Federal,

Randolph. Green Mountain, Ludlow.

Mount Moriah, Wardsboro'. United Brethren, Norwich. Meridian Sun, Greensboro'. Mount Vernon, Hyde-Park. Morning Sun, Bridport.

CHAPTER VIII.

Grand Lodge of New. York.

The Grand Lodge of New-York was first constituted by a warrant from the Duke of Athol, dated London, 5th September, A. D. 1781.

In conformity to the example which had been set by the grand lodges of several states after the revolutionary contest, on the 5th September, A. D. 1787, the masters and wardens of the several lodges within the state, having been duly notified, assembled in the city of -New-York; and the late provincial grand lodge having been closed sine die, formed and opened an independent grand lodge, and elected and installed their grand officers.

Subordinate Lodges.

St. John's, No. 1, N. York. | Hiram,

Lansinburg.

St. John's, No. 6,

do.

Unity,

Canaan.

Steuben,

Newburg.

Orange,

Goshen.

Stanford.

Solomon's, Poughkeepsie. St. Andrew's,

St. George's, Schenectady. Westchester, Westchester. St. Patrick's, Johnstown. Beekman, Beekmantown.

Brooklyn.

Fortitude,
Temple, N. East Precinct.
Washington, Fort Edward.
St. Simon and St. Jude,

Fishkill.

Hudson,
Jamaica,

Hudson. Aurora,
Jamaica. Liberty,

Fairfield.

Granville.

Western Light,

Lisle,

St. Alban's,

Franklin,

Tioga,

Union. Warsaw,

Walton,

Duanesburg. Sanger,

Brooklyn. Solomon's, Mark Master's,

Charlestown. 49 N. East.

Marcellus. Northern Light, Dekalb.

Frederick. Western Star, Bridgewater.

Warsaw.

Sangerfield.

Roman,

Rome. Scipio,

Aurora.

Herschel,

Hartford. Hampton,

Sag Harbour,

Hiram,

Aurelius. Long Island.

Morton,

Schenectady. Genesee,

Avon.

Asylum,

Selected Friends, Camillus.

Coeymans. Eastern Light, Watertown.

Western Star, Scipio. Genesee,

CHAPTER IX.

Grand Lodge of New-Jersey.

A Convention of free and accepted masons of the state of New-Jersey was holden, agreeable to previous notice, on the 18th December, A. D. 1786, at the city of New Brunswick, when a grand lodge for the said state was duly constituted, and the Hon. David Brearly, Esq. chief justice of the state, was elected first grand

Olive Branch, Phillipsburg.
Cincinnati,

Princeton.

N. Hampton.

Montville. Sharp Town, Sharp Town.
Chatham,

Mount Holly, Mount Holly,

Salem,

Salem.

Chatham.

The annual meeting of the grand lodge is holden on

the second Tuesday in November at Trenton..

CHAPTER X.

Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.

On the 24th of June, 1734, upon the petition of several brethren residing in Philadelphia, a warrant of constitution was granted by the grand lodge of Boston, for holding a lodge in that place; appointing the Rt. Worshipful Benjamin Franklin their first master; which is the beginning of masonry in Pennsylvania.

The grand lodge of England granted a grand warrant, bearing date the 20th June, A. D. 1764, to the M. W. William Bell and others, authorizing them to form and hold a grand lodge for the state of Pennsylvania.

The grand officers, together with the officers and representatives of a number of regular lodges under their jurisdiction, at a communication holden in the grand lodge room in the city of Philadelphia, on the 25th day of September, 1786, after mature and serious deliberation, unanimously resolved, "That it is improper that the grand lodge of Pennsylvania should remain any longer under the authority of any foreign grand lodge." And the said grand lodge did then close sine die.

The grand convention thus assembled did then and there unanimously resolve, that the lodges under the jurisdiction of the grand lodge of Pennsylvania, aforesaid, lately holden as a provincial grand lodge, under the authority of the grand lodge of England, should, and they did form themselves into a grand lodge, to be called "The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and masonic jurisdicsion thereunto belonging," to be held in the said city of Philadelphia.