Social

SOCIAL LODGE

Location: Ashby; Ashburnham

Chartered By: Josiah Bartlett

Charter Date: 03/12/1798 II-126

Precedence Date: 03/12/1798

Current Status: unknown; no record after 1827, but note history in 1980.

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MEMBER LIST, 1802

From Vocal Companion and Masonic Register, Boston, 1802, Part II, Page 27:

• R. W. Amos Willington, M.
• W. John Locke, S. W.
• W. Allen Flagg, J. W.
• Isaac Wyman, Tr.
• Stephen Wyman, Sec.
• R. W. Abijah Wyman, P. M. (of Trinity)
• R. W. Benjamin Champney, P. M.

No. of Members, 25.

• Alexander T. Willard
• Asa Kendall, Jr.
• B. Barrett, Jr.
• Elijah Houghton, Jr.
• Samuel Rice, Jr.
• Stephen Wyman
• Elias Willington
• Oliver Kendall

PAST MASTERS

• Amos Willington, 1802, 1815
• John Locke, 1803
• Benjamin Champney, 1814
• Abraham T. Lowe, 1822

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REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

• Petition for Charter: 1798

HISTORY

• 1980 (brief history, 1980-179)

OTHER

• 1821 (Report on delinquency, III-321)
• 1827 (Petition on removal to Ashburnham, IV-97)
• 1828 (Petition on removal to Ashburnham, IV-100)

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GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

• Ezekiel L. Bascom, DDGM, District 6, 1806-1808, 1814-1816; Grand Chaplain, 1805-07, 1809, 1817, 1825
• Abraham T. Lowe, Senior Grand Deacon 1849-1851, Deputy Grand Master 1855, 1856

DISTRICTS

1803: District 5 (Framingham, West and North)

1821: District 5

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LINKS

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