Pentucket
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PENTUCKET LODGE
Location: Chelmsford (Lowell)
Chartered By: Timothy Bigelow
Charter Date: 03/09/1807 II-353
Precedence Date: 03/09/1807
Current Status: Active
NOTES
Note that Lowell was formed from Chelmsford and did not exist as an entity when this lodge was chartered.
YEARS
Charter surrendered 1834; restored 09/10/1845
1845 1872 1876 1877 1880 1883 1886 1888 1890 1891 1897 1898 1903 1906 1907 1911 1912 1913 1920 1922 1927 1928 1933 1934 1935 1938 1943 1950 1952 1953 1954 1957 1966 1972 1974 1977 1990 2003
MEMORIALS
JESSE PHELPS 1800-1847
- MM 1825, Monitor
- affil. 1826; WM 1827-1829, 1832-1834, 1846-1847, Pentucket; retained membership through the reorganization according to GL white card record.
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. VII, No. 6, April 1848, p. 190:
At a special meeting of the members of Pen tucket Lodge, holden in Masons' Hall, in Lowell, Oct. 2, 1847, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously passed:
- Whereas, it has pleased an all-wise Providence, in bis inscrutable dispensa¬ tions, to call from our midst our beloved Brother and Worshipful Master, Jesse Phelps,—be it therefore
- Resolved, That in this melancholy event, our community has sustained the loss of an industrious, enterprising and public-spirited citizen, society the watt of an upright and honest man, and Masonry a worthy exemplar of her principles, fulfilling, as he did, his varioua social and domestic duties under the promptings of a noble and generous heart.
- Resolved, That as a token of respect and esteem for our Brother snd W. Master, and as a further testimonial of our grief at his loss, we wear the usual badge of mourning for the space of thirty days.
- Resolved, That we tender to his afflicted widow and relatives, in this truly distressing dispensation, the Warmest sympathies of our hearts.
- Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and the accompanying resolutions, be furnished the bereaved family of our deceased Brother, and placed on the records of oui Lodge; and that they be published in the Freemasons' Magazine at Boston.
Attest, Colburn Blood, Jr., Sec.
MARK J. SMART D. 1848
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. VII, No. 7, May 1848, p. 221:
- MM before 1846
At a apecial meeting of the memberS of Pentucket Lodge, convened in Masons' Hall in Lowell, Mass., on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 27th, 1848, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted:
- Whereas it hath pleased our Heavenly Father, the Supreme Architect of the Universe, to call from thia earth to his celestial home above, our worthy Brother, Mask J. Smart, be it therefore
- Resolved, That the members of Pentucket Lodge bear testimony to the great moral worth of their deceased Brother, whose unblemished life, as a man, a Mason and a Christian, richly entitles his memory to this respectful notice from us.
- Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with oar departed Brother's afflicted widow aud family in their bereavement, and sincerely offer to them the sympathies of those who were united with him, whom they hsve lost, in the in¬ dissoluble bonds of Masonic Brotherhood.
- Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and the accompanying resolutions be furnished the afflicted family of our deceased Brother, and placed on the Records of our Lodge, and that they be published in the Freemasons' Magazine, at Boston.
Attest, Colburn Blood, Jr., Sec.
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- Benjamin W. Clements, DDGM, District 12 (Lowell), 1915, 1916; SN
- Prentice Cushing, DDGM, District 3, 1850-1853; SN
- Edson K. Humphrey, DDGM, District 12 (Lowell), 1923, 1924; Memorial
- Peter Lawson, DDGM, District 3, 1854-1856; SN
- Roland E. Mosley, 1973, 1974; Senior Grand Warden 1977; N
- William North, DDGM, District 3, 1857-1859; Senior Grand Warden 1861
- Charles S. Proctor, DDGM, District 11 (Lowell), 1906, 1907; Junior Grand Warden 1914; N
- Charles H. Richardson, DDGM, District 11 (Lowell), 1886; Memorial
- Wilbur H. Roberts, 1949, 1950; N
- Solon W. Stevens, 1875-1878; Senior Grand Warden 1879
- Raymond V. Ullom, Jr., 1959, 1960; Pentucket; SN
DISTRICTS
1807: District 2 (Newburyport and North Shore)