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. 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.
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