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The original copy was borrowed from, and filmed with, the kind consent of the following institution: National Library of Canada L'exemplaire filmi fut reproduit grflce A la g6n6rosit6 de l'6tablissement prAteur suivant : Bibliothdque nationale du Canada IVIaps or plates too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour 6tre reproduites en un seul cliche sont filmies d partir de Tangle supArieure gauche, de geuche A droite et de liaut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nicessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la m^thode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ■i \ ^t^ /? '^ /? ys HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE BARTON LODGE No. (!. (;. H. c, A. F. AM) A. M. CoMiiLKi. HY ArnroiiiTY of thk Lod. w. (L\ FRED. w. Macbeth Worshipful Master for 1916 1917 ^^ 9* ■:i, i^) f r 'v ; Annual JltMing ltr^urfl^al^ HJimr 13th 191 M. W. BRO. 8. A. LUKE, Grand Mftstrr. Ottawa. R. WOR. BRO. OEO. H. LANIOAN, O.D.O M . Hamilton. 1 •-• my' fei__ Hamilton, June 5th, 1917. Dear Sir and Bro. : Yon ar(,' cordially invit 'd to b; iiregcnt at tho Ri'Kular Animal Mi'oting of Tlin Barton Lodgp, No. 6. on Wednesday. June IStli. 1917. at 7:30 p. m. H. W. Bro. Oeorire H. Lnnigan. D.D.O.M.. will pay 111." ofncial visit and conduct the election of offlcers. Another year having passed, your Worshipful Master d-siies. accordinK to ancient custom, to pre' 'Hi a brief resumi of the year's work. Tho sicjpss attonding The Barton Lodgrn durinf the past year may be attributed to the hearty support Kiv?n your offlcjrs by the Past Masters and the Masters of the City Lodges, which ts now grate- fully acknowledged. Thirteen meetings have been held for con- ferring degrees. Th'? average attendance has been as good as could b? expected in these troublous times, as many of our members are busily engaged in patriotic work. The meetings of the past year were particularly marked by a visit from the Past Masters' Association on the occasion of the One Hundred and Twenty First Anniversary of the Lodge, conferring the first degree, at which mjat- ing One Hundred and Twenty One DoUari was voted to the British Red Cross Society. The officers of Temple Lodga paid a fraternal visit at the April meeting, and exemplified the first degree in a highly creditable manner, and the May maeting saw the Past Masters of the Lodge occupy- ing the chairs and conferring the first degree upon a returned Military Officer. Thirty-three members of the Lodge are on active service Overseas and in training at home, and th^y have upheld the old military tradition of The Barton Lodge, and with regret we record the names of the following brjthrcn. Killed in Action: ^■f^ Worshipful Brother Captain George Taylor, Past Master. Bro. Lieut. -Col. Georgo Addison Steward. Bro. Lieut. J. H. McCoy. Bro. Lieut. J. Hector Little. Vallanco Inksetter, •What a host of the best they hav3 joined.— Carry on. r?l • i i ij I" ■, ^,•'■.1 ',11 fi - ,.^4 i I 1^ ♦1 » ,^ i .'. f 4 :•! I -^i K -7 » "i t () to (iltfiui ihi; REGULAR MEETING of th" Lodge on Monday. 25th June, 1917 ut 7 : 30 p. m , Shrtrp. BUSINESS: INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS Please notity the Secretary ot any chatiiie iti address. This is important. Vii.."' i I«"»III»"P pedion of ©ffiara fmr lEnsmtijf ^r The following Brethren are Eligible for the office of WorshipfMl Master M. W. Bro, A. T. FrMd X. W. Bro. Hy. Robertson, X. 0. X. W. Bro. E. T. Malons, K. a K. W. Bro. BenjuniB Allen X. W. Bro. L. T. XoSomad K. W. Bro. W. D. HAoPiierion, S, ( R. W. Bro. H. A. WaoXay R. W. B;o. OkTln Btevart S. W. Bro. John Boodles* H. Vr. Bro. Thot. Olappison R. W. Bro. H. 8. Oriffln, X. D. R. W. Bro. ?ero7 H. Fuaihon R. W. Bro. Oeorge Hy. Otutae R. W. Bro. A. X. OunnincliMn E. W. Bro. )f7. K. Wardri^. K. 0. R. W. Bro. Oeo. Xoore R. W. B^o. James XoOreKor V. W. Bro. W. J. Grant V. W. Bro. James B. Boddy V. W. Bro. Thomas £. Eppa V. W. Bro. W. r. XoCHTerin W. B«>. OoUn Xnnro W. Bro. Oeo. H. Bull W. Bro. Samuel X. Ksnney W. Bro. James Ferres W. Bro. Bobcrt Ho1»on W. Bro. Frederiek B. Boss W. Bro. E. O. Zealand W. Bro. John O. Oauld, X. 01 W. Bro. Harry B. Witton W. Bro. J. F. Bteedman m, Bro. T. Attridge W. Bro. D. B. (}ibson W. Bro. T, T, W. Bnrffess, X. D. VT. Bro. W. E. Henderson W. Bro. J. T. Pepper W. Bro. John B, Dlnkel yf, Bro. Robert Fortsrfleld vr. Bro. Richard B. Oriflth Vf. Bro. J. J. Parsons W. Bro. Calvin X. Sinclair W. Bro. John Garrison W. Bro. James J. Evel W. Bro. Fred. Johnston \7. Bro. Walter H. Bates W. Bro. Charles E. Cameron W. Bro. J. W. Sutherland W. Bro. Geo. Armstrong W, Bro. Edward B. O'Reilly, K. : W. Bro. Thomas Booker W. Bro. J. G. Wltton W. Bso. Sr.muel ViU W. Bro. L. E. Wedd W. Bro. J. A. Looheeu, B.D.S. W. Bro. E. B. XoKenzie W. Bro. 8. H. Lies W. Bro. A. P. Goerlng W. Bro. F. W. XacBeth, V. K. W. Bro. Oeo. D. Riohmond Bro. W. H. Davis Bro. W. T, Xiller Bro. A. ViU Bro. J. J. Steiwart ■ Bro. Oeo. Ross, I. B. 0. it-. ■A.J H i t ■ >'' 1^' r - *^.-.. jt. ,' •• 'M': W S' '■^ *^ ' , V K ti ^i ffittir Honor 3I0U f7. BRO. B. B. a'aBtLtT^ 1LD., V^to'- BBO. 3. B. HOOpLBSS, Qent. •• n. If. DONLOP, Copt., M.C. " a. O. CAR80A]:^I>BN. ti*at.-Ocd., 0,0.. D.S.O. B. Bk BVB]^ Owt. " ' W. I. S. HBNDEIB, Capt. •• B. O. HOQPBE, laent.-Ool., M.O. " Ch O. ItATBBSON, Usnt. " A. V. SUTTON, Lieut. '• W. B. TDHNBUIX, Lt.^1. •• V. T. CABBY, Sorgt. ' " W. W. M A|N. Capt. mi Adjt. •' F, B. BOWMAN, M.D., Capt. " C. K. MORGAN, Sergt-MoJ. ■ •• 3. B. QUABBT, Lieut. .'• A. L. ROBINSON, Lieut. ^ '■ GORDON B. GLASSCO, Lieut. " GEO. BRYCB, Snb.-Llent.« R.N, V.C.B. •• W. H. BRUCD, Lt.«Oo!., 0.0. " A. R. BELL, Capt. ■• O. R. RIOnUOND, Sergt, " P. R. RICHMOND, Sergt. •* o. 0- wnioar, Maja? " T. O. ALLAN, Llent. " L. n. GLAfiSCO, Lieut. " -T. A. BEASLBt, Lieut. •• W. WBATHBHSTON, Tracer , " QBO. V. GLASSCO, It., Gunnel^ " Nf>nMAN KITTSON, Qapt. XXLLED IH AOTXOK W. BRO. CAPT, G. V. TAYLOR BBO. LT.-COL. e. A. INKSlhrrBR ■• .LIlSlJlJ. *.H. MCCOY " LIBIJT. J. H. LITTLE A message has just been received stating that Bro. Lieut. Geo. Ol Matbeson^ bu been woaniUJtl. We Uope tot lil.*» speeay rewroi^'. < i I V'l 1 t ' > PEEFACE. Thk Lod^H of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons now known as The Harton Lod^e, No. (), (t. R. ('., was formed in ITUf). The ori^nnal warrant or dis|)ensation nnder wliicli it was constitvite(l was issued on the twentietli of Novendier of the year named. It has l)een thou.M-ht proper to ceU'brate tlie onc^ hundi-edth anniv(»rsary of tliat event not only by cere- monial ol)servances but by the |m])licati(m of a history of the l)ody ; and, some months ago, a committee was appointed to i)repare such history for the press. In entering upon their labors, the members of the committee found two interesting and valuable docniments ready to their hands as material from which to draw at will. These were "Some Notes of the Early History of Barton Lodge," prepared in 1^()H by Right Worshipful I^rother B. K. Charlton ; and the other the lecture read be- fore the lodge in IJSC)*.) by Brother James C'liarl- ton, entitled "The Barton Lodge Seventy Years Ago. " The former of these documents has now received important additions from PREFACE. i ' < n ^ the liand of its author ; and the material parts of both have been nsed in this narrative. Most Worwhipfnl Brother John Ross Robert- son has also laid the cominittee under a load of oblii^ation by ^-enerously placing' at its dis- posal information gathered by him for his forthcoming History of Freemasonry in C-an- ada. But the greater i)art of the volume here presented is comi)iled from the mass of ma- terial wlii(*h lies in the vault of the lodge. This material comprises a series, nearly c(mi- plete, of the original minutes of the lodge, treasurers' a( -counts, registers of attendance, a mass of correspcmdence, and various notes and documents, interesting from their an- ti(iuity and valuable ])ecause of their con- tents. It has not always been found easy to sei)arate documents which have worth on ac- count of their intrinsic merit froui those wdii(-h are merely (-urious as relics of a former age. While they have copied or svunmarized everything they believed to be historically valuable or illustrative of the condition of Masonry at the c:lose of the last century, the compilers have regretfidly laid aside many papers which would delight the antic luary. Doubtless the time will come when the stu- f il ' prkkacp:. 5 dent of early Canadian history will give the^e records fnrtlier examination. The nieiiiliers of the committee are i)ain- f nlly aware that their work is imperfe(;t. The careful sifting and study of the materials for the story of the Barton Lodge, and the i)re- paration of that narrative as its merits de- serve, would recjuire the work of years. The present historians have certainly been en- gaged in a labor of lo\ c ; but they have brought to it only the enthusiasm of ama- teurs, and have had at their disposal only the hours tht\v c(mld snatch from the ordinary occupations of life. They ctmsole themselves for their shortcomings with the reflection that the chief value of the volume here im-scuted lies in the documents copied into it, and that the mantle of Masonic charity is lu'oad enough to cover tlu'ir literary failures. Hamiltcm, November -JO, 18^5. f I f < I THE BAETON LODGE. CHAPTER I. THK FIRST SETTLERS IN BARTON TOWNSHIP. Robert C'avelier, Sieur de la Salle, was the first white man who ever visited the shores of Burlington Bay. An expedition headed by La Salle, consistins" of twenty-two Frenchmen and some Seneea Indians, left Montreal in KJVMj, to seek the great river Mississippi, Avhic^h Avas known to e. 'st, and which, it was thought, might |)Ossihly dis- charge into the Gulf of California, and so furnish a route to the Pacific Ocean. The party travelled by canoe, occ;upied thirty-five days in ascending the Saint Lavvrencje to Lake ( )ntario, stopped some time at a Seneca village near the mouth of the Genesee River, and thence i)ad(lled along the south shore of the lake for five days before reaching its extreme limit of navigation. While in this neighbor- liood. La Salle went hunting. He returned stricken with fever; and, as the season was far advanced, and he did not regain his health, he returned to Montreal. He had set'ii three immense rattlesnakes d'awling up a rock while he was hunting ; and there were li 8 THE HARTON LODGK. not wjintiii^*- those who believed that even the sit^lit of these terrible and venomous reptiles had been the (-ause of his illness. Frenith and Indian reixn'ts agreed that the country south and west of Lake Ontario was a paradise for hunters ; but no attempt was at that time made to establish settlements here. While its natural beauty attra(-ted the attention of those who had lived on the banks of the Saint Lawrenee, and the a])undan(^e of Kame and of wild fruits and nuts connnanded adnu'ration, the country appears to have had an uncanny re|)utation. Nine years after Ins first visit, La Salle established a fortified trading post at the mouth of the Niagara River, at or near the si)ot on which Fort Nia,^. I'a now stands. The buihlinus and stockade were burned a few years afterward ; and in 1()S7 the Marcpus de Demmville, Gioverm^r- General of (Canada, caused a more formidalile structure to ho erected. This was <'idar^>'ed and strength- ened by. the Earon de Longueuil in 1726. De Denonville was charmed with the charac-ter of the surrounding covuitry, and said that the mouth of the Niagara was "the most l)eau- tiful, the most i)leasing, and the most advan- tageous site on the lake." But there were those who did not share his opinions as to its l)leasing chara(-ter. The fort was not main- tained with any view to settlement, hnt merely for the purpose of controlling the i r THK FIRST 8KTTLKRS. 9 ,r Indians and of resisting- English pretensions in that (inarter. Tlie men who were sent to tlie new post looked upon the service as most disa^veeable, and tliat because of the bad cliaracter of tlie country. Father Charlevoix, after he had reached the Niagara River, on the L'()th of May, 17l>1, in writing to the Duchesse de Lesdi^-ueres, says: "It is ne('es- sary to acknowledge, Madame, that nothiuK save zeal for the public yood coidd induce an officer to live in such a country as this. It is not i)ossi])le to see one more savage and more frightful. On one side one l)ehol(ls under his feet, and as at the bottom of an aliyss, a river great indeed, Imt which in this place has greater resemblance to a torrent, ])y its rapidity and liy the whirlpools formed by a thousand rocks, across which it finds its way with difficulty, and by the foam with which it is always covered : on the other side the view is masked by three mountains, posed one upon the other, and of wlii(tli the last loses itself in the (-louds. Here the ix)ets might well say that the Titans had attemi)ted to scjde the heavens. In fact, wherever the eyes are turned, they discover nothing which does not insi)ire secret horror. " It is true that one need not go very far to discover a great change. Behind these sterile and uninlial)itable UKmntains one perceives rich lands, magnificent forests, agreeable and fertile shores. He breathes n pure air, and 10 THK BARTON LOIXJK. enjoys a temperate ellmate, between two lakes, of wliicli the smaller is two hundred and fifty leagues in circ-uit. It appears to me that if in Kood time we liad taken the precaution to |)r()tect ourselves by a Kood fortress and by a ^'■arrison for a post so important, all thc^ forces of tlie Ir()(|Uois and the Kn^lish combined W(mld not be a])le to-(hiy to (h'ive us from it ; and we sliould now he in a position to dictate conditions to the first, and to forbid tlie greater part of the savages frt)m carrying* their peltries to tlie second, as they do every day witli impunity."" On tlie (hiy following the writing of the paragraphs just (pioted, the reverend father went (HI foot to the Falls, and at that point lie continued his narrative by saying- : "The land for the three lea.yues that I have made on foot in comiim' here, and which is called the portage of Niagara, does not appear to be ^nod. It is even rather l)adiy wooded, and one ( annot take ten paces with- out treading' on an anthill, and without encountering- rattlesnakes, especially during- the heat of the day." The fortification for Avlii(-li the good father sighed was, as has been seen, afterwards con- structed, and was made one of the strongest in North America ; but in 1751) it fell into the hands of the English whose advances it was ii) nded to check. The new rulers of the country, however, did nothing to promote its ( I THE FIRST SKTTLKRS. 11 settlement. The time for tliat luul not yet (•ome. At the close of tlie conflict, ')y which the revolting- colonies KJiined tlieir inoepen- (lence and became the United States, the wiiite popn^; ion of tlie territory now com- prised witliin the Provinces of Ontario did not exceed two thonsand. Hut the war which de|)rived Great Britain of her tliirteen colonies sent to the country bordering- upon Lake On- tario tlie advance ^uard of its permanent population. Those who had adhered to the mother country during- the stru.yKh^ found themselves, at its ch)se, in a most unfortunate position. They were ostracised l\v their neigh- bors, phu-ed at a disadvantage ))y the law, in many instances their property was taken from them ; and their situation was such that they felt expatriation to be preferable to further endunnice of the disabilities under which they lived. Lar.ye numbery of them then turned tlieir eyes toward Canada. The Brit- ish Government «ave them farms ; and, where necessity existed, su|)plied tliem with food and other necessaries of life. Many who liad been in comfortable, and even affluent, cinnunstan- ces, reached Canada in absolute i)overty, and were compelled to a(H:ept government assist- ance until they were al)le to provide for their own wants. The first of these United Empire Loyalists, as they were called, settled around the Bay of Quinte, and alons' the Niag-ara River. Some years passed liefore the more 12 TlIK HAKTON L(>1)(JK. adventurous or the more enterprising^ of tlieiii ventured as far as the "Head of the Lake/' tli<' name by wliich tliis district was then known. It has not been certainly ascertai.ied wlio first setth'd witliin tJie precincts of the present Township of Harton. Brother J. H. Siuitli, kSuperinten(h'nt of Scliools for tlie County of Wentwortli, kindly permits the fol- h)win«- extracts to he taken from his recently written "Historical Slvetcli of the Countv of Wentwortli": "AmouM- the earliest of the U. E. Loyalists who visited this se(^ti()n of the province, with the view of making' it their home, were Cliarh's I)ep«'w and his brother-in-law. (ieory-e Stew- art. These men coasted alony- the southern shore of the lake, as far as Hurlinuton I^eacli, . 'ar the mouth of the Bi^ Creek at tlie south- east corner of the bay. At this pla<-e they draRi»'ed their canoe across the beach, pursued their course a lonu' the south shore, and landed on what U known as tlit^ Depew farm, now oc(nipied by Mr. S. P. Stii)e. As no surveys had been made, the manner of locating' claims consisted in writing the name of the claimant on a flattened stake, driving- it into the ground, and taking' formal |)()ssessi()n. This they di(L Mr. l)e|)ew selected the farm which has since that time borne liis name. Mr. SteAvart went farther west, and chose what in recent years has been known as the Grant farm. From the most trustworthy information obtainable, the .(Ir THK FIRST SKTTLKHS. i;{ antuinii of ITsn appears to Ix' tlit^ time in wliicli this voyaK<' was made. The foll()N> : '^^ year they removed tlieir eire<-ts to tliis place, and became permanent setth'rs. "Ahoiit the same time, Mr. Richard Heas- ley. wlio carried on (|uit(^ an extensive tra(h^ with the Indians, hiid chiim to the hmd wliere Dundurn Park is now situated. Me also pre- empted tlie adjoinini- property, known as Beasley's Hollow, and afterwards erected a mill on the stream flowing into Coote's Para- dise. On liis momiinent in tlie churchyard of Christ Church Catliedral, Hamilton, the fol- lowing inscription is found : ' In memory of Richard Beasley, Es(|uire, wlio departed tliis life on tlie l(;th day of February, 1842, a^cd SO years and 7 months. The first settler at tlie Head of the Lake.' "Mr. Robert Land was certainly amonM- the earliest settlers at the ' Head of the Lake,' if not actually the first.'' Some incidents in the history of R()1)ert Land are of ^ivv^ interest, and well illustrate the hardships endured by the men who first settled in this part of Canada, and who were the first memliers of the Barton Lod^'-e. The main facts are related by Brother J. H. Smith in the mannscript from which we have already (pioted, and have lieen told by Colonel John Land. But, as the narrative has been dven in fuller detail in the Carnival numlier of the Hamilton Spectator, published in 1889, 14 THK MAUTON UHHiK. \\t' rn\)y that version of the draiiiatic t'vciits ill tln^ life of one of narton's first settlers : *• VVlieii tlie Anieriean colonies rebelled at-aiiist Hritisli rule and declared tlieniseives an inde|)(Mident nation, there lived in Penn- sylvania, on the shores of the Delaware River, one Hohert Land. He was loyal to the old fla«-, as brave as he was loyal, and as strong-, active and endnriny as he was hviivv. He Joined the ranks of the royalists, and his intelli.u Mce, ac(|naintance witli the conntry, loyalty, reinarkabh^ power of physical endnr- ance and knowled^i-e of woodcraft soon l)r()n,uhthini totluMioticeof thoseinanthority, and he was eniployt^l as a special scont. ( )ne ni.yht, as he was conveyin.y- an important niessa,i>t^ to tlu^ royalist camp, lie stumbled upon a picket of tlie enemy. Jb^ was dis- covered, fired upon and wounded. But he succeeded in Kcttiny- away and concealing- liims<'lf in a thicket, where he dressed his wound and remained until daylnvak. He delivered his messa^-e to tlie royalists and returned to liis house. Imauine his Ki'it't' when he discovered his once happy home a heap of smouldering- asht\s, and his family missing- murdered by the Indians. The strong' man I)<)W(hI low under the heavy load of Krief that weighed him down ; he lost all interest in the progress of tlie war ; there w^as no\v no tie to bind him to his old home, and he took the trail for Canada, in which colony, THK KIUST SKTTLKKS. \r, still loyal to the crown, Uirw, \\i\H \n",uv jjiid an opiiortunity for poor Land to bury liiniHclf and his ^rcat ^ricf in the unexplored woods. He found his way to Niauar. , where he made short stay. Then he shouldered his rifh^ aiHl ax(% bound his |)aek of bedding- and culi- nary utensils to his back, and forced his way throuy-h th(^ dt^nse woods until he arrived at the shon; of Macassa Hay, where he took U|) .'{()(> acres of land in the territory now occiipied by the eastern portion of th(^ city of Hanu'lton. Here he built a i>riinitive litth^ loi*- cabin, and became Hamilton's first settler. The ca])in— Hamilton's first house- was a rude structure of l()«s, with one small window through which as nnich li«ht as could pen(^trat^^ a stretched wolfskin was adnu'tted. It was iu the June of 1T7.S when, «Ti<'f -stricken l)ut Imive and active, R()l)ert Land took up liis residence in the future .m'eat city. His nearest nei.Mlibors were at Anc-aster, wliere a bej^diminu' had been made towards the liuildiuK of a village. The only roads were deer trails. One of these extended over the mountain and down to the bay, and another well defined trail led from the Grand River, through the Dundas valley, and down to the bay. Land si)ent most of his time in huntinft— .ne was plentiful ; but he cleared off and broke u{) a small jjatch of ,i>round and was soon comfortcibly sui)plied with vegetables as well as the fruits of the chase. His first experiment in the (;ereal line in TIIK HAHTON LO I )(}]<: was tlic sowiiiu- of a (|Uai't of wheat. Tiiis lu' borrowed at Ma.uara, liaviiiy walked all tlie way to obtain it. Its success au.uured well for the future of his domain of .'{()() acres. He lived alone for many years, industry addinu- to his comfort and wealth, and time sootliini'' his ,i>reat sorrow, although he never coidd fory-et the destruction of his Pennsylvania home and the violent death of his wife and eluldren. " ( )ne day the solitary man was startled by tlie appearance of a woman at liis threshold'. Slie was weai'y and travel-worn and was ac- companied by two yoiinu' men. They were his wife and children ! The meetin.u- may be ima.uined : it cannot be described. This was the tale she told : When the Pennsylvaina home liad been attacked by Indians sjie and her cjnidren escaped. She tracked her hus- band to his place of concealment, and lindin.u it covtM-ed witli blood, came to tlie conclusion that he had been slain. In despair the broken-hearted woman and her children fled to New Hrunswick. They underwent untold privations and hardship on the journey, and fared when she had reache(i a place of safety in the loyal colony, as the penniless usually do. It was a hard life she led for a nund)er of years; but she manay-ed to kt'ep herself and her supposed orphans clothed and fed. and tlie l)oys yrew to b(^ strony-. healthy youny men. In the course of time Mrs. Land ,«rew g ? -". "^f-J ^'41^* ^ t^ W. \V. !IK(>. \V11,1,1 AM .1 \l<\ IS. is THK FIRST SETTLERS. dissatisfied witli licr siirromidiii.us in New Bnmswick. and she iiiiuratcd west to tlic iH'iulil)()rli(»()d of her fatiicr's lioiiic near Niauara Falls. Shortly after her arrival at Niagara sjic was told that a man iiaiucd Robert Laud liad resich^l tliere for some time : l)iit had .uoiie into the woods under the shadow of the mountain at the liead of the lake. Tliere was no mode of eomnninication witli the liead of the lake, and the plucky woman deeide(l to ,i;-o and see for herself wiiether or not the liermit Robert Land was indeed lier lonu-mourned liusband. She set out on foot witli her children and tramped the entire distance throimh the trackless forest. She found her reward, and the reunited family liv(Ml and died in their littler i)aradise in the woods -the pioneer family of the ambitious city of Llaniilton." Th(^ orii-inal survey of Barton ''J'ownsliip was made l)y Aunnstiis Jones, a deputy pro- vincial land surveyor. This i^enthMnan pre- pared a plan of his survey on the 2r)th of Oc- to])er, ]7*,)1, showinu that hind had been allot- ted to thirty-one families, though the patents were not issued until ITlHi. The names on that i)lan are ap|)en(hMl : but it is not (certain that settlement was made in the order here followed : R. Heasley, liOOacres; Ralph Clinch, «)()() acres: Aaron Crisp, SOO acres; John De- pew, Sr.. •.XlO acres; Ben.jamin Fairchild, -JOO acres: John Filnian, 400 acres ; Selah llyles. THK HAKTON L(U)(JK. 19 4 L^oo acres: Peter. Isaac and Ahraliam ilorniiiK. snoacn^s : Micliael aiid.Iacol) Hess, llOOacn^s; Hraiit Jolnisoii. loo acres: David Jones. 100 acres: Mattliew Kani, .'}00a(4vs : Robert Land, .'500 acres: Jolm and Holx'rt Lottridye. TOO acres: Elias and Jacob Lony-, .*}00 acres : Wil- liam Lune])()ii,uli. 200 acres: Ann Morden. 100 acn's: Wiib'am McLeas. ,'500 acres : ("or- neliiis Hyckinan. .'500 acres ; Caleb Reynolds, txio acres: Wm. and Jacob Reyiiiill. COO acres: Solomon Secord. 400 acres: Walter H. Shee- han. 400 acres: Henry Smith. l'OO acres : Geo. Stewart. 500 acres : Sanniel Street. 100 acres: Daniel Springer, l>00 acres: John Scott, MOO acres : Kdward Toping'. 200 acres. Amon.u- these men. their neighbors in the Townshij) of Ancaster. and those who closely followed them into the wilderness at the "Head of the Lake." were the founders of the Harton Loduc CHAITKH II. TIIK I'l.AX'I'INii OK FRKKMASONKV l\ CANADA. Thkrk is reason to tliiiik that tlicrc were Fvccftiasoiis ill Acadia, now known as \o\a Scotia, in tlic earliest years of tlie seventeenth century, wliile that province was still in tin- l)Ossession of the French. A stone is now preserved in the province named, l)y some said to l)e part of a uravestone. by others de- nied to be snch. wJn'ch bears the scpiare and compasses and the date 1<)()(;. both clearly cut and plainly legible. Hut at tlie most that stone proves the presence of memliers of some anti(|ue l)ody of operative Masons, for Ma- sonry, as we now know it, had itwori.yin when the Grand Lodu-e of EuMland was formed in 1717— more than a century after the date of tlie interestinu- and venerable relic discovered in 1S27. The first re.milarly constituted body of Masons within the territory now known a ■ the Dominion of Canada, was formed unch / authority of the St. Jolin's (irand Loduv of Massachusetts. Tliis lod^e was at Annapolis, and Major Frasmus James Phillips was made its Master. In 17r)() a number of brethren resident in Halifax petitioned Brother Phil- 4 FRKKMAS(»N'RV IX CANADA. 21 .* j^m*- lips. tlicii Provincial (irand Master, to ^nint tliciii a " warrant or deputation to hold and establish a lod.ue "' at tliat place. The first name on the petition is that of "' Kd. ("orn- wallis. "■ who was at the time the (irovernor of the ProNince. He was the uncle of that Lord ("ornwallis who was so actively employed auainst the revolting colonists a (piarter of a century later. Quebec was taken by (iiMieral Wolfe in l".")'.*: and in the following year several lodges were formed in that city. The first local lodge in Ahnitreal was constituted in 17i>2. At the time the whole of the territory now known as (Quebec and Ontario was included within the i*ro\ince of Quebec; and the Pro- vincial (irand Masters foi- Quebec of course (^xercised Masonic Jurisdiction over this part of the country. There were also military lodges in existence, deriving their authority directly from the grand bodies in the mother country, and holding their meetings wherever tlie regiment lia[)pened to be. As one of the most venerable of our Canadian Lodges is the child of a military lodge, it may l)e worth while to copy a sketch of that body from the |)en of ^[ost Worshipful Brother John 11. (ira- liam. of Qu<'bec : "Anti<|inty Lodge. City of Montreal. No. 1. Q. H.. was of Irish institu- tion, Xo. -2-27. and was named the Lodge of Social anpears to liave considerable incidental docu- mentary evidence in its support. In 17<')7 the regiment returned to Ireland ; and it landed at Staten Island. New York, in 177<). In 1777- 177s the Forty-sixth was stationed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvaina : and durinu- this period its famous bidlock chest, with brass niountinys. containinu tlie lod.uc warrant, workin.y- tools, reyalia. etc.. fell into the hands of the American troops: but it was sliortly thereafti'r returned to the regiment by Hrother (ieneral (ieorye W'ashin.uton. under a Hay of truce, and escorted by a yuard of honor. In iso.'i. wlnle the regiment was at Donnnica. the 'sacred old truidv ' was ca|)tured by the Frencli troops; but it was returned to the regiment l\v Napoleon I. In lsi(;-ls]7 the I KKKK.MASONKY IN CANADA. 23 Forty-sixth, with its famous hxl.nc an-ivcd at Sydney, in tlic colony of New South Wales, Australia, where Xo. '2'27 liehl meet- ings. A warrant. No. "JtiO. I. H.. of (hite Auuvist IlHIi, iSi^O. was ohtained by cei'tain brethren at Sydney, for estai)lisliin,y the first lody-e on the continent of Australia, whicli was called tlie Australian Social Mother Lody-e. In 1S77 this loduc became Xo. 1 on the re.uistry of the (irand Lod.uc of X«'W South Wales, and desinnated Social Motlier. At tlie liappy union in isss it became Xo. 1 on tlie registry of the United (irand Lodyc of Xew South Wales. At the constitution of Ko. '2(){) tin' famous I^il)le. tlie working- tools and re.ualia of the renowne() on the Lnulish reyister. Anothei- lodye. known as St. James Loduc Xo, 14. was work- ing' in 17S7. in (atara(|ui. now Kinuston. ()ntario. These three lody-es pr()bal)ly came from the Provincial (irand Lod«-e of (Quebec, under John Collins. alth()U,uli we have no direct proof as re.yards Xo. 7. I'nion Loduc Xo. .Vil. on tlie Ln.ulish re.uister. was at work in Cornwall in 17s7. l)ut whether oriuinally warranted by the provincial authority or not is also a matter of doubt, for all records liave becMi lost." 'I'hus, befon^ the yeai- 17'.)l\ the foundations of Masonry were laid in C|)per Canada. At that time there were two rival (irand Lod.^cs in Knt-land the oi'ii^lnal body formed in 1717. and the so-called ""(irand Lo. and resuscitated in 17<')1. after a period of inactivity. With a view to the union of the two bodies. Prince Ldward. Didveof Kent. ,ioineland. which body would issiu^ re.uular charters, and place the lodges so constituted upon the register of ihe motlun* country. Jarvis, however, exceeded his instructions. He issued warrants, and failed to re[)()]'t his jn'oceedin^s to the mother iM I'KKKMASONUV IN « ANADA. L>7 (irniid Loduc. Hctwccii IT'.L' and 1S()4 Jarvis issued twenty warniiits. of wliirli that to tlic lod^c ill Hartoii townsliip was the tenth. In 17*.»7 the seat of yovei'iniient was re- moved to ^'ol•k. now Toi-onto: and .larvis took n\) liis resich'iiee at the same place. The Niagara brethren insisted that (irand Lods-v should continue at the ohl capital, a preten- sion which .Iar\is would not sanction, lie. however. ne,i;lect('(l for some years to siniimon that body to meet at ^'ork. and the Xiauaivi lodges thereupon formed a (irand Lodyc of their own. "vSeein.u' dan.uer ahead." says Brother IJobertson. ".larvis summoned his (irand Lod.u-e in 1S()4. at York, and complaint of the irremdar proceedin,i-s at Niauara was fornudated and sent to Kn.yland. The Kny- lish authorities, however, were displeased with Jarvis's reimi as a i-ider of the craft, and pointed out to him that he had neglected to report any of his proceed in, i-s to the (irand Secretary at London. Jarvis su|)pressed this letter, kept its contents fiom his (irand Sec- retary, and the Craft-ship for years was allowed to drift hehnless at the mercy of the waves." Jarvis died in isiT, when a Masonic con- vention was called at Kingston, which me- morialized the (irand Lodye of Knuiand re- spectin.y- the disoruanized condition of the Craft in lipp(H' Canada: but nothin.y- was done until 1Sl'-J, in which year Hight Wor- ' ! 1 1 L>H rilK IIAIM'ON l,(i|»(Ji:. ii Hlii|ttiil lii'otlicr Siiiioii Mr(iillivi'{iy nvjih Hciit out to restore liMl'liioii\ . eiicoiii'.'me Jietivity. niitli<'l' ililo one Told llie hi-etlireii. who were seattei'ed ;iI)I'o;hI ns slieep li,'i\iim lio slie|»ln'r(l. lie w.'is ji man ol* ability and eiM'i'uy. lie siiMinioned a I'roviiirial (iraiKJ Lodue at ^'ork. wiiieji met annually until l.s.'io: and l*'uld Wdrsliipl'nl brother James Fit/uiltl)on was appointed Deputy Provincial (irand Mastei'. Some nood work was done, and in many ipiai'tei-s pro.ui'ess was made: but the Moruan excitement in the I'nited States an!• IIIK I'.AIM'oN LolxiK. 'I'liK li.'irloii liodut' w.'is I )\-\\ wlini (iroi-^c llic Tliir*! w.'is Kiiiuol' (irr;i1 lii-it;iiii. mikI IIm' pljicc wlicrc Il.'imiitoii now sImikIs w.ms known ;is 1 lie •• I Ic'mI of 1 he l..'i kc " 'I'lic iii('iiior;il>l<' .•iccoiiclicuicnl look itl.'Hc live \r;irs hcl'oiT llic niiK'Iccntli fcntni'v wns hcuiin : cii-lilccn yc'irs hd'orc il,'iinillon was known cxcnas n vill.'mt': t wcniy-ninc years hcfon' il liaetlier ; for the same leading minds, to a .mvat extent, moidch'd the history of the lod.uv, of the city, and of the Province. When and wliere the preliminary meetini»>< where hehl, when the petition for a charter was forwarded to the (irand Secretary, and by whom it was siuned, are for the most part matters of conjecture. VV^^ know that the charter wasm-anted on tlieliOtli of November, 1795 ; we know that a meeting- of the lod^e was hehl on tlie .Hlst of January, 17U(); we know that between these two dates meetings were held : and we know that the lodue was not in existence as an operative body on the 2()th of An^ust, 1795 ; for on that day a com- mittee of the Grand Lodge met at Newark, and its minutes inform ns that the members met *' pursuant to snnnnonses to Lodges Nos. 2. .'}. 4. 5, (), 7, S. and 9, being all the consti- t TIIK KAHLV YKAKS, ;{] m m. tiitt'd lodivcs uiidci' tlic saiictioii of tlic war- rant of tlic (iraiid Loduc of Knylaiid to tlic H. W. William .Jarvis, Ks(|., Provincial (iraiid Master of Tppcr Canada."" Mon^ we caimot say with any d(^^•r('(' of certainty. It is proli- al)lc that Ivrotlicr Davenport Pliclps, wlio was (irand Secretary, liad conic to I^arton Town- ship to rcsi(U' ; that he found liere a nunil)er of l)rethi'en. wlio liad l)een broii.ulit to li.ylit in tlieir former liomes in New York. Pennsyl- vania and i\ew Jin-sey ; and that lie enconr- ayed tlK'm to apply for a warrant or dis|)en- sation. TIk^ lod.ye may liave l)een constituted lu'fore or after the .m'antin.i-- of tlie warrant. Lod^e No. (), now known as tlie Ancient St. John's L()d,i>e. No. ;j, G. R. C\, was constituted on tlie 7tli of August, 17i)4: but its warrant bears even date witli tliat of the Barton Lodue, Novem1)er -JOtli. 1795. At a time not distant from that day, a conununication of (irand Lodm' was opened at some place in Harton Township, Lod,i»e No. 10 was (hily constituted, and Davenport Plielps was instaUed its Master. For reasons wliicli can not now be fully explained, the wardens were not installed at tliat time. It is possible, and even j)r()l)al)le, that otlier meetin,us were liehl ; and tliere is some reason to think that work was done before the me(!tin,^• on the ;nst of January, 17i)(). At an emergent nuH'tin^- held on the 7tli of Mar(t]i, ]7U<), -'the petitions of Messrs. John Snuth and C^alel) Revnolds were a second n-j THK HAUTON I.olMiK. t it time read." 'I'licsc petitions wove not pre- sented on tlie .'{1st of riannary : it is liardly probable tliat tliey were presented on the occasion of the formation of the loduc : and it is reasonably certain that a nieetiny was held at some date l)etween the o|)eninu' meetinu- and the .'Hst of J.'innary. IT'.H'.. at whicli routine business was transacted, including proposals of new meml)ers. and at whicli work may have l)een done. For on tlu' "Jnd of Api'il. Brothers Heasley. Aikman and Henry were "raised to tlie sublime de.un'e of Master Masons." These brethren may have been Fellowcraft Masons wlien they <-ame to Canada : they may have yone down to .Newark for their first and second deurees : or they may have been n.iade and raised in Lodu-e Xo. 10 between the nn- known date of its formation and tlie .'Ust of January. 17'M'). the time at which the full records beuin. Auain. at the iiieetin,t>- on the L^nd of April. IT'.'t). •• Brothers Housoue. Smith an. From that time we have the minutes in full. The original warrant of Lodnc No. 10 was sent to Fnuland when the new warrant or i '< t I "^ * •> * CAl'TAIN .lOHHl'H IJHANT. (THAVKNDANEGA.) !• :u TIIK HAKTON LOIXJK. charter was nnteived, in 1844. It was in these words . '' WiLLiAAf Jauvis, Proviiieial drraiid Mas- ter. ''Whereas the Grand Lodyc of tlie Most Ancient and Honoral)}!^ Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Fn,i»land and Mason- ical Jnrisdiction therennto l)eh)n,i»inK, accord- ing to tlie Old Institutions, in Ample Form assembled, in London, on the seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the year of Masonry five thousand seven hundred and ninety-two ; the Most Noble Prince John, Duke and Marcpiis of Athol, Maripiis and Karl of I'ullibardine, Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle, Viscount of Balls'uider, Glen- almond and Glenlyon, Lord Murray Belvany and Gask Heritable, Constalile of the Castle of Kimlaven, Lord of Man and the Isles, and Lord Strange and Baron Murray of Stanley in the County of Gloucester, Grand Master of Masons in that part of Great Britain (tailed England and Masonit^alJurisdiction thereunto belon^'in^; the Ripht Worshipful James A^an, Esq., Deputy Grand Master; the Rislit Wor- shii)ful Sir Watkin Lewis, Knight, Senior Grand Warden ; the Right Worshipful John Bunn, Esq., Junior Grand Warden, together with the representatives of the several war- ranted lodges held under the sanction and authority of the said Grand Lodge, did ap- I J THE KAKLV VKAKS. .'{5 point our lii.ylit Worsliipful HrotluT William Jarvis, Es(|uir(% Se(U"(;tar.v of tlic Provinrc^ of Upper Canada. tt;('., tV:c., tVic. to Im' Provincial (irand Master in the said Province; and for better re.uulation anular lod.yc' of Free and Accepted Masons ; and do liereby authorize and empow- er our said trusty and well beloved Davenport Pheli>s tf) lie Master, Janu's Wilson to be Sen- ior Warden, and Robert Nelles to be Junior Warden, and to form and hold a lod^e in the Township of Bjirton. which is hereby desig- nated Number Ten, and at all times and all lawful occasions in the Lodge when duly con- gregated, to make Free Masons, according to the most ancient and honorable custom of the Royal York Craft in all ages and nations throughout the known world ; and Ave do hereby further authorize and empower our said trusty and well beloved brethren, Daven- port Phelps, James Wilson and Robert Nelles, aC) THK HAUTON LolXiK. with tlic consent of tlicincinlM'i's of tlK'irloduc. to noiiiiiiatc. rlioosc and install tln'ii' success- ors, to wiioni they sliall (h'iiver this warrant, and invest tlieiii with their powers and diu- nities as Free Masons, t^c. t^-c.. t^c.. and such successors sliall in like manner nominate, choose and install their successors, t^c. Szc.. tV:c., such installation to he npon or near every Saint John's Day. durinu- the continuance of this lodu-e forever: who sliall cause to he en- tered in a hook for that purjiose, an account of tlieir proceedin.us in the loduc touctlier with all such rules and re.i-uhitions as shall he nuuh' for tiie .yood government of the same, for til e inspection of the (irand ( )fficers : Pro- vich'd the al)ove named l)retliren and tlieir successors duly conform to the known and estahlished rules and regulations of the Ch'aft, paying due respect to ns l^y whom these presents are granted, and to the (irand Lodi^e of Eniiland, and conformin.y- to the rules and reunlations thereof, and preservint*- a regular and yearly communication with the said Pro- vincial Grand Lodi^e, otherwise this warrant to be of no force or virtue. "(liven under our hands jind the seal of the said (irand Lod^t^, at Newark, the twentieth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the year of Masonry five thousand seven hundred and nine- five. "Davenport Phelps, (irand Secretary,'' ■3' THE KAKLV VKAHS. 37 II<'iv may properly ho inserted tlic first l)ill ever presented to tlie iodye. with the re- ceipt for its payment. It is as follows : '•ITiK"). Lod.i>e No. 10, to I). PiiKM's, Dr. '• \ov. To fees for warrant to (i. Secretary £l .•} 4 To do. due Grand Lodue. 1 .'} 4 Copy of proceedings of ( I rand Lodye s .'} £'2 14 11 •• Marcli 14, 17*K). ••H<'cd. from Hrotlier I). \'ounM, Treasurer of Lod.i-e \o. 10, Two pounds fourteen shil- lings t^ eleven pence in full of the ahove. ••I). Phklps, a. Secy." Tliis warrant remained with the l)ret]iren of Lodi-e No. 10, as one of the safe,^•uards of their ancient privileyes, until tliey surrendered it to the Grand Lod.Me of Knyhmd, in 1844, when the new warrant or charter was received from that body, by which the Barton Lod.ye was placed upon the reyister of the mother Grand Lodye, and numbered 7>V.\. Tlie first meetinK of Lodue No. 10 of whieli full minutes liave been preserved to our time, was lield on the 81st of January. 17*.m;. We shall certainly be pardoned for copyin.u' those minutes in full : "Pursuant to a sununons from the Wor- Nhi|)ful Master of Lody-e No. 10, the members met at Smith's tavern, in Barton, January .'{(S THK HAirroN L(»I)(1K. .'{1st, 17*.)('), and A. L. f)7\H). Loduc opened in the entered apprentice dej^ree, fellow eral'ts and apprentice's hein^ present. Tliat Lod^i' was closed and opened in tlie Masters deyi-ee, wlieii Brother James Wilson was duly in- stalled Senioi* Warden. The Masters Lodye was then closed, and an apprentitain John McKinstry. In Stone's Life of Brant is the following' account of hisexperieuce in that liyht : " Captain M(di' niemhers are absent one hour after the appointed time of meeting, he or they shall he hned two shil- linus. and if absent the whole iiiuht or time of business, he oi' they shall be fined (Inc shil- lings each, except, siicli absentee be sick, lame, in conlinement or nioi'e than three miles from the place of nieetin.n-. or some otiier siiHicieiit <'xcuse : and tlintsnch lines shall becleposited in the fund foi* the leliefof IndiKdit lireth- reii. ••III. 'I^hat the Master sliall lie clioseii by ballot, \iz., the Wnrdeiis shall stand candid- ates for thecliairon the st;ite- and sixpence; the Treasurer at the dsc-retion of the majority; and to be fin'd the like sum if they do not serve their full term except for reasons mentioned in the second rule. " V. That the members of the Lod,t»e shall dine to.«ether ui)on or near every St. John's day. That the Wardens shall be appointed Stewards to transact all matters relating' to the feast. That the new Master and other officers shall be install'd before dinner, at which time all and every of the accounts he- louKinK' to the feast and Lod^>'e affairs in i>'en- eral shall be proi)erly settled and delivered to the new officers ; and that all visitors who dine at such feasts shall pay their ecinal divi- dend : sojourners always at the discretion of the majority. "VI. That on every stated Lod^e night every member shall pay two sliillinKs and six- pence. Such part of Avhicli as shall not be spent shall be put in the fund for the relief of Indigent Brethren. That the Junior War- " ™. • ♦ • • / THK KAULY YKAKS, 47 I (leu sliall ki'v\) aii exact accouiit of tlie veckon- iiiy and ae(|uaint the Lodi^e wlieii tlie stated coniplliiuMit is in, and upon liis ueKlect or (^mission he sliall he ac(*ouutal)le for the de- ficiency. And whereas the Junior Warden is accountahle for su(^h deficien(\y, it is herel)y ordered and declared that if any Meniher sliall order any liquor, Ajc, on the Lod^e account witliout the consent of said Warden the trans- yressor shall pay for the quantity so ordered out of his own private pocket, ex(dusiveof the stated expense of the ni,t>lit. "VII. That no visitor shall be admitted after Lo(l,t;(^ hours, viz., nine in the winter and ten in the sunnner, nor at any other time with- out the consent of the presidini*' officer. "VIII. Every i)ers()ii desirous of heiiiR made a Freemason in this Lodse shall be i)ro- |)Osed by a meml)er thereof, that is to say his ase, name, des(-ription of his i)ers()n, title or trade, and phu-e of residence. That such pro- |)Osal shall be made in Lod.i'^' hov .'s, at least one Lod^e ni^ht liefore the Initiation, in order that the Brethren may have suffii-ieiit time and ()pl)ortunity to make strict iiuiuiry into the morals, charactor and circumstaiuies of the candidate ; and the Brother who proposes him shall at the time deposit such a sum of the (candidate's money as the majority shall think sufficient (that sum not less than two dollars) to insure the Lod^e that the candidate will attend a(*(-ordiii^ to the proposal, and if the 48 THK HAUTON L<>D(JE. Lodge approver liis person, ai'c, cliaracter and circiinistances, and tlu^ivfon^ initiate liini into the mysteries, A^c, he shall pay eight dollars for the first degree, three dollars for the second degree, and four dollars for being raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason. Put if the Lodge think the candidate unworthy, and refuse to make liim. liis money shall be faithfully returned to him. Hut in case the Lodge approve liis person, charactor. t^c.. and he refuses to be initiated, then shall he for- feit the money so deposited, and it shall be for the Rc^lief of indigent Freemasons. "IX. Any oln an emer.u^^ncy. where all the members are to attend, or l)e liable to the same fines as on stated Loduc^ ni.uhts. but such fines are not to be levied until proof be made of the absentees having- l)een actually sunnn()ne(l in writin.y- to each emergency. "XV. That the chest, warrant, casli and furniture of this Lodi^-e shall ha in the care of some responsible Brother, sucli ay the Master and majority shall think proper and sufticient, and the money to l)e disposed of for tlie ad- vancement of the Lod^e and tlie benefit of tlie Brethren. " XVI. That the Secretary shall kiH'p a reyular re,s>'ister of tlie members, and |)roper minut's of all the transactions (whicli are fit 50 THI'; MAU'loN LolXiK. to be coininitcd to wi'itiiiy) in order tliat tlie same may be laid before the (iraiid Lod^e wlieii re(|iiired. ■"XVII. 'I'liat no ated. shall have full power to make, amend, correct or ex|)lain these or sucli other rules and orders as may seem necessary jiud con- venient for the welfare of the (traft, provided Huch amendments re- UMUl, ules coll- ided if tary to x('U(\ a I'air copy of to the Uraiid S - rctary for tlic lu'iicfit of tlic society in ^m- eral. ••XIX. Tliat tlie Tyler shall receive five shilljnus for evei'y Mason that shall he made in this Lody-e. and one shillinu for every old Mason that shall he made a meiiiher of this Lodye. and the said Tyler sliall take particu- lar care not to admit any |)erson (not even a member) without the knowh'di^e and consent of tlie presidinu- oflicer ; neither shall lie [ul- mit any visitor wlio is not a memher of a war- ranted Lod.ye a second time, sojonrners [)ro- ducinu- a certificate excepting-. ••XX. That these rules and orders shall he read by the Secretary, or some other brotiier of the Master's appointment, to every new member or candidate if re(iuired or otlierwise as occasion may re(piire in the Loduc ••XXI. If a complaint be made ayainst a l)rother. by another brother, and he be found guilty, he shall stand to the detei'mination of tliis or the Grand Lodye. accordiiiM' to the seventeenth rule, but if a complaint be made auainst a brotiier, wherein the accuser can- not support liis complaint to conviction, such accuser shall forfeit sucli penalty as the Lodue shall tlnnk Just. ••XXII. That upon or near every St. John's day (blrin,^• the continuance of this Lod.ye, the new installM officers sliall send a proper list of all tlie members, signed by tlie 1 1 f)'2 TIIK lUKTON L(tl)(iK. said oflicci's and (•oiiiitcrsiiiiicd by tlic |)ast oflircrs to tlic Secretary of the (iraiid Lodu-e. \vlierel)y the said Secretary may be enabled to know the haidwritiiiH- ol' siicii oflicers. and pay (bie respect to siicli persons as may from time to tim(^ l)e certified l)y tlie officers of tliis Lod.i^-e. "XXIII. And if any member be fonnd .yniity of any mis(h'meanor not dii'ectly speci- fi"d in tlie aforesaid rides and onh'rs. lie sliali be dealt witli accordin.^' to tlie discretion of the Master and majority. Such decision, nevertheless, shall be subject to an appeal to a .y-eneral (irand Lod.uc " XXIV. That upon an application of any one to be made a Mason in this Lodyc. two objecting votes shall be considered as a ban- to liis liein,!*- made, bnt one alone is insnfiicient without satisfactory reasons assinned.'' To this document are appended the names of all those who became members of the lod^e by initiation or aftiliation down to the year 1X04. These names are consecutively num- bered in the nnnute book, and are as follows : /5^ :i **« THK KAHLV VKAltS. 58 ,(^Q^T^ ^ ^^ U "O >*<'«*' ^fi /-c yt'^t^ Oil flic iltli of xXovciuIht. 17s»>. tlic Privy Council of Canada, witli Lord Dorchester, the Governor Ceneral. presiding', ordered a list to l)e made of tlie men who are now known as United Kmpire Loyalists, in order to determine who were entitled to land. 54 TIIK HAIMON L(H)(iK, I Fiirtlicr. his KxccIIcik y dccl ircd liis di'sirc to ••put <•! iii;irk of lioiioi- upon tlir t'.Miiiilics who h;i(l ;Hlh,('iV(l to tlir I'liity of the Kiiipiiv. jiiid Joined the IJo.val st;iiid,'ii-d in Aiiici'ic'i bcfoi-c tlic treaty of separation in the year 17s.'{/' The Council thereuiion oivh'i'ed : -''riiat tlie several land ))oards take course for pi'escrvin.n' a register of the names of all pei'sons fallinn- iindei- the description aforementioned, to the end that their posterity may he discrim- inated from futui-e settlers in the parish re^i^ters and rolls of the militia in their vesp(»ctive districts and other pid)lic i-emem- brancers of the province, as proper objects, by tlieir persevei-inu- in the fidelity and conduct so honorable to tlieir ancestors, for distin- Kuished benefits and privileucs." 'j'hc roll was made. - 'id is now i)reserved in the office of the Ci-own Lands Department at I'oronto. With its aid we are a))le to determine a few facts in the li\'es of some of those wliosi; names are c()|)ied above. A James Wilson was amony- the Tnited Kmpire Loyalists. Unfortunately, the list does not tell us anything- more; and we can- not be sure that he is the man whose name Htands first on the roll of Lody-e Xo. 10. Of otliers we shall simpiv copv the entries in th*'! list. Seru-eant Daniel ^'oun,^• : "S. (i. Indian Department. Stamped Hook, Nia.yara. A wife and two cliihh'en. P. L. N. 17S(J." 1 TlIK KAUI.V VKAUS. ''•''i '}*} .loliii 'I'lioinas : "• Kiulitli IJcKiiin'iit/' W'.'ii'iicr Xcllcs Mild W'illijmi Xcllcs jirc (Icscribcd as sons of* Captain W. Henry Ncllcs; and tlir latter lias this reeord appended to his name: "Indian Department. A wife and live eliildi-en. P. L. N. I7n(). Xiauara Stamped Hook." IJeiiteiiant {{ohert Nelles : "•Indian De- partment. Niauara Stamped iiook."" He may or may not have been another son of ('aptain W. II. Nelles. John Smith: ■"Head of the Lake. A set- tler in IT'SS, ll;i(l three sons Henjamin. Stephen and John. Mauistrate's eertilieate •iSth of Septeml)er. I7*.>:;."' James Henry: "Butler's Hanucrs. S. (i. Had a wife. W L. X. 17n<'). Xiauara Stamped Book." Lieutenant .lolin Ifyckman : "Indian De- partment. S. (i. Xia.uara Stamped Book." Richard Beasley : "A Loyalist."" Lientenant John \'oiin,L'- : "S. (r. Indian Department. S. P. L. X. 17s»). Bntler's Hang- ers. Six in family. Stamped Book Xia^ara."' Lientenant Caleb Beynolds : "Butler's Hanuvrs. Xia.uara Stamped Book. S. P. L. X. 17S()."' John Depew. Jnnior: " S. (L Loyalist. Xiauara Stamped Book. S. X. P. L. 17s»). " He was the son of John Depew. Senior, wliose record is as follow . " S. (i. Loyalist. Lieu- tenant Indian DepartmcMit. S. (i. A wife m THK HAIM'ON F.OIXJK i ' and lour cliildmi. 1*. L. \. 17n<;. NinMai'^i StninpcH hook."" ("Iiai'lt's I)('|i«'\v: ••Soldier Hiitlrr's IJaiiu- VVH. A wife and one child. !*. I.. N. 17.s«). " Daniel Sprinyer: ••Soldier Sutler's lianu- ers. "' l*ol»er1 Land: ••Indian I )epar1nient. S. (i. S. P. L. N. ITS)'). Stamped liook Xiauara." Al)el Land : ••States to have served last war. say Indian Depai'tnient and Knuineer's Department at \'oi-kto\vn."" Captain liohert Lotrid^c : ••Indian Depart- ment. S. (i. Five in family. W L. N. ITsc. Nia.nara Stamped Hook." Khene/er .lones : " Ser.ueant in Oranuc Hangers. S. (i." Peter Rowman : '• Hutler's Hanyers. S. P. L. N. 17>i<'). \ i a, uara Stamped Hook." (ieorue Stuart ; '•Soldier in Hutler's Hang- ers. P. Xiauara Stamped Hook." Hrother Smith spells the name Stewart. ( )n the minute hook the signature of the hrother himself reads •• Stiird." Halph Morden ; •• Deceasech Condemned and executed ))y the rehels in ITso. Had three sons: Jojin. Ralph and James." Tn- ." It 1: : i IIIK KAULV VKAI^ 57 is rcasoiinhly (('rt.'iiii \\ii\\ our Midiacl Sliow- ei's was his son. .loliii Tivaiior: "S. (i. Soldier." (fcoryv IJaiisici': " Miitlrr's IJaimcrs. S. (i. Had a wife and our child. P. L. N. 17.s('», Nia.uai'a Stamped liook." Serjeant Joini Coon: "■ Hiith'r's Hanucrs. Had wife and six childi-cn. 1M..X. !7s«;. Ni- a.yara Stamped Uook." (ieoi'uc ("iiishohn: "• 1*. states a carpenter in (ienerai Hiiruoyne's ai'my." 'riie list has tliis entry respectin.u a settler named Hennet, who may or may not be our Brother rJosiah Hennet : ■" Hennet. if Charles, Jas. S. (f. List '2. Corporal Indian Depart- ment. One of this name II. I), states to have come here in IT'.M." It is Just possible that the ■•Jas."" was a mistake for "".los, "" Hnt the trace is too faint to he acceptecl as more: than a hint. Some of the abbreviations in these notes we cannot explain. I'he letters P. L. X. or N. P. L. indicate tliat those to whose names they are appended were compelled, on their arrival in Canada, to accept (iovernment main- tenance, and were placed on the Nia.uara Pro- vision List in the year indicated. Nothing' more clearly marks the harsh intolerance of the republican government than the fact that nearly all of the Cnited Kmpire Loyalists wlio were driven from their homes in conscMpience of tlieir fidelity to their sovereign, readied 58 'I'llK HAIM'ON' LitlXlK. Caiiad.'i 111 a stale ol' ahsoliitv (Icslitiitioii. Jind were iiiaiii1aiii('. 17US "That I^rother Sanuiel Williams be siun- mone(l a second time to perform the duties of his lodu-e :"■ and on Novemlu'r ID. 17*.>s That provided [brother Williams does not attend the duties of his l()d,^(^ after tlie second sum- mons, he shall be |)r()ceeded with in a sinii- nuiry manner, provided he has I'eceived his summons."" Distance from the lodf^-e was considered a reasonable excuse for failure to attend with ANCIENT KKCOKDS. 61 I'euiilai'ity. On S('|)t(Mnb('r 11. LSOl. it wan reyolvcd : "Tlint Brotlicr Jolni Voiiiiu-, Hro- tlier William Ncllis, Brother Henry Skinner be considered ore No. 10 a|)peared in th(^ shape of a serious charu-e auainst a brotlier, on the -Jnd of Feln'uary. 17iM>. It is entered upon the minutes as follows: "The uiotion of Brother James Morden, seconded 1)y Brotlier Showers, that Brother Secretary summon Brother Fil- man to attend next lods. ' ni.uht to answer the charye of Brother Fellowcraft Miracle, who thinks Brother Filman rec-eived a ,m'ip from him, a Fellowcraft Mason, and toldliim it was the Master s ^y\\), and said Brothers Morden and Showers jiffirm that Brother FeIlow(U'aft ANCIKNT UKCOKDS. (!.*} Mirach' knows tlic Master's «vi|>. Brotlicr Filmaii tlieii appears, and on examination de- nies tliat he told I^rotlier Mira<-1(' whether it was the Master's yrip or not. Laid over for fnrtlier |)roof. " No other record respecting' th(^ cliaryc^ appears in tlie minutes, and it is pr(>l)a))ie tliat it wjis al)an(h)ned. Opportunities for instruction were not so ph'ntiful a Imndred yi^ars a.uo as tliey are in our (hi\ s ; but the lu'ethren were no h'ss anxi- ous then tlian now to improve tliemselves in Masonry. On tlie 7th of Novemlier, MW. Brotlier Tliomas introduced a resolution to the followin.u' elfect : "That, as the members of this lodue werc^ in yeneral inex|)erienced Masons, and none of tlie member's so ca|)able of instructing in tlie necessary Masonic lec- tures as all that society ouuht to be instructed in, that ;ill the officers that iwo, at this time elected shall attend the Newark or some other well-informed lodi»e's lectures at least once between each and every re,i>ular lody-e niyht, so as to be eapcable of informins" the members of this Iodide with the necessary principles and lectures of ()i)erative Masons; and that they solicit the dem-ee of Mark Masons, that the brethren of this lod^e may be benefited there- by ; and that any brother proposed as a can- didate shall make known whetlier such at- tendance will lie convenient to him previous to his ele(ttion." The resolution was, we are told, " unanimously agreed to by the brethren ()4 TIN-; MAUToN LolMiK. |)i'('S(Mit" : and we c'liiiiot doubt tliat tlic of- (Iccrs of the lodnc lived up to it in spirit. au7. tlie followinu entry was nia-e. and instructinu- the nu^mbers thereof in the lectures of tlie three first de,ure<'s of Masonry, therefore this loduc is in duty bound to make Ih'otlier P. M. Dauby a present, in cons(>(|uence of the ser- vices he has rendered this lodyc ; and that the sum of forty dollars, witli the tlianks of tliis lod.ue, l)e presentecl to Ih-otlier V. M. Dauby. Tlie aforesaid motion was unanim- ously a.ureed to l)y the rest of the brethren present. Tlierefore the Worsliipful Master. Senior and Junior Wardens, and tlie rest of the bretliren of loduc No. 10 n^turn tlieir hearty and sincere thanks to Hrotlier Dauby for his brotherly love and masterly instruc- tions ^iven to tills lody-e, hopes Brother Danby will accept of the small sum of forty dollarw from this lod^-e as an acknowledgment of their thanks, brotln'rly love and affection to him." These rtM-ords ar(^ not examples of symmetrical Knulish : but they prove that the founders of Harton Lod,i»-e were zealous crafts- men, and that they were unidecl by tlu^ true spirit of Masonry. {'(II,. KOI'.KKT LAND. tt <')(') THK UARTON L<)D(iK. Our {lucicnt hrctlircii were not punctilious ()l)sei'V('rs of forms. Tlicy opened or closed the lod^t' iu any decree, as niiulit suit their <'onvenience ; and they .jumped from tlu^ first to the third or from tlie third to th(* first at will. To some extent, they wei'i^ a law un- to themselves. In 17*.M), •' Brother Daniel Sprin^^'r, who was yoinu to travel," was passed and raised in one niyht. In 17US "the petitions of Hurchand Katon were withdrawn at tlK'ir re(|uest. " In 1S04, Brother Kinu- was initiated «^leven days after h(^ had been bal- loted for. Brother Wire's [nitition was re- ceived on the *.)th of November, 1804, and he A'as l)alioted for the same niyht. Seventeen days hiter he was initiateci ; and aft(^r the lapse of another eleven (hiys, he was passed and raised in one ni^ht. The reason assigned for tliis haste was that ''he expec-ted to take a louK .journey.'" On the Uth of January, a minute informs us, "That, as the Lod^e did not meet at the nii^lit for the election of offi- cers, owin,i>- to badness of the weather, the election on St. John's day beins' ne^lHc-ted for unknown reasons, that the officers remain in offic^e for the ensuing- six montlis." Brother James Charlton points out that in tliat year no record is made of any installation in June or December. That which would appear a most serious irregularity in the eyes of modern Masons was an initiation at a time when no active or past fH ANCIKNT UKCOUDS. «7 innstcr of that or any otlicr lodyc was present. Tlie full luiiiutcs for the evening on wiiicli that transaction occurred are as follows: "At the re(|uestof Hrother Daniel Sprlny-er, a few of the members of Lodye No. 10 met at their lo'.>, "On motion of Bi-otlier Heasley. seconded by Brother Smith, that the lodyc will ^/cept i-'ood merchantable wheat, delivered at Brother IJ()iiss«'anx"s mill, from any brother of the iodye, in payment of their dues, which motion was unanimously agreed to.' l)ecend)er l.'i. IT'.l'.i. "'I'hat tlu^ secretary Ix' ordered to acipiaint each mem- ber that yood merchantable wheat, delivere' the brethren to attend meetin.us in propc^r Masonic cloth in. !•■. On the '.ith of May. ISOO, it was resolved, "'That evei-y brother shall provide himself with clothing a.uainstthi^ next II 70 THK MAKTON I,<»I)(»K. ' rt'Kiilar lod.uc iii^^lit. " In Dcccnihcr of tlic sMiiic year it was n'solvcd. "Tliat a fine of 4h. be |»iit on ('\ ri'v hrotlicr tliat lias not i'lirnislicd liiinsclf with rlotliinu- since the same has been entered in tlie mlnntes." Then appear tlie names of seven members, with tins romment : "'I'hose above had no elothinu." The fob h)win,u month it was resolved. '"That all the l)i'ethi'en have their elothinu- by the next re- .unlai" lodi-c niuht." 'I'he important duty was still neglected, foi'. in the followinu- ( )rtober it was further resolved, " 'I'hat those brethren wlio shall not appear clothed, a.i-reeable to a former motion, by the next lod^c niylit. sjiall be fined 4s.. New \'orl\ currency." Kven this warning (h)es not app(>ar toliave produced tlie desired efb'ct : for. under date of November !.'{. isob it is H'corded that — " Lodnc proceed to examine the members wlio come without clothiny': and I^rotlwr ,]. Showers. Brother ,1. I^ennet. l^rother M. Hennet, and l^rother Kalph Morden were fined 4s. eacli." Records of fines are plentiful in the early minutes. April 7. ITU.s, it was unanimously resolved, •'Tliat Hrotlier .lolin Smith Jiud Brother Hobert Land, for interruptiuu tlie liarmony of tlie hxfu-e, be fined tlie sum of two shillinus each, to })v put in tlie fund for the relief of indiucut brethren." Brother Hobert Land was Secretary at the time, and recorded this sentence a,L>ainst himself and his fel- low siniH V. December, 17US. '"On motion ously earned. ni'otliei' Aikiiwin was pecu- liarly iiiii'ortiiiiate in the matter of fines. On November 14. isoo, lie was line(l 4s., "for not fiirnisliint-- the loduc with li(|Uor. aureeable to the minutes of last lod.uc niuht ; '" and on October *.>, isoi, he was fine1)(;k. Hrotlirr ,1. T. (.sir.) Housscaux Im' fined Is. if lir (Iocs not hi'iiiy a /jiOel to the loduc tlic next loduc niyht." A|)|)ar('ntly, Hrotlicr Hous- scaux iicnicctcd his duty and sidl'crcd the penalty : for, in Dcccniber of the same yeai', it was resoJ\ 1. •"That the Treasurer taive money out of the fund sufiieient to purchase one small hil)je.'" It must not be liastily as- sumed that our hretlircn were indill'ercnt re- specting- the Volume of the Sacred Law tliat tliey were (lisposed to be more liberal in pi'o- vidin.u' spirituous comfort than in securing- spiritual sustentation. It is certain that the lod.U'c was provided with a larue Bible : and that f'.e ■•small ' "x I" the Treasurer was in- structed to pure. ..se was needed for the ante room. In June. ISO,'!, it was resolved, '"that any brother taki»i,u- the constitidion book out of the lo(l,i>-e, not returinnu' it on or before the next lody-e ni.yht, shall for tn cry such oU'ense pay a line of 4s.. New ^^)rk currency.'" Thei-e is no intimation that this penalty was ever incurred. 'Die first afllliations took place on Decem ber 4. 17'.>'». the record of which is as follows : " The netition of Brother Bowman, late a mem- ber of Lodu'c Xo. 4. was read. |)rayin,u' to be- come a iiKMuber of this loduc he producing a certifn-ate from Loduc Xo. 4. The members prest'ut proceeded to ballot upon said occasion, which were found unanimous in Bi ♦ 'ler Bow- man's faxor: and upon Brother Bo a man siun- ANCIENT KECOUDS. 7;{ iiiH' tlic by-laws of this loduc is adinittvd n iiic' XT tlicrcof. The petition of Brother Augustus .Jones was read, praying- the same purpose, wlio had not obtained liis certificate from liis former lodi^-e, l)iit promises to obtain a certiflcjite as soon as oppoi-tunity will serv(5 fortliat purpose; and as a numl)er of t]ie])retli- ren of this loduc wei'e well ac(|uainte(l witli I^rothei- An.i^ustus Jon.'s's concbict in Ins for- mer lodiic the l)rethern proceed to ballot for liim. which were found unanimous in his fav- or."' This Anuustus Jones was the surveyor who made the first surveys in I^arton 'I'own- ship. An entry upon the minutes under date I)eceml)er I'J. isoo, renn'nds us that Masonry is broad, liberal and charital)le. Where the spirit of Masonry dwells, there it is always hi.uh twelve — tliere the sun is always at its meridian. Malice, hate and revenue, the foul brood of niuht. find no habitation there. We have seen that many of the (irst inend)ers of i^arton Lod,u-e were Tnited Empire Loyalists, who had Ix'en di'iven from their homes in the new ! ('public, and many of whom had been depi"i\'ed of their |»roperty and subjected to urievoiis loss and sufl'erinu-. The bitterness of the ureat struu'ule had not yet died out its wounds were not yet healed. Hut within the portals of the Masonic lod.uc the wrongs were forgotten the passions of the strif«' were left behind. ( )n the day .just named the following' 74 TIIK HAKTON LOIHJK. entry a|)|)eai's upon tlic niiiiutcs : " Kead a Ict- t(^r from the Grand Secretary informinu' this lod.ye of connnunication received from the Grand Loduc of Pennsylvania, annonncin^ tlie e agreed to l.irnisli tlie loduc with the ribbon.'' Tlie event is siunificant notoidy of tlie liberal spirit of our early brethren, but it reminds us thatconujHinication was difiicidt in those days, and that news traveled slowly. Washin.i^ton died on the Utli of December. 17*'i>, aiid the news was ()fticiallyconmiiini<-ated to Lodye \o. 1(1 only on the I'ith of thi^ foUowin.u- December — .just two days less tlian a year after the sad event. In referrin.y to this action of the l()d,u(', Brother James Charlton says: "We now know Washinuton. as the whole world knows him. as a noble man. a pure patriot, a ,yT«'Jit name in history, and not morc^ honored in his own land than in all lands where ureatness and .uoodness are revered: but our early ])reth- ren knew him as a republican, while they wer(^ mouarcliists : as a successful r<'l)el a.iiainst tlieir sovereign ; as one whose triumph had V ANCIKN'T KKCOKDS. 75 made many of tlicir iici.ulibors. and perhaps some of themselves, exiles ; lint th<\v knew him also as a Mason, and they for.uot all else in that, and honored him as an honored member of the craft. It is easy to waive political differ- ences in onr day, in which it recpiin^sa Hndi- brastic l(),i^ician to decide where they beuin and in what they consist, apart from the spoils; but in that day political differences were set- tled in blood, and the fierce hatreds of the war of independence had not yielded to time. In all our records there is nothin,^• more tonchiny-, n()tllin,^■ more truly Masonic, nothinu- which so profoundly impresses me with sincere res- pect for our early brethren, as tliis simple, un- adorned record of their tribute to the mem- ory of ' HiM-ht Worshipfid (irand Master W'ashinuton,' " Very i^arly in its history the lodyc made an effort to establish a library. The members believed in the diffusion of li^ht. and it is evident that they wanted that liylit to shine anion,!"- all the pe()|)le. for they desired the library to be public. ( )n the Hd of February, ITDS, it was '%Moved by Past Master Phelps, that this lodu-e take into consideration the utility of a|)propriatin,L>- a part of the fund to the purpose of purchasin.u- a public library, to l)e under such rcKidations as shall be hereaft<*r a^ived ui)on, and to this end a coumiittee be chosen to report a sivetch of rules ;iud reuula- tions respectiuK this desi.i^ii. as also the sum 7(5 THK HAHTON LoDOK. to he appropriated, the inodo in which, and place wlu'i'c a sclcM-tioii of books iiiiuht hest l)r piircliascd. tV:c."' 'I'hc rcsohitioii was ■•s('C()ii(h'd ))> Hi'otlicr ,J. W, Hycivinaii. and unaninionsly a.yrccd to hy tlic rest of the l)r('thr('n present. " A connnittee was also appointed ; bnt there the project appears to have ended, for no further reference to it ajtpears on the minutes. The time for tlu^ establishment of |)Ublic libraries had not yet come. The loduc foun earlier years. Its pillar of fire removecl from time to time, and its tabernacle was set U|. where\('r conxcnience or necessity pointed out a suitable place. Aftei- it ceased to meet at Smith's tavern, it held its nieetinus at tlie liouses of various brethren. There are not wanting- indications that tlie temporary cus- todians of tlie ark. sometimes considered its possession more of a burden than an honor. In 1T*.>S the meetings were held at Ib'other Aikman"s house, and in April of that year Brother Aikman mov<'d "'That Lodiic No. 10 meet the first Friday of every month. insteaI)(4K, V, to the iniiiilxT of iiicinlx'rs present is uciier- oiis. Occasion.'illy we have similar entries to tills one of Febrnary '.>, 17US: 'Expenses of the nlulit. M2s.. which was paid hy the bene- fited brethivn/ that is by the brethern initi- ated or advanced. On September 4. 17'.>4. i find tills entry: 'tliat tlie ll(inors for tlie use of the lodu-eslLall l)e pnr(-hased witli the nf')ney iH'lonninu- to th<' ioduc, l)y th(^ barrel or (piarter cask, and that sild li(iu()r be (h'poslted with Brother S. \V. Aikman; and tliat he is to be acconntal)le to tlie lod.n*^ for the same.' July 7. 17*.