RACMassachusettsYear1828
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1828
Daniel Gibbens, Grand High Priest
Benjamin Huntoon, Deputy Grand High Priest
=Richard S. Spofford, Grand King
Abraham A. Dame, Grand Scribe
Contents
REGULAR SESSIONS
ANNUAL SESSION, 09/09/1828
Meeting held at Boston (Ch1-353):
Grand Chapter opened.
- Bethlehem Chapter requested a one year extension on its dispensation.
- Finance reports, including notes that seven chapters had made no returns for the previous year:
- Rising Sun Note: the Proceedings indicate that their charter was surrendered in 1824.
- King Solomon's
- Worcester
- King Hiram (1)
- Franklin
- King Cyrus
- Sutton
The meeting elected the officers for the Grand Royal Arch Chapter for the ensuing year, with R. E. Daniel Gibbens re-elected Grand High Priest, and other officers elected and appointed as noted on Pages ChI-356 and ChI-357.
STATED MEETING, 12/09/1828
Held at Mason's Hall, Boston (ChI-358):
Grand Chapter opened and lectures were given.
STATED MEETING, 06/09/1829
Held at Mason's Hall, Boston (ChI-359):
Grand Chapter opened.
- The charter for St. Luke's Chapter was surrendered.
- A committee was appointed to consider the 12th article of the Constitutions.
- Grand Chapter voted to be represented at the General Grand Chapter.
LIST OF CHAPTERS IN MASSACHUSETTS: 1828
Location | Chapter | Precedence Date | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Boston | St. Andrew's | 08/28/1769 | |
Newburyport | King Cyrus | 06/28/1790 | |
Groton | St. John's | 09/20/1803 | |
Charlton | King Solomon's | 09/17/1805 | |
Salem | Washington | 01/09/1811 | |
Greenwich | King Hiram (1) | 06/13/1815 | |
Taunton | Adoniram | 09/10/1816 | |
Springfield | Morning Star | 06/29/1818 | |
Franklin | Greenfield | 12/07/1818 | |
Boston | St. Paul's | 01/25/1819 | |
Stoughton | Mount Zion | 12/12/1820 | |
Princeton | Thomas | 12/11/1821 | |
Worcester | Worcester | 09/16/1823 | |
Medway | Mount Lebanon | 12/14/1824 | |
Brookfield | Brookfield | 02/25/1825 | |
Northampton | Northampton | 03/25/1826 | |
Concord | Northampton | 03/25/1826 | |
Lowell | Mt. Horeb | 04/08/1826 | |
Marblehead | St. Luke's | 06/01/1826 | surrendered 06/09/1829 |
Sutton | Sutton, U. D. | 09/26/1826 | |
New Bedford | Bethlehem, U. D. | 09/26/1826 |