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TRINITY LODGE

Location: Lancaster

Chartered By: Joseph Webb

Charter Date: 01/30/1778 I-264; see also II-36

Precedence Date: 01/30/1778

Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault. No record after 1830; forfeited 1859, VI-259; see dispensation for the subsequent Trinity Lodge.

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PAST MASTERS

• Michael Newhall, 1778
• Edmund Heard, 1779-1783, 1789-1793 resigned from office
• Timothy Whiting, Jr., 1784, 1785, 1787, 1793, 1794, 1797
• Ephraim Carter, 1786
• Abijah Wyman, 1788
• John Maynard, 1795, 1796, 1801
• Abraham Haskell, 1798
• Moses Thomas, 1799
• Amos Johnson, 1800
• after 1800?

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REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

• 1793 (Cutler)

HISTORY

• 1933 (History of Old Trinity Lodge, 1933-397)

OTHER

• 1820 (Report on delinquency, III-295)
• 1821 (Report on delinquency, III-341)
• 1828 (Report on delinquency, IV-147)
• 1829 (Report on delinquency, IV-170)
• 1830 (Report on delinquency, IV-206)

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

• Isaiah Thomas, Senior Grand Warden 1795-1797, Grand Master 1803-1805, 1809
• Timothy Whiting, DDGM, District 5 (Framingham, West and North), 1803-1805, 1809-1812; Senior Grand Warden (Mass. Independent Grand Lodge), 1787-1788

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DISTRICTS

1803: District 5 (Framingham, West and North)

1821: District 5

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LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges

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