>S: 'That four gallons rum l)e |)r()vided for the use of the lod.ye, Brother W. M. to fur- nish the same and a ke.u- to contain it. That Brother Roiisseaiix furnish the lod^e with one barrel of spirits and one of wine at prime cost.' Sei)tember li>, 1800: 'That Brother Aikman should furnish the Iodide with liipiorand li.uht.'' December 81, ISOO: 'Expenses of the ni.yht, 12s., two bottles brandy.' Aui-nst 12, 1S08: 'That the Treasurer take as much money out of the chest as will purcluise three gallons of whiskey against the next lod.ye ni,i»'ht. ' Dec- embers, isoa: 'Brother William Wed^^, Cr. for three ,i»all<)ns whiskey, ISs.' Februarys, 1805: 'That Brother Showers furnish the h)dKe with ten ,i»fillons of Avhiskey against the next hul.q'e nisht. ' June 14, 1805: ' That money be taken out of the fund to purchase one and a half gallons of sinrit for the festival.' One is tempted to think that the bn^thren had re- II i\ ANCIKXr KKCOKDS, 79 solved to keep fcMtival l).v bciiiR more modemte ill tlicir potations tlian was ciistoinary witli them. DecemlHT K?, isof): ' Brother Sliowers, Cv. by tliree .yalloiis wliiskey/ Fel)niary 14, l.S()() : • Brother Showers, Cv. by three ualloiis whiskey." March 14. ls()<', : • Brother William \Ve(l,m' aurees to t'liriiish the loallons of whis- key hy the next loduc ni^lit. ' March 11, 1 Id t> •J4.il. To 1 pair of snuffors anth of April. ISUO. a resolution was adopted "That any brother that shall be dis- guised ill TKiuor in the lod ye after the lod.uv i i 1 I « • CAI'TAIN .JOSEPH JSIKNHY. "■ • ' ■sa iii N-J TIIK MAKTON l-OIXiK. is closed, sliall ))»' fiiu'd at the disci't'tioii of tlu' l()d,y<'-'" And the followilm' cidry appears under date DeceiidxT IK ls<>7 : " Hrotlier Showers informed the loduc that a l)r()ther of tli(" name of Harry Laml) wished to visit the loduc ( )n lu'in.y- asle as the majority shall think meet, to repla<-e part of the family clothin.M- lost l\v fire ; '' and it was '' luianimously agreed that Worshipful Brother Heasley i)resent Mrs. Wilson witli the sum of sixteen |)()unds, New York currency, in sucli manner as lie shall think most proi)er." On the '27th of Dectmi- -.'k. ^, ^^lir, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) k /. ^ ,*ft {./ jy "^ ^'•^ ^^ £?, r b> v\ 'II S4 THK HAKTON LOIWJK. Iwr, ls()'.>, " Hrotlicr William Wcd^^r made application to the 1o(Ik<' for the loan of ciulit dollars, which was ri'Jmtcd to him. The ex- penses of th<' due from Brother Aikman. which he could not account for ; l<)/;{/l() from Brother I). Youn^-, which lie could not account for. Brother Bowman left unsettled until the next lod^e ni^dit. Carried unanimously, that the treasurers shall kiv*^ their bonds for the an(":knt kkcords. S5 money they raii't account for the next lodge niirlit. " At anotlier meeting held the same month it was "Carried, if their is a suificient num- ber of meml)ers assembled at the regular hour, they are to |)roceed to business." In Junt' it was recordecl that " Brother S(Mii()r Warden agrees to furnish the lodge with a room for three years at th<' rate of twenty dollars a year. He likewise agrees to furnish the lodge supers for six |)ersons on every stated lodge night." It will hardly be asserted that the renuineration for the room and the "supers" was extravagantly high. In December, 17i>. 7 and S absent, not sum- moned : No. \) present ; No. 10 absent and fined, having" been sunuuoned ; Nos. 11 and 1*2 present.'' The ,i»rand body miyht im|)()se fines, but the members of Lod^-e No. 10 had their own views as to the necessity for paying them. Other l>rethren also had tlieir doubts. Bro. Hall, Past Master of Lodge No. 4, said, RKLATIONS WITH (JRAND L(H)()K. s7 "If we are to pay a tax to the Grand Lod^^e, we must scratcli out the words Freemasonry and put down l)ond Masonry." Tlie rebel- lious lany^ua^M' was reporttMl to (irand Lodj^M'. and a motion was made that Hrotlier Hall "do make an ap|)olo^''y."' Hut after discussion, it was resolved, "that his conduct |)roceeded from iyiiorance," and "that no appoloyy was necessary." At a UKM'tintr of (irand Lod^e, held I)(^cem- ber 5, ITUS, four lodges heiuKi'epresente* I, No. 10 was airain reported absent, and the Secre- tary was instructed to " write to the absent lodj^-es in this country to know the reason why they did not attend to the election of officers and pay their (bies : and they sliall atte I on the morniui*- of the festival. " A |»parently the siunmons was sent, and it elicited a reply from Ha) ton tliat "an article in our by-laws lirevents us. It is ena«-ted in our l)y-law that at the festival the lodyc is to dine together, settle accounts and install the otlicers of the hxlyc. If the presidinir oflicers are absent, the officers ellect can't take their places, nor tlie settlement of accounts l)e regularly pro- cee(fe(f with witliout In'inu^ installed. Lodye No. 10 wislies in every de^rree to fulfil their duties to the Grand Lod^-e as Masons ouyht to do. If it is always necessary, or if the (irand Lod«-e says that we oui^dit to attend at the festivals, it will l)e necessary for Lodu-e No. 10 to alter that |>art of our by-laws. The 88 THK MAKTON LOIXJK, lod^c (lon't s(H' how tlK'ty can with Masonic propriety infrin,i»-(^ upon tlicni at |)n'S('nt. Lod^c No. 10 liopcs tliat tlic(iran(l Lod^c will not consider them a disorderly body. Tliey assure them that tliey are willing and ready at all times to conform to the resolutions of the (irand Lod,i,'-e and tli(^ re^nlations of the fraternity in ycneral." This letter was siu^ned by John Aikman, W. M., and Richard Heasley, Secr<'tary. Another letter, tlu^ <-opy of which is undated, but which was written about tlie same time, asked the (Irand Lod^e "to take the distance and situation of our lodM'c into consiileration, and, instead of ^ayiuR our dues as formerly, and insisting on our attending at every (puirterly meeting, to take a specified sum and our attendance once a year."" "The Grand Lodu-e,'" it is ur^ed, "has threattnied to take our warrant provided that W(^ did not pay our dues. The lodye means to pay our arreara^t* to the present time. If tlie Grand Lod^-e does not sec^ proper to lessen the sum we have to pay, they Avill b(; under the necessity of takinu our warrant from us, for our fund is not sufficient to answer tlie de- mand. I shall now state to you the sum we have to i)ay : ( )ur (piarterly dues to the (irand Lod^e. ;W/ currency : expenses to the brother for attending (irand Lod^e, MO «>. This state- ment amounts to fifty-four dollars per year, exclusive of the fee for initiation and the secretary's fees. If tlie Grand l^od^e don't KKLATIONS WITH (JKANI) I.(HK>K. St) tliiiik it prudent to relax, Lod^^e No. lo, for tli<' most prudential reason, must suhmit to liave their warrant taken from them, or otlier- wise submit to liave tlieir fund swallowed up by the fund of tlie (irand J.odKe." Tlie <-orresp()nd(Uiee continued throuirli a considerable |)eriod of time. On the 1st of June, isoo, tin' oflicers of Lod^^-c No. 10, in transj!iittin«- t]»e (piarterly return, say: "The returns in future will be sent more re^^darly. For sending you th(" money at this period, it is not in our power. Neitlier can we plead poverty : our fund is sufHciently ade(|uatc. 'Vhv misfortune at present is that we liave iio ready cash. \Ve are sensible that the (irand Lod^^e have it in their power, accordinir to their resobition, of declarinuour warrant void in conse(|uence of our ion-compliance with their orders, and this resolution of Grand Lod^v. if put in force, of course nuist |)revent us meetin.y as a lod^-e. We, however, are not ignorant of our duty to the Grand Lod.k^e. Neither are we so i,i>*norant of Masonry but that we know that a part of the resolution of the Grand Lod.y-e of 4th of Septem])er, 17U*.», cannot operate against us, namely that part that says the niembers thereof treated as claii- (U'stine Masons. The nuniibers of Lodi-c No. 10 are made under the sanction of tln^ Pro- vincial Grand Lody-e, and under a le«-al war- rant. No Mason made under a h^^^al warrant can be a clandestiiu^ Mason : if so this lody-e ■ :f 90 THK HAKTON LulXIK. iiir 11] it!' i I r ? i M Ifli (lout know the iiieaiiiiiK of tlie word claiides- tine/' Tlu^ dissntisfaction with Graiid Lod.k'^e Heenis to liave been yeneral, for a nieetlnK was held at York on the 2()th of June. ISOO, "by tlie masters of the foHowinK lodges, viz., , No. 8; Willhiiii McC^ay, No. ('. ; J)aniel Cozens, No. S ; Hicliard Heasley, No. 10; Kdward Jessop, No. bS ; Thomas Fraser, No. ; and the Hev. Mr. Addison, of the Grand Lod^-e. They come to the following resolutions, to which they have subscribed their names : That the Provincial (irand Mas- ter is rtM-ommended to take re^idar proceedinys to have the (irand Lodyc removed io the Town of York, as it will tend to the benefit of the craft in general. The present situation of the craft is such as to alarm every ^ood brother, and tend to the total disuidon of the craft. That from the report and information it is the indisi)ensal)le duty of the Provincial (irand Master to take sucli constitutional means as are in his power to reform the abuses and irre^-- ularities that at present exist. That the reso- lutions of the Grand Lod^e, where it isauree- able to the constitution, it is the indispensable duty of every lod^e to conform to the orders of the Grand Lodt^e. That the lod^'es with the assistaiK-e of the Grand Master owes their ex- istini*' authority ; and it is necessary for the good of Masonry in general that there be a Kood understanding" between the Provincial Grand Master and the Grand Lodge.'' KKLATIONS WITH <»K.\M) LOIMJK. Ul On the tliini of SriitrinlMT followiiiu, tlic (iraiid L(k1k^'. " taking into (•oiisidcratioii the \villin«-ii('ss of the (IcliiKiiiciit 1o(1k<*h to pay and t\w (lifticiiltics attt'iKliiiM- the ad.jiistiiiw: of their accounts in time to cxoncratt^tliciiiscivcs from the censure promised at this meeting-, liave reconsich'red tht^ resolve, and udx en tiiem th(^ fiirtlier time to the connnunication in De- cember next, to mai\e final settlement.*' The Master of Lodu-e Xo, 10 was also notified that, as the lod^'e has, "by Hichard Heasley. amony- others, at Vork, on the L'«)th June last. e at the connnunication of Grand Lod,t>e in March. Tln^ records do not tell ns how that particular controversy ended; but the |)resumption is that it remained unsettled at the time the X^ewark brethren set u|)their rival Grand Lod^e. In ( )ctober, iso.S, Jarvis issued a sununons to all lodges under hii 'nrisdiction to asseml)le in (irand Lodtre at YorK, on the lOth of February, 1S04. The rival Grand Lod^e had been oruanized r iii \)'2 THK HAKTON LOIMJK, at Niagara, and tlio ofticcrs of that body liah th(^ first Wednesday in ( )ctober, and to brin^^ with them their returns, have conu^ to the resolution of not attendiuLr to any snnnnons that may \n^ sent, for this reason : They know that Brother William Jar- vis, Ks(|., has the I)uk(^ of AtholV warrant as Provincial (irand Master, and till thc^ new ellected Grand Master has a warrant from the same fountain they can't think of actknow- led.triuK any other. They also understand that tlie Grand Lod^eat Niagara are workin.^ with- (mt a warrant. They therefore do not think themselves safe to pay up dues to the Grand Lod^^e at Nia^^ara.'' There the controversy, so far as it was a ('ontroversy, endtnl. But the troubles (-ontin- ued. Brother Jarvis failed to disc^harge his HKLATIONS WITH (JKAM) LOIMJK. \V.i 'liity ill a propel' iiiaiincr. and tln' siilionllnatr lodges ceased to receive t'-it ciicoiii-a^^eiiieiit and support wliicli are so essential to health and activity. \\^' <:;.niiot wonder that in course of time discoiirauenient fell upon the hrethren in liarton. and that the reirularity of their meetings was interrupted. i- ,1 i T-* CIIAITKI} VI. TIIK KNI> OK Tin: (II. |> MIMTKS. TiiK Inst, of tlir ;imirii1 niiniitcs wliidi liMVc Ik'cii preserved are lliosr of tin- iiieetlnu held <»ii the •.Hh of Fehniary, isio. We shall he |)ardoiie(l for eoltyiii.Lr them in full : " Lod^e No. Ii> met at their lo(lv:e room in liarton, on Friday, the Uth Feh.. in the year Islo, of Masonry aSlo. Lod^r openeil in the Master's de^M'ee. ( )ii motion of Brother l^'as- ley. seeonded by Hrothei" Hirney. that every memher of th«' lod^^e that lives within the limits of four miles of the lod^*' room shall attend tin' duties of his lod^'c every re^-ular iod^e ni^-ht, sickness or absent from home on his necessary business excepted. Motion put and carried. On motion of Brother Beash^v, se('\v. .lolm Aik- iiiaii. ,1. liOttridK*'. 'I. Hinn'.N ; Willi.Min VVcd^-c. TyltT. Visitors: T. Atkinson, Hrotln-r liai- nnni. IJ. ('ockrcll."' And tlicn' tlir early records end. More than a i't<'rof a century passed hefon^ they were resumed. 'I'he time was one of division i]i Masonic circh's. In th<' iiij^dicst councils slrit'e existed where iiarmony should hav(^ reigned, liival ^nind bodies contended for the mast«'ry ; and professions of cliarity and ^r(M)d will toward all mankind seemed hut mockeries in the |»resenc(^ of hickeriim-s and hitterness. 'I'o some extent th(^ dissensions of the motln'r country watents referred to. 'Sii', ' was the (lovc^rnor's re- Joindei", ' it they are not immediately I'ortli- comiiiK, ev(U'y one of them, and placed in the hands of these ^-entleiiuMi Ik^'c at noon on Thursday next (it was now Tuesday), by (ireorK<', ril un-,Iarvis you.''' ( )tli<'r inlluences were at work to discour- • • SIR AM, AN MA(N\lt. f » 98 THK BAKTON L()I)(4E. a^c the Invthrcii. The rival (Traiid Lod^^ at Niagara loudly asserted its legitimacy ; and, while the Barton lirethren denied that legiti- macy, they itiay liave l)een in (h)iibt which way to walk. The acrimonious discussions which i)revailed at the time produced in their minds a feeling that the discord would event- ually inv()lv(^ Masonry in this province in utter confusion. Before that rivalry was hai)pily adjusted, and, under the t>iii(hin(^e of the Grand Lodi^e of England, harmony was restored, the war of 1811^-15 had l)r()ken out, and those who liad fled from the United States to seek a peaceful asylum in t^anada, were forced to take up arms in defenc^e of their new country. On the restoration > ' peace those who remained of oiu- brethren found their time fully oc^cupied in repairing the ravages of war. In 182<> the anti- Masonic crusade swei)t tlirous:h the neighborin.u' States, and its influence could not fail to be felt in Canada. Thus a series of untoward events prevented the regular assembling of those whose chief object was to incuh-ate the lesson of In'otherly love. But we nuist not too hastily assume that the fire w\as wholly extinguished upon the altar of the Barton Lodge, and that its light absolutely ceased to shine. It is certain that work in the proper sense of the word, was in- termitted ; but there is reason to think that the brethren continued to meet for Masonic \ KNI) OF OLD MINrTKS. 99 intercourse, and tJiat tlie spirit of Masonry was kept alive in tlieir liearts. Tiiere is no record that, wliiie the lody-e was active, it ever nietattlielionseof Brotlier Land. But living- nieniliers of tlie Land family liave lieard the wife of C'oh)neI K()l)ert Land tell liow the Ma- sons met in liis house after th(^ war, and tliat they rolJ(Hl cannon halls over the floor while en«a«ed in their ceremonies. It is probable that they held informal meetings, and prnr- ticed th.' -work,'' to keep it fresh in their nunds, i>ossibly making- some noise to drown their voices, which Mrs. Land l)elieved to be made by cannon ])alls. There is also a well- (h^fined tradition that the Masons held meet- ings at Ancaster durin.i? the first (piarter of this century. But the m-etin.i's referred to may have lieen those of Lliram C:hai)ter, which was organized in 1820, and met at Ancaster. It is certain that Lod^e No. 10 ceased to be an operative Masonic body. It ceased to hohl relations witli Grand Lodse. It c^ould not le^-ally communicate decrees, and there is not the slightest indication that any attempt to (•ommunicate them was ever made. Even the jewels of the l()d^»-e were hidden away and kept in a safe place against the day whei'i they would a^ain burn as li^>lits upon" the sacred altar. But as, in the dark days of Israel's history, there remained seven thousand men who had not l)owed the knee to Baal, so in Barton there remained tried and true men who ° t j 100 THK HAHTON LOIXJK. ir liiul not ceased to be Masons at heart, and wiio had not despai'-ed of th(^ future of the Barton Lodi^c. Tli(\v looked forward hope- fully to the dawn of a briuhter day, and they sought out those new-conn'rs who like them- selves liad seen the true li.ulit. Sonn^ of them lived to see the l)etter day ; but before tliat day dawned, the majority liad ''fallen on sleep." Tliis division of the history of the Barton Lodu-e cannot, it is tlnmuht, be more fittingly brought to a close than by (piotinu' tlie <-on- clndinu parauraplis of Hro. James Charlton's history, entitled "The i^arton Lodi»e Seventy Years au-o *' : " \\'liat a commentary on Inunan life and human ell'ort is here in these books of our re- cords I The liand that wrote them is cold and still : the head that planned tliem slee|)s well and recks not of its whereabouts : the subjects of them liave mouldered into dust. All tliat much interests us — all that is perennially en- durinyand imi)ortant — can be compressed into a few brief para,ura|)hs. That these brethren lielped the needy is sweet: that they planned works of public utility is as admirable as it is inspirinu : nnd that tliey dwelt together in unity is beautiful ; all else is c()m|)aratively trivial and unim|)ortant. We may strut and fret (mr liour u|)on the sta^e, and we may fill our life drama with sound of trumpet and thunder of cannon ; but all that will hv'iuu; * ■ j KND OF OLD MINFTES. 101 « ■ peace to ourselves, and all of us that will lie truly lastiuir-tliat will make our memories Hweet and l^lossom in the dust-will be that we did, or endeavored to do, some little ^ood Ihat IS the lesson tliat I read in these rec^ords of seventy years a^o-of those brethren who then lived and stru^-^ded, and fought the for- est and their own faults, who founded our lodKe, and whos(» lusty labors aided in making- the wilderness and the solitary place rejoice and iu covering the land with fruitful farms and populousandprosperouscitiesand villages, aud in brin^in*,-- it to what we now find it. "Ls not the history of the Barton Lodge, of which oidy a small portion has been dealt with to-niKht a sha(h,v of the history of our order i The i)articulars of the inception of our lodge exist not. Many of its early re<-ords, ill the shape of corresixnidence and reports, liav(^ not descended to us. Its early minute books are (piite as communicative as we coukl desire. It struggles into life . it l)attles for existence : it succumbs for a while to adverse ci:rumstances : it returns to its work : it con- tinues in it. and succeeds in it, and arrives at what we now see. Darkness broods over its birth, gray dawn faintly illumines its early hours, but it now exists in the light of i)erfect day. 80 it is with Masonry in g-eneral. It emerges from oblivion: obstacles beset it, per- secution dog»-s it, and its progress is a moral battle-field : but it pursues its way steadily rr ■■ 102 THK BAKTON LODGK. ff ^n, ti^-Mz-m ^/Vu^^i^.j^cY^ HILL KOK THE FIKST CHARTEK. w ^/3U-^ NOTES FOR MONTHLY DUES. m KND <»F *ILI> MiNiTKS. 103 and Hiir^ly. Its()ri;.iii is lost in tradition. Its li«-lit, at first dim as a rusli-li«-ht, is now an tliat of a broad noon. It has witlistood the anjitlienias of bigots, tlic edicts of despots, tlie satins of satirists, the ignorance and pre.jndices of the profane, and tlie assaults of time ; and it has won royalty and genius to its ranks— it nourishes to-day more vigorously than ever. Monuments have crumbled to dust, cities have decayed, and dynasties liave passed awa.\ : but it abides as the everhistini,'- hills— it re- mains firm and sure as the foundations of the earth. Thus it is always with truth. The winds and waves of imiorance, of bar))arism, of superstition, and of alariiu^l power, may lash tliemselves into fury, and threaten the rock of Truth and Strenyth-^threaten to overwhelm and sweep it away : but when these frantic, and aimry, and maddened, and uiali.uiiant, and cruel, and incensed winds and waves have spent tlieir impotent fury and sub- sided into calm, that rock will still be found standing, se(Mire in its stn^iyth and strong iu its truth, imperishable, impreunable, and un- harmed, and adorned with the «arlauds of o(;ean, as if the smiles of heaven, instead of the storms of earth, had lighted upon it." IS', t ClIAPTKR VII. HEsrMI'TloN OF r-AMoK. In ls;i(), the survivinu- incmlu'i's of Lodyt^ No. 10, aiul n lumibcr of other Masons wlio liad aftiliatt'd witli it. iiiadt' an attempt to warm the Ixxly into new life. They met for that pnrpose, and resumed possession of the jewels and other property of tlie lodu-e, wliich for a (piarter of a century had remained in cliar.u-e of Brotlier Kphraim Land. TIk^ inci- dents attending- the |)reservation of the jewels liave lieen recorded by HiKlit Worshipful Brotlier H. K. (-harlton, and his narrative may fittinuly l)e copied here : " ( )n the morn- iny' of the memoral)le (hiy on which the battle of Stony Creek was fought, the small British army, c()nsistin,u' of three or four regiments of reyuhirs and some ('anadian militia, was (b'awn up near Brother Land's house, lumrly expectin.M" an attack from tlie mucli laruer forc<» of the Americans, approacliini*- from tlie direction of the frontier. The fences and other ol)strnctions jiad l)een removed to fa- cilitate the movements of th(^ troops, and the inhabitants liad evacuated tlieir h(ms("s, ex- pecting- to find them on their return either in ashes or riddled by shot and shell. Before RKSI'MPTION OF LABOR. 106 (juittiiiK their home, the wife and yoiiiiir sons of HrotlKT Land (he l)ein^^ at his post in th(? line of (lefens(0 carried the jewels, records and valuables of the lod«-e, ^oKether with Home of their own household treasures, to the garden, and there buried thtnn, planting a flower al)<)ve them to mark tlie spot. The exact place where the flower stood was pointed out to the writer in ]H&2, by Stephen Land, son of Hrother Ephraim Land. Stephen re- collected well the occasion, when he was a small boy, of the burying- of the little box. Ho said the flower, a lar«e |)e()ny, occupied the center of a circular flower bed. He as- sisted to di,M' up the flower, to bury tlie box in the |)lace it had occupied, and then to jMit tlie flower in its original position. The spot is about sixty feet south of Main street and forty feet east of Erie avenue. The enemy, not making' such rapid j)ro,i>ress as had ])een (ex- pected, was surprised during the ensuin^^ niwht. at Stony C^reek. and thoroughly routed. The next day the members of Brother Land's family returned to their homes, and to their m-eat Joy found their treasures un(listurl)ed." In 183(1, a committee of the lod«e waited upon Brother Land to obtain the warrant and Jew- els, and they were found to Iw in a ^ood state of preservation. An inventory of the articles so returned was still in the archives of the l()d«-e a few years nno, but it has now disap- peared. It is mncli to be regretted, also, that TT" IOC) TMK MAKTON U>I)(>K. tlio .jt'wcls tluMnsclvcs, with a sIiikI** ''xccptioii, an' MO l()ii«('i- to be fomid. 'I'Ik^ I^arton Lod^*' is now pcnnittcd to work with Kohl Jewels ; hut if th(^ veiierahh' relics whiej illimiiiiated the altar of oiir ancient brethren were still in existence they would be more highly prized and more Jealously uuarded than the richer furniture of these later days. But, thou.uh the brethn n were willinK to he employed in the work of Masonry, they wen^ doubtful of th(^ position in which they stood. 'I'hcy liad their charter, but were not certain that it was any Iouk^'I" Ji uood charter, .larvis was dead ; the Provincial (irand I^odue of which lie had been the heaK LAHoU. in; Anion^- thr dorui "'iits prcscrvj'd in tlir ar- <'liiv<»s of tlic l<)(l«-«' ar«^ ii.o follow iiiK iiiiiiiiteH of a nicctin^'' held ScptcinlMT 1 1, 1H41, by sonic l)n'tlin'n who had hcronir affiliated iiicnilxTH of tlu^ Barton Lod^*'. '>ut wlio appear almost to liaveKivcn np liopc tliat tlu' lod^-c woidd bcs permitted a^ain to work under tlie old warrant. At tills meeting'- were present John S. i>o(ld. of Tweed Lod.ue, No. !i.'{r). \\. A.; William Milne, St. .lames, JMlinhur^h : (ieorj^-e l.ees. New h]dinl)nrKli; James Paris. St. John Loduc. Stow, No. 215: (Jeor^e Dnflield, No. T.S, Iliim- ber Lod^e, Mull ; Jolin Kemu'dy, ^}fu, County Tyrone, Ireland; (ieorKe P. Hull. Montreal Lodj^-e. Montreal; and John Law, No. 14, Nia^Jira. The following resolutions wer<' adopted : '* Tliat it is nectessary that a lodyc of Free and Accepted Masons should l)e instituted in this town as soon as convenient; and that, as th(^ In'etliren of this place hav(^ been enabled to regain tlie cliarter of Lod«-e No. 10 of Bar- ton, unch'r tfie seal and signature of our late (irand Master the I)uk«'of Atliol, tfiat appli- cation be made for a renewal. That it is ex- pedient in tlie meantime that application be made to tlie Deputy (irand Lod^e at Toronto for a dispensation, so that Filtered Ap|)ren- tices or others may be re^nilarly introduced, and that the necessary fees for entrance may be collei^ted for the purpose of carrying into effect the foreK<>iii«' objects. That a deputation be sent to Toronto for the above TT^ lUJS THK MAKTON L(>U(»K. purpose, coinposcd of HrotJu'i-s Milne, K«ni- nedy, I)o(l(l and Hull." The result of the visit to Toronto is not on record : l)ut in October, 1.S41, Brother William Milne, a lieutenant in the royal navy, resident in Hamilton, visiteuty Provincial (irand Mastei'. respecting the position of the lodye. In a letterto Brother (ieory-e 1*. I^ull. lirother Milne tells the residt: "'I have seen Colonel Fitz- wihhon, to whom I mentioned the business about the lod^*'. He says that we do not re- (|uire a dispensation that we can make use of theold warrant until we have money enoiiuh to pay for a new one ; and that we have noth- ing to do with the former debts of tln^ loduc Tliere is at present he tells un\ no Deputy (irand Lod^*' ii» this province : and he does not think the Toronto lod^c would ^nint a disp<'nsation. I^ut at all events, he says, we do not re((uire one. Fitzuibbon's assurances rtMUoved all doubt of tlie regularity of the lod^M^ and tlie le^dti- macy of its proceediuKf*. From the earliest times the l)rethren had shown a conunenda- ble (h^crmination that their work should ])e done under tlu^ sanction of properly consti- tuted authority. They were firmly resolved that no irre^nilarity should taint their i)r()- ceediuKS, and that no (;loud sliouhl shadow tin-! h'^itinuicy of any Mason made within KKSI'MITroN OK r,,\M(M{. I Oil tli.'ir doors. It is, tluMvfoiv. not diMicult to MiidcrstaiKl the joy with wliirli tlicy ivccivcd tlic wclroinc im'ws that tiicir old warniid iv- iiiaincd valid, and that work doiir imdrr it would he regular. They at once proc.'cMh'd to receive and initiate candidates ; and refer- ence to tlie list of members at the end of this volume will show that they continued to do so without internu'ssion. Still, the position of the lod,i>-e was not wholly satisfactory to the hrethreii. It was eonsidcreddrsirahle that the original warrant should he exchant-cd for a charter issued di- ••<'«-tl.v by the (irand Lodi... of Knuland. and that the lodyc should be borne on the urand register of the mother country. With that ()b,iect in view, tlie secretary add r(ssed a let- ter to the(;rand Lodyc of Knyland in the fol- lowin.y terms : (Ia/kttk Office, Hamilton, (i jre District, Febru'^i/ Mth, 1842. Sir ani. Brotiiku : Tiie gratifying opportunity of our friends tlie Hon. Sir Allan N. I\raonab and Dr. Thomas Kolph visiting our beloved country has been the cause of my being a^ain called upon to address you as secretary of the Grand Lodge of CJreat Britain. As secretary of No. 10. Barton, I had the honor of addresning von six years since, on the pleasing circumstance of having been J of five Master Masons to whom was delivered up the books, papers, jewels and warrant of No. 10, Barton, which had lain in abeyance for many years, owing to the many deaths which had taken place during ihe last years of the unnatural war of 1H12. Not receiving any answer to my former petition, we naturally were prevented from forming a regular lodge or initiating friends into our ancient and honorable order. We quietly met together ^FT 110 TIIK MAU'I'ON l,ul)(ii;. to talk ovor our doHtitiite Hituatioii, ardently nxpectiiifj tlmt eacli I'hiropean inail would hriti^^' iih Home aiiHwer to our petition ; l)iit, iilaH, to tlio present we are witliout any coinnuinication or answer whatever from your respected and highly estceined body. A few inonthH wince wu formed a deputation and proceed(!d to Toronto and advined witli tlu; bretliien tliere. On producing our warrant No. 10, Barton, iHHued by tlie CJrand Lodge of JOn^land, under tlie autliority of tlio (irand Lodt^'e of (3anada, dated at Newark, now Nia^^ara, wo were informed that our authority would at once bo recognized by theGrand Lodj^e of Great Jiritain, on our puttinf^ ourHelveH in communication with your h(inor"')le body, paying up our annual dtu-u and acting up in every degrc^j to therej^uUr orders and laws of the (irand Lodge of Mngland. We pray your connidorate aasiHtanco to uh under our unpleasant state of exiHtvnce, We beg to enclose il6 aw our present dues, awaiting only your reply to forward sucli dues regularly as the Grand Lodge shall agree to. Gio. r. Jlii.i,. To tills, ;iii(l to otlicM' .Mpplicatloiis of ;i likt^ iiatiin', no answer was n'ccivcJ ; and it was tlioii^l't tliat soiiK^ (MTor had been made in til" |»ro(('(lnr(' of the lodK^(\ 'I'licn'ioi'c, tin* Master of tiie iodK<' at this time Worsiiipful Brother VViiiiain .1. Kerr a(hiressed himself, in December, IS4-J, to Hi^Iit Worshipful Hrother Thomas (i. Ridoiit, of St. Andrew's LodK<'. 'I'oronto, from whom he received, in February, I.S4;{, the following reply: "It is (piite iinpardonabh^ for mo to have aIlowe(l your lettcir of th<' iM;th December last to have reniaine; your for^ivc^- ness. I hav(! now the pleasure to en(tlos(; the form of p(^tition to the (ii'and Lod^*' <>f Kn^-- land, which must be; si^ntMl by at h^ast seven KKSI'MI'TION OF I,A|{. Ill Master Masons, cacji dcsi^natlii^ aMaiiist his naiiM^ from what iodnc h(^ hails. Let this pe- tition then he s(uit(l()\vii to our St. Andrew's Lodt-c here, adl)(iK. ark, (now Niagara), in the year of our Lord 17it5, William Jarvie, then Secretary of the Province, being Provincial Grand Master, a copy of which cliarter I have the honour to enclose to you. The lodge laboured and prospered, I believe, to an unparalleled degree on its first establishment, taking into consideration that the place where it was held was almost a wilderness. The course of its prosperity and labours was first interrupted by the war of lHl'2. In conse(]uence of tlie death and removal of almost all its mem- bers who originally bek)nged to the lodge that part of my state- ment which refers to the history of the lodge up to the year 1H3() is gathered from sources whicli in my judgment are not en- tirely satisfactory, and I cannot therefore presume to state with any degree of certainty whether the lodge resumed its labours after the war or not. In ls;{() the charter and jewels of the lodge were obtained from an old and faithful brother who has since died. In the same year it appears by tlie records of tlie lodge some 8i.\ or seven JNIaster Masons hailing from different lodges assembled to advise on the means to be taken to revive labour in tlie lodge, bat tlieir exertions were interrupted by the unhappy rebellion which broke out in lsi57, and were not again revived un- til 1m41, when a committee of the brethren went to Toronto, the seat of St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 1, to advise with the brethren of that lodge on the validity of our charter and the propriety of commencing to labour under it. The brethren of Kt. Andrew's Lodge, wiio were consulted, including tlie then Worshipful Mas- ter, Thomas (t. Ridout, Esquire, advised our committee that the charter of Barton Lodge, No. 10, was equally good and valid with their own, and entitled to a preference as being older, and that they could see no possible impropriety in our proceeding to labour. C;ol. William Fitzgibbon, one of the deputy Provincial Grand Masters, has also advised us, and his opinion sustained that of the brethren of Ht. Andrew's. I had the honour to hold the office of Grand Senior Warden in the Provincial Grand Lodge after it had been re-organized in IH'22 by Brother McGillivray, who, the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge will bear record, was sent to this province in order to regu- late and place on a proper footing the several lodges of this Pro- vince ; and my own opinion corresponded with that of our brethren of St. Andrew's, Toronto, and of Col. Fitzgibbon. We have also observed that our lodge, Barton No. 10, is men- tioned and recorded as a working lodge under the authority of the Grand Lodge of England, in the Masonic Almanack, pub- ? » ^T I 114 THK HARTON lAiDdK. L .ed in London yearly, and, as I apprehend, under the author- ity of the Grand Lod^e of England. Under these circumstances, and supported by these opinions, the brethren thought proper to commence their labours, and 1 have much satisfaction in now forwarding a list of those mem- bers who have been initiated, passed and raised in my lodge since the latter part of the year 1841, when the lodge commenced its labours. You will observe twenty-seven members liave been raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason. In February, 1842, the lodge availed itself of the visit of our brethren, Sir Allan N. Macnab and Doctor Thomas Holph, to England to send a communication to the Secretary of the Grand Lodge, sending at the same time such a sum as would in their opinion have been sufficient to discharge any dues to the Grand Lodge. By some accident or misunderstanding this communi- cation was never delivered, and the sum remitted was refunded to our lodge. I now send you £11, os. (Id. sterling, trusting that this sum will be sufficient to discharge any dues which this lodge is liable to pay up to the festival of St John the Baptist last past. I have also the honour to enclose a memorial signed by the dif- ferent members of my lodge, praying amongst other things that the labours of the body in this lodge may be sanctioned by the Right Worshipful the Grand Lodge of Enp'.and, and that our charter, the most ancient in the Province now working, may be recognized, and that the different members entered, passed and raised may be registered in the books of the Grand Lodge of Eng- land according to the ancient customs of the craft and their cer- tificates forwarded to this lodge as soon as convenient. I have the honour to be. Sir and Brother, Fraternally yours, William J. Kkiik. The memorial which a(-cx)mpaiiied this hot- ter was as foUows : "To the Ri.M-ht Worshipful Grand Master of Masons of England. ''We, the undersi^>'ned, Master Masons, hailiiii? from the different lod^t^s described opposite our names, respec-tfuUy api)roa(-hing KKSl'MJ'TION OF LAH'e a^ain established in the Western Province of C'anada. " We, therefore, humbly pray that the RiRlit Worshi[)ful the Grand Lod,i>-e of Kn^>-- land will be |)leased to take these matters into if t! IK) THK HAKTON LoIKJK. tlicir i'ratcnial coiisidcratioii. and tliat tlicy will !)(' |)l«'as('(l to siyiiify tlicir a|)|>r()val()f the lalxn's already wrouylit. and reec munition of our eliarter. " The sluiiers of this memorial were: S. Con- way Richardson, W. M. of Sylvan l.oduc Xo. 41.'state()f New York: II. K. O'Heilly. S. \V. No. 10. Harton : H. (i. Heasley. .1. W. No. 10. Barton : IJichard Hull, secretary No. 10. Har- ton : Robert J. Hamilton, treasurer No. 10. Harton : Thomas Duu-.uan. S.I). No 10. Harton : David ('. Heasley. ,1. I). No. 10. Harton : John Morrison, tiler, is]. Pollocksliaws. Scotland : Iluuh Rouers. I. (t.. 17."). St. .lolin's. (ireenock. Scotland: .1. T. Tliom. No. 10. Harton: Peter S. (Mark. Xo. 10. Harton: (t. P. Hull Mon- treal : John Kennedy. No.;").")". Hinturl).(\)unty Tyrone. Ireland : David Farley. Xo. .K'iT. Hin- turb. County Tyrone. Ireland : David W'liite. 775. Hallymena : William T. Harnes. Xo. 7. Aneaster. Canada : Jacob Hisliop. Xo. 10. Bar- ton : Henry Hunten, Ko. 70, (Tlasy-ow : (ieor^e Hayden. Xo. 101. Portsea, Knuland ; Josepli Birney, No. 10, Barton ; John (ireen, Xo. t>J>, MaHow. Ireland: H. B. Bull, No. 10, Barton: J. Wickersham, X^o. 10, Barton : Israel Wil- liams, Jolin Haywood, Scott Land, David Alli- son Sam. J. Ry(-kman, James French, Josepli Davis, Henry Beasley, Jolm Tunniclitfe, (tco. Parkins, William Story, all of Barton, Xo. 10: U. O. Dii^^an, X'^o. 1, St. Andrew's, Toronto; W. B. Proctor, Print^e Fdward Island; W. A. • Bill KKSI'MI'TION OK l,AH(Hi. 117 M(<:artney, Harton, No. 10; John Terry, No. M York: Jolin Coe, No. noi, Loi^.- MtMlford, Kimland; Jaiiu^s Mulliii, No. 10 Barton ; Jas. Paris, No. I'lf), Stow, Scotland: Robert H. Fanner, No. 1(», Barton : William ,1. Kerr, late Senior VVarden of the (irand Lod^e of Upper C'anada, and late Master of Barton, No. 10; (ieor^e Duffield, No. T.'i, Hull; Allan N. Ma<-nal), No. 1, St. Andrew's. Toronto. FurtlKU' correspondence followed, and after much delay tlie matter was settled to the satis- faction of the brethren. On tlu^ -J.Uh of Any, 1S44. an emer^-ent meetiui- was calh^l to i'e(-eive a letter wiiich had Just arrived from EuM-laiid infornu'n.i>- the brethren that their (•onnuunication had been "laid before the Most Worshipful th(! Earl of Zetland (who has been elected as successo? to our lamented Grand Master the Duke of Sussex) who com- mauds me to say that In^ will most cheerfully execute a warrant of confirmation, free from expense, in exchange for the one of whicli you have sent a copy, issued by Brother Jarvis in 17i>r).'' Tills letter wjis entered upon the minutes ; and the oriMinal warrant, of whicli a copy was reserved, was sent to En,^•land. At lenutli, at the regular meetiu.^- of tlie lodge held on tlie Kith of November, 1S44, 'the Worshipful Master announced to th(^ lodyv the Kratifying- iiitelliKence that siiK^e their Inst regular meet- ing he liad received from the Grand Lodu'e of TT lis THK HAKTON LolXJK. KiiM^laiul a warrant of coiifirinatioii. free of expense. saiietioiiiiiK all the proeeediiiKS of this lod^M'. and taking*- ns under its paternal s<)li(itud(^ and Jurisdiction, under the name of ' 'J'he Barton Lod^*'/ and on the reuistry of the (irand Loduc of Enudand No. T.'i.M. " It may not be out of place here hriefly to refer to tlu^ feeliuK' entertained in some (piar- ters that our brethren either cliny- absurdly to anti(|Ue notions, or make some pretense to ex- clusiveness. in cailinu- the body " The Barton Lody-e.*' There is neither absurd conservatism nor offensive assumption in the use (►f the name. In its earliest days the loduc was fre(|uently called the Barton Lody-e, simply because its meetin.L's were held in the town- shi|) of Barton, Just as we now speak of the Beamsville Lody-e. thouuh its proper name is Ivy Lody-e. But. apart from that, the official title uiven in the warrant, that on the yrand register of Knuland, and that in the charter now lield frcmi tlie (irand Lod.Mc of Canada, is ''Tlie Barton Lodne." Surely there is neither oftense nor affectation in «ivin,i>- the lod^e its official title. For more than lialf a centnry since the English charter wasy^ranted, the Barton Lod.Me has lived and worked and prosperec' It has encountered dark days as well as bright days — it has been shadow«'d by the cloud and clieered by the sunshine ; but for the irreater part of that half century it lias grown in KKSr.Ml'TlON OF LAHUR. 119 HtreiiKtli as tlif years iiavc rolled away, lias been ])lesse(l with internal peace and the fra- ternal affection of sister lodges, and has spread the li^ht and |)racticed charity as opportnnity has presented itself. Soon after the Kn«lish charter had been .irranted a nnmber of the brethren thonu-htthe tiiiK^ had come for the formation of a new l()d,M-e:and. with the consent and l)lessinK of Hjirton, the Lod^e of Strict Observance was constituted. Its charter was issued by the (irand Lody-e of Kn^land. and l)ears (hite the 17th of AuM-ust. 1S47. 'I'he officers of the Barton Lod^v indorsed the application for the charte?', and it was found that there was work enouuh for both. To it were added in due time St. John and Acacia, both receiving- English charters ; and, after the establishment of the Grand Lodyv of Canada, the Temple and Doric Lodyes W(^' chartered by that body. It is the boast of the Hamilton brethren that all the bodies work together with that love and harmony which should always character- ize Freemasons; that there is no .jealousy amon.u' tfie several lodu-es, and no '-jvalry except in works of f)enev()lence and well-doin.u-. In the field exclusively occupied by the Bar- ton half a (century auo have also been formed prospenms Masonic bodies at Hrantford, Gait, (iuelph, Hinbrook, Caledonia, Dundas, Mil- ton, Burlin,^•ton, Stony Creek, (TeorKctown. St. (Teor.^■e, Ancaster, West FlamborouMh, ll>() THE HAKTON I.olXJK. ti ti if' A(^t()ii, WatcrdowH and Oakvillc Men still living' liavo seen the litth^ hand, strii,ir«lin« for cxistciu'c, ^row into an active, iiscfnl an'es, constantly dispensing lar^-e sums in benevolence, and exercisiny a benefi«-ent inllu- ence in educatinu the public mind in the principles of l)road charity and enliyhtened li])erality. Nor nuist it be forgotten that tlu^ concordant orders— the Hoyal Arch, th<^ Kni.t,dits 'rem|)lar. the Scottish Hite, th(^ Mystic Shrine, and the Royal Order of Scot- land, all have their foundations in the Blue lodyes. No man can belonu- to any of tliese bodies wlio is not a member in .M-ood standing' of a subordinate lodue. tl mm CIIAITKH VIII. THK (JRANI) LOIMIK oK CANADA. Whilk the iiuMiilh'i's of Lodyc No. 1(1 wen* I'cJoiciiiM^ that their Ic^itiinacy wascstahlishcd, a proininciit citiz*'!! of Haiiiilton was takiiii*- Hteps to cuter the Masonic onh'r, not hy way of tlic lodyv wliicli met almost at liis own door. l)iit in St. Andrew's. Toronto. This was 8ir A Han Napier Macnal). He was in- itiated in the lod^e named on tlie Utii of I)e- ceml)er. 11S41, and received tlie Ft^lowcraft dcMTce in Lod^e No. 10, on the 1-Jth of Jan- nary, 1JS4-J. And tlien a strange thiny- hap- pened : A few montlis hiter. Sir A Han visited (xreat Britain ; and, wliile tliere, the (irand Lod^-e of Scothmd appointed liim Provincial (irand Master for C!ana(hi. Thus he w^as a Provincial Grand Master before lie was a Mas- ter Mason. But Sir Allan put his patent into a pigeon hole, and not only made no attempt to work under it, ])ut he does not api)ear to have even permitted any})()dy in C'anada to know that such a document was in existen<-e. In the followiui'- Decemlier he re(-eived the Master's decree in Hamiltcm. Meanwhile, the bn^thren began to feel tlie need of closer touch with some governing au- I THK MAKTON LolXJK. thorlty. ('oiiiimmicatioii with tli.' iiiotlMT (iraiid Lod^^c was slow ; tin- ofllrials in Kll^•• land were not always |»roni|>t to attend to tin' aflaii's of the Canadian lod^*'!^ : Jnid important interests rre(|Uently sMflered. In the lueuio- rial totheCirand Lod^e of Kn^hnid. which is copied on another pa^*'. the brethren had snu- Kcsted the re-estahlishnient of a Provincial (Trrand Lodu'e in Canada West. 'Hii-; recom- mendation liad immediate eU'ect. for in Am- KMst of the same year Sir Allan Macnah was appointed District (irand Master of ('anada. Sir Allan had an eneriretic and effective lieutenant in the person of Brother Thomas (t!")1)s Hi(h)ut. of 'I'oronto : and for some years Masonry lloiirished in this province. It miKht be thoii.i>lit that all disabilities had now been removed. The lodyc was in tlie position its members ]ia to the t^iimo: and that the (irand I>od,ye of Canada be notified of the fact, as well as the Provin- cial (irand Lod^-e under whose jurisdiction the lod,y-e formerly held." A number of Ww Canadian lodges still maintained allegiance to the (irand Lodt-vs of Kimland. Ireland and Scotland : and the (irand Lodue of Fjiyland declined to recou- nize the (irand Lodi-rof Canada. This is not the place for a full account of the controver- sies wiiich followed. It is enoni-h to say tliat in the end the('anadian (irand Body obtained ample recomiition and full Jurisdiction over all tlie lodges within its territory. A similar controversy, with conditions re- V(D«K. was coiiwtitnted, when the lodges in the Pro- vince of Quebec organized a Grand Lodg-e for that i)rovince. This body, after some resist- ance on the imrt of the Grand Lodge of CJan- a(hi, established its independence, and har- mony was again restored. With unimportant exceptions, the principle is now accepted throughout the Masonic world that the breth- ren within any territorial division having a se|)arate politi(-al existence may form a Grand Lodge, and may exercise exclusive Jurisdic- tion within that territory. CHAPTER IX. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Smith's tavern, at which Lod^e No. ]() held its first inectiims, stood at the northwest cor- ner of Kin«- and Wellington streets. The front door of the original tavern was ahont eighty feet west of Wellington street and the same distance north of King- street. In 1812 the house was kei)t by one McAffee, both as a tavern and as the bakery for His Majesty's tro()[)s. which were encamped on the heights near the i)resent (-ity cemetery. Afterwards the tavern was kei)t, at different times, by Price (1820), JVixc^n, and others, and was known as Wellington Gardens, Victoria Gardens, and by other names. In this pla(;e the lodge i)rob- ably met down to the «5th of November, 171)7, when it was removed to the house of Brother John Aikman, situated near the existing Aik- man homestead, in the eastern part of tlu^ city. The original log house stood about a hundred yards east of Wentworth street and fifty yards south of King street, somewhat to the east of the present old wooden house. Meetings were held at Brother Aikman's until the 12tli of Mar(;h, 1802, at which time the lodge was removed to the house of Brother Dexter, at 1-JS THK HAKTON LOIXIK. the forks made by tlic old road, wliich turns to tlic rii-lit shortly after the ascent of tJK^ mountain is be.uun, and the new road, wliich turns to the left. On the I'Jth of iVii^ust, 1S(I3, another removal placed the lodye at the liouse of Hrotlier Beasley, This jiouse occu- pied part of the uround on which Dundurn Castle now stands. ( )n the l.'Uh of November. l-SO"). the brethren found another r<'stin,u- place for their lody-eatthe house of HrotluM' William \Ved,u-e. which occupied tlie spot upon which Mr. William llendrie's residence now stands. Here the ark remained for some years, and the old minutes uive us no further accounts re- spectini*' pla<"es of meetiny-. After the resump- tion of labor, in ls.")