YRCharterSummary
From MasonicGenealogy
YORK RITE CHARTER SUMMARY
The following tables list charters granted in Massachusetts. They do not include charters granted by either Massachusetts Grand Lodge in other colonies or states that have since come under the authority of other Grand Lodges (such as Connecticut or Maine).
KEY
Status | Meaning |
Charters active under the appropriate Grand Body, in the possession of the particular body | |
Charters no longer active, lost, destroyed or location unknown | |
Charters surrendered or revoked, not in possession of the Grand body. | |
Charters surrendered or revoked, in possession of the Grand body. |
ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS
Chapter | Location | Status | Grand High Priest | Charter Date | Notes | St. Andrew's | Boston | Organized before the Grand Chapter | 01/18/1769 | Notes on mergers |
King Cyrus | Newburyport | Organized before the Grand Chapter | 06/28/1790 | Notes on mergers | |
St. John's (1) | Groton | GHP | 10/12/1804 | Notes on mergers | |
King Solomon's | Charlton | GHP | 09/06/1805 | Notes on mergers | |
Washington | Salem | GHP | 01/09/1811 | Notes on mergers | |
King Hiram's (1) | Greenwich | GHP | 06/13/1815 | Notes on mergers | |
Adoniram | Attleboro | GHP | 10/04/1816 | Notes on mergers | |
Morning Star | Springfield | GHP | 06/10/1817 | Notes on mergers | |
Rising Sun | Nantucket | GHP | 06/09/1818 | Notes on mergers | |
Franklin | Greenfield | GHP | 12/07/1818 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Paul's | Boston | GHP | 12/10/1818 | Notes on mergers | |
Mount Zion | Stoughton | GHP | 12/12/1820 | Notes on mergers | |
Thomas | Princeton | GHP | 12/11/1821 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Lebanon | Medfield | GHP | 12/14/1824 | Notes on mergers | |
Northampton | Northampton | GHP | 06/25/1825 | Notes on mergers | |
Bethlehem | New Bedford | GHP | 01/15/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
Concord | Concord | GHP | 03/25/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Horeb | Lowell | GHP | 04/08/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Luke | Marblehead | GHP | 06/01/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
Sutton (1) | Sutton | GHP | 09/26/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
St. John's (2) | East Boston | GHP | 12/12/1852 | Notes on mergers | |
Shekinah | Chelsea | GHP | 12/27/1855 | Notes on mergers | |
Orient | Hyannis | GHP | 09/09/1856 | Notes on mergers | |
Pentucket | Haverhill | GHP | 12/09/1856 | Notes on mergers | |
Berkshire | Pittsfield | GHP | 12/07/1858 | Notes on mergers | |
King Solomon's (2) | Warren | GHP | 12/07/1858 | Notes on mergers | |
Keystone | Foxboro | GHP | 06/12/1860 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Sinai | Lawrence | GHP | 09/11/1860 | Notes on mergers | |
Pilgrim | Abington | GHP | 12/10/1861 | Notes on mergers | |
Cambridge | Cambridge | GHP | 12/13/1862 | Notes on mergers | |
Waverly | Melrose | GHP | 03/10/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
Mystic | Medford | GHP | 06/09/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Matthew's | South Boston | GHP | 06/09/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
Sutton (2) | Lynn | GHP | 09/09/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
Hampden | Palmer | GHP | 12/09/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
Fall River | Fall River | GHP | 06/07/1864 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Mark's | Taunton | GHP | 12/13/1864 | Notes on mergers | |
Waltham | Waltham | GHP | 12/13/1864 | Notes on mergers | |
Corinthian | Adams | GHP | 12/13/1864 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Vernon | Roxbury | GHP | 03/07/1865 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Holyoke | Holyoke | GHP | 06/13/1865 | Notes on mergers | |
Doric | Southbridge' | GHP | 12/11/1865 | Notes on mergers | |
Union | Athol | GHP | 03/13/1866 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Stephen's | Dorchester | GHP | 03/13/1866 | Notes on mergers | |
Menotomy | Arlington | GHP | 06/12/1866 | Notes on mergers | |
Houghton | Marlborough | GHP | 06/11/1867 | Notes on mergers | |
Isle of the Sea | Nantucket | GHP | 09/10/1867 | Notes on mergers | |
Parker | Natick | GHP | 03/10/1868 | Notes on mergers | |
Signet | Charlestown | GHP | 06/08/1868 | Notes on mergers | |
Samoset | Plymouth | GHP | 12/08/1868 | Notes on mergers | |
Joseph Warren | Provincetown | GHP | 06/08/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Clinton | Clinton | GHP | 09/07/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Newton | Newtonville | GHP | 08/07/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Satucket | Brockton | GHP | 09/07/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Sylvester Baxter | West Harwich | GHP | 12/07/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Norfolk | Hyde Park | GHP | 05/17/1870 | Notes on mergers | |
Pentalpha | East Weymouth | GHP | 06/07/1870 | Notes on mergers | |
Evening Star | Westfield | GHP | 09/12/1870 | Notes on mergers | |
Trinity | Amesbury | GHP | 09/13/1870 | Notes on mergers | |
Eureka | Worcester | GHP | 12/13/1870 | Notes on mergers | |
Somerville | Somerville | GHP | 12/13/1870 | Notes on mergers | |
William Ferson | GHP | 12/13/1870 | Notes on mergers | ||
Woburn | Woburn | GHP | 12/13/1870 | Notes on mergers | |
Miller | Franklin | GHP | 12/12/1871 | Notes on mergers | |
Amity | Beverly | GHP | 03/12/1872 | Notes on mergers | |
Houlton | Danvers | GHP | 03/12/1872 | Notes on mergers | |
North Star | Winchendon | GHP | 06/11/1872 | Notes on mergers | |
Reading | Reading | GHP | 06/11/1872 | Notes on mergers | |
Composite | North Adams | GHP | 12/27/1872 | Notes on mergers | |
Walden | Concord | GHP | 03/11/1873 | Notes on mergers | |
Tyrian | Millbury | GHP | 12/09/1873 | Notes on mergers | |
Monument | Great Barrington | GHP | 06/09/1874 | Notes on mergers | |
Unity | Chicopee Falls | GHP | yr12/07/1875/td> | Notes on mergers | |
King Hiram's (2) | Attleboro | GHP | 03/07/1876 | Notes on mergers | |
Harmony | Bridgewater | GHP | 03/07/1882 | Notes on mergers | |
Hebron | Norwood | GHP | 06/12/1883 | Notes on mergers | |
Crescent | Orange | GHP | 03/11/1884 | Notes on mergers | |
Tabernacle | Malden | GHP | 03/09/1886 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Elmo's | Whitinsville | GHP | 06/07/1892 | Notes on mergers | |
Dorchester | Dorchester | GHP | 03/07/1893 | Notes on mergers | |
Winthrop | Winthrop | GHP | 09/19/1899 | Notes on mergers | |
Bancroft | Ayer | GHP | 09/11/1900 | Notes on mergers | |
Wareham | Wareham | GHP | 09/07/1909 | Notes on mergers | |
Gardner | Gardner | GHP | 12/07/1909 | Notes on mergers | |
Ipswich | Ipswich | GHP | 09/12/1910 | Notes on mergers | |
Bethsaida | Everett | GHP | 02/22/1911 | Notes on mergers | |
Rabboni | North Attleboro | GHP | 03/07/1911 | Notes on mergers | |
Amherst | Amherst | GHP | 01/15/1912 | Notes on mergers | |
Old Colony | Middleboro | GHP | 10/14/1914 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Wollaston | Wollaston | GHP | 08/22/1918 | Notes on mergers | |
Vineyard | Vineyard Haven | GHP | 02/26/1918 | Notes on mergers | |
Henry J. Mills | Saugus | GHP | 12/20/1919 | Notes on mergers | |
Swampscott | Swampscott | GHP | 05/13/1919 | Notes on mergers | |
Webster | Webster | GHP | 06/03/1920 | Notes on mergers | |
Belmont | Belmont | GHP | 10/13/1920 | Notes on mergers | |
Fairhaven | Fairhaven | GHP | 12/07/1920 | Notes on mergers | |
Wampatuck | Hingham | GHP | 12/24/1920 | Notes on mergers | |
James Rogerson | Easthampton | GHP | 05/19/1921 | Notes on mergers | |
Winchester | Winchester | GHP | 05/20/1921 | Notes on mergers | |
Watertown | Watertown | GHP | yr | Notes on mergers | |
Roslindale | Roslindale | GHP | 06/09/1922 | Notes on mergers | |
Leominster | Leominster | GHP | 12/08/1923 | Notes on mergers | |
Kingsway | West Springfield | GHP | 12/16/1926 | Notes on mergers | |
Walter E. Marcy | Seekonk | GHP | 10/27/1952 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Andrew (Santo Domingo) | Santo Domingo, D. R. | GHP | 01/08/1980 | Notes on mergers | |
Phoenix | "the Attleboroughs" | GHP | 12/21/2019 | Notes on mergers |