Brother Thomas Procter, Senior Grand Warden, formerly Colonel of the Pennsylvania Artillery, and Warrant Master of the Military Lodge, No. 19, upon the Roster of Pennsylvania was prominent in both civil and political affairs during Washington's administration. A full account of Brother Thomas Procter and this Military Lodge will be found in the History of the Old Masonic Lodges of Pennsylvania, published by the Grand Lodge in 1913.[56]
For a sketch of Brother Peter Le Barbier Duplessis, the reader is referred to the same volume.[57]
Washington's Past Master's Jewel.
Replica in the Museum of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
Footnotes:
[49] Reprint of Minutes of Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Vol. I, p. 178.
[50] Ibid., p. 180.
[51] Mss. Volume A, folio 17, 19, 21.
[52] Letter Book II, pp. 104-105.
[53] Cf. "Old Masonic Lodges of Pennsylvania," Vol. I, p. 201.