Petition to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in New York State, 1866

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Petition to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in New York State, 1866

Description

Petition to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in New York State. Dated 1866. This manuscript petition from a group of Scottish Rite Freemasons asks the Supreme Council's permission to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in the State of New York. Signed by the officers of Cosmopolitan Sovereign Consistory, No. 1, of New York City; Central City Consistory, No. 3, of Syracuse; Rochester Consistory of Rochester; and Aurora Grata Consistory of Brooklyn. Includes Edward H. Craige's 1915 letter bequeathing the petition to the archives of the Supreme Council.

Source

Collection of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. SC 430.003

Date

1866

Rights

This image is presented for research and educational purposes only, and may not be distributed or re-published without permission from the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library.

Language

English

Identifier

A2019/089/001

Extent

1 item (6 pages) ; 32 x 22 x 1 cm.

Provenance

Collection of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. SC 430.003

Citation

Freemasons, “Petition to form a Sovereign Grand Consistory in New York State, 1866,” digitalVGW, accessed April 23, 2024, https://digitalvgw.omeka.net/items/show/1156.