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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.
HISTORY
- 1970 (Notes in Centenary History of Good Samaritan Lodge, 1970-548)
YEARS
Charter surrendered around 1840; restored 1855
DISTRICTS
1816: District 1 (Boston and Vicinity)