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BERKSHIRE LODGE
Location: Stockbridge
Chartered By: Joseph Webb
Charter Date: 03/08/1777 I-258
Precedence Date: 03/08/1777
Current Status: unknown; historical note 1920-233. History Page 1977-16ff. Note also reference to Berkshire's regalia, sold to Cincinnatus Lodge in 1796, mentioned in the centenary history, 1896-188.
NOTES
From Proceedings, Page 1886-83, cornerstone laying at Hampshire County Courthouse, address of Grand Master:
"The first Lodge in Western Massachusetts was chartered by the Massachusetts Grand Lodge (of which Joseph Warren was the first Grand Master), March 8, 1777. It was named Berkshire Lodge, No. 5, and was located at Stockbridge, Mass.
YEARS
1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1796
1896 1920 1935 1957 1968 1977 2007
HISTORY
RECALL OF CHARTER, SEPTEMBER 1784
From Proceedings, Page I-320, Massachusetts Grand Lodge:
Voted, That Trinity Lodge held in the town of Lancaster having omitted paying their dues and in other Respects fail'd to comply with the Constitutions of Masonry as universally acknowledged be and hereby is required forthwith to return their Charter granted by the authority of this Grd. Lo. to the Gd. Secy. of the said Gd. Lo., that they may no longer (be) held or be convened under the same untill such injunctions and Rules as by the Constitutions of Masonry and their Special Instructions are made & provided shall be fully and faithfully complied with.
Voted, That a Similar Vote to the above be also wrote to Berkshire and Amity Lodges.
