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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.
NOTES
MEMBER LIST, 1802
From Vocal Companion and Masonic Register, Boston, 1802, Part II, Page 12:
- R. W. John Phelps, M.
- W. Ozias French, S. W.
- W. Nathan Steward, J. W.
- Phineas Ashmun, Sec.
- William Knox, 2d., Treasurer.
- William Toogood, S. D.
- William Sizer, Jr., J. D.
- John Sizer, Steward
- John Stevens, Steward
- Asa Ayers, Tiler
- Jacob Plum, Tiler
- John Phelps
- Salathial Judd
- Jeremiah Root
PAST MASTERS
- William Sizer, 1794, 1808
- John Phelps, 1802, 1803, 1805; SN
- John Webster, 1804
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
HISTORY
- 1938 (Mention in 25th Anniversary History of the new Federal Lodge, 1938-99; see below)
- 1960 (Mention in 150th Anniversary History of Mystic Lodge, 1960-116)
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)
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- John Phelps, DDGM, District 7 (North Central Massachusetts), 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812; SN
