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

OTHER

  • 1820 (Permission for remission of dues granted, III-313)
  • 1821 (Notice on delinquency, III-347)

DISTRICTS

1815: District 8 (Berkshires)

1821: District 7


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges