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Revision as of 18:49, 12 December 2019
CHARTER SUMMARY
The following tables list charters granted in Massachusetts. They do not include charters granted by either Massachusetts Grand Lodge in other colonies or states that have since come under the authority of other Grand Lodges (such as Connecticut or Maine).
KEY
Status | Meaning |
Charters active under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in the possession of the Lodge* | |
Charters no longer active, lost, destroyed or location unknown | |
Charters surrendered or revoked, in possession of the Grand Lodge Library. |
* The original charters for many active old lodges are kept in archival storage in Lexington.
Lodge Name | Status | Grand Master | Charter Date | Notes |
St. John's (Boston) | Price | 1733 | First lodge chartered in Massachusetts. Original charter lost, replaced after 1864 fire. Second merged here 1783. Rising Sun merged here 1791. | |
Master's | Price | 1738 | Chartered for the conferral of the Master Mason Degree. Charter surrendered in 1796. | |
Second | Oxnard | 1749 | Merged into First Lodge in 1783. | |
Third | Oxnard | 1749 | Ceased work around 1753. | |
Lodge of St. Andrew | GM Scotland | 1756 | Chartered by the Grand Master of Scotland and not recognized by St. John's Grand Lodge. Founding Lodge of Massachusetts Provincial Grand Lodge. Endorsed 1809 by Grand Master Thomas to come under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. | |
Philanthropic (Marblehead) | Gridley | 1760 | Possibly not using the original 1760 charter but instead a reissued document from the 1780s. | |
St. John's, Newburyport | Gridley | 1766 | Active | |
The Tyrian | Joseph Warren | 1770 | ]Merged with Acacia Lodge to form Tyrian-Acacia, 2003; merged with Ashler Lodge to form Tyrian-Ashler-Acacia, 2007 | |
The Massachusetts | Joseph Warren | 1770 | Active. | |
Union (Nantucket) | Rowe | 1771 | Active. | |
St. Peter's | Joseph Warren | 1772 | Inactive, but status of charter unknown. | |
Rising Sun | Rowe | 1771 | Merged into St. John's (Boston), 1791. Status of charter unknown. | |
American Union | Rowe | 1776 | Became a part of the Grand Lodge of Ohio in 1817; charter presumably still in use there. | |
Berkshire (Williamstown) | Webb | 1783 | Charter recalled 1784; status unknown. | |
Trinity | Webb | 1778 | New charter issued in 1859; original charter and precedence restored in 2017. Original charter in Grand Lodge vault; certified copy of original in use by the lodge. | |
United States | Webb | 1778 | "Erased" 1788; status unknown. | |
Essex | Webb | 1779 | Active; an additional (or replacement) charter was granted in 1791, and endorsed in 1792. | |
Unity (Ipswich) | Webb | 1779 | Inactive; location unknown. | |
Washington Army | Webb | 1779 | Inactive; lapsed. Charter disposition unknown. | |
King Solomon's | John Warren | 1783 | Active. | |
Rising States | John Warren | 1783 | Separated from Lodge of St. Andrew to remain under Massachusetts Independent Grand Lodge; took St. Andrew's precedence; charter resigned in 1810. | |
Hampshire | John Warren | 1784 | Inactive; charter lapsed or revoked sometime between 1796 and 1804. | |
Friendship (Williamstown) | Webb | 1785 | Inactive; charter surrendered 1828. | |
Harmonic | Hays | 1790 | Charter vacated 1797; charter location unknown. | |
Old Colony | Cutler | 1792 | Active. | |
Federal (Blandford) | Cutler | 1792 | Inactive; dropped from Grand Lodge rolls in 1835. | |
Morning Star | Cutler | 1793 | Active. | |
Franklin (Cheshire) | Cutler | 1794 | Inactive; surrendered around 1826. | |
Republican | Cutler | 1794 | Active. The library has the 1851 temporary charter. | |
Evening Star | Revere | 1795 | Active. | |
Cincinnatus | Revere | 1795 | Active. | |
King Hiram's | Revere | 1795 | Active. | |
Fayette | Revere | 1796 | Inactive; ceased work around 1830. Charter location unknown. | |
Washington | Revere | 1796 | Active. | |
Columbian | Revere | 1796 | Active. | |
Harmony | Revere | 1796 | Active. | |
Union (Dorchester)' | Revere | 1796 | Active. | |
Thomas | Revere | 1796 | Active. | |
St. Paul | Revere | 1797 | Active. | |
Adams | Revere | 1797 | Inactive, surrendered in 1821. A new charter was issued in 1867 for a new lodge. | |
Jerusalem | Revere | 1797 | Active. | |
Bristol | Revere | 1797 | Active. | |
Fellowship | Revere | 1797 | Active. | |
Corinthian | Revere | 1797 | Active. | |
Montgomery | Revere | 1797 | Active. | |
Olive Branch | Revere | 1797 | Active. | |
Meridian Sun | Revere | 1797 | Inactive, unknown; last meeting under this charter in 1834. | |
Hiram | Revere | 1797 | Active. (now Mystic Valley) | |
Meridian | Revere | 1797 | Active. | |
King Solomon in Perfection | Revere | 1797 | Inactive; unknown. Surrendered 1822. | |
Marine | Bartlett | 1798 | Active. | |
Mount Moriah (Reading) | Bartlett | 1798 | Inactive; ceased work 1829. | |
Social | Bartlett | 1798 | Inactive; ceased work 1827. | |
Eastern Star | Bartlett | 1798 | Inactive; surrendered charter 1822 | |
King David | Bartlett | 1798 | Active. | |
Mount Zion | Dunn | 1800 | Active. | |
Mount Lebanon | Dunn | 1801 | Active. | |
Fore Fathers' Rock | Dunn | 1801 | Inactive; charter surrendered 1821. | |
Fraternal | Dunn | 1801 | Active. | |
Pacific | Dunn | 1801 | Inactive; unknown, removed from Grand Lodge lists around 1834. | |
Aurora | Dunn | 1801 | Active. | |
St. John's (Demarara) | Dunn | 1801 | Inactive; unknown, removed from Grand Lodge lists around 1834. | |
Rural | Dunn | 1801 | Active. | |
Sincerity | Dunn | 1801 | Inactive; charter surrendered 1824. | |
Sumner | Dunn | 1801 | Inactive; ceased work around 1829 | |
Corner Stone | Dunn | 1801 | Inactive; charter surrendered 1834 and restored in 1844 | |
Constellation | Dunn | 1801 | Inactive; charter vacated 1842. A new charter was granted in 1872. | |
Harris | Dunn | 1802 | Inactive; charter surrendered around 1834. | |
Merrimack | Dunn | 1802 | Active. | |
Fredonia | Bartlett | 1810 | Inactive; surrendered charter 1834 | |
Mystic | Bartlett | 1810 | Active; New Moon Lodge since 2015. |