MAWashingtonArmy
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WASHINGTON (ARMY) LODGE
Location: Travelling Army Lodge
Chartered By: John Rowe
Charter Date: 10/16/1779
Precedence Date: 10/16/1779
Current Status: unknown; lapsed.
NOTES
See 1877-65; members included Capt. Benjamin Warren.
According to Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. III, No. 5, March, 1844, Page 162:
"In 1779, a Charter was granted by the Massachusetts Grand Lodge to Gen. John Patterson, Col. Benjamin Tupper, and Major William Hull, to hold a travelling Lodge in the American Army, called Washington Lodge."
Col. John Brooks was Governor of Massachusetts 1816-1823.
PAST MASTERS
- Col. John Brooks, 1780, 1781
