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TO DO

This is an open-ended project, but there are specific tasks that are either in progress or in need of attention. If you'd like to work on one, please sign up below.

LARGE TASKS

• Reformatting all Lodge pages by sorting out Proceedings References.
  • Walter (hotc1733).
  • Master page: Massachusetts Lodges main page
  • Status: ongoing.
    • Pages with no preceding symbol are complete
    • Pages with a preceding • are missing something, usually a Past Master list
    • Pages with a preceding x are usually pre-1792 lodges for which I have little information

• Year pages from 1755 to 1791.
  • Walter (hotc1733).
  • Master page: Massachusetts Years main page
  • Status: ongoing.
    • Pages with a ★ have been updated
    • Pages with a ☆ have the correct lodge listing, but nothing else
    • Pages with no symbol have only the Grand Master name and not much else

• Grand Constitutions (1953) updates and changes
  • needs attention
  • Master page: 1953 Grand Constitution
  • Status: changes incomplete; I stopped updating this in the mid-1970s.
    • Required: a look at the Proceedings from about 1975 to the present, with changes edited in according to the style given.

• Moore's Freemason's Monthly additions
  • Walter (hotc1733).
  • Master page: none in general; edicts linked from main Edicts page
  • Status: all relevant entries extracted from Volumes I-XIII, XXIV, XXV; XVII (Numbers 2 and 7-12); XVIII (Numbers 1, 3-5, 7-8, 10), XXVI-XXVII, XXX-XXXI pending
  • Required: must visit the GL Library with laptop and scanner for missing volumes

• Master Histories Page
  • Walter (hotc1733) to start, but I'd like help with scanning
  • In process.
  • I'm in the process of adding historical essays from the Proceedings, but this is a slow process. Anyone who would like to volunteer to scan material from the Proceedings and add it to a relevant lodge page history section (see, for example, St. Matthew's Centennial History, found in the 1922 Proceedings).
    • I have scanned all histories from 1922, 1941, 1944, and 1982 as they have come into my hands; I have PDF versions of the Proceedings from 1733-1905, as well as 1911, 1914-1919, and 2002-present, so they don't need attention. I have an OCR conversion program if the PDF doesn't allow select and copy/paste.

ONGOING TASKS

• Past Master Lists
  • everyone and anyone
  • Master page: PMs Needed master page
  • Status: See that page for lists of active lodges currently needed. There are numerous no longer active lodges that also need to be compiled.

• Pictures, particularly of Past Masters and Permanent Members
  • everyone and anyone
  • I only have a few lodges where I have PM pictures; anyone who can put together a set of pictures of Past Masters or distinguished Brothers is welcome to supply them and we'll get them put up.
  • A large number of Permanent Members have no pictures on their pages; on the people master page they are indicated by the absence of a © symbol.

• Biographies of Permanent Members
  • everyone and anyone
  • By comparison there are relatively few Permanent Members (deceased) lacking a biography or memorial. However, there are a fair number of living Permanent Members with no text on their page (they lack a ¶ symbol next to their names).

• Trowel Article Index
  • anyone who wants to volunteer
  • Master page: Trowel Index
  • Complete through 2009. I'd really like to scan some of this material.

UPDATES AND MISSING INFO

NECROLOGIES

• Rt. Wor. George D. Hammond, Master of Concordia (George H. Taber) Lodge in 1886-1888, DDGM New Bedford 26, 1902.
• Rt. Wor. Harold J. Kaswell, Master of Moses Michael Hays in 1964, DDGM Boston 2, 1970-1971.
• Rt. Wor. Celian H. Abbott, Master of Artisan Lodge 1934-1935, DDGM Barre 13, 1942-1943.
• Rt. Wor. Warren C. Wilson, Master of Athol Lodge 1967, DDGM Barre 13, 1982-1983

PAST MASTERS

CURRENT OR MERGED LODGES: AFTER 1880

• Artisan 1967
• Boylston 1879-1920, 1923-1938, 1940, 1942, 1944-1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955-1957, 1959, 1963, 1970-1972, 1978, 1980-1983, 1993-present
• Evening Star 1971-1984, 1986-present
• Faith 1968-1977, 1980
• Hesperia 1971-1984, 1986-1996, 1998-2004
• Huntington 1948, 1994, 1995
• Indian Orchard-Shawmont 1987-1997
• Ionic (Taunton) 1993-1998
• Isaiah Thomas 1992-2004
• Loyalty 1972-1974, 1981-1983
• Mechanics' 1880-1884, 1890-1896, 1899-1902, 1904-1917, 1920, 1921, 1923-1936, 1938-1940, 1943, 1945, 1947-1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1992-2004
• Meridian Sun 1945, 1946, 1949, 1954, 1956-1958, 1960, 1976, 1996-2003
• Mizpah 1973-1981
• Montacute 1861, 1862, 1865-1871, 1873-1885, 1888-1894, 1900-1906, 1908-1917, 1919, 1921, 1923-1929, 1931-1935, 1938-1943, 1945-1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1974, 1979, 1994-2003
• Mountain 1956-1970, 1972-1976, 1978-1984, 1986-1992, 1994-present
• Mount Moriah (Westfield) needs dates for the list
• Mount Sugar Loaf 1961, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1980, 1981, 2008-2012
• Mount Tom 1994-2001
• Mount Tom 1989-1997
• Occidental 1992-present
• Quaboag 1993-present
• Republican 1969-1973, 1981, 1983, 1993, 1995

CURRENT OR MERGED LODGES: 1880 AND BEFORE

• Aberdour 1867-1870
• Blackstone River 1875
• Cincinnatus 1814-1820, 1823
• Constellation 1801-1825, 1827-1831, 1834-1845
• Lodge of Eleusis 1865, 1866, 1938
• Evening Star 1803-1820
• Franklin 1853-1861
• Fraternal 1857-1860
• King David 1800-1848, 1853-1859, 1863-1870, 1872-1873
• Marine 1830-1833
• Morning Star 1795, 1796, 1798, 1803-1821, 1824-1835, 1855, 1860, 1863, 1866-1870
• Mount Zion 1835, 1845, 1850-1853
• Mystic 1811-1834, 1848-1858, 1862-1864, 1868-1869, 1874, 1876-1879
• Phoenician 1869, 1870
• Pythagorean 1861-1868, 1874-1879
• Republican 1860
• Siloam 1866, 1867, 1872
• Social Harmony 1823-1833, 1856-1868, 1870-1873, 1876-1879
• St. Alban's 1874, 1875
• St. Paul (South Boston) 1847-1854, 1857-1868
• Trinity 1864-1868
• Tuscan 1865-1868
• The Tyrian 1868, 1874-1878
• Warren 1832-1870
• Wilder 1859-1868, 1876, 1877

DEFUNCT LODGES

• Aconcagua 1872-1880
• Adams 1797-1821 (original charter)
• Benjamin Franklin 1855-1859
• Charity (Mendon) 1803-1816, 1818-1834
• Clinton 1831-1834
• Fayette 1797-1801, 1803-1830
• Federal 1792, 1793, 1795-1801, 1804, 1806, 1807, 1809-1830
• Humanity 1811-1813, 1815-1834
• Pacific (1801) 1827-1834
• St. Peter's 1795-1797, 1799, 1800, 1808-1810, 1817-1835

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