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		+	==== GILBERT BARNARD 1818-1858 ====
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		+	* MM 1850, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=StMatthew St. Matthew's]
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		+	Died in Andover, Mass., on the 5th day of June, Brother Gilbert Barnard ; and at the first regular communication of St. Matthew's Lodge, of which he was a member, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :—
		+	* ''Whereas'', The Brethren of St. Matthew's Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, learn with deep regret the demise of our lamented Brother, Gilbert Barnard, that he has been called from earthly labor to partake, we trust, of the blessings of the celestial Lodge, whose Great Master ever liveth; and while we deplore his loss amongst us, be it
		+	* ''Resolved'', That the same heartfelt sympathy experienced for our departed Brother be extended to his bereaved family, who have thus sustained an irreparable loss; and that in our condolations we would assure them that his memory is an evergreen planted in our hearts; and of our hope, that like as the holly survives the frosts of winter, so he surmounts the decay of nature, and stands among the accepted before the throne of God, where we all hope to meet.
		+	* ''Resolved'', That these resolutions be published in the Freemasons' Monthly Magazine, and a copy transmitted to the family of our deceased Brother.
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		+	''M. Sands, Sec'y St. M. L.''<br>
		+	''Andover, June 24th, 1853.''
	==== EASTMAN SANBORN 1800-1859 ====		==== EASTMAN SANBORN 1800-1859 ====

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SAINT MATTHEW'S LODGE

Originally named Minerva Lodge.

Location: Andover

Chartered By: John Dixwell

Charter Date: 12/11/1822 III-415

Precedence Date: 12/11/1822

Current Status: Active

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PAST MASTERS

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REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

• Petition for Charter: 1816 as Minerva; referred and not granted
• Petition for Charter: 1818 as Minerva; tabled
• Petition for Charter: 1822 as St. Matthew's; granted

ANNIVERSARIES

• 1922 (Centenary)
• 1947 (125th Anniversary)
• 1972 (150th Anniversary)
• 1997 (175th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

• 1823 (Dixwell; Constitution of Lodge and installation; Special Communication)
• 1882 (Lawrence)
• 1890 (Wells; Hall dedication; Special Communication)
• 1899 (Hutchinson)
• 1902 (Sanford)
• 1907 (Blake)
• 1922 (Deputy Grand Master Herbert W. Dean; Centenary; Special Communication)
• 1939 (Perry)
• 1947 (Wragg; 125th Anniversary; Special Communication)
• 1964 (Osgood; Corner-stone laying; Special Communication)
• 1965 (Osgood; Temple dedication; Special Communication)
• 1972 (Vose; 2 visits, including Ladies' Night and 150th Anniversary; Special Communication)
• 1984 (Richardson)
• 1988 (Ames)
• 1993 (Lovering)
• 1997 (A. Johnson; 175th Anniversary; Special Communication)
• 2000 (Bauer)
• 2001 (Bauer)

BY-LAW CHANGES

1858 1871 1872 1904 1905 1908 1912 1921 1940 1946 1951 1952 1954 1956 1957 1962 1969 1975 1978 1979 1984 1987 1988 1989 1992 2005 2010

HISTORY

• 1890 (Historical sketch at hall dedication, 1890-27)
• 1922 (Centenary History, 1922-384; see below)
• 1947 (125th Anniversary History, 1947-424)
• 1972 (150th Anniversary History, 1972-351)
• 1997 (175th Anniversary History, 1997-153)

CENTENNIAL HISTORY, DECEMBER 1922

From Proceedings, Page 1922-382:

HISTORY OF SAINT MATTHEW'S LODGE, by Bro. William Odlin.

We are in the midst of a celebration to commemorate the fact that this Lodge has survived the vicissitudes of one hundred years, and l have been drafted to deliver an historical address.

St. Matthew's Lodge was born in the shadow of the only persecution to which Masonry has been subjected for several hundred years. We may think the century of our life long. What should be our wonder and sacred reverence when every time we receive a notice from our Secretary we see staring us in the faee the date A. L. (year of light) 5922.

If you love St. Matthew's Lodge, with what a surge of tenderness you must think that to you is given the keeping of the inheritance of your predecessors for fifty-eight centuries before St. Matthew's Lodge was founded, which on your oaths you have sworn to preserve without. change as you receive it, and what a mighty responsibility that you will preserve it absolutely and hand it on unchanged to your successors - what a privilege. Baked in clay cylinders, cut in cameos, inscribed in rnilitary fortifications and cathedrals, temples designed and built by your ancestors in the Craft, the square and compasses is the oldest, most continuous fact of all history, The great religions of all times, the Buddhists, the Pythagoreans (and to this school belong Socrates and the Greeks) and last but by no means the least and by far the oldest, stretching back by our own calendar to an unknown date before the year one, are the Magi, those who believing in the Prophet Daniel, the chief Magus of the world for a lifetime, followed the star of Bethlehem and laid their offerings at the feet of Jesus Christ in the manger.

The English Grand Lodge was organized in London in 1717. In 1733 Henry Price, Esq., of Boston, received from Viscount Montague, then Grand Master of England, a deputation creating him "Provincial Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons in New England" and charging him with the duty of extendiug the new organization among the Craft in this region. In this year Major Price orgauized. a Grand Lodge and began the work of creating subordinate lodges. There were many Masons in New England at that time. The Royal Governor Belcher was very zealous. He retired and became Royal Governor of New Jersey and in a letter written upon the occasion of his retirement as Royal Governor of Massachusetts, stated he was made a Mason in 1704, and he was, so far as I know, the earliest made Mason in New England of whom we have any record proof.

This Grand Lodge seemed to be generally aecepted as the head of Masonry in New England until 1769. Joseph Warren, the patriot, was raised in St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, September 10, 1761. In 1769 St. Andrew's Lodge joined with two Lodges connected with British regiments quartered in Boston and sent a petition to the Earl of Dalhousie, Grand Master of Scotland, for a District Grand Lodge, and on May 30, 1769, there was received from the Scottish Grand Lodge a Commission appointing Joseph Warren, Esq., Grand Master of Masons of Boston (New England) and within one hundred miles circumjacent to the same.

Warren and his associates granted Charters to various Lodges and were in conflict with the older Grand Lodge for years.

Also, in 1782, one Moses Michael Hays, a Jew and a merchant of great wealth, came out from England with a patent constituting him Grand Master of a Grand. Lodge of Masons in America with power to charter subordinate Lodges! (Hays' Commission was a Scottish Rite commission.) This is a reflex of the internal dissension of English Masons during the same time. The Grand Lodge organized in London in 1717 was not aecepted as supreme, although widely accepted by Masons throughout the kingdom. The York Masons refused to come in, so likewise the Scottish Masons.

The troubles of Massachusetts, while of deep interest, cannot be treated of in the time at my disposal. Suffice i to say that the rival Grand Lodges had completed their union on March 5, 1792, and since that date the Grand Lodge that we know has conducted its affairs with great dignity and honor to the satisfaction of the Craft.

The disagreements in England are of absorbing interest but suffice it to say that the child born in 1717 in London with many vicissitudes be it said, grew and waxed strong and it is of particular interest to St. Matthew's Lodge that the London Grand Lodge obtained universal recognition of its primacy it 1822, the year of your birth.

St. Matthew's Lodge was granted its Charter on December 11, 1822. Its Charter spells the name with one "t'". I wish this spelling might never be departed from. So we were christened, so may we live, and so we have become an integral part of the mysteries whieh will never die even if Andover shall disappear from the face of the earth.

There were twenty-six Charter members as follows:

• David Rice
• Merrill Pettingill
• John Smith
• Thomas Spofford
• Samuel Jameson
• Jonathan Merrill
• Charles O. Kimball
• Benjamin Day
• George Wardwell
• Peter French
• Palfrey W. Downing
• Jacob Shedd
• John Merrill
• John Marland
• John Brown
• Samuel McCoy
• Moses Bixby
• Jonathan Swan
• Josiah Greenleaf
• Simon Flanders
• Jonathan Phelps
• David Wardwell
• James Roberts
• Benjamin Herrick
• Patrick Flemming
• Thomas Thaxter

In 1822 Andover had not more than two thousand inhabitants, and twenty six members, or thirteen per thousand, was not a large membership; but when we consider the distance between habitations and the difficulties of travel it looks better. However, of these twenty-six members the only History of Andover, namely, that written by Sarah Loring Bailer, which is really a very complete and well done History, mentions only one, to wit John Smith.

It would be a work of loving memory to trace the descendants of our progenitors, and most interesting. In 1692 Andover was the scene of a violent witchcraft explosion and several inhabitants of the town were executed, one being Samuel Wardwell. There were two Wardwells in our twenty-six Charter members and our curiosity is great to know if our two Brothers were descendants of the executed man, but time is lacking and also knowledge to do more than touch on those of whom we are fortunate enough to have definite knowledge.

Our Charter was the fifty-fifth granted by the Grand Lodge and is the oldest one in the present Eleventh Masonic District. Of the fifty-five charters in existence on December 11, 1822, about forty-three have disappeared; only about twelve have survived including that of St. Matthew's. Why this astounding mortality?

The first meeting of record was held at the home of Mary Parker in the North Parish, now known as North Andover, January 22, 1823. I am told on the best of authority that this building is now standing on the corner of Andover and Chestnut Streets, North Andover. The meeting was, as was the custom in those days, opened on the first clegree with sixteen members and seven visitors present. It was raised to the second and then to the third degrees. In those days ail of the business of the Lodge, with the exception of the initiation of the candidates, was done on the first degree in striking contrast to our present system of doing it all on the third degree. Then, as now, the candidates were initiated with the Lodge open on the corresponding degrees.

The Lodge had been in existence only a short time when a search for new quarters nearer the center of the tdwn was made. On December 10, 1823, David Rice and William Bond were chosen as a committee of two to obtain from Good Samaritan Lodge, of Reading, a permit to move to what was then known as the South Parish. This petition was refused, but the reason for not granting it is not evident. Another effort to get the waiver of jurisdiction from the Reading Iodge was soon made and with better success. At a meeting held March 10, 1824, a committee was appointed to secure a room near Andover Bridge and at a meeting held May 12, 1824, it was voted to move to Towne's house. To meet the cost of moving each member was assessed forty cents.

The Lodge soon outgrew these quarters and at a meeting held February 1, 1826, a committee was appointed to consider the erection of a building in the South Parish. At the meeting of February 22, 1826, the committee reported that it had taken measures to erect a building in which the Lodge could be accommodated and at the meeting on June 21, 1826, which was held at the home of Brother Locke, it was announced that the Grand Lodge had granted a Dispensation to move to the new building.

This building was evidently erected and owned by the St. Matthew's Masonic Association which was an organization made up of members of the Lodge for the purpose of erecting the building which, so far as I can find out, was put on the present site. The Association existed for about ten years, but appears to have been unable to meet with financial success as it gave several notes to the bank. Its records are not cornplete and it seems likely that the bank was forced to take the building to get its money.

This building was known as the Union Building, and the first meeting was held there July 19, 1826. The Dedication took place September 13, 1826, and J. Bartlett, of Marblehead, D.D.G.M. for the Second District, delivered the dedicatory address. A banquet was also held. The hall was hired for one year from November 10, 1827, for twenty-five dollars.

So far as the records seem to show the Lodge had these quarters until January 16, 1843, when it is recorded that the Lodge left the Union Building. There are many lnstances recorded in the minutes where the meetings between 1826 and 1843 were held at the homes of various members The January 16 meeting was held at the home of Merrill Pettingill, who was Master at that time, and it was voted to continue as soon as a room could be secured. At the meeting of February 14, 1844, a committee was appointed to see about hiring the Odd Fellows' quarters and at the next meeting it was reported that they could be had with light and heat for fifty cents per evening, and it was voted to accept them. The first meeting was held there January 28, 1844.

In 1852 there were difficulties over the rent or something else and the members voted to vacate the hall and hire one owned by Nathan Swift for a period of five years. The first meeting was held there April 28, 1852.

The Lodge continued in Swift's Hali until 1857. At the meeting of November 20, that year, it was voted to move to the bank hall which later became known as Masonic Hall. February 11, 1878, a lot of new furniture was purchased for the Lodge-room. These quarters were used until 1899 when the erection of the present building was started. At a meeting held December 10, 1898, a committee of three, composed of Worshipful Rrothers George S. Cole and A. S. Manning and Brother C. E. Abbott, was appointed to confer with the bank people regarding the renting of quarters in the new building. March 25, 1899, it was voted to secure Grand Army Hall during the process of constructing the bank building.

In the record of the meeting of February 2, 1890, it states that the terms of the present hall are to be three hundred dollars per year, payable monthly. In order to furnish the new quarters a vote was passed empowering a committee to spend trvelve hundred dollars for the purpose. Some of this money was raised by subscription and the balance taken from the treasury. Two hundred dollars was appropriated to dedicate the new hall. The first meeting held in the present quarters took place April 28, 1890.

In 1826, one Captain William Morgan had prepared what was called an exposé of Masonry. What purports to have been so prepared by Morgan was published by a Colonel Miller; a reprint can be purchased at almost any second-hand book store for twenty-five cents. When it became noised about that such a book was to be published Morgan disappeared. He was never again seen alive, but in the fall of 1827 a body was found on the shores of Lake Ontario and certain parties were tried and convicted, and the public believed and the trial seems to prove that certain Masons of Batavia, Le Roy, and Rochester, in New York State, took Morgan in a boat to the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, tied a rope heavily weighted with sinker around his body, and threw him overboard. I am making no allegations or admissions, simply presenting the matter as it appeared' in the public prints.

A great outcry arose against Masonry throughout the country. This was only four years after the institution of St. Matthew's Lodge. Agitation began at once. Thurlow Weed, the celebrated New York newspaper man, was one of the most rampant of the attackers of Masonry. To a considerable degree he made his great newspaper success out of the matter and laid the foundations of his remarkable political power which lasted, if possible, beyond the grave. The agitation was continuous and cumulative all over the United States, but I can only touch on what happened near home.

On December 30 and 31, 1829, and January 1, 1830, there was held an Anti-Masonic State Convention for Massachusetts in Faneuil IIalI, Boston. I have a printed copy of the proceedings published in 1830, by John Marsh, for sale at the Anti-Masonie Book Store, 96-98 State Street, Boston. It was at this convention alleged the Masonic oath was to "keep his secrets inviolable when communicated to him as such, and he knou'ing them'to be such, murder and treason not excepted."

The General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island at the October Session, 1831, appointed a committee to investigate Masonry with power to administer oaths, examine witnesses, and call for books and papers. This committee made an investigation and reported in 1832 in a printed book of about one hundred and fifty pages of absorbing interest to Masons. The report is a straddle, in a way, but the following is the language of their conclusion:

"We would not impute to Masons, or make them responsible for the contentions and mischief that is [sic] occasioned by designing men, for political or sinister purpose; but they certainly owe it to themselves to inquire if it would be consistent with the elevated character they sustain, for them to refuse to put a stop to the evils referred to, since they alone can do it, by relinquishing the institution which has caused them.

"This committee cannot but come to the conclusions that the Masons owe it to the community, to themselves, and to sound principles, now to discontinue the Masonic institutions."

