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* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRussell Benjamin Russell]''', Grand Sword Bearer 1792-1795; Grand Marshal 1796-1810; Junior Grand Warden 1811-1812; Senior Grand Warden 1813; Grand Master 1814-1816
  
 
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=== DISTRICTS ===

Revision as of 20:32, 13 February 2013

RISING STATES LODGE

Location: Boston

Chartered By: Grand Lodge of Scotland

Charter Date: 11/30/1756

Precedence Date: 11/30/1756

Current Status: location of charter unknown.


NOTES

This lodge was originally chartered as a split from the Lodge of St. Andrew and claimed its precedence in Massachusetts Grand Lodge and the united Grand Lodge; the charter was resigned 12/10/1810 (Page II-448).

See account of misuse of the Charter, while Benjamin Russell was Master, is found in the autobiography of Henry Fowle.


PAST MASTERS

  • Jonathan Wellington, before 1799
  • Benjamin Russell, 1800
  • Edmund Bowman, 1802, 1807


YEARS

1792 1794 1803 1810

After resignation of charter:

1811 1812 1813 1815

1955 1956


GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

  • Benjamin Russell, Grand Sword Bearer 1792-1795; Grand Marshal 1796-1810; Junior Grand Warden 1811-1812; Senior Grand Warden 1813; Grand Master 1814-1816

DISTRICTS

1803: District 1 (Boston)


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges