The United States - the Masonic Executive Base
The first accepted freemason that came to America was John Skene,
who arrived in Burlington, New Jersey in 1682. This is told in official
freemason records, but the first non-labourer to become a member of
a masonic guild in America, was the Jew Abram Moses of Rhode
Island in the year 1656.
Dutch extremist Jews founded their magic lodge in Newport, Rhode
Island, as early as 1658 (Viktor Ostretsov, "Freemasonry, Culture, and Russian History", Moscow, 1999, p. 603).
Estienne (Stephen) Morin, the French extremist Jew who appeared
as a masonic leader in Great Britain, founded the political free-
masonry in America. His followers were other masonic Jews such as
Moses Michael Hays (1739-1805), Henry Andrews Francken, Bernard
M. Spitzer, Isaac Dacosta (1798-1860), and Moses Cohen.
There is also a reference from 1658 concerning the arrival at
Newport, Rhode Island of fifteen Jewish families of Dutch origin
bringing with them the three first degrees of freemasonry.
Moses Hays started in Newport, Rhode Island, and Charleston a
masonic core group of cabbalistic Jews, who had become millionaires
in the Negro slave trade, among them were the Lopez and de Leon
families. Hays was himself a banker. All these people would soon
plunge into the opium trade. These elements formed the Scottish
Rite in the United States. Only prominent individuals were accepted.
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