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February Brethren! As I Write This in Early the January, the Winter Is Still Mild by Winter’S Standards INSIDEINSIDE LODGES HistoryHistory ofof FreemasonryFreemasonry OF THE OF THE inin NewNew JerseyJersey 18TH18TH DISTRICTDISTRICT RudyardRudyard Kipling’sKipling’s IFIF Audubon-Parkside #218 CampanaCampana dede LibertadLibertad #376#376 (redux)(redux) Collingswood-CloudCollingswood-Cloud #101#101 MasonicMasonic Profile:Profile: GeorgeGeorge Laurel #237 B. McClellan Lazarus #303 B. McClellan MerchantvilleMerchantville #119#119 20202020 OfficialOfficial Mozart #121 VisitsVisits RisingRising SunSun #15#15 USS NJ #62 3 FROM THE EDITOR 4 EXCERPT: History of Freemasonry In New Jersey 8 POEM: If — by Rudyard Kipling (redux) 9 MASONIC PROFILE: George B. McClellan 12 SCHEDULE: DDGM’s 2020 Official Visits 13 SCHEDULE: 18th District Lodge Communications 14 SCHEDULE: 2020 Masonic Village Visits 15 SCHEDULE: 2020 DLIs/GLI DEPARTMENTS 16 Monthly Calendar of Meetings & Events 17 This Month’s 18th District Event Flyers 26 Looking Forward / Upcoming Events 28 G. L. & Appendant Bodies 37 Entertainment Pages 18th District Light - Journal of the 18th Masonic District Editor: WB David A. Frankel — [email protected] BACK ISSUES OF THE 18TH DISTRICT LIGHT CAN BE FOUND AT: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1zPsUAMCi4Oc0YxSTBKS18xYUk 2 B rethren: Welcome to February Brethren! As I write this in early THE January, the winter is still mild by winter’s standards. TRAVELING GAVEL Let’s hope it has stayed that way. Possession of the Traveling Gavel is the 18th District’s symbol of It’s a busy month for Masonry and its appendant bodies, honor for Lodges that fulfill the spirit of Masonic Travel. The as our calendar will reveal. The month kicks off on the 1st Gavel, along with its accompany- ing logbook, remains with the with a Saturday morning FC Degree at Lazarus! And Lodge last able to capture it until claimed by another Lodge under there’s lots more to attend in February, including the first these rules. several Official Visits of our District Deputy Grand Mas- A Worshipful Master and any other four (or more) Master Masons from ter, our 18th District Blood Drive, a District Bingo Night his Lodge may claim the Gavel by visiting the current Gavel-holders Fundraiser, a couple of Master Mason Nights at our two for any regular or emergent com- munication. The claimants must all OES Chapters. And still more, including the first 2020 be present from the Opening through the Closing of the Lodge. meeting of WB Tim Boyle’s STOA, a discussion group for In the case of competing claims, the Gavel shall go to the visiting Masons interested in the more academic, esoteric, and lit- Lodge with the largest contingent. If still tied on that basis, the Master erary facets of our gentle Craft. of the host Lodge shall decide the tie by coin flip. PLEASE NOTE — There was no room to fit the event Once claimed the new Gavel hold- ers should record their claim in the into the monthly calendar for February, but Mozart’s An- logbook, and report it to the Dep- uty and the 18th District Light at nual Chili Cook-off is on March 3rd, and RSVPs are due the first opportunity. The Gavel should be prominently displayed by FEBRUARY 28th! See the flyer with more details in in the East during all communica- tions until claimed by another the UPCOMING EVENTS section. Lodge. See you around the District! HAPPY TRAVELING! Dave The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. — Thomas Paine THE 18TH DISTRICT BLUEBOOK CAN BE FOUND AT: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tQMIPxzmFirdAeFlXabMTZMMB1Sz-ZJk 3 Chapter I Antecedents (1682-1786) The early history of Freemasonry in New Jersey is obscure because of the absence of any local references concerning the matter, and of the dependence on the records of lodges warranted in Scotland and in England. Masons may have assembled, but did so informally for there were no lodges organized in the Colony until 1761. New Jersey, however, claims the distinction of having as a citizen the first known Freemason in America, namely Brother John Skene who was a member of Aberdeen Lodge No. 1, of Ab- erdeen, Scotland. Brother Skene settled in Burlington County in October 1682 and in 1685 was appointed Deputy Governor of the Province of West Jersey, serving to 1687. He died in 1690. Other early Masonic settlers who followed John Skene included Andrew Robeson who settled in Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, and John Cockburne, a stonemason, who resided in Perth Amboy. There is no record, however, that these early Masons met as such, or did any Masonic work. The first native born American known to have been made a Freemason was Brother Jonathan Belcher, who was initiated in 1704 in an old “Guilde Lodge” while sojourning in London, Eng- land as an agent for the Province of New England. He later joined St. John's Lodge at Boston in 1736. Brother Belcher served as Governor of New Hampshire, and of Massachusetts, and later as Governor of the Province of New Jersey from 1747 until his death in 1757. He is re- membered as the chief promoter and patron of The College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) and for granting a new and expanded charter to that school in 1748, under which Princeton University continues to operate. The appointment in 1730 of Colonel Daniel Coxe of Burlington to serve as the first Provincial Grand Master in America, of the Province of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, pro- vides further evidence of the increasing number of Freemasons resident in the colonies, includ- ing New Jersey. Born in London, England in 1673, he was a physician as was his father, Dr. Daniel Coxe, and he appears to have also been trained in the law. He was a member of Lodge No. 8, London, England. Appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, Brother Coxe was politically active, and was active in the economic development of colonial New Jersey. He later became a principal, with his brother-in-law William Trent, in the develop- ment of the town of Trenton. 4 Although lodges were known to be active in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York dur- ing the 1730's no lodge is known to be constituted by Right Worshipful Brother Coxe during his tenure as Provincial Grand Master. He died in 1739 and is buried in front of the chancel of old St. Mary's Church in Burlington. A memorial tablet was installed on the wall of that church by the Grand Lodge of New Jersey in 1906. In recognition of his outstanding services as a citi- zen, and of his pre-eminence as Provincial Grand Master, the Grand Lodge of New Jersey es- tablished the Daniel Coxe Medal in 1959. The medal is awarded to Masons of this and other Masonic jurisdictions for distinguished service to Freemasonry. The first lodge of record in New Jersey was St. John's Lodge No. 1, constituted at Newark by Right Worshipful George Harrison, Provincial Grand Master of New York, on May 13, 1761. This lodge was alternately active and dormant and was represented at the establishment of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey at New Brunswick in 1786. In 1762 the second lodge, Temple Lodge No. 1, was constituted at Elizabethtown (Elizabeth) by Right Worshipful Jeremy Grid- ley, Provincial Grand Master of New England. In 1763 Temple Lodge sponsored a horse race, and trophy known as "The Free Mason's Plate," as a feature of the Elizabethtown Fair. Little else is known of the activities of Temple Lodge No. 1, which expired shortly before the Revo- lutionary War. A second St. John's Lodge was warranted at Prince Town (Princeton) in 1765 by Right Wor- shipful Jeremy Gridley, Provincial Grand Master. The first Master of that lodge was Richard Stockton, a signer of The Declaration of Independence. That lodge expired prior to the Revolu- tionary War and no records are known to exist to inform us of what work it accomplished or how long it functioned. The increasing interest in Freemasonry in New Jersey is seen in the formation of one of the most noted of all lodges in New Jersey, Baskin Ridge Lodge No. 10, warranted in 1767 by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. The lodge met from time to time throughout the Revolutionary War, and was the first to re-form at the conclusion of that war. It was this lodge, and its Master, Doctor William McKissack, M.D., that conceived of and called for the forma- tion of a Grand Lodge of New Jersey in 1786. During the Revolutionary War, the Masonic spirit continued to flourish. Warrants were granted to at least ten American military lodges by various jurisdictions. A celebration of The Feast of St. John the Evangelist was held on December 27, 1779 at Morristown. Brother and General George Washington, as well as other distinguished brother Masons and military leaders, sat in attendance at that meeting. On December 20, 1779, Lodge No. 23, at Middletown Point, Monmouth County, was war- ranted by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. No records are known to exist to prove 5 that the lodge ever met or worked, but the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania reported in 1787 that it had "joined the Grand Lodge of New Jersey." The constitution of (old) Burlington Lodge No. 32 by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Pennsyl- vania on March 26, 1781 marked the first time that that Grand Lodge had been opened out- side of Philadelphia, and was the first occasion on which a lodge in New Jersey was formally constituted by officers of an organized Grand Lodge. Records reveal that the lodge paid the sum of $2,160.00 in Continental currency to the Provincial Grand Lodge for the granting of the warrant.
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