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Precedence Date: ''09/13/1797''
 
Precedence Date: ''09/13/1797''
  
Current Status: ''unknown; last meeting under old charter 1834; historical notes page 1895-24, 1963-233.''
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Current Status: ''unknown; last meeting under old charter 1834''
  
 
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* Petition for Charter: '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1797 1797]'''
 
* Petition for Charter: '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1797 1797]'''
 
=== ANNIVERSARIES ===
 
 
XXXXXXXXXX* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1909 1909]''' (50th Anniversary)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1934 1934]''' (75th Anniversary)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1959 1959]''' (Centenary)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear2009 2009]''' (150th Anniversary)
 
  
 
=== VISITS BY GRAND MASTER ===
 
=== VISITS BY GRAND MASTER ===
  
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1798 1798]''' ([http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBartlett Bartlett]; Constitution of Lodge and installation; see above)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1798 1798]''' ([http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBartlett Bartlett]; Constitution of Lodge and installation; see above)
 
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XXXXXXXXXX'''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1870 1870]'''
 
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=== HISTORY ===
 
=== HISTORY ===
  
XXXXXXX* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1934 1934]''' (75th Anniversary History, 1934-169)
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* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1963 1963]''' (Historical notes at centenary of [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Hayden Hayden] Lodge, 1963-233)
  
 
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* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1829 1829]''' (Committee on property deed, IV-152)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1829 1829]''' (Committee on property deed, IV-152)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1830 1830]''' (Committee on property deed, IV-177)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1830 1830]''' (Committee on property deed, IV-177)
 
'''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1963 1963]'''
 
  
 
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Revision as of 11:32, 24 March 2013

MERIDIAN SUN LODGE

Location: Brookfield

Chartered By: Paul Revere

Charter Date: 09/13/1797 II-108

Precedence Date: 09/13/1797

Current Status: unknown; last meeting under old charter 1834


NOTES

CONSTITUTION OF LODGE, SEPTEMBER 1798

From Proceedings, Page 1895-24, address of the Grand Master at the constitution of Meridian Sun Lodge:

"The Lodge was constituted Sept. 12, 1798, and the following account was published in the Worcester Spy of that date, a clipping from which is now in the possession of the Grand Lodge. It reads as follows:

"On the 12th inst. the 'Meridian Sun Lodge,' at Brookfield, was publicly consecrated, and its officers installed by R.W. Isaiah Thomas, Esq. (who has a deputation to visit, instruct, etc., the Lodges in the three western Counties of Massachusetts). A sermon was preached on the occasion by the Chaplain of the Grand Lodge, 'on the importance of illustrating our profession by our example,' and an instructive and interesting Charge was given by the Grand Master. The whole was performed in the presence of a crowded, respectable, and highly gratified audience. After the public services, the Brethren and guests partook of a noble feast, under a most elegant alcove erected and ornamented for the occasion."

INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS, FEBRUARY 1825

Officer list from Masonic Mirror, February 12, 1825, in the Cambridge Masonic Temple collection:

  • Pliny Nye, Worshipful Master
  • Otis Hayden, Senior Warden
  • W. Heman Stebbins, Junior Warden
  • Amos Blanchard, Treasurer
  • Dexter Rice, Secretary
  • Pliny Upham, Senior Deacon
  • David Matthews, Junior Deacon
  • Rufus Dodge, Tyler.

PAST MASTERS

  • Joseph Pierce, 1801
  • Cheney Reed, 1802
  • Otis Hayden, before 1827; SN
  • Francis O. Clark, 1814
  • John Homans, before 1826; SN
  • Pliny Nye, 1825

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Charter: 1797

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

  • 1798 (Bartlett; Constitution of Lodge and installation; see above)

HISTORY

  • 1963 (Historical notes at centenary of Hayden Lodge, 1963-233)

OTHER

  • 1820 (Report of delinquency, III-281)
  • 1829 (Committee on property deed, IV-152)
  • 1830 (Committee on property deed, IV-177)

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1803: District 6 (Central Mass., Worcester)

1821: District 6


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges