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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Illustration | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Introduction: Understanding Salem Town's Fraternity | |
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| Colonial Masonry | |
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| Newton and Necromancy: The Creation of the Masonic Fraternity | |
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| The Remains of the Mysterys of the Ancients | |
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| The Augustan Style | |
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| An Honour Much Courted of Late | |
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| The Appearance of So Many Gentlemen: Masonry and Colonial Elites, 1730-1776 | |
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| The United Party for Virtue | |
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| The Greatest Order and Regularity | |
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| A Very Harmless Sort of People | |
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| The Revolutionary Transformation | |
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| Where Is Honour? The Rise of Ancient Masonry, 1752-1792 | |
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| The Good Old Way | |
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| The Mason's Arms | |
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| The Country People | |
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| According to Their Rank: Masonry and the Revolution, 1775-1792 | |
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| Great Trubles amonge Masons | |
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| Free and Independent | |
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| The Cares and Fatigues of the Soldier's Life | |
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| Republican Masonry | |
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| A New Order for the Ages: Public Values, 1790-1826 | |
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| Temples of Virtue | |
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| The Great Instrument of Civilization | |
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| Around the Enlightened World | |
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| An Appearance of Sanctity: Religion, 1790-1826 | |
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| Neutral Ground | |
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| Dedicated to the Worship of God | |
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| Spiritual Masonry | |
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| Cavils, Objections, and Calumnies | |
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| Preference in Many Particulars: Charity and Commerce, 1790-1826 | |
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| The Most Charitable and Benevolent of the Human Race | |
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| Bound to Regard You as a Mason | |
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| In Almost Every Place Where Power is of Importance: Politics, 1790-1826 | |
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| The Most Influential and Respectable men | |
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| We Have Nothing to Do with Politics | |
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| Men of All Parts of the Union Mingling Together | |
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| Into the Secret Place: Organization and Sacrilization, 1790-1826 | |
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| The Lodge of Instruction | |
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| The Rugged Road | |
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| The Thick Veil | |
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| Masonry and Democracy | |
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| The Lion and the Crows: Antimasonry, 1826-1840 | |
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| The Concentration of Great Numbers on a Single Point | |
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| A Stupendous Mirror | |
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| These Desperate Fanatics Epilogue: Losing the Right to Reverence: Masonry's Decline and Revival A Note on Masonic Sources Notes IndexIllustrations | |
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| George Washington | |
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| Masonic Temple | |
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| The Temple of Solomon | |
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| The Five Points of Fellowship | |
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| Les Free Masons | |
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| The Second Grand Anniversary Procession | |
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| Lodge Summons, Philadelphia Ancient Lodge No. 2 | |
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| Saint Peter's Lodge Night | |
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| Membership Certificate, Rising States Lodge | |
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| Prostyle Temple | |
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| Tracing Board | |
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| University of North Carolina Cornerstone | |
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| Freemason's Heart Supported by Justice and Liberty | |
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| Membership Certificate, Alexandria Lodge | |
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| Tavern Sign | |
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| Advertisement, J. T. Jacobs and Co. | |
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| The Master's Carpet | |
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| The Fifth Libation | |
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| The Chamber of Reflection | |
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| The Masonic Minstrel | |
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| The Living Arch Three times Three | |
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| The Living Arch | |
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| Masonic Penalties | |
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| Antimasonic Apron | |
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| Master Mason's CertificateTables | |
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| Occupations of Modern Masons, Boston, and St. John's Members, Philadelphia, 1750-1770 | |
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| Occupations of Ancient Masons, St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, and Lodge No. 2, Phladelphia, 1752-1775 | |
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| Summary of Occupations of Ancient and Moderns | |
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| Boston Masons in 1771 Provincial Tax | |
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| Philadelphia Masons in 1756 City Tax | |
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| Occupations of Port Royal Lodge Members | |
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| Public Offices of Port Royal Lodge Members | |
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| Military Ranks of Members of Three Lodges | |
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| Military Ranks of Lodge No. 19 (Ancient), Pennsylvania Artillery | |
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| Occupations Listed in Lexington Kentucky, Directory, 1806, and of Lodge Members, 1794-1810 | |
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| Age at Membership of Jordan Lodge Members, Danvers, Massachusetts, 1808-1827 | |
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| Occupations of Members of Ark Lodge, Geneva, New York, and Jordan Lodge Members, Danvers, Massachusetts, 1807-1827 | |
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| Occupations of St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, and Lodge No. 2, Philadelphia, 1790-1820 | |
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| Occupations of Members of Holland Lodge No. 9 | |