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FREDERICK W. HAMILTON'S HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS FREEMASONRY

M. W. Frederick W. Hamilton, Grand Secretary and Honorary Past Grand Master of Massachusetts, had for many years in progress a history of the Craft in Massachusetts. At the time of his death in 1940 it remained unfinished, and a number of prominent Grand Lodge permanent members such as M. W. Joseph Earl Perry and R. W. (later M. W.) Samuel Wragg concluded that the material was simply not in a publishable condition. A manuscript of this work, along with a looseleaf notebook of annotations, has been in the possession of the Grand Lodge Library ever since.

The following text is a corrected version of the manuscript. Corrections are merely typographic; no attempt is made to confirm assertions or rectify inaccuracies. Also bear in mind that this material was written at least 80 years ago, and lacks both immediacy and contemporary sensibility - it was written in another time, by someone from that era. No attempt is being made to "clean up" the text in that respect.

After a certain point in the manuscript there are no chapter breaks; separations have been included to organize

• Chapter 1: The Beginnings
• Chapter 2: The Authorities
• Chapter 3: Henry Price and his Commission
• Chapter 4: The Commissions of the Grand Masters in the Colonial Period
• Chapter 5: Tomlinson and Oxnard
• Chapter 6: Gridley and the Ancients
• Chapter 7: John Rowe and the Revolution
• Chapter 8: The Ancients and the Revolution
• Chapter 9: Independence
• Chapter 10: The Coming of Negro Masonry Chapter 11 in the manuscript
• Chapter 11: Reconstruction Chapter 12 in the manuscript
• Chapter 12: Peace and Progress Chapter 13 in the manuscript
• Chapter 13: A Quarter Century of Growth (Part 1) Chapter 14 in the manuscript
• Chapter 14: A Quarter Century of Growth (Part 2) Chapter 14 in the manuscript
• Chapter 15: A Quarter Century of Growth (Part 3) Chapter 14 in the manuscript
• Chapter 16: Francis Oliver, Samuel Fay and a Grand Lodge for Maine Unnumbered Chapter in the Manuscript
• Chapter 17: John Dixwell Unnumbered Chapter in the Manuscript
• Chapter 18: John Abbot and John Soley Unnumbered Chapter in the Manuscript
• Chapter 19: Storm and Stress Unnumbered Chapter in the Manuscript
• Chapter 20: Reconstruction (Part 1) Unnumbered Chapter A in the Manuscript
• Chapter 21: Reconstruction (Part 2) Unnumbered Chapter A in the Manuscript
• Chapter 22: George Randall Unnumbered Chapter B in the Manuscript
• Chapter 23: Winslow Lewis Unnumbered Chapter B in the Manuscript
• Chapter 24: John T. Heard Unnumbered Chapter B in the Manuscript
• Chapter 25: The Coming of War Unnumbered Chapter B in the Manuscript
• Chapter 26: Era of Expansion Unnumbered Chapter B in the Manuscript
• Chapter 27: New Horizons (Part 1) Unnumbered Chapter C in the Manuscript
• Chapter 28: New Horizons (Part 2) Unnumbered Chapter C in the Manuscript
• Chapter 29: New Horizons (Part 3) Unnumbered Chapter C in the Manuscript
• Chapter 30: A Difficult Passage Unnumbered Chapter C in the Manuscript
• Chapter 31: A New Century Unnumbered Chapter C in the Manuscript
• Chapter 32: Melvin M. Johnson Unnumbered Chapter C in the Manuscript
• Chapter 33: War and Peace Unnumbered Chapter C in the Manuscript
• Chapter 34: The Nineteen Twenties Unnumbered Chapter C in the Manuscript

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