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History Of The Knights Templar Of The State Of Pennsylvania From February 14Th, A.D. 1794 To November 13Th, A.D., 1866: A.O 748. A.O.E.P. 69 Prepared

History Of The Knights Templar Of The State Of Pennsylvania From February 14Th, A.D. 1794 To November 13Th, A.D., 1866: A.O 748. A.O.E.P. 69 Prepared

Creigh, Alfred

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General United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 9354502938
ISBN13: 9789354502934
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step inside the meeting room where American chivalric Masonry took shape. In Pennsylvania, between 1794 and 1866, the Knights Templar recorded their decisions with lawyerly precision and fraternal fervour. Alfred Creigh gathers those grand commandery records into a single, authoritative narrative built from primary source documents: proceedings, constitutions, resolutions, and practical forms used by the R.E. Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania. Names, dates, decisions, and voices. For readers of masonic lodge history and freemasonry history research, it is a rare window on 19th century freemasonry and York Rite history, tracing how rules were debated, offices organised, and local commanderies connected across 1794-1866 Pennsylvania. For family historians it also serves as a masonic genealogy reference, pointing to the people who carried titles, signed returns, and shaped an enduring fraternal order. This is not folklore; it is the paper trail of American fraternal societies, preserved in the language and structures of the time, including masonic constitutions and bylaws that governed conduct and ritual life. It captures a formative era when faith, civic duty, and fraternity overlapped, showing how disciplined record-keeping sustained the Order through expansion, conflict, and reform. Dip in for drama, or mine it for data; the detail rewards return visits. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this edition is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure for shelves devoted to fraternal order archives, Pennsylvania history, and the long story of knights templar masonry.

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