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1792
JOHN CUTLER, Grand Master
QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS
- 06/21 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-21;
- II-21: Request for lodges to provide member lists.
- II-22: Proposal for design of charter.
- II-26: Postponement of September 1792 Quarterly due to smallpox epidemic.
- 12/10 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-27;
- II-27: Vote to send a copy of Grand Constitutions to George Washington.
- II-28: List of lodges by seniority.
- II-29: Returns of Rising States Lodge, Boston.
- II-30: Accounts of Grand Lodge for 1792.
- 12/27 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-32;
- II-32: Committee appointed to examine Grand Secretary accounts.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS
- 03/19 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-12;
- II-12: Installation of Most Worshipful Brother Cutler and other officers.
- II-14: Address by the Grand Master on "true Masonic principles"
- 04/02 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-15;
- II-15: Letter to St. Andrew‘s Lodge.
- II-17: Committee formed to create a Book of Constitutions.
- 06/01 (Bro. Coleman's, Boston): II-18;
- II-18: Petition in Wiscasset (Maine) for "Zion or Rising Star Lodge"(name changed: recorded as "Lincoln" on p. II-19, p. II-28)
- II-19: Committee to write charter.
- 06/11 (Salem): II-20;
- II-20: Constitution of Essex Lodge, Salem.
- 06/25 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-24; (R.W. John Lowell, Deputy Grand Master, presiding.)
- II-24: Feast of St. John the Baptist ceremonies.
LIST OF LODGES IN MASSACHUSETTS: 1792
No. | Location | Lodge | Charter Date | Chartering Body |
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1 | Boston | St. John's (Boston) | 07/30/1733 | St. John's Grand Lodge |
2 | Boston | Master's | 01/02/1738 | St. John's Grand Lodge |
3 | Newburyport | St. John's (Newburyport) | 07/17/1766 | St. John's Grand Lodge |
4 | Boston | Rising States | 11/30/1752 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
5 | Portland (Me.) | Portland | 03/30/1762 | St. John's Grand Lodge |
6 | Gloucester | The Tyrian | 03/02/1770 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
7 | Boston | The Massachusetts | 05/13/1770 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
8 | Boston | Union (Nantucket) | 05/27/1771 | St. John's Grand Lodge |
9 | Newburyport | St. Peter's | 03/06/1773 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
10 | Stockbridge | Berkshire | 03/08/1777 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
11 | Lancaster | Trinity | 02/15/1776 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
12 | Machias (Me.) | Warren | 09/04/1778 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
13 | Ipswich | Unity | 03/09/1779 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
14 | Charlestown | King Solomon's | 09/05/1783 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
15 | North Hampton | Hampshire | 01/30/1784 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
16 | Williamstown | Friendship | 07/23/1785 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
17 | Boston | Harmonic | 12/08/1790 | Massachusetts Grand Lodge |
18 | Salem | Essex | 06/11/1792 | Grand Lodge of Massachusetts |
19 | Wiscasset (Me.) | Lincoln | U.D. | Grand Lodge of Massachusetts |
20 | Hanover | Old Colony | U.D. | Grand Lodge of Massachusetts |
21 | Blandford | Federal | U.D. | Grand Lodge of Massachusetts |
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