Search results

...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

Over one hundred and fifty years ago, in the early part of the year 1797, when [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRev

...he got through with the Revolutionary War and took up civil life; the same year he was married, and also entered Masonry; apparently he did well in all the ...ptember 9, 1799, Bartlett made known that he did not wish to serve a third year because of concerns that he had been neglecting his patients while in offic

Over one hundred and fifty years ago, in the early part of the year 1797, when [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRev ...stes presided over the newly appointed officers and Brethren. In the first year, twenty-three candidates were raised and nine special meetings were held. B

...iamson, Reginald S. Bowser and William H. Short, have received their Fifty-year Veterans' Medals. In our fifty-year span we have faithfully continued our regular and special communications th

...By-Laws. The meetings were continued in the same school house, and then a year later the members met in the "hall of Samuel Newhall's Building." this newly revived Lodge. Within a year, however, fire destroyed the building where they were meeting. And so, in N

On June 20, 1864, within a year of the organization of the Lodge, the old Sanford Block was destroyed by fi ...By-Laws. The meetings were continued in the same school house, and then a year later the members met in the "hall of Samuel Newhall's Building."

...us Albinus to have averted a great famine which threatened the city in the year 496 B.C. ...torrs, who is still in active work with us, received that distinction last year.

...e with Mr. C. E. Jackson to rent the greater part of this floor for $700 a year. Mr. Jackson inclined to a cheap type of building, and whatever trouble we ...ok over this entire floor, and on October 1, the rent was raised to $775 a year.

During that first year under dispensation, Elm Lodge raised twenty-eight candidates. The first Mas ...rom hot ashes that had been dropped on them. Many a time during that first year the candidates were furnished with overcoats and extra pairs of wool socks

...Lodge of Illinois (the first to receive this honor); and recipient of a 60-Year Veteran's Pin in 1984. ...lated by receiving a "D" on his first exam following his return in the new year.

...nic Lodge in Springfield which now bears the name "Esoteric." Early in the year of 1908, in the cozy smoking-room of the old Masonic Temple, Brother Wallac Esoteric Lodge worked under dispensation for one year and on Thursday, January 13, 1910, was made a Regular and Duly Constituted

...s his privilege to preside over the Grand Commandery during its centennial year, one of the most notable years of its existence. ...e Island in 1899 and continued in line, serving as Grand Commander for the year following October 27, 1904; thus being Right Eminent Grand Commander at the

...s, the squadron arrived at Gibraltar on 1 July 1801, and spent the ensuing year convoying American merchantmen and blockading Tripolitan ships. Following r ...1785 were thinly attended, so much so, indeed, that in the Spring of that year it was decided to suspend them during the summer months, with the intention

...Rite in the Western continent, whither he was about to repair. In the same year, Morin arrived at the city of St. Domingo, where he commenced the dissemina ...e proceeded, agreeable to the Bye-Laws, to make choice of officers for the year ensuing. R. W. Brother Bruce [Master] was unanimously chose Mr., but for re

...wn from the theatrical and musical professions. Visits are exchanged every year between the two. The New York Masons arrived in the morning and. after brea

...' ([http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMVose Vose]; 50-year medal for Past Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.ph ...asonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRichardson Richardson]; 50-year Past Master Certificate for Past Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/

...a fund which at year's end is donated to the Salvation Army. Our goal each year is to reach $1,000 in that yearly breakfast donation. The breakfasts commen ...Our current progressive officers' line has few Past Masters in it and next year's line is expected to have none. Another important reason for this strength

...seph Tucker, was appointed District Deputy Grand Master, and the following year R. W. Bro. Caleb Hyde was proxy for the Lodge. Soon after, came those years ...its first trace in America, near Annapolis, Nova Scotia, in 1606, the same year that the gallant Smith planted the Saxon race in Virginia, and fourteen yea

...appy that you came to join with us to properly mark our silver anniversary year, and hope that the evening will prove an enjoyable one to you and linger in During the first year, while under dispensation, Worshipful James D. Robertson became our first p

...e in cost of living. We find in the early records that dues were $3.00 per year, as compared with $7.00 today. But think of the vast difference in Lodge sp ...my of the Republic for their in-monthly meetings for the sum of $75.00 per year.

