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...the first seven volumes, a Roman numeral (I-VII) appears in place of the ''Year'' field. The following table lists the years covered by each volume. ...following pages provide a summary of the work of the Grand Lodge for each year.

...hile and China. A 17th (Woburn) district was added at the beginning of the year as a part of the Grand Master's reorganization.

...monwealth of Massachusetts, from which this Lodge derives its name. In the year of which this is the three hundredth in anniversary, the ship ''Mayflower'' ...ect, this Lodge therefore proposed an Election of Officers for the present year," and William Scollay was elected Master and other officers were chosen and

...1825 to 1843 not a single Lodge was chartered in Massachusetts, but in the year 1848, a number of interested citizens of Chicopee decided that a Masonic Lo ...Fellows Hall at 251 Exchange Street. The quarters were rented for $45.00 a year, but light and heat were not furnished at that price. The hall was lighted

...nuary 8, 1861. The following Brethren were appointed officers for the year: ...Life Membership and a reduction of quarterages from ten to eight dollars a year.

...eive the degrees in Eureka Lodge, March 3, 1865, and on May 12 of the same year was raised to the degree of Master Mason. In December 1875 he was elected Senior Grand Warden, serving during the year 1876. Seven years later he was elected Grand Master and held this highest o

...d in an important era in the Gloucester history and as a matter of fact, a year of national import, just after the close of the Civil War. The Gloucester v ...accommodate the East Gloucester Brethren. It was voted in December of that year to move Acacia Lodge to that locality and on April 6, 1877, the first meeti

...ed by a Reverend Brother and followed by a dinner. This communication each year seems to be the outstanding one as recorded. In the list of Lodges under th ...e rent of the hall paid to the Proprietors of the hall averaged $25.00 per year. July 13th, 1801, it was voted that the Masons in Dennis and towns adjacent

...home, and along with our 75th birthday, we can rightly celebrate our 20th year of sojourn in this The first year the Brethren were extremely energetic. From September 13, 1865 to October 4

...tion of the work and lectures at the Annual Meeting of Grand Lodge in that year, and it is one of the many pleasant Masonic events in the life of the write ...he home of his maternal ancestors, the Chase family. In 1849 he took a two year voyage to the Pacific to regain his health. During this journey, he spent s

...ogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsPGMs Past Grand Masters] by year. .../MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGrandChaplains Grand Chaplains] by year.

...hurches and dedicated six Masonic Halls. In 1862, during Coolidge's second year in office, P. G. M. Winslow Lewis made generous donations to the Grand Lodg ...at the end of his first year as Grand Master and his election for a second year, Coolidge received only 49 votes in his third election, while Wor. [http://

...n Smith, 1910-1921, and Leon Martin Abbott, from 1921 to his death about a year ago. ...arnished loyalty with which you have served the cause of Freemasonry. This year marks the 60th anniversary of your initiation. You have been almost fifty y

''Hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year.'' ...stationed at Fort Edward, on Lake George, during the greater part of that year. After returning to Boston he married and settled in business as a goldsmit

...p rank in Aleppo placed him in charge of some 13,000 Shrine Masons for the year. The speakers in the persons of R. W. James C. Sirios, M. W. [http://www.ma ...Lodge Master with a Certificate of Meritorious Service, and presented a 25-year medal to Wor. Ira Smith, a Past Master of three Masonic Lodges.

During the closing year of the Civil War, 1865, the question of having a Masonic Lodge at Weir Vill ...hn B. Baylies of New Bedford, who visited the Lodge twice during the first year.

...eld on the first Monday of each month and were held every month during the year of Dispensation. ...f, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Consistory on April 22nd. of that year. It was brought from Mt. Lebanon by members of Mt. Lebanon Lodge, Beyrout,

...hich this
 Lodge first worked was granted on September second of
 that year.
 ...ying what was then believed the enormous rental of six hundred dollars per year.

.... 8th. That every member shall punctually pay one dollar quarterly (of a year) and, refusing to comply therewith, acts reverse to the order. ...aging was the outlook, "that only two candidates were initiated during the year. Neither, however, became a member."

...rand High Priest in 1806-1807 and 1808, being elected in September of each year. ...served three years, Brother Thomas was again elected G. M. and served one year, and I find that during the four years in which he acted as G. M. his frien

The following is list of "officers elected for the Amity Lodge, the year ensuing:"

...rtered Masonic body formed in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. During that year (July 30, 1733) the Grand Lodge of England established a provincial Grand L ...years of age. He served as Secretary of the Master's Lodge, and served one year as Worshipful Master of the Lodge of St. Andrew during the term of 1765-6.

