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1797

PAUL REVERE, Grand Master

Samuel Dunn, Deputy Grand Master
Isaiah Thomas , Senior Grand Warden
Joseph Laughton, Junior Grand Warden

NOTES

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS

• 03/13 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-97;
  • II-97: Correspondence.
  • II-97: Committee to draft an address to George Washington.
  • II-98: Partial report of committee on rejected applicants presented.
  • II-98: Address by Thaddeus Mason Harris.

• 06/12 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-100;
  • II-100: Petition for Bristol Lodge, Norton, granted.
  • II-100: Petition for Jerusalem Lodge, South Hadley, granted.
  • II-100: Petition for Fellowship Lodge, Bridgewater, granted.
  • II-101: Petition for Corinthian Lodge, Concord, granted.
  • II-101: Petition for Tuscan Lodge, Columbia (Me.); actual petition mislaid, Grand Master authorized to take action.
  • II-101ff: Address to George Washington and his response.
  • II-103: Grand Master, Deputy and Wardens empowered to affix names to Lodges granted charters in this jurisdiction.
  • II-103: Grand Lodge to attend installation of St. Paul, Groton, on 08/02.

• 09/13 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-108;
  • II-108: Correspondence.
  • II-108: Petition for Hiram Lodge in Lexington; laid over.
  • II-108: Petition for Marine Lodge in Falmouth; laid over.
  • II-109: Petition for Montgomery Lodge in Franklin; granted.
  • II-109: Petition for Meridian Sun Lodge, Brookfield, granted.
  • II-109: Committee to revise Constitutions reported; new regulations proposed.
  • II-110: Committee to review Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer accounts.

• 12/11 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-111;
  • II-112: Committee report on resolve regarding "persons proposed to be made Masons in Lodges and not admitted."
  • II-112: Petition for Hiram Lodge in Lexington; granted.
  • II-112: Petition for Meridian Lodge in Watertown; granted.
  • II-112: Petition for Marine Lodge in Falmouth; granted.
  • II-112: Petition for King Solomon Lodge of Perfection Lodge in Holmes' Hole, Martha's Vineyard; granted.
  • II-113: Vote that each lodge have one vote in Grand Lodge.
  • II-113: Address by Grand Master Revere.
  • II-113: Josiah Bartlett elected Grand Master.
  • II-113: Thanks given to Isaiah Thomas for the gift of "an elegant Bible."

SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS

• 02/23 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-96;
  • II-96: Committee to draft language in the Grand Constitutions regarding rejected applicants.

• 06/26 - 06/28 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-104;
  • II-104ff: Charges against Harmonic Lodge regarding improper making of Masons contrary to the orders of the Grand Lodge; charter vacated. (An account of the end of this lodge is given in the autobiography of Henry Fowle.)

• 12/27 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-115;
  • II-115: Report on Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer accounts.
  • II-116: Installation of Grand Master Bartlett.
  • II-117ff: Address by Grand Master Bartlett.

LIST OF LODGES IN MASSACHUSETTS: 1797

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