...ly reports, elect officers, and give the Lodge a good send-off for the new year. ...lans, we are assembled here to consult as to the best plans for the coming year, become acquainted one with the other and socially set together around the

...wn had been faithfully wrought by King Solomon's Lodge from 1783 until the year 1858, when [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Henry ...oston Common Council, serving in 1880 and 1881, being President the latter year, when he was elected City Solicitor of Boston. For twenty-three years there

...have been held at the house of General Salem Towne, which was erected the year of the formation of the Lodge, and in a room prepared for them bv General T ...the use of the hall, viz., "he was to furnish refreshments for the ensuing year on these terms: Thirty-seven and one-half cents for dinner and horse baitin

...of Old Massachusetts Grand Lodge and the Old St. John's Grand Lodge. That year the afore-mentioned David Scott and Capt. Wm. Toogood presented the Grand L

...of Old Massachuserts Grand Lodge and the Old St. John's Grand Lodge. That year the afore-mentioned David Scott and Capt. Wm. Toogood presented the Grand L ...of whom 17 are living. I puy tribute to the loyal Brothers who year after year have so faithfully and harmoniously carried on the work, and especially to

...in how many of the members would obligate themselves to meet three times a year, but we find no report of that committee. ...the permanent use of the Lodge. This was completed in the Fall of the same year, and on November 8 the apartments were duly dedicated to the purposes of Fr

The stars beside the names of the Past Masters are increasing each year, and tributes to our departed members given at almost every Lodge meeting r ...ming Lodge. Wyoming Lodge was big (600+ members at the time) and had a two-year line making it difficult for those aspiring to become an officer to do so.

On June 8 of that year, upon petition of Nathaniel Goodwin and others, a Charter was granted estab

...year. Never in the Lodge's history have so many new members entered in one year. Never has Fourth Estate been so well positioned to go forward to ever grea ...was instituted on December 18, 1922. Leading to this formal ceremony was a year of intense preparation.

...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

...ald, William B. Fenner, John W. Slocomb and Hilliel Baker. Approximately a year later, on March 10, 1852, ten members of Franklin Lodge, all of them from O "During the year 1857 Franklin Lodge at Grafton has not made a Mason. The Lodge is small and

...e Somerville 6th Masonic District, but about to retire from the office the year of the Institution. ...and references. We were, however, legal in every respect and during, that year we raised sixteen brethren as listed in this months Lodge notice, some of w

...on after for three hundred and fourteen dollars. Wood was cut from year to year for the aid of widows, and as late as 1853 the residue was estimated in the ...ocker, has held that office ever since, the present being his twenty-third year.

As early as the year 1867, a new Masonic Lodge was considered for Newton, Massachusetts. However ...the warrant of dispensation under which Fraternity Lodge was to work for a year.

...the consecration of Fredonia Lodge, and when we consider the season of the year, mid-winter, and that the only mode of conveyance was by stage coach, we mu

...th anniversary of Freedom Lodge and that the sum of $100 be set aside each year until the anniversary is observed. This recommendation was unanimously pass During the under dispensation year from March 6, 1947 to December 22, 1947 fourteen applicants for the degrees

...ast Grand Masters, passed away suddenly at his home in Needham in his 77th year. ...strict, in which office he served with such distinction that the following year, instead of being reappointed as District Deputy Grand Master, Most Worship

...forty-three years of active work, the Lodge surrendered its Charter in the year 1828. The records of old Friendship Lodge are now to be found in the archiv

...age burned by Right Worshipful Brother Hill, at the Annual Meeting of that year. Five of our members have been awarded Fifty-Year Veteran Medals by the Grand Lodge: Brother George Warren Buck initiated in

