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JAMES OTIS LODGE

Location: Barnstable

Chartered By: Charles C. Dame

Charter Date: 09/12/1866 VII-95

Precedence Date: 09/13/1865

Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault. Charter surrendered 10/31/1891.


PAST MASTERS

  • George Marston, 1865-1868
  • Elijah Lewis, II, 1869
  • Ansel D. Lothrop, 1870
  • Russell Matthews, 1871-1874
  • Freeman H. Lothrop, 1875-1880
  • Charles Thacher, II, 1881
  • Elijah L. Loring, 1882
  • James B. Cook, 1883-1886, 1890
  • Frank H. Hinckley, 1887
  • Thomas C. Day, 1888, 1889
  • James D. Baxter, 1891

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition For Dispensation: 1865
  • Petition For Charter: 1866

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1870 1875 1878 1885


HISTORY

  • 2001 (Notes in 200th Anniversary History of Fraternal Lodge, 2001-44

NOTES IN 200TH ANNIVERSARY HISTORY OF FRATERNAL LODGE, JUNE 2001

(Regarding the meeting place of Fraternal Lodge): "(The lodge) agreed to an addition to the schoolhouse on Cobb's Hill. This addition took the form of a second story, and served as the home of the Lodge until 1850. A Lodge of Odd Fellows and James Otis Lodge, A. F. & A. M. subsequently used it from 1865 to 1891. This building was torn down about 1935."

(Regarding the increase in Masonry after the anti-Masonic period.) "Other Lodges sprang up on the Cape. James Otis Lodge was chartered in Barnstable Village in 1866, Howard Lodge in South Yarmouth in 1869, and Mariners' Lodge in Cotuit in 1870. A great many of the charter members of these Lodges were members of Fraternal Lodge and were demitted in order to form them. Of the three, James Otis Lodge surrendered its charter in 1891, and most of the members returned to Fraternal Lodge."


GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1865: District 8

1867: District 15 (Barnstable)

1883: District 28 (Barnstable)


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges