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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; historical notes page 1895-24, 1963-233.
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
ANNIVERSARIES
XXXXXXXXXX* 1909 (50th Anniversary)
VISITS BY GRAND MASTER
BY-LAW CHANGES
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HISTORY
XXXXXXX* 1934 (75th Anniversary History, 1934-169)
OTHER
- 1820 (Report of delinquency, III-281)
- 1829 (Committee on property deed, IV-152)
- 1830 (Committee on property deed, IV-177)
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- Otis Hayden, DDGM, District 6, 1827, 1828, 1829; SN
- John Homans, DDGM, District 6, 1826; SN
DISTRICTS
1803: District 6 (Central Mass., Worcester)