...nnings of Freemasonry in Danvers, for the seed was planted as early as the year 1778. The Revolution was under way and perhaps because of this the Masons t ...sonic Lodge. But interest in the Ancient Craft remained strong, and by the year 1863 there were more than sixty Masons residing in the town, many of whom w

...sation and 11 Army Lodges, with six new Masonic Halls dedicated in 1864. A year later 500 volumes had been obtained to replace those lost in the fire. R. W ...ness house of one of those merchants, though his most important duty for a year or two might be to sweep out the store, run of errands, and thus commence h

...ice Citation and received the Henry Price Medal from the Grand Master this year. As we begin a new Masonic year, we will be assigned tasks and be challenged to meet goals for the advancem

...e fire of 1666. Those who have researched the Grand Proceedings for the 50-year period when M. W. Sereno D. Nickerson was active in the Massachusetts Grand ...nder the name. E. Nickerson & Co.. after having practised law for only one year.

...d effectiveness as a whole they had never seen the work surpassed. In this year. also, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMHutchinson ...aying of the corner-stone of Masonic Temple in Boston on Sept. 4th of this year was accepted and our membership joined with Pentucket in that event.

...inson Simon W. Robinson], then as deputy grand master during the three one-year terms of Most Wor. [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?tit ...ne dark during the anti-Masonic period a few decades earlier. In his first year he had the honor of introducing the Hungarian patriot, Bro. Lajos Kossuth,

...f $40.00 were voted, and several petitions were received during this first year. August 25, 1866, By-laws were adopted, patterned largely after those of Au ...for those quarters was approved and ordered paid in March 1868, when a ten year lease of quarters on the top floor of the First National Bank building was

...fficers installed Worshipful Jason L. Curtis for the sixth term of his ten-year reign as Master. This was another public installation and about five hundre ...ly in the 1870's and 1880's, the Lodge was so much in debt that year after year a "retrenchment committee" was appointed to recommend what might be done to

of that year, I was installed in my first office as Marshal, and in December 1907 as Wor ...the Fraternity, and entertainments usually after the F.C. degree. Twice a year we entertain the ladies; once with a Ladies Night, Banquet, Entertainment,

...ck, where the City Hotel now stands. Here the meetings were held the first year. The uptown members were in the majority, however, and on June 26, 1865, th ...rvative in regard to the making of new Masons. Its record of growth by ten year periods is as follows:

In this twenty-five year period, death has taken many of our members—too many to list here—but I After a year or more of investigations and meetings held in various places in Atlantic a

...([http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMWaugh Waugh]; 50-Year Past Master presentation) ...July, 1871. The Lodge progressed with a slow and steady gain from year to year for its first twenty-five years. It was the day of small Lodges; in fact th

...followed the sea, and was a successful ship-master until 1785. During that year he married Sarah Cutler, daughter of John Cutler, Grand Master in 1792, 3 a ...had been made years earlier. He signed four more charters during his third year in office, two in Maine and two in Massachusetts proper, bringing the count

There is no better way to start this fifty-year history of Azure Lodge than to quote the beginning of Bro. Henry Caldwell's ...ted Lodge and installed the regular and appointed officers for the ensuing year." (1922 Mass. 363-366)

...first meeting of which we have any record is that held on May 10th of that year in the ante-room of [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?ti ...3; consequently the Lodge must have worked under a dispensation for a full year.

...the East, announced the organization of Baalis Sanford Lodge U.D. for the year 1917 to be as follows: For the next year, the officers were busy perfecting themselves in the ritualistic work and c

...H., high school, Class of 1885, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (one year), Harvard College and Harvard Law School, class of 1890. He has practiced l In 1913 he served as Senior Grand Warden. During his year of office he was for some time Acting Grand Master in the absence from Mass

...of that affirmation have clearer demonstration than it has in this present year of life. "We have come to the discovery of one thing: that we are not only ...t of us are very young in the knowledge of the Craft. It takes more than a year, it takes more than ten, it takes more than a quarter of a century to learn

dollars per year from its owner, R,. Bruee Chamberlain, who later became a member of the Lod ...his Dispensation the Lodge held regular and special communications for one year, a Charter being granted dated September 12, 1873.

...dge, organized on March 9, 1865, joined in this rapid increase. During the year 1920, when I was Master of that Lodge, ninety-two received degrees, with ei The retiring Master and officers of Belmont Lodge for the year 1920, with many others, were much impressed with the need of some relief. S

...H. Gilbert, Secretary. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: ...H. Gilbert, Secretary. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Benjamin Belcher, Worshipful Master; William H. Gilbert, Senior Warden; Al

...ng under Dispensation. The Lodge having received its Charter the following year, he was unanimously elected its first Worshipful Master, and became an affi ...one Communication a year, but it was rejected. At the close of his second year.

...m. It was found that this building was built in 1924, which relates to the year Elm Lodge was started, and also was found to be directly across the street During the past year, it was decided that rather than continue operating the building with a lin

...MMelanson Arthur H. Melanson], 1978-80, and Senior Grand Warden in 1981. A year later he began the first of four years as Executive Officer in Massachusett ...aWiki/index.php?title=MANatick23_1927-2003 23rd District] in 1976-77 and a year later was Master of the 39th Lodge of Instruction. He was actively involved

...herman made his famous march through Georgia to the sea, and it was over a year later that Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant, and at that time the ...Office. A Dispensation was presented empowering the Lodge to work for one year. At this meeting it was voted that the fees for initiation be $20.00; a pro

...ew into what is now the Grand Master's Country Fair and is now in its 17th year. He served Grand Lodge as a Member of the Board of Directors, and as Grand In January of this year he delivered a sermon at the First Congregational Church in Natick, Massach

...ng editor of the ''Salem Evening News'', where he remained, except for one year's interlude, until his retirement from active business in 1920. ...Damascus Lodge, of which he was Master (under dispensation) for the first year. In 1907 he was installed as Secretary, when the Lodge was constituted, and

...possible a great deal of the most vital work of Grand Lodge. In his first year he initiated a far-reaching reorganization of the business and operational ...enty-one, and Masonry in America was then in its one hundred sixty-seventh year.

The next year, 1850, he again embarked for Europe, with his family, consisting of Mrs. Le ...enth day of August. 1855. Most Worshipful Winslow Lewis. Jr.. in his first year as Grand Master, did without fanfare rededicate the cornerstone laying of t

...on December 6, 1785, the time of settlement was extended to the following year. This assessment, amounting to 7 pounds and 10 shillings, was undoubtedly p

...and territories. For on the 13th of September, 1813, just a little over a year later, they petitioned Grand Lodge to move Franklin Lodge from Windsor to A ...rly Love of Freemasonry throughout Berkshire County, until at last, in the year 1836, they were no more. Exactly why Franklin Lodge closed its doors for go

...I was initiated in April, 1856. On the twenty-seventh of December of that year he was installed for the first time ae Grand Master. A little before that e ...Feast, and it has been kept up ever since with the exception of the single year 1861, when the entertainment was varied by an oration from Brother [http://

...F. F. Morton, would reduce the rent to three hundred and fifty dollars per year for two years and his degrees, if found worthy. His application was read an Your committee think that at the last meeting of this year the matter of delinquent dues should be brought up and some action taken re

...ice of Senior Deacon for the year 1868, and we went to Amesbury during the year every week and sometimes twice weekly to attend the communications which th During the first year of its existence Bethany Lodge received many beautiful gifts at the hands o

...nace to Grand Lodge was tangible. The Grand Lodge seemed adrift during the year, embarrassed by the acceptance and then the refusal of President Jackson to A year before the anti-Masonic controversy erupted, on June 17, 1825, Grand Master

(term year ending) ...term, from February to December, 1849. Bros. Merritt and Jones served one year each and all the others two or more years, — the longest period of servic

...Lodge, for he was first the Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge for one year. He then served as Senior Grand Warden for three years, Deputy Grand Master Francis J. Oliver, in his third year as Grand Master, compiled a report of the state and condition of the Craft,

On the fifth day of March, in the year of 1920, a group of prominent Masons met in the Prelate Hall of the Lynn Ma ...thusiasm, would stand high in the community. It was also during this first year that a group of loyal members seeking some outlet for their enthusiasm to s

...x.php?title=GMPerry Joseph Earl Perry] and suite in 1939, to present fifty-year Veterans' Medals to R. W. George W. Maxon and Wor. Andrew N. Maxon; and on ...Feb. 2, by the usual ceremonies. The officers of the Lodge for the current year were duly installed and the new hall dedicated on the same evening. The exe

