This Master Mason's certificate is 200 years old and was printed on vellum and presented in New York to a Richard Hitchings.
He belonged to Morton Lodge No. 20, and it is dated August 12, 5809.
A genealogy is affixed to the reverse and it relates that Richard Hitchins was born in Cornwall, England, in 1777 and married the widow Mary Gates in New York in 1804.
Richard died in Canada on February 18, 1845 and is buried with a Masonic emblem on his tombstone.
It goes for sale at Skinner auctioneers in Massachusetts on June 7 and is expected to raise several hundred pounds.
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