YRCharterSummary
From MasonicGenealogy
YORK RITE CHARTER SUMMARY
The following tables list charters granted in Massachusetts. They do not include charters granted by either Massachusetts Grand Lodge in other colonies or states that have since come under the authority of other Grand Lodges (such as Connecticut or Maine).
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Status | Meaning |
Charters active under the appropriate Grand Body, in the possession of the particular body | |
Charters no longer active, lost, destroyed or location unknown | |
Charters surrendered or revoked, not in possession of the Grand body. | |
Charters surrendered or revoked, in possession of the Grand body. |
ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS
Chapter | Location | Status | Grand High Priest | Charter Date | Notes | St. Andrew's | Boston | Organized before the Grand Chapter | 01/18/1769 | Notes on mergers |
King Cyrus | Newburyport | Organized before the Grand Chapter | 06/28/1790 | Notes on mergers | |
St. John's (1) | Groton | GHP | 10/12/1804 | Notes on mergers | |
King Solomon's | Charlton | GHP | 09/06/1805 | Notes on mergers | |
Washington | Salem | GHP | 01/09/1811 | Notes on mergers | |
King Hiram's (1) | Greenwich | GHP | 06/13/1815 | Notes on mergers | |
Adoniram | Attleboro | GHP | 10/04/1816 | Notes on mergers | |
Morning Star | Springfield | GHP | 06/10/1817 | Notes on mergers | |
Rising Sun | Nantucket | GHP | 06/09/1818 | Notes on mergers | |
Franklin | Greenfield | GHP | 12/07/1818 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Paul's | Boston | GHP | 12/10/1818 | Notes on mergers | |
Mount Zion | Stoughton | GHP | 12/12/1820 | Notes on mergers | |
Thomas | Princeton | GHP | 12/11/1821 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Lebanon | Medfield | GHP | 12/14/1824 | Notes on mergers | |
Northampton | Northampton | GHP | 06/25/1825 | Notes on mergers | |
Bethlehem | New Bedford | GHP | 01/15/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
Concord | Concord | GHP | 03/25/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Horeb | Lowell | GHP | 04/08/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Luke | Marblehead | GHP | 06/01/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
Sutton (1) | Sutton | GHP | 09/26/1826 | Notes on mergers | |
St. John's (2) | East Boston | GHP | 12/12/1852 | Notes on mergers | |
Shekinah | Chelsea | GHP | 12/27/1855 | Notes on mergers | |
Orient | Hyannis | GHP | 09/09/1856 | Notes on mergers | |
Pentucket | Haverhill | GHP | 12/09/1856 | Notes on mergers | |
Berkshire | Pittsfield | GHP | 12/07/1858 | Notes on mergers | |
King Solomon's (2) | Warren | GHP | 12/07/1858 | Notes on mergers | |
Keystone | Foxboro | GHP | 06/12/1860 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Sinai | Lawrence | GHP | 09/11/1860 | Notes on mergers | |
Pilgrim | Abington | GHP | 12/10/1861 | Notes on mergers | |
Cambridge | Cambridge | GHP | 12/13/1862 | Notes on mergers | |
Waverly | Melrose | GHP | 03/10/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
Mystic | Medford | GHP | 06/09/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Matthew's | South Boston | GHP | 06/09/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
Sutton (2) | Lynn | GHP | 09/09/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
Hampden | Palmer | GHP | 12/09/1863 | Notes on mergers | |
Fall River | Fall River | GHP | 06/07/1864 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Mark's | Taunton | GHP | 12/13/1864 | Notes on mergers | |
Waltham | Waltham | GHP | 12/13/1864 | Notes on mergers | |
Corinthian | Adams | GHP | 12/13/1864 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Vernon | Roxbury | GHP | 03/07/1865 | Notes on mergers | |
Mt. Holyoke | Holyoke | GHP | 06/13/1865 | Notes on mergers | |
Doric | Southbridge' | GHP | 12/11/1865 | Notes on mergers | |
Union | Athol | GHP | 03/13/1866 | Notes on mergers | |
St. Stephen's | Dorchester | GHP | 03/13/1866 | Notes on mergers | |
Menotomy | Arlington | GHP | 06/12/1866 | Notes on mergers | |
Houghton | Marlborough | GHP | 06/11/1867 | Notes on mergers | |
Isle of the Sea | Nantucket | GHP | 09/10/1867 | Notes on mergers | |
Parker | Natick | GHP | 03/10/1868 | Notes on mergers | |
Signet | Charlestown | GHP | 06/08/1868 | Notes on mergers | |
Samoset | Plymouth | GHP | 12/08/1868 | Notes on mergers | |
Joseph Warren | Provincetown | GHP | 06/08/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Clinton | Clinton | GHP | 09/07/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Newton | Newtonville | GHP | 08/07/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Satucket | Brockton | GHP | 09/07/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Sylvester Baxter | West Harwich | GHP | 12/07/1869 | Notes on mergers | |
Norfolk | Hyde Park | GHP | 05/17/1870 | Notes on mergers | |
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