Reply #9: Geo. Washington, individualist, Christian and Freemason

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Many nutcase rightwingnuts say that Freemasons are in league with the devil; the first three degrees of masonry which Washington and his compatriots used back then comprised the essence of the Knights Templar from which Freemasonry decended. Their spiritual 'warfare' was against their arch enemy the Knights Hospitaler who took over most of the Templar 'treasure', lands etc. after 1307.

Washington's French hugenot ancestors were persecuted in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Investigate that at

""The French Protestants were called Huguenots: President George Washington had a Huguenot ancestor, as did at least 5 other Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, James Garfield, and Theodore Roosevelt. A Huguenot refugee named Apollos de Revoire settled in Boston, and had a son who signed his name Paul Revere! Remember his famous midnight ride? Three members of the Continental Congress - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and Elias Boudinot were Huguenots. Other great names include Francis Marrion, General George Patton, Clair Chennault, Admiral Dewey, Du Ponts, Henry Thoreau, Longfellow etc., etc. A Huguenot colony was founded in Florida in 1562 (years before the English landed), but was later destroyed by Spanish raiders.""

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