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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.
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.
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
HISTORY
- 1970 (Notes in Centenary History of Good Samaritan Lodge, 1970-548)
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)