('). meetinus were held at various places, amony- tliem Brother Ken- nedy's liouse. on the east side of John street, between Main and Ja-, still staiiL>; and no later return was ever received from it. Its warrant was yranted •• witJioiit iayinent of fees," and tlie last name ivi-istered on the return made to the (i rand Lodue of lMi.i>land was tliatof Kdward Waud. By some it lias been t]i()u,qlit tliat this iod^e was the Harton Lod.M-e. We ]iav(^ found no <'vi(h'nee to support tliat opinion. Tlie .jewels and otlier property of Lod^e No. ]() remained in tlie possession of HrotJier Epliraim Land. If the Ancaster body ]iad l)een looked upon as lod^e No. 10 under anotlier name, those Jewels \yould liave been used in its work. A,uain, in all tlie correspondence respecting- the validity of tlie old charter and the pro- ciiriny of a new cliarter from England, there IS not a whis|)er that the work of Lod,i>e No. 10 Iiad been carried on at any place outside of Barton Townsliip, or that any Mason liad ))een made l)y tliat lod^e' ])etw^een 1809 and 1841. ( )nc of the memorials addressed to tht^ Grand Lod^e of England, " pray iii^^ that the ancient charter under which we have been meeting and workin.t.- may be recognized by the Ki^dit Worshipful the Grand Lod«e," vva's siKiied by a lar^e number of original memliers ol LodKeNo. 10 and of Master Masons -hail- ing- from different lodges," who had "become members of Barton Lodqe, No. 10." Amon^^ the latter we find the name of " WilLct.ii T Barnes, No. 7, Ancaster, Canada.'' While lMi> THK HAKTON LolXJK. Hiulit \V'()i'slii|)t'iil Hrotlicr .larvis lived, liis iK'ulcct ol' duty caused disoruauizatiou. dis- (•ouvaiiciiMMit and division. Al'trr his dcatii, wliicli took place in islT. Canada West was left without even tlie semblance oi" a directing liead. In IS-J-J. however, the (irand Lodu-e of Kn.uland sent out Hiulit Worshipful Bi-other Simon Mc(f illivray. who made eai'n<'st efforts to renew activity in Masonic circles. He ad- dressed lett^'i's to brethren throughout the coimti'y. encourauiny- tliem to revive lodges whicli had discontinued work, and offeriny- in such cases to procure for them Kn.ulish warrants, without expense. A laruc number of lodu'cs res|)onded to tlie invitation, but the Barton was not amonu' the number. 'I'liis Ancaster loduc may have l)een. and probably was, a resuscitation of the old I'nion Lodu-e which met sometimes at West Flam- borouyh Villauc sometimes at Ancaster. and sometimes ;it I)uu(his. It was instituted in 1S1(». under a warrant yrautecl by the Dauby (xrand Lo(). is in possession of Hiyht Worshipful Brotlier J. ,]. Mason, Grand Secretary. Tlie lody-e met at Overfield's taveru. West Fhiuiborouuli. uu- til the '27th of December, ISll ; theu at An- canter until the 2.'h"d of Novemlier, ISIU : then at Flaniborou^h West, at the house of Brother Kosel or Hoswell Mathers, until October is. 1S17 ; and lastly at Duudas until January L^i>, ■ NOTKS AM) COMMKN'IN. l.'m INl^o. wlien tlie ivcords cease. I'lioii^li tliis l()(l.ue was constituted by aiitliority of tlu^ op- position Grand Lod^e at Niagara, and (contin- ued in its allegiance to that body, tiie members of the Barton Lod^-e were frecjuent visitors at its meetin^^s. Tiiey did not liohl the Union brethren to ])e clandestine Masons. Furtlier, tliey (ni(hMitly considered themselves to l)e Masons in «ood standing, and entitled to sit in sister lodges. In March, 1^17, Thomas At- kinson and Adrian Marlet, of Lod^e No. 10, were anion,!"- the visitors to Union i.od^e ; March l^U, 1S17, Jolm Showers; May l>4, 1S17,' Thomas Atkinson and Hphraim Land; Feb- ruary 17, isi^i, ('. Taylor; and June i>4, isis, Ualel) Reynolds. It is reasonably certain that at this time the mem])ers of No. 10 held the Barton Lodue together to such an extent that they ])elieved themselves to form a re,yular and operative Masoni(t lod^•e. If we assume that Union Lod^e, No. 24, ceased to work in hSL>0, it is probable tliat some of its members responded to Brother McGillivray's invitation issued in 1822, and that the body was reorgan- ized at Ancaster, receiving the Engiish war- rant. No. 508, free of expense. The men who formed Lod^e No. 10, and the majority of those who joined it before tlie war of 1812. were not youn«- men. The casu- alties of war and the inevitable calls of the Krini destroyer had sadly thinned their ranks (Inrin.y- the succ-eediuK (inarter of a century ; i:u THK MAinoN l.olKJK. M and ill the iirw K«>tlM'riiiK tlic old fares were Iniiiciitnhly few. Unfoi'tiiii/itcly, tlu' im|»<'r- ftMit ntatoof the records t'oi* that period does not |)eniiit us to declare |)ositivel.v liow iiiaiiy of the old inemhers \v'l' KM AM) ( '( » M M K \TS. V\7 loi- that Masonic District. In is'.H, on tjn^ fiftictli anniversary of Hrotlicr Hull's initia- tion, tlic hrctJircn of the Harlon Lo(Ik<' pre- sented liini with an address and testimonial, as a recognition of his worth as a man a/id of his distiimuished services to Masonry. Tlie Heverend (ieor^v A. Hull, another son of (leor^e P. Hull, is now an honorary member of the Hai-ton Lodye. When the brethren resiimes. <')d.; and one pound of andles, Kid. .lust a week later there was a l)ill for '•amt. of ivfreshments, ISs. 4d." On the l!>th of .January. Is4l\ there was a receipt for "the sum of two pounds ten shillin^ns. cy.. l)einHfor two niyhts refresluiientsof Lod«-e No. 10, Har- ton." On the stli of February, there was a bill for decanters, lis. :ul : tumblers, ii. r)s. : loafsuyar. Ss.Ud.; four lar«e blue |)rinted .ju^-s, 7s.; three pounds best sperm candles, IPs. ; one gallon best Immdy. iOs. ; oue gallon port wine, lL>s. Hd. ; and two .jars, ;id. \k\. On tlie l^5tll of the same month there was a bill for one gallon Imindy, IOs. ; one j.raIlonport wine, li>s. <5d. ; one gallon whiskey. Is. TkI. ; two pounds nir^im 1.'{H TIIK MAKTON ]A)\HiK. caiidlcs, <'»s. S(l. ; and one ilozcn tmnhlci's, I'Js. <>(l. On th(' Ttli of Mnn-li liic hill was f'ti* one Kall(Hi of poll vviiic, 12s. Cxi., aiiH <;Mr loaf of sll^^'^I^ atsd.. Ss. Td. That hill uavc cvidciicr of inodcratioii in tlir potations of the hicth- ren ; hut a supplcnicniary hill was |)nt in for tlic date named, the *J4tli of Marrli and the I'UJi April, wliicli inclnd('d.. two pounds sp<'rm <-an- dles, «>s. sd. : one and a half poun s is miicli (1,'aivr Ihaii it was fifty years ai^^o, sii«ar is very niiirli rlicaprr. Hilt hills for rcfrcslniiciits an- not tjic only ryKlcnccsucliavroftlicciistoiiisofoiirfatlicrs. It siicli hills arc liiniicroiis, tliosc for charity Jiivalso iiimicroiis. Orders for relief arc ycn"- <'J;iIly for four or five dollars of our iiionry. Witliiii a few jiiouths we find tlire(^ for twenty shdlin^s, and three for twenty-five sliiilin«'s <''>(li ; and these were all in favor of hrethren wiio were not menihers of the lod^c. 'l]^^ hooks show tj.at souH' additional relief wa^ Kiven to nienil)ers. i^ut sueli grants were rare, for th(^ hrethren were almost all in eonifort- ahlecireuiiistanees. And it ninst not h,. f,,,-- gotten that at this time liheral eontrihutions were made in the r<'«idar way tothe eliaritahle Ini.ds of the (irand Lodi-,. in Knuland. So that, while our hrethren of jialf a eenturvayo indul^-ed in their full share of creature "eon,- forts, it cannot he charged a.uainst them that they iie,Ml..(t,'d the higher Masonic virtue of charity. Some otlicr hills presented at the time of whicji wearespeakinmiiay he worth a passing referenc<.. One is for -Three Can- dlestick's For the Masoirk Lod^v. i:4. Ids/' The hrethren wiv determined that the liylit should shine upon their altar, and that from a heconu'nK source of supply. And. indeed, with candh sticks at six dollars each, and .-an- dles at sixty-six cents a pound, the li.yhtiim- of the lod^e was no trifling chai'M^e. Hut thc^ if • i 140 THK HARTON LODGK. days of (handles were passiiiy- -wvay : for in 1S4S there came a l)ill, aiiiouiitiii.i*' to £17, 8s. V)d., "beiu^ the amoniit of account against tlie Barton Lod^e for Lamps tV: Gass up to this date." Ii> 1S4-J there was a bill for 'M2 skins dressed for aprons, £2, lOs. " These skins were ap|)arently converted into sixteen aprons for the officers of the iod^e; and the total cost was £4. Is. ;id., or just a trifle more than a dolh • each. In tlie same year there wasalnll of £4 for ''A C'hist For tlie Masoidck Lodye." Other l)ills there are in abundance, but they are for the most part of little interest ex('ept as they illustrate the almost foruotten condi- tions which prevailed fifty years a.i>(). We look with lanyuid interest at lulls for "") yds. factory C'otton, at l/<) yd, 4s. 8d. " for "'fire wood tfe (nitin.n- (h)., 10s." and at others of a like nature. Still, these docinnents have their value, and it is not at all improbable that when the next centennial celebration of the Barton Lodye shall be observed they will be examined and copied with as nnu-h curiosity as the Pas- ton Letters now excite. The portrait of the Duke of Sussex, Grand Master, was presented to the lodt^e Se|)tember 14, 1S42, by Brother Ontario B. B. Stevens. Worshipful Brother W. ,1. Kerr died in 1845, and was buried on the 2r)th of A|)ril. Ca|)tain Joseph Birney, one of the old mem- bers, was present at the funeral. The portrait of Brother Kerr which now lianus in the lod,i>'e ' I • I NOTES AND COMMKNTS. 141 room was painted by Brother J. H. Harrison, and was ,^•iven to tlie lod^e by a nuin))er of the Invtluvn, wlio defrayed tlie cost. ^ Tlie perfect asldar at tiie h'ftof tlie Senior VVardeiTs chair was presented to the lodyc ou the Uthof September. LS4(;, by Ki«ht VVorship- ful Brother ('. H. Webster. The lodyv banner was painteth of January, 1T'.M>, the brethren liad met at Smith's tavern, in Barton, near the present (U)rner of Kiny- and Wellinu- ton streets. Tlu^ walls of the then lod^e room were of lo^s, and the forest ca'owded close around them. Now, on the (>th of January, IcST"). the lod^e was holding its first meetinu* in its own palatial building. He su^'.irested that the ^rand honors should be ^iven the memory of our illustrious fore-brothers who founded the Barton Lod,ue. These were ,i?iven most heartily. The pi<-tur(^ representiny- the installation of the I*rin(-e of Wales as Grjind Master of England was presented to the B;irton Lod^e by Riuht VVorshiijful Brother T. I). HarinKton. Most Worshipful Brother William Mercer Wilson, the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodue of C'anada, died in February, 1^75, and was l)uried with approiu'iate Masonic^ cere- monies. The portrait of Brother Wilson now in the lod^e room was presented to the Barton Lod^e l)y Ki^ht Worshipfid Brother Ricluird Brierley. In 1875 it was recorded that the member- slii|)of the Barton Lods'e was largt^r than that of any other lod^e under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lod^^e of ('anada. At present. Saint John's Lod^e, Hamilton, enjoys that distincti(m. NOTKS AND COMMENTS. u;} In l,sr)(), the reiiiaiiis of C'liicf JosepJi Hrant were removed from their temporary restii^- place at VVelliii,i,.-t()ii Square ; and, oii tlie ^.^tli of November, in that year, they were reiii- terred. witli impressive ceremonies, at Mo- hawk Vilhme. near tJie okl cliurch wiiicli Brant iiad l^uilt. Barton J.od^e was wcdl represented on tlie occasion. On tlie L>4tli of May, lsr,l, the I()d,ye was rci i-esented at the laying, with full Masonic (•eremonies, of the c-e are si)ecially invited to be present, to revive the memories of former days, and recall the labors and sacrifices of tlie fathers of the present generation of Masons. Another custom, and one that should not be suffered to lai)se in any lod.ye, is the read- in«-, from time to time, of the Ant^ient Charges These readings are always listened to with at- tention, and excite new interest in tlie Book of Constitutions. Church i)arades are parti (-ipated in by the united lodges of the city, and are alwavs well attended, while the offertory generally se(^ure8 a considerable sum for the lieiievolent fund The Barton Lodge is linked to Christ C^hurch I ) i 'J I ■ >i // r ^'^^^L^ JAA.Wllfl AFFXO ilM fts» w R CL^«K ^frui ll>«J J«HNft OifJrvKL i^rFlD \*Vl '^^^i^Jj. ^^*-^(MUlf-H5 us TIIK HAKTON LOFXJK. Cathedral by oidaiid wcll-i (reserved ties; hut tlie hretJireii have att(Ui(h'd at all the Protest- ant churches in the city. J^odycs of .Instruction iwo fre(|U(Mitly held by the nienilx^rs of the lodyc, at which the oHicorsand Past Masters instruct and drill the younu'cr ofiiccu'sand otluu" brethren. No lod.ue can maintain efliciency in tlu^ work without fre(|uent |)ra('tices. It is also found desirable to liave a nuni1)er of well-skilled brethren, who can, in an enier^-ency, fill the chair of an al)sent officer. In July, 18«8, Worsliipful Brother John Hoodless and tli(^ officers of the l()d,Li(% ex- emplified tlie Master' MasonV de.nree l)ef()re (irand Lod.ue, and Avere nuich |)raised for their accurate, intellii»ent and impressive renderin,!" of tlie work. ()ntlieL>7tli of June, 18U(), Most Worshij)- ful Brother John Ross Robertson, delivered a liistorical lec-ture at the Masonic Hall to a large number of delii^hted brethren. In November, liSVH), Brother E. 8. Whipple, who had served as Treasurer for twenty-one years, Avas called to his rest, to the great grief of 1 lis brethren. In hSUl the lodge presented Past Masters' jewels to all the brethren who had passed through the chair, and who had not been so honored . 8ince that time ea(5li retiring Master has re(;eived from his brethren the jewel ap- l)ropriate to his new rank. NOTKs AND COMMKNTS. \4\) III lNi»2, tlie lodi-c passed resoliitioiis of sorrow for tlic death of Kdward Mitehell, David McLellan and Otto Klot/., 'uvtlireii of other lodges, wlio liad rendered distin«iiished Hwvicf'H to Masonry, wlio had attained to hiyli I'ank in tlie cmh-r, and wlio liad been esteemed and loved l)y th(( inenibers of the Barton Lod.U('. A reniarkal)le inci(h'nt in tlie work of 1sJ)l> was tlie raising- of Brother William Farmer, who was initiated in September, and was passed shortly afterwards, ])nt who failed to present himself for the Master's decree for nearly thirty-seven years. Three y,'ars later, in May, IS*.).!, Brother Farmer died and was l)uried by tlio Barton Lod,Me. On the 7th of Marcli, 1SU8, Right Worsliip- ful Brother Richard Bnll died, having been a Mason nearly fifty-two years. In tlie same year died Brother R. J. Hamil- ton, who was initiated in the Barton Lodge in November, l^i41. In ISJir), a testimonial was presented to Right Worsliipfnl Brother Richard Brierley, who had lield officii almost continnonsly froin the tinu; he became a Master Mason, and who Jiad served as auditor for thirty years. For the year which ended on tiie i>4th of June, 181)5, the ordinary recei|)ts of the Bar- to^' Lodge amounted to si, 217. 51), and tlie ordinary exjienditure to si, 070.58. At that time the assets of the lodge were valued at ^4,1)7<).!>4 and the lial)ilities were *aO() H IST< Uil( A L UKM I N IS( ' 1:N( KS, TiiK followiiiu historical notes arc copied from tlic \Mlua))lc and iiitcrcstinu' paper read before the lody-e, in 1S().'{, hy Ri^lit Worship- ful Brother H. K. Charlton. TliouyJi not directly Masonic, tliey well illustratt' tlie con- ditions under which our early brethren lived : and it is therefore^ certain tliat they will l)e welcomed by reach'rs of tlie |)resent day. The settlement of tlie Townsjiips of Harton and Ancaster conniienced in ITST and IT*.).") re- spectively. It has been asitertained that tlie first two settlers in the latter townshi|) were Brother Saint Jean Haptiste Housseaux and Brother James Wilson. The former built a loy- MTist mill where tlie village of Ancaster now stands. Between the settlements at the head of Lake Ontario and the (H)untry upon the St. LawreiK-e were larpe tracts of wilderness which the Indians held as hunting- grounds, and through which there was no rojid whatever. The mail from Quebec found its way through this region but once or twice in a twelvemonth, for it could l)e traversed only by Indians and hunters, or i)ersons as active and hardy as they. An advertisement in a Quebec- news- II- HISTOUICAF- KKMINISCKNCKS. i:>i l'''M'«'i' about this date, stated tliat a mail for tlic ii|.|)«'i' comitrics would he forwardt'd from Montreal on the .Srd of February, bytiii^ '•an- nual wintt^r (express." The early settlers of tlie townships above referred to were coiiipelled to travel to Nia- gara, then caUed N(nvark, alon« an Indian trail, forevery article tliey re(|uired which they could not produce or manufacture. Those portions of the l)eantiful undulating- plain between the mountain and Lake ( )ntari(), on Nvliich the C'ity of Hamilton now stands, on which the forest was not too dense, were covered by rank bnifalo .yrass, from three to nine feet in height, interspc.rsed heni and tliere by the lo^- cabins of thc^ settlers. 1^his curi(ms vegetation lias now almost totally dis- appeared; and, like its (M)ntemporary, the red Indian, will in a few short years be a thin«- of the past, both disappeariny- before the preseiuje of the white man. In the year bsou, the first Canadian steam- boat, the AcconmuMhition, was launched on the St. Lawrence, and plied lietween Montreal and Quebec. Her cabin may be; seen at this day servin.i.- the purpose of a rusti(- summer- house in the grounds attached to a |)rivate residence on the site of Mount Royal. J3undas street, to Toronto, was made in 1811, and the village of Hamilton was laid out in 18i;i Burlington Bay canal was c()mi)leted m 1825, and the first road from Hamilton to the bay was cut out in 1829. If) -J THE HAKTON LOIXJK, On the L'<)t]i of August, 171)5, tliert' were nine regularly constituted lodges in the prov- ince, as apiH'ars by a sheet of minutes, in our l)()SS(»ssion, of the Provincial (irand Lodi^-e, convened in tliat year at Newark, llouie Dis- trict, by K. W. Hrotlier William Jarvis. In ISOI the number of lod.y-es was increased to fifteen, namely: No. 1, Niagara; No. "2. Niagara Township ; No. t]. Re^imentof Kanu- ers ; No. 4, Niagara ; No. 5, Kdwardsl)ur,u- ; No. (), Ivin.yston; No. 7, Fredtn-ickslmr.u' ; No. 8, York; No. U, Hertie ; No. 10, Barton; No. 11, Moliawk Village, Grand River; No. I'i, Stamford ; No. K5, Klizabetlitown ; No. 14, Howard; and No. 15, Grimsby. In our day and in this city of 5(),()()() in- liabitants, witli its elei^ant churches, excellent schools, pahitial residences, electric cars, teltv .yrai)lis and telephones, it is difficult to realize the condition of thin.usin tliis |)lace a hundred years ayo. The close of the war of tli(^ Ameri- can revoluticm which lasted from 177(j to 17, relates how he and otliers, in two sleighs, made a .journey from xXiagara to Mo- hawk and return for the purpose of visiting' the sreat chief. The account which he ,yives throws consideral)le liuht upon the condition ()f the country at that time, and the stvle in which Brant lived. Thefirst niyht the travelers put up at 8( luire M(^Nab's, which Nvas more than fifteen miles fi-om the Niagara River; the second, at Smith's tavern, already (h'scribed : the third, at Paisley's, and next day at Mohawk. He 154 THE HARTUN LODWE. y peaky of Burlington Bay as Lake Geneva, and Hays the Indians c-alled it Ouibiueton. Other writers say it was onc^e called Macassa, possil)ly by the former oc^enpants of the (coun- try, the KalKiuas, (tailed by the Frenc^h Neu- ters. Captain Canipl)ell and his i)arty were most hospitably received l)y Colonel Brant, whom he found living- in the grand style men- tioned before — the table loaded with excellent china and attended by two slaves in silver but'kles and ruffles and scarlet dress. The house w;'.; supi)lied with good furniture. Brandy, port and Madeira wines and other Euroi)ean delic^acies in considerable variety were freely dispensed. Mrs. Brant was dressed in the Indian style, but her costume was made of satin and broadcloth, with blanket of silk. On Sunday all attended church, at which an Indian conducted the service, and Captain Campliell was charmed with the singing of a choir of Indian women. The same evening a great war and serpent dance took pla(-e, Cliief Brant himself beating a drum. The dance ended with Scotch reels, in wliiidi all, the Europeans inciluded, took a hand. Cami)bell speaks of the ex(-ellence of the land and the comfortable habitations of the Indians scattered pretty tlii('kly along both sides of the Grand River ; of the abund- ance of fish — sturgeon, pike, pickerel and maskinonge — in the river, and game in the woods. / > HISTORICAL KEMINISCENCES. 155 Returning down the river tlirovisli several Indian villages, he stopped the firnt night at the house of W. Young, a half-pay officer married to a S(|ua\v ; next day (Tossed a forest of twenty miles without a settler, stopped at Mr. Andrew Patton's. (tailed at Major Tin- brook's and dined at Sctuire McNab's. This Mr. McNab (not a relative of Sir Allan's) he i^ays, "is a gentleman of genteel and inde- pendent i)roperty, is a justice of the peaee, which gives him the title of sipiire, and a memlier of the land board." Burlington Bay was a favorite fishing ground of Brant's tril^e at the seasons of the year when wild duck and fish were most alMindant ; and the chief, having obtained a grant of OOO acres at the north-east angle of the bay, established his next and final resi- dence there, where he died in 18(J7. Cfovernor Simcoe, the first lieutenant- go-, - ernor of iri)i)er Canada, arrived at Niagara, then called Newark, in ITill, and established his goveriunent. In 1 7V)(» he removed to Little York, des(Tibed at the time as a miserable col- lection ()f shanties. It bore the title of Little York till 1884, when a change to Toronto was niade, lest it might be confounded with New York. One of Governor Sim( -oe's first m -ts was to send out surveyors, who laid out districts and (tounties, lil)erally distributing among them names of i,laces in Yorkshire, such as Barton, Flamlioro, Ancaster, etc. m\ THE BARTON LOlXJK. A few yettlei'H were located here before the arrival of Governor Somcoe's surveyors, by whom the site of Hamilton was divided into farm lots by Main street. Kin^street had pre- viously been established upon an Indian trail, and was not sufficiently straight for a dividin,^• line. At a very early date, south of Main street, James Mills, father of the late Hon. Samuel Mills, owned all the land west of Queen street ; Peter Hamilton, between Queen and James; (leor^e Hamilttm, that between James and the line of Mary street ; Richard Springer, from Mary to Wellington; and F]phraim Land, from Wellin.i^ton to Went- wortli. On the north side of Main street, Peter Hess owned all west of Bay street; Samuel Kirkendall, from Bay to James ; Nathaniel Hu.uhson, from James to Mary : Archibald Feri'uson, frcmi Mary to Welling- ton ; Robert Land, from Wellinuton to Emer- ald ; and Abel Land, from Emerald to Went- wortli. Previous to 1882, Hamilton extended west to Queen street and east to Wellington street. The latter was known as Lover's lane, at the foot of which f *;()od the only wharf. The site Oi Hamilton was muc^h broken, being traversed by numerous creeks, which took their rise at the foot of the moiuitain, thence windinu' their way to the bay. (lay hills covered with scrubby pines and undulat- ing plains occupied the spaces between the HIST( >H I( A L KKM 1 MS('EN( Ks. 157 crerks. ^I^]i(-re are those now liviim- (lN*)r)) Avlio iviiiciiilHT speckled trout l)eiiiKcaimJit in a creek at the rear of thv J^oys' Home, also near tlie corner of Stinson street and Krie avenue, and in another at the corner of Kiny and Jarvis streets : and people who have se(^n canoes and skiffs in a third c-reek near tlie corner of James and Gore streets, wliicli creek was uaviKahle for that kind of craft thence to the bay. The oidy son of 8ir Allan Macnah lost liis life l)y the accidental dischar,^e of his snn while leapin^across the same stream near the corner of Hu^hson and Au.