MassachusettsYear1792
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1792
JOHN CUTLER, Grand Master
QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS
- 06/21 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-21;
- II-21: Request for lodges to provide member lists.
- II-22: Proposal for design of charter.
- II-26: Postponement of September 1792 Quarterly due to smallpox epidemic.
- 12/10 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-27;
- II-27: Vote to send a copy of Grand Constitutions to George Washington.
- II-28: List of lodges by seniority.
- II-29: Returns of Rising States Lodge, Boston.
- II-30: Accounts of Grand Lodge for 1792.
- 12/27 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-32;
- II-32: Committee appointed to examine Grand Secretary accounts.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS
- 03/19 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-12;
- II-12: Installation of Most Worshipful Brother Cutler and other officers.
- II-14: Address by the Grand Master on "true Masonic principles"
- 04/02 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-15;
- II-15: Letter to St. Andrew‘s Lodge.
- II-17: Committee formed to create a Book of Constitutions.
- 06/01 (Bro. Coleman's, Boston): II-18;
- II-18: Petition in Wiscasset (Maine) for "Zion or Rising Star Lodge"(name changed: recorded as "Lincoln" on p. II-19, p. II-28)
- II-19: Committee to write charter.
- 06/11 (Salem): II-20;
- II-20: Constitution of Essex Lodge, Salem.
- 06/25 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-24; (R.W. John Lowell, Deputy Grand Master, presiding.)
- II-24: Feast of St. John the Baptist ceremonies.
LIST OF LODGES IN MASSACHUSETTS: 1792
Prec.:Lodge:Location:Charter Date
- St. John's (Boston):Boston:07/30/1733; St. John’s Grand Lodge
- Master's, Boston:Boston:01/02/1738; St. John’s Grand Lodge
- St. John's (Newburyport):Newburyport:07/17/1766; St. John’s Grand Lodge
- Rising States:Boston:11/30/1752 (split from St. Andrew’s)
- Philanthropic:Marblehead:03/25/1760; St. John’s Grand Lodge
- Portland:Portland (Me.):03/30/1762; St. John’s Grand Lodge
- Tyrian:Gloucester:03/02/1770; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- The Massachusetts:Boston:05/13/1770; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Union (Nantucket):Nantucket:05/27/1771; St. John’s Grand Lodge
- St. Peter's:Newburyport:03/06/1773; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Berkshire:Stockbridge:03/08/1777; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Trinity:Lancaster:02/15/1776; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Warren:Machias (Me.):09/04/1778; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Unity:Ipswich:03/09/1779; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- King Solomon's:Charlestown:09/05/1783; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Hampshire:North Hampton:01/30/1784; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Friendship:Williamstown:07/23/1785; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Harmonic:Boston:12/08/1790; Massachusetts Grand Lodge
- Essex:Salem:06/11/1792
- Lincoln:Wiscasset:U.D.
- Old Colony:Hanover:U.D.
- Federal:Blandford:U.D.