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* [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAGLTVinson Thomas M. Vinson], 1821, 1822 | * [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAGLTVinson Thomas M. Vinson], 1821, 1822 | ||
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+ | * Petition for Charter: '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1820 1820]''' | ||
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+ | * '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1959 1959]''' (History of Freemasonry on Martha's Vineyard, 1959-111; see below) | ||
+ | * '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1994 1994]''' (Notes in history at merger of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Oriental Oriental] and [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MarthasVineyard Martha's Vineyard] Lodge, 1994-14) | ||
==== FROM [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MarthasVineyard#HISTORY_OF_FREEMASONRY_ON_MARTHA.27S_VINEYARD.2C_JUNE_1959 MARTHA'S VINEYARD] MASONIC HISTORY, JUNE 1959 ==== | ==== FROM [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MarthasVineyard#HISTORY_OF_FREEMASONRY_ON_MARTHA.27S_VINEYARD.2C_JUNE_1959 MARTHA'S VINEYARD] MASONIC HISTORY, JUNE 1959 ==== | ||
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The Proceedings of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge does not state the date when Seven Stars Lodge was constituted, but at the December 27, 1823 Stated Communication of Grand Lodge, the District Deputy Grand Master for the [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAIslands12_1821-34 12th Masonic District] reported that this Lodge was in arrears for the year 1823, but what the arrears may have been is not mentioned. (Page Ill-471) On December 27, 1824, the Grand Treasurer reported to the Grand Lodge that this Lodge had returned its Charter. (Page Ill-526) | The Proceedings of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge does not state the date when Seven Stars Lodge was constituted, but at the December 27, 1823 Stated Communication of Grand Lodge, the District Deputy Grand Master for the [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAIslands12_1821-34 12th Masonic District] reported that this Lodge was in arrears for the year 1823, but what the arrears may have been is not mentioned. (Page Ill-471) On December 27, 1824, the Grand Treasurer reported to the Grand Lodge that this Lodge had returned its Charter. (Page Ill-526) | ||
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Revision as of 18:17, 25 March 2013
Contents
SEVEN STARS LODGE
Location: Edgartown
Chartered By: Samuel P. P. Fay
Charter Date: 09/13/1820 III-395
Precedence Date: 09/13/1820
Current Status: surrendered charter 1824 (page III-526).
PAST MASTERS
- Thomas M. Vinson, 1821, 1822
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
- Petition for Charter: 1820
HISTORY
- 1959 (History of Freemasonry on Martha's Vineyard, 1959-111; see below)
- 1994 (Notes in history at merger of Oriental and Martha's Vineyard Lodge, 1994-14)
FROM MARTHA'S VINEYARD MASONIC HISTORY, JUNE 1959
SEVEN STARS LODGE OF EDGARTOWN 1820—1824
At the Quarterly Communication of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, held on July 14, 1820, a petition was received from Thomas Melville Vinson, Samuel Wheldon and Samuel Worthman, with five others all Master Masons, praying that a Charter be granted to erect a "Lodge in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard." This petition was supported by a certificate of approbation from Union Lodge of Nantucket and Fraternal Lodge of Barnstable. The District Deputy Grand Master of the 12th Masonic District, R. W. Hezekiah S. Gardner also added his recommendation for the erection of this Lodge. All of which was referred to a committee, (Page III-289) who reported at the next Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge on September 13, 1820, recommending, "that the prayer of the Petitioners ought to be granted."
The name chosen for this new Lodge was Seven Stars Lodge (Page III-308). It is noted in the above that the name of King Solomon Lodge in Perfection does not appear as recommending the erection of this Lodge, they at that time not being in good standing with the Massachusetts Grand Lodge. Apparently the organizers of this new Lodge were having some difficulty in getting started as the following vote was passed in Grand Lodge on September 11, 1822:
Voted, that one year be granted to the Members of Seven Stars Lodge for the purpose of being constituted a regular Lodge. (Page Ill-411)
The Proceedings of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge does not state the date when Seven Stars Lodge was constituted, but at the December 27, 1823 Stated Communication of Grand Lodge, the District Deputy Grand Master for the 12th Masonic District reported that this Lodge was in arrears for the year 1823, but what the arrears may have been is not mentioned. (Page Ill-471) On December 27, 1824, the Grand Treasurer reported to the Grand Lodge that this Lodge had returned its Charter. (Page Ill-526)
OTHER
(Granting of an additional year to be organized, III-411)
(Charter returned, III-526)
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- Thomas M. Vinson, Junior Grand Warden 1849; Senior Grand Warden 1850-1851