He took the first year's course at the Harvard Law School, receiving his degree as L. L. B. in Bos ...the degree of LL.B., being admitted to practice in Massachusetts the same year and in the United States Supreme Court in 1882. During the larger part of h

...n support of this statement, this history needs only to record that in the year of 1921 alone 155 candidates were raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Ma ...ee recommended the following as officers of Galilean Lodge for the ensuing year:

...ve their certificates and gifts. Also honored were the Lodge's Twenty-five Year Members, who were presented their pins. R.W. Donald D. Lowell. D. D. G. M. Twenty-five Year Members present were: Wor. Robert H. Brown, Wor. Steven P. Fradkoff, Wor. R

...f the first three officers, submitted a report reviewing the events of the year. ...to assure him that we all felt sure that material wrought during the past year and added to our work, would do us credit; and we hold it to be the ambitio

The Lodge enters upon its fifty-first year with the membership of 390. Also during this year, Right Worshipful Brother Thompson became Junior Grand Warden of the Grand

The first year was a prosperous one for Germania Lodge. Seventeen candidates were initiate ...ed to one hundred. But there came years of adversity and by the end of the year 1878 the membership was reduced to twenty-five. On April 28, 1879, the Lodg

...that Masonic principles might be the more effectively promoted, just as a year later ...llest number was 1 in 1933 and also 1 in 1934, with an average of 21.6 per year for the 75 years, compared with 18.6 for 50 years.

When Benjamin's father died in November. 1778, the 16-year-old was left as head of the family, but continued his apprenticeship with T ...nicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Bigelow Bigelow]'s second three-year term. At the end of that time, the Grand Lodge chose Brother Russell as the

...://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMLovering Lovering]; 50 year medal to Wor. Loren B. Sjostrom) ...business was transacted at earlier meetings of the Lodge during the first year. The sublime degree of Master Mason was first conferred at the 4th regular

...f this Lodge to the Grand Lodge have been regularly paid until the present year." ...tately elms. The Lodge finally decided to relinquish its charter about the year 1830. It was not until 1870 that the idea of forming another Lodge took def

...one hundred and seventy-first regular communication, October 12th in that year. On December 14th, Worshipful Brother Wightman being Master, a petition for ...31st we have approximately four hundred and fifty. By the returns of last year, out of two hundred and fifty-five Lodges in the state, only fifty-seven ha

...the Craft for a Lodge in Whitinsville which finally, in the autumn of the year 1880, crystallized into definite action. ...a year for the use of its hall three evenings a month, or 39 evenings in a year, and the secretary was instructed to communicate this offer to Eureka Lodge

...29, 1854. From October, 1858, he filled the chair of Junior Warden for one year; was then promoted to be Senior Warden, continuing in that rank to October, ...en of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Massachusetts for the year 1871 and since then has been an active and influential permanent member of

...ided its own heat and light at a cost of between four and five dollars per year, and with these arrangements, the Lodge was allowed the use of the hall two Within a year after Grecian Lodge had received its Charter, the disappearance of a man na

...ich was inaugurated in the metropolis on St. John the Baptist's day in the year 1717. ...were presented by one side were rejected by the other, and for more than a year not a member was taken into the order.

...ich capacity he visited fourteen Lodges in his District. At the end of the year, he declined a reappointment. He was at the time a member of Alexandria-Was ...t to this dispensation, thirteen Brethren received their degrees the first year, and on January 2, 1861, Most Worshipful Grand Master [http://masonicgeneal

...institution in Massachusetts. According to the Grand Lodge reports of the year 1817, it held jurisdiction over 105 Lodges, 27 being in what is now the Sta The provision fixing the hour of meeting did not last long, for the next year it was voted to amend the By-Laws respecting this so that it should be at 5

...ng another minister he would de­liver up the parsonage. Io the space or a year or two an illiterate man, whose name is not recollected, preached among the ...ony, Lord Viscount Montague, Grand Master of Masons in England, who in the year 1733 granted a commission to HENRY PRICE, Esq. appointing him Provincial Gr

..., 1787, a return from Hampshire Lodge, of their choice of officers for the year ensuing, was read, and also a vote of said Lodge which had been transmitted ...rter. [Also noted in the record:] Made choice of officers for the ensueing year,

...n a treasonable correspondence, he was tried, convicted and confined for a year. He was afterwards allowed to leave the country, but the ship in which he s ...experience and ample medical acquirements. On the 4th of November of this year, he married Miss Abby, daughter of John Collins, Governor of Rhode Island.

