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Honorary emeritus membership certificate issued to Sovereign Grand Commander Henry L. Palmer, 1889 March 1

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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…

Certificate of appointment issued by the Supreme Council to Robert McCorskry Graham, 1867 September 24

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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…

Tableau of the bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, holding their meetings at the Grand East, Masonic Temple, Boston, 1876

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Pamphlet containing list of officers and other information related to Boston-based Scottish Rite subordinate bodies meeting at the Masonic Temple in Boston. Bodies listed include Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Boston Lodge of Perfection, Giles F.…

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 regarding visitors to the Southern Jurisdiction, 1873 March 12

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This circular from Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, informs members and bodies subordinate to the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, about a new statute adopted by the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction, and issued in…

Circular Warning against the Hays (Cerneau) Supreme Council in New York City

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A circular issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, to all Freemasons living in New York and New Jersey. The circular details the granting of charters and dispensations from a New York City-based Supreme Council (i.e. the Hays…

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…

Proclamation of the Treaty of the Union of 1867

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The Treaty of the Union of 1867 proclaimed that the two competing Supreme Councils in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction (one Council led by Killian H. Van Rensselaer, the other Council led by John L. Lewis) had united to form a new Supreme Council…

Letter of appointment of Edmund B. Hays as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction of the Western Hemisphere, 1858 May 14

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This manuscript certificate issued by the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction of the Western Hemisphere, Henry C. Atwood, appoints Edmund B. Hays as his successor-in-waiting. Upon Atwood’s death in 1860,…

Manifesto issued by Supreme Council member Emanuel De La Motta, 1814

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Manifesto issued by Supreme Council member Emanuel De La Motta. Dated 1814. Manifesto issued by Emanuel De La Motta and the Charleston Supreme Council declaring Joseph Cerneau to be an "Imposter of the first magnitude" and his Masonic works to be…