Orion
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ORION LODGE
Location: Cummington
Chartered By: Benjamin Russell
Charter Date: 09/13/1815 II-634
Precedence Date: 09/11/1815
Current Status: unknown; last recorded meeting 1835.
NOTES
According to a local historian, Bro. Bill Streeter, the lodge name is pronounced "Oh-Ree-On", and it met in the Kingman Tavern in Cummington.
The following names appear on the charter for Orion Lodge. The original by-law book with signatures was (as of 1927) in the possession of Rt. Wor. Eugene B. Bowen, PDDGM N.
- Daniel Whitman
- Hatch Noyes
- Thomas Break, Jr. no card
- Abraham Turtellot
- Seth Ford (MM Jerusalem 1813)
- Eben Hunt (MM Jerusalem 1802)
- William Mitchell, Jun.
- Oliver Pool
- Joel Shattuck (MM Columbian 1807)
- Robert Dawes
- Stephen Hayward
- Calvin Snow
- Samuel Patch (MM Jerusalem 1813)
- William Otis
- Snell Wade
- Joseph Hayward
- Lewis Thayer
- Nahum Bates no info on card
- Origin Orcutt, Jr.
- Seth Williams
- Levi Kingman
- John Clark
- John Witter
- Elias White
- Alvan Macomber
- Robert C. Robinson
- Willard Parsons
- Clement Stiles
- Isaac Hamlen, Jr.
- Luther Stone
- Almon Allen
- Cyrus Lovell
- Joshua Guilford
- Whitman Aldrich
- Benjamin Lemon
- Hosea Trumbull
- John Stone, Jr. (MM Republican 1814)
- Sumner Stone
- Martin Bryant
- Orrin Bryant
- Nahum White
- Edward P. Freeman
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
- Petition for Charter: 1815
