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An Entertaining Interview between Bro. Morang and M. W. Bro. J. Ron Robertson, the Canadian Masonic Historian Toronto : G. N. MORANG ft CO., LIMITED, 1901. HUNTING FOR MANUSCRIPTS. The last time I had a talk with Bro K088 Robertson about matters Ma- sonic was on a sunshiny day in the early part of June of 1900, while we were comfortably seated In deck "Luclnla" ^^^ °"°^'''* "°^'" rtfll »n'i * '"' °' '^'■"'"S to do the next hv^nf. • «»>fequently, a promise made by Bro Robertson to tell me some- ^Ing about his collection of Masonic manuscripts, more especially those connected with the "History of Free- masonry In Canada," did not materlal- thB r,^^f^^«f, contributory reason for th«t I ? ,?""i"'^.°' °' ^^^ promise was landing n^^n''"''^ P"'^^'"^ '° ^° "efore landing at Queenstown, and all Atlan- VL r X?"^""^ ^°°^ wliat that means after """"^ **""" "y^*'" *° ^°°^ So I disembarked at Queenstown and Bro. Robertson went on to Liverpool, and I had half made up my mind that I should have to wait until I met the Past Grand Master In Canada before I could hear the rest of his Interesting story. The fates, however, Wi re kind. I whirled through Ireland and crossed over from Belfast to Glasgow and north— yes, away up to the Lewes, the Islands which as schoolboys we knew as the Hebrides— and after a pleasant passage across the Mlnch— it's gen- erally a rough trip— I landed at Stor- noway, the chief town of the Island of Lewes. What made my trip of more than ordinary interest was the discovery,. In a chat with some friends at the Im- perial Hotel, that Bro. Robertson was even known here In this far northern region. . My friend, who was a member of Fortrose Lodge under the Grand Lodge of Scotland, warranted in Storn- oway in 1767, took me by surprise when he said that Bro. Robertson's grandfather, a Mr. Hector Sinclair, had lived there from about 1796 until about 1823, and that he had been a member of that lodge for over twenty years. "Yes," said the brother, "your Past Grand Master's mother was born a hundred years ago a the old farm- house on Ooathlll. ^nd It Is just one hundred and two years since her rather was made a Mason In Fortrose. Lodge. We see Bro. Robertson every iwo oj three years and he is always I had some business In the town and after a dav'p rest I went south to Lon- don _hence to Pirls end down to Munich and Oberammergau to see the Passion Play, i had a day or so at Zurich and then by the advice of a friend I headed for the highest, driest and one of the sunniest health resorts o„7"'"°?^~*'l'' Engadlne of Switzer- land where they have air as asceptlc as It Is made, where germs and dust do not corrupt and where you are pro- Ai^r.^'lJ?'" '''"^^ "y the ranges of n.H^o n^?*-^"'"'' '° ''^'Kht from 10,000 ^ i?'°M ^u^ '? ^^^^^^- I '°"n1 this at St. Morltz after a ten hours' jaunt P».* ^^It^ diligence over the Juller Pass of the Bernese Alps «tLl"*^^V^, ^^^ evening, rather tired after the drive and turned In early lo^^ M"' morning I was up with the no . t"^ef open my window in the Bavler Hotel, and as I did so, .imch to TIa ^',"■^'■'80. I saw Bro. Robertson and his son evld. ntly taking a consti- tutlonal before breakfast. My lunn did good service at that moment and *« f«n«wed our friendship of the At lanuc liner at our breakfast an hour smlfr^n^?" ''V*' '*" breakfasts-ono Dread and butter— and at eleven o clock you have your meat breakllst Climb" Bm°'°H*K ^"'^ "^ ""t Alpine ,. ■ ^™- Robertson said a short c^lmb would give me an appetltrfor my second breakfast and I thereforp assented most willingly V accept the f. a. M. as a guide. Yes, it waa n but when It means a walk up a slope that eventually brings you about 800 .« n '""ly.^ ?'°"'' «*»'""°K Po'nt. then It Is no mild task. We started out, Bro Robertson's son, leading the way the pater came next and* then ••^yours I do not believe that Bro. Robertson So'l'ihrnw h'"'" '",'"« composition no? do I think he would deliberately Invite me to perform a sort of harl karl as '^ey do n Japan, but no more Alpl^o short walks for me Just at the present Tn h„",f; i7* ^ *"" ^°"'"S 'his all down an hour after my return to the hotel But I am anticipating. Bro. Robert- sons son, young and vigorous, shot upwards like a veteran Alpine guide and his paternal relative kept close be- hind him. Talk of the hlghOHt degrees m the Craft— I was getting all the de- grees I wanted for all time. The route to the Habensce, or the peak that rises about 800 feet above St. Morltz Is given as an hour and a half walk! I had an Idea that Bro. Robertson said half an hour. But the half hour passed and ou- feet kept moving. Every half- hour we rested by the wayside on benches which some kind spirit had placed by the path, and finally In nigh two hours' time we saw the national flag of Switzerland floating over the upper plateau of land, and just twu hours from our start rested Ir the bandbox restaurant that private ter- prlse had placed upon the top ot this mountain peak. A two hours' rest revived mv wearied frame, and while Bro. Robert- son s son went off exploring I sat, and over a cigar and a cup of delicious coffee reminded Bro. Robertson of h s promise to tell me of his quest for manuscripts, without which his Ix- 8 "I'm afraid," said he, "that I hardly realized all that that promise meant." "How so?" "Well, while it's an easy task to talk or hunting for pictures. It's rather diffi- cult to tax one's memory reeardlne manuscripts." "Why, It seems to me that you would remember where you found your manu- scripts much more readily than where you found your pictures." "Not at all. That's just where you are mistaken. A picture, you know once seen. Impresses Itself on the mind, doubly so If you are Interested In the subject. You can take In the whole perspective at a glance. You, so to speak, size up the scene — If It's a landscape— so much so, that If you are handy with a pencil you can make a rough drawing of it from memory As I say this I think of a sketch of Halifax, Nova Scotia, which I found one morning In the British Museum as I turn 3d over a number of maps Issued about 1760. It was a rare find— fancy ^fJ ^^ I? "^''- " ^a« J"st a village and yet^ Masonry was founded in Nova Scotia before Halifax was thought of The founder was Erasmus J. Phillips a British officer In the garrison at 9 Annapolis. He was Initiated In the first lodge at Boston In J737 and on ,}a ""^'"J? ^° Annapolis founded a lodge. That was about twelve year? before Edward CornwalUs, the first Governor of Nova Scotia, obtained a warrant from Phillips, for Lodge No i Nova Scotia. Bro. Edward Cornwailis was a brigadier-general and an uncll of Lord Cornwailis of Yorktown fame " work?" *°^ *''^'^®^ °' Phillips' "None whatever. We know that he was made a Mason in Boston and he Mfll^tf ^ *? \^''^ ''^^^ Provincial Grand Master of Nova Scotia as early as il ?; '■^'° ^^^^ y^*"" ^e was addressed w^? °;,,'^°'""^^"'^ a°'i "tliers as such 1^5^° tl>,ey asked for a warrant for a Annapolis and undoubtedly held a lodge there, but of this there are no records. I have searched everywhere JT/i w"^*'''^,'"^ *•»« slightesl traTe o? his work prior to 1750." ■ '-pid you ever come across a nicture of Cornwailis? I mean Edward-" nnr n^U"^''®''- "^ "^"^ "^^^^r engraved nor put on canvas. The same of Bro Thos. Carleton, the first Governor of found; neither can that of Col. Simon 10 Fraser, of the 78th Highlanders, be found. He was the eldest son of old Lord Lovat. Anyone who has the pic- ture of any one of these three can get his own figure for them. Fraser, you know, was the Provincial Grand Mas- ter that instituted the officers of the lodge at Quebec In 1759." "What about Upper Canada manu- scripts? Those are more directly cor nected with your history." "That Is just what I am thinking about. I have so many that I scarce know where to begin. Why, the manu- scripts of the first three Provincial Grand Lodges that worked In Upper Canada from 1792-1858 are In my library. They fill very comfort- ablly about ten portfolios of a hundred pages each and all these are classified and Indexed— yes, and type-written. This does not include the manuscript minutes of a hundred and twenty of the pioneer lodges, such as Zion Lodge, No. 10, of Detroit, that was under Canada from 1794-1805." "Why, was Zlon not an American lodge?" "Yes, after 1805, but from 1794 until the close of that year it worked under a warrant granted by the Provincial 11 of Lower Canada at Grand Lodge Quebec." "Was there a Zion Lodge at Detroit prior to 1794?" "No, the first Zion Lodge was that warranted by the Grand Lodge of Lower Canada. There were lodges in Detroit from 1764, but they were all known as "Lodges at Detroit in Can- ada.' In 1785 there was a 'Harmony' Lodge and in 1787 a lodge called 'No 1, New York.' Bro. William Hull, the Governor of Michigan, was a member of Zion, and in May of 1807 he enter- tained the lodge at his residence in Detroit. Of course, our American friends criticize Hull for surrendering Detroit in 1813, but nevertheless he was a good Mason and popular with the brethren." "Are the old Craft warrants of Michi- gan in existence?" "Yes, very much so. The military warrant of 1764, held in the 60th Regi- ment and issued by Bro. George Har- Ison of New York, when he was Pro- vincial Grand Master, was for a hun- dred years in the ac'-ives of the Grand Lodge of New York and the Zion warrant of 1794 was in the same keeping for about ninety years THrough the efforts of R. W. Bro 12 Bhlers, the Grand Secretary of N^v York, both those documents were sent to Zion Lodge by order of the Grand Lodge of that State. For many years the 1764 warrant was missing. It had oeen put away by Bro. Austin, a for- mer Grand Secretary of New Yorli and search was frequently made for it but without avail. Bro. Ehlers had never seen the document and was satisfied that It was not In any of his safes nor in the fire-proof strong room where he keeps his documents of value. During my frequent visits to New York I had many an entertaining chat with the Grand Secretary. Once I suggested to him that the old warrant was 'somewhere' among his treasures reminding him of the fact that Bro' John Barker, of New York, the former Grand Librarian, and the late Bro Herman Carter had both declared that it was in the Grand Secreta'-y's office after Bro. Austin's death. On one oc- casion I spent a morning In his office turning over scores of dusty old parch- ments, warrants of old New York lodges that had ceased work. When I got through my hands were as black as the ace of spades and I had to con- fess that I was beaten, so much so that Bro. Ehlers smiled at my wasted time 18 and said: 'Bro. Robertson, I told you so.' But all things come to him who waits. I always Insisted that the war- rant would turn up; indeed, I often wondered how the Grand Secretary btood my frequent reminders, for I was very persistent. But Ehlers Is a prince In good nature and only expressed a wish that some day my 'hope deferred' would be realized. Well, sure enough It was. A brother from the northern part of New York called on Bro. Ehlers one morning about three years ago to talk about American Masonic his- tory, for the Grand Secretary is well informed and most interesting on all that concerns the earlj history of the Craft in the state. During the conver- sation Ehlers said: 'New York Is the only state that has a provincial war- rant from England and I have it in the safe. 'Let me see It,' said his friend 'I will,' renlled Ehlers, and with this stepped briskly to the strong room and opened one of the safes. Armed with his precious parcel he returned to the Grand Master's room where his friend was sitting. Here he opened the large envelope, unfolded the provincial war- rant and In doing so found another smaller parchment within the larger ine. This he also opened, and what 14 do you suppose the smaller packaee was? Why, nothing but the long-loll Detroit warrant of 1764, which for safety had been carefully preserved within the folds of the Provincial Grand Lodge warrant for probably fifty years. Bro. Ehlers was more than delighted. The long-sought-for parch- ment had In due course turned up and In accordance with a resolution of Crrand Lodge was sent to Zlon Lodge at Detroit. Thanks to Bro. Ehlers I nave been able to reproduce the war- rant full size in my history of Zlon Lodge. "Whi t. records have you of early Ud- per Canadian lodges?" ,JJ ^f'll *\®, manuscript minutes of a lew of the Niagara lodges from 1795 but the minute books of the first Pro- X!?f ^^ ?'"*°'^ ^""iKe are not to the r.^^t"„ J. ^^^' *»owever, a fair lot of the iXt ''^"l?. °^ ^^« Provincial Grand Lodge at Niagara, for each lodge was suppMed with a copy of these minuTes Then I ..ave type-written copies of the from Iv.fi' ^^Z*"" ^°^^^ «' Hamilton rrom 1796. I remember that thev stn?" R *'?. ''°"*'-« '"' the first firs?' w M °*^«°P0rt Phelps was the Phlif T • ^^^"^^^ * K'-eat friend of Chief Joseph Brant. The old chief < i I f I I i 16 visited the lodge and listened to a ser- «r°?, I"'e?LChed by Phelps when he was W.M. Bro. Phelps was afterwards rector of an Anglican church at Ge- neva, N.Y. The papers and records of Barton Lodge are In splendid condl- i S' ^J classlfled and Indexed, thanks Thn • Yv,- ^'■°: ^- ^- ^•■^^'J' °' Hamilton. Then there is old No. 6 at Kingston, now Ancient St. John's. Its history is more perfect and continuous than any breik^' ^*'"''' lodges. It hasn't one "Was not the Niagara district a good o 5°°J,° <=^°t»'e. with plenty of re- .IT®^;, *° ^ ^^y- "^^^ town o' Niagara with all its old lodges has only the re- cords of one private lodge, but Grims- by Lodge, No. 15, of 1799-1822— that was the lodge at the Forty Mile Creek —has complete records. This lodge did a little business on its own ac- count. It bought two swarms of bees and went into the manufacture of honey. Two of/ the brethren managed the swarms and the pronts were shared by the lodge. This lodge, how- ever, ceased work from 1812-16 during the war. Union Lodge, which met at Ancaster and Dundas, had a short but eventful history. John Brant, a son 16 Of the chief, was Its secretary. I've given In my history fac-slmiles of hU writing." "Were all these manuscripts easily found?" "Well, It was easy to find some of them and hard to And others." "I suppose you found all the old minute books you wanted?" "Yes, whenever a lodge had an old minute book I was always welcome to It. Rawdon Lodge, the first In Little York (now Toronto), had minutes that long since— perhaps fifty years ago- disappeared. I have a certified copy made by Bro. Alfio de Grassl In 1849, but even then four pages— the first four- are missing. Then I have the minutes of St. John's Royal Arch . ?f«k ^°- ^^' ^^^'^^ ™et In Toronto in 1800, succeeding to the antiquity of Kawdon. My impression Is that the first four pages of the minutes of Raw- don will never be found." i.