Note 862 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)
Reading edition
Mackey, Lexicon and History of Freemasonry, pp. 183 et seq. One of the most active and influential New England Masons of the period was the Reverend William Bentley. The following references in his Diary throw light upon this phase of the situation: vol. ii, pp. 6–8, 11, 12. Cf. also Myer’s History of Free Masonry and Its Progress in the United States, p. 15.