Gould, Robert Freke, 1836-1915 · New York : Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. · leaf 594
as there had been before,but as the Ancients and Moderns assimilated in eachjurisdiction,onemodewas adopted,which embracedmoreorless the peculiarities of both systems. Gradually, in States The United States of America. 523 where there were two Grand Lodges, they amalgamated.A union of the rival… … BURIAL OF WASHINGTON. Pennsylvania and New York simply declared their inde-pendence, the former in 1786 and the latter in the follow-ing year. In Pennsylvania there were no Modernsleft to either conciliate or coerce, but in New York theLodges under the older English sanction (which survivedthe…
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