The Early Introduction of Bogus Freemasonry in the United States of America and Texas Among Colored MasonsMitchell, C. L. (Charles L.)
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The Early Introduction of Bogus Freemasonry in the United States of America and Texas Among Colored Masons
Mitchell, C. L. (Charles L.)
African American freemasonry
1st Answer. The Colored Men in the state of Massachusetts that have been
advertised of having been made Master Masons, were Prince Hall, Boston
Smith, Thomas Sanderson and two or three others. They have said and have
tried to make someone believe that they were made Master Masons in a
White Masonic Lodge that was called a Traveling Masonic Lodge and that
it was connected with General Gages Military Regiment at Boston
Massachusetts on the 6th of March 1775 and that this White Masonic Lodge
in General Gages Military Regiment, they said, held a charter from the
Grand Lodge of England, and replying to that unwarranted statement made
and published by the leaders of the spurious Prince Hall Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts, for the Grand Lodge of England has repeatedly said that
they did not have any masonic lodge in General Gages Military Regiment
when that regiment was in the United States and the question has time
after time been asked the members of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts and particularly those in Massachusetts that claim to know
so much about it to give the name and the number of that masonic lodge
that Prince Hall, Boston Smith and Thomas Sanderson was made master
masons in that was connected with General Gages Military Regiment which
was then in the United States, and these wily fellows and Masonic
intervators have never been able to give us any information as to what
the name or even the number of this Masonic Lodge that they say was in
General Gages Military Regiment. And inasmuch as no person has ever been
found that could furnish any genuine information about this matter there
is no doubt but the statements that have been paraded around the country
about this matter were bare-faced, willful and malicious falsehoods, and
in the absence of any proof to confirm their statements it is very safe
to say that Prince Hall, Boston Smith, Thomas Sanderson and their
associates simply went to bed at night and dreamed that they had been
made Master Masons and got up next morning with their minds in a high
state of hallucination and really thought it was so, when as a matter of
fact there was nothing, nothing in it, and they simply drew on their
imaginations.
2nd question. What was the name of the first lodge of Colored Men who
belonged to the Masonic fraternity in the state of Mass.?
2nd Answer. The name of the first Colored Lodge of Masons in the state
of Massachusetts was a lodge named African Lodge No. 459.
3rd question. When was the first Grand Lodge of Colored Masons organized
in the state of Mass.?
3rd Answer. The name of the first Grand Lodge of Colored Masons that was
organized in the state of Mass. was a Grand Lodge that was designated as
African Grand Lodge of Modern Masons of Mass.
4th question. How many lodges took part in the organization of African
Grand Lodge of Modern Masons that was organized at Boston Mass. on the
24th of June 1791?
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