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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, 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 There are numerous no longer active lodges that also need to be compiled.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
- Aberdour 1862-1870
- Algonquin 1967, 1974
- Artisan 1974, 1985
- Athelstan 1867, 1868, 1967, 1985
- Aurora 1951, 1986
- Bay State 1879, 1909-1911, 1913, 1914, 1922-1929, 1932-1938, 1940-1046, 1952, 1953, 1955-1962, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1972-1984, 1986-1996, 1998-2004
- Blackstone River 1875, 1967
- Cincinnatus 1814-1820, 1823, 1967
- Constellation 1801-1825, 1827-1831, 1834-1845
- Damascus 1942, 1943, 1946-1964, 1967, 1969, 1971-1974
- Lodge of Eleusis 1937, 1967
- Eureka 1858-1868, 1951
- Ezra 1967-1974
- Franklin 1853-1861
- Fraternal 1941
- Galilean 1969-1974
- Granite 1967
- Ionic (Easthampton) 1867-1879
- Jordan 1820
- 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, 1967
- Mount Carmel Before 1860, 1863-1869, 1872-1873, 1876-1879, 1967
- Mount Sinai 1967
- Mount Zion 1806-1810, 1813-1816, 1818-1822, 1826, 1827, 1835, 1840, 1845-1847, 1850-1854, 1859-1862, 1864, 1865, 1869, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1967
- Mystic 1811-1834, 1848-1858, 1862-1864, 1866-1869, 1874, 1876-1879
- North Star 1872, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1879
- Phoenician 1869-1875, 1967
- Pythagorean 1861-1868, 1874-1879
- Quinebaug 1860-1869, 1967
- Quinsigamond 1967
- Quittacus 1967
- Realty 1967
- Social Harmony 1823-1833, 1856-1868, 1870-1873, 1876-1879, 1967, 1973
- Sojourners 1931
- St. John's (Concepción) 1907-1964
- St. Paul (Ayer) 1803-1806, 1814-1826, 1830-1832, 1836-1843, 1850-1852, 1870, 1874-1875, 1878, 1967
- St. Paul (South Boston) 1847-1854, 1857-1868, 1876
- Theodore Roosevelt 1967
- Trinity 1864-1868, 1872, 1874-1885, 1888-1900, 1903-1928, 1930-1931, 1933-1954, 1956-1963, 1965-1967, 1970, 1972, 1974
- Tuscan 1865-1868, 1967
- The Tyrian 1868, 1873-1878, 1967
- Unity 1967
- Warren 1832-1873, 1967
- Wilder 1859-1868, 1875-1877
- Zerubbabel 1952, 1954, 1956-1958, 1960-1969, 1971-1974
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
- William Whiting 1967