Estienne Morin

Estienne Morin

im Aufbau Quelle: The Hedge Mason Courtesy of Bro E C Ballard

Ein französischer Händler mit dem Namen Estienne Morin, war seit 1744 in die Hochgrade der Freimaurerei in Bordeaux eingeführt worden und gründete im Jahr 1747 eine "Ecossais"-Loge (Schottische Meisterloge) in Kapstadt, französisch: Le cap. an der Nordküste der französischen Kolonie von Saint-Domingue (heute Haiti). Im nächsten Jahrzehnt verbreiten sich die Hochgrade von Bordeaux in der westlichen Hemisphäre A French trader, by the name of Estienne Morin, had been involved in high degree Masonry in Bordeaux since 1744 and, in 1747, founded an "Ecossais" lodge (Scots Masters Lodge) in the city of Le Cap Francais, on the north coast of the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). Over the next decade, high degree Freemasonry continued to spread to the Western hemisphere as the high degree lodge at Bordeaux warranted or recognized seven Ecossais lodges there. In Paris in the year 1761, a Patent was issued to Estienne Morin, dated 27 August, creating him "Grand Inspector for all parts of the New World." This Patent was signed by officials of the Grand Lodge at Paris and appears to have originally granted him power over the craft lodges only, and not over the high, or "Ecossais", degree lodges. Later attempts to disparage the validity of this Patent calimed, without material evidence that it appeared to have been embellished by Morin, to improve his position over the high degree lodges in the West Indies. The political equivocations of the Bordeaux Lodge provide little to support such claims.