Scottish Rite through Saint-Domingue: first Saint-Domingue lodges 1749 (Grande Loge Anglaise de France); Etienne Morin carries the high degrees (Rite of Perfection)…
Year: 1749 · Places: Carolinas, Ayiti, Caribbean, Europe
SUMMARYScottish Rite through Saint-Domingue: first Saint-Domingue lodges 1749 (Grande Loge Anglaise de France); Etienne Morin carries the high degrees (Rite of Perfection) to the Caribbean in the 1760s, working in Saint-Domingue and Jamaica; Supreme Council of the 33rd degree ("Mother Council") founded in Charleston, SC, 1801, founders incl. the Comte de Grasse-Tilly (Saint-Domingue planter family), who founds the Supreme Council of France in 1804. Record (Masonic histories; Freimaurer-Wiki). Lens: the 33-degree system was organized out of the Saint-Domingue planter network while the revolution was being fought.