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FRANKLIN LODGE

Location: Cheshire; Windsor (1812); Adams (1814)

Chartered By: John Cutler

Charter Date: 06/09/1794 II-56

Precedence Date: 06/09/1794

Current Status: unknown; charter surrendered around 1826; historical notes on pages 1895-95; 1896-187; 1919-52; 1922-299ff; 1933-102; 1968-233.

NOTES

ø Charter surrendered 06/11/1834

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

• Petition for Charter: 1794

HISTORY

• 1895 (Note in historical address at the centenary of Evening Star, 1895-95)
• 1935 (Notes included in "The Masonic Predecessors of Mystic Lodge", by Most Wor. Herbert W. Dean, 1935-102)
• 1957 (Notes included in the centenary of Berkshire Lodge, 1957-151)
• 1968 (Notes included in the Adams cornerstone laying)
• 2007 (Notes included in the 150th anniversary of Berkshire Lodge, 2007-150)

OTHER

• 1794 (Petition to meet alternately in Lanesborough and Cheshire; II-56)
• 1800 (Petition to meet alternately in Lanesborough and Cheshire; II-169)
• 1812 (Petition to remove to Windsor; II-527)
• 1813 (Petition to remove to Adams; II-570)
• 1814 (Petition to remove to Adams; II-584)
• 1822 (Note on delinquency; III-428)
• 1824 (Note on delinquency; III-471)
• 1825 (Note on delinquency; III-572)
• 1827 (Note on delinquency; IV-114)
• 1828 (Note on delinquency; IV-147)
• 1829 (Note on delinquency; IV-170)
• 1922 (Pictures found on Cheshire Lodge Hall)

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

• Charles Baker, DDGM, District 8, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831; SN
• Robert Walker, DDGM, District 8 (Berkshires), 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812; SN

DISTRICTS

1803: District 8 (Berkshires)

1821: District 8

LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges