L. B. charges the entrance fee of Christopher Routh.

1733, December 3, Philadelphia. Entries in L. B. indicate a meeting.
1733, December 13, London—~Georgia. The minutes of the Communication of the Grand Lodge of England record:
“Then the Deputy Grand Master opened to the Lodge the affairs of planting the new Colony of Georgia in America, and having sent an account in print of the nature of such plantation to all the Lodges, informed the Grand Lodge that the Trustees had to Nathaniel Blackerby, Esq., and to himself commissions under their Common Seal to collect the charity of this Society towards enabling the Trustees to send distressed
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brethren to Georgia where they may be comfortably provided for.
Proposed that it be strenuously recommended by the Masters and Wardens of regular Lodges to make a gen- erous collection amounst all their members for that purpose.
White being seconded by Bro. Rogers Holland, Esq. (one of the said Trustees) who opened the nature of the settlement, and by Sir William Keith, Bart, who was many years governor of Pennsylvania, by Dr. Desagulier, Lord Southwell, Bro. Blackerby and many other very worthy Brethren, it was recommended ac: cordingly.”
It is known that poor families were sent to Georgia and that the Fraternity contributed toward their relief. The terms of the vote are to send poor brethren to Georgia, not to help any one already there.
X Q.C.A. 235. Mackey 1518. See 1730, supra, and 1735, after October 30, énfra.
1733, December 22, Norfolk, Virginia.
The learned R.W. Brother John Dove, of Virginia, contended that the Royal Exchange Lodge at Norfolk, Va., was established on this date. On several official lists it so appears, being first found upon the list for 1754, near its close, as No. 236. In all lists, however, it is with the 1753 Lodges, following No. 235 accredited to December 20, 1753, and preceding No. 237 ac- credited to February 9, 1754. It was carried on the lists until the 1813 revision becoming numbers 173, Bevel is bt and 102.
OL: L.M.R. 101. L.H.B. 48.
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It is evident that 1753 is correct, and that 1733 is an error.
IV Gould, 378.
The information which Brother Dove had led him to suspect at one time that Blandford Lodge at Peters- burg, Va., was founded about this time by the Grand Lodge of Scotland. He was misinformed. Blandford Lodge is given in the Scottish list as No. 82, whereas Saint Andrew’s Lodge at Boston (1756) is No. 81.
P.C. (1st Edinburgh Ed. 1761) Appendix 112. Const. G. L. of Scotland (1852 Ed.) 63.
The correct date for Blandford Lodge is probably March 9, 1756. In later editions of his history Brether Dove assigned it to 1757.
1733, December 28, Boston.
The Feast of Saint John the Evangelist was cele- brated in Boston and James Gordon was chosen Master of the First Lodge.
1 Mass. 4.
1733/4, January 7, Philadelphia.