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MORNING SUN LODGE
Location: Ashfield; Conway (1828)
Chartered By: John Abbot
Charter Date: 06/08/1825 III-540
Precedence Date: 06/08/1825
Current Status: unknown; charter revoked around 1835.
NOTES
According to the centenary history of Morning Sun Lodge (1870), the charter was surrendered "about 1840". (See Page 1969-154.)
PAST MASTERS
- Orra Martin, 1826, 1827
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
- Petition for Charter: 1825
HISTORY
- 1934 (Notes in centenary history of Morning Sun Lodge, 1969-154)
OTHER
- 1826 (Constitution of Lodge, IV-11)
- 1828 (Permission to remove to Conway granted, IV-118)
- 1869 (Rejection of petition to renew charter, VII-287)
EVENTS
OFFICER LIST, APRIL 1826
From Masonic Mirror and Mechanics' Intelligencer, Vol. II, No. 16, April 1826, Page 121:
The following is a list of the officers of Morning Sun Lodge, Ashfield, Mass.
- R. W. Orra Martin, M.
- Wor. Henry Aldrich, S. W.
- Bro. Horace B. Childs, J. W.
- Bro. Roswell Ranny, Secretary.
- Bro. Jonathan Lilly, Treasurer.
- Bro. Salmon W. Matthews, S. D.
- Bro. Samuel P. Fuller, J. D.
- Bros. Anson Goodwin and Samuel W. Lee, Stewards.
- Bro. Luther Boyden, Tyler.
OFFICER LIST, DECEMBER 1826
From Masonic Mirror and Mechanics' Intelligencer, Vol. III, No. 1, December 1826, Page 2:
Officers of Morning Sun Lodge, Ashfield, chosen at their annual meeting, Dec. 30, A. L. 5826:
- R. W. Orra Martin, M.
- Bro. Horace B. Childs, S. W.
- Bro. Samuel P. Fuller, J. W.
- Bro. Roswell Ranney, Treasurer.
- Bro. Jonathan Lilly, Jr., Secretary.
- Bro. Salmon W. Matthews, S. D.
- Bro. Horace Cole, J. D.
- Bros. Austin Lilly and Luther Ward, Stewards.
- Bro. Seth Hall, Tyler.
- Bro. Samuel L. Lee, Marshal.