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SECOND LODGE (Boston)

Location: Boston

Chartered By: Thomas Oxnard

Charter Date: 02/15/1749 I-9

Precedence Date: 02/15/1749

Current Status: merged into St. John's of Boston in 1783.


NOTES

According to a note in the 1953 Proceedings (Page 1953-199), this Lodge was inactive after 02/16/1775 and formally merged into First Lodge in 1783. (This would be the first recorded merger in the history of the Craft in Massachusetts.)

1783 1958


PAST MASTERS

  • Henry Price, 1749
  • Alexander Lord Colvill, 1750-1752
  • Balthazar Bayard, 1752, 1754, 1755
  • James Forbes, 1753, 1759
  • William Coffin, 1754
  • Hugh McDaniel, 1755, 1756, 1760
  • Andrew Oliver, 1757
  • Thomas Dipper, 1758
  • Samuel Holbrook, 1759
  • Edmund Quincy, 1760
  • Archibald McNeil, 1761, 1762
  • John Box, 1761, 1763
  • Edmund Quincy, 1763
  • John Cutler, 1763-1766
  • William Savage, 1767
  • Samuel Fitch, 1767-1769
  • William Jackson, 1770
  • Thomas Brown, 1771
  • John Box, Jr., 1772
  • Job Prince, 1773
  • Richard Salter, 1774, 1775
  • in recess 1776-1783

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

APPEARANCES 1733-1792

QUARTERLY AND REGULAR COMMUNICATIONS

  • 1749: 02/15, 03/07
  • 1750: 04/13, 07/13, 10/12
  • 1751: 01/11. 04/12, 07/12, 10/11
  • 1752: 01/10, 04/10, 07/10, 10/13
  • 1753: 01/12, 04/13, 07/13, 10/12
  • 1754: 01/11, 04/12, 07/12, 10/11
  • 1755: 01/11, 04/11, 07/12, 10/10
  • 1756: 01/09, 04/09, 08/13, 10/08
  • 1757: 01/14, 04/08, 07/08, 10/14
  • 1758: 01/13, 04/13, 07/14, 10/13
  • 1759: 01/12, 04/13, 07/13, 10/12
  • 1760: 01/12, 04/11, 07/11, 10/10
  • 1761: 01/07, 04/08, 07/10, 10/09
  • 1762: 01/08, 04/09, 07/10, 10/22
  • 1763: 01/28, 04/22, 07/28, 10/24
  • 1764: 10/26
  • 1765: 01/25, 04/25, 07/26, 10/25
  • 1766: 01/24, 04/25, 07/25, 10/24
  • 1767: 01/23, 04/24, 07/24, 10/23
  • 1768: 01/22, 04/22
  • 1769: 01/27, 04/28, 07/28, 10/27

HISTORY

From History of Saint John's Lodge of Boston, Massachusetts As Shown in the Records, Page 54ff:

Very little is know of the origin of the Second Lodge in Boston except that we find in the records:

Our Rt. Worsh'l Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, and Grand Wardens Constituted (in due Form with the usual Solemnity) A Lodge to be held at the Royal Exchange Tavern In Boston on the Third Thursday In every Month, and appointed The Rt. Worshl. Mr Henry Price first Master. March 7.

This was the Second Lodge in Boston. No records of meetings appear to have been found earlier than December 21, 1761. Nevertheless its Master and Wardens were in attendance at all the Quarterly Communications of the Grand Lode, during the intervening years, in the records of the Grand Lodge:

"The Second Lodge removed to the Bunch of Grapes Tavern March 20th 1752."

Journal of the Proceedings of the 2d Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons Commencing 1761. Rt. Whpl. Archibald McNeil Master.

  • John Box jun'r. (Warden)
  • Isaac Gridley jun'r. (Warden)
  • John Box Treasr.
  • Theo. Browne Sec'r.
  • Robert Jenkins D. G. M.
  • James Forbes G. T.
  • Hugh McDaniel
  • John Cutler
  • Ezekiel Price
  • Wm. Lee Perkins
  • Nath'l. Abraham
  • Richard Billings
  • Richard Salter
  • Samuel Barrett
  • Andw. McKenzie
  • Edmund Quncy
  • William Jackson
  • James Jackson
  • Edward Church
  • Andw. Cagneau
  • John Derrington
  • William Tyng
  • Richard Gridley
  • Thomas Dawes
  • William Craft
  • Leonard Jarvis Junr.
  • Samuel Swift
  • John Bradford
  • Joseph Henderson
  • Samuel Vans
  • Henry Leddle
  • William Baut
  • Samuel Blodgett
  • Arch'd. McNeil M.
  • John Box jun'r. S. W.
  • Thomas Brown
  • James Flagg
  • Philip Dumaresq
  • John Box T.
  • John Gould junr.
  • Samuel Fitch
  • John Sparhawk
  • Nathl. Hurd
  • Thomas Fleet
  • Samuel Quincy
  • William Belcher
  • Christopher Clark
  • John Head
  • John Rowe Esqr. D. G. M.
  • Joseph Miller
  • Stephen Parker

47 members.

Thenceforward from this date the meetings were held regularly, and at first in the British Coffee House. R. W. Jeremiah Gridley, Grand Master, R. W. Henry Price, the first Grand Master and also the first Master of the Second Lodge, and other Grand Officers, usually being in attendance.

Richard Gridley, named in the above list of members, a brother of Jeremiah Gridley, became a member of the First Lodge in 1745 and its Master in 1757. He planned the fortificaion upon Governor's Island and Castle Island in Boston Harbor, at Gloucester, the Kennebec River, and at Halifax. He was at Louisburg with Pepperell and was entrusted by him with the plan of its reduction. It surrendered in 1745. He was engineer of the Colonial Army in 1755 and was with Gen. Winslow at Crown Point in 1756, and planned the fortifications there and on Lake George. He was with General Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham and the capture of Québec in 1759. He laid out the defence at Bunker Hill the night before the battle and narrowly escaped capture. He constructed the fortifications upon Dorchester Heights, which caused the British forces to evacuate Boston March 17, 1776. He was commissioned Major General of the Army of the Revolution and made commander of the Artillery Sept. 20, 1775. In 1781 he retired to his country home in Canton, Massachusetts, where he died June 20, 1796, aged 86 years, 5 months and 17 days. His remains were buried upon his farm, as the town authorities thought that his being a convert to the teachings of Rev. John Murray on Universal Salvation ought to keep his remains from the town burial ground. About 30 years ago an addition to the old burial ground was laid out by the town and the remains of General Gridley were exhumed and placed in a box under a large granite monument. He married Hannah Deming Feb. 25, 1730 and had six children.

OTHER

  • 1953 Petition to transfer records to St. John's Lodge (Boston) granted, 1953-197)

LINKS

St. John's Lodge Web Site

Massachusetts Lodges