I have also a little pamphlet eontaining five letters written by a former President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, between August 26th and November 28th, 1832, urging upon Masons the voluntary abandonment of their order. (It has been generally forgotten that John Quincy Adams was one year the Anti-Masonic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts.)

Massachusetts followed on and an investigating committee was appointed which reported in public document, House No. 73, in 1834.

This was surely the winter of our discontent. Memorials were presented to the Legislature signed by many thousand of our citizens "praying for a full investigation into the nature, language, ceremonies and form of rehearsing extra-judicial oaths in Masonie bodies, and if found to be such as the Memorialists described them, that a law be passed prohibiting the future administration of Masonic and such other extra-judicial oaths as tend to weaken the sanction of civil oaths in courts of justice; and praying also for a repeal of the Charter granted by this Commonwealth to the Grand Lodge of Massaehusetts. "

The printed documents state the memorial was signed among others by E. Porter, Leonard Woods, Moses Stuart, Thomas H. Skinner, and other citizens of Andover. The first three were Professors in Andover Theologicai Seminary, and I think Skinner was principal of what was ealled the Free School in the North Parish, now North Andover.

• Professor Porter was particularly noted for his kindness and consideration for a black but comely faithful domestic for thirty years, and a stone in the graveyard on the hill says she died in full Christian hope.
• Leonard Woods was the leader of the Andover Theological Seminary, dying in 1846. He it was who conceivecl the idea of the American Board of Foreign Missions and who prayed in the woods where there is a commemorative table erected at Rabbit's Pond.
• Moses Stuart was his life long associate and friend. These men made the greatness of Andover Theological Seminary, now unfortunately a thing of the past, but St. Matthew's and Masonry, which they tried their hardest to kill, go marching on.

These men were widely known and had an influence much beyond that which ordinarily comes to theological professors and I have always felt it rvas largely due to their leadership in the popular attaek on Masonry.

The points of attack are well shown by my quotations as to extra-judicial oaths, the character of the oaths themselves, the brother-protection sworn to above country and above church or law, and above all their political activities.

Masonic Lodges have always been attached to armies from earliest times. The Roman Legionary Lodges in England put the square and compasses on the great hall built to keep the Scots back, and Lodges were attached to British troops in the colonies and to Colonial troops in the French wars. John Hancock was made a Mason in such a Lodge, Quebec Lodge, in 1760. (John Hancock affiliated with St. Andrew's Lodge in 1?62, and the records say he was made in Quebec. It may have been in an army Lodge; as there were probably at least two such among the Massachusetts troops. Our information on this poiiit is very slight. The editor of the volume published by the Lodge of St. Andrew on its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary thinks Hancock was made in St. Andrew's Lodge of Quebec.)

In the Revolution the American Union, Lodge was chartered by St. John's Grand Lodge and when with the army near West Point its records show that Brother General George Washington and part of his staff visited the Lodge. I love to think of this and also of Captain Hall, a lieutenant on the Ranger and Bon Homme Richard, under John Paul Jones, who was a Mason, and to think that perhaps a Lodge was convened under the shadow of Albion's Hills.

Our Revolutionary forbears were Masons. The Masonic Lodges lr.ere hotbeds of revolution and the organizations were used to the limit for revolutionary purposes, and thus naturally our country started its course as a ship of state under }fasonic influence. The claim was in the 1830's that this influence had grown and so had the order. That the order was no longer the approved institution of Washington, Hancock, and their like, but was full of inferior men, that it was political to keep Masons in office, etc. To a large extent this seems to have been true, and anyway this movement against Masonry culminated in 1835 and almost all Masons who were candidates for political office were defeated.

This is the world into which St. Matthew's was ushered in 1822 and through which it lived. The majority of its sister Lodges succumbed.

