The self styled Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Mass. and the Grand Lodges among Colored Masons that recognized them and affiliated with them have time after time published in their printed proceedings to the Masonic world that Freemasonry among Colored Men in the state of Mass. commenced at the time when Prince Hall, Boston Smith, Thomas Sanderson and their associates were made master masons that it was in a white lodge and that this White Masonic Lodge was connected with General Gages Military Regiment, and that this Military Regiment was at Boston Mass. March the 6th 1775 and the Masonic Lodge that was claimed to be connected with General Gages Military Regiment holds its charter of power and authority from the Grand Lodge of England and they positively state in language that it is so plain that it cannot be misunderstood that Prince Hall, Boston Smith, Thomas Sanderson and their followers was made Master Masons on the 6th of March 1775 at Boston Mass. if any person has any doubt about the matter read the printed Masonic proceedings of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Mass. of 1875, 1876 and 1877 and the year of 1903 and 1904. See the History of Freemasonry among Colored Men in the State of Mass. by the late Louis Hayden past Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Mass. See the Grand Lodge proceedings of Illinois for the year of 1873, 1874 and 1875. See the Grand Lodge proceedings of Pennsylvania of 1865, 1872, and 1876. See the historical facts of Freemasonry among Colored Men in the United States published by J. M. Conna of Connecticut in the year of 1876. See the history of Freemasonry among Colored Men in the United States by W. H. Grimshaw of Washington D. C. 1903. These and many other Grand Lodges make the same statement. Now to show you that these ignoramuses and peddlers of Masonic falsehood did not even know or have the slightest conception of what they were talking about. They hastened to put their ignorant and prejudice imagination and conclusions into print which has been the cause and the means of bringing confusion among the craft.