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CORNER STONE LODGE

Location: Duxbury

Chartered By: Samuel Dunn

Charter Date: 12/14/1801 II-190

Precedence Date: 12/14/1801

Current Status: Active



NOTES

Charter surrendered 07/05/1834; functioned as the "Corner-stone Charitable Association" for the next nine years.
Charter restored 12/11/1844

A very detailed Centennial History appears on Pages 1902-98 through 1902-120.

Note that Corner Stone Lodge was a member of the 5th Masonic District at least from 1861 through 1867.


PAST MASTERS

  • John Perkins, 1857, 1858
  • Richard Frederick Warren, 1970


REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Charter: 1801
  • Petition for Restoration of Charter: 1844

ANNIVERSARIES

  • 1902 (Centenary)
  • 1926 (125th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1879 1893 1898 1903 1914 1918 1920 1927 1929 1946 1954 1957 1967 1968 1969 1972 1989 1991 1999 2001 2004 2007

HISTORY

  • 1902 (Centenary History, 1902-86)
  • 1926 (125th Anniversary History, 1926-363)
  • 1976 (175th Anniversary History, 1976-390)

OTHER

  • 1816 (Petition for abatement of dues, III-64; rejected)
  • 1830 (Report of delinquency, IV-170)
  • 1866 (Jurisdictional dispute with Norfolk Union Lodge, VII-72)
  • 1872 (Participation in laying the cornerstone of the Myles Standish Monument, 1872-151)
  • 1881 (Jurisdictional dispute with Plymouth Lodge, 1881-66; 1881-193)

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1803: District 3 (South Shore and Cape Cod)

1821: District 3 (South Shore and Cape Cod)

1844: District 5

1849: District 5

1867: District 16 (Plymouth)

1883: District 25 (Hingham)

1911: District 27 (Plymouth)

1927: District 27 (Plymouth)

2003: District 18


LINKS

Lodge web site

Massachusetts Lodges