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18 HISTORY.
Moulirie, Abraham Alexander, M. C. Liyy, Thomas \i.
Bowen, and J. De Liebau.
The Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction
of the United States, happily progressing as it is
at this time, requires no special historic mention in
detail. Space would not permit an examination of the
trials of the Rite and the various questions that have
arisen, all which are now harmoniously adjusted. It is
sufficient for the purpose of this brief history to say,
that in every respect it has realized all that the earliest
founders of the Rite could have hoped for, and its pres-
ent supporters desire.
On the 20th of December, 1767, Deputy Inspector-
General Francken, appointed by Morin, opened and
duly constituted a Grand Lodge of Perfection in Albany,
State of New York, which is still actively at work.
In 1783, Deputy Inspector-General Hays established
a Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection in Charleston,
South Carolina. On the 20th of February, 1788, a Grand
Council ofPrinces of Jerusalem was opened in Charleston
by Myers, Spitzer, and A. Forst, Deputy Inspector-Gen-
eral for Virginia.
In the year i797, a chapter of Rose-Croix De H.\ R.\
D.\ M.\ Knight of the Eagle and Pelican, was instituted
in the City of New York. In this year, King Solomon's
Lodge of Perfection, at Holmes Hole, Martha's Vineyard,
which had been established since 1783 by M. M. Hays and
Peleg Clark, surrendered its jurisdiction over the threa
symbolic degrees to the Grand Lodge :>f Massachusetts,