MassachusettsYear1847
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1847
SIMON W. ROBINSON, Grand Master
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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
- 03/11: V-13; Memorial to Henry Purkitt, Past Junior Grand Warden, given by Rt. Wor. Winslow Lewis, Jr.
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 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
- St. John's (Boston, 1733)
- Lodge of St. Andrew, (Boston, 1752)
- Philanthropic (Marblehead, 1760)
- The Massachusetts (Boston, 1770)
- The Tyrian (Gloucester, 1770)
- Union (Nantucket, 1771)
- King Solomon's (Charlestown, 1783)
- Essex (Salem, 1791)
- Morning Star (Worcester, 1793)
- Middlesex (Framingham, 1795)
- Cincinnatus (Great Barrington, 1795)
- King Hiram's (Provincetown, 1795)
- Harmony (Northfield, 1796)
- Columbian (Boston, 1796)
- Union (Dorchester, 1796)
- Washington (Roxbury, 1796) charter restored
- Jerusalem (South Hadley, 1797)
- Olive Branch (Sutton, 1797)
- St. Paul's (Groton, 1797)
- Meridian (Newton Lower Falls, 1797)
- Hiram (West Cambridge, 1797)
- Corinthian (Concord, 1797)
- Fellowship (Bridgewater, 1797)
- Montgomery (Medway, 1797) charter restored
- Eastern Star (Rehoboth, 1798)
- King David (Taunton, 1798)
- Rising Star (Stoughton, 1799)
- Mount Zion (Hardwick, 1800)
- Aurora (Fitchburg, 1801)
- Corner Stone (Duxbury, 1801)
- Constellation (Dedham, 1801)
- Mount Lebanon (Boston, 1801)
- Fraternal (Barnstable, 1801)
- St. Mark's (Newburyport, 1803)
- Mount Carmel (Lynn, 1805)
- Amicable (Cambridge, 1805)
- Pentucket (Lowell, 1807)
- Jordan (Danvers, 1808)
- Mystic (Pittsfield, 1810) charter restored
- Hampden (Springfield, 1817)
- Solomon's Temple (Uxbridge, 1818)
- Bethesda (Brighton, 1819)
- Monitor (Waltham, 1820) charter restored
- St. Matthew's (Andover, 1822)
- Warren (Amesbury, 1822)
- Star in the East (New Bedford, 1823)
- Mount Hope (Fall River, 1824)
- Liberty (Beverly, 1824)
- Eden (Ware, 1824)
- Orphan's Hope (Weymouth, 1825)
- Bethel (Enfield, 1825)
- Oxford (Oxford, 1825)
- Grecian (Lawrence, 1825) charter restored, removed to new location
- Star of Bethlehem (Chelsea, 1844)
- Mount Tabor (East Boston, 1846)
- St. Paul's (South Boston, 1846)
- Lafayette (North Adams, U.D.)
