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Revision as of 20:30, 28 September 2012

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ESSEX LODGE

Location: Salem

Chartered By: Joseph Webb (1779)
Chartered By: Moses Michael Hays (1791)

Charter Date: 03/10/1779 I-272

Precedence Date: 03/10/1779 (Backdated in 1928 to date of original charter)

Current Status: Active.


http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Essex2&action=edit Italic text=== PAST MASTERS ===

  • Robert Foster, 1779
  • Joseph Hiller, 1780, 1785, 1791, 1793
  • Edward Pulling, 1794, 1798
  • Benjamin Hodges, 1799, 1800, 1803
  • Abel Lawrence, 1804
  • Robert Brookhouse, 1805
  • Thomas Hartshorne, 1806, 1808
  • Edward Lang, 1809
  • Joseph Baker, 1810, 1811
  • James Charles King, 1812, 1815
  • Thomas Cole, 1816, 1819
  • Henry Whipple, 1820, 1822
  • Jesse Smith, 1823, 1845, 1846
  • Benjamin F. Brown, 1824, 1827; SN
  • George Choate, 1828, 1829
  • Caleb Foote, 1830, 1832
  • Stephen Haraden, 1833
  • Samuel B. Buttrick, 1847
  • Robert H. Farrant, 1848, 1851
  • Nathaniel Pitman, 1852
  • George C. S. Choate, 1853
  • Thomas M. Dix, 1854, 1855
  • George H. Pierson, 1856, 1862; SN
  • Henry A. Brown, 1863, 1864
  • Israel S. Lee, 1865, 1866
  • Thomas J. Hutchinson, 1867, 1868, 1874
  • Charles H. Norris, 1869, 1870
  • Charles E. Getchell, 1871, 1872
  • William L. Hyde, 1873
  • William F. Annable, 1875, 1876
  • Arthur S. Williams, 1877
  • William A. Hill, 1878, 1879
  • Oliver D. Way, 1880, 1882
  • Edward A. Daniels, 1883
  • Charles H. Tuttle, 1884, 1885
  • Horace N. Smith, 1886, 1887
  • James F. Johnson, 1888
  • Arthur T. Way, 1889, 1890
  • Charles W. Richardson, 1891, 1892
  • John M. Raymond, 1893, 1894; Mem
  • Andrew J. Wilson, 1895, 1896
  • Thomas G. Pinnock, 1897, 1898
  • Gardner M. Jones, 1899, 1900
  • Charles H. Osborne, 1901, 1902
  • Albert P. Chute, 1903
  • Albert F. Smith, 1904, 1905
  • Charles S. Chase, 1906, 1907
  • George F. Cooke, 1908, 1909; Mem
  • Edward Jenks, 1910, 1911
  • Frederick F. Warner, 1912, 1913
  • Fred A. Norton, 1914, 1915
  • Harry P. Gifford, 1916, 1917; Mem
  • Adelbert Dennett, 1918, 1919
  • Frank T. Goodell, 1920, 1921; N
  • John Danforth, 1922, 1923
  • Roscious S. L. Marsh, 1924, 1925
  • Frederick W. Full, 1926, 1927
  • Theodore R. Marsh, 1928, 1929
  • Everett A. Sumner, 1930, 1931; N
  • Charles E. Bickford, 1932, 1933
  • George W. Curtis, 1934, 1935
  • Edmund S. Cogswell, 1936, 1937
  • William Hilton Webb, 1938, 1939
  • Hatherley A. Stoddard, Jr., 1940, 1941; N
  • Wallace V. D'Entremont, 1942, 1943
  • Edgar W. Nickerson, 1944, 1945
  • John W. Hubbard, 1946, 1947
  • Gordon C. Smith, 1948, 1949
  • Edward S. Averell, 1950, 1951
  • Winthrop F. Doty, 1952
  • Dean E. Cogswell, 1953; N
  • Roy C. Earley, 1954
  • R. Marshall Finniss, 1955
  • W. Keith Butler, 1956; SN
  • John L. Farley, Jr., 1957
  • Robert B. Addison, 1958; SN
  • Hollis M. Buxton, 1959
  • Hyman Goldfarb, 1960
  • Herbert B. Plummer, 1961
  • Allen B. Newton, 1962
  • Harold P. Hadley, 1963
  • Howard H. Young, 1964
  • Philip E. Forsberg, Jr., 1965
  • Sahag Sahagian, 1966, 1967
  • Donald Y. Sellars, 1968
  • William R. Wiley, 1969
  • Clinton T. Macy, 1970
  • John H. Raynes, Jr., 1971
  • Paul W. Lunn, 1972, 1987
  • Ralph E. Noble, 1973
  • Robert S. Randall, 1974
  • Henry L. Berkowitz, 1975
  • Harvey A. Whitmore, 1976, 1989
  • Achille D. Presutti, 1977
  • Robert M. Shimer, 1978
  • Karol John Buba, 1979
  • Ray F. Randall, 1980, 1986
  • Mark C. LeBeau, 1981, 1999, 2007; PDDGM
  • John S. Linehan, 1982, 1983
  • Barry S. Kossover, 1984, 1985
  • Richard E. Haley, 1988, 2008
  • Donald R. Daly, 1990, 2009
  • Judson W. Greene, 1991, 1992
  • Eugene A. Haley, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011
  • Myron C. Osterstuck, Jr., 1995, 1996
  • Roger A. Poor, 1997, 1998
  • John D. Linn, 2000, 2001, 2003
  • Scott D. Wells, 2004, 2005
  • Robert E. Simoneau, 2012, 2013

