Old Masonic Lodges of Pennsylvania "Moderns and "Ancients" Front Matter 2
OLD MASONIC LODGES
OF PENNSYLVANIA
"MODERNS" AND "ANCIENTS"
1730-1800
Which Have Surrendered Their Warrants or
Affiliated with Other Grand Lodges
Compiled from Original Records
In the Archives of the R. W. Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of
Pennsylvania, Under the Direction of the
Committee on Library
BY
JULIUS F. SACHSE, LiTT.D.
LIBRARIAN OF THE GRAND LODGE
VOLUME II
Covering Period 1779-1791
PHILADELPHIA
1913
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1914, in the Office
of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C,
by J. Henht Williams, R.W.G.M.
Committee on Library
JOHN WANAMAKER, Chairman
I. LAYTON REGISTER
SAMUEL W. LATTA
CHARLES L. LOCKWOOD
HARMAN YERKES
NORRIS S. BARRATT
JOHN L. KINSEY
JULIUS F. SACHSE, Librarian
An Edition of Fifteen Hundred Copies has been
printed, of which this is No. 203
Press of
The New Era Printing Company
Lancaster, Pa.
FOREWORD.
THE first volume of the History of the Old Masonic Lodges of Pennsylvania, "Moderns and Ancients," from 1730 to 1800, brought usdown to June 19, 1778,when Philadelphia was evacuated by the British, and the Stars and Stripes again floated over the Independence Hall. We there gave the story of the "Moderns"—how the Altar of Freemasonry was set up in Penn's Sylvan City on the Delaware in the year 1730—the town then consisting of a strip of houses from Vine to Walnut Streets, and from the Delaware River to Fourth Street. It also tells the story of the Grand Lodge of "Moderns," as presided over by Grand Masters Allen, Murray, Franklin, Hamilton, HopMnson, Plumstead and Syngand the four Subordinate Lodges under their jurisdiction, and the Provincial Grand Lodge of "Ancients" with its twenty Subordinate Lodges, the last warranted being the Military Lodge in the Seventeenth Regiment of Foot in the British Army, which was granted during the British occupation of Philadelphia in the Revolutionary War.
The second volume begins with the reconstruction, as it were, of the Provincial Grand Lodge, after the British had passed beyond the Delaware. The vicinity of Philadelphia, however, for some time thereafter, was the center of military activity, and it was almost a year later before the city assumed its normal conditions. One of the first results of the situation
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which our Provincial Grand Lodge cast off its foreign allegiance and emerged into the present "E.W. Grand Lodge of F.&A. M. of Pennsylvania, and Masonic Jurisdiction Thereunto Belonging."
As was the case in the compilation of the first volume, acknowledgments are due the E.W, Grand' Secretary, Bro. John A. Perry, for courtesies extended to the compiler, and to Bro, James M. Lamberton, Past Master of Perseverence Lodge, No. 21, Senior Grand Deacon and Chairman of the Committee on Correspondence of the Grand Lodge, for many valuable suggestions in the preparation of copy, and the revision of the proof. Also to Bro. Oscar Jewell Harvey, Past Master of Lodge No. 61, for data and illustrations relating to the Masonic history of Wyoming Valley. To Bro. Frederic Eommel, Past Master of Lodge No. 45, for facts relating to the early history of Pittsburg, and Bro. A. B. Andrews, of Ealeigh, N. C, for photograph of the North Carolina Flag, used to illustrate the story of Lodge No. 20, A. Y. M, in the North Carolina Line.
Julius F. Sachse,Librarian and Curator.
November 22, 1913.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER LX.
Lodge No. 54, Held at the Town of Washington,
Washington County, Pennsylvania (pages) 306-316
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