Worshipful Brother Merrill Pettingill kept the charter buried in his cellar in 1836, 1837, and 1838. Annual meetings were the only ones held. They probabty did not dare meet any oftener.

Three men are remarkable at this time, not only as Masons, but in every walk of life, Master Pettingill, above referred to, and two brothers, John and Peter Smith. John Smith, ordinarily known in my youth as Boss John, was the older and he was Master of St. Matthew's in 1828 and 1829. Peter Smith, his younger brother, was Master in 1829 to 1832. Then came Pettingill for a second time, and the four years of trouble 1832 to 1836, and then again John Smith 1835 and 1836, and then Pettingill again for a third time in 1836 to 1844. At a later date undeterminable, Pettingill moved to East Boston and true to his faith was instrumental in the founding of a Masonic Lodge there and was its first Master. (Pettingill was one of ten men who held the first Masonic meeting in East Boston, and a petitioner for the Dispensation which was issued December 18, 1845, to Mt. Tabor Lodge. Ephraim Cunningham was Master under Dispensation and appears to have been its first Charter Master, The Lodge, according to the Grand Lodge records, was constituted at some date not specified between December 28, 1846, and March 10, 1847. Pettingill was Master from May 20, 1847, to November 18, 1847, the date of the Annual Meeting. Cunningham re igned to remove to Washington, D. C. Pettingill was elected an Honorary Member, February 19, 1852, but for some reason was suspended Deember 5, 1861. He died April 15, 1869.)

These three men carried on through all attacks and aclversities. Unfortunately little is known of Pettingill. John Smith came from Brechin, Scotland, in 1816, to Medway, Mass., and was employed as a journeyman machinist. He had two fellow employees, Joseph Falkner and Warren Richardson, who were Andover men. I am unable to determine whether or not they were Masons.

These three in 1822 rvent into business together to make machinery ancl started in Plymouth, but moved their business to Andover in 1824. It is evident that Smith was close to Andover through his partners before his business was brought here. It is also strange that his partners were not associated with him as Charter members of the Lodge, if they were Masons.

Peter was John's younger brother, and came over from Scotland in 1822 and went to work in the machine shop at Plymouth and apparently came to Andover when the business was moved here.

What must have been the atmosphere of the town with the great and powerful Professors Woods and Stuart and undoubtedly all the social, business, and church power arrayed against St. Matthew's Lodge, and the indomitable will of the two Smiths struggling to get a business start, and Pettingill secretly preserving and practicing Masonic rites, true to their oaths to preserve the mysteries and secrets and pass them on to you and future generations eomplete and exact?

Worshipful Brother Holmes of St. Matthew's Lodge, has collected with great pains, accuracy and research all the facts of our history. His work ought to be preserved and encouraged. He most generously gave me the benefit of his material.

It is remarkable how meager is the information obtainable about Masons from the records of the Lodge and what Iittle care is taken to pass on to the future most desirable information. We never appreciate this until an attempt is made as now to give some historical account of what happened one hundred years ago. I hope St. Matthew's Lodge will take the steps necessary to protect and preserve its existing records and that a complete reeord of every initiate will be prepared and kept, giving his ancestry, his business, his marriage, and that it wili be made the duty of every committee on resolutions on the death of a Brother to prepare rvith care a biography to be made. a part of the Lodge records.

I have for some years felt a call to arouse in Masons an appreciation of their sacred duty as the depository of the oldest inspired truth in the world. May it please God if I am able to inspire in your breasts any appreciation of the divine origin and miraculous life of Masonry and that you will at our altar renew your vows to preserve the same intact and pass the vow on to future generations pure and undefiled.

OTHER

• 1825 (Petition to remove to North Parish; III-563)
• 1825 (Petition to remove to North Parish; IV-2, IV-26)
• 1856 (Extensive report on jurisdictional dispute, VI-37)
• 1922 (Participation in Lawrence corner stone laying, 1922-105)

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MEMORIALS

GILBERT BARNARD 1818-1858

• MM 1850, St. Matthew's

Died in Andover, Mass., on the 5th day of June, Brother Gilbert Barnard ; and at the first regular communication of St. Matthew's Lodge, of which he was a member, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :—

• Whereas, The Brethren of St. Matthew's Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, learn with deep regret the demise of our lamented Brother, Gilbert Barnard, that he has been called from earthly labor to partake, we trust, of the blessings of the celestial Lodge, whose Great Master ever liveth; and while we deplore his loss amongst us, be it
• Resolved, That the same heartfelt sympathy experienced for our departed Brother be extended to his bereaved family, who have thus sustained an irreparable loss; and that in our condolations we would assure them that his memory is an evergreen planted in our hearts; and of our hope, that like as the holly survives the frosts of winter, so he surmounts the decay of nature, and stands among the accepted before the throne of God, where we all hope to meet.
• Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the Freemasons' Monthly Magazine, and a copy transmitted to the family of our deceased Brother.

M. Sands, Sec'y St. M. L.
Andover, June 24th, 1853.

EASTMAN SANBORN 1800-1859

• MM 1825, Plymouth
• Member of St. Matthew's from 1844

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XIX, No. 4, February 1860, Page 127:

Andover, Dec. 26, 1859.

Br. Moore—

Sir, — The following Resolutions were adopted by St. Matthew's Lodge, of this place, and ordered to be drawn up and forwarded to the Freemasons' Magazine, Boston, for insertion :—

At a special communication of St. Matthew's Lodge, Thursday, Dec. 22d, the following resolutions were adopted :—

• Whereas, an all-wise Providence has seen fit in his wisdom to remove from our midst our much esteemed and worthy Brother D. Eastman Sanborn, and, whereas, a proper respect to his memory deserves a suitable expression of feeling from this Lodge, .
• Resolved, That while we bow with submission to the decree of an all-wise Providence which called him hence, and sincerely and deeply deplore his loss, as that of a warm-hearted friend and true and faithful Brother we have the consolation, that the loss to us is gain to him, who has gone to join that celestial Lodge above, where the Supreme Architect of the Universe presides.
• Resolved, That we tender to the widow and relatives of our deceased Brother our warmest sympathy, and every service that may tend to alleviate them in their sorrow, or comfort them in their affliction.
• Resolved, That the furniture of the Lodge be draped in mourning for the space of thirty days, as a mark of respect to our deceased Brother.
• Resolved, That the Secretary enter these resolutions upon the records of the Lodge, forward a copy to the family of the df ceased, and a copy to the Freemasons' Magazine, Boston, for publication.

M. Sands, Secretary.

• Ancestry.com page

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GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

• Stephen A. Corthell, DDGM, District 12, 2011, 2012
• Frank G. Holt, III, DDGM, District 11 (Lawrence), 1997, 1998
• George Keith, DDGM, District 11 (Lawrence), 1952, 1953; N
• John B. Leitch, DDGM, District 11 (Lawrence), 1980, 1981
• Albert W. Lowe, DDGM, District 11 (Lawrence), 1924, 1925; Memorial
• Albert S. Manning, DDGM, District 10 (Lawrence), 1902, 1903; SN
• Malcolm B. McTernen, DDGM, District 11 (Lawrence), 1940, 1941; N
• Frederick N. Nowell, III, DDGM, District 11 (Lawrence), 2001, 2002
• Carleton E. Shulze, DDGM, District 11 (Lawrence), 1964, 1965; SN
• Arthur W. Smith, DDGM, District 11 (Lawrence), 1988, 1989; SN

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DISTRICTS

1822: District 2

1835: District 3

1849: District 2

1854: District 3

1867: District 6 (Newburyport)

1883: District 10 (Lawrence)

1911: District 11 (Lawrence)

1927: District 11 (Lawrence)

2003: District 12

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LINKS

Lodge web site

Massachusetts Lodges