GMDixwell
JOHN DIXWELL 1777-1834
Grand Master, 1821-23.
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BIOGRAPHY
From 1916 Proceedings.
He was the son of Samuel Hunt and Mary Dixwell. He was born in Boston, January 6, !777, and baptized by Rev. Dr. Cooper as Samuel Hunt. He was educated at the Latin School and Harvard College, and studied medicine with Dr. John Warren. He took the name of his maternal grandfather, John Dixwell, and married Esther, daughter of Epes Sargent. He continued to practice his profession till the time of his death on the 4th of November, 1834. As an ardent and earnest man, he took a lively interest in all public affairs, but was too much engaged with his professional duties to take any active part in them except those connected with the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a devoted member. He was one of the "young men" who responded to the call "to arms" of John Adams, in establishing the Boston Light Infantry, and he always took an earnest interest in that company. He was probably born in a house which was devoted to the residence of the Master of the Latin School, which stood very near by the site of the Franklin Statue. He was District Deputy Grand Master of the First District in 1811 and 1812; Deputy Grand Master in 1817 and 1818; and Grand Master in 1821, 1822, and 1823.
CHARTERS GRANTED
- 06/13/1821 Philanthropic, Marblehead (restored)
- 06/13/1821 L'Hereux Reveil, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
- 03/13/1822 Urbanity, Nantucket
- 12/11/1822 St. Matthew's, Andover
- 12/11/1822 Warren, Amesbury
- 03/12/1823 Social Harmony, Middleboro
- 06/13/1823 Cassia, Medfield
- 12/10/1823 Star in the East, New Bedford
- 12/27/1823 Leicester, Leicester
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