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

Creator

Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction

Van Rensselaer, Killian Henry, 1800-1881

Title

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

Description

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 Council, with Edmund Burke Hays as Sovereign Grand Commander) and a warning to Masons not to be "deluded into joining" any subordinate bodies chartered by this clandestine Supreme Council. Dated November 1, 1862.

Subject

Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Northern Masonic Jurisdiction -- History.

Scottish Rite (Masonic order) -- History.

Freemasons -- New York (State)

Freemasonry -- New York (State)

Freemasons -- New Jersey.

Freemasonry -- New Jersey.

Source

Collection of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts

SC 001.025

Date

1862 11 01

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

A2002/108/1

Coverage

United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Extent

1 document; 20 x 25 cm.

Provenance

Gift of the Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite.

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Collection

Scottish Rite Documents

Citation

Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction and Van Rensselaer, Killian Henry, 1800-1881 , “Circular Warning against the Hays (Cerneau) Supreme Council in New York City,” digitalVGW, accessed April 19, 2024, https://digitalvgw.omeka.net/items/show/440.