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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.

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REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

• Petition for Charter: 1816
• Petition for Restoration: 1855

HISTORY

• 1970 (Notes in Centenary History of Good Samaritan Lodge, 1970-548)

OTHER

• 1818 (Objection regarding charter of a lodge in Andover, III-184)
• 1823 (Petition regarding remission of dues, III-457; rejected, III-461)

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DISTRICTS

1816: District 1 (Boston and Vicinity)

1821: District 9

1835: District 3

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LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges