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out the period 1775 to 1792 which as a period that witnessed the disruption
of important aspects of order in Massachusetts.
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This was also the scene of Joseph Warren’s most intimate political
and Masonic associations with the patriots and Masons of his time. To
the members of the Lodge of St Andrew, it is endeared by ties that go
back hundreds of years. In fact it was this lodge that actually purchased
the building and became its owner.
At the quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge on 24 March
1864, the Worshipful Master Edward Stearns, called the attention of
the lodge to the fact that the Green Dragon Tavern was purchased by
the lodge on 31 March 1764.
The importance of this tavern to both Freemasonry and the revolution
will become clearer when one realises that the lodge members included
Paul Revere and John Hancock and that this tavern launched
the Boston Tea Party, an action that actually took place on the normal
meeting night of the lodge. Were the plotters and participants in this
affair that shook England members of Lodge St Andrew or were they
really members of the Sons of Liberty, a revolutionary organisation
that not only met at
The Green Dragon but whose membership numbered many, if not
mostly, Freemasons?
Warren G Harding - 29th President of the USA
“ I say it with due deliberation and without fear of breaking faith, I
have never encountered a lesson, never witnessed an example,
never heard an obligation uttered which could not be openly proclaimed
to the world.
More, if lessons taught were heeded, the obligations read were assumed,
if the relationships urged were adopted, men would be infinitely
better in their human relationships and better citizens of this
country.”