The generals after Dessalines: Grand Lodge of Greece lists Alexandre Petion (president of the southern Republic 1807-1818) as a Freemason ("widely accepted," a…

SUMMARYThe generals after Dessalines: Grand Lodge of Greece lists Alexandre Petion (president of the southern Republic 1807-1818) as a Freemason ("widely accepted," a Port-au-Prince lodge, strong ties to the Grand Orient of France), with no lodge name or initiation date = claimed by Masonic bodies, specifics unsourced. Historians name Petion and Gerin among the officers behind the 1806 Pont-Rouge assassination of Dessalines (Christophe also implicated; details debated). Christophe as a Mason = Open (no solid document found). Chain: Dessalines killed 1806 -> Petion (lodge-claimed, Grand Orient ties) -> Boyer's Grand Orient of Haiti 1824 -> ransom 1825. "The lodges steered Haiti back under France" = Pattern to investigate. Test: Haitian lodge records 1806-1825; Grand Orient de France correspondence with Haitian lodges (French archives).