MADartmouthHanoverNH
DARTMOUTH LODGE
Location: Hanover, NH
Chartered By: John Rowe
Charter Date: 12/18/1788
Precedence Date: 12/18/1788
Current Status: unknown; lapsed.
NOTES
From history of Franklin Lodge #6, New Hampshire:
n December 18, 1788, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts chartered the first lodge in Hanover, Dartmouth Lodge. James Wheelock, Eleazar Wheelock and their cousin Bezaleel Woodward were among the names on the petition. This was the last lodge chartered by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in the State of New Hampshire. Once the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire was chartered in 1789, many of the lodges originally chartered by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts dissolved. All of their records disappeared as no Grand Lodge would claim them; as a result, there are no other records of these early lodges.