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OF FREEMASONRY IN LOUISIANA. 13<br />

affiliation," all the members of Bienfaisance Lodge No. 1, and request<br />

as speedy an answer as possible. The next day a favorable response was<br />

received, and Bienfaisance Lodge ceased to exist as a separate organization.<br />

Its records are in the archives of the Grand Lodge.<br />

"The actual, condition of surrounding circumstances," in all probability,<br />

refers to the "action of the other lodges in sending delegates to a meeting<br />

called by P. F. Dubourg, W. M. of Perfect Union Lodge, which resulted<br />

in the formation of a committee "to provide for the establishment of a<br />

Grand Lodge in the city of New Orleans."<br />

Up to this date (1812) all the lodges that had been constituted in<br />

Louisiana were located in the city or suburbs of New Orleans.* The<br />

Opelousas and Attakapas country was the most populous portion of. the<br />

Territory, but not sufficiently so to support a lodge; what are now known<br />

as' the Florida Parishes, and of which Baton Rouge was the principal mili-<br />

. tary post, had been lately wrested from Spain and were not included<br />

within the boundaries of Louisiana when the convention framed the State<br />

constitution, but annexed to it afterward by Congress. Still, even if it<br />

had not been under the Spanish rule, it was too sparsely settled to afford<br />

a home for Masonry in an organized form.<br />

So far as can be ascertained, charters had been granted for the establishment<br />

of twelve lodges in the city of New Orleans before the Grand<br />

Lodge was formed, viz:<br />

Name of Lodge. By whom Chartered. Date of Charter.<br />

Perfect Union No. 29 Grand Lodge of South Carolina. .March 30, 1794.<br />

Polar Star No. 4293... Pro. Lodge Sincerite, Marseilles,. Dec. 27, 1798.<br />

and reconstituted by Grand Orient of France Nov. 11, 1804.<br />

Candor No. 90 Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania May 18, 1801.<br />

Charity No. 93 Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania March 1, 1802.<br />

Reunion Desiree No. 3829 Grand Orient of France.. .Feb'y 17, 1807.<br />

Louisiana No. 1 Grand Lodge, of New York Sept. 2, 1807.<br />

Reunion Defcire'eNo. 112. .Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Sept. 15, 1808.<br />

Concord No. 117 Grand Lodge' of Pennsylvania.. .. Oct. 7, 1810.<br />

Perseverance No. 118... Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.... Oct. 7, 1810.<br />

Harmony -No. 122 Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.... Nov. 19, 1810.<br />

Polar Star No. 129.... Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. ... June 3, 1811.<br />

Bienfaisance No. 1.... Grand Consistory of Jamaica... .June 22, 1811.<br />

Of these lodges, Candor No. 90, York Rite, was in all probability never<br />

organized; Reunion Desiree No. 3829, French Rite, ceased to exist November<br />

27, 1808; Polar Star No. 4293, French Rite, adjourned sine die, October<br />

13, 1811; Reunion Desired No. 112, York Rite, dissolved March 23, 1812;<br />

and Bienfaisance No. 1, Scotch Rite, affiliated with Concord No. 117, May<br />

27, 1812—leaving seven lodges in full activity and all working the York-<br />

Rite, viz.:<br />

Perfect Union Lodge No. 29, chartered by Grand Lodge of South Carolina.<br />

Charity Lodge No. 93, chartered by Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.<br />

Louisiana Lodge No. 1, chartered by Grand Lodge of 'New York.<br />

Concord Lodge No. 117, chartered by Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.<br />

Perseverance Lodge No. 118, chartered by Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.<br />

Harmony Lodge No. 122, chartered by Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.<br />

Polar Star Lodge No. 129, chartered by Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.<br />

•During the Spanish domination, the lodges met outside the city walls. Perfect Union<br />

Lodge met in the Faubourg Ste. Marie, and the property on which their hall stood, corner<br />

Camp and Gravier streets, is now worth balf a million dollars. It was in this hall<br />

the Convention met which formed the Grand Lodge, tout tlie property was sold many years<br />

ago, for what at the lime was considered a liigli price.

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