CHAPTER XXV

CONCLUSION
For the statements of fact hereinbefore contained the original sources of information have been examined. References by way of citation have been included which will lead the reader to those original sources of informa- tion if he desires to pursue his inquiries further and verify the facts for himself.
Little probative value has been given to the text of any author later than Preston (1772), except only where he has actually quoted the language of the authority upon which the statement has been made. I have assumed the correctness of the actual quotations in Mackey’s “History of Freemasonry in South Carolina” ; and in McClenachan’s and Lang’s Histories of Freema- sonry in New York; in Sachse’s “Benjamin Franklin as a Freemason” and ‘Old Masonic Lodges of Pennsyl- vania’”’; and in some other works cited.
A brief summary of some of the principal events in the introduction of Freemasonry into the western hemi- sphere may be made as follows:
1. Freemasonry was introduced into the Colonies of North America at an unascertained period in the early part of the 18th century.
2. These earliest Lodges were “occasional,” meeting “according to the Old Customs.” They had no charters or warrants, but met as other Lodges had met prior to
the organization of the Grand Lodge system. 379
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3. The first Freemason definitely known to be in the western hemisphere was Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1705.
4. The earliest use in America in writing or in print of the word ‘‘Freemason” (so far as now known) was in the Boston News Letter for January 5, 1718/9.
5. The first Lodge meeting in the western hemisphere, the knowledge of which is supported by something more than pure tradition, was probably held in King’s Chapel, Boston, in 1720.
6. The first known American newspaper account re- lating to Freemasonry was published in Boston, May Wiad Seg
7. The first deputation for a Provincial Grand Master in the western hemisphere was that issued June 5, 1730, by the Duke of Norfolk to Daniel Coxe, appointing him Provincial Grand Master for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for two years. There is no evidence that this deputation was ever exercised.
8. The first American newspaper item concerning a Lodge meeting in the western hemisphere (so far as now known) was published in the Philadelphia Gazette for December 8, 1730.
9. The oldest American Lodge account-book known is “Libr B,” beginning with June 24, 1731, belonging to a Lodge meeting “according to the Old Customs’”—that is to say, without charter or warrant, in Philadelphia.
10. The first known Warrant, Deputation, Commis- sion, or other authority, issuing from the Grand Lodge of England or its Grand Master (or from any other Masonic organization or officer, for that matter) to be exercised in America was that (April 13, 1733) by vir-
CONCLUSION 381
tue of which Henry Price founded a Provincial Grand Lodge in Boston, July 30, 1733.
11. The first regular and duly constituted Lodge in America was the First Lodge in Boston, July 30, 1733.
12. The first Lodge in America to be registered by the Grand Lodge of England in the official list of Lodges was the First Lodge at Boston.
13. The first Masonic officer in the Western World to have jurisdiction over the whole of North America was Henry Price, whose authority was extended thus broadly in August, 1734.
14. The first Masonic book published in America was Franklin’s Reprint (Philadelphia, 1734) of Anderson’s Constitutions.
15. The first exercise by any Masonic authority in America of the right to grant provincial Masonic powers was the appointment of Benjamin Franklin as “Pro- vincial Grand Master of the Province of Pennsylvania,” February 21, 1734/5, by Henry Price, “Grand Master of His Majesty’s Dominions in North America.”
16. Regular authority was granted for the establish- ment of duly constituted Freemasonry in New England in 1733; in all North America in 1734; in Pennsyl- vania in 1734; in South America in 1735; in South Carolina, Georgia and New Hampshire in 1735 or 1736; in the West Indies and New York in 1737; in Antigua and Nova Scotia in 1737/8; in Jamaica and St. Chris- topher in 1739; in the Barbados in 1739/40; in Ber- muda, 1742; in Newfoundland, 1746; in San Domingo, 1748; and in Rhode Island, 1749.
17. By the close of the first half of the century not less than forty Lodges had sprung from the Provincial
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Grand Lodge in Boston. Others had been warranted direct from London.
18. The first anti-Masonic movement known upon this side of the Atlantic was successfully directed against the Fraternity in Pennsylvania, beginning in 1737.
19. The earliest record book still preserved of any Lodge in the Western Hemisphere is that of the Masters Lodge in Boston, beginning December 22, 1738.
20. The existing records of the First Lodge in Boston begin on December 27, 1738.
21. The known records of St. John’s Lodge of Ports- mouth, N.H., begin October 31, 1739.
22. The known records of Tun Tavern Lodge at Phil- adelphia begin June 28, 1748.
23. The contemporaneous records of the Provincial Grand Lodge at Boston begin April 15, 1750, and Massa- chusetts has Grand Lodge records continuously from that date to this, being the oldest Grand Lodge records known in the western hemisphere.
24. The first procession of a Masonic Lodge in public in America, now known, was that of the Lodge at Charleston, South Carolina, on May 26, 1737.
25. The first public procession in America definitely known to be in regalia was that in Boston, June 24, 1737.
26. The first time that a Lodge in America is known to have attended church in due form was at the Bar- bados, June 24, 1740.
27. The first record of the construction of a Masonic hall in the western hemisphere is dated April 4, 1744, and concerns the Lodge room of “The Great Lodge at St. John’s in Antigua.”
28. The earliest copy now extant of a sermon deliv-
CONCLUSION 383
ered to the Fraternity is that of the Rev. Bro. Brockwell at Christ Church, Boston, preached at the festival of St. John the Evangelist in 1749.
29. The Freemasonry in America of the period dealt with is that emanating from the Grand Lodge of Eng- land, organized in 1717, known as ‘‘Moderns.”’ Just as this period closes, the Grand Lodge known as the “Antients” began: to exercise its influence in America.
30. The leading men of the Colonies in mercantile, military and civil life were in these early days members of the Fraternity. Illustrations of this have appeared in the various sketches of some of the principal officers which will be found in this volume.
31. The ritual was in a more or less fluid condition during all of this period. See Chapter 24.
32. Henry Price was, as he said himself, the ‘Founder of Duly Constituted Freemasonry in America.”
33. The Grand Lodge founded by Henry Price, July 30, 1733, has maintained a continuous existence from that day to this. The same is true of the First Lodge in Boston, now St. John’s Lodge. These two bodies, over one hundred and ninety years old at the present writing, have successfully weathered all storms of war and persecution. The Grand Lodge of Massa- chusetts and its eldest child are, therefore, entitled to precedence as the two oldest existing organizations of Freemasons in the western hemisphere. J am not aware of any Masonic body in America existing at any time during the first half of the eighteenth century which is able, by unassailable evidence, conclusively to demon- strate unbroken continuity from its establishment until to-day except the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. In
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all other cases there are still broken links in the chain of proof. It is my fervent hope that future research will weld many broken links.
As an encouragement to other workers in similar fields, let me say that at one time it was believed that the Grand Lodge founded by Henry Price suspended opera- tions from 1775 until 1787.
16 M.F.M. 195.
By constant delving into the secrets of the past, the
error of that belief was shown by 1914.
1914 Mass. 273. And in the ten years since then I have found more facts as yet unpublished. ‘They are what lawyers call cumu- jative evidence,—interesting but not essential to the proof.
We have now learned how the seeds were sown in America for the birth and growth of Freemasonry. Its influence upon the establishment and development of the institutions of the United States does not so powerfully appear during the period treated by this book as it will when the Masonic history of the last half of the 18th century is adequately presented. A study of the tre- mendous influence which Freemasonry had in the pre- Revolutionary days, in the years of that war, and throughout the formative period of American institu- tions, will demonstrate that Freemasonry has exercised a greater influence upon the establishment and develop- ment of American civilization and the fundamentals of this Government than any other single institution.
Neither general historians nor the members of the Fraternity since the days of the first Constitutional Con- ventions have ever realized how much the United States
CONCLUSION 385
of America owes to Freemasonry, and how great a part it played in the birth of the nation and the establishment of the Landmarks of that civilization which has given to the citizens of this great land the liberty which they enjoy, and by indirection has guided the development of all civilization of the world in those countries where the accomplishments of war are not the w/tima thule of human endeavour.
We cannot fail profoundly to be interested to learn more of this institution during the eighteenth century, in order that the real facts may be presented to the world. When they are, Freemasonry in the United States will not only be prouder of its past than it is to-day, but— what is more vital—will be thoroughly impressed with its duty energetically to protect and preserve the free institutions of America which it was the privilege of our Masonic forebears to establish.
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INDEX
A. Q. C., see Abbreviations, p. xi Abbott, John, 99 Abercrombie, James, 324 Aberdour, Lord, 139 Aberry, Joseph, 313 Abraham, 19 Abraham, Plains of, 305 Acadia, 198 Account books, 30 Adams, John, 338, 345 Africa, 202 Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of, 198 Akins, John, 227 Aleppo, 206 Allen, W., 68, 69-70, 80, 274, 369 portrait of, 70 American Philosophical Society, 160 Amherst, General, 305 Amil, John, 274 Amsterdam, 153 “Ancients,” 200, 377, 383 Grand Lodge of the, 23 Anderson, Hugh, 244, 261, 269 Anderson, Rev. James, 29, 42, 555230 Anderson, R., 359 *“‘Anderson’s Constitutions,” 29, 34 Annapolis, Maryland, 71, 197 date of constitution of lodge in, 117 Annapolis, Nova Scotia, 43, 218 date of constitution of lodge
in, 117
Annapolis Royal, 198, 200, 218 *“Antients,” see “Ancients” Anti-masonry,
a constitution by the Pope against Freemasonry in 1738, 206
article in the Boston Evening- Post, 1751, 328
attitude of French court, 180
campaign by Philadelphians against, 191]
catechism against masonry in Paris and Rome, 1739, 221
exposé of, in Philadelphia, by Franklin, 60
first, in America, directed against Fraternity in Penn- sylvania, 382
in Avignon, causes formation of a new society, 277
in Lisbon, 274, 294
in Paris, 192
in Philadelphia, 191
in Poland, 226
in Vienna, 273
mob action against Masons in Holland, 153
procession by mock masons, 286
Antigua, 169, 187, 381
Antigua Lodge, 232
Baker’s Lodge, 218
Bassatee (Basseterre) Lodge, 232
Courthouse Lodge, 232
date of constitution of lodge in, 117
387
388
Antigua, Cont. first record of construction of Masonic hall in, 382 Grand Master ‘Tomlinson visits, and makes some Ma- sons, 20] letter to First Lodge in Bos- ton, 228 petition to Grand Lodge for a new lodge-room, 284 St. Mary’s Street Lodge, 232 Antigua Lodge, 232 Appy, John, 335 Arcana, 373 Archdall, 372 Arlington, 97 Assistance, Writs of, case of, 336 Ashton, Thomas, 274, 278 Atkins, John, 221 Atkinson, Mr., 303 Auchmuty, 344 Audibert, Phillip, see “O’de- bart” Austin, Capt. John, 367 Authorities, on Freemasonry, 28 Avignon, 277
Badger, Benj., 361 Baker, John, 158 Baker’s Lodge, 170, 218 Balcarras, Lord, 136 Ball, William, 265, 272 Baltimore, Lord, 61, 72 Banister v. Henderson, case of, 344 Barbados, 234, 381 Lodge in America attends church in due form for first time in, 382 St. Michael’s Lodge, 234, 238 Barnsley, Capt. Henry, 348
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Barons, see “Barrons, Benja- min” Barrons, Benjamin, 147, 155, ten Hy) Barons Letter, 38, 82, 90, 317 Bassatee Lodge, see “Basse- terre Lodge” Basseterre, 221 Basseterre Lodge, 232 Bastide, John Henry, 303 Batson, Thomas, 76, 78, 94, Sis) | Batter, Enas, 361, 363 Baulos, Fran’s, 350 Baxter, Thomas, 239 Bayard, Belthazer, see “Byard” Beaufort, Duke of, 75 Beckford, Ballinger, 294 Beginnings of Freemasonry, 19 Beker, Martin, 364 Belcher, Andrew, 52, 80, 88, 150) 157 Belcher, Jonathan, 49, 52, 94, Ll), 157, 200, 274382 21d 4212) acknowledgment of past fa- vors, from First Lodge, 255 appointment as Governor of the Jerseys, 320 first freemason known in western hemisphere, 380 letter from, to First Lodge in Boston, 321 Senior Freemason of Amer- ica, 49 visits Grand Lodge at Lon- don, 293 Bell, Henry, 59 letter of, vi
Belviel, 295
INDEX
Benjamin Franklin as a Free-
mason, 379
Bennett, Capt. John, 361, 363
Bennett, Capt. Joseph, 195, 196
Bermuda, 381 Beteilhe & Price, 209 Beteilhe, Francis, 33, 35, 81, mE OS eis ib 5) 15720161, 209, 214, 228 Beteilhe Manuscript, 36, 75, 81, S250, 112, 156) 317 facsimile of pages 4, 5 and 6 of, 85-87 facsimile of pages 13 and 14 of, 39, 40 Bethune, Nathaniel, 165 Bickford, Capt. Eliakim, 264 Bingham, James, 123 Binney, Capt. Paul, 324 Bishop, William, 262, 263 Bladwell, Charles, 150, 157 Blake, Thomas, 358 Blackerby, Nathaniel, 108 Blandford Lodge, 110 Blessington, Earl of, 200 Blyth, Robert, 269 Bogle, Capt. Thomas, 323 Bond, Thomas, 113 Boston, 37, 58, 66, 82, 101 account from Vienna of anti- masonic disturbance, 273 account of a festival celebra- tion done in verse, 223 a Grand Lodge formed by Henry Price, 80, 330 amendment of by-laws of First Lodge, 132 an account of a celebration of Festival of John the Bap- erat 222
389
Boston, Cont.
brethren in, first to be consti- tuted by regulation of 1721, 48
Bunch of Grapes Tavern, 130, 136
“By-laws” of Lodge, 104
celebration at First Lodge, and election of a Master, 113
celebration of festival by Grand Lodge, 364
Christ Church, 36
Constitution of First Lodge, date of, 90
contemporaneous records of Provincial Grand Lodge began April 13, 1750, 372
earliest traces of Freemasonry in, 48, 50
Exchange Tavern, 148
facsimile of list of members in 1736 of First Lodge, 159
fee for making raised, in First Lodge, 312
First Lodge in, see “First Lodge in Boston”
first newspaper account of Freemasonry published in, 380
“Free Masons Jewels” adver- tised, 298
Grand Master of Masons in, 1769, 35
Henry Price removed to, 55
item in Gazette for April 1, 1734, 111
letter to Boston Gazette, on secret societies, 215
Lodge of Glasgow Kilwin- ning, 165
the First
390
Boston, Cont. Masters Lodge, see “Masters Lodge”’ Mother Lodge of America, 257 news of the formation in Avignon of a new society after ban of freemasonry, 277 newspapers in, 41, 128 notice of a procession, 222 Oxnard receives deputation, 278 “physical perfection” over- ruled in 1732, 70 portrait of Henry Price painted, 201 Provincial Grand Lodge of the Western Hemisphere, 26 Provincial Grand Lodge, 35, 123 reference in 1732 to the Papal Nuncio, 72 resolution passed by First Lodge on membership, etc., 133 Royal Exchange Tavern, see “First Lodge” and “Royal Exchange Tavern” Saint Andrew’s Lodge, 110, 249 Second Lodge in, 116, 368, “Sign of the Bunch of Grapes” in, 88 the “Brazen Head,” 126 Third Lodge in, 369 White Horse Tavern, 369 Boston Harbor, 304 Boston Marine Society, 335 Bostonian Society, 128 Boude, John, 361, 367, 368
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Boude, Thomas, 68
Boutin, Capt. John, 276, 278
Bowers, Henry, 361, 367
Bowers, Robert, 321
Bowman, Alexander, 136, 208
Bowman, Samuel, 261
Box, John, 237, 241
Boyd, Capt. Robert, 148, 157
Bradford, Capt. John, 312
“Brazen Head,” the, 126
Breed’s Hill, 306
Breintnall, Joseph, 114
Brenton, Benjamin, 108
Bridgeton, 234, 240
Brimsdon, Benj., see “Brim- ston”
Brimston, Benjamin, 302
Bristol Lodge, 134
Brockwell, Rev. Charles, 117, 118, 313,:328) 3313364
copy of sermon of, now earli-
est sermon extant deliv- ered to the Fraternity, 382
Brown, John, 366, 367
Browne, Isaac, 112, 121
Bruce, Capt. James, 362
Bruliet, John, 361, 362, 363
Brunette, James, 266
Brydges, James, Marquis of Carnarvan, 330
Bucceleugh, Duke of, 136
Buck, James, 312
Bunch of Grapes Tavern, 88, 130; 156
Buckley, Peter, 185
Bunker’s Hill, 306
Bushhill, Pa., 137
Burlington, 321
Burnett, Governor, 49
Buttler, Capt. Michael, 347
Byam, Francis, 284
Byard, Belthazer, 119, 325, 351
INDEX
By-laws, 209, 211, 231, 233, 373 facsimile of by-laws of First Lodge in Boston, 105 Byles, Daniel, 298 Byron, Lord, 69, 369
Cade, Peter, 245 Cadwallader, Thomas, 59, 175 Cahill, Edward, 259, 266 Calef, Saml., 361 Calendar, 42 Cahor, Capt. Edward, 230 Cambridge, 97, 99, 101, 169 Campble, 349 Campling, Thomas, 267 Campunnall, Mordecai, 45 Cape Ann, 307 Cape Breton, 202, 218, 304, 315 Cario, Michael, 175 Carnarvon, Marquis, 215 Carolina, 62 Caruthers, John, 181 Castle William, 307 Catherwood, John, 120 Central America, 25 Cerke, Capt. James, 145, 157 Charles, Robert, 241 Charles Town, see “Charleston” Charlestown, Mass., 49, 257 Charleston, S. C., 41, 121, 134, 139, 179, 243 a play given by Masons in, 174 Harp and Crown Lodge, 189 account of the celebration of a festival, 260 celebration of a festival, 268 first public masonic proces- sion held in, 382 notice of a festival held in
1737, 211
391 Charleston, S. C., Cont.
notice of lodge meeting of Solomon’s Lodge, 162 Solomon’s Lodge, 135, 162
Charlestown, see ‘“Charles- ton”
Charters, Capt. Harry, 335
Checkley, | Attorney-General, 344
Chester, 78
Chignecto, 197
Christ Church, Boston, 36
Clare, Martin, 215
Clarke, Capt. Edward, ““Clerke”’
Clarke, William B., ix, 142
Clavel’s Histozre Pittoresque de la France Maconnerie, 62
Clerke, Capt. Edward, 175
“Cloathed,” being, 107
Clifford, Capt. Benjamin, 361, 367
Coffin, William, 117, 118, 289, 294, 298, 331
Collson, John, see “Colson”
Colon, 24
Colson, John, 297, 314
Columbus, 24
Colvill, Alexander Lord, 281, 328
Comins, Capt. Robert, 202, 218, 313, 314
Commins, see “Comins”
Conally, John, 322
Concord, 97, 101
Conolly, John, see “Conally”
Connally, John, see “Conally”
Connecticut, 101, 281
Copley, John Singleton, 282, 290
Copley, Richard, 290
Constantinople, 206
see
392
Constitutions, the, 29, 36, 112, 1207125
Cornwallis, Governor, 198
Cornwallis, Hon. Edward, 200
Cossett, Peter, 264
Cotton, Rev. J., 291
Court of Oyer and Terminer, 199
Court-House Lodge, 284
Coxe, Daniel, 56, 59, 74, 78, 380
Cranstoun, Lord, 314
Crapp, John, 72, 80
Crawfurd, Earl of, 115, 122, 136
Crawford, Charles, 238
Crawford, James, 155
Crokatt, James, 188, 212
Crookshanks, John, 187
Cross, Thomas, 299, 300
Crown Point, 304
Cuff, Peter, 79
Cumins, see “Comins”
Cunningham, John, 206
Curwen, Samuel, 123, 158
Curwin, 344
Curwin, Sam, see ““Curwen”
Cushing, John, 338, 345
Cutyer, Timothy, 168
Dabney, John, 230
Dalton, William, 349
Darling, Capt. Henry, 261
Darnley, Earl of, 173, 183, 185, 245
Dates, confusion of, 42,
Davis, Antony, 158
Davis, Nicholas, 162
Davis, Thomas W., 76
Day, James, 313, 314
Day, Capt. William, 313, 351
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Deblois, Stephen, 187, 223, 225, 236
Declaration of Independence, signers of and masonry, 20
Deering, William, 175
Delebraz, Lewis, 293
Delavoux, Alexander, 219
Demoulin, Louis, 282, 295
Denne, Thomas, 162
Dennie, Albert, 175, 227
De Ramezay, 197
Derby, Nathaniel, 184
Dermott, Lawrence, 200
Desaguliers, Dr. John The- ophilus,’ 109, 1963021): 231
Devil Tavern Lodge, 57, 60, 186)31 70,3215.
Diamond, George, 263
Dillon, Peter, 231
“Dispenceation,” 275
D’Laboladree, Anthony, 299
D’Laboulerdree Anthony, see “D’ Laboladree”’
D’Larue, Elias, 352
Dolobaratz, Lewis, see “Dele- braz”’
Dorchester Heights, 307
Douglas, Sholto Charles, see ““Aberdour, Lord”
Douglas, Capt. William, 173, 202, 218
Douxsaint, Paul, 358
Dove, John, 110, 249
Dowse, Benjamin, 53
Doyle, Thomas A., 46
Draper, John, 365
Dublin, 63, 65, 66
Duchee, Anthony, 368
“Duly constituted,” 25, 26, 48, 54
INDEX
“Duly constituted” lodges, 57, 63
Dunster, Capt. Thomas, 245
Durand, see “Durant”
Durant, Rev. Thomas, 261, 269
Dure, Andrew, 313
Durfee, Mr., 235, 236
Durfey, Thomas, see “Durfee”
Durham, 280
Dwight, Jonathan, 324, 351
Dyson, Alice, 197
Dyson, Ann, 197
Dyson, John, 197
BLS;
Earle, Dr., 231 East India, 78 Ebenezer, Ga., 144 Edinburgh, Scotland, 38 laying of cornerstone by fra- ternity, 208 Elbert, Major General Samuel, 141 Ellery, William, 349 Elliott, Gray, 141, 143 Eliot, John, 47 Ellis, Edmund, see “Lewis” Ellis, Dr. Edward, 276, 295 Emerson, John, 68 Emerson, Lambert, 108 Endicott, Henry, 92 England, 22, 374 Devil Tavern lodge, 170 Grand Lodge forbids printing of lodge news in news- papers, 259 records of the Grand Lodge of, 31 Grand Lodge of, see “Grand Lodge of England” regulations of the
Lodge of, 59
Grand
393
England, Cont.
Red Lyon Tavern, 90 English Official List of 1761, a facsimile of page 6, 84
Entick, Rev., 332
Epps, William, 361, 363 Erving, John, 119, 342 Esdaile, Thomas, 175
Euclid, 19
Euing, James H., see “Ewing” Evans, Edward, 123
Eve, John, 357
Ewing, Capt. James H., 353 Exchange Tavern, 148
Falckner, see “Falkner” Falkner, Capt. Gilbert, 363, 371 Farr, 361 Farrar, George, 100 Farrell, I., 236 Farrell, John (James), 154, 158 Felicity, Order of, 277 Fellows, N., 233 Fenwick, Robert, 197 Ferritor, Nicholas, 347 First Lodge, in Boston, 37, 75, 81, 82, 83, 112, 169, 301 account of postponement of meeting, 254 alarm of French fleet causes Lodge to be unopened, 311 amendment of the by-laws, 132 by-laws of, and facsimile, 104-105 Captain McLean chosen Mas- ter, 146 celebration of a festival, 354 charge of making a brother,
147
394
First Lodge, Cont.
Charles Pelham proposed as secretary, 289
continuous existence from founding to present day, 383
earliest original records of, 210
E. J. Philipps made member of, 199
entertains Governor Belcher, 278
fee for making raised, 312
first regular and duly consti- tuted Lodge in America, 381
letter from Antigua in an- swer to congratulations on founding lodge there, 228
list of names of members of, in 1736, 157-159
Masters Lodge gives set of candles to, 300
meeting of Auditing Com- mittee, 366
moves from “Bunch of Grapes Tavern” to Royal Exchange Tavern, 136
original minute books, 356
petition sent to England for appointment of a Grand Master, 262
provisions made for visiting brothers, 312
records, 41
“Remonstrance” presented at meeting, 236
resolution on “enter’d ap- prentices,”’ 166
resolution on
brothers, 155
new made
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
First Lodge, Cont. resolution on one month’s no- tice to Lodge before admit- tance, 164 rules concerning letters of recommendation for for- eign travel, 268 thanks to Mr. Belcher for past favours on his part to, 255 uses word “passed” when re- ferring to the second de- gree, 374 First Lodge in New Hampshire, facsimile of petition for, 149 First Lodge in Portsmouth, 33, 115 facsimile of page of records OLeoe, original minute books, 356 Fishbourne, Capt., 244 Fisher, John, 358 Fitch, Samuel, 342 Flanegan, 358, 360, 362 Fleet, Thomas, 327, 328 Florence, Italy, 206 Fluds, William, 188 Forbes, Capt. James, 117, 118, 145, 157, 255, 331 Fort, James, 232 Fort Halifax, 304 Foster, 358, 362 Foy, William, 265 France, 305 Franklin, Benjamin, 30, 31, 36, 58, 64, 68, 121, 130, 163, 182, 272, 330, 381 an exposé of Freemasonry, 59 appointed Grand Master of Pennsylvania by Price,
124, 131, 357
INDEX
Franklin, Benjamin, Cont. becomes Deputy Grand Mas- ter of Pennsylvania, 369 communications with Price, 124-126 elected Grand Master, 113 first advertisement of his re- print of the Constitutions, AZ lays cornerstone of Inde- pendence Hall, 150 letter to, from Provincial Grand Lodge at Boston, 123 letter to the “gentlemen of the Lodge,” 66 made a Freemason, 60 meets Price, 91 portrait of, 126 writes letter to family about Freemasonry, 203 Franklin, James, 112, 122 Franklin, Peter, 112, 121, 122 Franklin’s Constitutions, 119 “Franklin’s Journal,’ 33, 34, 64, 120, 121 “Franklin’s Reprint of Ander- son’s Constitutions,’ 381] Frazier, Capt. John, 154, 158 French, Alexander, 174, 226 French, Thomas, 75 “Freemason,” first use of word, 380 Freemasonry, a summing up of the volume,
age of, 19, 21
authorities on, 28
arcana of period covered by this volume, 373
beginnings of, 19
definition ef, 23
395
Freemasonry, Cont. earliest traces of, in western hemisphere, 43 founding of duly constituted, in, 74 Freemasonry and Anctent Gods, 24 Frost, Capt. William, 148, 157 Furney, Capt. John, 241 Fuller, Jonathan, 349, 357
Gallagher, Charles T., 47 Gamble, William, 371 Gardner,’ 103) 21541309157; 348, 353 Gardner, William S., 45 Gates, Horatio, 197 Gautier, Charles, 264 Gedney, 344 George, Sidney, 347 Georgetown, S. C., 283 Georgia, 29, 49, 61, 83, 214, 3/6008! charity by English masons to help colonise, 111 Grand Lodge of, 139 planting the new colony, 108 statement of “regularity” of Grand Lodge of, 138 settlement of colony by Ogle- thorpe, 141 Germantown, 205 Gerot, Elizabeth, 168 Gerret, Elizabeth, see “‘Gerot” Gilman, Nathaniel, 367 Glasgow, Kilwinning Lodge, 38, 165 Glentworth, Capt. 363, 367, 368 Gloucester, 307 Glover, Robert, 295, 296 Gofton, Webber, 148, 157
Thomas,
“396
Gordon, Alexander, 145, 157 Gordon, Charles, 157 Gordon, James, 89, 110, 130, Lo Sel ee Ole LO2 ne Ss. 212 Gordon, John, 158 Gorham, Joseph, 366 Gorwood, Charles, 320, 322 Gough, James, 295, 301 Gould, J. L., 44, 45 Gould, N. H., 44, 46 Gould, R. F., 20, 30, 91, 165 Governor’s Island, 307 Graeme, James, 165, 181, 183, 187, 212, 233, 244, 269 Granary Burying Ground, 346 Grand Lodge of England, 23, Lbyroyey lee fy, AY appointment of Provincial Grand Master for South America, 133 Daniel Coxe a member of, 60 deeds performed by, during 1730-1740, 376 minutes of a Communication of, 108 regulations of, 59 Grand Lodge of Georgia, 140 Grand Lodge of Ireland, 138 Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 155 fire of 1864 destroys records of, 82 founded by Henry Price, 382 Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, why? Grand Lodge of Scotland, 249 Grand Pré, 197 Graham, John, Grayham, Capt. Archibald, 319 Green, Joseph, 223
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Greenleaf, Stephen, 298
Grice, William, 130
Gridley, Jeremy (Jeremiah), 119, 326-347
Gridley, Rebecca, 303
Gridley, Richard, 301, 303
Gruchy, Thomas James, 266, 301
Guadaloupe, 239
Givin, John, 244, 261, 269
Gwinne, John, see “Givin”
Gwinn, John, see “Givin”
Habersham, James, 144 Hague, the, 153 Haliburton, T. C., 43 Halifax, 198, 199, 200 date of constitution of lodge TB IF Lodge constituted at, by Grand Lodge of England, 370 Hall, John, 66 Hall, P., 242, 274 Hallowell, Benjamin, 117, 118, 1485157; 170, elves 209, 236, 255, 284, 331 Hallyburton, Andrew, 157 Hamilton, Andrew, 69, 137 Hamilton, Frederick, 89, 113, 1S a1ss Hamilton, James, 112, 136 portrait of, 138 Hamilton, John, 227 Hamilton, Otho, 197 Hammerton, John, 134, 152, 162, -181}..203, e215 e26)- 269 Hammond, Peter, 313 Hampton, N. H., 197, 371 Harbin, Thomas, 162
INDEX
Hardgrove, Hugh, 322
Harp and Crown Lodge, 188
Harramond, Henry, 269
Harris, Capt. R. V., 44, 363, 366
Hart, Robert, 233
Hartt, Thos., 68
Hatch, Estes, 313
Hayden, Sidney, Washington and his Masonic Compeers, 14]
Heard, John T., 102
Heath, Major General, 307
Hemlin, Edward, 358, 360
Herbert, Newcoming, 313
Heweton, Capt. John (James), 298
Hill, Andrew, 184
Hill, Richard, 261
Hinton, William, 147, 157
Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania, 356
History of Freemasonry in South Carolina, 181
Histoire Paittoresque de la France Maconnerie, 62
History of Printing, 326
Hoar, Jonathan, 199
Hobart, John, 64, 68
Hodge, Sampson, 322
Holbrook, J oseph, 277, 310
Holbrook, Samuel, 119
Holland, 173
anti-masonic movement in,
153
Holland, Rogers, 109
Hoad, Richard, 296
Hoop Lodge, 150
Hooper, Daniel, 254
Hope, Henry, 81, 89, 157
Hopkinson, Francis, 135, 160
Hopkinson, Joseph, 160
397
Hopkinson, Thomas, 108, 159,
160, 176 portrait of, 160
Horn Tavern Lodge, 58, 73
Houghton, John, 212, 244
Houstoun, Sir George, 143
Houston, Sir Patrick, 123, 143
How, Edward, 197, 198
Howarth, George, 102
Howe, John, 44
Howell, Richard, 110
Hubards, John, see “Hubbard”
Hubbard, John, 34, 121, 150, 163, 182, 342
Hubert, John, see “Hobart”
Huch, Dr. Richard, 335
Hudson, Peter, 372
Hugget, Capt. John, 158
Huggott, John, see “Hugget”’
Hughan, William J., 29
Hull, 101
“Humble Remonstrance”’ of Oc- tober 7, 1751, 368
Humphrey, David, 175
Hunes, Moses, 143
Huntoon, Daniel T. V., 303, 309
Husk, John, 322, 324
Huske, John, see “Husk”
Huston, John, 362
Hutchinson, James Carrel, 188, 236
Hutchinson, Lt. Governor, 338
Huxley, Rev., 240
Huxtall, M., 54
154,
Independence Hall, 150
Indian King Lodge, 204, 252
Indian King Tavern, 136, 178, 180, 204
Indigot, John, 362
398
Ingham, George T., 66 Ion, Richard, 349 Iowa, 29 Ireland, 22, 30, 78, 374 Grand Lodge of, see ‘““Grand Lodge of Ireland” Irish, Bagwell, 262 Irwin, Andrew, 313 Ives, Benjamin, 275
Jackson, Dr. Charles T., dis- covery while in Nova Sco- tia in 1827, 43 Jackson, Mrs. Mary, 95 Jackson, William, 95 Jamaica, 381 appointment of Provincial Grand Masters in, 264 lodge at St. Jago de la Vega, 309 lodge constituted at Kingston, 219 Port Royal lodge, 267 James, Capt. John, 347 James, Capt. Michael, 362 Jenkins, Capt. Robert, 117, 118, 22T GS oOP B45 00, 366, 367 Jenness, 348 Johnson, Henry, 276, 285, 300 Johonnot, Francis, 148, 158, 236, 264 Jones, Evan, 199 Jones, John, 175 Jones, Noble, 143, 301 Joyce, Mark, 64
Keith, Sir William, 109 Kelby, Thomas, 262
Keller, Edward, see ‘“‘Calior” Kennebec River, 304 Kennelly, Thomas, 80, 88
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Kenton, Robert, 122, 157
Kilby, Thomas, see “Kelby”
Kilwinning Lodge, Glasgow, 38
Kilwinning Lodge, Mother, 26
Kintore, Earl of, 239
King Solomon’s Lodge, see “Solomon’s Lodge”
King’s Chapel, 51, 52, 380
Kingston, Jamaica, 219
Kingston, Lord, 65
Kipling, 361
Lacey, Roger, 62, 138-139, 145
Ladam, Capt. George, 243
Lacy, Roger, see “Lacey”
Lake George, 304
Lamport, John, 231
Lancaster, Pa., 137
“Landmarks,” 23
“perfect youth” and “physi-
cal perfection,” 70
Lane, 29
Lawley, Sir Robert, 279
Lawrence, Governor Charles, 336
Lawrence, Henry, 266
Le Plougeon’s Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and Quiches, etc., 24
Leacroft, Capt. Vina, 361
Lee, John, 263
Leeward Islands, 186
Leddam, George, see “Ladain”
Leddell, Henry, 117, 118, 331, 360
“Leger,” see “Leidger,” 34
Leghorn, Italy, 206
“Leidger E,” 34
“Leidgers A & B,” 34
Leigh, Hon. Peter, 331
Lepper, J. H., 378
INDEX
Leverett, John, 116, 118, 361, 367 Levins, Samuel, 323, 358 Lewis, Abigail, 326 Lewis, Edmund, 272 Lewis, Ezekiel, Hon., 326, 346 Lewis, Henry, 175 Lewis, Maurice, 181, 187, 212 appointed to build up curtain line before Charleston Bay, 182 Lewis, Winslow, 102 Lexington, 97 “Liber A,” 3] “Liber B,” 31, 63, 64, 69 facsimile of page of, 64 “Libre A,” see ‘Liber A” “Libre B,” see ‘‘Liber B” Lining, John, 212
Lisbon, anti-masonic measures in, 274 masonic victims of an Auto de Fe, 294
Lists, official, of lodges, 28 Littlejohn, David, 350 Lockman, Leonard, 215 Lodges, see under names Logan, Walter, 371 Loggin, Jonathan, 34, 233 London, 55, 56, 60, 61, 173 account of procession and mock procession, 248 anti-masonic article, 190 charity by masons for settle- ment of Georgia, 111 date of Henry Price’s Depu- tation, 79 deputation issued to Price, 74 Devil Tavern Lodge, 57, 60, 136
specific
399
London, Cont.
Earl of Darnley entertains upon election as Grand Master, 180
feast in honour of Duke of Lorrain, 161
Grand Lodge in, see “Grand Lodge of England”
Horn Tavern Lodge, 58, 73
initiation of a Jew in, 71
manifesto of the mock ma- sons, 250
masonic procession L755 1350
notice of opening of a new colony in America, 108
Rainbow Coffee House Lodge, 61
Rose Tavern Lodge, 71
St. Michael’s Lodge, 66
Lorrain, Duke of, 161, 184
Loudoun, Earl of, 38, 152, 164, 169, 183, 211, 304, 336
Louisberg, 202, 218, 304, 315
Lowndes, William, 261
Luchy, Thomas James, “Gruchy”’
Lutwych, Edward, 88, 111, 136
Lyle, John, 122
Lynde, Benjamin, 338, 343
Lyndhurst, Lord, 290
evga bbe!
see
Mackay, Capt. Atneas, 323, 351
Mackeleen, Robert, 157
Mackey, /Eneas, see kay”’
Mackey’s, History of Freema- sonry in South Carolina, 134, 181, 188
Mackinen, Robert, see “McKen-
>
nen
“Mac-
400
Mackintosh, Shaw, 161 Magdalen Isles, 305 Malcum, Rev. Alexander, 320, 322 Mancell, Sir Edward, 136 Manny, Franklin, 363, 368, 371 Manuscripts, 36 “Mark Degree,” 22 Marlow, Benjamin, 262, 263 Maryland, 61, 71, 281 tradition of a lodge in, in 173750201 Marquand, Daniel, 297 Martin, William, 313 Mascarene, 199 Massachusetts, 29, 49, 112 fire of 1864 destroyed early records of grand lodge, 82 Grand Lodge of, oldest in America, 45, 155, 383 records of Grand Lodge of, 35 Massachusetts Bay, 197 Massachusetts Historical So- ciety, 128 Mason, William, 360, 361 Masonic Records (2nd Edi- tion), 30 Masonic (%) stone of 1606,
A4 Masonic War, 377 “Masonry Dissected,” 22 Massey, Samuel, 358 Masters Lodge in Boston, 33, 37, 2545276) 277; 377 accounts of, 209 adjourned for “substantial” reasons for two months, 299 first regular meeting of, 214
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Masters Lodge in Boston, Cont. founded by Thomas Oxnard, 280 founding of, 374 gives set of candles to First Lodge, 300 meeting of Auditing Commit- tee, 353 original minute books, 356 Mather, Cotton, 290 Mathew, Isaac, 232 Mathew, William, 229 Maul, William, 254 Maxwell, John, 174 Mayas, 24 Mazyck, William G., 162 McAdams, Capt. Gilbert, 335 McClanan, Samuel, 66 McClellan, David, 212 McDaniel, Hugh, 117, 118, 148, 157/158)0 LO) Gs ae: 236, 237,°25.5,725 og 370 McDaniel, Timothy, 232, 285 McKay, Capt. Atneas, see “Mackay” McKay, Hugh, 353 McKennen, Robert, 311 McKenzie, Andrew, 316, 319, 325, 374 McKenzie, John, 269 McKnight, Robert, 157 McKnight, Capt. Thomas, 148 McLean, Capt. Robert, 108, 146 McNeal, John, 157 McTaggart, Peter, 352 Melvill, John, 336 Menotomy Fields, 97, 99 Mercer, William, 229 Merchant, William, 300 Michie, James, see “Mitchie” Michie, Kenneth, see ‘““Mitchie”
INDEX
Middletown, Conn., date of constitution of lodge in, 117
Middlesex, County of, 100 Mitchell, George, 233 Mitchell, W. H., 144 Mitchie, James, 188, 212, 261, 269 Mitchie, Kenneth, 269 Mock-masons, article by, 250 procession by, 286 “Moderns,” the, 22, 377, 383 Moffat, Dr. Thomas, 145, 157, 236 Molony, Thomas, 158 Moncrief, George, see ‘““Mone- rieff” Monerieff, George, 217, 375 Monk, James, 231 Montacute, Viscount, 189 Montier, James, 227 Montserrat, 48, 122, 130 Montague, Rev. Brother, 51 Montague, Viscount, 74, 75, 76, 88, 331 Montgomerie Arms Tavern, 215 Montgomerie, Capt. Pat., see “Montgomery” Montgomery, Capt. Pat., 223 Mooi, James, 331 Moore, Charles W., 52, 63, 140 Moore, John, 50, 59 letter of, vi Morel, John, 144 Morrey, Humphrey, 80 Morris, Col. John, 15, 158 Morris, William, 220 Moses, Abraham, 45 Murray. Alexander, 212, 244, 261, 269, 360
401
Murray, Humphrey, see “Mor- rey”
Murray, Joseph, see “Murry”
Murray, Walter, 358
Murry, Joseph, 272
Murrys, John, 229
Musgrove, 62
Nailor, John, 246 Napper, Peter, see “Nappier” Nappier, John, 227 Nappier, Peter, 227 New England, 35, 74, 82, 83, 197, 376, 381 New Haven, Conn., date of constitution of lodge in, 117 Newfoundland, 281, 313, 381 date of constitution of lodge in, 117 New London, Conn., date of constitution of lodge in, LLY Newingham, John, 34, 123 New Hampshire, 49, 101, 381 date of constitution of lodge in, 117 petition for lodge at Ports- mouth, 148 see also “Portsmouth” New Jersey, 56, 57 Governor Belcher assumes duties, 320 Newburyport, 99 Newmarch, Thomas, 240 Newport, R. I., 44, 46 first meeting of lodge at, 365 Lodge at, 364 New York, 41, 56, 57, 376, 381 newspaper published song for masons, 205
108,
402
New York, Cont. Montgomerie Arms Tavern,
215
Newspapers, 41
Newton, Thomas, 323
Nicholas, Sam’, 68
Nickerson, Sereno D., 47, 81, 115
Noble, Col. Arthur, 197
Norfolk, Duke of, 56, 380
Norfolk, Va., 248
date of establishment of
Royal Exchange Lodge in, 109 |
Norris, Capt. William, 222, 223
Norton, Jacob, vii
Nova Scotia, 43, 44, 143, 195, 197, 200, 370, 381
Nunes, Daniel, 143
O’debart, Phillip, 263, 278
Official lists, 28
Oglethorpe, General, 62, 141, 143
Oglethorpe, Newman, 188
“Old charges,” 19, 24, 56
“Old Constitutions,” 19, 24
“Old customs,” 48, 60, 81
Oliver, Capt. Edward, 243
Oliver, Nathaniel, Jr., 327
Oliver, Peter, 338, 362
Oliver, Robert, 148
Ord, John, 357, 358, 360, 361
Orpin, Abraham, 265
Orthodoxie, Macconnique, 62
Osborne, John, 147, 157, 158, 161, 165, 281
Otis, James, 329, 339, 342, 344
Overing, John, 147, 157, 210, 327
Owens, Owen, 80
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Oxnard, Sarah, 281 Oxnard, Thomas, 33, 46, 116, 148, 157, 1609 70m EG: 235, 236, 245, 252;n278; 285, 321, 328 application made to for Grand Master for New Hampshire, 321 appointed to wait upon Gov- ernor Belcher to thank him for past favours, 255 brief account of life of, 280- 282 deputation as Prov. G. M., delivered to, 275 facsimile of, 276 grants constitution for Lodge in Newfoundland, 313 petition to fill chair of Grand Master upon death of, 330 petition to Grand Lodge to appoint, as Prov. G. M., 262 Oyston, John, 244, 261, 269
Paisly, Robert, 166 Panama, 25
Parham, Antigua, 189 Parham Lodge, 170
Paris, 173
anti-masonic measures in, 184, 192
notice against masons by
king, 180 Parker, Dr. William, 359, 360 Parkhouse, Richard, 79 Parks, Capt. Richard, 163 Parry, David, 66, 68 Pascal, Michael Henry, 348 Paschal, William, 72 “Passed,” use of word, 361 Pateshall, Richard, 123, 158
INDEX
Patter, Simeon, 313 Payne, John, 215 Peach, Lewis, 358 Pearson, Thomas, 293, 353 Peaseley, Robert, 158 Peddie, John, 55 Pelham, Charles, 75, 80, 82, 146, 233, 354, 372 brief account of life of, 290- 293 made secretary of Masters Lodge, 300 portrait of, 292 Pelham, Helen, 291 Pelham, Peter, 35, 74, 79, 119, Be MATa 2o3.02o6" 245, 255, 258, 275, 374 brief account of life of, 290- 293 certifies copy of Oxnard’s commission, 285 portrait of, 230 Pelham, Peter, Jr., 294 Pelham List, 38, 82, 227, 228, 299, 317,321 Pemberton, Benjamin, 112, 157 Pemberton, Samuel, 157 Pennsylvania, 56, 57, 59, 112, 205, 375, 381 Allen appointed Grand Mas- ter of, by Grand Master of England, over Franklin, 369 First lodge in, 49 Franklin’s appointment as Grand Master for, 124 Grand Lodge of, 33 no Grand Lodge records prior to July, 1779, 127 proot that Massachusetts and not, was first “regularly constituted,” 383
403
Penn, Thomas, 123
Pepperell, Col. William, 291, 304
Perchard, Daniel, 275
“Perfect youth” doctrine, 70
Petersburg, Va., 110
Peterson, Rev. Edward, 44, 45
Philadelphia, 31, 50, 58, 59, 90, 203
article in Pennsylvania Ga-
zette, 63
attempts to claim masonry in, in 1727, 56
cornerstone of state house laid, 150
dates of constitution of lodge, 117
discovery of “Libr B,” 63
First Lodge, 34, 49
first Lodge meeting notice published in newspaper in, 380
first meeting of Provincial Grand Lodge, 359
Hoop Lodge, 150
Indian King Lodge, 204, 252
Indian King Tavern, 136, 178
newspapers in, 41
petition sent Price from, 113
some entries in 1731, 64
some entries for 1732, 70-71
Sun Tavern Lodge, 68
trial of person, who in im- personating masons caused a death, 199
Tun Tavern Lodge, 34, 80, 354
William Allen, career of, 69- 70
Phillips, Caleb, 230 Phillips, E. J., see “Philipps”
404 FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Phillips, Capt. John, 301, 332
Phillips, 157
Philipps, Ann, 197
Philipps, Dorothy, 197
Philipps, Elizabeth, 197
Philipps, Erasmus James, 185, 1520 21S. eo pee ia 357, 360
Philipps, John Erasmus, 197
Philipps, Richard, 195
Phoenix, Capt., 167
“Physical perfection” doctrine,
Pierce, Capt. Nathaniel, 313 Plaister, Daniel, 285 Plumstead, Clement, 178 Plumsted, William, 114, 177, 178, 181 portrait of, 180 Poland, 226 Port Royal Lodge, 267 Portsmouth Lodge, see “First Lodge in Portsmouth” Portsmouth, 49, 115, 233, 267, 373, 382 application for Provincial Grand Master, 321 by-laws of the First Lodge, 231 First Lodge, 36 Lodge meeting held on board frigate, 361 petition for lodge at, 148 Pound, Roscoe, 378 Pratt, Henry, 32, 64, 68, 177, 181, 345 Prescott, Jonathan, 313
Prescott, Peter, 108, 158, 226
Preston’s Illustrations, 28, 42
Thomas, 91, 97,
Price, Charles, 262 Price, Ezekiel, 119 Price, Henry, 33, 35, 52, 74, 79,
88, 155,157,161) 165169: 189, 209, 214)°236j;e2558 2/2, 289, S00 fSZ5 705k
brief biography of, 92-103
communications with Frank- lin, 124-126
confers with Franklin about masonic matters, 113
facsimile of letter recalling Price to the chair, 344
deputation of, 75, 76, 210
first exercise of Masonic au- thority in America used by, 381
first Provincial Grand Mas- ter of North America, 115
forms Grand Lodge in Bos- ton, 37, 80
founder of Freemasonry in America, 92
Grand Master pro tem. upon death of Thomas Oxnard, 330
grants 61
investment of, 89
meets Benjamin Franklin, 91
nominated officers for the coming year, 130
one of founders of Masters Lodge, 374
original stone over grave of. 94
partner of Francis Beteilhe, 37
partnership with Beteilhe dis- solved, 228
petition to appoint successor to Oxnard, 119
Franklin’s petition,
INDEX
Price, Henry, Cont. petitioned for lodge at Ports- mouth, N. H., 148 portrait painted, 201 proposes Charles Pelham in First Lodge in Boston, 292 proposes Jeremy Gridley, 327 Provincial Grand Master, 1734-1735, 54 receives deputation in person, 76 removed to Boston, 55 returns to London, 61 succeeded by Tomlinson as Prov. G. M., 160 Price, Mary, 96 Price, Mary (the second) 99, 100, 102 Price. Rebecca, 99, 100 Prichard’s Masonry Dissected, ee Prince George Lodge, 283 Pringle, John, 221, 227 Pringle, Will., 68 Prioleau, Samuel, 244 Providence, 197 Provincial Grand Lodge at Bos- ton, 123 Pue, Jonathan, 278, 285 Purdie, Capt. Hugh, 370 Pryce, Charles, 143 Pyewell, William, 113
QO. C. A., see Abbreviations, p. “el
Quane, John, 80, 88
Quatnor Coronati Lodge, 135
Quebec, Battle of, 305
Quiches, 24
Quincy, Edmund, 305, 361, 367
Quincy, Rev. Samuel, 370, 371
405
Rae, John, see “Ray” Ragan’s Orthodoxie Maccon- nique, 62 Rainbow Coffee House Lodge, 61, 92 Ramsay, Andrew, see “Ramsey” Ramsay, Dr. Archibald, 164 Ramsay, Chevalier, 221 Ramsey, Andrew, 349, 351 Rand, Capt. Robert, 245 Randall, Lydia, 99 Records, 30 earliest book of, in Boston, 382 England, 31 First Lodge in Boston, 32, 41 Grand Lodge of Massachu- setts, 35 Master’s Lodge, 33 Portsmouth, 33 Redman, Thomas, see “Rod- man” Reed, 331 “Regular,” 25, 48, 54 “Regular” lodges, 57, 63 Reilly, John, 370 Reller, Abraham, 277 Renolds, Capt. Thomas, see “Reynolds” Revere, Paul, 304 Revis, John, 280 “Revival of 1717,” 26 Reynold, Lawrence, 66, 68 Reynolds, Capt. Thomas, 163 Rhode Island, 44, 45, 59, 101, 197, 281, 381 date of constitution of lodge in, 117 Lodge at Newport, 364 Rhodes, Samuel, 262, 263 Richards, 344 Richardson, Mr., 97
406
Richmond, Duke of, 136
Rickman, John, 242
Riggs, Capt. Richard, 185, 204
Right, John, see “Wright”
Rind, Thomas, 274
Robertson, Patrick, 154, 161, 163, 166
Robinson, John, 113
Robinson, Septimus, 114
Rockwell, W. S., 62
Rodman, Thomas, 64
Rodriquez, F. de P., v
Rolfe, Josiah, 123
Rollins, Joseph, viii
Rome, 206
anti-masonic measures in, 221]
Rook, George, 78, 88, 331
Rooke, George, see “Rook”
Rose, Rev., 240
Rose Tavern Lodge, 71
Ross, Alexander, 363
Ross, Samuel, 261
Ross, Hon. William, 43, 350
Routh, Christopher, 108
Row, John, see “Rowe”
Rowe, John, 75, 82, 118, 241, 308, 322, 328, 340
Roy, John, 320, 358
Royal Exchange Lodge, see “First Lodge in Boston”
Royal Exchange Lodge, at Nor- folk, 109
Royal Exchange Tavern, 178, 223, 364, 368
Ruggles, George, 259
Rush, Jonathan, 313
Russell, Chambers, 338
Sachse, Julius F., 31, 64, 79, 127s 1615 356
Sachse’s Benjamin Franklin as a Freemason, 379
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, etc., 24
Sadler, Henry, 79
Saint Andrew’s Lodge, 110, 249
St. Clair, 227
St. Christopher, 221, 381
Basseterre (Bassatee) Lodge, 232
St. Christopher Lodge, 265
St. Eustatius Lodge, 318
St. Jago de la Vega, 309
St. John, Antiqua, 170, 209, 226, 229
Saint John’s Lodge of Boston
see also “First Lodge in Bos- ton”
St. John’s Lodge of Portsmouth
see “First Lodge of Ports- mouth”
St. John’s Lodge, Norfolk, Va., 249
St. Mary’s Bay, Digby County, 199
St. Michael’s Lodge, 66, 234. 238, 240
St. Paul, Peter Phillip Chas., 299
Saint John, 185
Salmon, John, 320, 321, 322
Salzburger Colony, 144
San Domingo, 381
Lodge at Cap, 352
Savage, Capt. Richard, 360
Savannah, 29, 49, 62, 83, 13%, 204, 214, 222
early meetings of Solormon. Lodge, 144 Solomon’s Lodge, 141
“Savannah in ye Province o% Georgia,” 139
Savannah River, 141
INDEX
Schleydhorn, see “Slydorn”
Scott, Andrew, 113
Scott, Hugh, 114, 158
Scott, J., 28
Scotland, 35, 110, 374
Grand Lodge of, 249
Scotch Arms Lodge, 221
