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With a charter, African Lodge #459 could initiate more men from the free black community in Boston. In 1797 Prince Hall organized subsidiary lodges in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Providence, Rhode Island. These operated under the charter of African Lodge (and initially were also given the name "African Lodge" and the number 459.
James George Barbadoes (c. 1796–June 22, 1841) [1] was an African-American, community leader, and abolitionist in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 19th century. Dedicated to improving the lives of people of color at the local level, as well as the national level.
After Hall died on December 4, 1807, the brethren organized the African Grand Lodge on June 24, 1808, including the Philadelphia, Providence, and Boston lodges. [21] African Grand Lodge declared independence from the United Grand Lodge of England and all other lodges in 1827. In 1847, they renamed Prince Hall Grand Lodge to honor their founder ...
On June 25, 1797, he organized African Lodge (later known as Hiram Lodge #3) at Providence, Rhode Island. [10] [4]: 68, 74 Author and historian James Sidbury stated: Prince Hall and those who joined him to found Boston's African Masonic Lodge built a fundamentally new "African" movement on a preexisting institutional foundation.
The National Grand Lodge was established June 24, 1847 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Grand Lodges which were of direct lineage to African Lodge No. 459.Those Grand Lodges were the African Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, First Independent African Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and Hiram Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
English: This file can be found on the microfilm that contain the records African Lodge #459 of Boston. The same microfilm can be found at the Samuel Crockett Masonic Library in Massachusetts, attached to the MW Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.
He also played a key role in Boston black community as member of the African Grand Lodge no. 459 which later became known as Prince Hall Mason. [18] Paul was opposed to integrated education as he believed that black children would receive better education from classrooms taught by black instructors with other black children. [4] [19]
Unsuccessful in attempts to establish a public school with the city of Boston in 1800, the school was moved to the African Meeting House, the church built by Thomas Paul, an African American minister. Hall was one of the church's founders, and he continued fund-raising to support the African American school until 1835. [1] [9]