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Massachusetts

Lodge Pages

• Pages for all lodges in place. Lodge page refs done through 1970; 1973; 1975-1977.

Main Page: Lodges

Year Pages

• Year pages done 1733-1970, 1973, 1975-1978. 1754-1791 in skeleton form only. Deputy Grand Masters on all pages, missing SGW/JGW for St. John's Grand Lodge through 1792.
  • Changed to District format for 1803 onward.
  • Marked lodge charters supposedly surrendered in June 1834.
  • Changed to "by precedence" format for 1849 onward, lacking district info. (Conjectural districts 1836-48).
• Added lodges with dispensations but never chartered to main lodges page.
  • Added Army lodges (American Civil War) to main lodges page.
  • Changed to District format for 1867 onward. Updated lodge pages with district info.
  • Permanent officers and Grand Masters added to pages through the present.

Main Page: Years

Location Pages

• References to lodges and years added to all location pages.
• Building corner-stone layings and hall dedications added through 1970, also 1973, 1975-1978.

Main Page: Places

People

• Links for all Grand Masters, including notations on other Grand Offices held (Deputy Grand Master, Senior Grand Warden, Junior Grand Warden) through the present.
• Links for all Deputy Grand Masters, Senior Grand Wardens, Junior Grand Wardens through the present.
  • Year pages updated with links through 1970, 1973, 1975-1978.
  • Pages created for all permanent members. People page marked with © and ¶ for pages with pictures and text included.
• Added a Portraits page; up to date through 1970, 1973, 1975-1978.
• Added a Memorials page; up to date through 1973, 1975-1978.
  • Updated necrology page with links.
  • The individual entries have been broken up alphabetically into individual pages.
• Added a Living Past Grand Masters page; up to date through the present.
• Added pictures, terms, charters, rulings links to Grand Masters through 1989.
• Added a Feast of St. John Speeches page, up to date through 1970, 1973, 1975-1978.

Main Page: People

Districts

Main Page: Districts

• Current District layout page in place.
• Created a district page with a description of the 1803 alignments and the 1821 re-districting. Still lacking information from 1835 to 1867 (12 districts or fewer), but created links for 1836 re-districting.
• Revised district lists for 1856-1861.
• Created summary pages for District Deputies, 1867 forward.
• District History:
  • Added 13th District from 1826.
  • 16 districts 1867 and after.
  • 28 districts 1883 and after.
  • 32 districts 1911 and after.
  • 33rd District in 1912.
  • Redistricting in 1927, with two districts numbered 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 18, 21, and 32, and three districts numbered 4. DDGMs added through 2003.
  • Realignment in 1931, affecting the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 28th Districts.
  • District mergers in 1990, 1995 (4th Districts).
  • Redistricting in 2003, with subsequent adjustments.

Documents

Main Page: Organizational Documents

• Added 1792 and 1811 Grand Constitutions, and amendment refs will have links to appropriate section and notes on changes. Also added 1817 Act of Incorporation and the 1819 By-Laws.
  • Added 1833 surrender of the Act of Incorporation.
  • Added 1843 Grand Constitutions. Links to 1819 By-Laws.
  • Added 1859 Act of Incorporation and Additional Provisions.
  • Added 1916 Additional Provisions.
  • Added extensive 1860 and 1861 modifications to Grand Constitutions in accordance with the new Act of Incorporation.
  • Added 1908 Fraudulent Use Act.
  • Added 1918 Grand Constitutions.
  • Added 1930 Grand Constitutions.
  • Added Declaration of Principles.
  • Added 1940 Resolution of Sympathy.
  • Added 1944 Proclamation on Masonry Serving the Armed Forces.
  • Added 1946 Report on Negro Freemasonry and follow on revocation.
  • Added 1952 Answer to Anti-Masonic Propaganda.
  • Added 1953 Grand Constitutions.
  • Added 1981 Grand Master's Award.

• Declaration of 1831

Other

• Added an Attendance Summary page for the Anti-Masonic period. Revised based on lodge histories.
• Added an Edicts page; up to date through 1989.

Connecticut

• Page for lodges by district in place.
• All lodge pages created from converter output and imported. Lodge merger information incorporated.
• Need to check on lodges chartered by the GLMA or its predecessors and create a link in Massachusetts area.

Rhode Island

• Pages for all lodges in place.

Maine

• Page for lodges by district and lodges by number (including surrendered, revoked, merged) in place.
• Pages for all lodges in place, including charter info. Need to update pages to reflect mergers, etc.

Vermont

• In process.