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JOHN WARREN
Grand Master, Massachusetts Grand Lodge, 1783-1784, 1787-1788
MEMORIAL
From Proceedings, Page II-628:
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS ON FUNERAL SOLEMNITIES, VIZT:
The committee appointed to carry into effect the vote of the Grand Lodge upon the decease of the late Doctor John Warren, Past Grand Master, have attended to their duty and respectfully report:
That arrangements are made for the performance of Funeral Solemnities at the present Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge, in honor of the memory and expressive of the high sense entertained of the merits and services of their late Grand Master, Doctor John Warren.
An address upon the occasion will be deliver'd by the R.W. and Hon'ble Josiah Bartlett, Past Grand Master; prayers by the Rev, Bro. Eaton, Past Grand Chaplain; odes, written by the R,W, and Rev'd Bro, Harris and by Mrs. Rowson, copies of which accompany this report, will be sung by a select choir of Brethren, accompanied by Doctor Jackson, professor of music, on the grand piano.
The committee, in the name of the Grand Lodge, have invited His Excellency the Governor; His Honor the Lieut, Governor; the Hon'ble Council; the Sheriff of Suffolk County; President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives; the Judges and Clerks of the United States and State Courts; Attorney and Solicitor General; District and County Attornies; United States Marshal; President, Corporation, professors and tutors of Harvard College; officers of the Medical Society and of the Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Rev'd Clergy and the Selectmen of Boston and Charlestown; Commodore Bainbridge and Captains Stewart, Smith, Morris, Crane and Ridgley of the Navy; General Miller and suite; Hon, Artemas Ward, Rep. in Congress, etc., etc., to visit the Grand Lodge on the occasion, and have presented to the officers of the Grand Lodge, and to the gentlemen invited who reside in Boston, cards of admission for one lady each.
For the better accommodation of the Grand Lodge, and those who assist at the contemplated solemnities, the Quarterly Communication is to be held at Concert Hall,
All which is respectfully submitted,
FRANCIS J, OLIVER,
JOHN DIXWELL,
SHUBAEL BELL,
ELIJAH MORSE,
Committee.
