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TRINITY LODGE
Location: Lancaster
Chartered By: Joseph Webb
Charter Date: 01/30/1778 I-264; see also II-36
Precedence Date: 01/30/1778
Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault. No record after 1830; forfeited 1859, VI-259; see dispensation for the subsequent Trinity Lodge.
PAST MASTERS
- Michael Newhall, 1778
- Edmund Heard, 1779-1783, 1789-1793 resigned from office
- Timothy Whiting, Jr., 1784, 1785, 1787, 1793, 1794, 1797
- Ephraim Carter, 1786
- Abijah Wyman, 1788
- John Maynard, 1795, 1796, 1801
- Abraham Haskell, 1798
- Moses Thomas, 1799
- Amos Johnson, 1800
- after 1800?
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
VISITS BY GRAND MASTER
HISTORY
- 1933 (History of Old Trinity Lodge, 1933-397)
OTHER
- 1820 (Report on delinquency, III-295)
- 1821 (Report on delinquency, III-341)
- 1828 (Report on delinquency, IV-147)
- 1829 (Report on delinquency, IV-170)
- 1830 (Report on delinquency, IV-206)
HISTORY
RECALL OF CHARTER, SEPTEMBER 1784
From Proceedings, Page I-320, Massachusetts Grand Lodge:
Voted, That Trinity Lodge held in the town of Lancaster having omitted paying their dues and in other Respects fail'd to comply with the Constitutions of Masonry as universally acknowledged be and hereby is required forthwith to return their Charter granted by the authority of this Grd. Lo. to the Gd. Secy. of the said Gd. Lo., that they may no longer (be) held or be convened under the same untill such injunctions and Rules as by the Constitutions of Masonry and their Special Instructions are made & provided shall be fully and faithfully complied with.
Voted, That a Similar Vote to the above be also wrote to Berkshire and Amity Lodges.
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- Isaiah Thomas, Senior Grand Warden 1795-1797, Grand Master 1803-1805, 1809
- Timothy Whiting, DDGM, District 5 (Framingham, West and North), 1803-1805, 1809-1812; Senior Grand Warden (Mass. Independent Grand Lodge), 1787-1788
DISTRICTS
1803: District 5 (Framingham, West and North)
