Washington
WASHINGTON LODGE
Location: Roxbury; Lexington (1960)
Chartered By: Paul Revere
Charter Date: 03/14/1796 II-83
Precedence Date: 03/14/1796
Current Status: Active
NOTES
Washington Lodge was originally chartered in "Boston Highlands", or Roxbury, and holds a Paul Revere charter. It is named for President and Brother George Washington, who was already something of an icon in Massachusetts Freemasonry (a copy of the original Book of Constitutions was sent to him in 1793, and his correspondence appears in the Proceedings.) During 1808, a number of members of this lodge ran afoul of the Grand Lodge by making "improper use" of its charter to confer unsanctioned degrees in Masonry within a body called the Washington Encampment; a copy of a recantation appears on Page II-400, in which 19 brethren chose to "abandon and renounce" all that this organization had done. The charter was restored to these brethren in December of that year.
YEARS
1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809
DISTRICTS
1803: District 1 (Boston)
