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date: 15 March 2025

Masonic Order. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Lynn DumenilLynn Dumenil

The Ancient and Accepted Order of Freemasons originated in London in the early 1700s and spread to colonial America. The all-male secret organization flourished among colonial leaders who were attracted to its deistic religion and its ideology of equality and fraternity. George ... ...

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