MountArarat

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MOUNT ARARAT LODGE

Location: Petersham

Chartered By: John Abbot

Charter Date: 03/08/1826 IV-13

Precedence Date: 03/08/1826

Current Status: unknown; note on dissolution page 1939-351. ø Charter surrendered 06/11/1834


NOTES

From History of Petersham, Massachusetts, by Mabel Cook Coolidge, 1948:

MOUNT ARARAT LODGE OF MASONS, with a charter dated March 8th, 1826, was in existence about three years, then united with the Mount Zion Lodge of Barre; the following are the names of members: —

  • Jared Weed
    • no card
  • Dan. Hastings
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 08/27, 12/04, 12/04/1816
  • Sampson Wetherell
    • no card
  • Humphrey Farrar
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 02/05, 04/03, 04/03/1822
  • Ebenezer Lindsey
    • no card
  • Welcome Wadsworth
    • Membership card lists "joined Mount Zion Lodge 03/26/1823; died 1869
  • Walter Sanderson
    • no card
  • Rufus Flagg
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 12/21/1803, 02/15/1804
  • Silas Flagg
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 08/27, 12/04, 12/04/1816
  • Harry Taft
    • Membership card lists degrees in Olive Branch Lodge 08/17/1814
  • Ruel Farrar
    • no card
  • Washington Howe
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 04/21, 04/21, 04/21/1806
  • Henry Ward
    • Membership card lists "initiated Republican Lodge 03/01/1801
  • Seth Hathaway
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 08/16, 11/15, 11/15/1815
  • Otis Brooks
    • no card, but an Otis T. Brooks from Wendell received degrees in Republican Lodge in 1862.
  • Olney Scott
    • no card
  • Avery Clark
    • no card
  • Elbridge Chamberlain
    • no card
  • Gilbert Wardin
    • no card
  • Wm. Clark
    • Membership card lists EA degree in Mountain Lodge 06/10/1824
  • Joel Hathaway
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 04/06, 08/03, 11/06/1808
  • Artemas Bryant
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 01/23, 04/23, 04/23/1818
  • Constant Brown
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 04/17, 06/09, 06/09/1824
  • Silas Foster
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 08/25, 09/21, 09/21/1825
  • Aaron Brooks
    • no card
  • Abiather Blanchard
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 01/05, 02/24, 02/24/1814
  • William Woodward
    • no card
  • William Rogers
    • Membership card lists degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 03/30, 03/30, 03/31/1825
  • Levi Houghton
    • no card
  • William Parkhurst
    • no card
  • Peter Chamberlain
    • no card
  • Oren West
    • membership card for 'Orrin West' of Greenwich; received EA and FC degrees in Mount Zion Lodge 03/10 and 04/07/1824
  • Remy Brooks
    • 'no card
  • Rev. Thomas Marshall
    • Two membership cards, possibly one listing degrees 01/04/1803, 09/23/1806, 09/23/1806, in Middlesex Lodge
  • Harrison Bancroft
    • no card
  • Benjamin Chamberlain
    • Membership card lists degrees in Middlesex Lodge 02/12/1805, 03/12/1805, 01/20/1806
  • Ephraim L. Marsh
    • Membership card (no 'L') lists degrees in Jerusalem Lodge 12/28, 02/09, 06/08/1813
    • Membership card (with 'L') lists membership in Mount Zion Lodge from 09/06/1854, deceased 1873

Information on membership cards added in italics above.


REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Charter: 1825 ("lodge in Petersham, referred")
  • Petition for Charter: 1826

HISTORY

  • 1939 (Note on dissolution in 75th Anniversary History of Star Lodge, 1939-351)

OTHER

  • 1827 (Constitution of lodge, IV-124)

DISTRICTS

1826: District 6


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges