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OXFORD LODGE
Location: Oxford
Chartered By: John Abbot
Charter Date: 12/14/1825 III-563
Precedence Date: 12/14/1825
Current Status: unknown; no record after 1825; charter surrendered 1854; historical note 1959-224.
PAST MASTERS
- Samuel Harris, 1825
- Alexander DeWitt, 1826-1828
- Ira Barton, 1829, 1830
- Sumner Barstow, 1831 and after
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
- Petition for Charter: 1825 note that original petition was refused
- Surrender of Charter: 1854 (in Grand Master's Address, Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XIV, No. 4, February 1855, Page 109)
HISTORY
NOTES IN CENTENARY HISTORY OF OXFORD LODGE, SEPTEMBER 1959
From Proceedings, Page 1959-224:
. . . the "Oxford Lodge," instituted the 4th of December 1825, on petition of John Wetherell and others. The first meeting was in the Butler Tavern, held the 25th of December 1825. This said Tavern will be razed to make room for the new Methodist Church. Those present:
- Samuel Harris
- Stephen Barton
- Richard Olney
- Jonathan A. Pope
- John Field
- Peter Butler
- Samuel C. Butler
- Jonathan Harris
- John Wetherell
- John Melish
- Artemas G. Metcalf
- Rufus Moore
Samuel Harris was chosen Worshipful Master, John Field, Senior Warden, Elihu Harwood, Jr., Junior Warden and Jonathan Pope, Secretary. An installation of officers took place in the old meeting house on the 27th of September 1826, at which the Rev. David Holman of Douglas gave an address. About 20 officials from the Grand Lodge and from towns near Oxford were present, and a dinner was provided by Samuel C. Butler at his Tavern. On the 27th of October 1828 it was voted to remove the place of meeting to the Tavern on the Plain.
Regular meetings were kept up to 1831, at which date the records end. One officer of the Grand Lodge of Boston writes: It (the Lodge) probably died of the anti-Masonic scare about 1831. Besides Samuel Harris, the Worshipful Masters were Alexander DeWitt, Ira Barton and Sumner Barstow, the last one elected but not installed.
OTHER
- 1826 (Constitution of Lodge, IV-26)
OFFICER LIST, JUNE 1826
From Masonic Mirror and Mechanics' Intelligencer, Vol. II, No. 30, July 1826, Page 233:
At the annual communication of Oxford Lodge, held at Oxford June 15, 5826, the following officers were elected for the year ensuing:
- R. W. Samuel Harris, M.
- Wor. Alexander Witt, S. W.
- Wor. Thomas Warner, J. W.
- Bro. Stephen Barton, T.
- Bro. Jonathan A. Pope, Sec.
- Bro. Stephen Larned, S. D.
- Bro. John Mellish, J. D.
- Bro. John Weatherell, S. S.
- Bro. Artemas G. Metcalf, J. S.
- Bro. William Sigourney, Mar.
- Bro. Ebenezer Newhall, Chaplain.
- Bro. Rufus Moore, Tyler.
