MassachusettsYear1850
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1850
EDWARD A. RAYMOND, Grand Master
Contents
NOTES
QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS
Held at Masonic Temple, Boston
- 03/12: V-277;
- 06/12: V-285;
- 09/11: V-296;
- 12/11: V-301; (Annual Communication)
03/13 Agenda
- V-279: Report of the committee on the Washington Monument Association. Grand Lodge will furnish a piece of granite for the monument.
- 06/12: V-286; Bro. Moses Kimball to procure stone for the monument.
- V-280: Grand Lodge invited to celebrate the Feast of St. John the Baptist with Middlesex Lodge, Framingham; accepted.
- V-281: Report of Committee on Regalia; new jewels obtained. The Committee also gave some suggestions regarding seating of Past Grand Officers.
- V-283: Committee appointed to consider a Grand Lodge Library.
- 06/13: V-291; report of committee recommends an appropriation and a library committee. The Grand Master is authorized to appoint a committee.
- V-283: Resolution to direct the Grand Master to appoint a Grand Chorister.
06/12 Agenda
None.
09/11 Agenda
- V-297: Report on a General Grand Lodge; it and a minority report on the same subject were tabled until the next Communication.
- V-299: Resolution adopted to appoint a Grand Lecturer for each district.
- V-300: Proposal to create a Sinking Fund, to reduce and eliminate the debt due on the Boston Masonic Temple.
12/11 Agenda
- V-302: Reception of Most Ex. Robert P. Dunlap, General Grand High Priest of the General Grand Chapter of the United States.
- V-304: Grand Lodge invited to celebrate the Feast of St. John the Baptist with Essex Lodge, Salem , in June 1851; accepted.
- V-304: Report of the Trustees of the Temple.
- V-305: Report of the Committee of Finance.
- V-306: Report of the Committee on the Library.
- V-306: Re-election of Grand Master Raymond (46 ballots), and other Grand Lodge officers.
- V-310: Surrender of charter by Constellation Lodge, Dedham.
- V-310: Committee appointed on installation arragements.
Grand Constitutions Amendment Proposals
- 06/13: V-294: Amendment to Grand Constitutions regarding Library Committee.
Proposed New Article: "The Most Worshipful Grand Master shall annually appoint a Library Committee, which shall consist of three members of the Grand Lodge, whose duty it shall be to take the oversight of the Library of the Grand Lodge, to make rules and regulations for its government, to appoint a Librarian to purchase Books, and to transact all other matters pertaining to the Library and to make report of its condition and of their doings, at the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge."
- 09/11: V-297: Adopted as an addition to the By-Laws (Library Committee).
Grand Master's Address
None.
Necrologies and Memorials
- 06/13: V-287ff; Death of Rt. Wor. Winslow Lewis, Sr., Past Deputy Grand Master; memorial presented by a committee.
- 12/27: V-318; Death of Rt. Wor. Asa T. Newhall, presented by Rt. Wor. Rev. Huntoon.
Petitions for Charters
Petitions for Dispensation for Lodges
SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS
None.
FEAST OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
(held at Masonic Temple, Boston, 12/27/1850)
- V-312: Report of the Trustees of the Grand Charity Fund.
- V-314: Instruction session.
- V-319: Installation of Grand Master Raymond and other Grand Lodge officers. Order of proceedings noted. "Interesting, comprehensive and appropriate" address by Wor. Rev. L. R. Paige.
LIST OF LODGES BY DATE OF PRECEDENCE: 1849
When more information is available, this will be updated with district information.
- DISTRICT 1: Steven Lovell, Boston, District Deputy Grand Master
- DISTRICT 2: William Ferson, Gloucester, District Deputy Grand Master
- DISTRICT 3: Prentice Cushing, Lowell, District Deputy Grand Master
- DISTRICT 4: Jonathan Greenwood, Framingham, District Deputy Grand Master
- DISTRICT 5: Paul Dean, Jr., Easton, District Deputy Grand Master
- DISTRICT 6: Horace Chenery, Worcester, District Deputy Grand Master
- DISTRICT 7: Lucien B. Keith, New Bedford, District Deputy Grand Master
- DISTRICT 8: Benjamin Brown, Nantucket, District Deputy Grand Master
- DISTRICT 9: Franklin Weston, Dalton, 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)
- Evening Star (Lee, 1795) charter restored, and removed to new location
- Harmony (Northfield, 1796)
- Columbian (Boston, 1796)
- Union (Dorchester, 1796)
- Washington (Roxbury, 1796)
- 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)
- 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) charter surrendered
- 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)
- Hampden (Springfield, 1817)
- Solomon's Temple (Uxbridge, 1818)
- Bethesda (Brighton, 1819)
- Monitor (Waltham, 1820)
- 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)
- Star of Bethlehem (Chelsea, 1844)
- Mount Tabor (East Boston, 1846)
- St. Paul's (South Boston, 1846)
- Lafayette (North Adams, 1847)
- Chicopee (Chicopee, 1848)
- Mount Tom (Holyoke, 1850)
- Hawaiian (Sandwich Islands, U.D.)
