Washington's Masonic Correspondence / As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress

by George Washington

[74] Ibid., Vol. I, Chapter XII, pp. 399 et seq.

Vide "Washington and his Masonic Compeers," Chapter VIII, pp. 149 et seq.

[75] Ibid., pp. 86-87. Also records of King Solomon's Lodge, No. 1, Poughkeepsie, New York.

[76] Ibid., pp. 150 et seq.

[77] Ibid., pp. 139 et seq.

[78] Washington, so far as known, attended the following public Masonic functions:

1. Procession in Philadelphia, Festival of St. John the Evangelist, December 28, 1778.

2. Festival of St. John the Baptist, June 24, 1779, with the American Union Lodge, at the Robinson House on the Hudson, New York.

3. Festival of St. John the Evangelist, December 27, 1779, with American Union Lodge, at the Morris Hotel, Morristown, New Jersey.

4. Festival of St. John the Evangelist, December 27, 1782, with King Solomon's Lodge, at Poughkeepsie, New York.