“Scottish Rite,” 22
Seaman, George, 212, 244, 261
Seargeant, 344
Second Lodge in Boston, 116, 368
Senior Freemason of America, 49
Sewall, Jonathan, 340, 346
Sexton, Morgan, 120
Shannon, Capt. John, 274
Sharon, 305
Sheftall, Benjamin, 142
Sheftall, Mordecai, 142
Sheftall, Sheftall, 142
Shepheard, Charles, 162, 174, 187, 212, 261, 269
Sherburn, Henry, 233
Sherburne, Joseph, 101, 312
Sheriff, J., 185, 199
Shippen, Joseph, 32, 80, 112, 177, 181, 204-205
portrait of, 206
Shirley, William, 257, 304
Shirley, Governor, 304
Shrewsbury, 100
Shute, Wm., 363, 367, 368
Simes, John, 360
Singleton, Mary, 290
Skene, W., 197
Skinner, George, 70
Slaittewey, Moses, 157
Slaughter, Moses, 91
Slydorn, John, 357, 360, 367
Smith, Benjamin, 233, 243, 244, 261, 269, 348
407
Smith, Benjamin, Cont. brief outline of life of, 270 portrait of, 270 Smith, Horace W., 50 Smith, James Moor, 88 Smith, John, 82, 90, 158 Smith, Joseph, 185 Smith, Richard, 298 Smith, Capt. Robert, 148, 157 Smith, Thomas, 230, 269 Smithers, Benjamin, 324 Smithson, Henry, 263 Smithhurst, Joseph, see “Smyt- hurst” Smyrna, 206 Smythe, J., 78 Smythurst, Joseph, 268 Solly, Samuel, 320 Solomon’s Lodge, Charleston, Sa C0135, 46291839,4487, 212, 233, 260, 269 facsimile of page of record of, 142 Songhurst, W. J., 135 South America, 25, 133, 381 South Carolina, 49, 146, 213, 376, 381 date of constitution of Lodge in, 117 deputation issued for Grand Master for, 152 lapse of account of meetings from 1742 to 1751, 270 lodge in, 134 Solomon’s Lodge, 233 South Wales, 78 Southwell, Lord, 109 Spanish Town, 309 Spencer, Archibald, 272 Sprowel, James, 268 Stansbury, Benjamin, 314 Starkey, William, 265, 285
408
Stephens, William, 222 Stevens, William, 141 Stevenson, James, 161 Steward, James, 367 Stewart, James, see “Steward” Stoddard, Capt. Benjamin, 352, 367 Stome, Samuel (“Master of the House’’), 168, 323 Stoughton, Chief Justice, 343 Stowe, William, 119 Strahan, Arthur, 212 Strathmore, Earl of, 70 Suffolk, 169 Sun Tavern Lodge, 34, 68 Surrey, Hugh, 231, 236 Swan, Ebenezer, 211 Sweeney, Roscow, 364 Synge, Philip se2122, 1233181 brief outline of life of, 252- 254 silhouette of, 253 Svere, Bar’w (Bartho.), 350
Tabbs, Carrel, 188
Tailfer, Dr., 222
Tanner, John, 208
“Taylor, the celebrated Mr.,” 90
Tege, Capt., 364, 366
Thatcher, Oxenbridge, 345
The Free Mason’s Pocket Com- panion, 28, 42
“The Great Lodge,” St. Johns, Antiqua, 209
“The Massachusetts Lodge,” 35
Third Lodge in Boston, 369
Thomas, Isaiah, Hustory of Printing, 326
Thomlinson, see “Tomlinson”
Thompson, Xtopher, 68
Grand
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Thompson, James, 362 Thynne, Thomas, see “Wey: mouth, Lord” Tilden, Mary, 98 Tombes, Capt. Andrew, 257, 374 Tomochichi, Chief, 62 Timothee, Louis, 121 Tomkins, Capt. Peter, 163 Tomlinson, 33, 37, 38, 116, 147, 157, 161, 164, 165, 186, 208,\)211, 9219, 22524 234, 236, 241, 245, 279 attends meeting of Grand Lodge of England, 215 brief account of the life of, of, 168-173 commission of, Boston, 168 makes some Masons in Anti- gua, 201 succeeded as Grand Mas: ter by Thomas Oxnard, 280 succeeds Price as Prov. G. M., 160 Tonkin, Capt. Peter, see “Tom- kins” Took, Randolph, 133 Tothill, Edward, 245 Townsend, 92, 97, 101 Townsend, Barnard, 302 Townsend, James, 96 Townsend, Mary, 96 Townsend, Samuel, 96 Tracy, Patrick, 242 Tran, Alexander, 147, 157 Trann, Alexander, see “Tran” Trinity Church, 335 Trowbridge, Edmund, 340 Tucker, John, 185 Tufton, John, 246
arrived in
INDEX
Tun Tavern Lodge, 34, 80, 374, 382 desires a deputation from Franklin, 359 fining of members of, for swearing and impertinence, 362 member excluded, 371 pages of record book of, 355 records of this Lodge begin June 28, 1749, 354 three members discharged, 358 Turks, as Masons, 206, 208 Turner, Lewis, 272 Tuthill, Edward, see “Tothill” Tuthill, Jacob, 364 Tylar, Stevenson, 236 Tyler, Andrew, 291 Tyle1, Mary, 291 Tyler, Miriam, 291 Tyler, Noe, 114 Tyler, William, 117, 367
Underdown, Capt. James, 230
Vandelure, Capt. Giles, 154, 158
Vanhartburger, John, 274
Vardy, Luke, 136, 148, 158, a2). 225, 256
Vassal, Lewis, 266
Vavasour, Thomas, 347
Vaughn, Capt. Narias, 230
Vibert, Lionel, 29
Vidal, Stephen, 357
Vienna, account of a disturb- ance in, because of classes and faiths in freemasonry, 273
Villiers, Coulon de, 198
Vincent, Clement, 220
409
Virgin Lodge, 43 Virginia, 109 St. John’s Lodge No. 117 249
Waghorn, John, 184, 223, 225, 236
Wales, Prince of, asked to Ac: cept Grand Mastership, 203
Walker, Thomas, 188, 210, 236
Walker, William, 111, 112
Wallace family, 76
Wallace, William, see ‘“Wal-
lis”
Wallace, William (Wallis), grandson of William Wal- liste 02
Wallis family, see “Wallace”
Wallis, Lincy, 227
Wallis, William, 100, 348
Ward, Lord John, 136, 264, 275, 279, 369
Warner, Elizabeth, 242
Warren, General Joseph, 35, 305, 307
Wasdale, 360
Washington and his Masonic Compeers, 141
Washington, George, 307
Waterhouse, Capt. Samuel, 242, 314
Watson, James, 174
Watts, Hon. Samuel, 281
Webb, Thomas S., 61
Webb’s Monitor, 138
Webster, I., 236
Webster, John, 235
Wells, Samuel, 364
Wentworth, William, 236
Wesley, John, 144
Wesson, William, 97, 112, 157
410
West, Benjamin, 69
West India Islands, 186
West Indies, 202, 218, 239, 387
Lodge at St. Eustatius, 318 St. Christopher’s Lodge, 265
Western hemisphere, earliest traces of freemasonry in, 43
Wethered, H., 242
Wethered, Samuel, 156, 158
Weymouth, Viscount, 134, 136, 138, 139
Wheelwright, Nathaniel, 350
White Horse Tavern, 369
Whitefield, George, 204
Whitney, St. Levi, 100
Whitemarsh, Thomas, 64, 121
White, Richard, 285
White, Capt. Thomas, 212
Williams, Dr. Nathaniel, 326
Williams, Robert, 119, 309, 314
Willington, Capt. Roger, 38, 156, 157
Wilmington, N. C., 291
Wilson, George, 272
FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA
Windward Islands, 239
Winslow, General, 304
Winslow, Samuel, 285
Winthrop, Adam, 281, 343
Winyaw, S. C., 283
Woburn, 101
Wolfe, General, 305
Wolfe, Richard, 173, 183
Woodrop, Alexander, 208
Woods, Rev. John, 311
Wray, Sir Cecil, 136
Wren, Sir Christopher, 213
Wren, Matthew, 213
Wright, Hugh, 357, 358
Wright, James, 181, 182, 183, 187, 212, 213-215, 244, 261, 269
Wright, John, 242
Wright, Sir Robert, 213
Writs of Assistance, celebrated case of, 336
Whyte, Capt. James, 360, 361, 362
“York Rite,” 22 Young, John, 114
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