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<td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMPrice Price]''</td> | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMPrice Price]''</td> | ||
<td>1733</td> | <td>1733</td> | ||
− | <td>First lodge chartered in Massachusetts. Original charter lost, replaced after 1864 fire. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=RisingSun0 Rising Sun] merged here 1791.</td> | + | <td>First lodge chartered in Massachusetts. Original charter lost, replaced after 1864 fire. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Second Second] merged here 1783. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=RisingSun0 Rising Sun] merged here 1791.</td> |
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<td>1738</td> | <td>1738</td> | ||
<td>Chartered for the conferral of the Master Mason Degree. Charter surrendered in 1796.</td> | <td>Chartered for the conferral of the Master Mason Degree. Charter surrendered in 1796.</td> | ||
+ | </tr> | ||
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+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Second Second]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMOxnard Oxnard]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1749</td> | ||
+ | <td>Merged into First Lodge in 1783.</td> | ||
+ | </tr> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Third Third]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMOxnard Oxnard]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1749</td> | ||
+ | <td>Ceased work around 1753.</td> | ||
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<td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StAndrew Lodge of St. Andrew]</td> | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StAndrew Lodge of St. Andrew]</td> | ||
<td bgcolor="green"></td> | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
− | <td>'' | + | <td>''GM Scotland''</td> |
<td>1756</td> | <td>1756</td> | ||
<td>Chartered by the Grand Master of Scotland and not recognized by St. John's Grand Lodge. Founding Lodge of Massachusetts Provincial Grand Lodge. Endorsed 1809 by Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas] to come under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.</td> | <td>Chartered by the Grand Master of Scotland and not recognized by St. John's Grand Lodge. Founding Lodge of Massachusetts Provincial Grand Lodge. Endorsed 1809 by Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas] to come under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.</td> | ||
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<td>1779</td> | <td>1779</td> | ||
<td>Active; an additional (or replacement) charter was granted in 1791.</td> | <td>Active; an additional (or replacement) charter was granted in 1791.</td> | ||
+ | </tr> | ||
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+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Unity1 Unity (Ipswich)]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMWebb Webb]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1779</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; location unknown.</td> | ||
+ | </tr> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAWashingtonArmy Washington Army]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMWebb Webb]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1779</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; lapsed. Charter disposition unknown.</td> | ||
+ | </tr> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=KingSolomon King Solomon's]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMJnWarren John Warren]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1783</td> | ||
+ | <td>Active.</td> | ||
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<td>1783</td> | <td>1783</td> | ||
<td>Separated from Lodge of St. Andrew to remain under Massachusetts Independent Grand Lodge; took St. Andrew's precedence; charter resigned in 1810.</td> | <td>Separated from Lodge of St. Andrew to remain under Massachusetts Independent Grand Lodge; took St. Andrew's precedence; charter resigned in 1810.</td> | ||
+ | </tr> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Hampshire2 Hampshire]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMJnWarren John Warren]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1784</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; charter lapsed or revoked sometime between 1796 and 1804.</td> | ||
+ | </tr> | ||
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+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Friendship2 Friendship (Williamstown)]</td> | ||
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+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMWebb Webb]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1785</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; charter surrendered 1828.</td> | ||
+ | </tr> | ||
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+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Harmonic Harmonic]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMHays Hays]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1790</td> | ||
+ | <td>Charter vacated 1797; charter location unknown.</td> | ||
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# '''''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MorningStar Morning Star]''''' 06/11/1793 | # '''''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MorningStar Morning Star]''''' 06/11/1793 |
Revision as of 16:00, 11 December 2019
CHARTER SUMMARY
The following tables list charters granted in Massachusetts. They do not include charters granted by either Massachusetts Grand Lodge in other colonies or states that have since come under the authority of other Grand Lodges (such as Connecticut or Maine).
