The magazine of history with notes and queries (Vol. I, No. 5, May 1905)Various
History
The magazine of history with notes and queries (Vol. I, No. 5, May 1905)
Various
History -- Periodicals; United States -- History -- Periodicals
The Treasurer on his right hand supporting the Sword of Justice: the
Secretary on his left supporting the Bible, Square, and Compasses.
6. Br. Peck, the Inside Tyler. Music advanced playing the Entered
Apprentice March.
The W. Master and Brethren having seated themselves together with a
number of respectable Inhabitants, gentlemen and ladies, the Rev. Doct.
Evans delivered a discourse suitable to the occasion.
After dinner the W. Master called on Bro. Munson and others for songs
and sentiments when the company were favored with the following, each
song and toast being enlivened with appropriate music.
Song by Bro. MUNSON _Watery Gods_
Toast _Health of Congress_
Music _Grenadier’s March_
Song by Bro. MUNSON _Elegy on Gen. Wolfe_
Toast _Arts and Sciences_
Music _Dead March_
Mason’s Song by Bro. REDFIELD
Toast _The Good and Just_
Music _Prince Eugene_
Song by Bro. MUNSON _Colin and Phebe_
Toast _The Ladies of America_
Music _Country Jig_
Song on Masonry by Bro. MARSHALL Music _Splendor of the Morning_
Song by Bros. MUNSON and MARSHALL _The Tempest_
_With Jack the Seaman to conclude._
At six o’clock the procession returned to the Lodge room and the Lodge
being opened it was,
“Voted, That the thanks of the lodge be presented in writing to the
Rev. Doct. Evans for his polite address and sentiments delivered this
day, and that Bro. Waldo wait on him with the same; also that Bro.
Waldo present our thanks to the Rev. Mr. Bartlett and to the other
gentlemen and ladies who favored the lodge with their company at
dinner.”
Todd, in his History of Redding gives one of the songs sung on this
occasion.
But it is in his biographical record of the patriots and loyalists of
Redding that Mr. Grumman’s book is most original and valuable. There are
one hundred pages of these, compiled with an accuracy and fullness
surprising to one who realizes the paucity of material of this sort now
extant and the difficulty of securing it.
Joel Barlow, poet, statesman, and earlier, Chaplain in the Army was one
of the most distinguished of these. Mr. Grumman has a very interesting
extract from the diary of the Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, dated Sept. 14,
1773, regarding young Joel’s matriculation at Moor’s preparatory school
in Hanover, N. H., not given by any of the poet’s biographers so far as
we are aware.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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