Table of Contents

Picture Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: Skeleton of a Planting Father xi

Part 1 The Planters: Who Apparently Founded America?

Chapter 1 English Separatists in Plymouth, Puritans in Massachusetts 2

Chapter 2 English Anglicans in Virginia and Chesapeake Bay 27

Chapter 3 Spanish Catholics in Florida 63

Part 2 Who Really Founded America?

Chapter 4 Freemasons in Virginia and Massachusetts 84

Chapter 5 Enlightenment Deists in New England 107

Chapter 6 German Illuminati 128

Part 3 Consequences of the Founders' Vision

Chapter 7 A Freemasonic State 146

Chapter 8 Freemasonry's Battle for America 171

Chapter 9 The Freemasonic State Today 187

Appendices: Constitutional Documents

I John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charitie, 1630 205

II Fundamental Orders of 1639 220

III Anderson's Constitutions, 1723 225

IV Albany Plan of Union, 1754 231

V Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 235

VI The Articles of Confederation, 1781 242

VII The Federal Constitution, 1787 253

VIII The Bill of Rights, 15 December 1791 267

IX George Washington's Masonic Record, 1752-99 278

Chart: History of Freemasonry/Secret Organizations 282

Notes and Sources 284

Bibliography 307

Index 313