On March 15, 1864, the required year of the Dispensation having elapsed, Blue Hill Lodge was formally constitute ...G.A.R. and eventually was remodeled for a dwelling. The rental was $150 a year. The members subscribed $500 for new furnishings and the Lodge borrowed wha

...76. The only other Lodge in Massachusetts to receive its dispensation that year was [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=JosephWebb J ...e raised to the degree of Master Mason, on July 10, 1876. During this same year of dispensation, twelve members were raised and joined the other twenty-one

Some time prior to the year 1925, the idea of a Masonic Lodge having jurisdiction confined to Boston Un Following a year of successful operation, the ceremony of constitution of Boston University

...mpany erected a hall on Winsor Street and rented it to the Lodge on a five year lease, this lease to be renewed every five years thereafter. .... The rule has been on most all occasions that a Master's term be only one year, in that way allowing the members an opportunity of more rapid advancement

...ed that Lodge in various offices until 1873. He was Worshipful Master that year and in 1874. He was Treasurer of Revere Lodge from 1879 to 1887. He was adm ...on, and the Brethren who have petitioned for the new Lodge must work for a year to prove their ability to manage and control a Lodge of Freemasons.

...Chapter shall pay to said Bristol Lodge for the use of their furniture one year, six dollars, and make good all damage which may happen by their means to t ...ed that they had attended to their duty and could have the hall at $20 per year commencing the 6th of June, 1828.

...Spencer. Present also were the ten candidates raised during the preceding year, which included in addition to those previously mentioned, Brothers Frank L ...rved as Trustee for 18 years and has just been reelected for another three year term; Rev. Brother William R. Leslie first served as Chaplain in 1927 and s

...odge prospered and our First Annual Ladies' Night was instituted. It was a year of harmony and rejoicing under the guiding influence of a man of initiative ...and our first Informal Ladies' Night, functions we eagerly anticipate each year. He also started our first Brotherhood News Bulletin, under the editorship

...t adopted by Liberty Lodge at that time, but on September 27th of the same year, Liberty Lodge sanctioned the establishment of a new Lodge. ...nd 1922, the first year by appointment of the Grand Master, and the second year by election of the members. Brother Ride-out was also a Past Master of [htt

...here the old Globe Hotel was. These quarters were occupied a little over a year. During the first year under Dispensation fifty-one meetings were held and thirteen candidates Rai

...n. There was born in me a consuming desire to enter the ministry." In that year, he enrolled in Horton Academy, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, operated by the Mar In that year, he enrolled in Horton Academy, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, operated by the Mar

The beginning of recognized Masonry in Warren may be dated back to the year 1825, when a warrant was issued by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Massa Officers of Carmel Lodge, Western, for the current year:

...onor M. W. Thomas Arnold Booth for his 60th year in the Craft and his 50th year as a Past Master of the Lodge. ...Lodge line officers. Highlighting the evening was the presentation of a 50-year Past Master's certificate by the Grand Master to the distinguished honoree.

...s Master in 1960-61 and Master of the 34th Lodge of Instruction in 1975. A year later, he began a decade of service with the Grand Lodge Service Committee ...istrict in 1977 and 1978, was elected Senior Grand Warden in 1986 in which year he was awarded the Henry Price Medal. He was a Charter Member and Past Mast

...that with the cash on hand and to be received from dues during the coming year Charity Lodge would be free from debt. Since that time the Lodge has been c ...oing a fair amount of work, gave a free ladies' night to the members every year, were at peace with our neighbors and the whole world with none to molest u

...in the progress of the larger institution—Universal Freemasonry. In the year 1872 (one month before the town of Maynard celebrated its first anniversary ...f the thirty-eight Brethren who signed the By-Laws of the Lodge during the year 1873 only two are members at the present time, namely, Warren S. Peters and

...o the pest-house. If he remained at the Inn, his business was ruined for a year. His only hope was to keep the facts from the public. ...genealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StJohnN St. John's] Lodge the same year.

...dge met with enthusiastic response from his fellow brethren and later that year a corporation was formed to purchase a Lodge hall. This was the original Ma ...ast Masters of the Lodge. The Lodge was further honored in this particular year by the award of the Distinguished Service Medal or Joseph Warren Award to W

...ation was held April 26, 1872, at which time it was voted to rent, for one year, of King David Lodge, the Masonic Hall at the railroad station. The record On September 14 of the same year an outing was enjoyed by the members of the Lodge and their families at the

...gs were enlarged and erected; the town bought two new pumping engines that year, "The Torrent," for West Medway, and "The Rapid" for Medway, costing $2,780 ...opposite the New Haven R. R. Station, West Medway, with rental of $150 per year.