...ther William J. Sawin, at Grand Lodge, the dues of Hampshire Lodge for the year ending August 31, 1874, amounting to about $80.00, were remitted in consequ ...This proposition was refused, and a vote taken to offer Mr. Miller $100 a year for ten years. The vote resulted in a tie and the matter was laid on the ta

...2003 Fourteenth Masonic District]. Greenfield had procured her charter one year earlier. ...in Winchester in 1801. He gave an organ to the church in September of that year. On March 5, 1798, the town voted to purchase a bell of between six and sev

...dinate lodge in the town of Athol. After waiting the customary time of one year, the petition was granted and on October 13, 1803, [http://www.masonicgenea

...but until now no steps have been taken to accomplish it. In March of last year, however, an [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Massach ...ularly through 1940. Ten years later Wor. James F. Farr picked it up for a year and a half. Received again with various editors in 1959 and through 1965. T

On May 19,1858, a Dispensation for one year was granted by the Grand Master at the end of which time a Charter would be ...s instructed to lease Mishawum Hall for one year at a rental of $90.00 per year. King Solomon's Lodge assisted very materially by granting the use of such

...demise. It was quite a treat to watch him maneuver his Tyler's sword each year he was installed as Tyler. ...Sulfaro, who was raised in 1921 has been our first Brother to receive a 50 year membership medal.

...At the Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge in December of the same year, the petition was granted, but when issued, was not signed by Paul Revere, It is interesting to note that in the proceedings of Grand Lodge for the year of 1797 it is recorded that a meeting of Grand Lodge was held in Concert Ha

In the year 1864 there were a number of Masons in Gardner, "good men and true," who fel ...Dispensation show a large amount of Masonic work. At the expiration of one year, a second petition was presented to the M. W. Grand Lodge, signed by LEVI H

...hey still are). Money was spent for groceries for meetings several times a year. Another interesting entry was, "Horse and carriage to meeting at Hyannis $ ...ington Birthday dinner meeting and these meetings on February 22nd of each year since have always been well attended. Through them, and the fine spirit of

...continued in office by annual elections until his death. In the following year he was commissioned by the governor a justice of the peace, and discharged

...ur Grand Master in 1798 and 1799, but then felt obliged to decline a third year's service on account of the pressure of professional duty, greatly ...obate for Middlesex County. They had a numerous family. In 1806, the first year of his Grand Mastership, he removed to Medford and opened an office in Bost

...en. They met again on July 9, 1864, and again on November 10th of the same year. The records of this last named meeting begin as follows: ...d Master's Address] on December 27, 1864, states that on July 14th of that year he granted a Dispensation to United Lodge of Huntington, eighteen Brethren

...carrying $2000 insurance. The March, April and May communications of that year were held in the rooms of Constellation Lodge in Dedham, Massachusetts, by ...ter the Town Hall fire, this Lodge has been clear of debt and nearly every year some addition has been made to the General and Charity Funds, so that now i

...Masons in Massachusetts" card into Portuguese and Spanish. During the next year, Wor. Bro. Santos became an advisor for MLI and invited other Brazilian bro

...rother Lanckton turned the deficit into a surplus during a very successful year. It was brother Lanckton who fed the five thousand on the equivalent of fiv And thus we learned from year to year,<br>

...n the management of the Massachusetts State Republican Committee, his last year being the campaign in which Governor Greenhalge was elected. ...overnor Long, he was elected a delegate at large to the Convention of that year, after one of the most spirited contests ever known in Massachusetts.

...t the Club by Brother George H. Gibb. President Gibb also had a successful year. ...e. He served while the Lodge was under dispensation, and also in the first year under its charter.

...on, Junior Warden. The dispensation was granted on August 23rd of the same year, and after the usual probationary period, a charter was granted to Ionic Lo ...in the Town Hall, at which 250 covers were laid. The membership during the year of dispensation had increased to fifty-three.

...Hall (on the upper floor of the Central passenger station) at $200.00 per year. The first meeting was held there Friday evening, April 12th, at which time After meeting in Masonic Hall for one year, the Lodge voted to move (on account of an increase in rent) to Ionic Hall,

(term year ending) The degrees were conferred upon eighteen candidates the year the Lodge was working under dispensation. This seemed to prove that there w

...ider the advisability of forming a new Lodge, and on December 19th of that year, a letter, signed by R.W. Fred W. Leavitt, was sent to several local member ...st Past Master's Night was held, and one has been held annually since that year.

...ren generally, the Masonic Bodies were able on February 1st of the present year to take formal possession of these magnificent quarters. In architectural b ...red from 1865 to 1869 inclusive, an average of twenty-nine each year. Last year twenty-two joined, which is the highest number for twenty-nine years. Of th

...re or less crude, by hourly busses drawn by horses, or by private teams. A year later horse drawn street-cars made their way out to Somerville. The populat At the close of the year under Dispensation, Worshipful Master Francis L. Raymond retired. He was th

...ived the Henry Price Medal for outstanding service to Masonry in that same year. ...re on earth to his heavenly home above on the last day of the 2006 Masonic year. (August 30, 2006) We do miss you, my Brother. You will always be in our th

The first year was, naturally, a busy one. The adoption of By-Laws, procuring of equipment The year following its constitution the Civil War broke out. In April, 1861, it was

...dover, and of the District Deputy Grand Master. The officers for the first year were also selected." ...ular meetings, but a few of the loyal members occasionally met, and once a year elected officers until 1834.<br>

...ears, two for 26 years, and Bro. Charles Damon who is now serving his 19th year. ...time high of 514 was attained in 1961. Membership at the end of our 100th year is 507.

...a block just west of our present location and John Warren Lodge took a ten-year lease of the same. Ir was voted to hold 8 fair to raise money for furnishin ...ablished at twenty dollars, and the following officers chosen for the busy year ahead:

...essor, James Madison, had been elected to succeed him. Aaron Burr had that year been acquitted of treason. Robert Fulton had made the first successful appl ...rom 1847 to 1857 only three or four candidates were raised. Two or three a year until 1863 when following the Civil War ten, sixteen and twenty-two were ra

...ndrew Lodge of St. Andrew] and was its Master in 1769. In December of that year he had been installed as the first "Grand Master of Masons in Boston, New E ...sday evening, Oct. 15th. A Dispensation for this Lodge was granted about a year ago by the then Grand Master, Dr. [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWik

...wn was at the time an active shipping center. More than a thousand ships a year entered and left the port producing a good living for local merchants. John

It commenced its work at once and for one year acted under this dispensation until on March 23, 1877, it was constituted i The fifth Brother to commence his Masonic travels in that first twenty-five year period is Worshipful ''Oscar Storer''. Worshipful Brother Storer became a M

...ndex.php?title=AncientYork Ancient York] Lodge at Lowell in 1882, the same year he was admitted to the bar in Middlesex County. He became Worshipful Master ...Past Masters played a strong and vigorous part in the then twenty-or-more-year old Kilwinning Lodge in a formative and strengthening period. Kilwinning Lo

It is the year 1875 — a century after the midnight ride of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/ ...outlying farms were in existence. A reference to the news columns of that year reveals that the Boston, Lowell and Nashua steam railroad served the town t

...John Seaver to be made a Mason free of expense, and to serve as Tyler, one year alone or two years with Leonard Porter, the present Tyler. ...eld "on the Wednesday preceding the full of the moon, at sunset during the year, and that officers be elected by ballot yearly on St. John the Baptist Day,

...unt of money fishing the previous year had to teach the boys the following year. Was this considered a demotion or a promotion? ...occupancy. This Fall, King Hiram's Lodge will not only celebrate its 175th year as a Lodge, but also the 100 anniversary of its Temple. The [http://masonic

On December 31, 1865, King Philip Lodge held its first meeting. During the year under Dispensation 23 candidates were raised to the sublime degree of Maste The By-Laws were adopted, officers elected for the ensuing year, and the petition for a Charter signed.

...ysian dream. Soon is the season of the singing of birds over and gone. The year, that youth imagined would be "all May" will not retard the succeeding mont ...d and monument to the newly-formed association, and on June 17 of the same year, assisted the Grand Lodge in laying the cornerstone of a magnificent monume

...d the Seal of our said Lodge to be afixed this sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1787 and of Masonry 5787.

...st side of the Common, for a period of ten years at the rate of $50.00 per year. A committee was appointed to repair and furnish the hall at a cost not to ...ase of the Tower Hall was renewed for five years at the rate of $60.00 per year. In the spring of 1891, the furniture and all Lodge property were taken fro

...e naturally go back over the pages of our records and are focused upon the year 1847. ...been members of the Masonic Fraternity living in North Adams prior to the year 1847, we would have had to travel to the neighboring town of what is now kn

Given at the Grand Orient the day and year aforesaid,<br> ...to a Master Mason, January 20, 1820; admitted a member, February 28, same year; and was Worshipful Master of the Lodge for several years; serving also as

...ber. He now resides at the Masonic Home in Charlton. He was presented a 70 year pin and a Table Lodge apron by the Lodge.

...march which Lafayette made from one end of the country to the other in the year 1825. From every part of the country, as he made that grand progress, there The Charter which was conferred upon the Lodge on June 12 of this year bears the following names as Charter Members: Right Worshipful [http://www.

...tle=LafayetteR Lafayette] Lodge operated under that dispensation the first year and, on June 12, 1866, Lafayette Lodge was officially chartered by the Gran ...Lodge which limits the number of candidates for the degrees to fifteen per year. That By-Law was specifically written so that Lafayette Lodge would not ove

...nuary 30, 1952 in the Grecian Chambers in the Masonic Temple. In that same year, Level Lodge, under the guidance of Most Worshipful and Reverend Doctor Roy ...filled in as Junior Warden. Worshipful Abraham Sherman during a stressful year for Level Lodge served a second time as our Worshipful Master. He first ser

The following is list of "officers elected for the Amity Lodge, the year ensuing'': .... This was adopted on November 25, 1833, when the officers for the ensuing year were elected. On December 23, 1833, the installation took place. There was

...rter Members and we enjoyed a very successful, instructive and happy first year. ...ous years under the guidance or Worshipful Nedd Brown, and each succeeding year has been successful in its own right.

...most generously granted us the use of their apartments and regalia for one year gratis. During our first year, the Lodge was the recipient of many gifts from our members, namely: the Sq

It was prior to the year 1946 that the Town of Lynnfield had an organization known as the Lynnfield ...rage attendance of fifty-one members and forty-eight visitors. During this year, twenty-four were admitted by degrees and four by affiliation, and three we

During the first year of our existence, regular meetings were held in July and August. Between Au ...he Lodge since its start, was honored by the presentation of a twenty-five year service jewel. Brother Gallagher continued to serve as Treasurer for severa

the first half year of the term for which he was elected. ...day, June 26, 1754, he died, after a lingering illness, in the fifty-first year of his age, having held the office of Grand Master for eleven years. His de

...ex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, or Bristol. These members pay only $4.00 a year dues. ...e, their term of office being from September preceding to September of the year named, except in the case of the first Master, who served from March 1926 t

...r Deacon. He declined election for a second year, and since that time, one year terms as Master have prevailed. Worshipful Brother Olson became Treasurer o ...ry was at an all time peak in membership, activity and enthusiasm. In this year, 1921, Manchester Lodge, A. F. & A. M., was born into an era which has fulf

During the year a contribution to the George Washington Memorial Fund was made by the membe ...lard O. Cook was installed Master. Worshipful Brother Cook had a very busy year and raised twenty-two new members — a record thus far in the history of M

...heir Charter to the Grand Lodge, where it remained until 1820. During that year it was returned to the Lodge and they continued to meet until about 1832 or A year later, 1789, the school house proprietors voted to complete the outside of

...ned off to the lowest bidder. The price sometimes ran as low as 515.00 per year. ...iods of time when out to sea, his death was not noted by the lodge until a year after he passed in his home country in 1880.

...ard until 1859, a period of thirty-five years, when on August 10th of that year, M.W. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMHeard John T ...the Anno Lucis (Year of Masonry) date, instead of the Anno Domini (In the Year of our Lord) dating, that is so common today.

...spired the soldiers with a zeal that led them on to Independence. From the year 1768, he was a principal member of a secret meeting or caucus in Boston, wh ...by the M. W. Grand Master, and unanimously elected Grand Officers, for the year ensuing, ''viz'':—

* Wor. Bro. William H. Beattie, Trustee for one year ...ble, and after discussion, it was voted not to contribute to the fund this year.

...1738, the system of degrees had been perfected; for Anderson, who, in that year, published the second edition of the Book of Constitutions, changed the phr ...s a record of 223 meetings in the first book, an average of about ten each year. During the first period recorded in the second book, the meetings were not

...n that capacity during any other year. The town was not represented in the year following and during several years previous to that mentioned. As everythin ...ries further; to learn whether Mr. Price represented Townsend on any other year than that named, and ascertain whether or not he was a member of the Genera

...ost for all to see, testifying that hereby and hereon was organized in the year 1928, A.D., the Matthew John Whittall Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ...members were admitted, making the total membership at the end of the first year 118.

The year the Lodge was working under Dispensation, the same year that General Sherman was making his famous march to the sea, the Officers o ...New Bedford, acted as Grand Lecturer for May Flower Lodge during the first year of its existence, teaching the Master of the Lodge a large part of the work

...y at a cost of $13.10. This same book has adorned the altar up to a recent year when a new one was given to Mechanics Lodge. ...actory sites and later laid out the streets for the future city. The first year having passed by, we find that a Charter was granted by the Most Worshipful

...o Natick and engaged in various ventures of mercantile character until the year 1881, when he entered the employ of the Boston and Albany railroad corporat In the latter part of the year 1826 an attack against Masonry Was made in the western part of New York Sta

...-66 Sixth District], made the following indorsement on his Return for that year, in relation to these Lodges: "Charters lost or returned to Grand Lodge."<b

...ed March 26, raised May 17, and elected to .membership October 18, of that year. Serving two years each as Senior Deacon, Junior Warden and Senior Warden, ...ember, 1882, to the close of his term as Grand Master in 1894. Serving one year in the latter position, the condition of his health interfered with a disch

...g the year 1815 twelve white leather aprons were purchased and in the same year it was voted to notify Dr. Daniel Brickett that the hall could not be used ...degrees in Merrimack Lodge, We pursued the even tenor of our way until the year 1828 when there broke upon the Nation what is known as the Anti-Masonic Per

...s had taken place every year after it was chartered until 1830; after that year there were no additions to the Lodge and no work done until 1833, when one Rufus Choate was under engagement in 1858, the year before he died, to address the Alumni of Dartmouth College, but at the last

...did not meet with the brethren's approval. The original dues were $6.00 a year and increased to $10.00 in 1930. They were again increased in 1964 to $12.0 Until the year 1946, it was a custom of this Lodge to elect its officers at the annual com

...at it helps man to find himself and to maintain his manhood. It was in the year 1867 that twenty-six good men and true, all members of Amicable Lodge sent ..., 1897. He commenced his twenty-eight years service as Secretary that same year. He was succeeded by Chester VV. Whitney who still serves, after twenty-one

(term year ending) ...he report of this committee and to make choice of officers for the ensuing year.

...modify Article 2 of the Regulations, establishing three regular meetings a year in June, September and December, with the annual meeting in September. ...ed the following officers for the Grand Royal Arch Chapter for the ensuing year:

(term year ending) ...celebration. Looking towards an anniversary date of December 13, 2020, a year-long celebration kicked off on January 18, 2020 with a gala celebration and

The Year: 1858. The days of the forty-niners were barely over. Expansion to the far ...h investigation, examining evidence both Masonic and other than Masonic. A year later, December 14, 1870, they submitted a report covering over one hundred

...arch 26, 1845, Hathon's Tavern in Medway Village was occupied. For about a year, or until March 18, 1846, the lodge met at the residence of William White i ...ixty-four deaths have been recorded, eight of which have occurred the past year.

...dge is in an enviable financial condition. At the close of the last fiscal year the membership was 848. ...nstruction which has become a Regular Lodge, being officially visited each year by the Right Worshipful District Deputy Grand Master.

...to the Grand Master's Address, Page 1993-129: "Two Lodges during the past year have found it impossible to continue either by merging or by operating as a and at this time Morning Sun Lodge was launched on its way to its 100th year. In reading the records and from what I have been told, there have been thr

...degrees in Jordan Lodge in 1857, and was installed Junior Warden the same year. He was Master of Jordan Lodge in 1859, 1860 and 1861, and was made an Hono ...adily from the original 34 charter members to a total of 380 in 1921, the year of the

...enealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMSchaefer Schaefer]; 2 visits; New Year's Eve party, 12/31/1940, and [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.p ...ellent dinner and dancing. Two other ladies' parties followed later in the year. At our Legislative Night on February 7, 1935, we were visited by a large g

...Charter, which was granted at the quarterly communication in June the same year. T. C. Thacher was chosen Secretary pro tem. ...o choose the following officers, to continue in office to the close of the year, viz.:

...t. Hermon Lodge. This charter was deposited with the Grand Lodge about the year 1828. ...rmon Lodge. This charter had been deposited with the Grand Lodge about the year 1828.

...ituted in the year 1817 in Maiden. This one surrendered its charter in the year 1830, probably because of the anti-Masonic feeling prevalent at the time wh In the year 1854, a group of Masons in Medford held a meeting for the purpose of instit

...the idea of having a lodge established in their midst. It was an election year, plans were being made to push the Civil War to a glorious victory, nearly ...d of the success or failure of this social affair; however later this same year a committee was appointed to arrange for a picnic, and report the following

...MediaWiki/index.php?title=IonicE Ionic] Lodge at Easthampton the following year. It is a curious fact that neither of these brothers appear among the petit The first complete list of officers of the lodge,is that for the first year under the Charter, and is as follows:-

In the year 1820 ten respectable citizens had occasion to prepare a statement of facts ...the government, that the increase from 1810 to 1820 was only 298. From the year 1820 may be dated the more rapid and steady growth of the village; in the f

...year. They waited on Job Chase and did hire the room of Job Chase for one year for forty dollars ($40), Job Chase to furnish stove and pipe and lamp. Thei ...organized under a Dispensation from this Grand Lodge, for the term of one year and upwards; that meetings have been regularly held, and proper records of

In the year 1905 Mount Horeb Lodge celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in the Masonic H ...Warden, William F. Davis, Jr., served as Acting Master for the rest of the year.

...ace on the 11th of January, 1803. Twelve candidates were received the past year. ...ual Meeting for the choice of omcers. Sixteen candidates admitted the past year.

In the year 1798, ninety years before the first regular communication of [http://masoni ...instituted with the ''Creation'', and have now continued, according to the year of the world, 5805 years.