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This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in United States. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, commonly referred to as the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and abbreviated GLMA, is the main governing body of Freemasonry within Massachusetts, and maintains Lodges in other jurisdictions overseas, namely Panama, Chile, the People's Republic of China (meeting in Tokyo, Japan), and ...
The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Kentucky was established by warrant of the National Grand Lodge January 31, 1867 [11] The MW Prince Hall Grand Lodge of North Carolina In 1866, under authority of the Grand Lodge of New York, Past Grand Master Paul Drayton organized King Solomon Lodge #23 (now #1,) at New Bern, North Carolina, and ...
Prince Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, Grand Master 1791–1807. There have been many other notable Masons who were affiliated with Prince Hall originated Grand Lodges, including: A. G. Gaston, entrepreneur. [32] Al Green, American singer, songwriter, and record producer. [33] Benjamin Hooks, [34] civil rights leader and government official.
Edward Bass (1726–1803), first American Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts and second bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island. Admitted as a member of St. John's Lodge No. 1 of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 12 April 1758. Served as grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1768. [10]
Hall was born between 1735 and 1738. [3] [4] [a] His place of birth and parents are also unclear.[5] [b] Hall mentioned in his writings that New England was his homeland.The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in its Proceedings of 1906, opted for 1738, relying on a letter from Reverend Jeremy Belknap, a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. [5]
It was this same Grand Lodge, the MWPHGL of Massachusetts, who called for the Convention in Boston (1847), where three Grand Lodges and delegates from Boyer Lodge in New York (all of which were existing Independent of the National Grand Lodge) formed the National Compact (Agreement), which gave life to the National Grand Lodge, June of 1847 [4 ...
Freemasonry was first established in Connecticut from the city of New Haven in 1750. [2] David Wooster was the charter Master of "The Lodge at New Haven", which later became Hiram Lodge No. 1.