The year 1865 witnessed the opening of a new chapter in the record of Masonry in Fit ...charter for a new Masonic Lodge in Fitchburg. In the early Autumn of that year such a gathering of Master Masons, who are said to have been members of [ht

...is no record of this exercise, but at a meeting held June 1st of the same year it was voted "to procure one hundred and fifty copies of this discourse." O ...n, and Hudson, N.Y., was the nearest market. There the farmers went once a year and exchanged surplus farm products for necessities they could not raise 'o

The history of Freemasonry in North Andover dates back to about the year 1820. The first Masonic meeting of record was held at the home of the widow ...knowledge and attainments in art, science, and literature. As early as the year of our Lord 1500, the Masonic fraternities of Europe may be said to have fi

There is no record in the minutes of Columbian Lodge during the year 1845 of any celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the granting of the Disp ...chusetts at the observance of anniversaries, which often begin in the 25th year, for the presiding Master to appoint one of the older Past Masters to read

During the year of Dispensation, when I suppose the Lodge was on trial, they had not gone f done by the officers of our Lodge in the very first year of its existence. The Right Worshipful District Deputy Grand

Endicott's three-year term was very active. He constituted the following Lodges: [http://masonicg ...he tenets of Masonry. Later that day he was unanimously elected to another year as Grand Master. On December 27. 1887, he was installed by William Parkman.

...re with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. He retired from a 35-year career with National Grid (Massachusetts Electric) where he served as Treas ...d by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. Following the completion of his one-year term, he joined the Grand Lodge Board of Directors, on which he served unti

The brothers never rested. The most recent 25-year period of Corinthian Lodge’s history is full of enhancements, and a resto ...perations were only slightly affected by this phase of the repairs. As the year progressed, the need arose to plan a special event: a visit by officers of

...yet he closed his official career as Marshal, and this office, except the year 1829, as thereafter filled by Past Masters. In the first year of the nineteenth century, thirteen eminent men and Masons residing at Duxb

...ity of Michigan, he began the Medical Course in 1861, and in April of that year, responding to Lincoln's first call, he enlisted for three years in the Sec ...further record; his name had completely vanished from the books. It was a year or two since I had seen him. I called by telephone every family of Hubbards

...he years until we stand by the side of our Brethren who petitioned in that year to establish a Blue Lodge in the town of Newton. Dp to the year 1876 the conferring of the degrees did not entitle those receiving them to

...cupying the attention of this band of good and true Masons for more than a year. Individually and collectively, they had given of their time, energv and ef Many meetings had been held during the year or more prior to this time to consult, consider details, and exchange views

...Blake was always a good citizen, but his public service was limited to one year in the House of Representatives

...istory of Masonry in Monson, however, goes back 166 years to 1796. In that year there were only twenty Lodges in the State, four of which had recently been ...ncluding the Pastor, Rev. Alfred Ely, were Masons. Because of this, in the year 1830, it was anticipated that Dr. Ely would be obliged, in the interests of

...868, the Lodge held its first regular communication and July 4 of the same year made its first public appearance when it joined with Orphan's Hope Lodge in ...dedication of the Soldiers Monument in Braintree and on July 4 of the same year it participated in the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth annivers

...ct Deputy Grand Master for the Grand Lodge. He later was appointed for one year as the Deputy Grand Master in 1964. Ten years later he was elected Grand Ma ...nued to fulfill his duties with DeMolay and the Grand Lodge. Following his year as High Priest, he agreed to serve as secretary of the chapter and held tha

...ay, we have twenty-three Brothers living who have been presented the Fifty Year Veteran's Medal for having been a member in good standing for fifty years o The following are the officers for the current year :— Thomas Borden, W. M.; Win. H. F. Burbank, S. W.; John W. Pope, J. W,

At the end of the first year Dorchester Lodge had only $57.16 balance, and balance August 31, 1921 was $ ...ry L. Freeman was presented with a wrist watch in appreciation of the fine year of service he hail given our members in spite of the distressing depression

In August of this year it was the misfortune of the Lodge to lose by death its beloved S.W., W. W. ...and, upon inspection by a committee, it was promptly voted to take a three-year lease of the premises. Six hundred dollars was borrowed to furnish the same