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1831

William Hilliard, Deputy Grand Master
Abraham A. Dame, Senior Grand Warden
William J. Whipple, Junior Grand Warden

NOTES

EVENTS IN 1831

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS

03/09 (Masons Hall, Boston): IV-211;

06/08 (Masons Hall, Boston): IV-214;
- IV-216: Will of Past Grand Master Isaiah Thomas, including a bequest of $500 toward the building of the Temple. Resolves by the Grand Lodge in thanks.

09/14 (Masons Hall, Boston): IV-220;
- IV-221: Memorial for R.W. Elijah Morse, Past Deputy Grand Master. "Badges of mourning" for the altar, jewels and regalia of the Grand Lodge.

12/14 (Masons Hall, Boston): IV-223; Annual Communication.
- IV-224: Petition from Cassia Lodge recommitted.
- IV-226: Report of Committee on Charity.
- IV-227: Report of Committee on Finance.
- IV-203: Grand Master Jenkins re-elected. (Only 57 ballots cast.) Other Grand Lodge officers elected.
- IV-230: Merrimack Lodge property to be conveyed by quitclaim to the lodge.

12/28 (Masons Hall, Boston): IV-232:
- IV-232: Installation of Grand Master Jenkins and other Grand Lodge officers.

PETITIONS FOR CHARTERS

None.

GRAND LODGE TEMPLE HALL

03/09: IV-211; Building Committee authorized to borrow an additional $5,000; added to the $20,000 appropriation from the Trustees of the Grand Charity Fund, making $40,000 total.

06/08: IV-215; Building Committee arranged a loan from the President and Fellows of Harvard College for $15,000 on the property to hold the Masonic Temple.

09/14: IV-222; Committee of nine appointed to make arrangements for dedicating the Temple.

12/14: IV-225; Report of committee on arrangements for consecration of the new Masonic Hall reported:
- - An address will be delivered by "a distinguished Brother (from) another part of the State" at St. Paul's Church.
  - Consecrating ceremony to be performed in front of the Brethren.
  - Procession will take place to the Church, with "fellow citizens" invited to join there.

12/14: IV-226; Committee to request the use of Park Street meeting house for the occasion.

SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS

None.

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICT (with date of precedence): 1831

Extrapolated from O.P., 1830, as listed on the 1830 year page.

DISTRICT 1

Joseph Eveleth, District Deputy Grand Master; 8 Lodges

St. John's (Boston, 1733) ★
Lodge of St. Andrew, (Boston, 1756) ★
The Massachusetts (Boston, 1770) ★
Columbian (Boston, 1796) ★
Washington (Roxbury, 1796) ★
Union (Dorchester, 1796) ★
Mount Lebanon (Boston, 1801) ★
Rural (Quincy, 1801) ★

DISTRICT 2

Ebenezer Bradbury, District Deputy Grand Master; 14 Lodges

Philanthropic (Marblehead, 1760) ★
St. John's (Newburyport, 1766)
The Tyrian (Gloucester, 1770)
St. Peter's (Newburyport, 1773)
Unity (Ipswich, 1779)
Essex (Salem, 1792) ★
Merrimack (Haverhill, 1802) ★
St. Mark's (Newburyport, 1803)
Mount Carmel (Lynn, 1805) ★
Jordan (Danvers, 1808) ★
St. Matthew's (Andover, 1822)
Warren (Amesbury, 1822)
Liberty (Beverly, 1824)
Grecian (Methuen, 1825)

DISTRICT 3

Royal Turner, District Deputy Grand Master; 6 Lodges

DISTRICT 4

Josiah J. Fiske, District Deputy Grand Master; 7 Lodges

Montgomery (Medway, 1797) inactive?
Meridian (Watertown, 1797) ★
Rising Star (Stoughton, 1799) ★
Constellation (Dedham, 1801) ★
Charity (Milford, 1803)
St. Alban's (Wrentham, 1818) ★
Cassia (Medfield, 1823)

DISTRICT 5

Lemuel Shattuck, District Deputy Grand Master; 11 Lodges

Trinity (Lancaster, 1776)
Middlesex (Framingham, 1795) ★
St. Paul's (Groton, 1797) ★
Corinthian (Concord, 1797) ★
Social (Ashburnham, 1798)
Aurora (Leominster, 1801) ★
Pentucket (Chelmsford, 1807) ★
Fredonia (Northboro, 1810) ★
United Brethren (Marlborough, 1824)
Clinton (Billerica, 1826)
Farmers (Sterling, 1826)

DISTRICT 6

Linus Child, District Deputy Grand Master; 14 Lodges

Morning Star (Worcester, 1793)
Fayette (Charlton, 1796) ★
Olive Branch (Oxford, 1797) ★
Meridian Sun (Brookfield, 1797)
Mount Zion (Hardwick, 1800)
Harris (Templeton, 1802)
Thompson (Rutland, 1812)
Solomon's Temple (Uxbridge, 1818)
Leicester (Leicester, 1823)
Eden (Ware, 1824)
Oxford (Oxford, 1825)
Doric (Southbridge, 1826)
Mount Ararat (Petersham, 1826)
Central (Dudley, 1827)

DISTRICT 7

Ansel Phelps, District Deputy Grand Master; 8 Lodges

Republican (Gill, 1794)
Harmony (Northfield, 1796)
Pacific (Leverett, 1801)
Orion (Cummington, 1815)
Golden Rule (New Salem, 1815)
Mountain (Rowe, 1806)
Orange (Orange, 1825) surrendered charter
Morning Sun (Ashfield, 1825)

DISTRICT 8

Charles Baker, District Deputy Grand Master; 7 Lodges

DISTRICT 9

William Hilliard, District Deputy Grand Master; 9 Lodges

King Solomon's (Charlestown, 1783)
Hiram (Lexington, 1797)
Mount Moriah (Reading, 1798)
Amicable (Cambridge, 1805) ★
Good Samaritan (Reading, 1816)
Brooks (Malden, 1817)
Bethesda (Brighton, 1819) ★
Monitor (Waltham, 1820) ★ charter surrendered 11/1831
Freedom (Woburn, 1824) ★

DISTRICT 10

Levi Lyman, District Deputy Grand Master; 7 Lodges

Federal (Blandford, 1792)
Thomas (Monson, 1796)
* Jerusalem (Northampton, 1797) in recess ★
Friendly Society (Southwick, 1807)
Mount Pleasant (Granville, 1808)
Humanity (Holland, 1811)
Hampden (Springfield, 1817)
Bethel (Enfield, 1825)

DISTRICT 11

Sylvester Baker, District Deputy Grand Master; 4 Lodges

DISTRICT 12

William Morse, District Deputy Grand Master; 2 Lodges

Union (Nantucket, 1771) ★
Urbanity (Nantucket, 1822)

DISTRICT 13

Luther Hamilton, District Deputy Grand Master; 5 Lodges

OUTSIDE OF MASSACHUSETTS

No District Deputy Grand Master; 2 Lodges

St. John's (Starbrock, Demarara, 1801)

★ = Appeared in Grand Lodge in 1831. (See Attendance Summary)

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