NOTES

About the Charters

~ The Lodge was originally chartered as Essex Lodge #10 by The Massachusetts Grand Lodge on 03/10/1779, however. due to the fact that many of our members were men of the sea, and gone for sometimes years at a time, attendance and receipt of dues became very low. This led to non-representation at the Grand Lodge Quarterlies, and non-payment of Grand Lodge dues, and the Charter was revoked on 06/06/1788. A petition for a new charter was granted on 06/06/1791 under the name of Essex Lodge. At the Communication of 10/02/1928, Wor. Theodore B. Marsh, Master, read a communication from Grand Lodge stating that a request, made by the Lodge, that the date of the origin of the Lodge be backdated to 03/10/1779, the date of the original charter, had been granted. A notation was made on the charter, and Grand Lodge adjusted our date of presidence accordingly. Due to the Morgan Excitement, The Charter was voluntarily returned to Grand Lodge on 03/08/1837, and held until 06/12/1845. Essex, along with Lodges all across the North Shore, were among the last Lodges to surrender their Charters.


History

~ A Lodge is Born

~ The founding of a Masonic Lodge in Salem was met with some resistance and controversy.

~ Prior to the establishment of Essex Lodge in 1779, if the Brethren of Salem wished to attend Lodge or do any Masonic work, they were obliged to travel to United States Lodge in Danvers, a distance of 5 miles away (A long and potentially dangerous journey in 1779.) So, on Thursday 4 March 1779, local silversmith John Butler invited 13 of the Masons of Salem to his home, for the purpose of discussing the possibility of establishing a Lodge in Salem. After much deliberation, and a certain amount of libation, a petition was drafted to the Most Worshipful Joseph Webb, Grand Master of All Lodges in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

~ The following evening, the Brethren again assembled, this time at the home of auctioneer William Lang, to review and polish the petition, and also to determine the most expedient way of sending it to Boston.It was decided that it should be hand delivered to the Grand Master, and Bro. Butler and Bro George Abbot, a local trader, commenced this arduous undertaking. Upon their arrival, however, they were in for a shock. Somehow, United States Lodge in Danvers got wind of the Salemites plan, and sent their own representative in an attempt to block the establishment of the new Lodge, arguing that the chartering of a Lodge in Salem could be ruinous to the Danvers Lodge and that the Brethren from Salem would always be welcomed as members of United States Lodge. Most Worshipful Webb read the petition from Salem, and listened to the arguments on both sides, then informed those present that the matter would be discussed and debated the following Wednesday at the next regular communication of the Grand Lodge, and that all parties concerned would be notified of the decision.

~ Brothers Abbot and Butler returned forthwith to Salem and reported on the situation. Having heard of the actions of United States Lodge, on 9 March 1775, seven more Salem Masons drew up a petition to bolster the previous request, they not being present at the original meeting. Brother Abbot was dispatched post hast with the new document, and got it to the Grand Master just as the Grand Lodge communication was about to begin. After a good deal of debate, it was decided that a Charter would be granted to the Salem Brethren, and a new Lodge know as Essex Lodge #10 would be formed and empowered to work. The documents were signed and the Grand Lodge Seal affixed on the 10th day of March, A. D. 1779, A. L. 5779. A letter was immediately dispatched thanking the Grand Lodge, and authorizing Bro. William Carlton, Master and Commander of the privateer sloop Black Snake, to act as the Lodge's agent to receive the Charter and any other edicts or instructions that the Grand Lodge might wish pass on. he arrived at Boston on 12 March 1779, paid thirty pounds to the Grand treasurer for the Charter, six pounds to the Grand Clerk for engrossing, along with an additional three pounds for the cost of the vellum and ink. With that, Essex Lodge #10, Salem, Massachusetts, was born!.

With Charter in hand, the Lodge held its first Lawful and Regular meeting on the night of 14 March 1779, at Bro. Butler's home. Brother Robert Foster, blacksmith and Captain of Militia, best known for holding Col. Alexander Leslie and 250 British troops at bay at the North Bridge on 26 February 1775, preventing them from capturing the cannon that he had been fitting out with gun carriages, was chosen as moderator until such time that a regular election of officers could be held. However, there would be one last, feeble attempt to strangle the infant Lodge in its cradle.

In late March, a letter from United States Lodge arrived. Expecting warm fraternal greetings, instead it contained a proposition. If Essex Lodge would return their newly awarded Charter, United states Lodge would absorb their members, transfer their Charter, Lodge name and number, and By-laws from Danvers to Salem. The range of reactions went from insulted to amused. A polite letter of refusal was drafted, and a committee of five, Brothers Robert Foster, George Abbot, Ebenezer Winship, William Lang, and James Eaton, was formed to deliver it to the Danvers Lodge, along with our fraternal good wishes and a pledge of eternal Brotherly friendship.



YEARS

1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788

original charter revoked 06/06/1788

1789 1790 1791

second charter granted 06/06/1791

1792 1802 1810 1814 1835 1836 1837

charter temporarily revoked 03/08/1837 due to the "Morgan Excitement."

1838 1839

charter restored 06/12/1845

1845 1850 1868 1871 1873 1874 1879 1881 1882 1884 1886 1889 1890 1895 1901 1908 1909 1912 1916 1917 1920 1923 1924 1928 1933 1939 1940 1949 1951 1954 1955 1956 1957 1959 1961 1965 1968 1979 1980 1984 1985 1991 1993 2003


GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1803: District 2 (Newburyport and North Shore)

1821: District 2

1835: District 2

1849: District 2

1867: District 5 (Salem)

1883: District 8 (Salem)

1911: District 8 (Lynn)

1927: District 8 (Salem)

2003: District 9


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges


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