^ista streets. A ft-entleman recently i)assed away who had SJithered ai)ples on the ground on which the CHty Hall now stands, hoed (-orn and potatoes in the Court House S(|uare, and sliot pigeons in a wheat field at the present corner of James and Main streets. It is worthy of note that the corner of King- and Wellington streets is the loc-ation of Ham- iltonV first tavern, first Masonic lodge, first ^(•hool and first churcai. Tlie first regular (•hurch Iniilding was erected on the site of the present First Methodist Church, on land given by Col. Robt. Land in ]Si>l>. It was dedicated 111 ]8L>4. The first interment was that of Samuel Price, tavern keei)er, in 18l^i>. Burlington Bay Canal was conmienced in 1828 and (H)mpleted in 1826 by Capt. John Mc;- Keen and James G. Strobridge, both of whom are buried at the southeast corner of King and 158 THK HAHTON LODGK. Wellington streets. Tiie widtli of the canal was originally only thirty feet. Prior to the di.URiim' of this (-anal Ancaster was the eounty seat, having in 1818 twenty |)ros|wrous stores; but many of her most enterprisin.i*- business people, sueli as P^UvardJackson, Richard and Sanniel Hatt, etc., removed to Hamilton on the opening- of the canal. Afterwards, in 184<), the canal was greatly widened. The contractor for this jol), in order to brinu stone for the piers from the north mountain, near Waterdown, l^uilt a tramway. This tramway equipment was afterwards sold to Andrew Miller, who had a project to (lift- a canal from the bay up the ravine between Caroline ajid Bay streets to the intersection of the latter street with York street. It is said that he ol^tained from Messrs. Hess and Kirkendall thirteen acres of land in the ravine at a very small i>rice, the chief consideration being' that lie should di,u' the canal. When people ])e- came imi)atient at his slow prourt^ss with the (•anal, he finally said he would (H)mi)lete the ,]ob at the date fixed by his deed, but upon examination it was found that no date had been mentioned. For a hmg- time the "Mountain Road," now John street, was the only road eading- from Hamilton to the In-ow of the mountain. On it were built some of Hamilton's first stores, notably one at the northeast corner of Jackson street kei)t by Rolston, and one at the HISTOHK AL KKMINISCKNCKS. ir)<> sontlieaHt corner of Kiiift- street kept by Sliel- doii. Later on some enterprisinM- i)roi)erty owners opened up James street to tlie top of tJie mountain and eelelmited the event with m-eat eolat, i)roelaimin,y- that it would draw the trade of Aneaster and tiie surroundini.- (•i)iintr.v throuul it at the expense of Jolni •street, and tlial in conseiiuenee the latter would soon he abandoned as a business street lo emphasize their statements they liired a farmer to sow Jolm street with ^mss seed ComineneinM- at the eorner of Kiui.- street the agriculturist went southward scattering' his seed until he reac^ied the lo,i.- jail, where a shoAver of odorous e^ys caused him to beat a quick retreat. The old loH- jail, erected in LSOI. stood on a slight elevation on the east side of John stre^et, directly opposite the eastern entraiu^e to the present Court House. It faced the we^t, but stood a little l)ack from the street leaving room for the pillory and stocks in front. In it impecunious debtors, and others more (-riminal, were often incarcerated A prisoner on one occasion sent word to the sheriff that if he did not make better fires and keei) the phu^e warmer he would leave Another prisoner, named Davis Springstead' burrowed, under the logs and escaped tempor- ai-ily, and was thenceforth named "the Fox "' Here the following incident occurred at an early day: Three ])rothers named Young IT)!) IHK is.MMON i,(»i)(;i:. wrrc Mffuscd l)y a prisoner coiifiiK'd in tlic Jail (d to liave three innocent men executed was sentenced to three months' imprisonnunit. dnrinK wliich lie was to stand three times in the pillory, on which occasions he was pelVd unmercifully with stale e,u«s. The lo.u" jail K«ive place in LS-iS to a stone jail and court house combined, on the site of the ])resent court liouse, to which it also ^ave place in 1877. The venerable bell which now rin.ys out the alarm of fire from the hi.uh tower at the C'entral Fire Station with such promptness, makiuft- tlie faithful firemen and liorses sprin.M' to the call of duty, has (piite a history. It w^as inirchased from a manufacturer in Troy, N. Y., in 1S8(), for £100, and (me of the first four debentures ever issued by the cori^oration of the town of Hamilton was given in pay- ment for it. Therefore, it seems approi)riate to call the old bell the father of the city debt. It first swung from the belfry of a wooden - alon«' Kin«' street on horse-back leading a V)lack slave l)oy by a rope around his ne<*k. The ])oy had escaped and was recaptured near Ancaster. J. C. Hamilton, LL. B., in a paper which he recently read before the Canadian Institute, stated that in the year 1701 there were about three hundred negroes and a few Pawnee Indians slaves in Upper C^^anada, mostly in ^ 1 * HIMT(IHi( Af, UK.MrXiscKNcKS Ilt.'t ;\!.:"" '"'"'■ 'I '"'" wi'it h,. i,,„i „„.t, , „t ■SI. ^"," •\';""'-' "l''^"". -Hank- ,-„„l r,nn„.,.. siav,.,-.v was ,, f,„.„i,,, „|, J^yma to ,ts ,r„«t,|,. Si,,,,, «„, ,„„„„ ,|„j„ t . t ,„ (,.,.„,„. s„ns of Afri,.a as to have ,./lV,.t. iially w,|M.,loiittl„Mlai-lvstaii, Tl»' lM,lia„s l,a,l a t,-a,litio„ tl,at s 'laik sk,,„„.,| |„.o|,|,. ,,,„„, i„ ,, „ I I prior to til,. s,.t.tl,.„i,.,it of tl mntrv l,v tl," wliitcs aii,Mivo.l f,„. ,, ti,„„ „„ jj,i^- ' tlit^ni all. It ,.s ,:o„.|,.,.t,.ml ti,at tl,is „,av have been one of tl„. iu.fot,.,! Kre,,,.], ,;, hpaiiiKl, ex|,e,litioii.s in s„,r,-l, of the visio,,. '!!;!, V ■ ■, •".■ "■''"'*■"' ""•"^"«'' to <^'''iii«. ; i m" /'"■'' "" '*"•""" "^•"' i'«turned to tell ot the tate of ]m eo,i,|,anio„s I«™'~V" CIIAITKIJ XI. (■(•NCLI'DIXO OHSKKVATIoNS. Fkkijly and iiiipcrfcctly tlic iiKMiibcrs of the conmiittcc apijointvd to do tliat work have trart'd the progress ot" the Barton I.odue - — its trials and its triinnplis. The time at their disposal lias not prrmittcd tlicni to make tlic most of the material at their command, and tliey are painfidly sensible that hiyliei' Kifts than theirs are nee(h'd for the proper renderinK of such a theme. But they have done what they could in the time and with the talent they covUd command. Such as the work is, it is their thank- of reriny-, and in lU'esentiny- it they can only wish it were worthier. Possibly they may be asked : Aftin* all, what has been accomplished^ The Barton Lod^c has lived a hundred years: by how much is the worhl better because it has lived i What practical result can it show as justifi- cation for its existence i Its members liave eaten and drunk together ; the majority of them have gone on their way ; the waters of oblivion have rolled over them ; and the w^orld is as it was before they were born. Why should we be (tailed upon to rejoice or to applaud becaune of all this i I'DNCMDINd (MISKHVA-noNs. |,;r, , ''''''""' "'■' '■*'""»* 'iM.'MtioiiH, an «]ioainiis,. canicstand canaille m.m with «lm.l,nvsan,ltrifl..s,|iv,.rtt|,,.st>va,„ of ,,".;•: :;;;''?; ;/';;'''' '*^i"-"i«''' '•""■•■^" .-ni'i .ii'tvat «,. <>').MM T or Its ('Xistciicc. It ,ni.,l,t 1,,. sai.l tliat many «oo,l ,„„„ ,„»'t ," '•'"'" t,.ir„u«. an.l if Mas.„,s |,av,. ; "I""'"'- "'••'" tlmt^iftl,.,- Iiav.M,„.relv nus..,! tl„Mns..|v..s with i.lle ...vnH.nicH - h,. • hav,. ,l„n,. that wlii.-h otliern .1,, ,|ailv Mtli.mt ,■,.„..,„•,.. Hut th„.v l,av. „.,t anins,.,! tlM.n,*v,..s with i,ll,. .■„r„n,o„i«. N., .-.nv' "-ny .s HllH whi,:h strivvH to in.pavt „,on.l iii^ti i.-tion and tcaoh moral .Inties. The •I ual o Masonry nu.st tall upon ,l„ll .ars n.lH,..l , ,t ,1,,™ not n,alv,u^n. The highest human teaehers the :.; ' "■';; '^m ''-•- <^<>'-' >'-- m...- than t.M h lotty truths an.l ,.nf,.r<-e them by uiHn.ls tliese lessons t.. the minds and .:„»• Sj-iences of men, and strives to guide them in the path ot re.:tit,uai-t<)ii LodL-c , , nt iiioi'e than three; times as much in ( hai'ity as was spent in the ent-ei'tainment ol" its mem- he i-s ; an[' its dues to the (iran'■ tlic lodur. It is salV to say tliat no year passes in wliirli tlie loduc is not called upon to conmiit the body of some \isitin,u hi'olJK'i' to tile lii'onnd. W dliin a lew in(»ntlis tiii'ee hrctliren, tenipoi'ari 1 \ I'esideni in Ilani- ilton, liave been so hnried. 'I'lie liarton I.o(|;4(', t'i'oni its senior rank, is always called upon to perronn this duty. thoiiLiii ail the city lodges share the expense when the hrotiiei's own lod^e. as is freipicntlN the case, is not al»le to hear the burden. I^it a short time •Aim a brother resident in Hamilton was aideleid liUid I'ol' some weeks bel'or*' his death, anain taken in charge, a, i^a in rested, and a,i»ain started on her journey. A.uain at ChicaKo, watchful brethren, notified by tele,^raph, re- peated the kindly office; a^ain at Detroit: a,i4ain at Hamilton : and still aKJiin at Toronto, wlience in another short Journey she reached her home. At each | )lace a iH'other or brethren were in waitini^-: at eai-h place rest and kind- ness and care were ,niven to the orphan : at each place the fund in the little purse .yrew biyyer. And, last of all, the Masons in her native villa.y'e satisfied themselves that the relatives of the bereaved little one were able and williny- to care for her. The secret annals of Masonry are full of histories like this : and were there nothing more to tell, the existence and the work of the Masonic order would be justified. But there is more to tell. Ac^tive l)enevo- lence is only the outward and visible si,i>n of the inward and spiritual v;vi\cv of charity wliich is the distinyuishinu' feature of COXCLrDING OHSKRVATIONS. im Masonry. For (Clarity teaclies kiiKbiews, for- bearance and Kood will, as well as lienevo- lenre And we are not i)ernntted to doulit that the lessons whi(ai eoinmend tliese forms ot ciiarity to men have their influeiu^e in soft- enm.L.- and elevatin«- the intercourse of those wJio are not Masons and in refinii^' the <-iistoms of the day. Further, the teachings of Masonic ciiarity educate men into general works of benevo'- ience. A year or two ago, the writer had the (turiosity to scan the names of some sul)- scription lists for .general city charities, ilioimh the Masons of Hamilton are not more than filteen per cent, of the total adult male lH>I>uhition, fully (me half of all the suhscrip- twns to tliese (-liarities were those of Masons So that it is quite safe to say that Masons not only take care of their needy l)rethren, but that they «ive more liberally to other charities than those who are not Masons— more liber- ally than they would give if tliev had not been educated into benevolen(-e bv the teach- ings of Masonry. Mjisons are friends and sui)port('rs of order, stal)ility and constitutional government. The genius of the institution is conservative It mculates reverence for that which experi- ence has proved to be good. It teai^ room, to make allowances for eacli other's |)eculiarities, and to think that a diflerence of opinion is not so serious a matter as to necessitate estrangement, suspicion and liatred. Within a few weeks, the venerable head of a vast ecclesiastical system has aflirmed that Freemasons were the prime movers in the work of unitinu- Italy under one government. And it is added as matter f()r,u'ri''f that "free thouulit and the Masonic autliority have l)een set up." and tliat tlie new state of thiii.ys is "()|)enly directeN(I.II)I\<; OIJSKKVATIONS. 171 stitions and enslaved, the fact is one of which all Masons ou.uht to he proud. But to assert that the Mjisonic body is '"the enemy of (lod" is to assert that which will briny- a smile to the face of every man who has knowleduc of tlie facts. The more |)rominent meml)ers of the Masonic Ixxlies in Hamilton are well known : an^ tliey ukmi whom the public would set down as "'enemies of God ^ " Many of the most active. z(vd(ms and useful clergymen of Ihimilton ar(^ Masons : is it likely that they would remain aftiliated with an order which is "the enemy of (xodT' Practically all the teacliin.ys of the Masonic bodies are open to tlie world : can any body find in them a whis- per a^Jiinst order, decency, virtue, morality and religion i Masons are numerously elected to and selected for imblic oflices. This is not because they are Masons, for no political (pies- tion is permitted to enter the precincts of a Masonic lodye. But Masons are more numer- ous in |)ublic positions than other men be- caus(» tlie men l)est fitted for public office are very lar,i»ely memliers of the or(h'r. Would these men conuuand the confidence of their fellow citizcMis if tliey were capable of beinu "enemies of (lod^ " A tree is known by its fruit. All men may see the fruit which .yrows on the Masonic tree. All men may see and know what are the results of Masonic teachini*'. If to visit the wi(U)w and orphan in their aifliction, to 17l> THE HAKTOX L(»D(}K. sit at tli(^ side of tlie sufferer's hed, to min- ister to tlie necessities of th(^ poor, to staiul by the srave of departed wortli, to wipe the tear from the eye of sorrow, to reconcile enemies and promote peace and i^ood will amon^ men — if these are the works of the "enemies of God,"' tlien Masons may l)e i)la(ted in that cate,i>()ry : not otherwise. Masonry in its present form has beenl^efore the world nearly two hundred years. It has spread to the re- motest regions, and hundreds of tlumsands are enrolled undt^* its Iwmners. Wherever there is a civilizehest intelligence and the pur(^st morality of the nineteenth century. And if no worse charge (-an be brcmnht a,i?ainst it than that it has been instrvunental in promoting free thought, in so clian,uin,u' the laws that a benevolent society may exist with- out fear of the rack and the fa.u'ot, and that it I ("ONCLIDING OHSKKVATIONS. 17a has liclped jiii enslaved people to throw olf the yoke of tyrants and choose for them- selves tlie form of ftoverinnent nnder which they will live, then Masons will not be care- ful to repudiate the accusation, 1)ut will rather admit it and s^lory in it. The aims of Masonry are not political but moral : but it is true enough that the tendency of its teach- ings is to emancipate the intellect as well as the man from slavery. Masonry has spread with marvellous ra- pidity. Hut it has not been extended l)y pro|)a,uandism. Every applicant must be in a position to afhrm that he does not Join throu.yh the im|)roper solicitation of friends. No donbt some Join with interested motives, thinkin.u' that their business interests will be benefited by affiliation with a strong- and powerful body. Masonry is not perfect, even as other human institutions are not perfect. Some of its members have not been pre[)ared for Masonry in their hearts, and conseciuently can never be good Masons. Sometimes sufficient care is not exercised closely to inspect material which offers — to accei)t the good and reject the un- worthy. And it is a lamentabh^ fact that Masons sometimes belie their professions ;• id lu'ing scandal upon the order. 'J\) say that is to say that Masonry is a human institution, that Masons are not exem|)t from the tempta- tions which beset other men. Jind are not free from the frailties whi
  • l. pri, .ipl. 'Hicl or Its trn(i(>r onur. Tl„>.v fdt tJiat tli(. K.'Htl(' spirit of nuMvy .o.h,,ifi,.s tlic l„,,rt <,f inan as tli(. radiaiMv of tli,. niornint.- sm, yJMs t.<'l)rou-oftlM.s,,ou-.-app..(ln,<),n.t;ii,i. Aiul tli.MrlaitJi and wortji and work cvolv.-d tlic ;'<)bi(. iahric which ].,,s Wnnuv our Masoi.ir Tli<' R.,rt()n L,)(l,uv]ias liv,>(h,ii(| pr,,sp,.,vd ^HHl tlH> wat Alasoni.- t.MMpi(>, (.f wl,i,-J, tJir Harton I (>d«(. is oH,> of tl... livin.o. stones, has livcdand |,r(,spered, l,(M-aus(^ vital principles of <''nnrnm- worth ],avc kept them aliv<'. Mason- ry lives Ixvaiise it deserves to live-hecanse it liassomctlmmto do i,, t],is world. It co,n- i'H-Hds Itself to tl. heartsandtheh.tell,..tsof Ml. I ol tlie Great ArcJiitect of the I'niverse tor±urtlierin«hishi>h(lesi,uus. It refrains tioni tlie tearlini^' of do.i-n.ati.. tlieolo^v, and eaves Its inein1,ers free to liold wliat faitli they will, so lon«- as tJiey meet the first re- qmreinei.ts of flie ordc^r and acknowled,^■e that hey 1><;Ii^"ve in the existenc-e of a Supreme HeniK, tliat the Supreme Beiu^ lias revealed his will to man, and that he will punish vh.e and reward virtue. But it demands adhesion to no other creed. Within its walls the Chiistian, the He])rew, the Mohammedan and the virtuous Pa,^•an may and do sit side by side, laboring- together for the welfare of IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) k /- t/. (A ^ .<$> IX) LL 1.25 hi 128 |2.5 u y^ 12.2 ^ US. Ill 2.0 u 1.4 1^ 1.6 Vl VQ / y >^ rtV <^ :0^ ^\ *> ** -^ ^"'4^. ^ A \ 178 thp: barton lodge. tlieir fellow ineu, tolerant of all creeds, but lioldin.t? ill eoinnion only the one in'ineiple of trust in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. And the very faet that Masons of all shades of religious belief meet upon a conunon level makes nec^essary while it teacdies that tolerance which is one of the basics stones on which Masonry rests. The mind of man is so (constituted that we cannot hold him to be a bad man who labors with us to (carry on the work of beneficence. And so the ^ood Mason (comeato learn in time that the highest worship a man (;an offer to his Creator is the worship of a useful and a blameless life. The vital principle of Masonry is that it is a man's duty to be and to do ^ood. All Masons do not live up to that standard, first be(cause the best men are imperfecct, and secondly because many are Masons outwardly who are not Masons at heart. But that is the standard which Masonry sets before its mem- bers, and they fail to be ideal Masons just in proportion as they fail to live up to that standard. The first lesson Masonry teaches its {)ostu- lant is toleran(5e. It tells him that he should strive to know and understand the truth, but that he should be careful how he deiues to his fellow men the ri^dit of private judgment which he claims for himself. The faintest star that feebly piences our earthly ni^ht may be many times more glorious than our noonday ll>NCLrj)lN,i OJISKKVATliiNS. ] 7.) «i.ii : aiKl s,, th« f.-ii„t,.st ray „f tnitl, timt Vis..,n ,„ay l,e ,„o,,. in„«,rt.a„t than tl,,. ,^J. ™t,-,mv„-t,„ns„tour»„ulH. As ••„ta.-,lil|V,vtI. tron,»farn,..|„ry,"«„th. virtu,...!, i, "ur souls witl, less ,„. ,.,,.at,..- lusfTas 1 1. v -.<.m-n,.„talvisi„„. Tl,„ ,„„, «1„. is wo Iff IS fr,. n h„„ ,„ay i.ave a cleaivr view <,f -.IseverlastiuKtrutl, tlianl.e, Am,I s. 1 1, Zoun'Y'rr"'''-^./;'""'"' "'-•'''''''''•'■''• rv.'U i.,.urf, l,e worship «„• (ireat All-K , ,"■ lu a straiim' formulary Ami when the Kutere-l A„|,rentiee has e la \^^ ;,'e r'''"*.f'''''''''''"' '" «'"''^ t'-t •hi " "' '" *'"■ "^''''J- ""■ «'■•" virtue «l„,-h ,s .|„„tly ,.aJle,l the .listiuLmlshinL. ; ;;:r.;; ;ri''- '.f " '^'-""-^ "--t. ^^^ e .u <1 .J,ar,ty are so |,|,.„us i„leran,-e lea.ls to .a.aritv, as the ,n.hn,. stair lea.ls to the „,i,l,ll, ,:, an ,,.r , f the temple. When t„leran,e, imrifle f,', - earthly stains of „i,..t,., ,.„'„ j,t' i,t t< the «-lor,he,l presen,;e of .harity. as the I «h „r,est, purifie,! .,y „,„„ti„„ „„ „,,;,! f entering the J,oly of holies, fonn.l hi„ self i ISO THK HARTOX I.(»I)(JK. the iiiiiiicdiatc prcsciK-c of tlic ulory of (iod. Masonic cliarity is tolerance first an John Showers, April 9, 1798. 27 Robert Shearer, August 4, 1798. 28 Ephraim Land. . October 3, 1798. 29 Ralph Morden, November 19, 1798. 30 Peter Ferguson, . April (), 1799. 31 Josiah Bennet, April (•), 1799. 32 Mathew Bennet, September 13, 1799 33 William Lottridge, . December 13, 1799. k V ■ -r MKMHKKSHIP. ISf) NAMK. y ■ 34 35 3f; a? ;jH 3!) 40 41 42 43 44 45 4G 47 48 4i» 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 5i» (iO 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 6'.t 70 71 72 73 74 Adrian MarJat, Joshua Pollard, Capfc. Joseph Birney, Jacob Patterson, Abraham Locknian, Cieorge King, John Weir, John Cornwall, Brockaway Amep, Thomas Forfar, Aaron Brink, Charles Redman, Daniel Taylor, Thomas Atkinson, Harcourt B. Bull, Richard G. Beasley, William H. McCartney, John T. Thorn, Robert J. Hamilton, James Mullin, Richard Bull, John Haywood, H. R. O'Reilly, . Dr. Thomas Duggan. Colonel George Chalmers, Jacob Bishop, George Smith, J. Scott Land, David C. Beasley, J. L. Willson, Ontario B. B. Stevene, David Allison, S. J. Ryckman, . Joseph Davis, James French, William R. Dalmage, H. J. Beasley, Jesse Wickersham Robert H. Farmer, William B. Kerns, John Turnicliffe, OATK OF IMIIATKlN. January !», IHOI. August 13, 1N02. February 11, 1803. February II, 1803. June 10, 180:^. January 24, 1804. November 20, 1804. December 14, 1804. April IH, 1805. May 10, 1805. June 14, 1H05. June 13, ]H()6. September 12, 180(i. September 9, 1808. December H, 1841. December s, 1841. December 15, 1841. December 15, lH41. December 15, 1841. December 15, 1841. December 22, 1841. December 2.2, 1841. December 22, 1H4]. December 22, 1841. February i». Is 12. February !), 1H42. February '.), 1842. February il, 184 2. February 28, 1842. March 0, 1842. May 18, 1842. June 8, 1842. June 8, 1842. June 21, 1842. June 21, 1842. June 21, 1842. August 25, 1842. August 25, 1842. September 14, 1842. October 12, 1842. October I'l, 1842. m\ THK BART1»N LODfJK. NAMK. 75 George Parkins, 7«) Peter R. Clark, . 77 William W. Osboine, 78 William Story, . 7'.) Robert Sanderson, 80 George W. Burton, HI H. B. Willson, 82 Edward White, . 83 John Brown, 84 John Chisholm, . H;j Francis Fieser, 80 H. Hyatt, 87 N. R. Keed, . 88 William D. Hale, 8(» William Shaw, ilO C. H. Webster, . ill John White, . 92 William Allison, t)3 Richard Sammons, !»4 John A. W. Aikman, 95 C. N. Henderson, 96 Hiram Kinsman, 97 George Mortimer, 98 Martin C. Schofield, 99 Thomas Baker, 101) Robert Scott, 101 W. A. Harvey, 102 Nehemiah Ford, 103 William Snowdon, 104 W. F. Murray, 105 J. W. Hunter, 101) Joseph Ward, 107 A. W. B. Swain, 108 John Mills, 109 William Panton, 110 Jabez Cook Babcock, 111 Joseph B. Mathews, 112 W. U. Powell, 113 William Mogford, 114 Milton Davis, 115 W. C. Clark, . DATK OP INITIATION. November 9, 1842. November 28, 1842. November 23, 1842. January 26, 1843. April 12, 1H43. April 2(), 1843. April 2(>, 1H43. June 14, 1843. August 9, 1H43. September 27, 1843. October 11, 1843. October 11, 1843. April 10, 1844. April 10, 1H44. April 24, 1H44. April 24, 1844. June 12, 1844. June 12, 1844, June 12, 1H44. June 12, 1844. November 13, 1844. December 11, 1S44. December 11, 1844. March 12, 1845. March 12, 1845. April 9, 1H45. June 1), 1H45. June 11, 1845. June 17, 1845. September 10, 1845. October s, 1845. December 3, 1845. December 3, 1845. December 3, 1845. December 10, 1845. December 17, 1845. DecemDer 17, 1845. December 17, 1845. December 27, 1815. December 29, 1845. December 29, 1845. , . ) ' MKMBKKHHIP. 