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SAN FRANCISCO LODGE

Location: Francisco, California

Dispensation Granted By: Simon W. Robinson

Charter Date: never chartered

Precedence Date: 1848

Current Status: dispensation returned.

NOTES

From Proceedings, Page VII-381:

". . . a Dispensation to Robert F. Parker, a native of Boston, and others, for a Lodge at San Francisco, California, in the year 1848."

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. VII, p. 160:

"The Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of this Commonwealth has recently granted a Dispensation for a Lodge at San Francisco, California . . ."

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XXVIII, No. 11, September 1869, Page 358:

". . . the issuing of a Dispensation to Robert F. Parker, a native of Boston, and others, for a Lodge at San Francisco, in California, in the year 1848. And it may not hereafter be an uninteresting historical fact, that this was the first authority ever issued by a Grand Lodge for the opening and working of a Lodge of Freemasons in that then comparatively uncivilized and unknown, but now prosperous, enterprising, and wealthy State. The petitioners did not ask for a Charter, the unsettled and constantly changing character of the early inhabitants of the place, rendering the permanent organization of the Lodge inexpedient, if not wholly impracticable. The Dispensation was returned to the Grand Lodge."


YEARS

1848


LINKS

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