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
I am satisfied that the claim put forth by the members of the spurious
Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Mass. that Prince Hall and his associates
claiming that they were made Master Masons in a Lodge in General Gages
Military Regiment on March the 6th 1775 at Boston Mass. is a falsehood
and a complete misrepresentation from beginning to end for there is not
a particle of genuine documentary evidence that has ever been presented
to sustain or reply upon anything that the followers and Members of the
Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Mass. has ever said or written.
AFRICAN GRAND LODGE OF MODERN MASONS OF MASSACHUSETTS ORGANIZED WITH
ONLY ONE LODGE ON THE 24TH OF JUNE 1791 AT BOSTON MASS.
The first Grand Lodge of Colored Masons in the State of Mass. was named
African Grand Lodge of Modern Masons of Mass. and it was organized with
only one Lodge and the name of that Lodge was African Lodge No. 459 this
occurred on the 24th of June 1791 at Boston Mass. See the circular of
the proceedings of the organization of African Grand Lodge of Modern
Mason of Mass. organized June the 24th 1791 at Boston Mass. and signed
by Prince Hall Grand Master and Prince Taylor Grand Secretary of the
African Grand Lodge of Modern Masons of Mass. See the printed
proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois in 1867. See the printed
proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Iowa when it was organized in the year
of 1881 when John Page was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
Colored Masons of the State of Iowa in 1881.
See the circular and the Masonic proceedings issued by J. H. Hall Grand
Secretary of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey in the year of 1873. See the
proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee when Nelson McGavoc was
Grand Master and Abraham Smith was Grand Secretary in the year of 1874.
See the circular issued by the Grand Lodge of New York in 1874 when W.
C. H. Curtis was Grand Master, and Albert Woodson was Grand Secretary.
See the printed proceedings of the various sessions of the Grand Lodge
of Mass. See the history of Freemasonry in the United States among
Colored Men by J. N. Conna of Connecticut together with the Published
statements of a number of other Grand Lodges and they all emphatically
state and agree in language that is not uncertain, that the first Grand
Lodge of Colored Masons organized in the State of Mass. was African
Grand Lodge of Modern Masons which was organized with only one Lodge and
that was on the 24th day of June 1791 at Boston Mass.
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