![]() ![]() We now apply to the fountain from whom we received lights for this favor and, dear Sir, I must beg you to be our advocate for us by sending this, our request, to His Royal Highness, the Duke of Cumberland, Grand Master, and to the Right Honourable Earl of Effingham, Acting Grand Master, the Deputy Grand Master and Grand Wardens and the rest of the Brethren of the Grand Lodge, that they would graciously be pleased to grant us a charter to hold this Lodge as long as we behave up to the spirit of the constitution. We have had no opportunity till now of applying for a warrant though we were pressed upon to send to France for one, but we refused it for reasons best known to ourselves. I hope they behaved themselves as men and as Masons with you, if not I would be glad if you would be so good as to let me know of it and they shall be dealt with accordingly.ĭear Brother, I would inform you that this Lodge has been founded almost this eight years, and had no warrant yet but only a permit from Grand Master Rowe to walk on St John’s Days and to bury our dead in form which we now enjoy. What you have done to them, I look upon as done to me and the whole of us, for which I give you many thanks and likewise to all the Lodge. Permit me to return you my hearty thanks for your brotherly courtesy to Brothers Reed and Mene, when in a strange land, and when in a time of need you were so good as to receive them as brothers and to treat them as kindly as they inform me you did. The arrangements are set out in a letter and petition sent by Hall to Moody: On 2 March 1784, Prince Hall petitioned the Premier Grand Lodge of England with the help of William Moody, Worshipful Master of the Lodge of Brotherly Love, No. The regiment was stationed in Boston it subsequently left for Nova Scotia and New York. 441, Irish Constitution, which was attached to the 38th Regiment of Foot in the British Army. ![]() His additional legacy to Masonic history came when Prince Hall and fourteen other free black men were initiated on 6 March 1775 by Sergeant John Batt and formed African Lodge No.1. Hall was a staunch proponent of equal treatment and education for blacks, and the abolition of slavery and the slave trade. The origin of African Lodge, America’s first black Masonic lodge, dates to c.1778 and to Prince Hall (c.1738-1807), a prominent black leader in Boston, Massachusetts.
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