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UNITED STATES LODGE
Chartered by Massachusetts Grand Lodge.
Location: Danvers
Chartered By: Joseph Webb
Charter Date: 05/01/1778 I-265
Precedence Date: 05/01/1778
Current Status: unknown.
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HISTORIES
NOTES IN THE CENTENARY HISTORY OF AMITY LODGE, SEPTEMBER 1963
From Proceedings, Page 1963-220:
The Revolution was under way and perhaps because of this the Masons then living in town felt the need of their own Lodge. One was formed and was named United States Lodge in honor of the new nation then taking shape. However, United States Lodge had a brief and apparently stormy history until it was "erased from the Grand Lodge books" in 1788. All tangible evidence of the Lodge, charter, jewels, regalia and records, was consumed when the home of Richard Skidmore at the Port was destroyed by fire in 1805.
