Clinton
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CLINTON LODGE
Location: Billerica
Chartered By: John Abbot
Charter Date: 06/14/1826 IV-16
Precedence Date: 06/14/1826
Current Status: unknown; last communication 1828.
PAST MASTERS
- Zadock Howe, 1826-1830
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
- Petition For Charter: 1826
OTHER
ø Charter surrendered 06/11/1834
- 1940 (Remarks on the lodge in the 75th Anniversary history of Thomas Talbot Lodge, 1940-3):
- "There are no records of any lodge in Billerica until a Charter was issued to Dr. Zadock Howe and others on June 14, 1826. This lodge was named Clinton Lodge in honor of Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York. In the latter part of 1826 a strong anti-masonic feeling swept the country and many lodges dosed their doors. The building in which Clinton Lodge held its meetings, situated on Bosto Road opposite the present location of the Central Fire Station, together with its jewels, furniture, etc. was completely destroyed by fire in 1828. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts received no records of Clinton Lodge after 1828. Dr. Howe and members of Clinton Lodge were threatened with bodily injury by anti-masons if they did not cease masonic activities."
