1To George Washington from St. John’s Masonic Lodge, Newport, R.I., 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Petition and Request of the master wardens and members of Lodge St Johns in the City of Newport Sheweth that said Lodge was Constituted in the year 1753 by Francis Axnard Esqr. then Presideing Grand master of north america and that sd Lodge flourished from that time to the breaking out of the late warr, haveing Increas’d to a very Respectable number of the first Characters and Stood equal...