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MASONIC APRON BELONGING TO CAPTAIN DANIEL CLIFFORD PAYSON (1793-1827) OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.
Payson became a member of St. Mark's Lodge in Newburyport in 1824. Three years later he drowned in the mouth of the Mississippi. Silk embroidered with Masonic devices, framed with engraved portrait and handwritten legend....