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  • Subject is exactly "Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Grand Council for the United States of America, their Territories and Dependencies (Hays) -- History."

Announcement of the union of the Hays and Raymond Supreme Councils, 1863 March 1

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Announcement of the union of the Hays Supreme Council (Cerneau) of New York City and Raymond Supreme Council (schismatic) of Boston, Massachusetts. Dated March 1, 1863. Signed by newly elected Sovereign Grand Commander Edmund B. Hays and Grand…

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,…