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| Origin of the Organization of the Rite of Adoption Among Negroes |
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| Friday, 18 April 2008 | |
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Origin of the Organizationof the Rite of Adoption Among Negroesin the United States
The first regular lodge of Negroes A. F. & A.M. was constituted September 29, 1784, by the Grand Lodge of England on the petition of Prince Hall, Boston Smith, Thomas Sanderson and several other Masons residing in the city of Boston, Mass. They were constituted into a regular Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons under the title or denomination of the African Lodge, to be opened in Boston, Mass., with Prince Hall as Master; Boston Smith, Senior Warden, and Thomas Sanderson, Junior Warden. The first subordinate chapter, O. E. S., to be organized among the colored people of America was Queen Esther No. 1, instituted in the city of Washington, D. C., in the year 1875, by Brother Thornton A. Jackson, who received the degrees of the Adoptive Rite of the O. E. S. on August 10, 1874, from Brother C. B. Case, a deputy and agent of Illustrous. Robert McCoy, 33, the Supreme Patron of the Rite of Adoption of the world as set forth in the History of the Adoptive Rite in the District of Columbia. The first Negro Grand Chapter, O. E. S., was organized by Bishop J. W. Hood in North Carolina in 1880. In 1881 the second Grand Chapter was organized in Tennesee, and Grand Chapters were organized in over 80 jurisdictions thereafter. |
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