The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-01
Masonic Column.


by the Worshipful Henry Price, Grand Mas
ter in North America, under an appoint
mcnt by Lord Viscount Montagu, Grand
Master of Masons in England
The lodge in Boston was called st Johns
Grand Lodge, and the Right Worshipful
Andrew Bclcher was appointed Grand Mas
ter, and Thomas Kcnellcy and John Guam,
Grand Wardcns. Warrants were soon
granted for instituting lodges in various
parts of America, including Canada, Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland.
In 1852, number of brethren residing
in Boston, who were ancient Aasons, so
called, and different in some respects from
the st Johns Lodge, applied for Il charter
to the Grand Lodge of Scotland, and were
constituted a regular lodge, under the name
OF st Andrews Lodge, No. 50.
This establishment was opposed by the
st Johns Lodge, who thought their prvi-
eges infringcd upon by the Grand Lodge
of Scotland; but it grew prosperous, by the
assistance of travelling lodges belonging to
the British army stationed there. Decem-
Der 81, 1;G0 the Festival of the Evangelist
was celebrated in due form. At this assem-
bly,, commission was received from the
Earl of Dollhouse, Grand Master of Masons
in Scotland, appointing Joseph Warrsn to
be Grand Master of Masons in Boston, and
within one hundred miles of the same, dated
May 80, 1896. The other grand officers
were then appointed and installed and the
Grand Lodge was then duly organized.
Between this period and the year 1871,
this Grand Lodge granted warrants of con
sttution for lodges to be holden N Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire. Connecticut,
Vermont, and New York
In the year l772 Patrick, Earl of Dunn
fries, Grand Master of Scotland, appointed
the Right Worshipful Joseph Warren. Esq.
Grand Master of Masons for the Continent
of America. In 1775, the meetings of the
Grand Lodge were suspended, by Boston
becoming a garrison.
At the battle of Bunker Hill, June 18th,
Of this year, Masonry, and the Grand Lodge
met with a severe loss, in the death of Grand
Master Warren, who was slain contending
for the liberty of his country.
Soon after the evacuation of Boston, the
brethren were induced to search for his
body, which had been buried on the field OF
battle BY direction of a person who wit
messed the burial, a place was found on
the brow of a hill, near cluster of twigs,
where the earth had been recently turned
up. Here his remains were found, and
identified by means of an artificial tooth
The body was conveyed to the State House
in Boston, and attended by the surviving
grand officers and large concourse of peo-
pie, was buried with Masonic honors. Be-
ing deprived of their chief, by the death OF
their Grand Master, they appointed Joseph
Webb as his successor.
The revolution, which separated the
American STATES rom me government OF
the mother country, also cxonerated the
American lodges from their allegiance to
foreign Grand Lodges, because the princi-
Piles of Masonry inculcate obedience to the
government under which we live. The
lodges in the several States, therefore. af-
ter the termination of the war, resorted to
the proper and necessary means of forming
and establishing Independent Grand Lodges,
for the government of the fraternity in
their respective Jurisdictions.
June 10, 1892, the officers and members
of the two Grand Lodges, which had been
at variance, met in conjunction, agreeably
to a previous arrangement, and having ef-
fected complete Masonic union. installed
the Most Worshipful John Cutler, Grand
Master, and resolved that this Grand Lodge
shall forever hereafter be known by the
name OF the Grand Lodge of the Most An
cicnt and Honorable Society of Free and
Accepted Masons of the Commonw calth OF
Massachusetts.
The Grand Lodge OF Vermont was con
stituted at Rutland, October IA, 1904.
ANNUAL MEETING.
The annual election of officers of Adoni
ram Chapter, Manchester, No. IS, r. AM
occurs Thursday evening May 9th A gen.
cral attendance is desired.
MASONIC PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM.
Dr. Robert Morris, LII. d., Past Grand
Master of Kentucky, and now the present
Worshipful Master of Royal Solomon
Lodge, No 293 OF Jerusalem, the only Ma
sonic Lodge in Palestine, is now organizing
a masonic visit to be composed of Master
Masons, limited in number. He will leave
New York by one of the first-cass lines on
| September 26th next, and will visit Liver
pool, London, Paris, Turin, Milan, Venice
Trieste, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids
| SneZ, lsmailia, Port Said, Jaffa, GAIA, He
bron, the Pools OF solomon and Jerusalem,
and from thence to the Dead Sea, the Jor-
dan, the Sea of Gallilce, Nazareth, Noun,
| Herm0n, Damascus, Baalbec, the Cedars
of Lebanon, and all points of masonic in
terest through the Holy Land, opening his
lodge in many of these appointed places
returning from Beyrout in Syria, the party
will 90 to Smyrna, Ephesus, Constantinople
Athens, Corfu Brindisi, Naples, Pompeii,
Nesuyius, Sorrento, Rome, Florence, Boz
logna, Mt. Gents, Geneva, Berne, Bale,
Paris, London, York, Edinburgh, Ayr,
Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Liverpool, pay
ing official Masonic visits to the Lodges
and Grand Lodge at all these points.
DR. Morris has number of brethren
already enrolled, and has made a contract
with Cook, Son Il jenkins, of New York
and London, the great excursion managers,
in which they agree TO conduct this party
from New York over the entire route back