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This Supreme Council, S.J., document appoints and commissions Robert McCorskry Graham to be the Southern Jurisdiction’s representative to the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. Dated September 24, 1867. Signed by Sovereign Grand…

Circular announcing the formation of the first Supreme Council, located at Charleston, South Carolina. This is the foundation document of the Ancient and Accepted (Scottish) Rite. This copy signed by John Mitchell (Grand Commander) and signed and…

An honorary emeritus membership certificate issued by Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction to Sovereign Grand Commander Henry L. Palmer of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. Dated March 1, 1889. Signed by Sovereign…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas. Dated April 13, 1826. In this letter, Moses Holbrook, Lieutenant Commander of the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction, responds that he has received Gourgas’ package, which is before the…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas. Dated January 25/26, 1827. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Holbrook of the Southern Jurisdiction responds to Gourgas' letter of January 17, 1827, until his responsibilities as a…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas . Dated March 26, 1827. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Holbrook of the Southern Jurisdiction acknowledges Gourgas’ letter of March 10, 1827, and states that his Supreme Council has…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas. Dated November 13, 1827. In this letter, Doctor Holbrook, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction, reports that he is “quite busy in attending” to sufferers of Charleston’s…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas. Dated November 24, 1827. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Holbrook of the Southern Jurisdiction thanks Gourgas furnishing copies of M'Cosh's book, Documents Upon Sublime Free-Masonry,…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas. Dated August 23, 1828. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Holbrook of the Southern Jurisdiction reports that since July 1 he has suffered from a second attack of Dengue fever, which has…

Letter from Moses Holbrook to John James Joseph Gourgas. Dated September 22, 1828. In this letter, Sovereign Grand Commander Holbrook of the Southern Jurisdiction reports that he still suffers from Dengue fever. Thanks Gourgas for the “antimasonic…