Yorktown Masonic Grandfather Clock
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Formerly the property of Yorktown Lodge, Virginia, this clock stood in the lodge rooms when George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette visited in October 1783., and at the Masonic Banquet held following the surrender of Cornwallis which signaled the end of the American Revolution.
Freemasons fought on both sides of the Revolution, although most Americans are familiar with those Founding Fathers were also Freemasons: Washington; Benjamin Franklin; Paul Revere; John Hancock; Lafayette; Ethan Allen; Baron von Steuben; together with none signers of the Declaration of Independence, nine signers of the Articles of Confederation, and thirteen signers of the United States Constitution. Many Freemasons saw the establishment of the American Republic as the culmination of the Masonic ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity.