Difference between revisions of "CharterSummary"
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<td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMGridley Gridley]''</td> | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMGridley Gridley]''</td> | ||
<td>1766</td> | <td>1766</td> | ||
− | <td>Active</td> | + | <td>Active. In possession of original charter; endorsed by [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas] in 1803.</td> |
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<td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRowe Rowe]''</td> | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRowe Rowe]''</td> | ||
<td>1776</td> | <td>1776</td> | ||
− | <td> | + | <td>Renewed 1803; became a part of the Grand Lodge of Ohio in 1817; charter presumably still in use there.</td> |
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<td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRevere Revere]''</td> | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRevere Revere]''</td> | ||
<td>1795</td> | <td>1795</td> | ||
− | <td>Active.</td> | + | <td>Active. Charter endorsed 1813 to resume work.</td> |
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<td>Active.</td> | <td>Active.</td> | ||
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+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Charity1 Charity]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1803</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; ceased work sometime after 1830, charter never returned to Grand Lodge, status unknown.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Wisdom Wisdom]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1803</td> | ||
+ | <td>Active; charter surrendered around 1834, re-granted 1855.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=WashingtonRemembered Washington Remembered]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1803</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; dropped from Grand Lodge list in 1821.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StMark St. Mark's]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1803</td> | ||
+ | <td>Active.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Sheffield Sheffield]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1803</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; last meeting 1826; status unknown.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Amicable Amicable]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1805</td> | ||
+ | <td>Active; charter surrendered 1838, re-granted 1845.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MountCarmel Mount Carmel]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Thomas]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1805</td> | ||
+ | <td>Active. Charter surrendered 1836, re-granted 1845. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MountSinai Mount Sinai] Lodge merged here 1989; [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Damascus Damascus] Lodge merged here, 2001; [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Bethlehem Bethlehem] Lodge merged here, 2006.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Mountain Mountain]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1806</td> | ||
+ | <td>Active. Originally granted in Rowe; re-granted in Colerain in 1818; inactive 1832-1855.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MountVernon1 Mount Vernon]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1807</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; ceased work 1828; status of charter unknown.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Pentucket Pentucket]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1807</td> | ||
+ | <td>Active.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=FriendlySociety Sylvan]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1807</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive. Name changed to Sylvan 1810; ceased work 1828; status of charter unknown.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MountPleasant Mount Pleasant]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1808</td> | ||
+ | <td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=RisingSun Rising Sun]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1808</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; ceased work 1828; status of charter unknown.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td> [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Jordan Jordan]</td> | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="green"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1808</td> | ||
+ | <td>Active. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StarrKing Starr King] Lodge merged here, 2016.</td> | ||
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<td>Active; [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=NewMoon New Moon] Lodge since 2015.</td> | <td>Active; [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=NewMoon New Moon] Lodge since 2015.</td> | ||
</tr> | </tr> | ||
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+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Humanity Humanity], [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAHolland Holland] | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1811</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; ceased work some time after 1828; status of charter unknown.</td> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td>[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Thompson Thompson], [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MARutland Rutland] | ||
+ | <td bgcolor="red"></td> | ||
+ | <td>''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMBigelow Bigelow]''</td> | ||
+ | <td>1812</td> | ||
+ | <td>Inactive; ceased work some time after 1826; status of charter unknown.</td> | ||
</table> | </table> |
Revision as of 12:34, 13 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. In possession of original charter; endorsed by Thomas in 1803. | |
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 | Renewed 1803; 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. Charter endorsed 1813 to resume work. | |
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. | |
Charity | Thomas | 1803 | Inactive; ceased work sometime after 1830, charter never returned to Grand Lodge, status unknown. | |
Wisdom | Thomas | 1803 | Active; charter surrendered around 1834, re-granted 1855. | |
Washington Remembered | Thomas | 1803 | Inactive; dropped from Grand Lodge list in 1821. | |
St. Mark's | Thomas | 1803 | Active. | |
Sheffield | Thomas | 1803 | Inactive; last meeting 1826; status unknown. | |
Amicable | Thomas | 1805 | Active; charter surrendered 1838, re-granted 1845. | |
Mount Carmel | Thomas | 1805 | Active. Charter surrendered 1836, re-granted 1845. Mount Sinai Lodge merged here 1989; Damascus Lodge merged here, 2001; Bethlehem Lodge merged here, 2006. | |
Mountain | Bigelow | 1806 | Active. Originally granted in Rowe; re-granted in Colerain in 1818; inactive 1832-1855. | |
Mount Vernon | Bigelow | 1807 | Inactive; ceased work 1828; status of charter unknown. | |
Pentucket | Bigelow | 1807 | Active. | |
Sylvan | Bigelow | 1807 | Inactive. Name changed to Sylvan 1810; ceased work 1828; status of charter unknown. | |
Mount Pleasant | Bigelow | 1808 | ||
Rising Sun | Bigelow | 1808 | Inactive; ceased work 1828; status of charter unknown. | |
Jordan | Bigelow | 1808 | Active. Starr King Lodge merged here, 2016. | |
Fredonia | Bartlett | 1810 | Inactive; surrendered charter 1834 | |
Mystic | Bartlett | 1810 | Active; New Moon Lodge since 2015. | |
Humanity, Holland | Bigelow | 1811 | Inactive; ceased work some time after 1828; status of charter unknown. | |
Thompson, Rutland | Bigelow | 1812 | Inactive; ceased work some time after 1826; status of charter unknown. |