o be perfectly independent and free of any such
foreign jurisdiction."[54]

In the two following years he was appointed Deputy Grand Master by Right
Worshipful Grand Master William Adcock; he was elected Right Worshipful
Grand Master in 1789 and served in that capacity for six years
(1789-1794). In the year 1798 he was again elected to that honorable
office, serving five more consecutive years (1798 to 1802), when he
declined reelection. The following action was taken by the Grand
Lodge:[55]

"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 Penn