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GOOD SAMARITAN LODGE
Location: Reading
Chartered By: Benjamin Russell
Charter Date: 06/10/1816 III-44
Precedence Date: 06/10/1816
Current Status: unknown; charter vacated sometime around 1840. A petition to restore was voted upon 03/14/1855 (page V-562), but the lodge did not work under it.
According to the Lodge History presented in 1920 (beginning on Page 1920-365), it is last listed on the "roll of lodges" in 1840.
According to the the history of Good Samaritan Lodge, the lodge "ceased operations in 1840" following the Morgan Affair.
YEARS
Charter surrendered around 1840; restored 1855
DISTRICTS
1816: District 1 (Boston and Vicinity)