This article analyses the specific characteristics of the Masonry of the state of Pernambuco, in particular its divergences with the Mansonry of the state of Rio de Janeiro and the participation of freemasons in the Revolution of 1817. The Pernambucan Masonry escaped the control of the Grande Oriente Lusitano and, after the triumph of the insurrection, played a key role in the formulation of new projects for the government of the capitania. Given the ample spectrum of political forces it hosted, its political proposals for the new regime ranged from the republican radicalism to the restoration of the pact of the Braganças with the capitania. Rather than cultivating separatism, it intended to preserve local autonomy in the face of the new state that would presumably emerge from the collapse of the absolutist monarchy, be it a constitutional Luso-Brazilian empire or a liberal monarchy based on the former Portuguese possessions in America.