When one thinks of early Freemasonry in America, places like Boston and Philadelphia usually come to mind. But as Jeremy Rosen notes in his Currier Post article on the state of Freemasonry in New Jersey, the Garden State lays claim to two significant landmarks in American Freemasonry:
“New Jersey claims to have the first known Freemason in America, John Skene of Scotland, who settled in Burlington County in October 1682, according to Freemason historian Richard Mekenian.”
and
“Daniel Coxe from Burlington County was the first provincial Grand Master Mason in America in 1730, governing Masons in the state under the auspices of the Grand Lodge in England.”
Check out the full article here.
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