"On Motion made and Seconded the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania impressed with a grateful sense of the long assiduous and highly useful labours of their late R. W. Grand Master, Bror Jonathan Bayard Smith, Esqr, previous to and during his service in the high Station which he has left, Resolved Unanimously, That the most respectful Thanks of the said G. Lodge be presented to their said Brother Jonathan Bayard Smith for the eminent services he has rendered to the Craft generally and more especially for the able, diligent and impartial manner in which he has discharged the Duties of the Chair and while they deplore the necessity of his now retiring from the Official Station amongst them which he has so Honourably filled, they hope for a continuance of his Brotherly Love, Aid and information and finally that he be requested to receive the best wishes of the Grand Lodge for a prolongation of his useful life, a commensurate enjoyment of his Health and his final Happiness in the Mansion of Everlasting Rest." Brother Joseph Few, Deputy Grand Master, was also a Revolutionary Soldier, having served as Regimental Quarter Master with the 4th Continental Artillery. Brother Thomas Procter, Senior Grand Warden, formerly Colonel of the Pennsylvania Artillery, and Warrant Master of the Military Lodge, No. 19, upon the Roster of Pennsylvania was prominent in both civil and political affairs during WASHINGTON's administration. A full account of Brother Thomas Procter and this Military Lodge will be found in the History of the Old Masonic Lodges of Pennsylvania, published by the Grand Lodge in 1913.[56] For a sketch of Brother Peter Le Barbier Duplessis, the reader is referred to the same volume.[57] =WASHINGTON'S PAST MASTER'S JEWEL. Replica in the Museum of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.= Footnotes: [49] Reprint of Minutes of Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Vol. I, p. 178. [50] _Ibid._, p. 180. [51] MSS. Volume A, folio 17, 19, 21. [52] Letter Book II, pp. 104-105. [53] Cf. "Old Masonic Lodges of Pennsylvania," Vol. I, p. 201. [54] Cf. Reprint of Minutes of Grand Lodge, Vol. I, p. 96 _et seq._ [55] _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 68. [56] Volume II, Chapter XXVI, pp. 1-36. Cf. also "Freemasonry in Pennsylvania," Vol. I and II, for various references to Col. Procter. [57] Cf. "Old Lodges," Vol. II, pp. 256 _et seq._ X CORRESPONDENCE WITH GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER, 1792. "At Grand Lodge held at Concert Hall, Boston, 10th of December, 5792, being a Quarterly Communication it was "_Resolved_, That the Grand Master, with the Grand Wardens, present to our Most Beloved Brother GEORGE WASHINGTON, the new Book of Constitutions, with a suitable address." At the next Quarterly Communication we find that,