Orion
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ORION LODGE
Location: Cummington
Chartered By: Benjamin Russell
Charter Date: 09/13/1815 II-634
Precedence Date: 09/11/1815
Current Status: unknown; last recorded meeting 1835.
NOTES
According to a local historian, Bro. Bill Streeter, the lodge name is pronounced "Oh-Ree-On", and it met in the Kingman Tavern in Cummington.
The following names appear on the charter for Orion Lodge. The original by-law book with signatures was (as of 1927) in the possession of Rt. Wor. Eugene B. Bowen, PDDGM N.
- Daniel Whitman (MM Franklin (Cheshire))
- Hatch Noyes (MM Franklin (Cheshire))
- Thomas Break, Jr.
- Abraham Turtellot
- Seth Ford (MM 1813 Jerusalem)
- Eben Hunt (MM 1802 Jerusalem)
- William Mitchell, Jun.
- Oliver Pool (MM Franklin (Cheshire))
- Joel Shattuck (MM 1807 Columbian)
- Robert Dawes
- Stephen Hayward
- Calvin Snow
- Samuel Patch (MM 1813 Jerusalem)
- William Otis (MM Franklin (Cheshire))
- Snell Wade
- Joseph Hayward
- Lewis Thayer
- Nahum Bates
- Origin Orcutt, Jr.
- Seth Williams
- Levi Kingman
- John Clark
- John Witter
- Elias White (MM 1814 Bristol)
- Alvan Macomber
- Robert C. Robinson (MM Franklin (Cheshire))
- Willard Parsons
- Clement Stiles
- Isaac Hamlen, Jr.
- Luther Stone
- Almon Allen
- Cyrus Lovell
- Joshua Guilford
- Whitman Aldrich
- Benjamin Lemon
- Hosea Trumbull
- John Stone, Jr. (MM 1814 Republican)
- Sumner Stone
- Martin Bryant
- Orrin Bryant
- Nahum White (Member 1848 Hampden)
- Edward P. Freeman
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
- Petition for Charter: 1815