Thursday, July 3, 2014
Great Freemasons: William Ellery (December 2, 1727- February 15, 1820)
”…
the door is shut … We have been driven into a Declaration of
Independency & must forget our former love of our British brethren.
The Sword must determine our quarrel.”
William Ellery (December 2, 1727- February 15, 1820)
William Ellery (1727-1820) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Rhode Island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/William_Ellery
(St. John's Lodge/First Lodge of Boston, Boston, MA, 1748)
William Ellery (December 2, 1727- February 15, 1820)
William Ellery (1727-1820) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Rhode Island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
(St. John's Lodge/First Lodge of Boston, Boston, MA, 1748)
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Great Freemasons: Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794)
Resolved,
That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and
independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the
British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the
State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances.
That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.
~Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794), known as the Lee Resolution, or the Resolution of Independence, voted and agreed upon by the Second Continental Congress on July 2, 1776
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Lee_Resolution
Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and his famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States Declaration of Independence, which Lee signed. He also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a United States Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving during part of that time as one of the first Presidents pro tempore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee
(It is not definite he was a Freemason, but it is likely. Hiram Lodge No. 59, Westmoreland County, Virginia)
That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances.
That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.
~Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794), known as the Lee Resolution, or the Resolution of Independence, voted and agreed upon by the Second Continental Congress on July 2, 1776
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and his famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States Declaration of Independence, which Lee signed. He also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a United States Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving during part of that time as one of the first Presidents pro tempore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
(It is not definite he was a Freemason, but it is likely. Hiram Lodge No. 59, Westmoreland County, Virginia)
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Happy Canada Day!
"I
read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors
customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors;
but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this
because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer
to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the
same way, in the United States, Canadians are not
'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction
illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our
two countries."
"On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Visit to Quebec, July 31, 1936
(Photo President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936 Pierce Arrow Convertible, in Quebec, Canada, August, 1936)
"On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Visit to Quebec, July 31, 1936
(Photo President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936 Pierce Arrow Convertible, in Quebec, Canada, August, 1936)
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Great Freemasons: James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868)
I feel that my duty has been faithfully, though it may be imperfectly, performed, and, whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868)
James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States (1857–1861), serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.
http://en.wikiquote.org/
(Initiated: December 1l, 1816, Lodge No. 43, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Brother Buchanan became Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 43 1822-1823; and in 1824 was appointed District Deputy Grand Master for the Counties of Lancaster, Lebanon and York.)
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Opening Day
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." - Doug Larson
(Art by Pascal Campion Art)
(Art by Pascal Campion Art)
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