KEY
Status | Meaning |
Charters active under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in the possession of the Lodge* | |
Charters no longer active, lost, destroyed or location unknown | |
Charters surrendered or revoked, in possession of the Grand Lodge Library. |
* The original charters for many active old lodges are kept in archival storage in Lexington.
Lodge Name | Status | Grand Master | Charter Date | Notes |
St. John's (Boston) | Price | 1733 | First lodge chartered in Massachusetts. Original charter lost, replaced after 1864 fire. Second merged here 1783. Rising Sun merged here 1791. | |
Master's | Price | 1738 | Chartered for the conferral of the Master Mason Degree. Charter surrendered in 1796. | |
Second | Oxnard | 1749 | Merged into First Lodge in 1783. | |
Third | Oxnard | 1749 | Ceased work around 1753. | |
Lodge of St. Andrew | GM Scotland | 1756 | Chartered by the Grand Master of Scotland and not recognized by St. John's Grand Lodge. Founding Lodge of Massachusetts Provincial Grand Lodge. Endorsed 1809 by Grand Master Thomas to come under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. | |
Philanthropic (Marblehead) | Gridley | 1760 | Possibly not using the original 1760 charter but instead a reissued document from the 1780s. | |
St. John's, Newburyport | Gridley | 1766 | Active | |
The Tyrian | Joseph Warren | 1770 | ]Merged with Acacia Lodge to form Tyrian-Acacia, 2003; merged with Ashler Lodge to form Tyrian-Ashler-Acacia, 2007 | |
The Massachusetts | Joseph Warren | 1770 | Active. | |
Union (Nantucket) | Rowe | 1771 | Active. | |
St. Peter's | Joseph Warren | 1772 | Inactive, but status of charter unknown. | |
Rising Sun | Rowe | 1771 | Merged into St. John's (Boston), 1791. Status of charter unknown. | |
American Union | Rowe | 1776 | Became a part of the Grand Lodge of Ohio in 1817; charter presumably still in use there. | |
Berkshire (Williamstown) | Webb | 1783 | Charter recalled 1784; status unknown. | |
Trinity | Webb | 1778 | New charter issued in 1859; original charter and precedence restored in 2017. Original charter in Grand Lodge vault; certified copy of original in use by the lodge. | |
United States | Webb | 1778 | "Erased" 1788; status unknown. | |
Essex | Webb | 1779 | Active; an additional (or replacement) charter was granted in 1791. | |
Unity (Ipswich) | Webb | 1779 | Inactive; location unknown. | |
Washington Army | Webb | 1779 | Inactive; lapsed. Charter disposition unknown. | |
King Solomon's | John Warren | 1783 | Active. | |
Rising States | John Warren | 1783 | Separated from Lodge of St. Andrew to remain under Massachusetts Independent Grand Lodge; took St. Andrew's precedence; charter resigned in 1810. | |
Hampshire | John Warren | 1784 | Inactive; charter lapsed or revoked sometime between 1796 and 1804. | |
Friendship (Williamstown) | Webb | 1785 | Inactive; charter surrendered 1828. | |
Harmonic | Hays | 1790 | Charter vacated 1797; charter location unknown. |
- Old Colony 12/10/1792
- Morning Star 06/11/1793
- Republican, 12/08/1794
- Evening Star, 06/09/1795
- Cincinnatus, 12/09/1795
- King Hiram's, 12/12/1795
- Washington, 03/17/1796
- Columbian, 06/08/1796
- Harmony, 06/13/1796
- Union (Dorchester), 06/13/1796
- Thomas, 12/13/1796
- St. Paul, 01/13/1797
- Jerusalem, 06/13/1797
- Bristol, 06/14/1797
- Fellowship, 06/15/1797
- Corinthian, 06/16/1797
- Montgomery, 09/13/1797
- Olive Branch, 09/13/1797
- Hiram, 12/11/1797 (now Mystic Valley)
- Meridian, 12/11/1797
- Marine, 03/13/1798
- King David, 06/12/1798