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FEDERAL LODGE

Location: Blandford

Chartered By: John Cutler

Charter Date: 12/10/1792 (no page number)

Precedence Date: 10/24/1792

Current Status: unknown; dropped from the rolls in the "general revision" of 1835; history 1938-410ff.

Also called "Stafford Hill" Lodge.

PAST MASTERS

  • William Sizer, 1794, 1808
  • John Phelps, 1802, 1803, 1805; SN
  • John Webster, 1804

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

HISTORY

NOTES FROM 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF FEDERAL LODGE, APRIL 1938

From Proceedings, Page 1938-412:

"Capt. Wm. Sizer . . . was Master of old Federal Lodge in 1794. I do not know where he resided or was buried. By the old church records at Chester Center he died December 1, 1826, age 80. As indicative of his standing I will mention that in the seating of the church by "dignities," both he and Capt. Toogood were placed in "Dignity Second." . . . Our present Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. was formed in 1792 by the union of Old Massachuserts Grand Lodge and the Old St. John's Grand Lodge. That year the afore-mentioned David Scott and Capt. Wm. Toogood presented the Grand Lodge a petition for forming a new Lodge, which was granted and the Charter was given to the town of Blandford, under the name of Federal Lodge. Two years later Capt. Wm. Sizer, Master, and Justus Ashmun, Senior Warden, of the Lodge, forwarded a request for permission to hold meetings alternately in Blandford and Chester, which was granted."

OTHER

  • 1794 (Permission to meet alternately in Blandford and Chester granted, II-57; see historical note above)
  • 1807 (Permission for remission, II-363)
  • 1817 (Permission to meet alternately in Blandford and Chester refused, III-131)
  • 1821 (Note on delinquency, III-341)
  • 1822 (Note on delinquency, III-428)
  • 1824 (Note on delinquency, III-471)
  • 1825 (Note on delinquency, III-572)
  • 1826 (Note on delinquency, IV-57)
  • 1827 (Note on delinquency, IV-114)
  • 1828 (Note on delinquency, IV-147)
  • 1829 (Note on delinquency, IV-147)

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