Note 857 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Wolcott Papers, 31. Cf. National Magazine, or a Political, Historical, Biographical, and Literary Repository, vol. ii, pp. 26 et seq.: article by Philalethes. Parker’s observations are fully corroborated by this pseudonymous writer. That Wisdom Lodge was a regular Masonic lodge, organized under the Grand Orient of France, is further testified to by Mackey, The History of Free Masonry, vol, v, p. 1420. Treudley, The United States and Santa Domingo, 1789–1866, pp. 111–125, adequately presents the essential facts bearing on the presence of the French refugees in the United States.