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Current Status: ''unknown; charter vacated sometime around 1840. A petition to restore was voted upon 03/14/1855 (page V-562), but the lodge did not work under it.''
 
Current Status: ''unknown; charter vacated sometime around 1840. A petition to restore was voted upon 03/14/1855 (page V-562), but the lodge did not work under it.''
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== NOTES ==
  
 
''According to the Lodge History presented in 1920 (beginning on Page 1920-365), it is last listed on the "roll of lodges" in 1840.''
 
''According to the Lodge History presented in 1920 (beginning on Page 1920-365), it is last listed on the "roll of lodges" in 1840.''
  
''According to the the history of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GoodSamaritan2 Good Samaritan] Lodge, the lodge "ceased operations in 1840" following the Morgan Affair.
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''According to the the history of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GoodSamaritan2 Good Samaritan] Lodge, the lodge "ceased operations in 1840" following the Morgan Affair.''
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In Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMHeard Heard]'s address in December 1857 (Page 1857-36 in the original Proceedings), it was noted: "It has been officially communicated to me that at a special meeting of Good Samaritan Lodge, Reading, held on the 24th of September last, it was voted to deposit its Charter and book of records with the, Grand Lodge for safe keeping. The reason given for the act is, ''that Brethren, not members of Good Samaritan Lodge, who were active in procuring said Charter and records from where they were placed, with said Grand Lodge, and had been for years, for safety, have failed themselves to become members of said Lodge.'' The Master states ''that the remaining members of Good Samaritan Lodge are too few in number and too aged to sustain a creditable working Lodge.'' R. W. Bro. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAGLWNorth North], D. G. M. of the [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANorthOfBoston3_1834-48 Third District], received the Charter and records and has deposited them with the Grand Treasurer. The dues of this Lodge to the Grand Lodge, have been regularly paid until the present year."
  
 
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Revision as of 12:15, 2 December 2013

GOOD SAMARITAN LODGE

Location: Reading

Chartered By: Benjamin Russell

Charter Date: 06/10/1816 III-44

Precedence Date: 06/10/1816

Current Status: unknown; charter vacated sometime around 1840. A petition to restore was voted upon 03/14/1855 (page V-562), but the lodge did not work under it.

NOTES

According to the Lodge History presented in 1920 (beginning on Page 1920-365), it is last listed on the "roll of lodges" in 1840.

According to the the history of Good Samaritan Lodge, the lodge "ceased operations in 1840" following the Morgan Affair.

In Grand Master Heard's address in December 1857 (Page 1857-36 in the original Proceedings), it was noted: "It has been officially communicated to me that at a special meeting of Good Samaritan Lodge, Reading, held on the 24th of September last, it was voted to deposit its Charter and book of records with the, Grand Lodge for safe keeping. The reason given for the act is, that Brethren, not members of Good Samaritan Lodge, who were active in procuring said Charter and records from where they were placed, with said Grand Lodge, and had been for years, for safety, have failed themselves to become members of said Lodge. The Master states that the remaining members of Good Samaritan Lodge are too few in number and too aged to sustain a creditable working Lodge. R. W. Bro. North, D. G. M. of the Third District, received the Charter and records and has deposited them with the Grand Treasurer. The dues of this Lodge to the Grand Lodge, have been regularly paid until the present year."


REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Charter: 1816
  • Petition for Restoration: 1855

HISTORY

OTHER

  • 1818 (Objection regarding charter of a lodge in Andover, III-184)
  • 1823 (Petition regarding remission of dues, III-457; rejected, III-461)

DISTRICTS

1816: District 1 (Boston and Vicinity)

1821: District 9

1835: District 3


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges