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PAINTED POST LODGE, NO. 117, CORNING, N. Y.
WARRANT: The warrant in possession of the Lodge is dated June 11, 1857.
MINUTES: Intact from 1857.
The Lodge was first organized in 1807 and was numbered 203. It continued to work until about 1831, when it ceased to hold
meetings and its charter was forfeited. Nearly all of the papers and records of the Lodge up to the time it ceased to work are
missing, and no existing records offer any explanation or throw any light upon the circumstances which compelled the Lodge to
cease work; the supposition is that the same influences which affected other Lodges and compelled so many to close their doors,
some for a short time and others forever, closed the door of Painted Post Lodge, No. 203, and the light of Freemasonry was
extinguished in Painted Post (now Corning), and became but a memory until the summer of 1846. Fifteen years passed before any
effort was made to revive the old Lodge. The old warrant was missing; the members became scattered, some had died and others
had moved from the place; it was, therefore, decided to apply for a new charter. A petition was presented to the Grand Master, and
on August 18, 1846, a dispensation was granted authorizing SAMUEL BOYCE as Master, RORERT H. HOYT as Senior Warden
and BENAJAH P. BAILEY as Junior Warden to hold a Lodge and proceed to work.
On December 2, 1846, a warrant was issued, naming as officers:
SAMUEL BOYCE, Master; BENAJAH P. BAILEY, Senior Warden; SAMUEL S. MOORE, Junior Warden.
It was given the number 117.
In the month of July, 1855, the Lodge lost all of its property by fire, including the warrant, and it did not receive the warrant now in its
possession until June 11, 1857.
On the warrant is the following note: "This warrant is issued by order of the Grand Lodge at its session June, 1857, as a substitute
for one lost by fire."
The officers named in the warrant are:
James B. Lower, Master; Jacob H. Lansing, Senior Warden; Morgan H. Davis, Junior Warden.
MASTERS of No. 203.
1808-14. John Knox.
1815-17. Joseph Gillett.
1818. John Knox.
1819. John Knox.
1820. John Knox.
1821. John Knox.
1822. Henry Stevens.
1823. Swain Mallory.
1824. Swain Mallory.
1825. Swain Mallory.
1826. Daniel Brown.
1827. Daniel Brown.
1828. Daniel Brown.
MASTERS of No. 117.
1846. Samuel Boyce.
1847. Samuel Boyce.
1848. Samuel Boyce.
1849. Benajah P. Bailey.
1850. Benajah P. Bailey.
1851. Benajah P. Bailey.
1852. Benajah P. Bailey.
1853. Samuel Boyce.
1854. William A. Spencer.
1855. James B. Lower.
1856. James B. Lower.
1857. James B. Lower.
1858. Jacob H. Lansing.
1859. Jacob H. Lansing.
1860. Charles M. Gamman.
1861. Charles M. Gamman.
1862. John Eves.
1863. John Eves.
1864. John Eves.
1805. John Eves.
1866. F. E. Spaulding.
1867. F. E. Spaulding.
1868. Charles H. Thomson.
1809. Charles H. Thomson.
1870. Richard L. Hill.
1871. Richard L. Hill.
1872. Truman S. Pritchard.
1873. Truman S. Pritchard.
1874. Henry A. Balcom.
1875. William J. Bryan.
1876. William J. Bryan.
1877. Joseph J. Tully.
1878. Joseph J. Tully.
1879. John S. Earle.
1880. John S. Earle.
1881. Ahas Robbins.
1882. C. E. Greenfield.
1883. James Hoare.
1884. James Hoare.
1885. Alfred J. Etheridge.
1886. Alfred J. Etheridge.
1887. William F. Sheehan.
1888. William F. Sheehan.
1889. Alfred J. Etheridge.
1890. George B. Hill.
1891. William F. Sheehan.
1892. John Comosh, Jr.
1893. Elbert B. Seymour.
1894. Elbert B. Seymour.
1895. Warren J. Cheney.
1896. Warren J. Cheney.
1897. Joseph P. Hoare.
1898. C. Fred Remmell.
1899. C. Fred Remmell.
1900. Francis C. Williams.
1901. Edgar E. Magee.
1902. Edgar E. Magee.
1903. Roswell E. Sunderlin.
1904. George W. Robertson.
1905. Bialostoski Phillips.
1906. William H. Corbin.
ADDISON UNION LODGE, NO. 118, ADDISON, NY.
WARRANT: The warrant in possession of the Lodge is dated June 4, 1847. The name or number has never been changed.
The officers named in the warrant are:
Bradley Blakslee, Master; Isaiah J. A. Jones, Senior Warden; Russell Blakslee, Junior Warden.
The dispensation was issued December 21, 1846, and made returnable May 20, 1847.
The first meeting under the dispensation was held January 11, 1847. The following were present:
Brad|ey Blakslee. Russell Blakslee.
Isaiah Jennings. Isaiah J. A. Jones.
Lwellyn A. Jones. Jerathmel Powers, Sr.
Jerathmel Powers, Jr.
The first candidate initiated was JOSEPH LOCKERBY, on January 21, 1847.
MASTERS.
1847. Bradley Blakslee.
1848. Bradley Blakslee.
1849. Bradley Blakslee.
1850. Isaiah J. Jones.
1851. Bradley Blakslee.
1852. E. N. Foot.
1853. E. D. Root.
1854. Bradley Blakslee.
1855. Thomas S. Reynolds.
1856. Lewellyn A. Jones.
1857. Thomas S. Reynolds.
1858. Josiah Curtis.
1859. Josiah Curtis.
1860. Simeon McCullough.
1861. Simeon McCullough.
1862. Zelotus Grinnell.
1863. Zelotus Grinnell.
1864. W. A. Warriner.
1865. Zelotus Grinnell.
1866. Zelotus Grinnell.
1867. John Mitchell.
1868. Charles H. Edwards.
1869. Charles H. Edwards.
1870. Zolotus Grinnell.
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