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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.