Hawaiian
HAWAIIAN LODGE
Location: Honolulu (Hawaii)
Chartered By: never chartered; dispensation granted by Simon W. Robinson
Charter Date: none
Precedence Date: 09/13/1848
Current Status:
NOTES
More information as it becomes available. This lodge eventually became part of the Hawaii Freemasons operating under the Grand Lodge of California.
From a Facebook post by R.W. Bro. Frank Candello, Deputy Grand Master of Hawaii, 2012:
"[M.W. Dennis Ing, Grand Lecturer] was aware of the Mass. dispensation. There was a lot of political intrigue at the time. Dennis believes that what happened, was that Le Progres was chartered in 1841 but went dark for 4 years, from 1850 to about 1854. Grand Lodge of California was formed in 1850. Several of the Le Progres members wanted to be under an American Grand Lodge and not France. They apparently received a dispensation from Mass. in 1848 to form a new lodge. But when California formed their grand lodge in 1850 they decided it would be better to join a grand lodge closer to Hawaii. There was a lot of travel back and forth from Hawaii, especially when gold was found in 1849. Le Progres started back up under France in 1854 but Hawaiian Lodge had already started up as a new lodge (in 1853)."
