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At six o'clock the procession returned to the Lodge room, and the Lodge being open, it was
Voted, That the thanks of this 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.
Voted, That Brs. Whitney and Peck act as inside and outside Tylers, and share equally the profits of tyling this Lodge.
Ensign Wm. Higgins, Quartermaster to the Third Connecticut Battalion, and Doct. John Simpson, Surgeon to the Fifth Battalion,
were proposed by Brs. Watrous and Redfield to be made Masons.
April 15, 1779, 6 o'clock p. M.
Entered Apprentice's Lodge of Emergency; present, all the officers and several members and visitors.
Bro. Sill proposed the Rev. Doct. T 1 Evans to be made
a Mason; and, as he was under the necessity of soon departing from this place, and his character was so universally well known by
all the brethren, he was balloted for and accepted, and it was voted, that an emergent meeting be held to-morrow evening for the
purpose of making him.
Ensign Wm. Higgins and Doct. John Simpson, heretofore proposed, were separately balloted for, accepted, and made Entered
Apprentices.
Voted, That the thanks of the Lodge be transmitted to .Bro. Elihu Marshall, for his particular attention to the Lodge while serving
them as Senior Warden.
Voted, That the members of this Lodge, who were present at the feast on Wednesday the 7th inst., pay a club of five dollars, and
that Bro. Belden's bill be paid for the two feasts, viz.:
For Thursday, March 25th £ 45 0 3
For Wednesday, April 7th 81 14 11
Bro. Sill's bill for Apl. 7th 19 14 0
Bro. Little's bill, Mar. 25th 1 11 0
"Apl. 7th 4 10 0
£ 152 16 2
Voted, That Bro. Belding have an order on Bro. Judd for the balance in his hands. Closed without time.
READING, viz. Mrs. Sanford's, April 28th, 1779.
Entered Apprentice Lodge opened by adjournment; present, Br. Heart as W. M.; other officers, members and visitors.
Lieut. Reuben Pride, heretofore proposed, was balloted for, accepted, and made an Entered Apprentice.
May 5th.—Brs. Wm. Jiuld, Jabez Clark, and Samuel Richards, heretofore made Fellow Crafts, were proposed, separately balloted
for and accepted, and severally raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason.
[The operations of the Army now requiring the Connecticut Line to remove their quarters, the subsequent meetings of this Lodge
were held in the States of New York and New Jersey.]
STATE OF NEW YOKK.
NELSON'S POINT, June 24th, 1779.
Festival of St. John the Baptist.
The American Union Lodge held by authority under the Most Worshipful John Howe, Esq., Grand Master of all Masons in North
America, where no special Grand Master is appointed, confirmed by the Most Worshipful Peter Middleton, M.D., Provincial Deputy
Grand Master for the province of New York, by the name of Military Union Lodge.
8 o'clock A. M. Officers present—Brs. Parsons, W. M.; Heart, S. W.; Redfield, J. AY.; Champion, Treasurer; Grosvenor, Secretary;
Whitney, Tyler. Members present—Brs. Little, Gray, Clark, Pride, Watrous, Stilwill, Higgins, Warner, Wyllys, Clift, Fitch, Brown,
Holdridge, Lawrence, Richards, Humphreys, Judd, Sill, Judson. Visitors—Brs. Munson, Perkins, Coleman, Hubbard, Woodward.
Lodge opened, and proceeded to the business of the day, viz.: to elect officers for the half year ensuing, agreeable to Constitution,
when the following brethren were unanimously chosen, viz.: Jonathan Heart, W. Master; Samuel H. Parsons, S. Warden; Samuel
Wyllys, Jun. Warden; Simeon Belding, Treasurer; Thomas Grosvenor, Secretary; William Redfield and William Little, Stewards;
Daniel Whitney, Tyler.
The officers elect having taken their seats and finished the partial business of the day, Lodge was closed till 10 o'clock A. M., then to
meet on West Point, in order to celebrate the Festival of St. John.
The brethren then proceeded to West Point, where, being joined by a number of brothers from the Brigades on West Point and
Constitution Island, the whole proceeded from General Patterson's Quarters «to the Red House in the following order:
1. Bro. Whitney, to clear the way.
2. The band of music with drums and fifes.
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