«^"?: ^'■°- Robertson, why is it more aifflcult to get manuscripts than pic- tures? .r,y,°^ *^"' '^ ^'"'ns back to the be- ginning. Well, in huhting for pictures you have a fairly well defined area for fof^*!;''^ T"" ''^^^ the great librar- ies of England, the British Museum I i i 1 M and the Quildhall in London, and you have the Lenox and Aator libraries In New York, and the library of Con- gress at Washington. The best li- brary I know for my purposes Is the library of the Grand Lodge of Eng- land. I found a number of Kingston Convention documents there, as well as volume upon volume of Masonic periodical literature for 1800-60. Then In Canada the library of Parliament at Ottawa has many books containing Canadian pictures of use in illustrating Masonic history. So has the Public Library at Toronto. The collection of Canadiania in the Toronto Library Is the best in Canada — if not In the world. Then the Chateau Ramsey, the old residence of the Governors of Que- bec, has a fine collection of steel en- gravings. My own collection has given me many of my best reproductions. I think I have about 10,000 Canadian pictures and portraits, so you see I have a fair number to select from. Thes^ Include about 2,000 connected with Masonry. I have, as well, every picture— about a hundred — that Mrs. SImcoe made while in Canada from 1792-6. You have to hunt for these pictures it you want them. You can pick up a lot in the second-hand pic- 18 ture and book shops of London and New York and Paris. 80 that your quest Is In the libraries, the shops and the private collections. The picture shops and old book stores have treas- ures In books and pictures. But that Is the story I gave you on the 'Lucanla' last June." "What about manuscripts?" "Well, hunting for manuscripts Is a good deal like hunting for a needle in a haymow. You are never certain of your find until you have your hand on It. Canadian Masonic manuscripts have queer hidirg places. Through the kindness of W. Bro. Sadler, the sub-librarian of the Grand Lodge of England, I obtained nearly three hun- dred manuscripts relating to Canada Many of these had been put away In the vaults at Freemasons' Hall eighty or ninety years ago. Yes, some of them as early as 1800. In Canada I ^7J^ ^"? .* "^®ly search for hidden manuscripts. "An old certificate of William ii/mery, issued by Lodge No. 9, Corn- wall, one of the Jarvis lodges in 1799 J!!^., "dm"*, •'etween the leaves of a family Bible at Williamstown In Stor- mont County. - "The minutes of New Oswegatchle ♦' 19 Lodge, which met 'n Leeds County in 1787, were found i 1889 in the drawer of a cupboard In an old farm house near Augusta, In Qrenvllle County. It is the best Itept minute boolc I have seen prior to 1800. It Is well worded, neatly penned and fruitful In incident." "That lodge was on the Quebec Register, was it not? I remember that your history states that It was an American lodse. How could It be both American and Canadian?" "Very easily. It was warranted as No. 7, New York, In 1783, and named Oswegatchie. It met at Ogdensburg, the Indian Oswegatchie, and about 1786 the warrant was removed across the river to Maitland, then known as New Oswegatchie. The lodge met there for a few months and afterwards at Elizabethtown in Leeds County. I am certain that I have traced correctly the history of No. 7. I submitted It to Bro. Ehlers, the Grand Secretary of New York, and he agreed with me that I had traced it step by step from Its first opening to Its final closing." "Did you find much Quebec manu- script in your research?" "Yes, I was most fortunate in my hunt for early manuscripts of Quebec so buu had to cro.. the .•„ tor .ome of pap%'r?h^\S^'ft's Sfofrs'"-^^^^^^^^^^^^ cert?flUe\7'U,f°'^ °' «" was the Select Uidgl aVT^I*"*' Le«"e. of April, mr\^l n^\ '"ued in publisher, of Mont«."- 1 McLean, the track Of 'thU document'""* r?" °° ^''^ parchment fairiJ i ..,; ^^ ^as on letters w°^i lorm'ea"§Tr ht".". ^"^ «. strong maen)fvN,„ , ' ^ ^aa to use the na^f ree'"o'ffl?er V^Pher of the secretary puzziprt ^„ ^H? °"™e >....«. m,:s rtSe'-sr arc 11 thought of what fh ! ^'"'' ^iien i and U did aTl fVantedT".?'*''' ''°' Kraph reproduced ?ht' ^°'" "*" """'O" had t1fem"'bufl?w^' I^ brother wLo Bro. H.Uton"\h'at ?W 'rf *"« '"'« suppose that It i ever wrH Ik '^l"'^- ^ « u^rL'^'seSit^'^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for more manulc^IptV-" ''"" '"•°^"'«« to.^J^|i^---.^the.,ea came across mK^fS" ' {'"turally bee. For lnstanp«^l''"®':e8t to Que- rant of the Duke of K^^^t °'''^""' *»■•- O. M. of Lower Canfldrh.!i^ Provincial found, that of RrnT *.''"'' °«ver been lection, but a com°^? ii '" "^ «=ol- Kent's warrant fo^i °' .*''^ ^ulte of minute booTo,' tt A^ho. 'A '"'i '° ^he tor 1792. in PreemL^on's HaTLo^"/^" No one seems to hav»^i, ' ^°"don. thi« unti, I had lt^"op^"e:l\^S°tr„^ ^hVo" 22 graphed. The And cleared away a lot of doubt as to the exact powers given the Provincial G. M. of Canada by the Grand Lodge of the Ancients." "Did you find anything more?" "Yes, all the correspondence that had taken place between Quebec and England from about 1770 until 1820. Bro. Sadler unearthed the letters from a box full of papers that had apparent- ly been put away for all time to come in one of the vaults at Freemasons' Hall. Bro. Sadler has been of In- valuable assistance to me in my work." "Where did you find the Jarvis war- rant?" "Well, the unexpected sometimes happens. One evening in January, 1899, a friend who knew of my hanker- ing for Masonic manuscripts, called at my house to say that he knew where there was a trunk full of old papers, which had come from Niagara to To- ronto just before the War of 1812, and which had not been opened nor in- deed touched for nearly seventy years. " 'What,' said I, 'a trunk full of papers in Toronto and not opened for seventy years?' " 'Yes,' he replied, 'I'm told there Is a trunk full of papers relating to Ma- sonry, with minute books and parch- 38 ments galore not many miles from To- ronto, and what is more you may have them.' "'Man,' I said, 'this Is a fairy tale. Where is this treasure box of paper and parchment?' " 'Not far— just an hour's drive from the city, and If you want them you must come with me to-night.' " 'Well,' I said, 'this Is short notice and it's a cold night for even a seven mile drive, but if all you say is true I would drive seventy miles to lay my hands upon that trunk.' ■'The sleighing was poor and the wheeling not much better, but the lat- ter suited best and, leaving the lights of the city behind us, in a little over an hour ve were inside an old-time dwelling resembling an early colonial farmhouse that had served, at least sixty or seventy years of Its day and generation. The man who occupied the farm was an Intelligent old fellow. He was not a Mason, in fact, knew nothing about Masonry, but he said his grandfather used to attend lodge when the Masons met during the War of 1812, out at Barrett's Hotel at Npw- tonbrook. and at Mrs. Lawrence's on Yonge street near Hogg's Hollow. " 'Well,' I said, 'that occurred away 24 back m 1817 Did your grandfather tell you anything more?' „,1?'°;.''"M'"®™®™''«'' Jilm speaking of the time the Masons met In the old school-house In Market Lane In York ihat was a long, long time ago' ". 'X?^'' ' ^^^^- 'e'shty years ago.' o loH ; J^^ ^^''!' '™y grandfather was a lad of twenty In those days.' f.,ii T®"' ^°^ ^^^ y°" set this trunk aftLr°?'^^^^''^ '•'at my friend has come a„r,'^®"' '° ^^" '"^e truth I don't ex- actly know where they came from. I h^ii, i*. ^^f Nlagara-lt might have been Kingston, i mind my grand- Cant"" CC^, ^^"^^ 1^ ^^°* « G^rand Lodge or Jingland, the books were the min caTe to*' Tn^ '". ''"•' ^''^n Bro Jarf^s ftifeJi'n^i 'LrH":^^' '^a°e"7f'l'i^ caster, obtained a copy of rin^lslS." 27 r"'w n^^ 'i'«" '"to proper hands th™m '4^ Whose former home I found a?U^ rof^ &e\\UTea^^s^.^^ '" '^^ 'wreVv«o'ur£^^r^^^^^^ *-vsit\^fhrst^^ ---••"" sayV°°'' ''"^ ine-what did he not G. N. M. 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