Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

it could be republished today with virtually the same text. It would only need to be updated by
including the names of the current conspirators. We know the name of Timothy Dwight as one
of the three organizers of the Russell Trust at Yale, also known as Skull and Bones, or the
Brotherhood of Death. The same small band of conspirators has figured in every plot to destroy
the American Republic.
The exposure of this conspiracy did not deter the plotters, who soon followed it with another,
the Essex Junto of 1804-1808. The principal conspirators were born in or near Essex County,
Massachusetts, hence the name of the plot. They worked closely with agents of British
Intelligence in Boston to bring about the secession of the New England states from the United
States. These Judases were no haggard, bomb-carrying revolutionaries; they were from the
leading merchant and banking families of New England. Their leader was Massachusetts Senator
George Cabot, a direct descendant of the Genoese Cabot who had been commissioned by King
Henry VII, and who had landed in Labrador almost two centuries earlier; other conspirators were
Judge John Lowell, ancestor of the Bundy family of the Ford Foundation and other leading
agencies; the Higginsons, Pickerings, Parsons, and Judge Tapping Reeve, of Litchfield,
Connecticut, who happened to be Aaron Burr's brother-in-law. The conspiracy had been fueled
by the efforts of a leading British Intelligence operative, Sir John Robison, who worked closely
with the Aaron Burr network. After President Thomas Jefferson was informed of the details of
the Essex Junto, the malefactors reluctantly abandoned their dream of an early breakup of the
Union, and then dedicated themselves to a longer-range strategy, which culminated in the Civil
War.
The British Secret Intelligence Service had been funded by Lord Shelburne to promote the
interests of the East India Company, the Bank of England, of which it became the primary
intelligence network, the banking families Hope and Baring, and their Swiss allies, the bankers
Prevost and de Neuflize. Their most able supporters in the United States were John Jacob Astor
and Aaron Burr. Astor was treasurer of the Grand Lodge of New York from 1798-1800. In 1800,
he was given free entry into all ports of the world which the East India Company had brought
under their control. This gave him a tremendous financial advantage over his competitors. In
return for this favorable treatment, he provided the financial backing for the plot to replace
President Thomas Jefferson with Aaron Burr, after Jefferson had exposed the plot of the Essex
Junto.
Throughout the Revolutionary War, Burr had worked as a double agent, reporting daily to British
forces from West Point. Burr later became attorney for the Astor interests, drawing up their
contracts and doing commercial work for the East India Company. He routinely fixed elections
in the New York area through his connections with the Masonic lodges. He had founded the
Society of St. Tammany in New York City in 1789. It was set up symbolically with thirteen
tribes, each of whom had a Grand Sachem at its head; the entire network was supervised by one
Grand Sachem at the headquarters. This became the famous --or infamous-- Tammany Hall,
which controlled the political structure of New York City for many years, rife with corruption
and favouritism. It was never anything but a subsidiary of the Masonic lodges, of whom it was
organized in open imitation.
The head of the Masons in New York in 1783 had been rand Master William Walter, a British
Army general. With the withdrawal of the British troops, he turned his leadership over to Robert
Livingston, whose family connections included the Lees of Virginia and the Shippens of
Philadelphia (who were prominent in the Benedict Arnold scandal; Arnold had married Peggy
Shippen). Robert Livingston was installed as Grand Master of the New York Lodge in 1884; his
brother Edward was Mayor of New York. With these powerful allies supporting him from behind
the scenes, Burr was able to conclude many successful financial deals. He easily obtained a
charter for the Manhattan Company, with his registered purpose a plan to provide water for the
city. No mains were ever built. Instead, he used the charter to start a bank, the Manhattan
Company. This was later taken over by the investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb, Co., New York
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