116 117 llH lit) 120 121 122 123 124 12.-, 12<> 127 12H 12i> 130 131 132 133 134 135 13»] 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 14!) 150 151 162 153 154 1J5 156 NAMK. H. W. Ireland, . J. W. Lewis, . George S. Wilkes, Alexander Carpenter, A. H. Hills, J. B. Harrison. Andrew Buell, James H. Service, Henry Yardington, John Ross, John W. Willson, Otto Klotz, . William Walker, G. H. Cozens, Dr. James Mitchell, Briard McCurdy, William Davidson, J. K. Andrews, Capt. W. J. Hiokes, George WaHhington Brega, Richard Hardiker, W'illiam Waugh, Thomas Bain. Thomas Tidy, Claes Westring, Thomas H. Edmunds, William Smith, William Kemp, Charles Magill, Charles Kelly, Norman Wiard, James M. Williams, John Robertson, . Benjamin F. Vars, John Beckett, Alex. Mitchell, George Voght, John Baptiste Hagar, James Evans, William McRae, Francis Smith, 187 DATE OF INITIATION. December 2!>, 1845. January 28, 1846. February 11, iHjt,, March 11, 184(i. March 11, 1846. March U, 1h46. March 12, 1846. April 22, 1846. May 13, 1846. May 27, 1846. May 27, 1846. June 10, 1846. June 10, 1846. June 17, 1846. June 18, 1846. September 9, 1846. September 9, 1846. October 14, 1864. November 11, 1846. January 13, 1847. February 24, 1847. March 10, 1847. April 21, 1817. May 12, 1847. May 12, 1847. June 16, 1847. September 8, 1847. November 10, 1847. December 8, 1847. January 12, 1848. February <», 1848. February 9, 1848. February 16, 1848. May 10, 1848. June 14, 1848. June 23, 1848. October 11, 1848. October 11, 1848. January 10, 1849. July 11, 1849. August 8, 1849. r^ IMH THK HAKTON LOIXJK. NAUK. 157 Uev. (leorge Armstrong; Bull, 158 George F. Thomap, 15!( Jamea Seymour, If.O Edmund Kelly 161 Henry Langdon, 1()2 A. C. Quimby, 1(13 Edward Butterworth, Kit George Smith, l(»"i (ieorge C Brigg--, Kit; Thomas Knox, l)'i7 -lanieB J. Randall, 1(18 George M. Holmes, Kl'.t David B. Galbreaith, 170 I. B. Ashby, 171 James H. I'ostlc, 172 Richard Wcodn, . 173 .lohn Field, 174 1). N. I'reston, 17o John Dewitt King, 17t') John Austin, 177 John Mills, 17H Richard W, Thorn, I'll John D. Irwin, 180 Frank (Jliver Sawyer, 181 Gideon C. Cook, 182 Charles Baxter, 183 I. C. Chilman, 181 James Miller, 18") C. S. Chittenden, 18(1 John McKoown, . 187 Hubbard Davis, 188 Alex. :\I>iLellan McKay, 189 Thomas Beasley, IDO Thomas Rolston, I'Jl Peter Bowman Spohn, 1112 George Clarke, 193 George Todd, I'.lJ: George C. Secord, l*.)o Joseph Faulkner, 196 Charles Abraham, 197 W. W. Summers DAIK OK INITIATHiN. August 23, 1M49. February 13, 1850. February 13, 1850. March 13, 1850. September 11, 1850. February 27, 1851. June 18, 1851. June 18, 1851. February 11, 1852. April 30, 18.V2. April 30, 1852. January 12, 1853. November 9, 1853, April 12, 1854. April 12, 1H.".4. July 12. 1854. July 12, 1854. July 12, 185). July 25, 1851. September 13, 1854. October 11, 1>^54. October 11, 18."4. November 8, 1h54. November 8, 1854. December 13, 1H51. February 28, 1855. March 14. 1856. March 28, 1855. May 9, 1865. May 9, 1855. May 1(1, 1855. May 16, 1855. July 11, 1855. July 11, 1855. July 25, 1855. July 25, 1855. July 25, 1855. August 8, 1855. August 8, 1855. August 8, 1855. August 8, 1855. MKMMKIiSHll'. ISU 1!M 200 201 202 2();< 204 205 20f; 207 2()N 20!» 210 211 212 213 214 2ir, 21t; 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 22() 227 228 239 230 231 232 233 234 235 23(i 237 23R NAMK. William Farmer, William Irwin, iJonald ChiBhoIm, William Furness, William Martin, William Dixon, Walter S. Sizter, William H. Cliff, Joseph Jardine, Charles Mclntyre, Charles Hrown. Walter D. Galbraith, John Herbert Sangster, Luke Ballard, Henry J. Richards, John H. Watson Benjamin Jones, Benjamin p]. Charlton, Samuel Desbacker, William Applegath, George Webb, Norris F. Birely, William Alex. Ferguson, Kichard Springer, Matthew \V. Wortman John Gable, Charles C. Crickmore. Richard S. Bradley, Moses Polley, Joseph M. McKenzie, John F. \Vaffenden, John Von Gunten, ^Villiam Haskins, Lewis Springer, . James McCracken, Charles G. Horton, John E. Pearson, John Eastwood, . James Richmond, Robert Surtees, . W. A. Davis, DATK OK IMTIATION. September 19, isfifl. October 24, 1«55. November 14, 185."). November 14, 1h55. December 12, 1h55. December] 2, 1H55. February 13, 1S5«. February 13, ls5(J. April 9, lH5(i. April 9, 185(1. August 13, 185(1. August 1.3, 1850. September 10, 185d. September 10, ii^r,(]. September lo, iHSd. October 8, 185(1. November 12, 1h5(J. January 14, 1857. January 14, 1857. I''ebruary U. is57. April 15, 1857. May 20, 18.57 May 20, 1857. June 10, 1857. July 8, 1H57. October 14, 1857. October 14, 1857. November 11, 1857. November 11, 1857. February 10. ls58. March 10, 1858. March 10, 1,58. April 14, 1858. June 1(5, 1858. July 25, 1858. July 25, 1858. July 25, 1858. August 11, 18£8. September 29, 1858. October l.{, 1858. November 10, 1858. 190 THE BARTON LODGE. ;• i NAMK. 249 R. R. Donnelly, 240 Thomas C;. Macnabb, 241 Joseph Crofts, 242 E. S Whipple, 248 J. W. Olds, 244 f-haries Reynolds, 245 George H. Blood, 240 John McNabb, 247 John Harte, 2<8 Howard E. Swales, 24!) George Knox, 250 James H. Gittens, 251 J. E. O'Reilly, 252 Joseph 8. Declos, 253 C. W. Meakins, . 254 Wright Barker, 255 George Forsyth, . 25() J. Goodman Jones, 257 Frederick Wylde, 258 Alonzo Ecclestone, 259 John Rennie, 260 Robert Holmep, 2fil John H. Biggar, . 2()2 Robert McClure, 2(13 Wm. Kennedy, 2fi4 David Knox, . 265 Ethftlbert Servos, 266 Archibald McOallum, 267 D. Grant, 268 J. C. Fields, . 269 Mathews S. Hearn, 270 C. W. Brega, . 271 Peter Filman, 272 Richard Eaton, 273 Alfred Barker, 274 Daniel Freeman, 275 D. B. McDonald, 276 C. F. Williams, 277 Gavin Stewart, 278 John F. Stewart, 289 Alexander Meuzies, nATK OF INITIATION. December 8, 1858. March 9, 1859. May 11. 1859. June 8, 1859. Junes, 1859. July 13, 1P59 August 10, 1859. September 14. 1859. September 14, 1859- January 10, 1H60. March 14, 1860. March 14, 1860. April 11, 1860. May 9, I860 June 13, 1860. July 11, 1860. Augusts, I860. September 12, 1860. February 18, 1861. February 13, 1861. March 13, 1861. March 13, lh61. April 10, 18<)1. May H, 1861. August 14, 1861. September 11, 1861, February 12. 1862. March 12. 1862. March 12, 1862. April 9, 18()2. May 14, 1862. May 14, 1862. May 28, 1862. June 11, 1862. July 9, 1862. September 10. 1862. October 8, 1862. October 8, 1862. November 12, 1862. November 12, 1862. January 14, 1863. < •♦, 41; MEMBERSHIP 4 . NAME. 280 William Edgar, 281 John Thomas, 282 George MoKenzie. 283 Donald Henderson, 2S4 John Carruthers, 285 Donald McKay, 286 Richard George Glark, 287 Lawrence Fallis, 288 Hiram B: -ker, 29!> Duncan McGregor, 290 Alex. B. Petrie, 2!»1 John Barker, 2!»2 Robert Ballard, 293 John B. McCune, 294 Thomas Marsden, 295 Thomas H. Richmond, 29« Rev. W. H. Jones, . 297 John Mic' ael, 298 Thomas H. Bartindale, 399 William S. King, 300 R. C. Holbrook, 301 John B. Eager, 302 Charles J. Woolcott, 303 John Billings, 304 Elias Vernon, 305 H. Alexander Mackay, 306 Edwin Penny, 307 Addison Bowron, 308 Henry A. Eager, 309 Frederick H. Eidred, 310 Henry Griffith, 311 William Cusack, 312 Isaac Ryall, . 313 Jefferson Houlden, 314 William Griffith, 315 Richard Brierley, 316 William Lees, 317 Stephen F. Lazier. 318 Charles Huton, 319 Lyman Moore, 320 J. H. Watson, H)l DATE OF INITIATION. March 11, 1863. May 13, 1868. May 27, l8()3. July H, 18(i3. July 22, 1863. August 12, 1H63. August 26, 1H63. September 9, 1863. October 14, 1P63. October 14, 1863. December 9, 1863. December 3(», 1863. December 30 1863. March 23, 1864. March 23, 1864. April 13, \Hl\4. July 13, 1864. July 28, 1864. October 12, 1864. October 12, 1864. December 14, 1864. December 14, 1864. December 28, 1864. January 11, 1865. April 12, 1865. April 26, 1865. April 26, 1865. May 17, 1865. July 12, 1865. October 11, 1865. October 11, 1865. March l4, 1866. April 11, 1866. April 11, 1866. Jun^ 25, 1866. July 11, 1866. September 12, 1866. January <», 1867. February 13, 1867. February 13, 1867. March 13, 1867. H V,rJ THK KAKT(»N LOIUIK. NAMK. UATK OF INITIATIOM. 321 David Blount, April 10, 1867. 322 Walter J. Lindsely, . May 8 1867. 323 John Fraser, August 14, 1867. 321 Charles Foster, October y, 1867. 325 G. H. Cline, November 13, 1867. 32(i Rev. 0. G. Collamore, December 11, 1867. 327 Thomas G. Hampton, January 8, 186H. 328 S. S. Malcolmson, February 12, 1868, 32'.» Rev. J. Gilray, February 12, 1868. 330 John Patterson, March 10, 1869. 331 John W. Ferguson, April 8, 1868. 332 Adam Leithead, May 13, 186m. 333 James Charlton, . May 13, 1868. 334 Ira Cornwall, July 8, 1868. 335 Charles Davidson September 0, 1868. 336 Archibald Jamieson, September 9, 1868. 337 James Ogilvie, October 7, 1868. 33S Francsis Mitchell, October 7, 1868. 331) David A. Smith, . January 13, 1869. 310 William M. Mitchell, • . January 20, 1869. 341 Murdock A. Graham, February 10, 1869 312 Joseph Dingle, March 10, 1869. 313 Robert Griffith, . April 14, 1869. 314 Reginald H. Knapp, May 12, 18t)9. 315 Reginald .E. Kennedy, . J.ily 14, 1869. 34r> Archibald McKeand, July 28, 1869. 347 John B. Rou&seaux, Septenber 8, 1h69. 348 William McLelland, October 13 1869. 31!) John G. Y. Burkholder, December 8, 1869. 350 John H. Land, December 8, 1869 351 John Stevens, January 12, 1870 352 James F. McClure, . January 12, 1870. 353 Joseph Mason, January 26, 1870. 354 Andrew Tinline, January 26, 1870. 355 George Russell, February 9, 1870. 356 John M. Fair, February 23, 1870. 357 Robert Baird, May 11, 1870. 358 James Rennie, September 14, 1870 36y Colin Arthur, October 12, 1870. 36 » Matthew Burns, December 14, 1870. 361 Colin Munro, January 11, 1871. IF INITIATIOM. 0, 18(;7. 18G7. 14, 18()7. • 9, 18()7. )tr 13, 18(17. •er 11, 18(i7. ' 8, 186H. ■y 12, 1H68, ■y 12, 18(i8. 0, 1869. 1868. 18(;«. 1868. H68. er '.), 1868. er 9, 1868. 7, 1868. 7, 1868. 13, 1869. 20, 186i). 10, 1869 , 1869. 1869. 869. 869. 86i». 8, lN6!). 3 1869. 8, 1869. 8, 1869 2, 1870 2, 1870. 5, 1870. 1, 1870. 9, 1870. 23, 1870. 70. 14, 1870. 1870. L4, 1870. , 1871. MK.MBKKSHIi'. nm 362 368 364 36-5 366 367 3()8 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 .o79 380 381 3H2 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 3i)l 392 3!»;j 394 3!>5 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 NAJIK. Alexander McKie, Albert S. Vail, William Gibson, Hiram H. Hurd, . James S. B. McKeown, William Don, Allan Land, . William H. Rudell, Thomas AttridfJe, Thomas Dalton, . David Duncan, William Robertson, Andrew Rutherford, Frederick Bennett, James Janiieson, George H Matthews, Robert Beattie, William Jamieson, John Milne, . Duncan H. McLennan, John McCallnm, George \. M. Geddes, William J. Field, Drncan McKellar, John Henderson, David D. Braid, . Alexander C. McLachlan, Hugh Moore, William Coutts, Richard E. Callister, Peter Thomson, David S. Dryburgh, Roderick D. McLennan, Royal J. Howard, Andrew Cameron, William Scott, James Robertson, James C. Hazard, George Scott, James T. Williamson, George R. Kerr, r>ATK OP INITIATIOX. February 8, 1871. February 8, 1871. July 12, 1871. July 12, 1871. July 12, 1H71. (Jctober 11, 1871. January '.», lH72. January !», 1 872. April 10, 1872. May 8, 1872. May 8, 1872. July 24, 1872. August 14, 1872. October 9, 1872. December 11, 1872. January H, 1H73, February 12, 1878. February 12, 1873. February 12, 1873. March 12, 1873. March 12, 1873. March 12, 1873. April 9, 1873. April !», 1873. July 9, 1873. October 8, 1873. October 8, 1873. October 8, 1873. November 12, 1873. January 14, 1874. January 14, 1874. January 14, 1874. January 28, 1674. February 11, 1874. February 11, 1874. February 11, 1874. April 8, 1874. July 8, 1874. August 12, 1874 August 12, 1874. October 14, 1874. 194 THE BARTON LODUK. NAMK. IJAIK or INITIATION. 40H George H. Walker, October 14, 1H74. 401 James Mcintosh, iNovemLer 11, 1H74. 405 Moses Overholfc, November 11, 1874. 40r) James Crosby, December i», 1874. ■' Charles R. Cutler, January (5, 1S75. ■^v,^ xlobert W. Pentecost, January 13, 1875. 409 John Z. Turner, . June <>, 1875. 410 George J. Williams, June '.), 1875. 411 Colin Mcllae, May 12, 1h75. 412 Herbert Munsie, August 11, 1875. 413 Adam A. Stewart, September 8 1875. 414 Robert Cruikshank October 18, 1H75. 415 Thomas Smith, . October 13, 1875. 41() George h. Broadfleld, November 10, 187"). 417 George H. Bull, . January 12, 1876. 418 William Burrow, April 12, 1876. 4Iti Alexander Munro, April 12, 1870. 420 Duncan McLachlan, June 14, 1876. 421 John Rodger, . . • June 14, lH7t>. 422 Thomas Clappison, August '.), 1876. 423 John A. Stadelman, August '.», 1876. 424 William Morden, September 13, 1h7() 425 William Young, . September 13, 1876 42() George E. Mason, October 11, 1876. 427 John F. Davidson, February 14, 1877. 428 Robert E. Simpson, . February 14, 1877. 42!) James Fraser, March 14, 1877. 430 J. Marshall Lamb, April 11, 1877. 431 Canby lieece, June 13, 1877. 432 George Gallagher, August 8, 1H77. 433 Alfred J. Jones, . December 12, 1877 434 George Robinson, December 12, 1877. 435 William F. Haskins, January •), 1878. 43(5 John B. Cook, March 13, 1878. 437 Frank B. Halliday, November IH, 1878. 438 James Kay, November 13, 1878. 43il George W. Reid, December 11, 1878. 440 Charles N. McMichael, April 9 1879. 441 Charles Beattie, . August 13, 1879. 442 Richard Hill, August 13, 1879. 443 James McQueen, August 13, 1879. A i\y MKMBKRSHIl'. 199 KK(nsTKK ov Kkkthrkn who havk Affiliated WITH Thk Barton J^oDcii;. 1 2 3 4 5 »') 7 8 !» 10 11 12 13 14 lo 1(J 17 18 1!> 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 27 28 21) 30 31 32 33 Peter Bowman, Augustus Jones George P. Bull, William J Kerr, William T. Barnes, . Henry Buntin, John Coe, John Carlisle, Richard O. Duggan. John S. Dodd, (Jeorge Duftield, David Farley, Robert Graham, John Greene, George Hayden, John Kennedy, John Law, George Lees, William Milne, William Brice Proctor, James Paris, Seldon C. Richardson, Hugh Rodgers, John Terry, George Vail, . David White, Israel Williams, Allan N. Macnabb, John Morrison, Thomas Ramsay, Jacob Basted o, John S. Fra&er, Charles W. Harte, i)ATE OF AKKILIATION. December 12, 17i»6. December 12, 179«!. October 28, 1841. October 28, 1841. October 28, 1h41. October 28, ]S41. October 28, 1841. October 28, 1841 October 28, 1811. October 28, 1841. October 28, Im.'' October 28, 1841. October 28, 1841. October 28, 1841. October 28, 1841. October 28, 1841. October 28. 1841. October 28, 1841. October 28, 1841 October 28, 1S41. October 28, Hu. October 28, 1811. October 28, 1841. October 28 1841. October 28. )841. October 28, 1841. October 28, 1841. January 12, 1842. December 8, 1842. December 14, 18 J3. May 8, 1844. June 12, 1844. June 12, 1844. •JOO THK MAKTOX LolKfK. !l? NA.MK. 34 John Hose Holden, 85 Charles Bennett, 36 Andrew Findlay, 87 S. S. Jones, . 3H Samuel M. Buell, 3!) James Drynan, 40 Thomas M. Simons, 41 Georf^e ]M. Dickenson, 42 Edward Clarke, . 43 John C. Cruickshanke 44 John W. Downes, 45 John H. Martyn, 4(> Alexander Mackid, 47 Robert Calder, 48 Geort^e O. S. Tiffany 4i» Matthew Magill, 50 Josiah L. Pray, 51 F. J. Lundy, 52 William Miles, 53 Robert Halladay, 54 Frederick W. Gates 55 Michael Ruttle, 5») William C. Stephen, 57 Edwin Henwood, 58 W. W. Waddell, . 5i» John W. Kerr, 00 William Harley, . (51 James F. Jamieson, 02 M. Francis Shaler, 68 Donald Currie, 64 J. C. Fraser, 05 Johnston Wardell, 06 John F. Lilly. 07 John W. Ferj-uson, 08 George Holland, Oi> John Barker, 70 William Servos, . 71 Charles Cumber, 72 William T. Mundy, 78 Harvey Fettemar, 74 John C. McLauchlan, UATI-: OF AlFILIATION. November 27, lHi4. August 13, 1P45. August 18, 1845. September 10, 1H45. December 8, 1H45. December 8, 1H45. December IC 1H45. December 10, 1H45. January 14, 1H40. January 14, 1840. January 14, 1840. February 1 1 1846. April 8, 1H40. June 10, 1h40. September 9, 1h46. October 14, 1H40. August 11, 1H47. July 10, 1H5(». August 1 1, 1850. June 11, 1851. October H, 1851. November It, 1853. January 10, lb55. March ^8, 185 5. March 28, 1855. April 11, 1855. May 9, l!^55. December 12, 1855. August 12, 1857. September 'J, 1h57. November 25, 1857. February 10, 1858. September 1", 1859. June 13, 1860. October 10, IsflO. November 14, 1800. October 8, 1802. October 8, lH(i2. November 12, 1862. April 8, 1803. May 18, 1803. MKMMKIiSHI|> 197 52(> 627 5!8 o2 Wm. Leaper Ross, June 12, 1893. 587 George S. Morris, July 10, 1893. 588 James Bigley, December 11, 1893. 58i> James Joseph Kvel, March 12, 1894. 5",(0 William Carruthers Brennan, July 9, 1894. 591 Thomas Henry Watson, September 10. 1894 51(2 John Willis Ambery, March 11, 1895. 5(13 John George Farmer, March 11, 1895. 5114 John James Parsons, March 11, 1895. 5S)5 Stephen F. Washington, March 11, 1895. 59(1 George Thomas Turner, April 8, 1895. 5i)7 John Wesley Arnold, June 22, 1895. 5!I8 Walter John Henning, June 22, 1895. 59'.l James Montgomery, June 22, 1895. (iO George Robert Allan, . August 12, 1895. 601 Fred Kellond, , August 12, 1895. 602 David Ritchie Gibson, October 14, 1895. 603 James Taylor Middleton, October 14, 1895. 604 William Armstrong, October 14, 1895. 605 George Armstrong, October 14, 1895. MKMHKKSHIl'. li)5 NAMK. 444 Archibald McKenzie, 445 John Lawson, 446 William Monk, 447 Edwin Tinsley, . 448 Frederick Chester jarnian, 440 John Hoodless, 450 Duncan Fitzgerald, . 451 William Richardson, 4d2 William K. Davis, 453 Edward C. Murton, 454 Thomas Gain, 455 George M. Hunt 45() Samuel G. Moore, 457 William J. Grant, 458 William Braid, 45i> Charles Gumming, 4(i0 John M. Tory, 461 Henry Whish, 462 William J. Lavery, 403 Alexander Lockie, 464 William Bennett, 465 Adam Ballentine, 466 A. I. Hubbard, . 467 James Norris Waddell, 468 R. W. Young, 46t» John Thomson, 470 Peter Taylor, 471 Edward Murphy, 472 Samuel M. Kenney, 473 Frank E. Woolverton, 474 Arthur T. Boond, 475 Tunis B. Griffith, 476 Arthur Vincent, . 477 James Garland, 478 James Ferres, 479 Alexander Calder, 480 James Walker Russell, . 481 Andrew Murdock, 482 James D. McCnllougli, . 483 Edmund C. Passmore, 484 John Lennox, I>ATK ol INITIATION. October 8, 187'J. March 10, 1880. March 10, 1880. May 12, 1880. August 11, 1880. August 11, 1880. September 8, 1880. October 13, 1880. February 9, 1881. P'ebruary 9, 1881. April 13, 1881. April 13, 1881. June 1, 1881. July 13, 1881. September 14, 1881. March 8, 1882. March 8, 1882. April 12, 1882. Apriri2, 1882. May 10, 1882. June 14, 1882. July 12, 1882. July 12, 1H82. August 9, 1882. November 8, 1882. December 13, 1882. January 10, 1883. January 10, 1883. February 14, 1883. February 14, 1883. February 14, 1883. April 11, 1883. May 9, 1883. June 13, 1883. September 12, 1883. February 13, 1884. February 13, 1884. February 13, 1884. April 9, 1884. April 9, 1884. May 14, 1684. \m TIIK HAUTON Loixn:. ".\ ill . NAMK. DATE ol' INITIATION. 485 J. W. Morden. May 14, 1884. 48(! H. Kpencer Caae, May 14, 18H4. 487 llobert Ilobson, September 10, 1884 488 Frederick B. Ross, September 10, 188: 481 William O. Tidewell, September 10, 1884 490 JatneB l{. Allan, . December 10, 1884. 4<»1 Robert C. Fearnian, March 11, 1885. 492 Elisha Corey, March 11, 1885. 498 James Henry Farmer, Dec. 9, 18K.'>. 494 Thomas William Reynolds, December 9, 1885. 49.1 Edward Gibuon Zealand, December 9, 1885. 496 William A. Freeman, January 13, 188(1. 497 William Silver, Jr., . January 13, l88t). 498 John Houghton, February 10, 188(;. 499 Joseph Stephen, March 10, 1880. 50(t Frederick Johnson, May 12, 188(1. 501 Georf^e L. Murdock, . May 12 188(1. 50i Sidney Roberts, . May 12. 188(1. 503 Walter F. Wood, July 14, 188(1. 504 William G. Simpson, July 14, 188(1. 505 Robert Gordon August 11, 1886. 50() Charles Blackman, September 8, 1880. 507 Mlliam H. Chilman, September 8, 188(1. 508 William Sterne, . September 8, 188(1. 509 Henry C. Aylwin, October 13, 1886. 510 Ebenezer P Barnes, October 13, 1886. 511 Henry W. Philp, November 10, 1886. 512 John McCullough, December 8, 1886. 513 James Gardner, January 12, 1887. 514 John L. Paterson, February 9, 1887. 515 Walter Anderson, March 9, 1887. 51(i Augustus C. Grossman, . March 9, 1887. 517 Robert Harper, March 9, 1887. 518 Walter S. Briggs, April 13, 1887. 519 William Morton, June 8, 1887. 520 Peter T. McCullough, . June 8, 1887. 521 John Ross, June 8, 1887. 522 Peter M. Land, . September 14, 1887 523 James Ward House, . December 28, 1887. 524 John McKay, January 11, 1888. 525 Frederick W. Fearman, February 8, 1888. - I MKMIIKKSHII'. •_>()8 157 ir,8 15<.) n;u 161 1((2 l«i3 Ifll Ki-, hu\ 167 KlH 1()9 170 171 172 173 174 175 170 177 178 17!) 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 1H7 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 NA5IK. Peter McBeath, Daniel Porteous, George W. Hhaver. V. R. Kerr. John Beattie, Aibxander Beddie, Kdmund 11. Davia, Frank W. Paaemore, William H. Miner, •James MoLerie, . William Freeman, Peter Corridi, Robert Balfour, Joseph Hobson, . Rev. Alexander Buhih, I. Tolbert Pepper, George W. Browne, . E. H. D. Robinson, David Dexter, John Home. Albert B. Berryman, Dugald J. Campbell, .Solomon Zimmerman. Henry J. Vincent, Alexander A. Taylor, George Riach, William E. Brown, . John Clifton, William Lawson, Charles P. Hardy, Samuel John Ireland, Joseph Cameron, Francis Osborne, Alexander Hamilton, John Whitham, Thomas John W. Burgess, William Stokes, Edward E. Loosley, Edwin A. Mumford. . Oliver Dobbie, T. W. Lannin, l>ATK l.K AKril.IATION, June 14, 1882. October 11, 1H82. October 11, 1882. November 8, 1882. February 14, 1883. April 11, 1883. September 12, 1883. Cctober 10, 1883. March 12, 1884. June 11, 1884. September 10, 1884. December 10, 1hm4. June 10, 18S5. June 10, 1885, September 9, iHh.j. June 9, 188ti. June 9, IHHC. June 9, 1886. November 11, 1885. November 11, 1h85. December 9, 1hh5. December 9, 1885. March 10, 1 fi. April 13, 1H87. June 8, 1887. August 10, 18H7. August 11, 1886. November 10, IMSO. November 10. 1886. January 12, 1887. November 9, l»H7. December 14, 1887. December 14, 1687. February 8, 1888. April 11, 188H. May 9, 1888. June 13, 1888. August 8, 1888. November 14, 1888. November 14, 1888. January 9, 1889. 204 THK ISAKTOX LODGE. NAMK. liATi; OF AFFILIATION li)8 W. J. Watson, January !), 18H9. l!>i» Peter Gardiner, February 13, 188!). 200 Richard Griffith, . March 13, 1889. 201 Eobert Graham, March 13, 1889. 202 George J. Fitzsimons, July 10, 1889. 203 William K. Hen'^erson, August 14, 1889. 204 Oliver Alfred Horning, . December 11, 1889. 205 Charles R. McCullough, February 12, 1890. 20(5 George Walter Brent, . February 12, 1890. 207 William Flatt, March 12, 1890. 208 William Fair, . . July 9, 1S90. 209 William Mole, August 13, 1890. 210 Donald Carr, October 8, 1890. 211 Hugh McKinnon, May 13, 1891. 212 Granville S. Decatur, May 13, 1891. 218 r. D. Boyes, . Joly 8, 1891. 214 David Frederick Allan, . October 12, 1891. 215 James A. Bement, January 11, 1892. 2iU) John Wheatley, . September 12, 1S92. 217 John B. Dinkel, September 12, 1892. 21H William Oscar Sealey, October 10, 1892 211) Rev. William lleid Clark, . April 10, 1893. 220 James Weir, May S, 1893. 221 James Henry Taylor, July 10, 1893. 222 Farquharson James Muir, October 9, 1H93. 223 John Moffatt, . February 12, 1S93. 224 William Tocher, . May 13, 189.->. 225 Henry Robertson, August 12, 1895. MKMUKKSHII' IJ'FILIATION ', 1SH9. 13, 188, 1875. '). 1875. 1H75. rfi. 187(1. ,1877. 77 i, 1877. :i78. 78. 8. i. t78. 78. , 1878. J'J. , 187!». 1880. 881, 1881. 382. ^82.