to attacks from F. T. B. Clavel and others.

Begins: "Whereas, slanderous attacks void of the least semblance of truth, have been reiterated, published, and…

Draft Copy of Resolutions for Mourning President Garfield

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A draft of a set of resolutions composed by the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction and dated September 20, [1881]. In this document, the Supreme Council expresses their "regret, sympathy, and mourning" for the sudden death of…

Engrossed certificate declaring John Christie an Active Member of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction

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This certificate, dated June 17, 1845, announces the appointment of John Christie of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Thirty-Third degree. Christie was elevated to the grade of Sovereign Grand Inspector General…

Engrossed Scottish Rite 33rd degree certificate for Edmund B. Hays, issued by Henry C. Atwood

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Engrossed 33rd degree certificate issued to Edmund Burke Hays in 1858, documenting his elevation to the grade of Sovereign Grand Inspector General by Henry C. Atwood on September 9, 1848.

Also, contains notations (not signatures) of approval by…

Mecca Temple officers tableau, 1883

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Tableau of officers of Mecca Temple, New York City in 1883.

Past Master Mason certificate for John S. Rowlands

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Past Master Mason certificate issued by Grand Lodge of New York to John S. Rowlands, dated March 4, 1907.