They escaped from the Friday The 13th arrests and were spirited away and protected.

They fled the Bavarian purge of 1777 and were protected.

They were severely crippled by the onslaught of the sudden appearance of the Anti-Masonic movement in New England at the end of the 1820s, until they were able to subvert and take control of that movement.

THEY MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO ESCAPE THIS TIME