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1847

SIMON W. ROBINSON, Grand Master

NOTES

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS

Held at Masonic Temple, Boston

• 03/10: V-125;
• 06/09: V-134;
• 09/08: V-138 (Rt. Wor. Winslow Lewis, Jr., Deputy Grand Master, presiding)
• 12/08: V-144; (Annual Communication)

03/10 Agenda

None.

06/09 Agenda

• V-137: Grand Secretary instructed to transmit report and vote regarding General Grand Lodge to the Baltimore Convention.

09/09 Agenda

None.

12/09 Agenda

• V-145: Correspondence between Grand Master Robinson and President Polk.
• V-146: Report of the Committee of Finance.
• V-147: Report of the Trustees of the Temple.
• V-148: Re-election of Simon W. Robinson as Grand Master (60 ballots), and other Grand Lodge officers.
• V-149: Committee appointed on installation arragements.

Grand Constitutions Amendment Proposals

None.

Grand Master's Address

• 03/10: V-126; Address by Grand Master Robinson.
  • V-132; Committee appointed to consider the matter of a General Grand Lodge.
  • 06/09: V-135; Committee suggested that it was "inexpedient" for such an organization to be created, and that Grand Lodge of Massachusetts not be part of it.

• 09/08: V-139; Grand Master Robinson "called to a distant part of the country." A report that Montgomery Lodge's charter was returned on 07/06, and that a dispensation was issued for a lodge in North Adams on 07/08. Also, that President and Bro. James Polk was met by a committee of Massachusetts Masons in Springfield.

Necrologies and Memorials

None.

Petitions for Charters

• 03/10: V-129; Petition by St. Paul's Lodge U.D., South Boston, for a charter; granted.

Petitions for Dispensation for Lodges

• 07/08: V-139; Petition for Lafayette Lodge, North Adams.

Petitions for Restoration of Charter

• 03/10: V-131; Petition by Union Lodge, Nantucket, to replace the original charter destroyed by a recent fire; recommended on 09/09/1846, granted despite impropriety regarding property.

• 06/09: V-136; Petition by Mystic Lodge, Pittsfield, referred.
  • 09/08: V-141; Lodge Charter to be restored.

• 06/09: V-136; Petition by Montgomery Lodge, Medway, reconsidered.
  • 09/08: V-142; Lodge Charter restored (on 07/06).

• 12/27: V-159; Petition by Grecian Lodge; to remove to Lawrence (if approved by St. Matthew's Lodge); granted.

SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS

None.

FEAST OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST

(held at Masonic Temple, Boston, 12/27/1847)

• V-150: Instruction session.
• V-151: Grand Master's message regarding the formation of a General Grand Lodge; referred.
• V-156: Installation of Grand Master Robinson and other Grand Lodge officers. Past Grand Master Peabody addressed the Grand Master "in appropriate terms on the acceptable manner in which he had discharged his important duties during the last two years, and on the encouraging prospect which the Institution in this Commonwealth now presents." An address was given by Rt. Wor. George G. Smith on Duty.
• V-108: Report of the Committee on Charity.
• V-122: Invitation to attend the installation of The Massachusetts Lodge on 01/29/1847; accepted.
• V-122: Address by "on the character, history and prospects of the Institution." A further "appropriate and practical‚" address was given by Rev. Bro. George M. Randall.

LIST OF LODGES BY DATE OF PRECEDENCE: 1847

When more information is available, this will be updated with district information.

• DISTRICT 1: Addison Searle, Chelsea, District Deputy Grand Master
• DISTRICT 2: Samuel Bowden, Marblehead, District Deputy Grand Master
• DISTRICT 3: Nathan Ordway, Fitchburg, District Deputy Grand Master
• DISTRICT 4: Jonathan Greenwood, Framingham, District Deputy Grand Master
• DISTRICT 5: Samuel Chandler, Canton, District Deputy Grand Master
• DISTRICT 6: Horace Cheney, Worcester, District Deputy Grand Master
• DISTRICT 7: Lucien B. Keith, New Bedford, District Deputy Grand Master

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