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 HISTORICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HOLLAND LODGE, 
 
 WITH INCIDENTAL REMARKS ON MASONRY 
 IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
 
 AN ADDRESS 
 
 Delivered at Holland Lodge Roam, in the City of New_ York, on the 
 Evening of November 29, 186 1, 
 
 By JOSEPH N. BALESTIER, 
 
 MASTER OF SAID LODGE. 
 
 SECOND EDITION; 
 
 TO WHICH IS ADDED HIS 
 
 SUPPLEMENTARY ADDRESS, 
 
 DELIVERED IN iH 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE LODGE. 
 1862. 
 
 REPUBLISHED BY THE LODGE. 
 1878. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HOLLAND LODGE, 
 
 WITH INCIDENTAL REMARKS ON MASONRY 
 IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
 
 AN ADDRESS 
 
 Delivered at Holland Lodge Room, in the City of New York, on the 
 Evening of November 29, 1861, 
 
 By JOSEPH N. BALESTIER, 
 
 MASTER OF SAID LODGE. 
 
 SECOND EDITION; 
 
 TO WHICH IS ADDED HIS 
 
 SUPPLEMENTARY ADDRESS, 
 
 DELIVERED IN 1878. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE LODGE. 
 1862. 
 
 REPUBLISHED BY THE LODGE. 
 1878. 
 
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 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by 
 JOSEPH N. BALESTIER, 
 
 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of 
 
 New York. 
 
 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by 
 
 JOSEPH N. BALESTIER, 
 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
 
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New York, December 13, 1861. 
 
 Joseph N. Balestier, Esq., 
 
 Past Master of Holland Lodge, 
 W. Sir and Brother— At the last Regular Communication of 
 Holland Lodge, the undersigned were appointed a committee to re- 
 quest for publication a copy of your interesting Address, delivered on 
 the 19th ultimo. 
 
 We take great pleasure in performing this agreeable duty, and 
 remain 
 
 Yours fraternally, 
 
 JOTHAM POST, w. m. 
 HORACE S. TAYLOR, s. w. 
 CHAS. A. RAPALLO, j. w. 
 
 New York, December 14, 1861. 
 
 To the Worshipful Master, Senior Warden, and Junior Warden of 
 Holland Lodge, Committee, &-=<:. 
 Brethren : 
 
 It is very gratifying to me that the first acts of Holland 
 Lodge, after my retirement from the Mastership, have been the appoint- 
 ment of two Committees — one to express the sense of the Lodge of the 
 poor services I have been able to render it, and the other to request 
 a copy of my Historical Address for publication. 
 
 I beg to say that it will give me great pleasure to put an edition of 
 the address at the service of the Lodge, as soon as I can find time to 
 revise it for the press. With my best wishes for the continued pros- 
 perity of the Lodge under your administration, I remain, brethren, 
 Yours fraternally, 
 
 JOSEPH N. BALESTIER. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HOLLAND LODGE. 
 
 Brethren of Holland Lodge : 
 
 In compliance with your request, I shall attempt 
 to address you concerning the history of this old and 
 respectable Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. 
 
 As far as time and circumstances would admit, I 
 have examined all available sources of information re- 
 lating to the subject, chief among which have been 
 the papers and records of the Grand Lodge, and what 
 is left, after the disastrous fires of 1833 and 1861, of 
 the records and papers of Holland Lodge. 
 
 While it is gratifying to know that the earliest 
 minutes of the Lodge have been preserved, it is a pain- 
 ful reflection that all the minutes between December 
 15th, 181 2, and November 21, 1846, have been con- 
 sumed, while the chief part of the Lodge papers from 
 the beginning down to the very present year have 
 
6 Historical Sketches of 
 
 shared the same fate. By the greatest good fortune, 
 however, a large bundle of old papers was rescued from 
 the flames. Every one of these I have carefully in- 
 spected, and among them have found several truly 
 valuable documents, which partially bridge the chasm 
 caused by the loss of the minutes between 1 8 1 2 and 
 1846. Still, the earliest and latest days of the Lodge 
 are alone fully chronicled ; and, inasmuch as the early 
 history interests us more than that of modern days, I 
 shall address myself more especially to the history of 
 Holland Lodge in the olden time. 
 
 But before I speak of the Lodge it may not be 
 amiss to refer to the general subject of Masonry in 
 this State. 
 
 Although Masonry is unquestionably very ancient, 
 Grand Lodges are comparatively modem, and so are 
 nearly all grades of Grand Officers. Prior to 171 7 
 there were annual General Assemblies, to which the 
 Masonic fraternity at large repaired, and in which all 
 were entitled to sit and to vote. These Assemblies 
 elected the Grand Master, and passed laws for the 
 government of the craft. They were as pure democ- 
 racies as ever existed in ancient Greece. 
 
 As " power is ever stealing from the many to the 
 few," it is well for Masons to bear in mind that repre- 
 sentative Grand Lodges are modern institutions, while 
 the particular Lodge is more ancient than the wit of 
 man can determine. 
 
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 The condition of Masonry in England in 1 71 7 was 
 peculiar. The old Genei'al Assembly met annually at 
 York, and elected a Grand Master. In the south of 
 England it had also been customary to elect a Grand 
 Master, and Sir Christopher Wren, the universal ge- 
 nius who built St. Paul's, had been Grand Master of 
 the South. But for twenty years prior to 171 7 there 
 had been no election for Grand Master in that part 
 of England, and Wren appears in the interim to have 
 neglected the Masons quite as much as they afterward 
 neglected him. The condition of Masonry had so de- 
 clined that in the whole south of England there were 
 but four Lodges, all working in London. These 
 Lodges met in February, 171 7, at the Apple Tree 
 Tavern, and organized the useful and now indispensa- 
 ble institution known as the Grand Lodge. This was 
 done by providing that the " privilege of assembling 
 as Masons, which had hitherto been unlimited, should 
 be vested in certain Lodges^ The Grand Lodge thus 
 formed, having a few years afterward trespassed on 
 the jurisdictional rights of the York Assembly, cer- 
 tain London schismatics, taking advantage of the bad 
 feeling thereby engendered, in 1 739 seceded from the 
 Grand Lodge in London, styling themselves "Ancient 
 York Masons," and fastening upon the adherents of 
 the Grand Lodge the opprobrious title of " Modern 
 Masons." For many years they acknowledged no su- 
 perior; but, in 1772, the "Ancients" (acting in con- 
 
8 Historical Sketches of 
 
 junction with the Grand Lodge at York) chose John, 
 third Duke of Atholl, who was then Grand Master 
 elect of Scotland, their Grand Master, and from that 
 time the " Ancients " were acknowledged as a regular 
 Masonic body. In i8i 3, the "Ancient " and " Mod- 
 ern " Grand Lodges, under the auspices of their re- 
 spective Grand Masters, the Royal Dukes of Kent 
 and Sussex, became one body, under the style of " The 
 United Grand Lodge of England." 
 
 The office of Provincial Grand Master was not 
 instituted until 1730; and in 1737, two years before 
 the " Ancients " seceded (the Earl of Darnley being 
 then Grand Master), Richard Riggs was appointed 
 the first Provincial Grand Master of New York. But 
 Riggs did nothing to establish Masonry here. About 
 1750, the " Modern " Grand Lodge (over which Lord 
 Byron then presided) appointed Francis Goelet Pro- 
 vincial Grand Master, and he also did little or noth- 
 ing for Masonry. From a note in Jones's edition of 
 Preston, it appears that the warrants of Riggs and 
 Goelet ran only for a single year, which accounts for 
 their want of success. I may here remark that, in the 
 year 1821, Thomas B. Goelet, a grandson of Francis, 
 was initiated in Holland Lodge. 
 
 On the 9th day of June, 1753, a commission was 
 granted under the hand and seal of John Proby, Baron 
 of Carysfort, the then " Modern " Grand Master of 
 England, whereby George Harrison was appointed 
 
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 Provincial Grand Master of New York, and he was 
 installed as such by Richard Riggs, at Trinity Church, 
 December 27, 1753. Acting under this commission, 
 Harrison granted warrants to several Lodges, one of 
 which, dated in 1 764, I have seen at the office of the 
 Grand Secretary. It is certain that Harrison char- 
 tered Solomon's Lodge at Poughkeepsie, in 1771. 
 Having obtained his commission in 1753, and still 
 holding it in 1771, there is not a rational doubt that 
 Harrison in 1757 chartered St. John's Lodge, No. i, 
 the oldest now existing in the State, and in 1 760 old 
 No. 8, called a few years later Independent Royal 
 Arch, No. 2, a Lodge always of elevated character, 
 and distinguished for the excellence of its work. 
 
 The Provincial Grand Lodge, of which the pres- 
 ent Grand Lodge is the regular successor, was not, 
 however, established until 1782. The Charter or 
 Warrant of this Provincial Grand Lodge emanated 
 from the " Ancient " York Grand Lodge, of which 
 John, the fourth Duke of Atholl, was then Grand 
 Master. This instrument (which is still in a state 
 of perfect preservation) pompously describes the 
 Grand Master as "The Right Worshipful and Most 
 Noble Prince, John the Third, Duke, Marquis, and 
 Earl of Atholl," with other titles too numerous to 
 mention. The regal description of one who was un- 
 questionably the fourth Duke of Atholl as " John 
 the Third," has led some to believe the warrant 
 
lo Historical Sketches of 
 
 spurious, and others to suppose it erroneous. Even 
 Chancellor Walworth, in his celebrated " opinion," 
 speaks of the description as a mistake. But the de- 
 scription " John the Third " is entirely consistent 
 with the usual one of " John, Fourth Duke of 
 AthoU." I have ascertained that some of the high 
 Scotch nobility were formerly, and may be still, accus- 
 tomed to entitle themselves like sovereign Princes, 
 making the number apply to the Christian name, 
 and not to the dignity. This custom would proba- 
 bly be jealously observed by the princely house of 
 Atholl, who were formerly absolute sovereigns of the 
 Isle of Man. For the same reason the title " Most 
 Noble Prince " would be apt to be retained, and it 
 might even have been " Most High, Potent, and 
 Noble Prince," without exceeding the titular rights 
 and privileges of British Dukes. The Duke of 
 Atholl who signed the warrant was, in fact, the 
 third of the Dukes of Atholl who had borne the 
 name of " John." He was the son of that John 
 Duke of Atholl, who, in 1 772, was Grand Master 
 of Scotland, and also of the Ancient York Masons, 
 and who died in 1774. The fourth Duke was under 
 twenty years of age when he succeeded to his father's 
 Masonic honors, and he lived until 1830. At and 
 after the union of 181 3, I find him regularly regis- 
 tered as a Past Grand Master in the United Grand 
 Lodge. To be ignorant of the history of a mason 
 
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 so distinguished, seems unpardonable ; and yet even 
 that great English authority in Masonic history, 
 Preston, supposes the Duke of AthoU who was liv- 
 ing in 1 8 1 3 to have been " the venerable nobleman " 
 who was Grand Master in 1772. 
 
 It appears strange that the Atholl warrant, which 
 is numbered 219, and on its face purports to be "reg- 
 istered in the Grand Lodge, Volume 8, Letter H," 
 is in fact not registered at all, nor alluded to in any 
 way on the books of the " Ancient " Grand Lodge. 
 Yet the genuineness of this Charter appears, for sev- 
 eral sufficient reasons, which I cannot now find time 
 to discuss, to be unquestionable. 
 
 It was, then, under the Atholl warrant (in which 
 Rev. William Walter was named as Provincial Grand 
 Master) that the Provincial Grand Lodge was found- 
 ed ; but that document is practically of Httle import- 
 ance to us. In the language of a Committee of the 
 United Grand Lodge of England, I would say : 
 " After the recognition of the Independence of the 
 United States, this Grand Lodge ceased to be Pro- 
 vincial, and assumed, and has ever since maintained, 
 the character and exercised the functions of an Inde- 
 pendent Grand Lodge." 
 
 Of the Officers of the Grand Lodge constituted 
 by the Atholl Charter, the Grand Master and Senior 
 Grand Warden were clergymen, and probably army 
 chaplains. The first meeting was held in this city 
 
12 Historical Sketches of 
 
 on the 5th day of December, 1782, just fourteen 
 months after the date of the Charter, and at it were 
 present the Grand Master and Grand Wardens 
 named in the Charter, six British regimental Lodges, 
 and three city Lodges of Ancient York Masons, 
 designated only by the numbers 169, 212, and 210, 
 all now extinct. Subsequently some " Modern " 
 Lodges became " Ancient," and united with the Pro- 
 vincial Grand Lodge. 
 
 On the 19th of September, 1783, the propriety 
 of leaving the Grand Warrant was fully discussed in 
 the Grand Lodge, and no Mason or man of refine- 
 ment can read unmoved the resolve of that little 
 band of brothers to cease from their own Masonic 
 labors and leave their warrant behind, as they say, 
 " for the benefit of those who should succeed the 
 present Grand Lodge, the most of whom are under 
 the necessity of leaving New York upon the removal 
 of His Majesty's troops." 
 
 The State Grand Lodge was a regular continua- 
 tion of the Provincial body, and it was not until 
 March, 1787, that it had misgivings about holding 
 under the Atholl Grand Warrant. On the 6th of 
 June, 1787, a committee to whom the subject was 
 referred reported that the Grand Lodge was regu- 
 larly formed under the Atholl Charter, and that 
 " nothing is necessary but to appoint a committee 
 to prepare a draft of the style of warrants to be here- 
 
Holland Lodge. 13 
 
 after granted." It thus appears that the State Grand 
 Lodge continued to issue warrants to subordinate 
 Lodges under the style of the Provincial Grand 
 Lodge for four years after the British had evacuated 
 the city. On the 15th of September, 1787, Grand 
 Secretary Kerr informed the Grand Lodge that the 
 warrants, printed by order of the committee appointed 
 in June, were ready for use ; and as, on the same day, 
 the Grand Lodge granted the petition of Holland 
 Lodge for a charter, there is no doubt that this 
 Lodge was the first which received a warrant pur- 
 porting to issue from the Grand Lodge of the State 
 of New York. 
 
 And thus I have reached the main topic of my 
 discourse— Holland Lodge — the venerable and ex- 
 cellent institution over which you have chosen me 
 to preside. At the very outset, however, I must ask 
 you to excuse me, brethren, if, notwithstanding my 
 position, I dispel some illusions with which fancy has 
 invested our Lodge. 
 
 It is a curious fact that many members of Hol- 
 land Lodge, in common with numerous brethren of 
 other Lodges, have for years supposed that the orig- 
 inal Lodge Charter came from the Prince of Orange. 
 But there is no shadow of foundation for the story. 
 Holland Lodge is strictly an American Lodge, a 
 New York Lodge, and has, I am glad to say, no 
 foreign antecedents whatever. 
 
14 Historical Sketches of 
 
 On the 30th of May, 1787, certain worthy citi- 
 zens of New York, deeply impressed with the im- 
 portance and loveliness of the Low Dutch language, 
 petitioned the Grand Lodge to grant a charter to 
 " the Holland Lodge," and, as the petition is not 
 long, I will read it : 
 
 " To the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the 
 State of New York : 
 
 " The petition of the subscribers humbly sheweth 
 that your petitioners are respectively Master Masons, 
 duly made according to the usual solemnities. That 
 a part of your petitioners are persons who are not 
 well acquainted with the English language. That 
 in order more fully to understand the duties and 
 mysteries of the sublime art, they are desirous to 
 form a Lodge in this city under the title of the Hol- 
 land Lodge. That they are also anxious to be in- 
 dulged in performing their labors in the low Dutch 
 language, by which means many worthy brethren 
 who are constrained to keep at a distance from your 
 Right Worshipful body will join them, and thereby 
 increase and support the respectability of your said 
 Grand Lodge. 
 
 " Your petitioners therefore pray that your Right 
 Worshipful body will be pleased to grant them a 
 warrant by the name of the Holland Lodge, consti- 
 
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 tuting Reinier Jan Vanden Broek, Master, Henry- 
 Benson, Senior Warden, and Henry Arnold Coster, 
 Junior Warden of which Lodge, and also indulging 
 them in the use of the low Dutch language, and with 
 such other privileges and immunities as are granted 
 to newly constituted Lodges. 
 
 " And your petitioners, as duty dictates, will ever 
 pray. 
 
 "New York, May 30, 1787. 
 
 "R. J. Vanden Broek, Henry Benson, H. A. 
 Coster, John Meyer, Francis Childs, Wm. J. 
 Vredenburgh, Jno. Stagg, Jr., Daniel Van Voor- 
 His, C. L. Cammann." 
 
 On the 6th of June this petition was presented to 
 the Grand Lodge, and the following entry appears in 
 Volume I of their minutes, at page 62 : 
 
 " A petition from several respectable brethren in 
 this city, praying a warrant to hold a Lodge under 
 the name of Holland Lodge, being read, on motion 
 of R. W. Bro. Kerr, the consideration of it postponed 
 until next regular Grand Lodge." 
 
 It thus appears that the question of allowing the 
 Dutch to take Holland under their very eyes was 
 too momentous to be decided at one communication 
 of the Grand Lodge ; so the petitioners were left to 
 smoke their pipes in suspense until the next Grand 
 
1 6 Historical Sketches of 
 
 Lodge. But the Dutch are a persistent people, and 
 as they were then making New York, they were not 
 to be baulked in making a Lodge ; and the first thing 
 the Grand Lodge saw when they met in September 
 was another petition in these words : 
 
 " To the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the 
 State of New York : 
 
 "The petition of John Meyer, Henry Benson, 
 and Henry Arnold Coster, sheweth : That your pe- 
 titioners, being anxious to promote the welfare of 
 the craft, are desirous to found a Lodge in the Dutch 
 language, to be known and styled by the name of 
 the Holland Lodge, under the jurisdiction of the 
 Grand Lodge of this State. That your petitioners 
 are willing to keep their proceedings both in the 
 English and low Dutch languages, in order that they 
 may be inspected by the Right Worshipful Grand 
 Lodge. Therefore pray your Right Worshipful body 
 will be pleased to grant them such privileges as are 
 constitutionally granted to Lodges under the juris- 
 diction of the Grand Lodge of this State, and to ap- 
 point as 
 
 " Master, John Meyer, 
 
 " Senior Warden, Henry Benson, 
 
 "Junior Warden, Henry Arnold Coster. 
 
Holland Lodge. \ 7 
 
 " And your petitioners, as duty dictates, will ever pray- 
 
 John Meyer, 
 Henry Benson, 
 H. A. Coster. 
 
 " New York, 5th Sept., 1787." 
 
 The assurance that the minutes should be kept 
 both in the Low Dutch and English Languages had 
 due weight with the Grand Lodge. In the minutes 
 of the same day (September 5th), on page 63 of Vol- 
 ume I, is the following entry : 
 
 "A petition from Bros. Meyer, Benson, and a 
 number of others, praying a warrant to hold a Lodge 
 in this city, under the name of Holland Lodge. 
 Granted, on condition that their records be kept in 
 English, for the inspection of the Grand Lodge." 
 
 It will be seen that the Dutch language was 
 treated by the Grand Lodge with great disrespect. 
 They required the records to be kept in English, 
 without the slightest allusion to the Low Dutch, and 
 the consequence is that I have been unable to find a 
 single record in that interesting language. However, 
 the brethren who founded Holland Lodge showed 
 their appreciation of the assault made on their beloved 
 vernacular, by causing their minute-book to be labelled 
 outside and inside, " Handelingen der Hollandsche 
 
1 8 Historical Sketches of 
 
 Loge" which is as much as to say, " Minutes of the 
 Holland Lodge," in Low Dtitch ; and they also cov- 
 ered their Lodge seal with Dutch inscriptions, and 
 flaunted it in the faces of the Grand Lodge, by affix- 
 ing an impression of it to the records of that anti- 
 Dutch body, where it may be seen even to this day. 
 
 This Lodge had no charter number, but was 
 known simply as "The Holland Lodge" until 1789, 
 when a Grand Lodge committee, of which the Mas- 
 ter of this lodge was chairman, met at Holland Lodge 
 room, and settled the numbers of the city lodges. 
 In doing this, the " ancient " and " modern " feud broke 
 out. Holland Lodge voted, with the majority, to 
 recognize the " modern " charter of St. John's Lodge 
 No. I, and of Independent Royal Arch No. 2. On 
 the 3d of June, 1 789, the report of the committee 
 was adopted, and Independent Royal Arch, No. 8, 
 became No. 2, and Holland Lodge became No. 8. 
 When all the State Lodges were on several occasions 
 numbered according to seniority, Holland Lodge be- 
 came successively, June 4, 1819, No. 16; December 
 I, 1830, No. 13; and finally, June 7, 1839, No. 8 
 again, which original number it still retains. 
 
 The first part of the proceedings of the first meet- 
 ing are, unfortunately, wanting ; yet, by the minutes 
 of the second meeting, it is plain that the first was 
 held on the i8th day of September, 1787, two days 
 before the date of the warrant, but several days after 
 
Holland Lodge. 19 
 
 the petition for it was granted. It is certain that the 
 lodge was not organized under dispensation. 
 
 The fragment left of the minutes of the first meet- 
 ing shows that a committee was appointed to request 
 the Deputy Grand Master to consecrate the Lodge 
 on the 2 7th of September, which it afterward appeared 
 he was unable to do. The record also shows that 
 each member was assessed five dollars towards defray- 
 ing the expense of the warrant, and that Brother 
 Meyer proposed a draft of the by-laws. 
 
 The second meeting was held on the 21st of Sep- 
 tember, and only six members attended, viz : John 
 Meyer, Henry Benson, Henry A. Coster, John Stagg, 
 Jr., Carroll L. Cammann, and Reinier Jan Vanden 
 Broek, the last named being in fact not strictly a 
 member. At this meeting a resolution was passed 
 that Brothers Benson, Vanden Broek, and Cammann 
 be a committee to wait on the officers of the Grand 
 Lodge, and request them to consecrate the Lodge, 
 and install its officers, at the house of Brother Meyer, 
 on the first day of October. On that day the Grand 
 Lodge, fully represented, consecrated Holland Lodge 
 at the house of Brother Meyer, Richard Harrison 
 acting as Grand Master, Peter McDougall as Deputy, 
 and Reinier J. Vanden Broek as G. Senior Deacon. 
 The members of the Lodge present were John Meyer, 
 Henry Benson, Henry A. Coster, Daniel Van Voor- 
 his, John Stagg, Jr., William J. Vredenburgh, Carroll 
 
20 Historical Sketches of 
 
 L. Cammann, and William De Wall. I give the min- 
 utes at length : 
 
 " A Master Masons' Lodge was opened with a sol- 
 emn and comprehensive prayer by the Right Worship- 
 ful Grand Master. The Grand Secretary then read 
 the warrant granted by the Grand Lodge of the State 
 of New York to Holland Lodge. Agreeably to the 
 appointments therein contained, the officers of the 
 said Grand Lodge proceeded on the business of in- 
 stalling the Master, the Senior and Junior Wardens, 
 in their respective offices, to wit : — Brother John 
 Meyer as Worshipful Master, Brother Henry Benson 
 as Senior Warden, and Brother Henry Arnold Coster 
 as Junior Warden. The Deputy Grand Master then, 
 at the request of the Grand Master, addressed the 
 Worshipful Master, pointing out the various and im- 
 portant duties of his office. The Senior and Junior 
 Wardens were respectively installed in, and invested 
 with the insignia of their office, and complimented by 
 the brethren. 
 
 " The Grand Secretary then proclaimed The Hol- 
 land Lodge duly consecrated as a warranted Lodge 
 of Ancient Masons, under the jurisdiction of the 
 Grand Lodge of the State of New York. 
 
 "The Worshipful Master having now taken his 
 proper seat in the Lodge, as did also the Senior and 
 Junior Wardens, the Master installed Brother Daniel 
 
Holland Lodge. 21 
 
 Van Voorhis in the office of Treasurer, Brother John 
 Stagg, Jr., in that of Secretary, Brother William J. 
 Vredenburgh as Senior Deacon, and Brother Carroll 
 L. Cammann as Junior Deacon, each of whom hav- 
 ing' received the badges to which they were respec- 
 tively entitled, they took their proper places, and the 
 said Holland Lodge were then ready to proceed in a 
 warranted and regular manner to work according to 
 the true mysteries of the craft. 
 
 " Brother Vanden Broek arose and proposed as 
 a candidate for initiation in the Holland Lodge, Ru- 
 dolph Henry Van Dorsten, Secretary of the Minister 
 of the United Netherlands. 
 
 " The Lodge was then closed." 
 
 The early meetings of the Lodge were held at a 
 private house, as appears by the minutes of March 
 14, 1789. The minutes do not show in what street 
 the Lodge was held up to May i, 1788, at which 
 time it was removed to the house of Mr. Beekman 
 in Courtlandt Street. Among the papers in the 
 Grand Secretary's office is a notice from John Stagg, 
 Jr., Master of the Lodge, dated June 12, 1790, stating 
 that on next St. John's day Holland Lodge would 
 remove from Courtlandt Street to their new Lodge 
 room in Crown Street (now Liberty Street), " erect- 
 ed for their particular accommodation." 
 
 Brother Brooks was the Crown Street landlord. 
 
22 Historical Sketches of 
 
 Subsequently the Lodge removed to the premises 
 of Brother Weeks in Cedar Street, and at a later 
 date held its meetings at the old City Hotel, in 
 Broadway, kept by Chester Jennings, where it re- 
 mained many years. 
 
 The account of the consecration of the new build- 
 ing in Crown Street is so full of interest that you 
 will pardon me for reading it at length : 
 
 " Holland Lodge, June 24, 5790, convened in 
 Crown Street. 
 
 " The anniversary of St. John the Baptist being 
 on this day, this Lodge, and Washington Chapter 
 of Royal Arch Masons, met at the new building 
 erected for their convenience. Previous to opening 
 the Lodge they performed the solemn ceremonies 
 of consecration, agreeably to a resolution of April 
 
 27. 5790- 
 
 " Present, the Right Worshipful the officers of 
 the Grand Lodge of this State, the Right Worship- 
 ful the Deputy Grand Master of Pennsylvania, and 
 Grand Master of Georgia, Brothers Smith and Jack- 
 son, and several members of Congress ; also the 
 Masters and Wardens of some of the warranted 
 Lodges of this city, together with the New York 
 Musical Society. 
 
 "As the Brothers entered the Lodge Room a 
 solemn march was performed on various instruments 
 
Holland Lodge. 23 
 
 of music. 'Tis said that P. A. Van Hagen, Jr., wiio 
 had not yet attained his ninth year, composed the 
 march. He was also one of the performers in the 
 concert of music. 
 
 " A solemn sound of music from the organ by 
 Mr. P- A. Van Hagen was followed by a well 
 adapted address from the Worshipful Master of 
 this Lodge, after which the presiding officers of 
 the Chapter and Lodge stood around an altar, on 
 which a temple was placed, supported by five pil- 
 lars, covered with embroidered cloth. 
 
 " The most Worshipful Brother Vanden Broek, 
 presiding officer of Washington Chapter of Royal 
 Arch Masons, delivered the consecration prayer, 
 after which the temple was removed, and warrants 
 of Chapter and Lodge with the Holy Bible were 
 handed to the presiding officers of each. 
 
 " The Worshipful Brother Stagg, in the name 
 of the Most High, to whom be honor and glory 
 for ever and ever, declared this building set apart 
 for Masonic purposes ; which declaration was an- 
 swered by a solemn touch of the organ. 
 
 " The most Worshipful Brother Vanden Broek, 
 in manner as before, declared this building set 
 apart to virtue. Answered by solemn sounds from 
 the organ. 
 
 " The Worshipful Master Brother Stagg, in the 
 same form of solemn declaration, observed this 
 
24 Historical Sketches of 
 
 building was set apart for the promotion of uni- 
 versal charity and benevolence. 
 
 "Then was answered by the most Worshipful 
 Brother Vanden Broek, ' Glory be to God on high, 
 on Earth peace, and good will towards men.' 
 
 " To which the presiding officers replied. Amen. 
 
 " The organ closed the ceremony with solemn 
 music. 
 
 "The most Worshipful Master, Vanden Broek, 
 presiding officer of the Chapter, agreeably to pre- 
 vious arrangement, delivered a discourse on Mason- 
 ry, in the course of which he addressed the Grand 
 Lodge, the Chapter, and the Lodge. 
 
 "The whole concluded in a delightful concert 
 of music, set to an elegant ode composed by Broth- 
 er Low, and performed vocally and instrumentally 
 by the Musical Society of New York." 
 
 The most remarkable member connected with 
 the earliest history of the Lodge was Reinier Jan 
 Vanden Broek, who was named for Master in the 
 petition for a warrant first presented to the Grand 
 Lodge. The Lodge was afterwards constituted by 
 naming in its warrant John Meyer as first Master; 
 but he held the office only three months, and on 
 the 2 1 St of December, 1787, Vanden Broek, al- 
 though at that time called a "visitor," was elected 
 Master. His zeal in that office knew no bounds, 
 
Holla7id Lodge. 25 
 
 and his efforts in promoting masonry in general 
 were so earnest and untiring as to entitle him to 
 the grateful remembrance of the whole fraternity. 
 It appears by his address on assuming the chair, 
 of which a printed copy was lately presented to us 
 by our Brother Crane, that he had then been but 
 three years in the United States. He had, how- 
 ever, a perfect acquaintance with the language ; in- 
 deed, he must have been a thoroughly educated 
 man, for we find him addressing Baron Steuben 
 in French, and the Rev. Brother Beck in German, 
 and doubtless he indulged freely in Low Dutch 
 for the delectation of the worthy Knickerbockers 
 who chiefly founded the Lodge, and long persist- 
 ed in the use of the mother tongue. He was a 
 man greatly beloved and respected in the Lodge ; 
 and Clinton, in his address delivered in 1794, and 
 lately re-published by us, speaks of him as " a broth- 
 er who called this Lodge into being, protected its 
 infant years, and reared it to its piesent height of 
 prosperity." And he eloquently adds : " I could enu- 
 merate to you his unexampled zeal, his eminent 
 ability, his unremitted attention, and his unrivaled 
 disinterestedness in the cause of masonry. And 
 however high-sounding this tribute of honest praise 
 may appear, it must be protected from the reproach 
 of flattery by the grateful feelings which animate 
 the bosom of every member who hears me, and 
 
26 Historical Sketches of 
 
 who knows that the Brother to whom I allude 
 stands in the first rank among the revivers of Ma- 
 sonry in this State, and that Holland Lodge par- 
 ticularly owes him a debt of gratitude which no 
 return can cancel, and no time discharge." 
 
 No grander tribute need any man crave than such 
 words from such a source ; and may we ever feel the 
 full force of the expression that no time can discharge 
 our obligations to Van den Broek. 
 
 In those days Philadelphia was the metropolis, 
 and in 1 790 the Federal Government was removed 
 from New York to that city. On the first of Octo- 
 ber, 1 790, Vanden Broek, and also Stagg, the then 
 Master, took leave of the Lodge preparatory to 
 removing to Philadelphia, they holding important 
 offices in the war department, as I learn by an old 
 register. It was a solemn scene, and we are told in 
 the minutes that " Past Master Vanden Broek also 
 took leave in a solemn and serious address." But he 
 could not forego the sweet sorrow of yet another part- 
 ing, for I find recorded in the handwriting of Clinton 
 under date of 1 5th October, 1 790, " The Worshipful 
 Master, Vanden Broek, in a very affectionate and pa- 
 thetic manner, again took leave of the Lodge." 
 
 Like all good men, Vanden Broek had his troubles. 
 The Philadelphians accused him of having made diffi- 
 culty in Holland Lodge, and he appealed to the Lodge 
 to refute the charge, which it promptly did, by passing 
 
Holland Lodge. 27 
 
 a resolution, expressing for him the highest regard 
 and sternly rebuking his persecutors and slanderers. 
 Again, in 1797, I find a Grand Lodge circular pro- 
 hibiting Vanden Broek and others connected with 
 rUnion Fran^aise from visiting until further orders. 
 But as that eminent Mason was, in 1800, Grand Sec- 
 retary, there was evidently some misapprehension in 
 the case. Vanden Broek returned in 1 793, and again 
 took an active part in Lodge matters. In December, 
 1793, the Lodge thanked him "for his masterly ad- 
 dress this evening, for his spirited exertions in the 
 cause of masonry, and for the many eminent services 
 he has rendered to this Lodge." In February, 1794, 
 Holland Lodge had grown so very large that Vanden 
 Broek considered it his duty to withdraw with a part 
 of the members, and form a new Lodge, and his re- 
 quest for leave to do so was granted. Howard Lodge 
 was then formed by Vanden Broek, he being its first 
 Master, and between it and Holland the most kindly 
 intercourse was maintained, and its meetings were 
 held for some time in Holland Lodge room. What 
 finally became of Vanden Broek I have not found 
 time to enquire. To know that such a man lived 
 and labored is to Be assured that his end was peace.' 
 
 ' In 1878, I regret to say that I have since found by the records of St. 
 John's Lodge, No. i, that in October, 1800, that Lodge was advised of 
 the "calamitous situation" of Brother Vanden Broelc, and called upon 
 to relieve his wants. 
 
28 Historical Sketches of 
 
 John Stagg, Jr., the third master, served the Lodge 
 in several offices with distinguished ability. He was 
 chief clerk in the war department during the admin- 
 istration of Washington, and while a member of the 
 Lodge was Secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati. 
 Upon his return to New York from the seat of gov- 
 ernment, he became a member of the Legislature, and 
 a prominent politician. 
 
 John Pintard, who succeeded Stagg, was descend- 
 ed from an old New York family, whose names fig- 
 ure conspicuously in the early history of the city, and 
 he discharged his official duties to the Lodge with 
 fidelity. In some old publications I find him men- 
 tioned as an Assistant Alderman, Secretary of the 
 Historical Society, an officer of a Literary Society, a 
 trustee of the Society Library, Secretary of the New 
 York Manufacturing Society, and Secretary of the 
 Mutual Assurance Company. 
 
 John Abrams, who was Master in 1 792, and again 
 in 1796, was a native of the Island of Madeira; he 
 was greatly beloved in the Lodge, and eminent in 
 the Grand Lodge. Abrams Lodge was named for 
 him. In 1792 Holland Lodge presented to him a 
 gold medal. He died in 1 799, of yellow fever, and a 
 monument was erected to his memory in the lodge- 
 room, the committee having it in charge consisting 
 of W. M. Wm. Irving, Jr., W. John Jacob Astor, and 
 Brother John Onderdonk. In April, 1 804, the stand- 
 
JohuaoTi Pryi'.n PulilisliarB. Hfw York. 
 
 „,„ .^«,-,i2^ * ,^^,W«., w /^ '»?»>■ ./.-.^.^rf^ '- . ■" •"' 
 
Holland Lodge. 29 
 
 ing committee reported that " the monument erected 
 to our dear Brother, Past Master Abrams, is still 
 standing in the old lodge-room in Liberty Street." 
 A committee was appointed " to remove the same, 
 and erect it together with two other monumental 
 figures belonging to the Lodge, and the ornaments 
 appertaining to them, in the present lodge-room." 
 
 John Frederick Roorbach was the sixth Master. 
 He was a lawyer, as appears by the New York 
 directory of 1 794, and the old almanacs show that he 
 was also a Civil Justice. Whether he was the an- 
 cestor of the individual whose political fabrications 
 gave for a time the name of " Roorbach " to all mar- 
 velous electioneering tales, my researches have not 
 disclosed. He fell a victim to the yellow fever in 
 1798. 
 
 The most illustrious man ever connected with 
 Holland Lodge was DeWitt Clinton, who succes- 
 sively filled the offices of Secretary, Warden and 
 Master. He was proposed for initiation by Vanden 
 Broek on the night of the consecration of the Crown 
 Street building. A considerable part of the early 
 minutes is in Clinton's handwriting, and consequent- 
 ly of priceless value. I shall not dwell upon his 
 history. Is it not written in letters of light in the 
 annals of our country .? Is not his Masonic fame 
 sufficiently blazoned in the Grand Lodge, over which 
 he so long presided as Grand Master, and in the 
 
30 Historical Sketches of 
 
 National Grand Chapter, and the National Grand 
 Encampment, over both of which he also presided ? 
 Is not his admirable address, on assuming the Mas- 
 tership of Holland Lodge, in our possession ? Is 
 not this jewel on my regalia, bearing his crest and 
 initials, the one he wore when Master of this Lodge? 
 and was he not still represented here until this very 
 last week in the person of his son, our worthy and 
 lamented Brother, Charles A. Clinton ? Rather let 
 us bow in silence before the august memory of that 
 great statesman, whose genius locked the lakes in 
 the embraces of the ocean — who made this State an 
 empire, and this City an emporium. When the 
 names of mighty conquerors shall be but dimly re- 
 membered, that of DeWitt Clinton will be as famil- 
 iar as household words, for he came not to destroy 
 but to construct, and the fruit of his labors will be 
 enjoyed by the latest posterity. 
 
 William Henderson succeeded DeWitt Clinton, 
 and was an excellent officer ; but of his personal his- 
 tory I have no knowledge. 
 
 Elias Hicks served as Master for the space of 
 fourteen years, which were not all successive. He 
 was very eminent, not only in Holland Lodge, but 
 also among the entire fraternity, and was long prom- 
 inent in the Grand Lodge and other exalted ma- 
 sonic bodies. I have read papers written by him 
 which evince excellent abilities, and are expressed 
 
Holland Lodge. 31 
 
 with remarkable purity of diction. The fact that 
 he was so long Master of this Lodge proves the 
 vast amount of Masonic labor he performed, and 
 the high opinion entertained of his qualifications. 
 As a statistician he was unsurpassed, and he had a 
 singular fondness for keeping a brief record of cur- 
 rent events, which he afterward published in alma- 
 nacs, of which several, formerly his property, and 
 abounding in manuscript notes, now belong to my- 
 self. Elias Hicks, the Mason, was a member of the 
 Episcopalian Church, and not related to Elias Hicks 
 the famous Quaker. He died in 1844; his funeral 
 expenses were paid by this Lodge without the 
 knowledge of his family, which fact I mention 
 only to show how highly he was esteemed. 
 
 John Jacob Astor was another of the most 
 prominent sons of Holland Lodge. On examining 
 the minutes, I have been surprised to see how reg- 
 ularly this wonderful man, whose enterprises were on 
 a scale of grandeur which dwarfed all rivalry, attend- 
 ed the meetings of the Lodge, and devoted himself 
 to its interests. While Master, he omitted the per- 
 formance of no duty, and he still took an active part 
 after he had passed the chair. We naturally associ- 
 ate anything but sentiment with the composition of 
 great merchants. But that Brother Astor acted in 
 the Lodge from a full heart, none can doubt who 
 read the history of his zealous Masonic career ; and 
 
32 Historical Sketches of 
 
 we find it recorded, in December, 1798, that "our 
 Worshipful Master then delivered a pathetic and 
 truly applicable discourse on his retirement from the 
 chair." Immediately afterward the Lodge passed a 
 resolution highly complimentary to their late Master, 
 and voted him a Past Master's jewel. 
 
 William Irving, Jr., was another of the early 
 Masters worthy of especial mention. He succeeded 
 Worshipful Brother Astor as Master in 1799, ^"d 
 served as such two full terms. He was one of the 
 editors of " Salmagundi," and author of all the poetry 
 contained in that humorous publication. He was 
 also the projector of " Knickerbocker's History of 
 New York," and wrote some portion of that veraci- 
 ous book, which, however, was remodeled and chiefly 
 written by his brother, Washington Irving. He be- 
 came a member of Congress, and sacrificed to politi- 
 cal life a literary career which promised great results. 
 Washington Irving often declared that his brother 
 William was the ablest man in the Irving family, 
 and to such praise little can be added. The sons of 
 William Irving are among our most respected fel- 
 low-citizens, and the social position of his daughter 
 is second to that of no lady in the land. 
 
 Alexander S. Glass, who was Master in 1806, 
 was a highly-respectable auctioneer, and a half 
 brother to Dr. Hugh McLean, who in the same 
 year was Junior Warden. 
 
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 JjJceness frarfv a^ I?a^u<^7r-e{?fyp& 7Jn. fA/'. possession, of hzs fii?m,}/ 
 
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 .I'mtemd a^-Qrduu ta act jf Coni;rcss AD IdSJ hf.f{fhrui^>-Fry d-Ca. ut thfi dirTu ^ffire of du: eUstrict cfiw't of l->i<. ^'.'uth^m dis/r:, .' .'f NY 
 
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Holland Lodge. 33 
 
 Nathan Sandford, who was Master in 1803, was 
 afterward Chancellor of this State, and his eminent 
 public career is familiarly known. His services to 
 the Lodge were various and efficient. 
 
 John Rodman, who was Master in 1804, was 
 District Attorney of this City and County in 18 14 
 and afterwards, and possessed a considerable polit- 
 ical influence. He removed to Florida, where I be- 
 lieve he ended his days. 
 
 He was succeeded by Worshipful Brother Adri- 
 an C. Van Slyqk, who was judge of a minor court. 
 Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society in 1805-6, 
 and doubtless a gentleman of Dutch descent. 
 
 Another brother of Washington Irving was also 
 Master of Holland Lodge. I allude to Ebenezer 
 Irving, who was elected in 1807. His administra- 
 tion was eminently successful, and his services to 
 the Lodge were most valuable. He still lives at 
 the late residence of his brother at Sunhyside, in 
 the enjoyment of a vigorous old age,, and is the 
 oldest Past Master, and probably the oldest past 
 member, of Holland Lodge now living. 
 
 The following extract from the minutes of 
 Brother Egbert, Secretary pro tem., shows how St. 
 John's day, Dec. 27, 1806, was kept immediately 
 after Worshipful Brother Ebenezer Irving was elect- 
 ed Master. 
 
 "The Lodge being called to refreshment, re- 
 3 
 
34 Historical Sketches of 
 
 ceived the Grand Lodge, who joined us in celebra- 
 ting the day with Masonic honors. An excellent 
 entertainment, provided by Mr. Dyde, feasted the 
 attending members, who, during this repast, received 
 deputations from the different sister Lodges in the 
 city, and sent them in return. General Moreau 
 and several members from La Loge de Sinc^rite 
 visited the Lodge in the course of the evening, 
 and were received with due honors. Social good 
 humor aided wit and song to enliven the table, and 
 the ' sweet spirit of the time ' gave a zest to the fes- 
 tival until, called from refreshment to labor, the 
 Lodge closed." 
 
 The Irving family also possessed another Wor- 
 shipful Master in the person of Mr. Peter Irving, 
 who occasionally visited Holland Lodge during the 
 time his brothers presided over it. 
 
 Abraham Lott was Master from 1818 to 1820, 
 both inclusive. I believe he was a merchant ; and, 
 considering his name, he ought to have been, and 
 probably was, a very righteous man. 
 
 Stephen Price, the most distinguished theatrical 
 manager this country has ever known, was Master 
 in 1822. He was an accomplished gentleman, and 
 held in high esteem by the best citizens. The 
 Grand Lodge was then about dividing, and the city 
 Lodges were in a rather languishing condition. 
 
Holland Lodge. tc 
 
 There are no minutes of Brother Price's administra- 
 tion extant, except City Hotel bills for those occa- 
 sional suppers which, in days of depression, doubt- 
 less served to preserve the cement of the Lodge. 
 
 Of the more recent Masters I shall say a few words 
 hereafter, and will now briefly allude to some of the 
 more prominent members who never passed the chair. 
 
 Some of our Secretaries are worthy of special 
 notice. 
 
 The name of Henry Remsen is entitled to our 
 highest respect. His services to the Lodge were 
 various and important, but especially in the capac- 
 ity of Secretary, the duties of which office he gra- 
 tuitously performed in an admirable manner. His 
 plain, strong, neat handwriting is more noticeable 
 than any other in the minutes, which were kept by 
 his hand alone for an entire year. He selected 
 the blackest of ink, and his pages are as legible 
 to-day as when first written. His was a model 
 recording style — terse and succinct, yet not spar- 
 ing the entry of important papers at full length. 
 His name is still worthily represented in the Lodge 
 by one of his immediate descendants. 
 
 Among other noticeable Secretaries were Broth- 
 er John F. Roorbach, who wrote a hand very like 
 Brother Remsen's ; Brother Oliver L. Ker, who kept 
 the minutes in German text ; Brother David Jones, 
 who wrote a large bold hand, and was occasionally 
 
2 6 Historical Sketches of 
 
 relieved by his brother, Samuel Jones, Jr., afterward 
 Chancellor, and the most learned of Chief Justices, 
 and whose chirography, in his days of eminence, was, 
 as I have reason to know, exactly the reverse of the 
 great clear engrossing hand which he has left on our 
 minutes. Other good Secretaries were Brothers 
 Hicks, Hoope, Fort, Stringham, Fay, Garr, McNeill, 
 and Nathan. 
 
 All these brethren gave their services to the 
 Lodge, and yet performed their duties regularly. 
 Others were elected Secretaries, but often managed 
 to impose their work on good-natured brethren, who 
 were willing to write. To those lazy people we are 
 indebted for the autographs of several distinguished 
 men who figured as " Secretary pro tem.," and our 
 drones are thus entitled to thanks for occasionally 
 neglecting their duty. 
 
 Of the Treasurers, the most prominent were 
 Brothers John G. Coster, William Wilmerding, and 
 Andrew Smyth, who were so universally popular 
 that I cannot help thinking they always paid the 
 Master's warrants without regard to the state of the 
 treasury. Brother Wilmerding's name is again found 
 in the Lodge by the recent election of his grandson 
 as a member. 
 
 The names of Henry Arnold Coster and John 
 Gerard Coster are naturally associated with that of 
 Astor, whom they introduced into the Lodge. Like 
 
'Ski^^trj-J Bogers 
 
Holland Lodge. 37 
 
 him, they were of German birth. Henry A. Coster 
 was one of the founders of the Lodge, and served 
 as its first Junior Warden. His brother, John G. 
 Coster, joined the Lodge at an early day, and be- 
 came a very active and influential member, filling 
 the important office of Treasurer for several years 
 to great acceptance, and often receiving the thanks 
 of the brethren. It is a matter for congratulation 
 that his son is at this time a member of the Lodge. 
 
 No less than eleven members of the Livingston 
 family, so famous in the Masonic annals of the State, 
 have belonged to Holland Lodge. One of them 
 was Edward Livingston, who holds a prominent 
 rank among American statesmen and jurists. He 
 achieved high distinction as Mayor of New York, 
 member of Congress, Secretary of State of the 
 United States, and Minister to France ; and he im- 
 mortalized himself by his celebrated Code of Louisi- 
 ana. On the night he was proposed, his eminent 
 elder brother. Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, then 
 Grand Master, and who served as such from 1784 
 until 1800, visited the Lodge. Edward Livingston 
 was our third Junior Warden, but never aspired to 
 any higher position. 
 
 I find also among the names of early members 
 that of John Wells, one of half a dozen among the 
 great lawyers of the past, whose names are still re- 
 membered. He was for many years Grand Secretary. 
 
38 Historical Sketches of 
 
 Governor Morgan Lewis joined in 1 789, but was 
 originally made a mason in another Lodge. 
 
 Judge Ogden Edwards became a member in 1806. 
 The historical name of Samuel Fraunces, the 
 swarthy publican and patriot, will be found in the 
 list of early members. He was the keeper of 
 Fraunces's Tavern (sometimes called Black Sam's), 
 at the corner of Broad and Pearl Streets, where Wash- 
 ington established his headquarters when the Brit- 
 ish troops evacuated the city in 1 783. It was here 
 that the immortal hero took that heart-breaking fare- 
 well of his officers, the recital of which yet draws 
 tears even from eyes unused to the melting mood. 
 Nearly all the old New York families have been 
 represented in Holland Lodge, its muster-roll includ- 
 ing the following among other well-known names, 
 viz. : Astor, Alsop, Anthon, Aborn, Auld, Benson, 
 Barretto, Barr, Beck, Baehr, Burling, Boyd, Barclay, 
 Bleecker, Brower, Bogert, Bache, Beekman, Bibby, 
 Bucknor, BuUus, Bailey, Bogardus, Brevoort, Beebe, 
 Bronson, Cammann, Clinton, Coster, Couenhoven, 
 Clarkson, Colden, Cruger, Codwise, Campbell, Cros- 
 by, Catlin, Cock, Conkling, Clark, Cozine, Cromwell, 
 Crocheron, Cochran, Chesterman, Desdoity, Dunder- 
 dale, DeWitt, Dudley, Duane, Davis, Dixon, De- 
 Peyster, Dunlap, Dunscomb, Delafield, Emmet, Ed- 
 wards, Egbert, Fleming, Fraunces, Fellows, Fay, 
 Fish, Ferguson, Foster, Gouverneur, Graves, Glass, 
 
^Toni J)a4/ZLArre^Lrpe bj U CA/Jt'^'ir 
 
\lUh.iy c JTaywara. JiO MilerS' tar 
 
 PPLAUNCE'S tavern. Cor of BROAD &PEARL STREK T S , 
 
Holland Lodge. 35 
 
 Gardenier, Gelston, Garr, Grinnell, Gibson, Goelet, 
 Gallagher, Graham, Hicks, Harrison, Hildreth, Hen- 
 derson, Haviland, Havens, Hoffman, Haydock, Hal- 
 sted, Herrick, Hunt, Hallett, Halleck, Irving, Jones, 
 Jarvis, Jay, Johnson, Ker, Knox, Kissam, King, 
 Kortright, Kemp, Kane, Lewis, Low, Lefferts, Liv- 
 ingston, LeRoy, Lovett, Ludlow, Lawrence, Lefifing- 
 well, Lee, Longworth, Lott, Lloyd, Lush, Lay, Lau- 
 rie, McEvers, Morris, Maverick, Murray, Mosier, 
 Maitland, Mason, Moor, Manley, Miller, Mott, Mc- 
 Lean, McVickar, Monroe, Mclntyre, Milnor, Na- 
 than, Norwood, Neilson, Ogilvie, Onderdonk, Os- 
 wald, Olcott, Ogden, Pintard, Pierpoint, Pell, Pauld- 
 ing, Paris, Piatt, Price, Perry, Remsen, Roosevelt, 
 Rutgers, Rapelye, . Robinson, Robertson, Rodman, 
 Rhind, Rogers, Rodgers, Rankin, Stagg, Suydam, 
 Swartwout, Sackett, Skidmore, Schermerhorn, Sea- 
 man, Sandford, Stringham, Shotwell, Stevens, Titus, 
 Thompson, Talman, Thorn, Treadwell, Townsend, 
 Varick, Van Voorhis, Vredenburg, Van Beuren, 
 Vermilye, Van Wagenen, Van Courtlandt, Van 
 Wyck, Van Ness, Varnum, Van Zandt, Valentine, 
 Wyckoff, Wells, Weston, Walton, Wilmerding, Whet- 
 ten, Wheaton, Watson,Ward, Woodhull, Whittemore, 
 Winthrop, Wyman, Wotherspoon, and Yates.' 
 
 ' A complete list of the members of Holland Lodge, from it's foun- 
 dation, will be found in the appendix. All the errors and omissions in 
 lists previously published with the By-Laws are there corrected. 
 
40 Historical Sketches of 
 
 On the minutes of the 14th of March, 1788, a 
 description of the Lodge seal (which was engraved or 
 sunk by Peter Maverick) is entered in these words : 
 
 " The following is a description of the seal of 
 the Holland Lodge, which, by the minutes of the 
 2d of November last, is ordered to be recorded, to 
 wit : 
 
 Arms. — Argent ; a book proper charged with a 
 compass and square. 
 
 Supporters. — On the dexter side an American 
 eagle, resting her sinister foot on a globe proper. On 
 the sinister a lion rampant, holding in his dexter paw 
 a drawn sword, in his sinister seven arrows, all proper. 
 
 Crest. — An eye, emitting rays, encircled with 
 thirteen stars. 
 
 Motto. — Deugd zy uw cieraad, in a scroll on 
 which the supporters stand. 
 
 Below the Motto. — ^Hands in Union. 
 
 Round the whole. — Hollandsche Loge Staat van 
 Nieuw York, 5787." 
 
 Such a seal, my brethren, unites Masonry with 
 Patriotism, and keeps old associations in fresh remem- 
 brance. Our Arms refer to God, the Master, and the 
 Craft. The allied American eagle and Dutch lion, 
 grasping the emblems of empire and conquest, fitting- 
 ly SUPPORT our arms. Our glorious Crest assembles 
 
Holland Lodge. 41 
 
 the thirteen States originally composing our country 
 around the All-Seeing eye, which emits bright rays 
 of that celestial light which illumines Masonry in a 
 special sense known to all the Sons of Light. Our 
 Motto admonishes us to make virtue "the immedi- 
 ate jewel of our souls." ' Hands in Union speak to 
 us of fidelity and brotherly love ; while our Title, 
 which encircles the whole, being written in the beloved 
 language of our founders, ever recalls to us the memo- 
 ries of just men made perfect. 
 
 I lately procured for the Lodge, from a son of Elias 
 Hicks, a water-color drawing, dated in 18 14, intended 
 as a design for a new seal, executed by Charles Cat- 
 ton, whose father was heraldic painter to George HI. 
 In 1852 a committee was appointed to search for the 
 coat of arms of the Lodge, and, if not found, to exe- 
 cute a new one. The report of this committee is lost, 
 but the result of their labors was the recommendation 
 of a Lodge medal, upon which the sum of three hun- 
 dred dollars was thrown away. As the coat of arms 
 on the medal and that drawn in water color by Mr. 
 Catton are precisely the same, except that in the med- 
 al the number of stars is reduced from thirteen to five, 
 it is probable that the committee saw Catton's water- 
 color design, or a copy of it. But, as the arms of the 
 
 ' This Legend is in very ancient Dutch, and signifies : " Let Virtue be 
 your Jewel," or " Be Virtue your Ornament." On the Lodge Medal it 
 is rendered in Latin, " Sit tibi Virtus Gemma." 
 
42 Historical Sketches of 
 
 Lodge were never lost, the design for the medal, which 
 is impressed on Lodge "notices and By-Laws, should 
 no lonarer be used.' Mr. Catton also tried his hand 
 
 o 
 
 at another variation of the Lodge arms in a pen-and- 
 ink drawing. This last has the following memoran- 
 dum on one side of it, written by Elias Hicks : 
 " Drawn by Charles Catton, Esq., in 1814, and intend- 
 ed for a new seal, to be sunk for Holland Lodge but 
 never executed." 
 
 It was a custom of the Lodge in early days never 
 to praise a brother in his own presence. When the 
 year's service was ended, the chief officers, one by one, 
 were requested to retire while votes of thanks were 
 passed, of which they were duly informed on being 
 called back, and to which they usually responded. 
 One invariable custom was to vote a Past Master's 
 Jewel to the Master at the end of his term of serv- 
 ice ; and while this ceremony was occurring the Mas- 
 ter was always requested to absent himself from the 
 Lodge Room. 
 
 The battle between the Dutch and English lan- 
 guages figures conspicuously on the minutes. The 
 Dutch was finally vanquished, but it died hard. 
 Under date of June 15, 1790, I find that one thou- 
 sand summonses for meetings were ordered in the 
 Dutch language, after taking the sense of the Lodge 
 
 ' Since the deli\'ery of this address, this suggestion has been adopted. 
 
Fnri! ifu: cii,ji./i..il /u.ii.'tli/u/ <5)' C'/uippel. HI, I'iic aaassssw/L , 
 Jo"irosori,.h-> ago, Pnli!i(.li;T,'-,, Ne.»Y(irk. 
 
 
 t/ar rli.' -.^nrhnrn di-yL-i,v .'/"./VHi-l^H!; 
 
Holland Lodge. 43 
 
 whether they should be in Dutch or English. De- 
 Witt Clinton, however, in the following year de- 
 clared war against the Dutch ; and on the i8th of 
 March his motion, that the summons be printed in 
 the English language, was carried by a small ma- 
 jority. Brother Cammann, however, with true 
 Dutch pluck, gave notice of a motion to reconsider, 
 and on April i, 1791, the Dutch mustered so strong- 
 ly that the Lodge reversed its former vote, and 
 ordered the summons to be printed in the Dutch 
 language. That was probably the last time the 
 blank summons (as the notice was then called) was 
 printed in Dutch. I will here copy several old 
 Lodge notices, addressed to Elias Hicks, one dated 
 in 1793, two in 1796, one in 1802, and all in Eng- 
 lish. That of 1 793 is in these words : 
 
 " Brother : 
 
 " On Friday evening next, there will be 
 a meeting of the Holland Lodge, at their Lodge 
 Room in Crown Street, at 7 o'clock, when your at- 
 tendance is requested. 
 
 " By order of the W. M. 
 
 " OLIVER L. KER, Secretary. 
 " New York, April 30, A. L., 5793." 
 
 Perhaps this was the last blank printed notice in 
 which the Lodge was styled " TAe" Holland Lodge. 
 
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 The next in order is remarkable from the fact 
 that it is a beautiful specimen of copperplate en- 
 graving, written by Brother Milns, and engraved by 
 Brother Rollinson. It runs thus : 
 
 " Brother : 
 
 " On Friday evening next, there will be 
 a meeting of Holland Lodge, at their room in Lib- 
 erty Street, at 7 o'clock, when your punctual at- 
 tendance is requested. 
 
 " By order of the W. M. 
 
 " JOHN HOOPE, Jr., Secretary. 
 " New York, i6th May, A. L., 5796." 
 
 The next is a dingy little printed form, in these 
 words : 
 
 " Brother : 
 
 " You are requested to attend a meeting 
 of Holland Lodge, on Friday evening next, at 6 
 o'clock. 
 
 " By order of the W. M. 
 
 " JOHN HOOPE, Jr., Secretary. 
 " New York, 14th December, A. L., 5796." 
 
 Under this is the following manuscript note : 
 
 " N. B. — The election of officers, which will then 
 take place, together with other business, requires 
 punctuality." 
 
Holland Lodge. 45 
 
 The fourth and last of these notices establishes a 
 fact I have never doubted since our lamented Broth- 
 er, Charles A. Clinton, presented to us the jewel 
 worn by his father, namely : that Holland Lodge 
 formerly conferred the Mark Master's Degree. The 
 evidence of this in the minutes is not absolute. In 
 one place " Holland Mark Lodge " is mentioned as a 
 tenant of the Lodge, and in another it is mentioned 
 that Brother Hallett paid £1 4s. for a mark. But 
 the postscript to this notice settles the question : 
 
 " New York, Ann. Lu., 5802. 
 " Brother : 
 
 " You are requested to attend an extra 
 meeting of Holland Lodge, on Saturday evening 
 next, at 7 o'clock. 
 
 " By order of the W. M. 
 "JOHN B. STRINGHAM, Secretary. 
 "A Mark Lodge will be opened!' 
 
 The jewel, or rather medal, of Clinton is of silver, 
 and in form circular. On one side are the initials 
 " D. W. C," under which are the words " Holland 
 Lodge." On the reverse is the mark, composed of 
 the usual cabalistic letters, and the ducal Clinton 
 crest. 
 
 The minutes of the Mark Lodge were doubtless 
 kept separately, but they no longer exist, and it does 
 
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 not appear how that body prior to 181 7 acquired its 
 Charter. Since I first saw the Lodge notice of 1802, 
 I have found in the New York Directory of 1794 
 the following entry : " Holland Mark Lodge. The 
 same officers by the Constitution as preside in Hol- 
 land Lodge." I have also seen a Charter to Hol- 
 land Mark Lodge granted in 181 7 by the Grand 
 Chapter of this State.' 
 
 Extra meetings were very frequent, and the 
 same kinds of business were transacted at them as 
 at the regular meetings, without distinction. It was 
 not unfrequent in cases of emergency to ballot for 
 a candidate on the night of his nomination and give 
 him at the same meeting the degrees by dispensa- 
 tion, which is a manner of making Masons at sight 
 not now practised. 
 
 On some occasions the Lodge met in " Commit- 
 tee of the whole," a proceeding now obsolete. Ini- 
 tiation was allowed at twenty years of age, by a 
 special regulation of the Lodge which would now 
 be unlawful. All the regular business was trans- 
 acted while the Lodge was open in the first degree. 
 
 The old Knickerbockers excelled in the art of 
 
 ' Appendix D. By reference to the Address delivered by me before 
 Holland Lodge, March 12, 1878, and published with this edition of the 
 Address of 186 1, it will be seen that the history of the original Holland 
 Mark Lodge is no longer unknown. Holland Lodge now possesses 
 its records from 1788 to 1815, and also its Book of Marks. 
 
Holland Lodge. ^i 7 
 
 good living ; and, at a period not remote, the New 
 York ladies were not content to regale themselves 
 at home on a primitive diet while their husbands 
 dined down town. Middle-aged people remember 
 when men dined at home with their wives, as all 
 Christian men ought still to do. Numerous pub- 
 lications dating about the commencement of the 
 present century prove that New York had long 
 been famed for its hospitality. In those days the 
 poisonous dram of the tap-room was not a substi- 
 tute for the social glass of the table. While over- 
 indulgence was of rare occurrence, and sternly con- 
 demned, the good things of this life were not neg- 
 lected, and the fruits of good living were everywhere 
 visible. The very dominies, according to the por- 
 trait painters, were outwardly but indifferent speci- 
 mens of ghostly men, while the publicans and sin- 
 ners of the world at large waxed fat and rubicund 
 beyond precedent. In the early days, and until 
 about 1830, Holland Lodge, acting in sympathy 
 with the prevailing custom, held frequent social 
 meetings. The minutes and papers of the Lodge 
 are full of information as to these entertainments, 
 a portion of which may interest you. 
 
 On the minutes of the 23d of May, 1788, is 
 this entry: 
 
 " The report of the Committee respecting the 
 furnishing of the necessary wines for the Lodge 
 
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 was read, and on motion it was agreed that the 
 said Committee, to wit : Brothers Benson, Coster, 
 and Low, be empowered to agree with Brother Beek- 
 man for all such wines as the Lodge may want." 
 
 In 1 79 1, the Lodge resolved to buy their wines 
 of Brother Abrams. 
 
 In 1794, Brother David Jones offered a resolu- 
 tion asserting the exclusive right of the Stewards 
 to furnish wines and provisions for the Lodge. 
 
 In the spring of 1796, the standing committee 
 reported that " the Stewards' charges for wine alone, 
 since the ist of January, amounted to the enormous 
 sum of £58 10," or $146 25 — ^which would not be a 
 large sum in these days for supplying one hundred 
 gentlemen with good wine for four months. In 1797 
 Brother William Irving moved that the Treasurer be 
 empowered to purchase a quarter cask of wine for 
 the use of the Lodge, and it was unanimously car- 
 ried. From this small purchase it is clear that the 
 Lodge thought more of the quality than of the quan- 
 tity of its beverage.' 
 
 After the Lodge came into the hands of a new 
 generation, the customs of the fathers were gradually 
 
 ' It is evident from the bills of Brother Chester Jennings, of the City 
 Hotel, (receipted by the well-known Willard,) all of which I have care- 
 fully examined, that the amount of wine consumed at the little suppers 
 of the Lodge was not only moderate, but decidedly small. At the 
 stated entertainments, which occurred twice a year, the consumption 
 of wine was perhaps equal to that of similar festivities of benevolent 
 societies of the present day. 
 
Holland Lodge. 49 
 
 departed from, and now, in obedience to the senti- 
 ments and habits of the age, frequent feasting has 
 been wholly abandoned. 
 
 It was the fashion in the early days to present 
 the Lodge with glass and porcelain, which indicates 
 that their table furniture was their own property. 
 Under date of December 18, 1789, is this record: 
 
 " Brother John Pintard, in the name and on 
 behalf of Brother John M. Pintard, requested the 
 Lodge to accept of a set of glass, consisting of 
 eight quart and six pint decanters, five pair of large 
 tumblers, and twelve dozen wine glasses, which he 
 had had manufactured at Baltimore for the purpose 
 of presenting to them, with the name of the Lodge 
 inscribed on one side, and a Masonic emblem on 
 the other side, of each piece." The proportion of 
 fourteen decanters and one hundred and forty-four 
 wine glasses, to ten tumblers, indicates that there was 
 already a sufficient supply of the latter on hand. On 
 the I St of June, 1792, Brother Hodgkinson present- 
 ed " two large bowls from China, with the arms of 
 the Lodge and Masonic devices inscribed thereon." 
 The precise use made of those two large bowls 
 does not appear of record ; but, from the Masonic 
 devices on them, I cannot doubt that they played 
 an important and mysterious part under the aus- 
 pices of the Junior Warden. 
 
 On the 24th of June, 1797, Brother Elias Hicks 
 4 
 
50 Historical Sketches of 
 
 presented " six china mugs, elegantly ornamented 
 with the arms of the Lodge," but for what purpose 
 Brother Hicks designed those mugs nowhere ap- 
 pears in the archives. 
 
 But the hospitable qualities of Holland Lodge 
 shone resplendently on the high festivals of St. John. 
 While reading the minutes, I was at first quite be- 
 wildered to see how often " St. John's day " came 
 around, but I soon found that as St. John the Bap- 
 tist and St. John the Evangelist were perfect par- 
 allels in Masonry, so the Lodge, with perfect im- 
 partiality, called both these festivals " St. John's day," 
 and feasted, without invidious distinctions, in honor 
 of the one on the 24th of June, and of the other 
 on the 27th of December. And a right good time 
 did they have on those festival days. Some favor- 
 ite Lodge, such as St. Andrew's, or Warren, or 
 Howard, or Clinton, generally united with them, 
 and the Grand Lodge officers were always invited, 
 and always attended. It may interest our present 
 Grand officers, some of whom are here present, to 
 know that the cost of dining a member of the 
 Grand Lodge by contract in 1803 was four dollars. 
 In one of the reports, under date of January 5th, 
 1803, I find this statement: "Cost of dining six 
 members of the Grand Lodge, four dollars each, 
 and two coaches, four dollars each, — $32." Consid- 
 ering the size of the city in 1803, when Chatham 
 
Holland Lodge. c \ 
 
 street was in the fields, the charge for coaches in- 
 dicates that exorbitant fares are no recent invention. 
 
 Every festival of St. John was an era of good 
 feeling. A committee of Holland Lodge was sent 
 around to greet all the other Lodges celebrating 
 the day, and committees came from the other 
 Lodges to return the greeting. The barbarism of 
 imprisonment for debt then existed in full force, 
 and I find touching allusions to dinners provided 
 on St. John's day for "the poor debtors in gaol," 
 which were always "gratefully received." May all 
 Free-Masons ever sympathise with the oppressed, 
 and abhor human bondage in every form. 
 
 Of speech-making there was no end. The pa- 
 tience of the Lodge in listening to speeches was 
 indeed exemplary If, my brethren, you think I am 
 occupying too much of your time this evening, I 
 pray you to remember your intrepid predecessors 
 who on June 24th, 1788, listened in their own 
 Lodge room to " an elegant oration " by the Wor- 
 shipful Master Vanden Broek, and immediately af- 
 terwards " attended at the City Tavern, where St. 
 Andrew's Lodge were assembled," where an oration 
 was also delivered by Brother James Tillary, a mem- 
 ber of that Lodge. Nor was this an accidental cir- 
 cumstance. Brother Cammann and Brother John 
 Gerard Coster had made an adroit attempt at the 
 previous meeting to put off Master Vanden Brock's 
 
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 oration to a more convenient season ; but they found 
 only one backer, the majority having made up their 
 minds to hear both orations on the same day at all 
 hazards. No casualty resulted, as the Holland men 
 got back to their Lodge at four o'clock, and then 
 dined, sending and receiving congratulatory deputa- 
 tions as usual. The time consumed in dining on 
 that day was just two hours, dinner commencing 
 at four, and the Lodge opening at six. Perhaps 
 the brevity of the sitting was necessary, because 
 deputations were appointed and received in open 
 Lodge. 
 
 Permit me, brethren, to say a word in behalf of 
 reviving the semi-annual festivities on the days of 
 the two Saints John. It is very well to abolish 
 frequent little suppers, and I do not desire to see 
 them revived. But the festival days which belong 
 especially to the fraternity should not be ignored, 
 and they cannot be, save at the expense of the in- 
 stitution. These re-unions do much to strengthen 
 the bonds of brotherly love among us, and those 
 days are the appropriate occasions for Masons to 
 meet together in social communion. 
 
 The Lodge was so fortunate as to possess a 
 Bard and a musical composer. Brother Samuel 
 Low, who filled many influential offices, was always 
 ready to contribute an ode or other poem when 
 requested by the Lodge. The minutes of 1 789 dis- 
 
Holland Lodge. 53 
 
 close that Brother John Loudon while on military 
 duty was killed by the accidental discharge of a 
 musket, and that Worshipful Master Vanden Broek 
 thereupon " delivered an oration." On the i6th of 
 October, it was ordered "that the piece of music 
 written by Brother Low, performed on the occasion 
 of Brother Loudon's death, be entered on the min- 
 utes " — and I find it entered as follows : 
 
 " Our friend is gone ! This solemn hour. 
 Too well describes, what we deplore ; 
 This silence and these weeds attest. 
 What virtues warmed his manly breast. 
 
 " Our Brother's gone ! Ye, who revere 
 Masonic worth, ah, drop a tear ! 
 The tear of grief — your friend is slain ! 
 The tear of Joy — he lives again. 
 
 " 'Twas love the fatal weapon aimed. 
 Mysterious heav'n its offspring claimed ; 
 From God his gentle soul he drew, 
 To God his gentle spirit flew. 
 
 " Dear Loudon, much lamented youth ! 
 Ah, teach our souls this awful truth. 
 Soon each of us must fall like you ; 
 But shall we rise triumphant too ? 
 
 " We shall, if first like you, we place 
 Our feet on virtue's steadfast base. 
 We then in Peace our eyes shall close, 
 And rise, we trust, as you arose." 
 
 A greater poet than Brother Low, the author 
 of " Fanny," became a member in 1815; but un- 
 
54 Historical -^^ketches of 
 
 fortunately he has contributed nothing, to improve 
 our defective poetical literature. 
 
 The worthy . Brother, who composed the music 
 proper, was named Van Hagen, and was the father 
 of the infant prodigy, who composed the consecra- 
 tion march ; and it is written in July, 1790, that 
 "in consideration of Mr. Van Hagen's services in 
 setting to music Brother Low's ode, he be paid a 
 sum not less than his initiation fee." It is much 
 to be regretted that the musical compositions of 
 Brother Van Hagen and his infant son have not 
 come down to our time. 
 
 The Lodge was often honored by the visits of 
 eminent Masons. On the minutes of the 17th of 
 October, 1788, are mentioned the names of the 
 Right Worshipful Grand Master, Brother Chancel- 
 lor Livingston, Brother Soderstrom, Consul Gen- 
 eral of Sweden, and Brother Baron de Steuben. 
 On that occasion it is recorded that " the Wor- 
 shipful Master made an address to the Right Wor- 
 shipful the Grand Master, who honored him with 
 a very polite and suitable answer." 
 
 On the 5th of February, 1 790, the name of 
 " General Jackson " appears among the visitors. I 
 have no doubt that this was Andrew Jackson, who 
 in that year was appointed Attorney General of 
 the District of Tennessee by President Washing- 
 ton. Jackson probably visited the city (the seat 
 
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 Jnhnsoii.riy &■ C-o. PiLblisliers. New /ork 
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 (Ham i^av^ss^ytctai^ m fh« "HCTrTco-k OilraBll 
 
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Holland Lodge. 55 
 
 of the Federal Government at that time) in order 
 to receive his commission and instructions. 
 
 Baron Steuben was an honorary member of the 
 Lodge, and took part occasionally in the proceed- 
 ings. He is mentioned on the 6th of February, 
 1789, as a member of the Lodge, by the title of 
 Brother Past Master Baron Steuben, and he, on 
 that evening, seconded the nomination of the Hon. 
 Charles Jones as a candidate. He was, on the 
 same evening, appointed a member of a committee 
 to communicate to President Washington that he 
 had been elected an honorary member of Holland 
 Lodge. 
 
 On the festival of St. John the EvangeUst, in 
 1788, the Baron dined with the Lodge, and I 
 know you will Uke to hear the remarks he then 
 made. I quote from the minutes, then kept in 
 the clear and beautiful handwriting of Brother 
 Henry Remsen : 
 
 " Baron Steuben addressed the chair in French, 
 of which the following is a translation : 
 
 " Worshipful Master, Brethren Senior and Junior 
 Wardens, Officers, Past Masters, Masters, Fellow 
 Crafts, and Entered Apprentices of the Lodge : 
 
 "The favorable reception with which you have 
 honored me is sufficient to ensure my most lively 
 acknowledgments. But sentiments more sublime, 
 
56 Historical Sketches of 
 
 more equal to yourselves, engage me to express 
 the veneration with which I have contemplated the 
 organization and government of your Lodge, under 
 the direction of your Worshipful Master. 
 
 " Veteran of the royal art, I flatter myself that 
 I am acquainted with Masonry, and able to judge 
 of the propriety of working, without being deceived 
 by the performance of external ceremonies. 
 
 " Your working bears the stamp of true Ma- 
 sonry. It is decorated with wisdom, strength, and 
 beauty. The choice of your materials evinces the 
 perfection of the building under your care. 
 
 "With great satisfaction I see the rapid progress 
 you have made. Your zeal and perseverance will 
 crown you with full success. 
 
 " My ardent wish will always be, that this Lodge 
 may be as flourishing as its virtues are respectable." 
 
 " To this address the Worshipful Master, Vanden 
 Broek, made an extempore reply in the same lan- 
 guage, of which the following is a translation sub- 
 stantially : 
 
 " Worshipful Brother : 
 
 " The very polite and eloquent address, with 
 which you have honored Holland Lodge, manifests 
 those noble virtues which characterize a Mason, 
 and which adorn and distinguish you. 
 
 " It affords me great pleasure to learn that the 
 proceedings of Holland Lodge are approved by a 
 
Holland Lodge. 57 
 
 Brother of so much experience, and so well ac- 
 quainted with true Masonry. 
 
 " Knowing the rectitude of your heart, and hav- 
 ing experienced your zeal for the welfare of the 
 craft, we were as much influenced by sentiments of 
 respect and attachment for you, as by a desire to 
 add to the dignity of our Lodge, when we did our- 
 selves the honor to elect you an honorary member. 
 Your ready acceptance assures us that the welfare 
 of the Lodge is your sincere wish. 
 
 " Permit me to recommend Holland Lodge 
 and every member thereof to your care and pro- 
 tection, and be persuaded that every mark of kind- 
 ness shown to us will be acknowledged with senti- 
 ments of gratitude and veneration. 
 
 " May the great Architect of the universe bestow 
 on you his most precious blessings. May you reap 
 a reward due to your virtues and faithful services, 
 and at the end of a life which has been eminently 
 useful to society and honorable to yourself, may you 
 leave this world for a better, uttering these words, 
 ' Farewell, my friends ; I go to our God — my strug- 
 gle is at an end — I leave this earth with a joyful 
 heart, to meet the great Architect above.' " ' 
 
 The earliest initiation fee was £6 8, or $16, and 
 the earliest affiliation or adjoining fee was £112, 
 
 ' Dr^lincourt. 
 
58 Historical Sketches of 
 
 or $4. The rates were gradually raised until now 
 the initiation fee is $50, and the affiliation fee $30. 
 Of course the Lodge expenses were far lighter in 
 those days than now. Brother Brooks charged at 
 first only £25 rent for the Crown Street Lodge 
 room, and afterwards advanced the rent (giving ad- 
 ditional accommodations) to ^32, or $80, for as long 
 as the Lodge chose to hire. In February, 1800, it 
 was deemed extravagant to expend $260 on decor- 
 ating and refitting the Lodge room, and a commit- 
 tee reported that the Tontine City Tavern, in Broad- 
 way, was about to be sold, and perhaps room could 
 be there obtained for the Grand Lodge, Holland 
 Lodge, and Howard Lodge. From Liberty Street, 
 however, the Lodge went to the establishment of 
 Brother Weeks, in Cedar Street. The amount of rent 
 paid him was, at the highest period, $90, being $10 
 more than he proposed to take. A certain Brother 
 Becannon, in 1802, made splendid proposals to build 
 a Lodge room " at the head of Frankfort Street," 
 but his scheme does not appear to have been rea- 
 lized.' 
 
 ^ Note in 1878. — It is possible that St. John's Hall resulted from these 
 proposals. It stood in Frankfort Street, opposite the " Pewter Mug,'' 
 and the ground it stood upon is now covered by a part of French's 
 Hotel. Brother Bill having suggested this Hall, as that referred to, I 
 have made inquiries, and ascertained that it was dedicated in 1803, and 
 that St. John's Lodge No. i held meetings there in 1804. I am in- 
 debted to Brother F. G. Tisdall for the date of dedication. 
 

Holland Lodge. 59 
 
 The greatest obstacle in the way of the early 
 success of the Lodge was the non-payment of dues. 
 In March, 1804, the standing committee did indeed 
 say "the flourishing and prosperous condition of 
 Holland Lodge, when contrasted with others, which 
 but a short time past ranked as successful rivals, is 
 a circumstance of grateful satisfaction ; " but in that 
 very year the financial embarrassment, resulting from 
 the non-payment of dues, was very serious. Indeed, 
 the non-payment of dues has always been a great 
 evil in nearly all Lodges, and among our papers I 
 have found a notice from Hiram Lodge, containing 
 the names of loi members suspended at one meet- 
 ing for the non-payment of dues. That Lodge was 
 undoubtedly strengthened by such wholesale slaugh- 
 ter, for the remaining members, who had been keep- 
 ing up the Lodge for the benefit of those who did 
 not pay, knew what they could rely upon, and made 
 a positive saving of $50 per annum in Grand Lodge 
 dues alone. 
 
 I think this subject so important that, in view 
 of your lavish donations of dues, I cannot forbear 
 to lay before you the following remarks, made by 
 Worshipful Brother Pintard, on the occasion of his 
 installation, December 24, 1790: 
 
 " As Masonry, like every other society, owes its 
 support in a great measure to its funds, a punctual 
 
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 discharge of the dues of the Lodge will no doubt 
 be observed by all its members. The payment of 
 these dues will afford the more pleasure when we 
 contemplate the valuable purposes to which they 
 are applied, to constitute a fund for charitable uses, 
 which is applied to the relief of our poor and in- 
 digent brethren. What nobler motive can exact a 
 punctual compliance with this part of our duty .? 
 In the discharge of it, how transcendent must be 
 our feelings when we reflect on the comfort and 
 happiness we may bestow on our suffering fellow 
 creatures ! " 
 
 The color of Holland Lodge regalia is generally 
 supposed to have been allowed by special dispensa- 
 tion of the Grand Lodge. But such is not the fact. 
 On the 1 8th of April, 1800, on motion of Brother 
 Rodman, it was resolved that the hangings of the 
 Lodge be changed from green to orange. This is 
 another fatal blow at our mythical friend and patron, 
 the Prince of Orange, whose color was supposed to 
 have been originally adopted by the Lodge. No 
 color is politically so antagonistic to orange as 
 green, the original color of the Lodge regalia. The 
 color adopted in the place of green was made fast 
 by being inserted in the by-laws, and the material 
 to be used was ordered to be satin. But on the 6th 
 of March, 18 10, the by-laws were amended thus : " In 
 
Holland Lodge. 6i 
 
 article third, section two, strike out hangings of 
 orange - colored satin, and insert, orange - colored 
 hangings " — thus leaving the material optional. 
 
 The massive jewels of the Lodge are of solid 
 silver, beautifully designed and wrought, and by- 
 many are supposed to have come from Paris. They 
 were really, as I find by consulting Brother Win- 
 throp's vouchers, made by Brother Gerardus Boyce, 
 formerly a member of the Lodge. 
 
 A more merciful and forbearing body of gentle- 
 men than the early members of Holland Lodge 
 never existed. Yet they sometimes lost patience. 
 In January, 1797, they discharged their Tiler because 
 " his engagements were too numerous and extensive." 
 But that was trifling compared with their treatment 
 of Brother Boss, who tiled the Lodge in 1807. On 
 motion of Brother Varick, seconded by Brother 
 Longworth, the Worshipful Master was " required 
 at the next meeting of Holland Lodge, publicly 
 to reprimand Brother Boss for his indecent perse- 
 verance in ebriety and consequent neglect of duty." 
 As one of the witty Irvings was then Master of 
 the Lodge, it is impossible to exaggerate the sever- 
 ity of Brother Boss's punishment, had it been in- 
 flicted. 
 
 Pounds struggled hard for several years jto 
 maintain the mastery over dollars; but at the be- 
 ginning of the century dollars prevailed, and the 
 
62 Historical Sketches of 
 
 colonial currency was gradually disused on the 
 minutes. 
 
 With the year 1809 began the dramatic era of 
 Holland Lodge. Stephen Price, the eminent man- 
 ager, was then admitted a member, and his partner, 
 Edmund Simpson, and those distinguished actors, 
 Thomas Hilson, Thomas A. Cooper and John H. 
 Wheatley, soon became members. John Blake, 
 Reinagle and Holland, not actors, but all connected 
 with the Park Theatre, also followed. Gilfert had 
 joined as early as 1 790. William Dunlap, the dra- 
 matic historian, joined in 18 10. 
 
 In the minutes of the loth of April, 1789, we 
 are told: "The Worshipful Master reported that 
 the committee appointed to adjust the rank of the 
 respective Lodges in this city, had met and fixed 
 it agreeably to the dates of their warrants in the 
 following manner, viz. : 
 
 St. John's Lodge, No. 2. First. 
 Royal Arch, Independent, No. 8. Second. 
 St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 169. Third. 
 Jerusalem Lodge, No. 210. Fourth. 
 St. Patrick's Lodge, No. 212. Fifth. 
 St. John's Lodge, No. 4. Sixth. 
 Hiram Lodge, No. 5. Seventh. 
 Holland Lodge. Eighth." 
 
 It would perhaps shock us in these days to hear 
 
Holland Lodge. 63 
 
 that any Lodge had invested any part of its funds in 
 lottery tickets. For many years, however, Holland 
 Lodge, agreeably to the custom of the times, occa- 
 sionally bought tickets in lotteries instituted for be- 
 nevolent objects. The minutes show only one prize 
 drawn, which was £8 16, or $22, in 1796. But I 
 possess an old almanac formerly the property of 
 Elias Hicks, in which he has noted the following 
 prizes drawn by the Lodge, viz. : 
 
 2 Prizes $1,000, $2,000 
 
 2 " 50, 100 
 
 95 " 10, 950 
 
 3.050 
 15 percent. 457 50 
 
 M,592 50. 
 
 No single Lodge in the State has furnished so many 
 Grand Officers as Holland. It has had two Grand 
 Masters, one of whom held the office for the space of 
 fourteen years ; three Deputy Grand Masters, one of 
 whom is the present eminent incumbent of that of- 
 fice ; ' four Senior Grand Wardens, and three Junior 
 Grand Wardens, being all it can ever have, as the mem- 
 
 ' Since this address was delivered, Deputy G. M. Crane has been 
 elected M. W..G. M. of Masons of the State of New York; making the 
 third Grand Master chosen from Holland Lodge. 
 
64 Historical Sketches of 
 
 bers of the city Lodges, under the compact of 1827, 
 and the present constitution, are excluded from those 
 offices ; and four Grand Treasurers. But this Lodge 
 has particularly excelled in furnishing Grand Secreta- 
 ries. The state organization of the Grand Lodge 
 dates nominally from 1783, but substantially from 
 1 784, in which year Robert R. Livingston was elected 
 Grand Master. Between 1 787, when Holland Lodge 
 was chartered, and 1825, a period of thirty-eight years, 
 it furnished the Grand Secretaries for no less than 
 thirty-one years. John Abrams was Grand Secretary 
 eight years, Reinier Jan Vanden Broek one year, John 
 Wells, the celebrated lawyer, twelve years, and EHas 
 Hicks ten years. In 1849, the Deputy Grand Master, 
 Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer, being all the 
 elective Grand Offices to which the city was entitled, 
 were chosen from Holland Lodge. 
 
 The charities of the Lodge have ever been most 
 liberal. In 1799, I find a single donation of $500 to 
 the widow Hallett ; and, in a year when yellow fever 
 was particularly fatal, a considerable sum was given for 
 the relief of the Masonic brethren in New Orleans. 
 Subscriptions by individual brethren for charitable 
 objects in addition to the Lodge donations have also 
 been on a very liberal scale, often exceeding $100 at 
 a single collection. To an aged widow, whose hus- 
 band's father had been half a century ago a member 
 of the Lodge, has been for many years allowed an an- 
 
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 nuity of $96. Sums of $100 and upwards have been 
 frequently donated, and upwards of $100 per annum 
 are regularly subscribed to the Masonic board of relief. 
 The donations between $10 and $50 are almost in- 
 numerable. 
 
 The Lodge at one time possessed a charity-fund 
 amounting to several thousands of dollars. But in 
 1826 about half of it was lost by bad investments. A 
 large part of the Lodge funds has been expended in 
 fitting up several lodge rooms, of which three, fitted 
 up in Broadway within the past six years, have been 
 productive of serious loss. 
 
 The practice of accommodating other Masonic 
 bodies in its Lodge-room is not of recent origiru On 
 the 1 8th of March, 1791, the Lodge was obliged to 
 refuse accommodations to its most intimate associate, 
 St. Andrew's Lodge, assigning as a reason that it had 
 already for tenants the Grand Lodge, the Grand 
 Steward's Lodge, Holland Mark Lodge, Washington 
 Chapter and the Knights Templar. 
 
 The following extract from the minutes of March 
 the 4th, 1 791, relating to this subject, is interesting : 
 
 " The Worshipful Master suggested to the Lodge, 
 that, at the last meeting of the Grand Lodge, it was 
 represented that an unexpected charge attending the 
 meetings of that Lodge, and of the Grand Steward's 
 Lodge, had been made for the use of the room at the 
 
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66 Historical Sketches of 
 
 Coffee House which they now occupy. That from 
 the frequent meetings of those Lodges, the expense 
 became burthensome, and so diminished the funds of 
 the Grand Steward's Lodge, out of which those ex- 
 penses were paid, as in a great measure to defeat the 
 object of said Lodge by lessening their abihty to re- 
 lieve such indigent Brethren or their widows as ap- 
 ply to them for succor. That he had thereupon assert- 
 ed, if application should be made to Holland Lodge, 
 he doubted not that they would cheerfully grant the 
 use of their room to the said two Lodges. All which 
 he now laid before the Lodge for their consideration. 
 " Whereupon it was 
 " Resolved, unanimously, that the use of Holland 
 Lodge room be granted 'to the Grand Lodge, and to 
 the Grand Steward's Lodge, to 'hold their meetings 
 therein at such times as shall not interfere with the 
 meetings of this Lodge, they paying for such fire-wood 
 and candles as may be consumed for their own accom- 
 modation." 
 
 What room rent did in 1791, mileage and per 
 diem bid fair to effect in our own day. The charity 
 funds are absorbed in annually gathering together in 
 this city an unwieldy body of Masons, whose expenses 
 literally " devour widows' houses." Would it not be 
 wiser to improve upon the Grand Lodge devised 
 in 1 71 7, by further curtailing representation? I am 
 
Holland Lodge. 67 
 
 aware that some of the innovations of that Grand 
 Lodge are called landmarks ; but a Masonic landmark 
 only seventy years older than this Lodge is such only 
 in name. It rather indicates where a landmark has 
 been removed than where one exists. It was a land- 
 mark that all masons should have a right, as individu- 
 als, to go to the general assembly and elect a Grand 
 Master. But when that landmark, set by our fathers, 
 was necessarily removed, its substitute, viz., the right 
 of all Masters and Wardens to be members of the 
 Grand Lodge, did not become a landmark. If it did, 
 it may as properly be removed in its turn as that 
 which it supplanted. 
 
 The liberal and catholic spirit of Holland Lodge 
 in the olden time cannot fail to excite the admiration 
 of all who peruse its records. Unostentatious, free 
 from all taint of snobbish presumption or affectation, 
 it cultivated the goodwill and respect of the entire 
 fraternity. When in October, 1794, one Brother 
 Boutillier sent in a communication stating that it was 
 reported he would be excluded from the Lodge, wor- 
 thy John Abrams offered a resolution which was 
 adopted, declaring " that no person giving sufficient 
 proof of being a regularly made Mason is refused ad- 
 mittance into this Lodge, unless prohibited from it by 
 a superior power." A similar spirit has ever been 
 manifested and cherished. 
 
 Between September 4th and November 6th, 1 795, 
 
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 there was no stated meeting, owing to the yellow fe- 
 ver, which in those days frequently visited New York. 
 Several members of the Lodge died of that terrible 
 malady, and their names were ordered to be inscribed 
 on the monument which was kept in the Lodge room. 
 The fever prevailed again from August 3d to Septem- 
 ber 9th, 1 798, and five of the members died. Again, 
 in 1799, 1803, and 1805, the yellow fever visited this 
 city in a malignant form. Its last visit was in 1823, 
 a year but too memorable to the fraternity for a very 
 different reason." 
 
 The resignation of the Master's chair is not 
 known in these days; but in June, 1799, Elias Hicks 
 resigned the Mastership. 
 
 The proceedings of June 3, 1800, on the death 
 of Washington, are very interesting, but want of 
 time forbids more than a bare allusion to them." 
 
 The first time the entry of the reading of the 
 minutes was made was in 1 807 ; and the first 
 Secretary who regularly signed the minutes was 
 Joseph D. Fay, the father of our late Minister to 
 
 ' The bad year was 1822, but I think there were cases in 1823, and 
 that some member of the Lodge died in 1823 of the disease. Watson 
 says ; " In 1822, it appeared in the North River side, not, however, of ex- 
 tensive mortality, And being much restricted to a locality in and about 
 Rector street, the inhabitants were generally contented to open offices 
 and stores and do their business in Greenwich village." The Lodge 
 lost valuable members by the fevers of 1791, 1798, 1803, and 1805. The 
 fever of 1822 broke out close to the most fashionable part of the city, and 
 for that reason inspired more terror than the more serious fever of 1798. 
 
 ^ See Appendix G. 
 
Holland Lodge. 69 
 
 Switzerland. The early minutes did not give the 
 names of Brethren attending with any fullness. 
 The attending officers were generally named, and 
 it was added, " and a respectable number of mem- 
 bers," or "a few members and visitors." 
 
 As lately as 1808, Dr. John Camacho, a " mod- 
 ern " Mason, was healed, and made an "Ancient 
 York Mason." At that time, in England, the so 
 miscalled modern Masons were by far the more 
 numerous and powerful branch of the fraternity. 
 
 In 1809, as appears by a circular of the Grand 
 Lodge, there were twenty-two city Lodges. 
 
 On June 19, 18 10, the Master stated that he 
 had been robbed of a trunk containing the warrant 
 of the Lodge, and that he had obtained a dispen- 
 sation from Right Worshipful Martin Hoffman, 
 Deputy Grand Master, until the pleasure of the 
 Grand Lodge could be known. The Grand Lodge, 
 at its next meeting, directed a new warrant to is- 
 sue, but that the Lodge " should hold the same 
 rank that it did under its former warrant, which 
 was dated on the 20th of September, a. d. 1787." 
 
 A Masonic free school was established in 1809, 
 to which the several city Lodges subscribed, but it 
 appears by a circular of the Grand Lodge, issued 
 in 181 1, that it was poorly attended. 
 
 St. John's day, June, 18 10, was celebrated by 
 Holland Lodge at Brother Hogg's Washington 
 
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 Garden. Grand Master DeWitt Clinton, and the 
 other officers of the Grand Lodge, attended, and 
 also deputations from Independent Royal Arch 
 Lodge, No. 2, and L'Union Frangaise. We are 
 told that, " after an evening devoted to mirth and 
 festivity, in perfect harmony the Lodge closed." 
 
 The old records close on December 15, 181 2, 
 w^hen our country was engaged in a war with Eng- 
 land. But war could not destroy the social char- 
 acteristics of Holland Lodge, and on that night a 
 resolution passed to celebrate St. John's day with 
 Warren and Clinton Lodges. 
 
 I have obtained from a son of Brother Elias 
 Hicks some old papers, which I thought it right 
 to make the property of the Lodge. The oldest 
 and most curious of them is a handbill containing 
 the order of the procession for the celebration of 
 the festival of St. John the Baptist, June 24, 1789, 
 which will be printed in an appendix when this 
 address shall be published. 
 
 Another is also a handbill, being a programme 
 of the procession of June 24, 1795, which will also 
 be printed in the appendix. 
 
 The following note at the foot of the last men- 
 tioned handbill, addressed to the Secretary of Hol- 
 land Lodge, is in the handwriting of John Abrams, 
 then Grand Secretary. 
 
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OLD CITY HALL. WALL "^T N Y 
 
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 " The Grand Lodge is to assemble at nine o'clock 
 in Holland Lodge room, for the installation of the 
 Grand Officers. Please therefore to summon your 
 Past Masters and Wardens. J. A. 
 
 "To Mr. Wells." 
 
 These handbills convey a rather startling idea 
 of the size of New York, near the close of the last- 
 century. Wall Street was, even in 1 789, an impor- 
 tant street, and contained many fine dwellings. Al- 
 though six years intervened between the two pro- 
 cessions, Beekman Street was the outer Hmit of 
 both, and the route of the processions, although in 
 reversed order, was the same, the Queen Street of 
 1789 being the Pearl Street of 1795. In 1789, the 
 Coffee House, probably the Tontine, at the corner of 
 Wall and Water Streets, was the point of departure 
 and dismissal. In 1795, the City Hall, previously 
 called Federal Hall, which then stood on the site of 
 the present Custom House, and in front of which 
 Washingtqn was inaugurated, (our Grand Master, 
 Chancellor Livingston, administering the oath) was 
 the starting and closing point. 
 
 And this leads me to remark, that in 1 789, the 
 first Congress of the United States under the Consti- 
 tution, assembled in this city, and President Wash- 
 ington resided here in that year and the next. Yet 
 what memorial have we of that important period? 
 
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 Had Boston been the favored city, the Halls of Con- 
 gress would have been preserved, the several houses 
 occupied by Washington would have retained their 
 ancient shape, and strangers would have been rever- 
 ently shown those interesting relics. But here the 
 commercial spirit reigns paramount, and few are they 
 who ever remember that they inhabit a city as rich 
 in historic interest as in the shining dross which 
 so absorbs their souls. 
 
 A striking fact disclosed by these old hand-bills 
 is the liberality with which Trinity Church, called in 
 one of them " The Church," threw open its own 
 portals, and those of its chapels, for the accommo- 
 dation of the Fraternity. It is a pleasant reflection 
 that among our present members is one of the 
 Ministers of that venerable and patriotic Church,' 
 whose honorable history is so inseparably inter- 
 woven with that of this city. 
 
 I have obtained from Mr. Hicks several of the 
 old Lodge dinner tickets, two dated in 1795, issued 
 by Holland Lodge and Howard Lodge, and one 
 in 1800, issued by Holland, Howard, and Warren 
 Lodges. The place of holding the entertainment 
 is stated in the last-mentioned to be Little's Hotel, 
 No. 42 Broad Street. 
 
 Holland Lodge was on particularly intimate terms 
 
 '■ Rev. Dr. S. H. Weston. 
 
Holland Lodge. 73 
 
 with St. Andrew's, Howard, Clinton and Warren 
 Lodges, and Washington Chapter. The minutes of 
 June 6th, 1 788, speak of " St. Andrew's Lodge, with 
 which this Lodge is more particularly connected." 
 St. Andrew's was chartered directly by the Ancient 
 Grand Lodge of England, to work in Boston. Its 
 warrant was surrendered in 1835. There is another 
 St. Andrew's Lodge remaining in Boston, (chartered, 
 I think, by the Grand Lodge of Scotland) which 
 is the wealthiest Lodge in the United States. Its 
 members are limited to twenty-six, and its property 
 is valued at $160,000. Howard Lodge was the 
 child of Holland, and surrendered its charter in 
 1834, but has been revived. Warren and Clinton 
 Lodges I know little about. Their charters have 
 been surrendered, but another Clinton Lodge has 
 been organized. 
 
 This Lodge was also on a cordial footing with In- 
 dependent Royal Arch Lodge, No. 2. The present 
 Worshipful Master of that Lodge,' himself a son of 
 Holland, you all know to be a presiding officer of 
 unusual ability. It is pleasant to be assured that 
 such a Lodge, now one hundred and one years old, 
 is more prosperous than ever ; and I would earnestly 
 express the hope that the ancient friendship which 
 has subsisted between the two Lodges may be per- 
 petual. 
 
 • W. John H. Anthon. 
 
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 Here, without exhausting my materials, I close the 
 sketch of Holland Lodge in the olden time. Its more 
 recent career requires but a brief notice. It is well 
 known that, in 1823, the country Lodges separated 
 from those of the city, and that in 1827 the two Grand 
 Lodges united under an agreement, generally called 
 " THE COMPACT." At about the latter period, the anti- 
 masonic storm burst over the State, and for a time 
 overwhelmed the institution. It may truly be said 
 that, for several years succeeding 1823, Masonry 
 throughout the State was in a dormant or languish- 
 ing condition, and that Holland Lodge was not ex- 
 empted from the common fate of the fraternity. 
 
 During the days of internal commotion, caused 
 by the division in the Grand Lodge in £823, William 
 Delafield, a highly respectable merchant, and a mem- 
 ber of the distinguished New York family of that 
 name, and Edward Kortright, also an eminent mer- 
 chant, were Masters of Holland Lodge. After that 
 violent political tempest to which I have alluded had 
 clouded the whole Masonic firmament, and darkened 
 all its stars, the following named brethren were Mas- 
 ters, viz. : Edward Seaman, sugar refiner, a man much 
 endeared to the fraternity, Thomas Longworth, of 
 Directory fame, whose father joined the Lodge in 
 1 790, and George Davis, for many years deputy col- 
 lector, a man ever zealous to serve the Lodge through 
 all disasters. 
 
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 When at length the dreary night of persecution 
 faded away before the light of truth, and the bright 
 morning of prosperity began to dawn upon the insti- 
 tution, a sad and almost fatal disaster occurred to Hol- 
 land Lodge, which may be likened to a shipwreck 
 happening at the calm close of a long and perilous 
 voyage. On the 23d of April, 1833, the rooms of the 
 Lodge were destroyed by fire; and for upwards of 
 thirteen years afterward it maintained scarcely more 
 than a formal existence. The following extract from 
 the minute book, opened in 1846, tells the sad story 
 in few words : 
 
 " The City Hotel, in the upper rooms of which 
 Holland Lodge No. 8 met for a number of years, was 
 destroyed by fire on the 23d of April, A. L. 5833, and 
 A. D. 1833, since which time the meetings of the 
 Lodge, in consequence of the utter destruction of all 
 the properties, have been very few until 21st of No- 
 vember, 1846, when the Lodge re-organized under 
 the jurisdiction of W. M. Robert R. Boyd, and passed 
 a code of laws, which are now the governing rules of 
 the Lodge. 
 
 " This book of minutes dates at the meeting held 
 on that evening. 
 
 "WM. H. TALMAN, Sec'ry- 
 " New York, 21st November, A. L. 5846." 
 
 From the beginning of 1833, until the close of 
 
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 1845, Worshipful Benjamin R. Winthrop, known to 
 all in this community as a prominent and distin- 
 guished citizen, acted as Master ; and since his with- 
 drawal from the chair, up to this time, he has been 
 an honorary member. At present I believe there is 
 not one member of this Lodge who sat under Broth- 
 er Winthrop's gavel ; but his services, especially as 
 guardian of the considerable funds of the Lodge, are 
 nevertheless highly appreciated by the present mem- 
 bers, and his name will be ever gratefully remembered 
 as that of a faithful and disinterested officer. 
 
 Although it appears that W. Robert R. Boyd 
 acted as Master in November, 1846, he was never 
 elected to that office, but merely occupied the chair 
 for a couple of meetings. On the 26th of Decem- 
 ber following, J. Horton Rodgers was duly elected 
 Master, William H. Milnor, Senior Warden, Jacob 
 V. R. WyckoflF, Junior Warden, Benjamin R. Win- 
 throp, Treasurer, and Wm. H. Talman, Secretary. 
 The Lodge, thus re-organized, at first held its meet- 
 ings at the Howard House, on the comer of Broad- 
 way and Howard Street, which afterwards took the 
 name of the City Hotel. 
 
 Of the more recent Masters, I would especially 
 name our eminent Brother William H. Milnor, who 
 served with great fidelity and ability for three years, 
 and was afterward a distinguished Grand Master of 
 this State, and Brother Frederick Fawcett, who has 
 
Holland Lodge. jj 
 
 been for many years a most valuable and influential 
 member, beloved by the brethren of this Lodge and 
 highly esteemed by the craft at large. All who know 
 the recent history of Holland Lodge are aware that 
 its most conspicuous member for several years past 
 has been the present Deputy Grand Master, Right 
 Worshipful John J. Crane, M. D. If Vanden Broek 
 was the chief builder of our temple. Crane was its 
 chief restorer. Speaking in his presence, I will ven- 
 ture to say no more, leaving it to the future chron- 
 icler to do justice to his transcendent services, and 
 his admirable Masonic character. 
 
 The troubles of 1849 ^"^^ familiarly known to 
 all Masons. Holland Lodge, as you all know, ad- 
 hered to the Grand Lodge, of which Most Wor- 
 shipful John D. Willard was Grand Master. Of the 
 course taken by Holland Lodge in 1855, I have 
 only to say that in its results it was one of the 
 chief means of re-uniting the two Grand Bodies 
 severed in 1849, and of reconciling all differences 
 among the Masons of this State. May the peace 
 and harmony thus established be perpetual ! 
 
 The rooms now occupied by the Lodge, at No. 
 8 Union Place, were hired in October, i860, for a 
 long term, and fitted up at a cost of about $4,000. 
 Originally the walls and furniture-covering of the 
 Lodge-room were of a crimson color, and the effect 
 was somewhat too sombre by gas-light. On the 
 
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 2 1 St of December, i860, the rooms were dedicated 
 to Masonic purposes, with all the imposing and 
 beautiful rites prescribed for that purpose, and a pro- 
 gramme of the ceremonies has been preserved on 
 the records. That zealous and accomplished Mason, 
 that amiable and just man. Most Worshipful John 
 W. Simons, then worthily filling the office of Grand 
 Master, performed the ceremony of dedication in 
 person, assisted by several very eminent brethren. 
 Brother George W. Morgan presided at the organ, 
 and the music, both vocal and instrumental, was of 
 rare excellence. The entertainment which followed 
 will long be remembered by all who shared in it. 
 
 In the following March, the fell destroyer laid 
 our beautiful temple in ashes. But as the Lodge 
 owned at the time two other Lodge-rooms, at 594 
 Broadway, no interruption occurred in its labors ; 
 and the insurance on its property being ample, the 
 pecuniary loss was small. Amidst all the ruin I 
 could regard no loss as so serious as that of the 
 ancient Dutch Bible, upon whose sacred pages so 
 many of our venerable and eminent brethren had 
 assumed their Masonic obligations. This pleasant 
 temple has arisen from the ruins of its predecessor ; 
 and long may Holland Lodge flourish and prosper 
 within its walls ! 
 
 And now, Brethren, my task is done. It might 
 have been better done, but none could have brought 
 
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 to it a more willing hand, or a more loving heart. 
 If I have imparted to you pleasure or instruction, 
 this modest effort will not have been made in vain ; 
 if I have done aught to preserve the fame of our 
 Lodge, or to illustrate the excellence of our order, 
 my reward will indeed be ample. I have summoned 
 before you the men of old, and have not feared to 
 expose to your scrutiny their long forgotten acts 
 as written in the mouldering records of the past. 
 The hallowed memories which consecrate our Lodge, 
 while shedding lustre on the whole fraternity, espe- 
 cially admonish the members to walk as becomes 
 the inheritors of ancestral honors. The fair fame 
 of the fathers justly ministers to our honest pride ; 
 but at the same time it imposes upon us the most sol- 
 emn responsibilities. May the chronicler of the next 
 century be able to say with truth, that, in our keep- 
 ing, Holland Lodge was still distinguished for dig- 
 nity, virtue, generosity and justice ! 
 
 Most Worshipful and Right Worshipful Grand 
 Officers, and Past Grand Officers : 
 
 Permit me before closing to thank you for the 
 honor of your presence, and the greater honor of 
 your patient attention. Holland Lodge is ever 
 happy to receive the permanent members of the 
 Grand Lodge, to profit by their Masonic wisdom 
 and experience, and to imitate their Masonic vir- 
 tues. Overseers of the Craft, we look up to you for 
 
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 wise precepts and honorable examples. To you, be- 
 fore whose names stands the saddening yet lovely 
 prefix of " Past " — foreshadowing the common fate of 
 all — we would express our appreciation of the labors 
 you performed while exercising active official func- 
 tions. You, who are actually discharging official du- 
 ties, we would assure of our warm personal regard, 
 and our entire satisfaction with your labors. Shortly 
 you, too, will be among the Past, for we are all sub- 
 jects of the eternal future. And when, dear brethren, 
 past and present shall alike pass away from this beau- 
 tiful fabric of the Great Architect, may we all find 
 bliss ineffable in that celestial Lodge which He has 
 prepared for those who love Him ! 
 
A SEQUEL 
 
 TO 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF 
 HOLLAND LODGE. 
 
 AN ADDRESS 
 
 Delivered at the request of said Lodge, in the Masonic Temple in the 
 City of New York, on the Evening of 
 
 MARCH 12, 1878. 
 
 By JOSEPH N. BALESTIER, 
 
 PAST MASTER OF HOLLAND LODGE, AND PAST DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND 
 
 MASTER. 
 
ADDRESS OF 1878. 
 
 Worshipful Master and Brethren of Holland 
 
 Lodge : 
 
 In consenting to address you upon the subject 
 of your history since the time when I read before 
 you the " Historical Sketches of Holland Lodge," I 
 cannot help feeling that I have undertaken too much 
 either for my own credit or for your entertainment. 
 History is made so slowly that sixteen years are not 
 apt to furnish much that is eventful in the experience 
 of a social organization likely to endure for centuries. 
 Indeed, what chiefly interests us in the career of such 
 bodies, is the story of the founders and fathers, and 
 the facts which throw light upon the characteristics 
 of the age in which they flourished. Thus, when I 
 gave your history from 1787 to 1862, I felt that the 
 subject would take care of the address. But to dis- 
 course of the events of sixteen years is to speak of 
 ourselves, and there are manifest disadvantages in 
 treating such a theme. Yet, viewed in its relation 
 to human life, that brief period is not without im- 
 
84 Historical Sketches of 
 
 portance. Those of us who sixteen years ago were 
 in the bloom and vigor of youth are now sobered 
 and subdued by the cares and responsibilities of life ; 
 those who had already attained middle age are now 
 among the elders ; while those who had then passed 
 beyond middle life are to be reckoned among that 
 select company of aged and venerable men who have 
 outlived the time usually allotted to human existence. 
 But more solemn still is the record of those who 
 within these few years have departed this life, leaving 
 us to mourn their loss. In this sad retrospect lies 
 our most momentous relation to brief spaces of time, 
 and from this it necessarily follows that the chief 
 topic of my address must be the commemoration of 
 those who have preceded us to the eternal world. 
 
 It seems like a dream to look back, a little more 
 than sixteen years, to the time when I addressed you 
 at the old Lodge Room No. 8 Union Place. It 
 was in November, 1861, when the rebellion was in 
 full progress, and the whole North was warming up 
 for the great struggle before it. The spirit of patrio- 
 tism was aroused to the sublimest heights of enthu- 
 siasm ; our very churches nailed the national colors 
 to their steeples, and the youth of the country flocked 
 to that glorious standard by thousands, and willingly 
 laid down their lives for the Union. Holland Lodge 
 contributed its share of volunteers to the muster-roll 
 of youthful heroes, some of whom never returned 
 
i-fioMi'irEBrBBJinY. 
 
 FN G' BY J. S/lRlXtl 
 
 EUBUk KENT Kkn 
 

Holland Lodge. 85 
 
 alive. Among them I very w^ell remember Brother 
 James M. Pendleton, a gentleman of fortune and 
 position, whose body I believe vi^as never recovered. 
 But not alone to the Union did the Lodge con- 
 tribute men. Two members who joined us at the 
 commencement of the war, and who stood well in 
 the community, subsequently made their way through 
 the Union lines, and acquired high rank in the Con- 
 federate service, no doubt carrying valuable aid and 
 comfort to the' enemy. It was a time when Masonry 
 flourished beyond all precedent ; and, if it has since 
 comparatively languished, the misfortune must be at- 
 tributed to the over-stimulation of the war, which led 
 hundreds and thousands to the altar of Freemasonry 
 for reasons which the craft well understand. 
 
 The enormous rise in rents incident to the war 
 rendered it inexpedient in the judgment of the Lodge 
 to renew the lease of its rooms at No. 8 Union 
 Place. Instead, therefore, of being a landlord, as it 
 so long had been, Holland Lodge became the tenant 
 of Kane Lodge, at the corner of Broadway and 
 Twenty-second Street, and so continued from May, 
 1868, until May, 1874. I think it was a mistake to 
 abandon No. 8 Union Place, on account of a rise in 
 rent, which could be only temporary. Even the low 
 rents which it charged other Masonic bodies not 
 only had enabled Holland Lodge to go rent free, 
 but had added a considerable surplus to its revenue. 
 
86 Historical Sketches of 
 
 Its tenants would have expected to pay higher rents, 
 and the difference paid by us could probably have 
 been made up with little difficulty. But the con- 
 trolling reason for remaining was the large outlay 
 that had been made in fitting up the Lodge room 
 and its appurtenances. All of this was sacrificed. 
 Our own dear and beautiful altar was cast aside, and 
 that of another and much younger Lodge was sub- 
 stituted. I confess that for one I have never had 
 precisely the same feeling toward Holland Lodge 
 since it gave up its own hearth-stone, and set out 
 upon its travels in distant lands, to seek the hospi- 
 tality of its brethren. Since, however, you have be- 
 come established in this Grand Temple, built by our 
 respected brother John T. Conover, of this Lodge, 
 where all Masons meet on a level, it is probably to 
 your advantage that you should remain here perma- 
 nently. Here, at least, you are part proprietors, ten- 
 ants in common with all your brother Lodges through- 
 out the Jurisdiction, and the altar before which you 
 salute the East, and offer your Masonic vows, possess- 
 es that universality which is the grand characteristic 
 of Masonry, and the pride and boast of the craft. 
 
 I would fain speak further of such general topics, 
 and defer as long as possible the mournful part of my 
 story ; but, brethren, I feel that I must approach the 
 chamber of death, and show to your imaginations the 
 jewels of which Time has robbed us within the short 
 
Holland Lodge. 87 
 
 space of sixteen years. Come with me, then, with 
 bowed heads and softly stepping feet, and behold the 
 treasures you have laid away in the sepulchre. 
 
 And, first, I will name Dr. George F. Wood- 
 ward, who was a man well-known to the whole com- 
 munity. When I last saw him the flush of health 
 was on his cheek, and he bade fair to Hve into old 
 age. Yet he was young when he died. He was one 
 of those rattling, dashing, pushing men, who seem 
 born to make their way in the world over all obsta- 
 cles and opposition. Generous in his impulses, uncer- 
 tain and changeable in his opinions, able in his pro- 
 fession, and yet too much addicted to politics and its 
 wild ways to settle down to steady work, a member 
 of all the leading associations, social, literary, masonic, 
 and military, he was indeed a man to impress himself 
 very vividly upon all who knew him. His self-pos- 
 session and modest assurance were of that marvelous 
 kind that to argue with him was always to be defeat- 
 ed in advance. He triumphed without regard to the 
 merits of the facts. He was the life of a social party 
 and carried conviviality as far as propriety would al- 
 low. His friends were as various as his character was 
 varied. Clergymen, lawyers, physicians, literary men, 
 men of the world, political celebrities, and military 
 heroes were alike his intimates, and no doubt his hosts 
 of friends will keep his memory green for many long 
 years to corne. The remembrance of such men is 
 
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 apt to survive longer than that of those who were 
 only clever in their special walks. "That reminds 
 me of Dr. Woodward," will be on the lips of men 
 years after they will have forgotten more staid and 
 stately acquaintances. He died April 21st, 1866. 
 
 Adelmour W. King came into this Lodge by 
 affiliation in the year 1851, and in the same year was 
 made Secretary, and held that office up to the time 
 of his death, in May, 1872. His power was always 
 felt, but it was the power of the heart more than of 
 the intellect. Of feeble frame and precarious health, 
 he possessed an amount of persistence and industry 
 which would have done credit to the strongest and 
 healthiest of men. Hesitating in his speech, he still 
 debated almost every question that arose in the 
 Lodge ; for, although modest, he had the courage of 
 his convictions. Living in a remote part of Brook- 
 lyn, he was scarcely ever absent from his post on 
 Lodge nights, whatever might be the season of the 
 year or the state of the weather. His very ailing 
 sometimes made him querulous, impatient, I might 
 even say petulant ; but at the foundation he was most 
 amiable, patient, and placable. During his Secre- 
 taryship the minutes were often very extended ; but 
 he never grudged the labor they cost him, and they 
 were always written up promptly, and in a clear leg- 
 ible hand. He was above all things, first, last, and 
 always, a Mason, and seemed to look with a lofty 
 
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 pity upon those who knew only the profane outside 
 world. Holland Lodge was the chief object of his 
 pride ; but he was also a constant attendant on the 
 Chapter and Commandery. As " Sir Knight King," 
 I used to think he really fancied himself a member 
 of the ancient chivalry, and perhaps his romantic 
 name, Adelmour, may have fostered the illusion. 
 Nor was his devotion to Masonry a merely out- 
 ward and ceremonial show. He worshiped it in- 
 deed with an ardor akin to that with which the 
 devout Parsee adores the Sacred Fire ; but to him 
 it was not merely an objective worship. He prac- 
 tised its principles in works of charity. Poor him- 
 self, he yet devoted his time and his slender means 
 to indigent and friendless Masons. At the peril 
 of his own frail health, he would sit up whole nights 
 to nurse a sick and destitute brother. He never 
 gave up a brother who was the victim of his own 
 folly. Because an inebriate, whom he had often 
 relieved and saved from utter ruin, had as often de- 
 ceived him, to resume the bad habits so frequently 
 abjured, Brother King did not desert him. He clung 
 to him, labored with him, forgave his offences seventy 
 times seven times, and, by the goodness of his own 
 heart and his untiring patience, persuaded the unfor- 
 tunate and erring man to depart from his evil ways. 
 This Christ-like spirit endeared Brother King to the 
 few who knew the secret of his good deeds, and I 
 
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 trust these inadequate words spoken in his praise 
 will lead even those of you who did not know him 
 to honor and revere his memory. 
 
 The circumstances of his death were peculiarly 
 affecting. His young son had wandered away from 
 home, and his parents were made almost frantic with 
 fear and anxiety. The fond father spent the whole 
 night in visiting the station-houses and public places, 
 and seeking through the streets of Brooklyn for his 
 lost child. His inquiries were all in vain ; no one could 
 be found who had seen his boy. Weary and dis- 
 heartened the father returned to his home for the 
 last time. Owing to exposure during that dreadful 
 night, he caught a violent cold, which ended in a 
 fatal attack of pneumonia. The child came back to 
 his father's house in the early morning. He had 
 gone on a thoughtless tramp with another little boy 
 as far as Flushing, and had passed the night upon the 
 road. He returned to find his father attacked by his 
 last illness. Brother Bill called as soon as he heard 
 of the illness of Brother King, but was not admitted 
 to the presence of the dying man until the day be- 
 fore the final scene, when he remained with him an 
 hour. They had long been intimate friends, and none 
 knew Brother King as Brother Bill knew him. At 
 this sorrowful parting their right hands were clasped 
 together. Brother King was unable to speak, al- 
 though he recognized his visitor. He intiinated by 
 
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 signs his desire for Masonic burial, so that Brother 
 Bill perfectly understood him. Long before that 
 time Brother King had selected his burial-place in 
 the rural cemetery at Lebanon, in Columbia County. 
 He had been made a Mason in the Lodge at that 
 place, called Unity No. 9, chartered in 1 788, and his 
 affections turned toward it at the last moment of life. 
 His wishes were religiously observed. After funeral 
 services in the church where he worshiped, the mem- 
 bers of Holland Lodge bore his body to the railway 
 station, and there consigned it to the tender care of 
 their committee, Brothers Bill and Gilbert. Not- 
 withstanding his advanced years, our devoted Brother 
 Bill took charge of the precious burden, and saw it 
 safely delivered at its final resting-place. There, sur- 
 rounded by the brethren of Brother King's original 
 Lodge, Brother Bill as Chaplain of this Lodge pro- 
 nounced over the sacred remains the solemn funeral 
 ritual of the Fraternity. And thus, just as the May 
 flowers were peeping above the sod, the relics of our 
 gentle brother were laid beneath it, among the lofty 
 hills of Lebanon ; and from his consecrated grave the 
 eye sweeps over a boundless expanse of varied land- 
 scape, typical perhaps of the fair scenery of the 
 heavenly land. 
 
 In connection with the name of Brother King, I 
 cannot pass over that of Brother Robert Ayres. 
 They were bosom friends, although very dissimilar. 
 
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 Brother Ayres being as hearty and robust as Brother 
 King was delicate and feeble, and as demonstrative 
 in his speech and manner as Brother King was reti- 
 cent and quiet. Brother Ayres never held office in 
 the Lodge, and died in 1868 while still in the prime 
 of life. 
 
 Quite recently has died our Past Master Jotham 
 Post, who for a long time took an active part in the 
 Lodge, and successively occupied the South, the 
 West, and the East, besides being an officer of the 
 Grand Lodge and its representative abroad. Bred a 
 physician and surgeon. Brother Post is said to have 
 shown such a marked talent in the latter capacity 
 that his wealth, which released him from practice, 
 was a real misfortune to himself and the public. The 
 name of Post is famous in the medical, and especially 
 in the surgical, annals of New York ; and, had our 
 departed Brother been compelled to exercise his 
 talents, he would doubtless have added to the family 
 renown. I have been told that he displayed great 
 ability and ingenuity in anatomical preparations, and 
 a general aptitude for his profession. For the rest, 
 he was greatly esteemed in social life, and so fortu- 
 nate as to possess many warmly-attached friends. 
 Like most New-Yorkers he had a great predilection 
 for horses, and his conversation savored more of the 
 road and the turf than of the pill and scalpel. Of 
 late years he had expatriated himself and lived with 
 
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 his^ family, in Paris, moving in the highest society 
 Americans are able to enter in that gay capital. It 
 is less than two years ago that I met him, when he 
 was on a visit to this city, to say the last farewell to 
 an aged relative, who, after all, probably survived 
 him. He was then apparently in the full vigor of 
 life and health, and overflowing with cordial greetings 
 tinged with a pleasant Gallic coloring. When he 
 told me he had been living in Paris for ten years, I 
 could not realize it, for he was absolutely unchanged 
 by the lapse of time. My junior in years and blessed 
 with the health I did not possess, it did not seem at 
 all probable that I should outlive him ; and, when I 
 first heard the news of his death, I thought some 
 other person of the same name was intended. It 
 ' proved, however, to be too true. On the 21st of 
 August, 1877, our worshipful Past Master had died, in 
 the midst of joys which, only our Parisian exiles feel 
 And now, dear brethren, my heart of hearts 
 moans forth " Alas ! my brother ! " for I am to speak 
 of our well-beloved Henry Hall Ward, so long an 
 ornament and support of Holland Lodge. I knew 
 him and loved him well. It was through him that 
 I became a member of the Fraternity and of this 
 Lodge. His friendly hand rested upon my head 
 when I took the solemn vows of Masonry before 
 your altar — his protecting arm conducted me when 
 I traveled toward the East in search of light. 
 
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 He was a man of rare merit — hospitable, culti- 
 vated, especially fond of music and skillful to inter- 
 pret it. Occupying a prominent position in the com- 
 munity, he was yet free from pride, ostentation, or 
 pretension : in a word, a gentleman. Charitable, hu- 
 mane, chivalrous, he was made of the best material 
 for the purposes of Masonry. He never married, 
 but with filial devotion consecrated himself to one 
 dearer to him, and to whom he was more dear 
 than any language save that of the heart can ex- 
 press ; for he was the only child of a widowed 
 mother. He came of good old revolutionary stock, 
 and several of his immediate relatives were among 
 the most eminent, and, let me add, most honored, 
 financial men of the city. Although bred a lawyer, 
 he finally took up the calling of his father and 
 uncles, and continued in it as long as his health 
 permitted. He would never accept any high office 
 in the Lodge, but preferred to be useful in a pri- 
 vate station, and was a permanent and most valu- 
 able member of the standing committee. If the 
 Lodge needed money, Brother Ward was prompt 
 to advance it ; if a poor brother, his widow or or- 
 phans, needed help, our brother was ever liberal in 
 aiding them. Through his influence many worthy 
 brethren entered the Lodge, and to only our dis- 
 tinguished Brother Crane is it more indebted for 
 its present prosperity. Brother Ward, when in 
 
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 health, was a large, strongly-built man of imposing 
 presence, with something of the air with which we 
 invest bluff Harry of England ; but, after he was 
 seized with the fatal disorder which terminated his 
 life, his stalwart frame fell off so rapidly that he 
 was scarcely to be recognized as the same Harry 
 Ward, once so robust and portly. He died on the 
 27th of August, 1872. 
 
 Samuel A. Rollo was Master of the Lodge in 
 1855. He was the first Master I had ever seen in 
 the Chair, and I recollect that he wore a cocked 
 hat, and looked truculent and dangerous. Yet he 
 was in his private capacity a man of genial man- 
 ners, and much given to mirth. He followed the 
 peaceful calling of a publisher and vender of books, 
 but alas ! it was not too much learning that made 
 him mad. He left a partnership in a great pub- 
 lishing house which was coining money to set up 
 for himself and make a sensation. Why his insan- 
 ity was not detected long before is a mystery. He 
 fitted up a large store in Park Row, so as to rep- 
 resent the deck of a ship, the visitor almost run- 
 ning against the bowsprit as he entered, and being 
 obliged to dodge the masts, the caboose, and the 
 wheel, as he proceeded. The quarter-deck con- 
 tained the ship's stores, consisting chiefly of a choice 
 assortment of liquors. Poor Brother Rollo had 
 become the publisher of "Worcester's Unabridged 
 
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 Dictionary," and this great naval curiosity was fit- 
 ted up chiefly to advertise that valuable work. At 
 the opening, the captain of this singular craft ran 
 up numerous flags on the top-gallant masts which 
 penetrated the roof, and caused the great political 
 gun, which Capt. Rynders had made famous as the 
 organ of the Empire Club, to be fired off on the 
 site of the present post-office, until the neighbors 
 were almost driven wild — and all in honor of 
 " Worcester's Unabridged." Of course the for- 
 tune our too enterprising brother had amassed 
 was soon swept away. Death came to his relief 
 in 1864. 
 
 The last of our departed Brethren of this Lodge 
 of whom I propose to speak at any length (for I 
 can only briefly allude to other prominent mem- 
 bers) is Past Master Frederick Fawcett. This 
 genial gentleman and model Mason joined the 
 Lodge in 1850, and died May i, 1877. He was a 
 power in the Fraternity, and aided essentially in 
 healing those Masonic dissensions which eventuated 
 in that condition of perfect reconciliation and obliv- 
 ion of the past which now exists. He came to us 
 from the well-known Excelsior Lodge of Odd Fel- 
 lows, and was followed by several other members 
 of that Lodge, among whom was our respected 
 Brother Edward Bill. These Brethren clung to- 
 gether with a tenacity observable to all save them- 
 
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 selves. Unsconsciously, perhaps, they formed a little 
 coterie of their own. Although of the body of the 
 Lodge, their clannishness was as distinguishable as 
 are the waters of the Arve from those of the Rhone, 
 when they first commingle. But these Brethren 
 were most true and loyal to the Lodge, and ad- 
 hered to its fortunes through all its perils and dis- 
 asters. When Brother Fawcett joined Holland 
 Lodge, it was struggling to regain its ancient posi- 
 tion, and he did much to aid its progress. He was 
 a man of marked ability, an admirable writer, a co- 
 gent reasoner, a thorough man of affairs. When a 
 prudent counsellor, a discreet and skillful manager, 
 or an astute and persuasive advocate was needed, 
 the Master habitually turned to Worshipful Brother 
 Fawcett and asked his assistance, which was always 
 readily granted. He was one of those rare men who 
 make themselves of no reputation, but are always 
 ready to make their importance felt by useful work. 
 He addressed himself to the very marrow of every 
 subject he touched, and reached important results 
 by simple and direct processes. Wholly free from 
 vanity and jealousy, his every act had reference to 
 what was best for the Lodge and the Fraternity, 
 to what was just and right in itself, and at the same 
 time expedient. Such a member is a great loss to 
 a Lodge of Masons ; but there is a Providence 
 which, in every emergency of life, raises up superior 
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 men when they are most wanted. All the younger 
 members of the Lodge should be looking forward 
 to the time when their services shall be needed, so 
 that they may be entitled to the words, " Well 
 done, good and faithful Brother," which we are all 
 ready to bestow upon our lamented Past Master 
 Fawcett. 
 
 And this leads me to say that few Lodges have 
 kept their old members in their ranks so long as 
 Holland Lodge. To the system of life-membership 
 we are partly indebted for this pleasant feature, 
 but I find the names of many old members who 
 still pay their annual dues. The labors of the 
 Lodge naturally devolve upon the younger Breth- 
 ren ; but it is well for the elder sentinels to remain 
 on guard for the edification and assistance of those 
 to whom the watch and ward of the Lodge must 
 shortly be committed. 
 
 Let me hasten through this sad necrology. If 
 I were to dwell upon each name, I should exceed 
 the proper limits of this address. Among those 
 members who have died may be mentioned J. S. 
 Reynolds, in 1864; Charles G. H alpine, a gal- 
 lant soldier and a distinguished poet (using the 
 pseudonym of " Miles O'Reilly "), who died in 1868 ; 
 the venerable Captain Alexander V. Fraser, of 
 the revenue service, who was a steadfast member 
 of this Lodge from 1853 until his death in 1868 ; 
 
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 Thomas A. Clark, a much beloved member, who 
 lost his life through an accident on the Erie Rail- 
 road in November, 1861 ; Morrel B. Spaulding, 
 for many years the faithful treasurer of Holland 
 Lodge, who died in 1869 ; J. Howard Wainwright, 
 who died in 1871, and whose father. Bishop Wain- 
 wright, had been Grand Chaplain of the Grand 
 Lodge ; Henry Walters, who died in 1873 ; Wil- 
 liam Oliver Stone, a distinguished artist, who 
 departed in 1875; Charles D. Mead, for some 
 time Chaplain of the Lodge, who died in 1876; 
 and during the last year, John S. Betts, auction- 
 eer, whose peculiar eloquence and humor often en- 
 livened the Lodge ; Hiram Cranston, of the New 
 York Hotel ; George C. Anthon, the eminent 
 educator ; Thomas A. Bancker, a much respected 
 member ; and, finally, Spencer Kirby, a man of 
 great merit. The year 1877, it will be observed, 
 was especially remarkable for the number of deaths 
 in the Lodge, no less than eight active members 
 having then died. 
 
 Julian G. Da vies, our former organist, died in 
 1876. I considered it my duty, when I was Master 
 of the Lodge, to advise the creation of the sinecure 
 office of Assistant Secretary, in order to provide a 
 place for Brother Davies in lieu of that of organist 
 and at an equal salary, the increasing infirmities of 
 Brother Davies rendering it out of the question to 
 
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 retain him in his musical capacity. I am informed 
 by Brother Bill that Brother Davies did not relish 
 the change, but I believe he was the only member 
 of the Lodge who did not. The Master, being re- 
 sponsible for the music, must sometimes perform a 
 disagreeable duty with respect to the organist. 
 Speaking of whom, I may here remark that the 
 cutting down of the music to a single verse was 
 much more of an innovation than an improvement. 
 To me no part of the Lodge services is more im- 
 pressive that the union of manly voices in fraternal 
 songs. I would not disparage your recent engage- 
 ment of a quartette ; but if you deem that neces- 
 sary, I would, besides, plead for the restoration of 
 the book of songs, and the abolition of the card. 
 It would, indeed, be a good thing if the Lodge 
 should print its own book. Our Masonic poetry 
 will bear almost any amount of improvement, and 
 new songs might be introduced of a higher class 
 than our Lodges are accustomed to sing. 
 
 I miss to-night a tall and venerable figure which 
 for many years occupied a seat in Holland Lodge. 
 I allude to Brother William L. Van Zandt, who 
 joined the Lodge in 1821, and was made an honorary 
 member in 1847. Brother Van Zandt was one of 
 that numerous class who never get on in the world, 
 and his misery was aggravated by the sickness of his 
 wife. He possessed to the fullest extent the kind 
 
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 sympathies of his Brethren of the Lodge, and passed 
 away in 1874 at the age of 83. 
 
 Brother Asa Worthington joined this Lodge 
 in 1814, but for many years has not been connected 
 with it. He was formerly Secretary of Holland 
 Mark Lodge, and several years since our Worshipful 
 Past Master John D. Prince (whose services to the 
 Lodge have been of great value) obtained from him 
 and presented to this Lodge the records of the Mark 
 Lodge, with the book of marks of the members. As 
 materials for history these marks and records are 
 quite important ; but, in the present discourse, I 
 can only briefly allude to them. 
 
 The original of the Charter of 1 8 1 7, granted by the 
 Grand Chapter of this State to Holland Mark Lodge, 
 was presented to this Lodge by Worshipful Broth- 
 er Post, in 1862, and a copy of it will be found in the 
 Appendix to the Address of 1861. Holland Mark 
 Lodge, however, had existed many years before 181 7, 
 and probably about as long as the Master Masons' 
 Lodge. The Worthington minutes go back to April, 
 1 788, seven months after the chartering of this Lodge, 
 and end with November 25th, 181 5. In May, 18 15, 
 the Mark Lodge resolved to apply to the Grand 
 Chapter for a Charter, and the result of that applica- 
 tion was the Charter of 1 8 1 7. Under what authority 
 the Mark Lodge existed prior to 181 7, I am still 
 unable to state. But it was so fully recognized as be- 
 
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 ing itself an authoritative body that in 1 791 it granted 
 a Charter to a Mark Lodge in Fairfield, Connecticut, 
 called Hiram Mark Lodge. Among the members 
 of Holland Mark Lodge were De Witt Clinton, John 
 Jacob Astor, three gentlemen who filled the office of 
 Chancellor of this State, viz. : Chancellor Livingston, 
 Chancellor Sandford, and Chancellor Jones : John 
 Wells, Henry A. Coster, John G. Coster, Henry Rem- 
 sen, jr., Fitz Greene Halleck, and all the other lead- 
 ing members of Holland Lodge. Of the Book of 
 Marks this is not the proper occasion to speak. The 
 death of Brother Worthington occurred in 1877, 
 shortly after he had so kindly delivered these valuable 
 memorials to Brother Prince. 
 
 Here I close the record of our dead ; yet, breth- 
 ren, by your leave I will go outside the catalogue of 
 our own members, to speak of a most eminent broth- 
 er, who was made a Mason in Holland Lodge. If 
 allude to the late Most Worshipful Grand Master, 
 John H. Anthon, who died October 29th, 1874. 
 
 It was my fortune to take the degrees in 1855 in 
 the old Lodge-room at the corner of Broome and 
 Crosby Streets, in company with Brother Anthon. 
 It certainly did not then occur to me that the nerv- 
 ous youth at my side was to become a great Masonic 
 leader, nor was I under that impression while he 
 remained a member of our Lodge. His name was 
 historic here, George Anthon, Jr., having become a 
 
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 member in 1803. What machinations were going 
 on outside this Lodge during its difficulties will 
 never be known. We occasionally heard rumors of 
 sanguine expectations of the surrender of our war- 
 rant, through the agency of certain members whose 
 names were not clearly divulged ; but nothing positive 
 concerning the intended coup de main is generally 
 known. One of the results of these machinations, 
 however, was the detaching of some of the younger 
 brethren from their allegiaijce, and among those who 
 withdrew was our impetuous and impulsive Brother 
 Anthon. He joined an old and prominent Lodge in 
 regular standing, of which he soon became Master, 
 and continued to be Master as long as he would take 
 the office. He was a most remarkable presiding offi- 
 cer, and kept up the work of his Lodge with military 
 precision and with a sovereign disregard of the orders 
 of the Grand Lodge. When, as District Deputy 
 Grand Master, I visited his Lodge in my official 
 capacity and witnessed his work, I felt compelled to 
 protest against his disregard of what he considered 
 the innovations of the Grand Lodge. I did this with 
 all the dignity and impressiveness of a man who 
 knows he will , be laughed at as soon as his back is 
 turned, and the admonition was received with all the 
 meekness and modesty usual with boys who know 
 they will not be reported by name to the higher 
 powers. I am afraid we both winked or as good as 
 
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 winked, but we were both awfully in earnest. After- 
 wards, according to the custom of men who cannot 
 eat suppers, I attended one of those excellent annual 
 banquets for which Brother Anthon's Lodge was 
 distinguished, and took occasion to urge upon the 
 assembled company that they should press his claims 
 for the Deputy Grand Mastership and afterwards for 
 the Grand East. I was much more in earnest about 
 this than in reprimanding Brother Anthon for his 
 audacious work, and yet J may not have hastened an 
 event which was reasonably sure to happen. I may 
 say, in passing, that as a supper-table orator Brother 
 Anthon had few superiors. He was a magnificent 
 declaimer, with a strong, melodious voice, and always 
 carried the company with him. I remember that at 
 one of those suppers a London Brother was so far 
 thrown off his equilibrium that, when called upon for 
 a speech, he boldly but solemnly asserted that neither 
 Demosthenes nor Cicero could at all compare with 
 Brother Anthon. As Deputy Grand Master, brother 
 Anthon was very successful, but his administration of 
 the highest office is said to have shown evidence of 
 the ravages of that painful and fatal disease by which 
 he was shortly to be removed from this mortal life. 
 He was a man of singular originality and boldness of 
 thought. He was frank to that degree which distin- 
 guishes the utterances of the enfant terrible. He 
 poured pitiless ridicule even upon some of the more 
 
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 exalted forms of Masonry; and I remember that in 
 the course of a Masonic trial before me, in which he 
 acted as counsel, he was particularly severe upon the 
 supposed absurdity of the Memphis rite and its ter- 
 minology. It is supposed that the disease which de- 
 stroyed his life was caused by a too great devotion to 
 the prevailing bent of the distinguished Anthon fam- 
 ily — scholarship. Although a practising lawyer and 
 having the oversight of the vast Masonic body of 
 this great State, and of many harassing matters con- 
 nected with the construction of this edifice, he kept 
 late hours in studying Sanscrit and other Oriental 
 languages. One of his light amusements, I am told> 
 was sitting up nights to translate Greek into Sanscrit 
 and Sanscrit into Greek. Working upon a nervous 
 organization, it is not wonderful that labors like these 
 brought on a tedious and dreadful disease of the 
 brain which miserably terminated the life of our Past 
 Grand Master. — Peace to his ashes ! Men loved him, 
 they scarcely knew why. He was eloquent, learned, 
 and able, but he was also imperious and at times 
 overbearing. Yet he made fast friends by the force 
 of a powerful individuality, an inflexibly honest char- 
 acter, a life without stain, a magical command of 
 language, and administrative powers of the highest 
 order. 
 
 I feel keenly the delicacy of speaking of Breth- 
 ren who are still living, and are even present with 
 
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 us to-night. But there is one old member of the 
 Lodge of whom I think I ought to speak, and of 
 whom you probably expect me to speak ; and when 
 I say this, I know you are all thinking of Brother 
 Edward Bill. I could not include him among 
 the obituaries, because, I am glad to say, he prom- 
 ises to live many years. But, as I shall never have 
 a chance at him as a dead man, why should I not 
 celebrate him while living ? It certainly is not my 
 fault that he sees fit to live so long. Besides, he 
 has passed the allotted three score years and ten, 
 and we have a right to play that he is dead for 
 this occasion only. Brother Bill came into this 
 Lodge twenty-seven years ago, and had already 
 achieved distinction as a prominent and zealous 
 member of the order of Odd Fellows. I do not 
 pretend to know how old he is. When he joined 
 this Lodge he may have been a " Grand Sire " of 
 many years standing. I know nothing to the con- 
 trary. At all events, one who knew De Witt Clin- 
 ton, Nathan Sandford, John Jacob Astor, John Pin- 
 tard, Stephen Price, and other old Masters of this 
 Lodge, as Brother Bill informs me he did, can be 
 no chicken. Whether he has any infantile recollec- 
 tions of our unfortunate operative Grand Master, I 
 have never inquired ; but it may be so. I can only 
 wish that all my bills might run as long. But this 
 I do know, Brother Bill is a model Mason. He 
 
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 is also a modest man, as all good Masons should 
 be. He has steadily refused to take any higher 
 office than that of Warden, and yet he has long 
 held the highest office of all : that of our Chief 
 Almoner. He has been for many )'^ears not only 
 at the head of our own Charity Committee, but 
 also our standing representative in the Masonic 
 Board of Relief The natural effect of serving on 
 a Charity Committee is to make men hardhearted. 
 But Brother Bill has always preserved his innate 
 benevolence in spite of all the frauds and shams he 
 is constantly called upon to deal with. It has been 
 through his hands that the charities of the Lodge 
 have been dispensed to suffering Brethren, and with 
 that delicate privacy which alone renders charity 
 tolerable to its truly worthy recipients. He has 
 been the bearer of our alms and consolations, not 
 only through the city, but to points beyond our 
 borders. Besides being Warden, he has filled the 
 post of Treasurer, and also that of Chaplain, which 
 he now occupies. Every judge of Chaplains must 
 concede that Brother Bill has been a success in 
 that pious office. It was through Brother Bill that 
 Captain Creighton, of the British ship Three Bells, 
 was made a Mason in this Lodge in 1854. The 
 Three Bells had rescued a regiment of United 
 States troops at sea, and an immense excitement 
 appears to have been caused in the Masonic world 
 
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 when Captain Creighton took his degrees. Brother 
 Bill has also filled the office of Vice-President of 
 the Masonic Board of Relief, and bids fair yet to 
 devote many active and useful years to his Masonic 
 duties. I cannot close this notice without thanking 
 him for valuable statistics with which he has fur- 
 nished me for the purposes of this Address, and for 
 capital photographs from portraits of the venerated 
 John Meyer, the first Master of this Lodge, and of 
 his noble-looking wife. The very mention of the 
 word photograph seems to carry them back into 
 ancient history. I am glad to know that their 
 grandson is a worthy member of this Lodge. 
 
 Within the past sixteen years we have seen our 
 preeminent Past Master Crane occupying the posi- 
 tion of Grand Master, while Right Worshipful 
 Brother Samuel Jones, Right Worshipful Brother 
 Horace S. Taylor, and the humble individual who 
 addresses you, have filled the responsible office of 
 District Deputy Grand Master. Thus our old and 
 honored Lodge has continued to receive its full 
 share of consideration at the hands of the Fraternity 
 and of the Grand Master. Recently the Right 
 Worshipful Grand Master of Pennsylvania has se- 
 lected our eminent Past Master Worshipful Cad- 
 WALADER Evans as his representative near the most 
 Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of New 
 York. Brother Taylor represents the Grand Lodge 
 
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 of New Hampshire, and Brother Jones that of 
 Manitoba. The last named Brother, the worthy 
 son of an illustrious sire, has for years been promi- 
 nent in the so-called higher degrees of Masonry, 
 and his eloquent voice has resounded in many 
 Masonic bodies. Brother Taylor's career has been 
 especially brilliant. He has filled the highest offices 
 known to Chapter Masonry with an dclat which 
 reflects honor upon himself and his Lodge. Late- 
 ly the position of District Deputy Grand Master 
 has sought him for the third time, and he now 
 administers that important office to the perfect sat- 
 isfaction of the Fraternity. Higher honors, I have 
 no doubt, await him ; and I hope none will think 
 it improper if I say here and now to this influen- 
 tial assemblage of Masons, among whom I recog- 
 nize some Masters of Lodges, that they could do 
 nothing which would be more to the advantage of 
 the craft than to urge Brother Taylor's just claims 
 to the highest office within the gift of the Grand 
 Lodge. 
 
 Among the many honors conferred upon this 
 Lodge, special mention should be made of the 
 gratifying circumstance that, in April, 1877, the Right 
 Worshipful Deputy Grand Master Joseph J. Couch 
 visited us, and, in person, conferred the third degree. 
 This high compliment was repeated in November, 
 1877, when the Right Worshipful Deputy Grand 
 
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 Master Edmund L. Judson also conferred the third 
 degree in this Lodge in the presence of the most 
 Worshipful Grand Master and a large number of 
 other eminent visiting Brethren. 
 
 It is not to be denied that, until after my Master- 
 ship, Holland Lodge was not distinguished for the 
 excellence of its work. Brother Crane was an excel- 
 lent worker, and so was Brother Taylor ; but only 
 very few of us could earn journeymen's wages ; and, 
 at the risk of being considered egotistical, I may say, 
 and I say it boldly, that my own work was not en- 
 titled to the slightest credit. To improve the Lodge 
 in this respect, I am responsible for the institution of 
 the office of Lecture Master, the idea of which I bor- 
 rowed from the Lodge of Light in England, and I 
 think much of your rapid improvement as craftsmen 
 at labor has been due to the able and faithful manner 
 in which that office has been filled. But equally are 
 you indebted for this to the efforts of Worshipful 
 Brother Evans, who, in commencing his second term, 
 introduced the examination of candidates in open 
 Lodge, that they might show their proficiency before 
 advancement. This examination covers but two de- 
 grees, but it makes proficiency in the third compara- 
 tively an easy matter. I am glad to hear that these 
 examinations, through the praiseworthy instruction 
 of Worshipful Brother Costenbader, have been at- 
 tended with gratifying success. It tends to show 
 
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 that the development process extends to Masonic 
 Lodges. Some years ago, when we first tried this 
 system of examinations, we made a failure of it, 
 although other Lodges practised it with success. 
 It is a pleasure to know that, through the ef- 
 forts of Past Master Lawrence Wells, Past Master 
 Evans, your present respected Master, Worshipful 
 Brother Benjamin, and your excellent Lecture Mas- 
 ter, Worshipful Brother Costenbader, results have 
 been attained of which their predecessors almost 
 despaired. 
 
 In the address of 1861, I spoke of the great ex- 
 pense incurred by the Grand Lodge in consequence 
 of the large representation allowed in the annual meet- 
 ings of that august body. Since that time the wardens 
 of Lodges, as such, have ceased to have seats in the 
 Grand Lodge ; but that does not reduce expenses to 
 the extent of a single penny. On the other hand 
 Past Grand Deputies, Wardens, Secretaries, and 
 Treasurers have been restored to the Grand Lodge 
 with full pay. Now, Brethren, it is my duty to say 
 to you that if a permanent fund is ever to be pro- 
 vided — nay, even if the great debt resting upon this 
 grand Temple is ever to be paid, the sooner the vital 
 question of the inordinate cost of the annual com- 
 munications of the Grand Lodge is manfully grap- 
 pled with and settled, the better it will be for the 
 whole fraternity. So important is this matter that I 
 
112 Historical Sketches of 
 
 shall ask your permission to give it some considera- 
 tion. 
 
 In the address of 1861, I think I demonstrated 
 that no landmark (as some have pretended) prohib- 
 ited changes in Grand Lodge representation. The 
 truth is that almost everything relating to the com- 
 position of Grand Lodges is outside of " landmarks," 
 " compacts," and " inherent rights," the grand catch- 
 words of Masonic Privilege in this State. The con- 
 stitution itself provides that the Grand Lodge " may 
 at its pleasure, by duly altering its constitution, en- 
 large or diminish the number and qualifications of 
 its members." I believe this language is too sweep- 
 ing as regards " qualifications." It would violate the 
 compact of 1827 to so amend the constitution, with 
 respect to qualifications, as to declare a resident of 
 the city eligible to the office of Warden, or a resident 
 of the country eligible to the office of Secretary or 
 Treasurer, or to provide that the Grand Master and 
 the Deputy might both be chosen at the same an- 
 nual election either from the city or the country. But, 
 in so far as numbers are concerned, the provision is 
 undoubtedly valid. " Inherent rights " have ceased 
 to count for much. Under the constitution of 1801 
 the Grand Master had the right to appoint the Dep- 
 uty. " It hath always been considered as his inherent 
 right to nominate and appoint the Deputy Grand 
 Master, either the last or a new one," And it goes 
 
Holland Lodge. 113 
 
 on to give the reason : " because, as the Grand Mas- 
 ter is generally a Brother of the first eminence and 
 cannot be supposed able to give his attendance on 
 every emergency, it hath been always judged neces- 
 sary, not only to allow him a Deputy, but that such 
 Deputy should be a person in whom he can per- 
 fectly confide, and with whom he can have full har- 
 mony." (Sec. 3.) The Grand Lodge might indeed 
 reject the appointee and choose for themselves. But 
 primarily the inherent right of nomination and ap- 
 pointment was and had always been in the Grand 
 Master. Yet under the revision of 18 19 the Dep- 
 uty Grand Master was in all cases to be elected by 
 the Grand Lodge, although the change could not 
 have been by virtue of the maxim cessante ratione 
 legis, cessat et ipsa lex, as De Witt Clinton was then 
 Grand Master. 
 
 Under the constitution of 1834 and those prece- 
 ding it, all Past Masters and Past Grand Deputies, 
 Wardens, Secretaries, and Treasurers, being actual 
 members of Lodges, were " by courtesy and custom " 
 members of the Grand Lodge. In 1849 ^he Grand 
 Lodge by constitutional amendments cut off Past 
 Masters exceeding one from each Lodge. Out of 
 this grew a schism, which for a time was formidable 
 for noise, if nothing else. Yet, when in 1858 the 
 hostile Grand Lodge disbanded and was absorbed by 
 the regular organization, it surrendered forever the 
 
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 right of Past Masters to seats in the Grand Lodge, 
 saving only the few (now fast disappearing) who had 
 been Masters prior to 1849. Thus, even the con- 
 ceded reservation of one Past Master from each 
 Lodge was swept away and a supposed eternal right 
 bartered away for a fleeting sentiment. Under the 
 constitution of 1854 the Past Grand officers shared 
 the fate of the Past Masters ; but it is to be regretted 
 as a matter of economy that, under the constitution 
 of 1873, the Past Grand officers were resuscitated and 
 reinstated in their ancient privileges. The Past 
 Grand Wardens may now come in from the country 
 and the past Grand Treasurer and Secretaries from 
 the city, whether they hail from the regular organiza- 
 tion, the Phillips Grand Lodge, or St. John's Grand 
 Lodge, and, in the language of the old Fifth Charge, 
 " meekly receive their wages without murmuring or 
 mutiny." 
 
 It might be urged that section 5 of the " Articles 
 of Union" of 1858 entitled Past Grand officers to 
 membership for all time. That fallacy was so 
 thoroughly exposed in Chancellor Walworth's " opin- 
 ion" upon the "compact" of 1827 that it needs no 
 further discussion. Besides, section 5 before men- 
 tioned makes no reference to the future, but merely 
 says " the Grand Lodge is composed." The consti- 
 tution of 1854, five years later, and repubhshed in 
 
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 i860, and perhaps afterward,' does not include Past 
 Grand officers as members of the Grand Lodge. 
 Again, the same section 5 includes members of lodges 
 as members of the Grand Lodge — yet the constitu- 
 tion of 1873 has wholly excluded them from the 
 roll of members. Thus it may be considered estab- 
 lished that there can be no organic objection to lim- 
 iting the number of masters who shall hold seats in 
 the Grand Lodge. They might have a limited rep- 
 resentation in the Grand Lodge, as the Peers of 
 Scotland and Ireland have a limited representation 
 in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. The 
 manner of choosing is a matter of detail. It might be 
 by the vote of the several Masonic districts, or, to pre- 
 vent all possible unfairness, it might be by classes, ac- 
 cording to the seniority of warrants. Suppose there are 
 twenty Masonic districts, each having forty Lodges 
 The two oldest Lodges might be entitled to repre- 
 sentation the first year, the ten next oldest the sec- 
 ond year, and so on. The way is not material pro- 
 vided it does not violate equity, while the object to 
 be attained is most important. Sooner or later the 
 number must be cut down upon some just plan, or 
 else compensation from the Grand Lodge funds for 
 attendance must wholly cease. 
 
 ' I can refer only to such publications as I have in my library in the 
 country. 
 
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 But even if the number should be reduced, the 
 present extravagant rate of pay should be largely 
 reduced. Under the constitution of 1832 the Rep- 
 resentatives of City Lodges and Grand Officers re- 
 siding in the city received no pay. No Past Grand 
 Officer or Past Master, as such, from either city or 
 country, received any pay. One representative from 
 each Lodge out of the city was entitled to receive 
 $1.50 for every thirty miles travel going to and re- 
 turning from the Grand Lodge at the annual meet- 
 ing in June, and also $1.50 per day for attendance 
 (P. 37). This was before the days of railroads, and 
 five cents per mile was a very reasonable allowance for 
 stage, canal, or river fare and meals. After the country 
 Brother got to town he had his $1.50 per day only 
 while attending the Grand Lodge. There was no 
 allowance for time while traveling. The constitution 
 of 1854 (Ed. i860, sec. 105) gave to the representa- 
 tive his traveling expenses, $3 per day while traveling, 
 and $3 a day for attendance, and the like pay to Grand 
 Officers residing out of the city. Under this provision 
 city representatives received $3 per day for attend- 
 ance, the Master and Wardens of a Lodge in the 
 city or country counting as one representative. Past 
 Grand Officers as such were not members. The 
 Grand Lodge was then out of debt and had money 
 in its purse. How is it now.? Although the curious 
 constitution, etc., of 1873 (Ed. of 1877) has neither 
 
Holland Lodge. 117 
 
 index nor table of contents, I have found under the 
 heading of " Statutes" (sec. 5 of Article II.) that at 
 present representatives get the full amount of their 
 traveling expenses, $3 per day for their time while 
 traveling, and $5 per day for attendance. By sec- 
 tion 6 Grand Officers, not salaried, and Past Grand 
 Officers attending as such, get the same pay as Lodge 
 Representatives. Such is the state of things when 
 the Grand Lodge has a debt of $800,000 to provide 
 for. It presents a very discouraging outlook at a 
 time when the country Lodges are clamoring against 
 the " 50 cent fund," and when the times are black 
 with financial disaster and ruin. By-and-bye masses 
 of instructed representatives may abolish the "50 
 cent fund," raise an unreasoning howl for the " Asy- 
 lum," and bring the Fraternity to a point where the 
 revision of the pay-roll will become imperative in 
 order to save the " Hall." There are three remedies, 
 one of which ought soon to be adopted : 
 
 1. To cut down both Representatives and pay. 
 
 2. To throw the cost of representation upon the 
 Lodges, and cut off the pay of Past Grand Officers. 
 
 3. To make representation and membership of 
 all kinds purely honorary. 
 
 In case the representation should be reduced, 
 the Past Grand Officers might, if thought neces- 
 sary, be deprived of the right to vote. They might 
 be honored members of the Grand Lodge, not re- 
 
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 ducing its funds or wielding too much power as 
 against the Lodges. 
 
 I presume, brethren, that with this address my 
 active participation in Masonic labors will termi- 
 nate. I will therefore avail myself of this occasion 
 to entreat Holland Lodge to aid in creating a sen- 
 timent favorable to reducing the heavy expenses of 
 the annual communications. To show the necessity 
 for such a sentiment, let us glance at this subject 
 in the light of facts as presented by the records. 
 
 On the first of May last there was an indebted- 
 ness hanging over this temple of $778,046.20, be- 
 sides accrued interest amounting to $21,489.69, mak- 
 ing in round numbers a total of $800,000. The 
 Treasurer received during the Masonic year, from 
 May ist to May ist, $98,234.14, all of which he paid 
 out, about $64,000 going to the Hall and Asylum 
 fund, which actually owned over $52,000 of the 
 amount, in addition to its rents and other revenues 
 which do not, but should, pass through the Treas- 
 urer's books. Of the balance of $34,000 or there- 
 abouts, no less than $21,992.67, say $22,000, went to 
 pay the representatives of the Grand Lodge, leaving 
 $12,000 for all other expenses. Now, when we come 
 to look at these other expenses, how much do we 
 find credited to the great object of Masonry — char- 
 ity ? The pitiful sum of $760 ! — and, as if to cast 
 more glaring shame upon such a mean showing, we 
 
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 find the next item to be $500 for a testimonial ! 
 What a monstrous waste is this sum of $22,000, all 
 frittered away in three or four days, that a great 
 crowd of Masters, many of whom take little or no 
 part in the proceedings, may say they have attended 
 the Grand Lodge ! If it could be annually added 
 to the Hall and Asylum Fund, how soon would it 
 reduce the great debt to reasonable proportions, 
 close the mouths of the " 50 cent fund " agitators, 
 and stop the constant temporary loans from trust 
 companies ! A couple of thousands might be de- 
 voted to charity, and yet leave $20,000 for the re- 
 duction of the debt. And here I would remark that 
 it is pleasant to find a great improvement, begin- 
 ning with 1877, in the manner of making up the 
 Grand Treasurer's report for publication in the 
 " Transactions." Before that time, this important 
 paper consisted only of a general statement of the 
 gross sum received, the gross sum paid out, and the 
 balance on hand. On glancing at these previous 
 reports, I have not been able to find out how much 
 was expended for charity, and how much for other 
 purposes. But, of necessity, the chief expenditure 
 has for many years been the pay of the Grand Lodge, 
 and the "intolerable deal of sack," called mileage 
 and per diem, has always been out of all propor- 
 tion to the " bread " of charity. 
 
 Brethren of Holland Lodge ! I am happy to 
 
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 find that your own charities since my Mastership 
 have been on a generous scale. Between 1862 and 
 1877, both those years included, I find that you 
 have given in charity the sum of $17,111.99, which 
 on an average equals the sum of $1,069 Z^?- annum. 
 Of this amount the Chicago Fraternity, for whom 
 you contributed at the time of the great fire the 
 sum of $1,080, returned to you $267.44 as not 
 needed by them. I find also that between 1865 and 
 1873 you contributed as a gift to the Hall and Asy- 
 lum Fund the generous sum of $4,397, besides $250 
 subscribed toward the expenses of the dedication, 
 making a total of $4,647. Other liberal contributions 
 for the relief of worthy Masons, I believe, have been 
 made outside the Lodge, which do not appear on 
 the books ; and of your individual bounties only 
 One has knowledge. May His blessing rest upon 
 you ! 
 
 And now, brethren, let me congratulate you 
 upon the prosperity of your Lodge. I believe it~ 
 never before possessed a greater number or a better 
 class of members. Quality is better than quantity ; 
 but, when both are entirely satisfactory, what remains 
 to be desired ? I may at this time speak of Hol- 
 land Lodge -quite impersonally. Long absent from 
 the city, I am almost a stranger among you, and 
 many of you are known to me only through the 
 by-laws and that general knowledge which ancient 
 
Holland Lodge. 121 
 
 New-Yorkers have of " who is who." Years have 
 elapsed since I have attended one of your commu- 
 cations, and even now I leave my country retreat 
 only at your bidding. I, therefore, may bear tes- 
 timony to your worth, personal and Masonic, and 
 speak to the old toast of " our noble selves " with- 
 out at all seeming to include myself. Your muster- 
 roll of two hundred and twenty active members 
 promises well for your future ; but you should re- 
 member that large bodies sometimes fall apart by 
 their own weight, and it is therefore necessary to 
 cultivate cohesion, a proper esprit de corps, a warm 
 personal interest in the Lodge and its affairs, a 
 deep sense of individual and collective responsibil- 
 ity for its character and reputation. An institution 
 coeval with the Constitution of our nation may in 
 this new country justly be called venerable. You 
 know the familiar story of its renown in the past, 
 and you know it to be for its own sake entitled 
 to your love and veneration. The forefathers and 
 collateral relatives of many of you were among its 
 founders and early pillars; and they have left to 
 you upon its records the priceless treasure of good 
 and honorable names. Many whose exalted public 
 reputation is our common property, though they 
 were not of our blood, have knelt at its altar and 
 illustrated its annals. To be the successors of such 
 men is to assume a sacred trust, and binds you. 
 
122 Historical Sketches of 
 
 each for himself, and each for all, and all for each, 
 to maintain the high and noble character of this 
 ancient and eminent band of brothers. As indi- 
 viduals, we perish from off the face of the earth, and 
 the places that knew us know us no more forever. 
 But associations of men, bound together by a lofty 
 and living principle, may be immortal. Insensibly 
 the individuals are gathered into the embraces of 
 their mother Earth, but the Institution so assimi- 
 lates the new aliment which fills the gaps in its 
 system, that at the end of a century the Body re- 
 mains essentially the same as at the beginning. In 
 a sense, through the law of succession, all have been 
 contemporaries, melting into each other like the 
 geologic ages. Especially is this true of a Lodge 
 like this, where a just and reasonable family pride 
 leads the children to occupy the seats which their 
 fathers left vacant, as one by one they journeyed 
 away to the unknown world. 
 
 True, there is little constancy in mankind. They 
 tire of the associations of their youth, fall away from 
 them and forget them. This has been especially 
 true of Masonic associations, more so, no doubt, in 
 the past than the present. Without referring to 
 the decay and revival of the English Lodges, we 
 may instance as more immediately to the purpose 
 the Anti-Masonic excitement, which, owing to the 
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 forth like an angry meteor in 1826, culminated in 
 1830, and faded away in 1832. It filled the land 
 with unaffiliated and renouncing Masons, perma- 
 nently closed great numbers of Lodges, and gener- 
 ally unhinged, demoralized, and dispirited the Fra- 
 ternity. But, since the revival of Masonry in this 
 State, the brethren adhere more loyally to their 
 Lodges, are more steadfast in their attachment to 
 the craft, and are unmoved even by long-continued 
 financial disaster in the outer world. 
 
 I close this feeble address by urging you, dear 
 brethren, to be animated by the new spirit of loyal- 
 ty and zeal. Stand by the Lodge. Pass it down 
 to your successors in its fullest proportions of wis- 
 dom, strength, and beauty. Be true to its honor- 
 able traditions, jealous of its proud position, faith- 
 ful to its just requirements, and you will insure it 
 the blessing of Heaven, and entitle it to the rever- 
 ence of men. So mote it be. Amen. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 [A.] 
 
 THE ATHOLL CHARTER. 
 
 "No. 219. (Seal.) 
 
 ATHOLL, Grand Master. 
 WM. DICKEY, D. G. M. 
 JAMES JONES, S. G. W. 
 JAS. READ, J. G. W. 
 
 " To all whom it may Concern.'' 
 
 W.t i\t (irattb- ITobjt, of the Most Ancient and Honorable 
 FRATERNITY of FREE and ACCEPTED MASONS {ac- 
 cording to the old constitutions granted by his Royal Highness Prince 
 Edwin, at York, Anno Domini, Nine Hundred Twenty and Six, 
 and in the year of Masonry Four Thousand Nine Hundred Twen- 
 ty and Six^ in ample Form assembled, viz. : The Right Wor- 
 shipful and Most Noble Prince John the Third, Duke, Mar- 
 quis, and Earl of Atholl, Marquis and Earl Tullibardine, Earl 
 of Strathtay and Strathardle, Viscount of Balquider, Glenald- 
 mond and Glenlyon, Lord Murray, Belveny and Gask, Hered- 
 itable Captain and Constable of the Castle, and Constabulary 
 of Kincleaven, Hereditary Keeper of the Palace of Falkland, 
 one of the Sixteen Peers of Scotland, and in that part of Great 
 Britain called England and Masonical Jurisdiction thereunto 
 belonging, GRAND MASTER OF MASONS ; the Right Wor- 
 
126 Appendix. 
 
 shipful William Dickey, Esquire, Deputy Grand Master ; 
 the Right Worshipful James Jones, Esquire, Senior Grand 
 Warden ; and the Right Worshipful James Read, Esquire, 
 Junior Grand Warden; with the approbation and consent 
 of the Warranted Lodges held within the Cities and Suburbs 
 of London and Westminster ; do, by these Presents, authorize 
 and empower our Trusty and Well-beloved Brethren, Free and 
 Accepted Ancient Masons, who at the Time of this present 
 Writing, are or hereafter shall become Inhabitants of the Prov- 
 ince of New York, in North America, to congregate, form, and 
 hold a Provincial Grand Lodge in the City of New York and 
 Province of New York aforesaid, independent of any former 
 Dispensation, Warrant, or Constitution, ordered, given, or 
 granted by Us, or any of our Predecessors, Grand Masters of 
 England, to any Mason or Masons residing within the Mason- 
 ical Jurisdiction aforesaid ; such Provincial Grand Lodge, when 
 duly constituted, to be held Annually, Half-yearly, Quarterly, 
 Monthly, or at any seasonable Time or Times as occasions shall 
 require. And We do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint 
 our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Brother the Reverend 
 William Walter, Master of Arts, to be our Provincial Grand 
 Master; our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Brother John 
 Stedholme Browning, Esquire, to be our Provincial Senior 
 Grand Warden ; and our Right Trusty and Well-beloved 
 Brother the Reverend John Beardsley, Master of Arts, to be 
 our Provincial Junior Grand Warden, within the Masonical 
 Jurisdiction aforesaid ; who together with the aforesaid Pro- 
 vincial Grand Master and his Deputy, when appointed and in- 
 stalled, and Provincial Grand Wardens, shall be addressed by 
 the Stile and Title of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand 
 Master, Grand Wardens, &c. And We do hereby further 
 authorize and impower our said Right Worshipful Provincial 
 Grand Master, William Walter, his Deputy, and Grand War- 
 
Appendix. 1 2 7 
 
 dens, John Stedholme Browning, Esq., and John Beardsley, 
 with the Approbation and Advice of their Grand Lodge, to 
 grant Dispensations, Warrants, and Constitutions, for the con- 
 gregating and making Free and Accepted Masons, forming 
 and holding of Lodges within the Jurisdiction aforesaid, ac- 
 cording to the most Ancient and Honorable Custom of the 
 Royal Craft, in all Ages and Nations throughout the known 
 World. And We do, by these Presents, further authorize and 
 impower our said Trusty and Right Worshipful Brethren, the 
 Provincial Grand Master, Grand Wardens, and their legal Suc- 
 cessors, when in regular Grand Lodge formed, to hear, adjust, 
 and impartially determine all and singular Matters of Com- 
 plaint, Dispute, Debate, or Controversy, relative to the Craft 
 within the Jurisdiction aforesaid ; strictly requiring all and 
 every of our Worthy and Loving Brethren within the Jurisdic- 
 tion aforesaid to be conformable to all and every of the Good 
 Rules, Orders, Issues, and Decrees, which shall from Time to 
 Time be ordered, issued, or decreed by the said Right Wor- 
 shipful Provincial Grand Lodge ; herein reserving to ourselves 
 our ancient Prerogative of hearing Appeals, and Administration 
 of such Things as shall {bona fide) appear absolutely necessary 
 for the Honor and . Benefit of the Craft in General. And 
 lastly, We do hereby authorize and impower our said Trusty 
 and Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master and Grand 
 Wardens, together with their lawful Associates, being the in- 
 stalled Masters, Wardens, and Past Masters of the Regular 
 Lodges within the Jurisdiction aforesaid, in Grand Lodge 
 assembled, to nominate, chuse, and install, their Successors, to 
 whom they shall deliver this Warrant, and invest them with 
 their particular Jewels and Masonical Power and Dignities as 
 Provincial Grand Officers, &c., &c., &c. And such Succes- 
 sors shall in like Manner nominate, chuse, and install, &c., 
 their Successors, &c., &c., such Installation to be upon or near 
 
128 Appendix. 
 
 every Saint John's Day, the Twenty-fourth of June, during 
 the Continuance of the said Provincial Grand Lodge for ever. 
 Providing the said Right Worshipful William Walter, John Sted- 
 holme Browning, Esqr., John Beardsley, and all the Successors, 
 Grand Officers of the said Provincial Grand Lodge, do continu- 
 ually pay due Respect to the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge 
 of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and 
 Accepted Masons, by whom this Warrant is granted, otherwise 
 this Warrant and Constitution to be of no Force nor Virtue. 
 Given under our Hands and Seal of the Grand Lodge in 
 London, the fifth day of September, in the Year of our Lord, 
 One Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty and One, and in the 
 year of Masonry, Five Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty and 
 One, and in the Seventh Year of the Grand Mastership of his 
 Grace the Duke of Atholl, &c., &c., &c. 
 
 CHAR'S BEARBLOCK, Grand Secretary. 
 (Seal.) 
 
 Note. — This Warrant is Registered in the Grand Lodge, 
 Vol. 8, Letter H. 
 
 [B.] 
 
 Blank form of Warrant granted by Provincial Grand Lodge under 
 the Atholl Charter. {Copied from an old parchment^ 
 
 No. PROV. GRAND MASTER. 
 
 S. G. W. D. G. M. J. G. W. 
 
 To all whom it may concern : 
 
 By virtue of the powers and authorities given and granted 
 unto us by the Right Worshipful and Most Noble Prince John 
 the third, Duke and Marquise of Atholl, &c., &c., &c., Grand 
 Master of Masons in England, and the other Right Worshipful 
 
Appendix. 129 
 
 the officers of the Grand Lodge, according to the ancient con- 
 stitutions, in a Warrant under their hands and seals, dated at 
 London the 5th of September, Atmo Domini, 1781 ; we, the 
 Provincial Grand Officers, viz. : The Right Worshipful 
 
 Grand Master within the masonic jurisdiction of New 
 York, in North America ; the Right Worshipful 
 Deputy G. M. ; the R. W. S. G. W. ; the R. 
 
 W. J. G. W., with the consent and approba- 
 
 tion of the warranted Lodges held within the Provinces and 
 jurisdiction of New York aforesaid, in ample form assembled. 
 do, by these presents, authorize and empower our trusty and 
 well beloved brethren, viz. : 
 one of our Master Masons, 
 
 his Senior Warden, and his 
 
 J. W., to form and hold a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons 
 aforesaid, at on all seasonable times and lawful 
 
 occasions ; and, in the said Lodge (when duly congregated), to 
 admit and make Free Masons, according to the most ancient 
 and honorable custom of the Royal Craft, in all ages and na- 
 tions throughout the known world. And we do hereby further 
 authorize and empower our said trusty and well beloved breth- 
 ren, Messrs. 
 
 (with the consent of the members of their Lodge), to nominate, 
 choose and install their successors, to whom they shall deliver 
 this warrant, and invest with their power and dignities as Free 
 Masons, &c. ; and such successors shall, in like manner, nomi- 
 nate, choose, and install their successors, &c., &c., &c., such in- 
 stallations to be upon (or near) every St. John's Day, during 
 the continuance of this Lodge, forever, providing the above 
 named Brethren, and all their successors, always pay due re- 
 spect to this Right Worshipful Grand Lodge, otherwise this 
 Warrant be of no force nor virtue. 
 9 
 
130 Appeitdix. 
 
 Given under our hands, and the seal of our Grand Lodge, 
 in the city of New York, in North America, this 
 
 day of in the year of our Lord one thous- 
 
 and seven hundred in the 
 
 year of Masonry five thousand seven hundred 
 
 GRAND SECRETARY. 
 
 Note. — This Warrant is registered in the Provincial Grand 
 
 Lodge. 
 
 Vol. Letter. 
 
 [ C. ] 
 CHARTER OF HOLLAND LODGE, No. 8. 
 
 5th Sept., A. L. 5810. f 
 
 A petition from Holland Lodge, No. 8, in the city of New 
 York, stating that by a robbery committed on the Worshipful 
 Master the warrant of said Lodge had been lost, and praying 
 that a new warrant, to bear a corresponding date with the orig- 
 inal warrant, or otherwise so framed as to secure to the said 
 Lodge its former rank, should be granted, was presented and 
 read : whereupon it was resolved, that a new warrant should be 
 issued of this date, and that the said Lodge should hold the 
 same rank that it did under its former warrant, which was dated 
 on the 2oth September, A. D. 1787, and that a copy of this reso- 
 lution should be annexed to or engrossed on .the said new war- 
 rant. And it was further resolved that the customary fee be 
 remitted. 
 
 Extract from the minutes. 
 
 JOHN WELLS, 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 

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Appendix. 131 
 
 De Witt Clinton, Grand Master. 
 Martin Hoffman, D. Grand Master. 
 Cadwallader D. Golden, S. Grand Warden. 
 Philip S. Van Rensselaer, /. Grand Warden. 
 
 We the Grand Lodge of the most ancient and honorable 
 fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New 
 York, in ample form assembled, according to the old Constitu- 
 tions, regularly and solemnly established under the auspices of 
 Prince Edwin, at the city of York, in Great Britain, in the year 
 of Masonry 4926, viz. : — The Most Worshipful the Honorable 
 De Witt Clinton, Esq., Grand Master, the Right Worshipful 
 Martin Hoffman, Esq., Deputy Grand Master, the Right Wor- 
 shipful Cadwallader D. Colden, Esq., Senior Grand Warden, 
 the Right Worshipful the Hon. Philip S. Van Rensselaer, Esq., 
 Junior Grand Warden, Do by these Presents appoint, authorize, 
 and empower our worthy Brother, Elias Hicks, to be the Master ; 
 our worthy Brother, Hugh McLean, to be the Senior Warden, 
 and our worthy Brother, Stephen Price, to be the Junior War- 
 den of a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, to be, by virtue 
 hereof, constituted, formed and held at the city of New York, 
 in the State of New York, which Lodge shall be distinguished 
 by the name of Holland Lodge, No. 8. And the said Master 
 and Wardens, and their successors in office, are hereby respect- 
 ively authorized and directed by and with the assistance and 
 consent of a majority of the members of the said Lodge, duly 
 to be summoned and present upon such occasions, to elect and 
 install the officers of the said Lodge as vacancies happen, in 
 manner and form as is or may be prescribed by the Constitution 
 of this Grand Lodge. And further, the said Lodge is hereby 
 invested with full power and authority to assemble, upon proper 
 and lawful occasions, and to make masons, to admit members, 
 as also to do and perform all and every such acts and things 
 
132 Appendix. 
 
 appertaining to the Craft as have been and ought to be done 
 for the honor and advantage thereof : conforming in all their 
 proceedings to the Constitution of this Grand Lodge, otherwise 
 this warrant, and the powers hereby granted, to cease and be 
 of no further effect. 
 
 Given under our hands and seal of our Grand 
 
 ^oforand M °e°'' Lodge, in the city of New York, in North 
 
 Page America, this fifth day of September, in the 
 
 ( ' \ year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
 
 ( ^" ^' f dred and ten, and in the year of Masonry 
 
 five thousand eight hundred and ten. 
 
 JOHN WELLS, 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 
 Be it known that by an order of the R. W. Grand Lodge of 
 
 this date, the number of the within warrant was changed to the 
 
 name and style of, and the Lodge decreed to be Holland Lodge, 
 
 No. 16. 
 
 New York, June 4th, A. L. 5819. 
 
 E. HICKS, 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 
 I certify. That on the ist of December, A. L. 5830, the R. 
 W. Grand Lodge decreed that Holland Lodge should hereafter 
 rank as No. 13, being thereunto entitled by the date of this 
 warrant. 
 
 JAMES HERRING, 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 
 \ 
 
 This is to certify. That the Grand Lodge 
 ^;^ ) of the State of New York did ordain on the 
 7th of June, A. L. 5839, that Holland Lodge at 
 New York, in the county of New York, in the State of New 
 
Appendix. 133 
 
 York, shall be registered and known hereafter as Holland 
 Lodge, No. 8 (eight). 
 
 Given under my hand and seal of the Grand 
 Lodge, in the city of New York, the ist 
 day of June, A. L. 5850. 
 
 WILLIAM WILLIS, 
 
 Deputy Grand Master. 
 James Herring, 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 
 Warrant dated Sept. 20, 1787. 
 
 [ D. ] 
 
 CHARTER OF HOLLAND MARK LODGE, 
 
 No. 79. 
 
 EZRA AMES, Grand High Priest. 
 JOEL HART, Deputy Grand High Priest. 
 JOSEPH ENOS, Jr., Grand King. 
 JOHN BRUSH, Grand Scribe. 
 
 We, the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the State of New 
 York, in ancient form assembled, according to the Constitution 
 of the United States of America, viz. : 
 
 The Most Excellent, Ezra Ames, Grand High Priest, 
 The Most Excellent, Joel Hart, Deputy Grand 
 
 High Priest, 
 
 The Most Excellent Joseph Enos, Jr., Grand King, 
 
 The Most Excellent, John Brush, Grand Scribe, 
 
 Do by these Presents appoint, authorize and empower our 
 
 worthy Brother, Elias Hicks, to be Master, Robert McMennomy 
 
 to be Senior Warden, and Abraham P. Gibson to be Junior 
 
 Warden of a Lodge of Mark Master Masons, to be, by virtue 
 
 \'B 
 
1 34 Appendix. 
 
 hereof, formed, constituted, and holden in the City of New 
 York, which shall be distinguished by the name, style or title 
 of Holland Mark Lodge, No. Seventy-nine, and the said Elias 
 Hicks, Robert McMennomy, and Abram P. Gibson, and their 
 successors in office, are hereby respectively authorized and di- 
 rected, by and with the assistance and consent of a majority of 
 said Mark Lodge, duly to be notified and present upon such 
 occasion, to elect and install the officers of the said Mark Lodge, 
 as vacancies may happen, in manner and form as is or may be 
 prescribed by the Constitutions of the General Grand Royal 
 Arch Chapter, and the Regulations of this Grand Royal Arch 
 Chapter. 
 
 And further the said Mark Lodge is hereby invested with 
 
 full power and authority to assemble upon proper and lawful 
 
 occasions, and to advance Master Masons to the degree of Mark 
 
 Master, and to admit members ; and also to do and perform all 
 
 and every such acts and things appertaining to the Art, as have 
 
 been and ought to be done for the honor and advantage thereof, 
 
 conforming in all their proceedings to the Constitution of the 
 
 said General Grand Royal Arch Chapter, the Regulations of 
 
 this Grand Royal Arch Chapter, and paying their annual dues 
 
 regularly and punctually : otherwise this Warrant, and the 
 
 powers thereby granted, to cease and be of no further effect. 
 
 Given under our Hands, and the Seal of our Grand Royal 
 
 Arch Chapter, in the City of Albany, in North America, 
 
 this Eighth day of February, in the year of the Christian 
 
 Era One thousand Eight Hundred and Sixteen, and in 
 
 the year of Masonry Five thousand Eight hundred and 
 
 Sixteen. 
 
 ISAAC HEMPSTED, G. Secretary. 
 Registered in the Book of 
 the Grand Royal Arch Chap- 
 ter, Vol. , Page . 
 
Appendix. 135 
 
 (Old Handbill No. 1.) 
 
 Order of Procession 
 
 For the Celebration of the 
 
 Festival of St. John the Baptist, 
 
 June 24th, 1789. 
 
 KNIGHTS TEMPLARS 
 
 Holland Lodge in the following Order: 
 
 TYLER, 
 
 STEWARD. STEWARD. 
 
 MEMBERS, Two and Two. 
 
 TREASURER. SECRETARY. 
 
 JUNIOR WARDEN. SENIOR WARDEN. 
 
 PAST MASTERS. 
 
 A MASTER MASON, bearing the Warrant of the Lodge, supported 
 
 by two Brethren. 
 
 DEACON. 
 
 'W'%^%%%. DEACON 
 
 Jamaica Lodge, 
 
 " 
 
 
 Hirain Lodge, 
 
 No. 5. 
 
 
 Saint John's, 
 
 No. 4. 
 
 
 Saint Patrick's, 
 
 No. 212. 
 
 In the same order as 
 
 Lodge, 
 
 No. 210. 
 
 Hollamd Lodge. 
 
 Saint Andrew's, 
 
 No. 169. 
 
 
 Independent Royal 
 
 Arch, No. 8. 
 
 
 Saint John's, 
 
 No. 2. , 
 Band of Mu 
 
 sic. 
 
 GRAND TYLER. 
 
 VISITING BRETHREN of Distinction, who are not present or past 
 
 Grand Officers, Two and Two. 
 
 PAST GRAND OFFICERS, Two and Two. 
 
 GRAND TREASURER. GRAND SECRETARY. 
 
 sj JUNIOR G. WARDEN. SENIOR G. WARDEN. » 
 
 J CHAPLAIN. .« 
 
 Ir nwAnnw GRAND PURSUIVANT p TnrAPON I 
 
 I G. DEACON. ^^^^.„^ j^^ ^jj^j^^ G. DEACON. | 
 
 J D. G. MASTER, ^^.^'gg W^»M'§.. 0. MASTER of Georgia. | 
 ■& GRAND DEACON. GRAND DEACON. •& 
 
 !| KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. !^ 
 
 The Lodges are to assemble at Ten o'clock in the Morning, at the 
 places assigned them by the Grand Secretary.— The PROCESSION 
 •will move from the Coffee-House, and proceed through Queen-street 
 and Beekman-street to St. Paul's Chapel— and after SERVICE, return 
 through Broadway and Wall-street, to the Grand Lodge Room at the 
 Coffee House. — The Orand Stewards are to assist in forming and con- 
 ducting the Procession, and act as Masters of Ceremony. 
 
 JACOB MORTON, OramL Secretary. 
 New York, Jvm 2ith, 1789. 
 
1 36 Appendix. 
 
 (Old Handbill No. 2.) 
 [F. ] 
 
 REGULATIONS for the 24th June, 1795. 
 
 THE MASTERS OF LODGES will convene their re- 
 spective Lodges at the City Hall, at half-past nine o'clock, 
 A. M., as the procession will move at half-past ten precisely. 
 Rout of the Procession. 
 
 From the City Hall — clown Broad-street and through Beaver-street 
 and Broadway to the CHUEOH. 
 
 RETURN 
 
 From Church — down Beekman-street and through Pearl and Wall- 
 streets to the City Hal). 
 
 Order of the Procession. 
 
 BAND OF MUSIC. 
 
 KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. 
 
 ST. PATRIGirS LODGE, in the following order: 
 
 TYLER. 
 
 STEWARD. STEWARD. 
 
 Memherg two and two. 
 
 TREASURER. SECRETARY. 
 
 JUNIOR WARDEN. SENIOR WARDEN. 
 
 Past Masters — two and two. 
 
 A Master Mason, bearing the Warrant on a Cushion. 
 
 DEACON. 
 
 In the same order as St. Patricks 
 Lodge. 
 
 BAND OF MUSIC. 
 
 GRAND LODGE, in the following order: 
 
 GRAND TYLER. 
 
 PAST GRAND OFFICERS— two and two. 
 
 GRAND TREASURER. GRAND SECRETARY. 
 
 JUNIOR GRAND WARDEN.— SENIOR GRAND WARDEN. 
 
 GRAND CHAPLAINS. 
 
 GRAND DEACON. \ "-^^^^"^J^^'^R^i™^! GRAND DEACON. 
 ( Bearing the BIBLE. f 
 
 GRAND DEACON.— GRAND MASTER.— GRAND DEACON, 
 
 JOHN ABRAMS, 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 
 DEACON. 
 
 MAST 
 
 ER 
 
 V Ufiite America ine 
 
 LODGE 1 
 
 
 Phenix 
 
 Do. 
 
 
 Trinity . 
 
 Do. 
 
 
 Howard 
 
 Do. 
 
 
 Holland .... 
 
 Do. 
 
 /( 
 
 Hiram 
 
 Do. 
 
 " 
 
 St. John's, A'o. 6, . 
 
 Do. 
 
 
 St. Andrew''s 
 
 Do. 
 
 
 Independent Royal Arcli 
 
 Do. and 
 
 
 St. John's, No.l . 
 
 Do. 
 
 
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Appendix. \ 3 7 
 
 [ G. ]' 
 
 PROCEEDINGS UPON THE DEATH OF WASHING- 
 TON, JANUARY 3D, 1800, 
 
 A communication was received from the Grand Lodge cov- 
 ering the following resolutions thereof: 
 
 ist. That all the Lodges under their jurisdiction be clothed 
 in mourning for the space of six months, and that the brethren 
 also wear mourning for the same period. 
 
 2d. That a committee, consisting of the Right Worshipful 
 Brethren Jacob Morton, Martin Hoffman, Abraham Skinner, 
 Rainier John Vanden Broek, and Worshipful Brothers Cadwalla- 
 -der D. Golden and Peter Irving, be appointed to erect, at the 
 expense of the Grand Lodge, a monumental memorial to the 
 virtues of our illustrious departed Brother, George Washington, 
 to be placed in the room occupied by the Grand Lodge for its 
 sittings. 
 
 3d. That this committee have power to meet and confer 
 w'ith such other committees of our feiUow citizens as shall be 
 appointed, to devise some public testimonials in respect to the 
 memory of our departed Brother. 
 
 4th. That the Grand Secretary write circular letters to the 
 different Grand Lodges in the United States, condoling with 
 them on the mournful event. ,-. <'- 
 
 5th. That the Grand Secretary forward immediately a copy 
 of these resolutions to the several Lodges in this State. 
 
 Whereupon, on motion of Brother Glass, it was resolved that 
 a committee, consisting of Brothers Robertson, Rodman and 
 Glass, be appointed, with power to confer with a committee of 
 Howard Lodge, for the purpose of clothing the Lodge room 
 with such mourning as will suitably testify our respect and ven- 
 eration for the character of our worthy departed Brother. 
 
138 Appendix. 
 
 [ H. 1 
 
 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CERTIFICATES. 
 
 Extracted from Minutes of Jan. 16, 1789. 
 
 The Committee, consisting of the Senior Warden, Junior 
 Warden, and Secretary, appointed to draft Certificates for hon- 
 orary and ordinary members, made the following Report, which 
 was taken into consideration and agreed to, viz. : 
 
 Form of a Certificate to an Honorary Metnber. 
 In the East a Place of Light, And the Darkness 
 
 Where Peace and Silence reign. Comprehended it not. 
 
 To all men enlightened and spread abroad on the face of 
 the earth. Greeting : 
 
 We, the Master, Wardens, and Brethren of Holland Lodge, 
 ancient Masons, held in the City and State of New York, in 
 North America, do hereby certify that, in consideration of the 
 
 masonic virtues which distinguish our worthy Brother , he 
 
 was unanimously elected an Honorary Member of our said 
 Lodge. 
 
 In testimony whereof, we, the Master and Wardens, 
 have hereunto set our hands, and caused the seal 
 of the Lodge to be affixed, this — day of — , 
 A. D. 1789, and A. M. 5789. 
 
 Master. 
 Senior Warden. 
 
 Junior Warden. 
 Attest, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 IHl 
 
Appendix. 139 
 
 Form of Certificate to an Ordinary Member. 
 In the East a Place of Light And the Darkness 
 
 Where Peace and Silence reign. Comprehended it not. 
 
 To all men enlightened and spread abroad on the face of 
 the earth, Greeting : 
 
 We, the Master, Wardens, and Brethren of Holland Lodge, 
 ancient Masons, held in the City and State of New York, in 
 
 North America, do hereby certify, that our Brother , who 
 
 has signed his name in the margin hereof, is a Master Mason, 
 and a member of our said Lodge ; and as his conduct, during 
 his continuance among us, has been truly masonic, we recom- 
 mend him to all the Fraternity to whom he may exhibit these 
 presents. 
 
 In testimony whereof, we, the Master and Wardens, 
 have hereunto set our hands, and caused the seal 
 of the Lodge to be affixed, this — day of — , 
 A. D. 1789, and A. M. 5789. 
 
 Master. 
 
 Senior Warden. 
 Junior Warden. 
 
 Attest, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 The committee further report that the practice of using rib- 
 bon in sealing certificates appears to have originated from the 
 mode in which the seal was formerly applied, which was ap- 
 pendant, and consisted of two impressions, and not from any 
 more essential design ; and as the seal of Holland Lodge makes 
 but one impression, being without a reverse, they submit to the 
 Lodge the propriety of laying it aside. They think themselves 
 justified on this recommendation, as they cannot see any uspful 
 purpose it can answer, and as the certificates granted by the 
 Grand Lodge of England, and some very respectable Lodges in 
 the United States, are without it. 
 
 {Ill 
 
140 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 [ I- ] 
 
 A List of the Officers of Holland Lodge, No. 8, from the period 
 of its foundation, Sept. 20, 5787. 
 
 VEAR 
 
 MASTER. 
 
 5787 
 
 John Meyer, 
 
 5788 
 
 R. J. Vanden Broek, 
 
 5789 
 
 R. J. Vanden Broek, 
 
 5790 
 
 John Stagg, Jr., 
 
 5791 
 
 John Pintard, 
 
 5792 
 
 John Abrams, 
 
 5793 
 
 John F. Roorbach, 
 
 5794 
 
 De Witt Clinton, 
 
 5795 
 
 Wm. Henderson, 
 
 5796 
 
 John Abrams, 
 
 5797 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5798 
 
 John Jacob Astor, 
 
 5799 
 
 Wm. Irving, Jr., 
 
 5800 
 
 Wm. Irving, Jr., 
 
 5801 
 
 Alexander S. Glass, 
 
 5802 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5803 
 
 Nathan Sandford, 
 
 5804 
 
 John Rodman, 
 
 580s 
 
 Ad. C. Van Slyck, 
 
 5806 
 
 Alexander S. Glass, 
 
 5807 
 
 Ebenezer Irving, 
 
 5808 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5809 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5810 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5811 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5812 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5813 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5814 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5815 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5816 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5817 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5818 
 
 Abm. Lott, 
 
 5819 
 
 Abm. Lott, 
 
 5820 
 
 Abm. Lott, 
 
 5821 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5822 
 
 Stephen Price, 
 
 5823 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 5824 
 
 Wm. Delafield, 
 
 5825 
 
 Edmund Kortright, 
 
 5826 
 
 Edmund Kortright, 
 
 5827 
 
 Edward Seaman, 
 
 5828 
 
 Edward Seaman, 
 
 5829 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 5830 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 5831 
 
 George Davis, 
 
 5832 
 
 George Davis, 
 
 5833 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 S834 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 SENIOR WARDEN. 
 
 Henry Benson, 
 Henry Benson, 
 John Stagg, Jr., 
 John Pintard, 
 John Abrams, 
 John F. Roorbach, 
 De Witt Clinton, 
 Wm. Henderson, 
 Wm. Wilmerding, 
 Henry Huntington, 
 John Jacob Astor, 
 Wm. Irving, Jr., 
 John H. Moore, 
 Alexander S. Glass, 
 J. M'D. Lawrence, 
 Nathan Sandford, 
 Thos. Wm. Moore, 
 Ad. C. Van Slyck, 
 Ebenezer Irving, 
 Sam**! A. Lawrence, 
 Joshua E. R. Birch, 
 Joseph D. Fay, 
 Joseph D. Fay, 
 Hugh M'Lean, 
 Stephen Price, 
 Stephen Price, 
 Barent Gardenier, 
 Walter Willis, 
 Walter Willis, 
 Robt. M'Mennomy, 
 Abm. P. Gibson, 
 Benj. P. Kissam, 
 Benj. P. Kissam, 
 Benj. P, Kissam, 
 Edward Seaman, 
 Wm. Delafield, 
 Harris Blood, 
 Francis Earretto, Jr., 
 Chas. L. Livingston, 
 Edward Seaman, 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 George Davis, 
 George Davis, 
 D. K. Minor, 
 D. K. Minor, 
 D. K. Minor, 
 D. K. Minor, 
 
 JUNIOR WARDEN. 
 
 Henry A. Coster, 
 Henry A. Coster, 
 Wm. Wilcocks, 
 Edward Livingston, 
 Samuel Low, 
 Matth. M. Clarkson, 
 John Speyer, 
 W. I. Vredenburgh, 
 David Jones, 
 Elias Hicks, 
 John Onderdonk, 
 John H. Moore, 
 Alex. Robertson, 
 John Rodman, 
 Hugh M'Lean, 
 Thos. Wm. Moore, 
 Ad. C. Van Slyck, 
 James Heard, 
 Andrew Ogden, 
 Samuel Van Wyck, 
 David Longworth, 
 Robt. M'Menuomy, 
 John V. B. Varick, 
 Stephen Price, 
 Walter Willis, 
 Geo. A. Bibby, 
 Isaac G. Ogden, 
 Gilbert E. Russell, 
 Robt. McMennomy, 
 Abm. P. Gibson, 
 Abm. Lott, 
 Joseph E. Varnum, 
 Andrew S. Garr, 
 Edward Seaman, 
 John D. Meyer, 
 Francis Barretto, Jr., 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 Edmund Kortright, 
 R. U. Lang, 
 Jacob T. Berry, 
 John Neilson, Jr., 
 Fredk. C. Barber, 
 Daniel K. Minor, 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 Elias Hicks, 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
Appendix. 
 
 141 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 MASTER. 
 
 SENIOR WARDEN. 
 
 JUNIOR WARDEN. 
 
 5835 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 D. K. Minor, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 S83S 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 D. K. Minor, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 5837 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 D. K. Minor. 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 5838 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 5839 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 Thomas Longworth. 
 
 5840 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 5841 
 
 B, R. Winthrop, 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 584= 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 5843 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 5844 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 George Davis, 
 
 584s 
 
 B. R. Winthrop, 
 
 Thomas Longworth, 
 
 Cjeorge Davis, 
 
 5846 
 
 J. Horton Rodgers, 
 
 Wm. H. Milnor, 
 
 J. V. D. Wyckoff. 
 
 5847 
 
 W. H. Milnor, 
 
 D. H. C. McCloskey, ' 
 
 Gerardus Boyce, 
 
 5848 
 
 W. H. Milnor, 
 
 D. H. C. McCloskey, 
 
 Gerardus Boyce, 
 
 5849 
 
 W. H. Milnor, 
 
 George Ackerman, 
 
 N. N. Halsted, 
 
 5850 
 
 N. N. Halsted, 
 
 Schuyler Livingston, 
 
 Frederick Fawcett, 
 
 5851 
 
 Frederick Fawcett, 
 
 Thomas Dugan, Jr., 
 
 J. J. Crane, M. D., 
 
 S852 
 
 J. J. Crane, M. D., 
 
 Samuel A. Rollo, 
 
 James M. Hicks, 
 
 5853 
 
 J. J. Crane, M.D., 
 
 Samuel A. Rollo, 
 
 A. H. Bartlett, 
 
 5854 
 
 J. J. Crane, M.D., 
 
 Samuel A. Rollo, 
 
 Alex. Frear, 
 
 5855 
 
 Samuel A. Rollo, 
 
 Alex. Frear, 
 
 A. H. Bartlett, 
 
 5856 
 
 J.J. Crane, M.D., 
 
 Alex. Frear, 
 
 A. H. Bartlett, 
 
 5857 
 
 Alex. Frear, 
 
 A. H. Bartlett, 
 
 Henry Walters, 
 
 5858 
 
 J. J. Crane, M. D., 
 
 A. H. Bartlett, 
 
 Joseph N. Balestier, 
 
 5859 
 
 J. J. Crane, M. D., 
 
 Joseph N. Balestier, 
 
 Jotham Post, 
 
 5860 
 
 Joseph N. Balestier, 
 
 Jotham Post, 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo, 
 
 5861 
 
 Jotham Post, 
 
 Horace S. Taylor, 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo, 
 
 5862 
 
 Jotham Post, 
 
 Horace S. Taylor, 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo, 
 
 5863 
 
 Horace S. Taylor, 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo, 
 
 John J. Townsend, 
 
 5864 
 
 Horace S. Taylor, 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo, 
 
 John J. Townsend, 
 
 5865 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo, 
 
 John J. Townsend, 
 
 Edward Bill, 
 
 5866 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo, 
 
 John J. Townsend, 
 
 J. P. P. White, 
 
 5867 
 
 John J. Townsend, 
 
 Samuel Jones, 
 
 E. B. Spaulding, 
 
 5868 
 
 Samuel Jones, 
 
 J. P. P. White, 
 
 E. B. Spaulding, 
 
 5869 
 
 Samuel^Jones, 
 
 J. P. P. White, 
 
 Edward Bill, 
 
 587° 
 
 J. P. P. White, 
 
 Samuel Jones, 
 
 John T. Conover, 
 
 5871 
 
 J. P. P. White, 
 
 John D. Prince, 
 
 Lawrence Wells, 
 
 5872 
 
 John D. Prince, 
 
 Lawrence Wells, 
 
 Cadwalader Evans, 
 
 5873 
 
 Lawrence Wells, 
 
 Cadwalader Evans, 
 
 John Benjamin, 
 
 5874 
 
 Lawrence Wells, 
 
 Cadwalader Evans, 
 
 John Benjamin, 
 
 5875 
 
 Cadwalader Evans, 
 
 John Benjamin, 
 
 H. L. Cole, 
 
 5876 
 
 Cadwalader Evans, 
 
 John Benjamin, 
 
 Murray Livingston, 
 
 5877 
 
 John Benjamin, 
 
 H. I. Nicholas, 
 
 James Benkard. 
 
LIST OF THE PRESENT MEMBERS 
 
 OF 
 
 HOLLAND LODGE, No. 8, 
 
 . June, 1878. 
 
 Andrews, George P. 
 Alley, George B. 
 Arnold, Glover C. 
 Arnold, Robert T. 
 Adams, Peter C. 
 Anthon, Edward. 
 
 B. 
 
 Bill, Edward. 
 Bell, Molyneux. 
 Barlow, Samuel L. M. 
 Bates, C. Francis. 
 Balestier, Joseph N. 
 Brevoort, H. W. 
 Black, Charles N. 
 Bell, Isaac. 
 Bill, Charles K. 
 Belknap, Henry. 
 Black, Edward G. 
 Bowne, John. 
 Benkard, James. 
 Barger, Samuel F. 
 Borrowe, Samuel. 
 Benjamin, John, 
 Breslin, James H. 
 Bayard, James A., Jr. 
 Bryce, James, Jr. 
 Bazley, John E. 
 Browne, George. 
 Bell, Isaac, Jr. 
 
 Brown, W. I. 
 Belmont, Perry. 
 Browne, George B. 
 
 C. 
 
 Crane, John J. 
 Crerar, John. 
 Carhart, Thomas F. 
 Coleman, William T. 
 Camochan, J. M. 
 Clitz, Henry B. 
 Cottenet, Edward L. 
 Cooper, Edward. 
 Chadwick, H. A. 
 Conover, John T. 
 Crosby, Joshua W. 
 Corning, E. L. 
 Coster, George W. 
 Conover, Warren A. 
 Games, Lewis M. 
 Carey, Henry T. 
 Campbell, George W., Jr. 
 Crosby, J. Schuyler. 
 Crosby, Joseph E. 
 Cole, Hugh L. 
 Clayton, Charles H. 
 Chisolm, Alexander R. 
 Chase, Edward E. 
 Cromwell, Oliver E. 
 Cheesman, Timothy M., Jr. 
 Coxe, Heniy B. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 143 
 
 D. 
 
 Dwinelle, W. H. 
 Davis, Ansley S. 
 Deas, Zachariah C. 
 Dunham, Sumner T. 
 Dunbar, James M. 
 
 Evans, CadwaJader. 
 Elliott, R. S. 
 
 F. 
 Frear, Alexander. 
 Fearing, Henry S. 
 French, Thomas Jefferson. 
 Findlay, Andrew, Jr. 
 Fearing, Charles F. 
 Fay, Alonzo Goodrich. 
 Field, E. G. 
 Fellowes, Ernest T. 
 Frasse, Peter A. 
 Frothingham, Charles F. 
 
 G. 
 Gardner, Peter. 
 Gaylor, James. 
 Gilbert, S. Arthur. 
 Greenougb, Charles B. 
 Griffin, Samuel P. 
 Guernsey, Egbert. 
 Grade, Charles K. 
 Gillman, John R. 
 Goodall, Albert G. 
 Gurnee, Walter S., Jr. 
 Grant, James. 
 Grymes, C. Alfred. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hicks, James M. 
 Hoffman, J. O. 
 Hurxthal, Benjamin. 
 Hone, John P. 
 House, Samuel T. 
 Hawkes, Charles K. 
 Hildreth, D. M. 
 
 Henriques, William H. 
 Howe, Joseph W. 
 Haight, D. L. 
 Hodson, J. F. P. 
 Harriman, E. H. 
 Henry, Morris H. 
 Hammond, Henry B. 
 HoUister, H. H. 
 Hurst, F. W. J. 
 Hatch, N. W. T. 
 Hecksche.r, John G. 
 
 I. 
 
 Isaacs, Montefiore. 
 
 J- 
 Jones, Samuel. 
 Jerome, Lawrence R. 
 Jones, Edward R. 
 Johnson, S. Davis. 
 
 K. 
 Kuhne, Frederick. 
 King, Oliver K. 
 Knapp, Shepard F. 
 King, John M. 
 Kitchen, James. 
 Kirkus, William. 
 
 L. 
 Leslie, Frank. 
 Losee, Theron. 
 Lorillard, Pierre. 
 Laing, Alexander K. 
 Lorillard, Louis L. 
 Livingston, Murray. 
 Leadley, Frederick H. 
 
 M. 
 Mott, Alexander B. 
 Miller, George M. 
 .McLean, George \V. 
 Morrison, George A. 
 McFarland, William W 
 McCarty, Thomas. 
 Mott, Thaddeus P. 
 Morgan, William F 
 
144 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 MiUen, Francis F. 
 McNab, Charles. 
 McClure, William. 
 Minton, Charles A. 
 McBride, Thomas A. 
 
 N. 
 Neill, Edward M. 
 Natorp, Gustave. 
 Nicholas, H. I. 
 Newcombe, Isaac B. 
 
 O. 
 
 Oakley, Henry C. 
 Osborn, Charles J. 
 
 Pinkney, John M. 
 Peabody, Augustus S. 
 Prince, John D. 
 Pond, Anson Phelps. 
 Peet, William E. 
 Phelps, Charles Harris. 
 Perry, Edward W. 
 
 R. 
 Russell, Henry G. 
 Rapallo, Charles A. 
 Remsen, Robert G. 
 Robert, Frederick. 
 Raymond, C. M. 
 Ring, George W. 
 
 Sears, J. Newton. 
 Stevens, John B. 
 Swan, Benjamin L., Jr. 
 Spaulding, E. B. 
 Scott, James. 
 Speyers, Albert. 
 Seton, Alfred L. 
 Sutton, Eben. 
 Sturgis, Applelon. 
 Schmidt, Leopold. 
 Swan, William L. 
 Schermerhorn, Alfred. 
 
 Schermerhorn, William B. 
 Smith, Charles Howden. 
 Smith, D. Henry. 
 Suydam, D. Lydig. 
 Sturgis, Frank K. 
 Strong, W. E. 
 Snelling, Frederick G. 
 Scranton, G. B. 
 Selover, A. A. 
 Spofford, Gardiner S. 
 Schieffelin, Edgar S. 
 Stillman, James. 
 Shoppell, Robert W. 
 
 T. 
 Taylor, Horace S. 
 Townsend, John J. 
 Thompson, Charles H. 
 Thompson, H. H. 
 Taylor, James T. 
 Tappan, J. Nelson. 
 Tileston, Henry. 
 Tileston, J. Davis. 
 Talman, G. H. 
 
 Van Vliet, Stewart. 
 Vance, John L. 
 Vande%ort, Wm. LI 
 Vanderpoel, Jacob. 
 
 W. 
 
 Watson, E. L. 
 
 Winchester, Thomas D. 
 , Wright, Charles L. 
 ! Wilson, John T. 
 ' White, J. P. P. 
 j Whitney, Stephen. 
 
 Warren, J. Kearney. 
 
 Work, Frank. 
 
 Williams, A. D. 
 
 Wheeler, Thomas M 
 
 Wood, W. Stanard. 
 
 Wells, Lawrence. 
 
 Wolft', Aaron, Jr. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 145 
 
 Wolff, Charles G. 
 Watts, George B. 
 Whipple, John. 
 Williams, W. B. 
 Wilmerding, J. Currie. 
 Wilmerding, F. B. 
 
 Williams, Thomas B. 
 Worden, Daniel T. 
 Woodward, William, Jr. 
 
 Young, William. 
 
A LIST OF LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 1878. 
 
 *Jotham Post December 13th, 5863 
 
 Robert G. Remsen " 13*, 5863 
 
 *HenryH.Ward ••.•• " 13th, 5863 
 
 *George F. Woodward January 24th, 5864 
 
 *Thomas S. Clark " 24th, 5864 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo " 26th, 5864 
 
 John T. Conover March 8th, 5864 
 
 John J. Crane " 22d, 5864 
 
 Alexander Frear " 22d, 5864 
 
 John M. Pinckney " 22d, 5864 
 
 John Crerar May 24th, 5864 
 
 *John H. Wainwright September ist, 5864 
 
 Alexander B. Mott " 13th, 5864 
 
 Theron Losee " 27th, 5864 
 
 H. W. Brevoort December 13th, 5864 
 
 E. L. Watson January 24th, 5865 
 
 *S. D. Bradford March 14th, 5865 
 
 *Hiram Cranston " 14th, 5865 
 
 Charles K. Hawkes May 23d, 5865 
 
 A. K. Laing October 24th, 5865 
 
 *C. S. Brown " 24th, 58C5 
 
 Molyneux Bell December nth, 5866 
 
 Eben. Sutton March 12th, 5867 
 
 J. Newton Sears April gth, 5867 
 
 Benjamin Hurxthal December gth, 5867 
 
 S.A.Gilbert " loth, 5B67 
 
 E. L. Corning September 24th, 5867 
 
 H. G. Russell November 26th, 5867 
 
 gFrank Jones February nth, 586S 
 
 William T. Coleman " 25th, 5868 
 
 *Dead. §Demieted. 
 
Appendix. 147 
 
 Frank Work Februry 25th, 5868 
 
 D. M. Hildreth " nth, 5868 
 
 George M. Miller October 13th 5868 
 
 *St. Clair Smith January 12th 5869 
 
 Henry S. Fearing September 14th, 5869 
 
 George W. McLean October 26th, 5869 
 
 Isaac Bell January nth, 5870 
 
 Samuel F. Barger " nth, 5870 
 
 Horace S. Taylor " 25th, 5870 
 
 A. D. Williams " 25th, 5870 
 
 Frank Leslie " 25th, 5870 
 
 William L. Swan April 26th, 5870 
 
 Warren A. Conover October 25th, 5870 
 
 Edward G. Field March 26th, 5872 
 
 John D. Prince January 14th, 5873 
 
 Lawrence Wells '. " 14th, 5873 
 
 Aaron Wolff, Jr " 28th, 5873 
 
 Charles G. Wolff " 28th, 5873 
 
 A. A. Selover " 28th, 5873 
 
 Charles H. Thompson April 22d, 5873 
 
 Pierre Lorillard June loth, 5873 
 
 Louis L. Lorillard " loth, 5873 
 
 Charles J. Osborn " loth, 5873 
 
 Thaddeus P. Mott " 13th, 5873 
 
 Gardiner S. Spofford July 30th, 5873 
 
 Charles H. Clayton November nth, 5873 
 
 Anson P. Pond February 14th, 5874 
 
 Benjamin L. Swan, Jr June 15th, 5875 
 
 John Bowne November 23d, 5875 
 
 Peter Gardner January 25th, 5876 
 
 Charles B. Greenough " .25th, 5876 
 
 H. H. HoUister December I2th, 5876 
 
 William Woodward, Jr March 13th, 5877 
 
 James Stillman December nth, 5877 
 
 Robert W. Shoppell January 22d, 5878 
 
 * Dead. § Demitted. 
 
[K. ] 
 
 A LIST OF THE MEMBERS 
 
 HOLLAND LODGE, No. 8, 
 
 From its Foundation, Sept. 20, 5787, to June 11, 5878. 
 
 Note. — t Adjoining Members. % Past Masters of other Lodges. 
 
 H Honorary Members. 
 
 IN CAPITALS— Past Masters of Holland Lodge. 
 
 A. 
 
 5852 Adams, Peter C. 
 
 15789 ABRAMS, JOHN. 
 
 Assur, Assure. 
 
 \X Anthon, George. 
 
 Ayres, Robert. 
 
 5790 ASTOR, JOHN JACOB. 
 
 5855 Ames, W. H. 
 
 5791 Auld, Robert. 
 
 Anthon, John H. (G. M.) 
 
 Aborn, Henry. 
 
 5856 Angell, B. G. 
 
 5792 Abbott, James. 
 
 5861 Andrews, George P. 
 
 +5793 Armour, Samuel. 
 
 5862 Abbott, R. 0. 
 
 Ambler, Benjamin. 
 
 5863 Anthon, George C. 
 
 5794 Ammidon, Otis. 
 
 5864 Atkins, James. 
 
 5799 Adams, William 
 
 5865 Alley, George B. 
 
 5803 Anthon, George, Jr.. 
 
 Adams, H. M. 
 
 5804 Aarons, J. L. 
 
 5875 Arnold, Glover C. 
 
 5812 Ash, Thomas. 
 
 5876 Arnold, Robert T. 
 
 5814 Avery, Fidelius. 
 
 +5878 Anthon, Edward. 
 
 5815 Alsop, Richard, Jr. 
 
 
 5817 Azemonti, Joseph. 
 
 B. 
 
 Andrews, Isaiah T. 
 
 5787 Benson, Henry. 
 
 Aulick, John H. 
 
 \ Baehr, Christian. 
 
 5819 Arnold, William. 
 
 5788 Bedford, Joseph, 
 
 AUport, James. 
 
 t Beck, C. L. 
 
 5820 Allyn, Francis. 
 
 •t-5789 Bright, George. 
 
 5826 Anderson, David. 
 
 f Beckley, John. 
 
 5827 Aster, Benjamin. 
 
 f Barretto, Francis. 
 
 5851 Atkins, John, 
 
 5790 Brooks, Michael. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 149 
 
 5790 Buxton, Charles. 
 
 t5849 
 
 Bachelor, Joel. 
 
 Bleeuker, Garrit N. 
 
 5850 
 
 Barclay, De Lancey. 
 
 57gi Burling, Giilian. 
 
 
 Barclay, Frederick W. 
 
 f5792 Butler, Norman. 
 
 5851 
 
 Bill, Edward. 
 
 f Brown, Benedict L. 
 
 
 Barry, S. J. W. 
 
 5793 Barr, William. 
 
 
 Bell, Molyneux. 
 
 Brower, Abraham. 
 
 
 Brown, J. W. 
 
 Brochez, Alexander. 
 
 
 Bostwick, Leonard. 
 
 Bogert, James, Jr. 
 
 
 Bevier, J. L. 
 
 Bainbridge, John T. 
 
 5852 
 
 Beardsley, L. T. 
 
 5794 Brauer, Coenradt D. 
 
 
 Bogardus, F. L. 
 
 Baehr, Daniel. 
 
 
 Betts, John S. 
 
 5798 Beekman, Gerard G. 
 
 f5853 
 
 Bartlett, A. H. 
 
 5799 Brooks, John B. 
 
 
 Barlow, Samuel L. M. 
 
 Brasher, Abraham K. 
 
 
 Battersby, J. C. 
 
 5800 Birch, Joshua E. R. 
 
 5854 
 
 Bates, C. Francis. 
 
 Boyd, Robert G. 
 
 
 Berry, Captain Michael. 
 
 5803 Boss, John R. 
 
 5855 
 
 BALESTIER, JOSEPH N 
 
 5809 Baglehole, Charles. 
 
 5856 Bridge, L. K. 
 
 5810 Bibby, James H. 
 
 5857 
 
 Bartlett, William E. 
 
 Bibby, George A. 
 
 5860 
 
 Brevoort, H. W. 
 
 Brevoort, Heni-y, Jr. 
 
 
 Black, Charles N. 
 
 5811 Bronson, Oliver. 
 
 5861 
 
 Bell, Isaac. 
 
 5812 Blake, John. 
 
 5862 
 
 Bronson, Henry G. 
 
 5813 Bibby, Gouverneur S. 
 
 
 Bradford, S. Dexter, Jr. 
 
 5814 Bacot, Jr., Thomas W. 
 
 5863 
 
 Baird, Andrew. 
 
 Bailey, Floyd S. 
 
 
 Bankhead, John P. 
 
 Bleecker, William. 
 
 
 Bill, Charles K. 
 
 Bucknor, William G. 
 
 5864 Belknap, Henry. 
 
 5815 Beebe, Samuel I. 
 
 
 Betts, John S., Jr. 
 
 5816 Burk, Thomas. 
 
 
 Burns, Walter H. 
 
 f Bailey, James. 
 
 
 Blakesley, Charles E. E. 
 
 5817 Bond, Thomas. 
 
 5865 
 
 Black, Edward G. 
 
 f5820 Barretto, Francis, Jr. 
 
 
 Bradford, Richard M. 
 
 Blood, Harris. 
 
 
 Brown, Clarence S. 
 
 5821 Berry, Jacob T. 
 
 5866 
 
 Bierstadt, Albert. 
 
 Barnewall, Edward. 
 
 5867 
 
 Bunker, William E. 
 
 5823 Boyd, John T. 
 
 5868 
 
 Benkard, James. 
 
 BuUus, Oscar. 
 
 
 Barger, Samuel F. 
 
 Bartlett, John S. 
 
 
 Bowdoin, George R., Jr. 
 
 5824 Bartlett, Charles F. 
 
 
 Bowne, John. 
 
 f5825 Barber, Frederick C. 
 
 5870 
 
 Bayley, J. Roosevelt. 
 
 5828 Bache, James F. 
 
 5871 
 
 Borrowe, Samuel. 
 
 15846 Boyce, Gerardus. 
 
 
 Bancker, Thomas A. 
 
 5849 Bache, James T. 
 
 
 Benjamin, John. 
 
I50 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 5871 Barclay, H. S. 
 Breslin, James H. 
 
 5872 Bayard, James A., Jr. 
 Bryce, James. 
 
 5873 Berdell, Theodore. 
 
 5874 Bazley, John E. 
 Browne, George. 
 Bell, Isaac, Jr. 
 
 5876 Brown, W. I. 
 5878 Belmont, Perry, 
 f Brown, George B. 
 
 5787 Cammann, Charles L. 
 
 Coster, Henry A. 
 
 Couvenhoven, Edward. 
 
 Coster, John G. 
 ■|-5788 Collin, Peter. 
 ■|-5790 Clarkson, Matthew M. 
 
 CLINTON, DE WITT. 
 % Colden, Cadwallader D. 
 
 57gi Colpoys, George. 
 
 Cruger, Tilleman. 
 
 Codwise, George, Jr.. 
 
 Caprelle, John I. 
 
 5792 Crosby, John. 
 
 \ Chapman, John. 
 
 Catlin, Lynde. 
 
 5793 Cooke, Nicholas. 
 
 \ Campbell, Charles. 
 
 Cushing, Benjamin. 
 Caponi, John. 
 
 5794 Carroll, Anthony. 
 Conklin, Joseph, Jr. 
 
 t5795 Chapman, Joseph. 
 Catlin, Aaron. 
 
 5797 Clapp, Samuel. 
 
 5798 Cook, John. 
 Cadberry, Henry. 
 Cozine, Oliver L. 
 
 5799 Cammann, Peter A. 
 
 5801 Cock, George. 
 
 5802 Cammann, Augustus F. 
 
 5803 Cromwell, John I. 
 
 5804 Clark, Samuel S. 
 
 5806 Crowell, Benjamin. 
 Chatterton, Thomas. 
 
 5807 Colbeck, Philip F. 
 Cook, Charles, Jr. 
 
 5809 Clark, Richard Spencer. 
 \ Chesterman, James. 
 
 f58ii Cooper, Thomas A. 
 f Cupples, Samuel. 
 
 5814 Cooper, Colden D. 
 
 5815 Cassin, Stephen. 
 Carter, William. 
 
 5816 Clapp, Benjamin. 
 
 f Campbell, Duncan P. 
 
 5817 Cleary, Charles M. 
 Crocheron, David. 
 
 5818 Clark, James S. 
 
 5819 Clark, George. 
 15820 Carter, Thomas. 
 ■|-582i Clark, George A. 
 
 5823 Clarkson, William P. 
 
 5824 Carron, Charles Le. 
 5827 Clute, Jacob D. 
 
 Chadwick, Daniel. 
 Cochran, John. 
 
 5848 Cameron, John S. 
 
 5849 Campbell, Rev. Alfred E. 
 15850 Crosby, Charles. 
 
 5851 CRANE, J. J. (G. M.) 
 Compton, Frederick. 
 
 5853 Corey, J. A. 
 
 5854 Catterfield, William F. 
 H Creighton, Capt. Robert. 
 
 5857 Crerar, John. 
 
 5859 Camp, Benjamin F. 
 Caldwell, William. 
 Carhart, Th. F. 
 
 W Crouch, Edmund R. 
 
 Carnochan, J. M. 
 Coster, George W. 
 Clark, Thomas. 
 
 5860 Clinton, Charles A. 
 Coleman, William T. 
 Canning, Joseph C. 
 Cranston, Hiram. 
 
 5861 Clitz, Henry B. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 5862 Cooper, Edward. 
 Cottenet, Edward L. 
 Carr, Lewis. 
 Curtis, Alfred L. 
 
 5863 Conover, John T. 
 Chadwick, H. A. 
 
 5864 Chase, Charles D. 
 
 5865 Crosby, Joshua W. 
 
 5867 Cutting, Walter. 
 Cooper, H. W. 
 Corning, E. L. 
 
 5868 Coster, George W. 
 
 5870 Conover, Warren A. 
 ^:H Costenbader, William F. 
 
 5871 Carnes, Lewis M. 
 Carey, Henry T. 
 Campbell, George W., Jr. 
 
 5872 Crosby, J. Schuyler. 
 Crosby, Joseph E. 
 Cole, Hugh L. 
 Clayton, Charles H. 
 Chisolm, Alexander R. 
 Chase, Edward E. 
 Cromwell, Oliver E. 
 
 5877 Cheesman, Timothy M., Jr. 
 Coxe, Henry B. 
 
 D. 
 ■f5789 Dubey, Louis Imbert. 
 
 De Frietas, A. 
 f57go Dennis, Patrick. 
 
 5792 Danforth, Asa. 
 Dickinson, George. 
 
 5793 Dutoit, Joseph. 
 Desdoity, John B. 
 
 5797 Daubeny, Lloyd S. 
 
 5798 Dunderdale, William T. 
 
 5799 Dodge, Richard. 
 5800" Dusenburg, John P. 
 5802 De Reus, Nicholas W. 
 
 5804 Dudley, Charles E. 
 
 5805 De Silva, Jeronimo. 
 
 5806 Delaparra, Abraham. 
 De Witt, Peter. 
 Dixon, Thomas. 
 
 5806 
 5807 
 
 5808 
 5809 
 5810 
 t 
 5811 
 
 5812 
 5815 
 
 5816 
 5817 
 5818 
 
 5821 
 
 5822 
 15829 
 
 5833 
 t5845 
 
 5849 
 t5850 
 
 5852 
 
 5853 
 5854 
 +5863 
 5866 
 5868 
 
 t587i 
 
 5874 
 5877 
 
 Duff, Anthony D. 
 Davies, Richard Longfield. 
 Dubourg, Jean. 
 Dayton, John. 
 David, Peter O. 
 Depeyster, George. 
 Dunlap, William. 
 Dunscomb, Daniel, Jr, 
 Darley, John. 
 Dunscomb, Daniel E. 
 Da Silva, Alexander Jose. 
 Da Souza, Jose. 
 Dunlap, William A. 
 Dons, Lauritz. 
 
 DELAFIELD, WILLIAM. 
 Ditmas, Martin. 
 De Wolf, Fr. L. B. 
 DAVIS, GEORGE. 
 Duane, Robert L. 
 De Cruz, Jose Joan. 
 Dugan, Thomas. 
 Durbrow, Joseph, Jr. 
 Dugan, Thomas, Jr. 
 Doubleday, Thomas D. 
 DriscoU, John. 
 Davies, Julian G. 
 Delamano, William. 
 Dwindle, William H. 
 Dally, James C. 
 Davett, James. 
 Donor, William J. 
 Dodge, Miles H. 
 Davis, Ansley S. 
 Deas, Zachariah C. 
 Dunham, Sumner T. 
 Dunbar, James M. 
 
 5789 Enfant, T. L. 
 5792 Ellison, Francis H. 
 ^15804 Egbert, Benjamin A. 
 5806 Edwards, Ogden. 
 5813 Emmet, Robert. 
 5815 Eddy, Casper W. 
 5818 Ellis, Henry F. 
 
152 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 5818 Eskridge, Alexander S. 
 
 5877 
 
 Fellowes, Ernest T. 
 
 5819 Evernghim, Gilbert. 
 
 
 Frasse, Peter A. 
 
 5855 Edgerton, Theodore T. 
 
 5878 
 
 Frothingham, Charles F. 
 
 5863 Evesson, Henry, Jr. 
 
 
 
 5871 EVANS, CADWALADER. 
 
 
 G. 
 
 5872 Elliott, R. S. 
 
 t5789 
 
 Graves, Benjamin. 
 
 
 5790 
 
 Gilfert, George. 
 
 F. 
 
 5793 
 
 GLASS, ALEXANDER S 
 
 5789 Fraunces, Andrew G. 
 
 5795 
 
 Goodrich, Charles W. 
 
 f Foster, Nicholas. 
 
 
 Garrick, S. B. 
 
 Fraunces, Samuel. 
 
 5796 
 
 Getman, Frederick. 
 
 \X Fleming, Samuel. 
 
 5797 
 
 Gouverneur, Joseph. 
 
 f5790 Frost, John. 
 
 5800 
 
 Girard, Joseph. 
 
 5793 Fellows, John, Jr. 
 
 
 Godfroid, William. 
 
 5798 Ferguson, Alexander. 
 
 5801 
 
 Grant, Patrick. 
 
 5799 Foster, Thomas. 
 
 5802 
 
 Gomperts, J. S. 
 
 5800 Fort, John A. 
 
 
 Gomez, Isaac, Jr. 
 
 Farrell, John B. 
 
 15804 
 
 Garr, Andrew S. 
 
 5801 Fellows, William Dorset. 
 
 5805 George, Paulo Theodore. 
 
 5804 Frey, Henry I. 
 
 5807 
 
 Garnett, Henry. 
 
 5805 Fay, Joseph D. 
 
 5810 
 
 Gildhart, James. 
 
 5811 Fish, Henry. 
 
 t 
 
 Gardenier, Barent. 
 
 5814 Foster, James, Jr. 
 
 5811 
 
 Grinnell, Joseph. 
 
 5816 Foster, William S. 
 
 
 Gibson, Solomon D. 
 
 5818 Foster, WiUiam R. 
 
 5812 
 
 Green, John B. 
 
 5820 Funk, James A. 
 
 + 
 
 Guest, Thomas R. 
 
 5821 Frost, William. 
 
 
 Gouverneur, Samuel, Jr. 
 
 5825 Fabrega, Charles. 
 
 5814 Gale, Peter Wilson. 
 
 5847 Fowler, Isaac V. B. 
 
 
 Goodrich, Andrew T. 
 
 5848 French, G. W. 
 
 
 Goodwin, Thomas P. 
 
 5849 Fryatt, Horatio N. 
 
 5815 Gelston, James. 
 
 5850 FREAR, ALEXANDER. 
 
 
 Grahamj Charles H. 
 
 FAWCETT, FREDERICK. 
 
 
 Griswold, Daniel S. 
 
 Fleming, J. A. 
 
 
 Gibson, Abraham P. 
 
 H5851 Freeman, M. M. 
 
 5817 
 
 Goodman, John K. 
 
 Franklin, T. L. 
 
 
 Grant, William. 
 
 5853 Fraser, Alexander V. 
 
 5819 
 
 Gimson, Joseph. 
 
 5857 Ferris, Th. T. 
 
 t5820 
 
 Gardner, Robert S. 
 
 5862 Fearing, Henry S. 
 
 
 Gray, Fiel. 
 
 5864 Fraser, Alexander V., Jr. 
 
 
 Gray, Andrew. 
 
 French, Thomas Jefferson. 
 
 5821 Grattan, William. 
 
 5871 Findlay, Andrew, Jr. 
 
 
 Goodwin, Robert M. 
 
 Fearing, Charles F. 
 
 
 Goelet, Thomas R. 
 
 5872 Fay, Alonzo Goodrich. 
 
 5823 Green, Joseph. 
 
 Field, E. G. 
 
 5824 Gallagher, Edmund P. 
 
Append't 
 
 IX. 
 
 153 
 
 5824 Gallagher, Benjamin P. 
 
 5826 Grafton, Duncan C. 
 
 5827 Graham, Nathan B., Jr. 
 5847 Golding, William R. 
 
 15848 Gibbons, George S. 
 
 5851 Grinnell, Cornelius. 
 Greene, Elias M. 
 
 5852 Gallagher, Charles. 
 
 5853 Gaylor, James. 
 
 5854 Garrett, Charles W. 
 Genin, John N. 
 
 5855 Gardner, Peter. 
 5860 Guernsey, Egbert. 
 
 f5862 Gibbs, George. 
 
 Griffin, Samuel P. 
 5863 Greenough, Charles B. 
 
 Gibbs, Montgomery. 
 5865 Green, Henry D. 
 
 Gilbert, S. Arthur. 
 5870 Gracie, Charles K. 
 5873 Gillman, John R. 
 X\ Goodall, Albert G. 
 
 5876 Gumee, Walter S., Jr. 
 ■|-5877 Grant, James. 
 
 Grymes, C. Alfred. 
 
 H. 
 5789 HENDERSON, WILLIAM, 
 ■)-5790 Hodgton, Benjamin. 
 
 5791 Hill, James. 
 Hicks, Thomas. 
 
 5792 Harding, Thomas. 
 Harrison, William. 
 
 ■|- Hoope, John, Jr. 
 
 5793 HICKS, ELIAS. 
 Huntington, Henry. 
 Harrison, George K. 
 Henderson, James. 
 Henry, William. 
 Hallet, Jeremiah. 
 
 5794 Huggeford, Peter. 
 Halsey, John. 
 
 5795 Hawley, Daniel. 
 Hyde, John. 
 Heaton, Robert, Jr. 
 
 5796 Hurst, William. 
 
 5797 Haviland, Horatio G. 
 5800 Heard, James. 
 
 Hicks, John B. 
 
 5802 Harrison, Jabez. 
 
 5803 Havens, Philetus. 
 5808 Haymen, Henry. 
 
 f58o9 Hart, Theodore, 
 t Holland, John I. 
 
 5810 Hull, Abraham F. 
 
 5811 Hill, Thomas. 
 Hoifman, Beekman V. 
 
 f58l2 Hemmerick, William I. 
 5813 Hill, Hugh. 
 
 Halsey, Jr., Thomas Lloyd, 
 f Hildreth, Patrick G. 
 
 5815 Halleck, Fitz Greene. 
 Hoffman, Lindley Murray. 
 
 5816 Haydock, William W. 
 Hopkins, Richard K. 
 Hanna, James Lee. 
 Herriman, William S. 
 
 f Henley, Samuel. 
 
 \ Hoffman, Philip L. 
 
 5817 Hoffman, Richard K. 
 
 5819 Haughton, Henry. 
 
 5820 Hardy, Edward. 
 Hackstaff, William G. 
 Haines, Charles G. 
 Harrison, Thomas J. 
 
 5822 Henderson, George B. 
 X\ Hatfield, Richard. 
 
 5823 Herrick, Jacob Burton. 
 
 5824 Hardy, William H. 
 Hopley, George Augustus. 
 
 5825 Henry, Michael. 
 5827 Hunt, Jonathan. 
 
 tf 5828 Hallett, Jacob W. 
 5847 Hall, William L. 
 Hinman, G. P. 
 ■1-5848 HALSTED, N. N. 
 J5849 Hall, Henry H. 
 5850 Haight, E. K. 
 Hyde, D. C. 
 Holmes, R. A. 
 
154 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 5851 Hudson, William M. 
 
 5793 Julian, John F. 
 
 5852 Huntington, Charles B. 
 
 Jay, Frederick. 
 
 Hicks, James M. 
 
 5794 Johnson, John B. 
 
 5853 Harley, J. H. 
 
 5795 Jones, George. 
 
 Howell, E. H. 
 
 ■f Jones, Epaphras. 
 
 5854 Harrison, Alexander T. 
 
 5798 Johnson, Jeromus. 
 
 Herring, Silas C. 
 
 Jordon, Dominick. 
 
 Hoffman, J. O. 
 
 5802 Jacobs, J. B. 
 
 Hubbard, Capt. S. E. 
 
 f58o7 Johnson, William. 
 
 5856 Harrison, George L. 
 
 5808 Jones, Jacob. 
 
 5858 Hone, John P. 
 
 5809 Jones, Leannant. 
 
 Hurxthal, Benjamin. 
 
 5810 Jackson, John, Jr. 
 
 5859 Hartshorne, Richard. 
 
 Jones, James. 
 
 Habrecht, J. J. 
 
 581 1 Johnson, John. 
 
 Halpine, Charles G. 
 
 5812 Jaffrey, George. 
 
 5860 House, Samuel T. 
 
 Jay, Peter. 
 
 5862 Heckscher, John G. 
 
 ■)-58l6 Jarvis, John W. 
 
 5864 Hubbard, John M. 
 
 5817 Jackson, Hamilton H. 
 
 Hawkes, Charles K. 
 
 Jordan, Servand. 
 
 5865 Hicks, Samuel. 
 
 5818 Jennings, Chester. 
 
 ■I-5867 Hildreth, D. M. 
 
 5824 Jackson, David. 
 
 \ Harvey, Alexander W. 
 
 5828 Johnson, Samuel. 
 
 5870 Henriques, William H. 
 
 ■|-5849 Jenks, Eleazer. 
 
 Howe, Joseph W. 
 
 Johnson, S. 
 
 5871 Haskell, Thomas H. 
 
 5852 Johnson, William. 
 
 Haight, D. L. 
 
 5854 Jones, Thomas, Jr. 
 
 {5872 Hodson, J. F. P. 
 
 5859 Johnson, E. A. 
 
 5873 Harriman, E. H. 
 
 H Johnson, Stephen H. 
 
 15874 Henry, Morris H. 
 
 5865 Jones, Frank. 
 
 15876 Hammond, Henry B. 
 
 5866 Jones, Samuel. 
 
 HoUister, H. H. 
 
 Jerome, Lawrence R. 
 
 t Hurst, F. W. J. 
 
 5867 Jones, De Witt Clinton 
 
 5877 Hatch, N. W. T. 
 
 5871 Jones, Edward R. 
 
 I. 
 
 t5875 Johnson, Davis. 
 
 f5792 IRVING, WILLIAM, Jr. 
 
 K. 
 
 5800 IRVING, EBENEZER. 
 
 5790 Ker, Oliver L. 
 
 5810 Inskeep, Abraham H. 
 
 5799 Klein, Jacob. 
 
 5851 Ilsley, Stillman. 
 
 5803 Kunzie, Henry G. 
 
 5874 Isaacs, Montefiore. 
 
 tt58o6 Knox, John. 
 
 
 5807 Kirwan, Henry T. 
 
 J- 
 
 5811 Kenyon, Henry. 
 
 5789 Jones, Charles. 
 
 5814 Kissam, Benjamin P. 
 
 57gi Jones, David. 
 
 ■|'58i5 King, Brown. 
 
 t5793 Jones, Samuel, Jr. 
 
 •|- Keene, Jesse M. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 155 
 
 5817 Kenny, William. 
 
 5799 Longworth, David. 
 
 5820 KORTRIGHT, EDMUND. 
 
 5800 
 
 Lawrence, Thomas. 
 
 5821 Kane, Oliver G. 
 
 
 Lay, Peter. ~ 
 
 5822 Kortright, Robert. 
 
 5801 
 
 Lawrence, Edward. 
 
 5824 Kelley, William. 
 
 5803 
 
 Leffingwell, Daniel. 
 
 5825 King, Charles C. 
 
 
 Lupardo, Simon. 
 
 ^5849 Kinne, William W. 
 
 5805 
 
 Laurie, George. 
 
 Kinsey, Maxwell. 
 
 5808 
 
 Lewin, Thomas H. 
 
 5851 King, A. W. 
 
 5809 
 
 Lawless, John. 
 
 5854 Kemp, R. 
 
 
 Lonsdale, William. 
 
 5856 Kilham, Capt. E. 
 
 5810 
 
 Livingston, Walter. 
 
 5859 Kuhne, Frederick. 
 
 
 Livingston, John. 
 
 Kirby, Spencer. 
 
 t 
 
 Livingston, Thomas F. 
 
 5863 King, Oliver K. 
 
 5811 
 
 Lockwood, Justus B. 
 
 5865 Knapp, Shepard F. 
 
 1-5815 
 
 LOTT, ABRAHAM. 
 
 5870 King, John M. 
 
 
 Livingston, Philip P. 
 
 5871 Kitchen, James. 
 
 t 
 
 Lush, Stephen, Jr. 
 
 5873 Kennard, R. Lewis. 
 
 5816 
 
 Lawton, Charles. 
 
 5875 Kirkus, William, Rev. 
 
 
 Livingston, Robert C. 
 
 
 5817 
 
 Lefferts, Leffert, Jr. 
 Long, John C. 
 
 L. 
 
 t58i8 
 
 Lee, William, Jr. 
 
 5788 Low, Samuel. 
 
 t582i 
 
 LONGWORTH, THOMAS 
 
 Lefferts, John. 
 
 
 Livingston, Charles L. 
 
 Lopez, Toussaint. 
 
 5822 
 
 Lloyd, Charles D. 
 
 Loudon, John. 
 
 
 Lang, Robert U. 
 
 \ Livingston, Edward. 
 
 5824 
 
 Le Caron, Charles. 
 
 13789 Lewis, Morgan. 
 
 5825 
 
 Lewis, Ezra. 
 
 \ Lambert, William. 
 
 5826 
 
 Lowndes, Henry 0. 
 
 5790 Livingston, Henrj' W. 
 
 5840 Libbey, William. 
 
 f Ludlow, John C. 
 
 5850 Livingston, Schuyler. 
 
 Leffingwell, William. 
 
 
 Lathrop, George H. 
 
 5792 Lisle, John. 
 
 5851 
 
 Lawrence, W. W. 
 
 Lescene, Lewis. 
 
 
 Libby, Ira A. 
 
 5793 Livingston, George. 
 
 H 
 
 Lewis, James T. 
 
 Le Roy, Robert. 
 
 5854 
 
 Lovell, Joseph. 
 
 f Loring, Israel. 
 
 +5859 
 
 Leslie, Frank. 
 
 f Loomis, Lebbeus. 
 
 5861 
 
 Losee, Theron. 
 
 5794 Livingston, P. Schuyler. 
 
 
 Lovell, Mansfield. 
 
 •|'5795 Lovett, William. 
 
 
 Lee, S. W. 
 
 Loyd, Samuel P. 
 
 
 Lee, Eugene E. 
 
 Leremboure, A. M. 
 
 5865 
 
 Lorillard, Pierre. 
 
 5797 Lawrence, John McD. 
 
 
 Laing, Alexander K. 
 
 Lawrence, Samuel A. 
 
 5867 Lathrop, Thomas A. 
 
 5799 Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr. 
 
 
 Leggett, Samuel, 
 
156 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 5869 Lambert, Edward A. 
 
 5808 
 
 Monsanto, Moses. 
 
 5873 Lorillard, Louis L. 
 
 
 M'Kenzie, Henry. 
 
 Livingston, Murray. 
 
 5809 
 
 Moses, Joshua. 
 
 5874 Leadley, Frederick H. 
 
 t58io 
 
 M'Farland, Francis. 
 
 
 5812 
 
 Murray, James B. 
 
 M. 
 
 t58i3 
 
 Mason, James. 
 
 5787 MEYER, JOHN. 
 
 t 
 
 Minturn, Jonah. 
 
 5789 Maverick, Peter. 
 
 5814 
 
 M'Cready, Thomas, Jr. 
 
 Mooney, William. 
 
 5815 
 
 Meyer, John D. 
 
 M'Evers, James. 
 
 5816 
 
 Mix, Mervin P. 
 
 M'Evers, Gulian. 
 
 
 M'Lean, John, Jr. 
 
 Mantel, Francis C. 
 
 
 M'Vickar, Henry. 
 
 Morris, William W. 
 
 t 
 
 M'Gowan, James. 
 
 M'Knight, Charles. 
 
 5821 
 
 M'Donald, John M. 
 
 5790 M'Grath, Robert. 
 
 t5824 
 
 Mulden, Michael. 
 
 Mesier, Peter, Jr. 
 
 
 M'Rea, John W. 
 
 \ Morgan, John I. 
 
 5826 
 
 Monroe, James, Jr. 
 
 5791 Morris, Thomas. 
 
 
 M'Carty, John Mason. 
 
 M'Gee, Bernard. 
 
 
 M'Connel, George, Jr. 
 
 5792 Marley, John. 
 
 
 Minor, Daniel K. 
 
 \ Molton, Charles. 
 
 
 Marshall, Josiah T. 
 
 ■j-5793 Martin, James. 
 
 15827 
 
 M'Intire, Peter. 
 
 Moore, John H. 
 
 
 Moffat, John. 
 
 5794 Murray, Robert. 
 
 
 Mitchell, George G. 
 
 15795 Milns, William. 
 
 t5828 
 
 Mitchell, John S. 
 
 5797 Miller, Andrew R. 
 
 I5829 Marsiglia, Girlando. 
 
 Masterton, Henry. 
 
 t5846 
 
 MILNOR, W. H. (G. M.) 
 
 15798 Maitland, William. 
 
 5850 
 
 Mahan, James F. 
 
 M'Lean, Hugh. 
 
 
 Miller, George S. 
 
 Milligan, Gilbert. 
 
 t585i 
 
 Maclay, Moses B. 
 
 M'Lauren, Alexander. 
 
 5854 Manley, James. 
 
 Martin, Daniel. 
 
 
 Mills, 0. P. 
 
 Mason, John. 
 
 
 Mower, E., Jr. 
 
 Miller, John Blackburn. 
 
 5858 
 
 McCuUoch, J. S. 
 
 5800 Miller, Sylvanus. 
 
 
 Middleton, Robert. 
 
 Moore, Thomas W. 
 
 
 Moorehead, William J. 
 
 5801 M'Donald, Randall. 
 
 5859 
 
 Morse, A. W. 
 
 Mair, William. 
 
 
 Maiiran, Charles. 
 
 M'Mennomy, Robert. 
 
 t 
 
 Mead, Charles D. 
 
 5804 Morpeth, John. 
 
 tt596o 
 
 Mott, Alexander B. 
 
 \ March, Thomas. 
 
 5861 
 
 Musgrave, Thomas B. 
 
 5805 Mott, Richard L. 
 
 5862 
 
 McCuUoch, Richard S. 
 
 Mitchell, Andrew, Jr. 
 
 
 Marmon, Paluel De. 
 
 5807 M'Neill, Niell. 
 
 
 Miller, George M. 
 
 5808 Manning, Robert. 
 
 5863 
 
 Munson, Marcena, Jr. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 157 
 
 5863 Muller, J. N. 
 5S65 Mowry, Sylvester. 
 
 5866 McLean, George W. 
 
 5867 Magna, R. Baldwin. 
 \ Murphy, John. 
 
 5868 Morrison, George A. 
 15872 McFarland, William W. 
 
 McCarty, Thomas. 
 
 5873 Morgan, William F. 
 
 5874 Mott, Thaddeus P. 
 Millen, Francis F. 
 
 5875 McNab, Charles. 
 McCIure, William. 
 
 5876 Minton, Charles A. 
 
 5877 McBride, Thomas A. 
 
 N. 
 
 ■|-578g Neuman, Henry, Baron de. 
 \ Neuman, A., Baron de. 
 
 5794 Neeskel, Torger. 
 
 5797 Norwood, Andrew S. 
 
 5801 Nicolls, Andrew. 
 
 5804 Nicols, Joseph. 
 
 5807 Nathan, Seixas. 
 
 5812 Nichol, John A. 
 fSSiS Newport, Henry. 
 
 5819 Newton, John T. 
 
 5823 Nicholson, John. 
 
 5824 Neilson, John, Jr. 
 
 5825 Neilson, Anthony B. 
 5848 Narine, James. 
 5853 Nelson, John W. 
 
 ■I-5858 Negus, Thomas S. 
 
 5865 Neill, Edward M. 
 
 5866 Natorp, Gustave. 
 5871 Nicholas, H. I. 
 5875 Newcombe, Isaac B. 
 
 O. 
 
 5790 Ogilvie, Anthony. 
 
 Okie, Abraham. 
 t5793 Onderdonk, John. 
 
 Olcott, Nathaniel. 
 5797 Onderdonk, Benjamin. 
 
 5798 Oswald, Charles. 
 
 5800 Ogden, Andrew. 
 
 5802 Ogden, Isaac G. 
 
 5813 Ogden, Francis B. 
 
 5814 Osboni, William F. 
 
 5815 Ogden, Samuel G. 
 
 5816 Osborn, Joseph. 
 f58i8 O'SuUivan, John. 
 
 5826 Olcott, James S. 
 5850 Osbrey, Frederick L. 
 5852 Okell, William. 
 5864 Oakley, Henry C. 
 5873 Osborn, Charles J. 
 
 P. 
 
 5788 PINTARD, JOHN, 
 f Pintard, John Marsden. 
 
 5791 Prevost, John Bartow. 
 
 5792 Pierpont, Hezekiah B. 
 
 5793 Pell, Anthony. 
 Provoost, William. 
 
 5794 Pell, William. 
 
 \ Putnam, David. 
 
 5795 Pomeroy, George. 
 Pomeroy, Benjamin. 
 
 f5798 Paulding, Joseph. 
 
 Paulding, Nathaniel. 
 
 5801 Parker, Cortland L. 
 
 5803 Piatt, Zephaniah C. 
 5805 Pereira, Rufino Cavello. 
 
 \ Parkhurst, Jabez. 
 
 5807 Proctor, Thomas. 
 f58o8 Phillips, Robert. 
 
 5809 Price, William M. 
 
 PRICE, STEPHEN. 
 fSSio Page, Octavius A. 
 t58i3 Pell, William F. 
 
 5814 Pomeroy, Frederick. 
 
 5815 Price, Edward. 
 Phillippi, John R. 
 Perkins, Thomas S. 
 
 5816 Phelps, Thaddeus. 
 Price, Benjamin. 
 Porter, Charles. 
 
158 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 5816 Palmer, Amos. 
 Percival, John. 
 
 5819 Perry, Matthew C. 
 
 5820 Pendleton, John Bard. 
 Porter, Giles. 
 
 ft Palmer, Aaron H. 
 
 5824 Piffard, David. 
 Phelps, Henry. 
 5826 Pascal, Alfred. 
 5828 Pinkcombe, Henry. 
 •|-5845 Parsons, William. 
 5847 Phelps, J. J. 
 
 5851 Potter, Otis R. 
 
 5852 POST, JOTHAM. 
 5854 Parker, A. J. 
 
 5856 Penniman, G. H. 
 Penniman, S. J. 
 
 5860 Phillips, Francis. 
 Parker, H. A. 
 Post, Henry A. V. 
 
 5861 Pendleton, James M. 
 
 5862 Post, Edwin A. 
 Pillot, A. P., Jr. 
 
 5863 Pinkney, John M. 
 Piatt, Frank. 
 
 5864 Peabody, Augustus S. 
 Peters, J. C. 
 
 5867 PRINCE, JOHN D. 
 
 5868 Perkins, C. L. 
 
 \ Parker, Egbert P. 
 
 j Piatt, Samuel K. 
 
 5873 Pond, Anson Phelps. 
 Peet, William E. 
 
 5874 Phelps, Charles Harris. 
 •I-5878 Perry, Edward W. 
 
 R. 
 
 5878 Remsen, Heniy. 
 
 ROORBACK, JOHN F. 
 
 5789 Remsen, George, Jr. 
 
 \% Rodgers, John R. B. 
 
 Roosevelt, Nicholas. 
 
 •ft5790 Rutgers, Anthony A. 
 
 5792 Ramsay, Charles. 
 
 Richardson, William. 
 
 5793 
 X 
 t5794 
 
 5795 
 t5796 
 
 5797 
 X 
 
 5798 
 
 5800 
 
 t 
 + 
 
 5803 
 {5805 
 
 5806 
 
 5810 
 
 5815 
 
 5816 
 5818 
 
 5819 
 5822 
 5824 
 
 1-5846 
 5848 
 
 5851 
 
 5852 
 5854 
 5858 
 
 5859 
 5860 
 5862 
 5863 
 
 Roe, John. 
 
 Robinson, William II. 
 
 Richardson, John. 
 
 Rutgers, Robert. 
 
 Rutgers, Gerard. 
 
 Rapelye, George. 
 
 Rigardos, Jose Marie. 
 
 Russell, Jonathan. 
 
 Read, Thomas. 
 
 Robertson, Alexander. 
 
 RODMAN, JOHN. 
 
 Rhees, John. 
 
 Rose, William L. 
 
 Rodgers, Aaron. 
 
 Ruden, Jaques. 
 
 Rhind, Charles. 
 
 Reynolds, Edward. 
 
 Rodman, Joseph. 
 
 Rodgers, David. 
 
 Rose, Samuel. 
 
 Roseberry, Charles. 
 
 Russell, Gil. E. 
 
 Remsen, David. 
 
 Richards, George H. 
 Roberts, Edward J. 
 Robinson, Samuel F. 
 Rodrigues, Rafael. 
 Robbins, Edward. 
 Rouse, James W. 
 Rankin, William. 
 Robins, John L. 
 Reinagle, Hugh. 
 Robertson, Duncan. 
 RODGERS, J. HORTON. 
 Robinson, J. F. 
 Ring, Charles H. 
 Rice, Daniel. 
 ROLLO, S. A. 
 Richards, S. P. 
 Reynolds, J. S. 
 Russell, Henry G. 
 RAPALLO, CHARLES A. 
 Remsen, Robert G. 
 Robert, Christopher, Jr. 
 Robert, Frederick. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 159 
 
 5873 Raymond, C. M. 
 5875 Ring, George W. 
 
 S. 
 5787 STAGG, JOHN, Jr. 
 f5788 Suydam, John. 
 Hf:t Steuben, Frederick, Baron de. 
 Hf Soderstrom, Richard. 
 Swartwout, Bernardus. 
 ■|-5789 Swann, Caleb. 
 
 Smith, William Pitt. 
 Sacket, Augustus. 
 
 5790 Sterrett, Samuel. 
 Sarmento, Francis C. 
 Seton, Peter. 
 Staples, John I. 
 Speyer, John. 
 Silva, John I. 
 
 57go Shackerly, John. 
 
 5791 Stewart, William R. 
 Smith, Richard, Jr. 
 Sterlitz, Joseph. 
 
 5792 Sanger, Jedediah. 
 Stuart, James. 
 Smith, David. 
 
 5793 Smyth, Andrew. 
 Sears, Isaac. 
 Shorthouse, Thomas. 
 
 5794 Shaw, James. 
 Suydam, Samuel. 
 
 5795 Stavely, Richard. 
 
 5796 Stanley, Caleb. 
 Smith, Caleb. 
 Smith, Edmund. 
 Sharp, Robert. 
 
 5797 Smith, Thomas R. 
 Smith, Gilbert. 
 Seaman, Israel. 
 
 5799 Skidmore, Paul. 
 f58oo Sands, Henry. 
 
 Schermerhorn, John S. 
 Schermerhom, John P. 
 f SANDFORD, NATHAN. 
 
 5801 Stringham, John B. 
 Sanders, Thomas, 
 
 5802 
 
 5803 
 5804 
 
 5606 
 
 5807 
 5808 
 
 t5809 
 5810 
 5812 
 
 t58i3 
 
 t 
 tt58i4 
 5815 
 
 5816 
 5817 
 
 t58i8 
 
 t 
 5820 
 5821 
 5822 
 
 5823 
 5824 
 
 tl 
 
 5825 
 
 5828 
 5849 
 
 5851 
 
 Smedes, Abraham K. 
 Stevens, Horatio G. 
 Scofield, Samuel. 
 Soulage, Anthony. 
 Sayre, Samuel. 
 Sharp, John. 
 Schmidt, John William. 
 Squires, Joseph. 
 Smithson, Joseph. 
 Smith, Joseph. 
 Stringham, Joseph. 
 Seixas, Isaac B. 
 Speyer, Robert. 
 Sexton, Francis. 
 Simpson, Edmund. 
 Stuart, William. 
 Shipman, Charles. 
 Smith, John Reubens. 
 Slidell, Thomas. 
 Sacket, John M. 
 SEAMAN, EDWARD. 
 Staniford, Thomas. 
 Scrymgeour, Alexander. 
 Stephens, Clement W. 
 Strong, Harvey. 
 Scrymgeour, James. 
 Skelding, James. 
 Smith, Scott Hicks. 
 Skidmore, Hubbard, 
 Smith, William R. 
 Stratton, Piatt. 
 Smith, George Washington. 
 Shotwell, William, Jr. 
 Skelding, Henry K. 
 Smith, John Holly. 
 Shepherd, William James. 
 Santangelo, Orazoi de A. 
 Segastogin, Jose Alvares. 
 Stuart, Frederick A. 
 Shannon, George P. 
 Smith, Charles E. 
 Sprague, Joseph A. 
 Stoughton, Edward A. 
 Spaulding, M. B. 
 Stamler, J. A, 
 
i6o 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 5851 Stewart, John. 
 
 5872 
 
 Snelling, Frederick G. " 
 
 Stone, E. L. 
 
 5873 
 
 Scranton, G. B. 
 
 5852 Storrs, Amariah. 
 
 + 
 
 Selover, A. A. 
 
 5853 Schmidt, C. T. 
 
 
 Spofford, Gardiner S. 
 
 5854 Sanger, W. W. 
 
 5877 
 
 Schieffelin, Edgar S. 
 
 Skinner, R. O. 
 
 5878 
 
 Stillman, James. 
 
 5855 Shiers, Thomas. 
 
 
 Shoppell, Robert W. 
 
 Skidmore, Benjamin D. 
 
 
 
 Stone, E. L. 
 
 
 T. 
 
 Stone, J. C. 
 
 +5788 
 
 Tilas, Daniel Axel. 
 
 5856 Schomburg, Theodore G. 
 
 5792 
 
 Thew, Daniel. 
 
 5858 Sears, J. Newton. 
 
 
 Thompson, David. 
 
 Spencer, J. Rush. 
 
 5793 
 
 Taylor, Willet. 
 
 5859 Stout, A. V. 
 
 5794 
 
 Titus, Samuel. 
 
 5860 Stevens, John B. 
 
 5795 
 
 Tillinghast, Stephen. 
 
 5861 Swan, Benjamin L., Jr. 
 
 5798 
 
 Treadwell, Adam. 
 
 Stone, Robert. 
 
 5800 
 
 Terrill, John. 
 
 Sanderson, James M. 
 
 5801 
 
 Taylor, Charles. 
 
 5862 Strong, Charles E. 
 
 
 Tonkin, John. 
 
 Swansboro, William. 
 
 5802 
 
 Treheen, John G. 
 
 5863 Smith, Nicholas S. 
 
 5803 
 
 Todd, Robert. 
 
 Seyton, Charles S. 
 
 t5807 
 
 Tatem, Joseph. 
 
 Scott, James. 
 
 5811 
 
 Torrey, John. 
 
 Spaulding, E. B. 
 
 5812 
 
 Thompson, John. 
 
 5864 Speyers, Albert. 
 
 5814 
 
 Townsend, William B. 
 
 5865 Seton, Alfred L. 
 
 5815 
 
 Treadwell, John B. 
 
 Sutton, Eben. 
 
 5816 
 
 Tracy, Edward D. 
 
 Stebbins, William A. 
 
 5818 
 
 Thome, John W. 
 
 Stephenson, Charles F. 
 
 
 Taylor, Thomas. 
 
 5866 Sturgis, Appleton. 
 
 5820 
 
 Taller, Edward N. 
 
 Stephens, Edward. 
 
 t5822 
 
 Tibbets, Benjamin. 
 
 Swansboro, A. H. 
 
 5824 
 
 Townsend, Jeremiah A. 
 
 5867 Stone, W. Oliver. 
 
 11:5845 
 
 Talman, William H. 
 
 Schwarzenberg, George A. 
 
 5858 
 
 Tallmadge, Benjamin H. 
 
 Schmidt, Leopard. 
 
 + 
 
 TAYLOR, HORACE S 
 
 5869 Smith, St. Clair. 
 
 5860 
 
 TOWNSEND, JOHN J 
 
 5870 Swan, William L. 
 
 5862 Thompson, William W. 
 
 Schermerhorn, Alfred. 
 
 
 Thome, Eugene. 
 
 Schermerhom, William B. 
 
 5863 
 
 Teller, Daniel W. 
 
 Smith, Charles H. 
 
 
 Townsend, William E. 
 
 5871 Smith, D. Henry. 
 
 
 Trott, J. Breckenridge. 
 
 Suydam, D. Lydig. 
 
 5873 Thompson, Charles H. 
 
 Sturgis, Frank K. 
 
 
 Thompson, H. H. 
 
 Strong, W. E. 
 
 5874 Taylor, James T. 
 
 Soutter, Robert. 
 
 5875 Tappan, J. Nelson. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 i6i 
 
 +5875 Tileston, Henry, 
 t Tileston, J. Davis. 
 
 Talman, G. H. 
 
 U. 
 
 5789 Upton, Francis. 
 5800 Urquhart, Thomas. 
 
 V. 
 5787 VANDEN BROECK, R. J. 
 Van Voorhis, Daniel. 
 Vredenberg, William I. 
 Van Dorstan, Rudolph H. 
 15789 Vascher, Francis. 
 fH Von Berkel, Peter I. 
 f Vining, John. 
 
 Vanderwerf, Hendrick. 
 
 5790 Van Leuveneigh, William. 
 Van Beuren, Cortland. 
 Van Hagen, Peter A. 
 
 5792 Van Wagenen, William. 
 
 5793 Van Home, Frederick. 
 5795 Vermilye, Thomas. 
 5797 Van Cortland, Philip, Jr. 
 5800 Van Wyck, Pierre C. 
 
 VAN SLYCK, ADRIAN C 
 fSSoi Vancusson, P. A. 
 5802 Van Wyck, Samuel. 
 5804 Vogler, Rudolph. 
 
 Varick, John V. B. 
 5807 Van Welie, Cornelius H. 
 5810 Van Ness, William. 
 5816 Vamum, Joseph B. 
 
 u^Q^i \ Van Zandt, William L. 
 H5847 ) 
 
 Van Wyck, Peter S. 
 5828 Vought, John G. 
 
 Velasquez, de la Cadena Ma- 
 riano. 
 5847 Valdor, Joseph. 
 5851 Valentine, R. C. 
 5855 Vanderpoel, F. S. 
 
 Vanderpoel, Jacob. 
 5862 Van Vliet, Stewart. 
 5872 Vance, John L. 
 5877 Vandervoort, William L. 
 
 W. 
 
 5788 Wilcocks, William. 
 Wyckoff, Henry. 
 Weston, Samuel. 
 H5789 Washington, George. 
 
 5790 Walker, George. 
 
 5791 Winstanley, William. 
 Wilmerding, William. 
 Williams, John. 
 
 t5792 Wells, John. 
 
 5793 Watkins, Samuel. 
 Walton, Abraham M. 
 
 5794 Watson, James. 
 
 5795 Wallace, William. 
 57g6 WoodhuU, Jesse. 
 5798 Whetten, John. 
 
 Wheaton, William. 
 5800 Watkinson, Henry. 
 
 5802 Wyman, John W. 
 Waakhuysen, Peter. 
 
 5803 Wetherby, Thomas. 
 5806 Wilkinson, William. 
 
 Wilson, John Q. 
 
 5808 Wallace, Francis B. 
 
 5809 Whittemore, Samuel. 
 Willis, Walter. 
 Wotherspoon, David. 
 
 5810 Wotherspoon, Matthew. 
 Ward, William H. 
 Whitehorne, George G. 
 
 5811 Wiltse, William H. 
 Wheatley, John H. 
 
 5813 Waldron, Adolphus. 
 
 5814 Worthington, Asa. 
 15815 Williams, Thompson P. 
 
 5816 Williamson, John. 
 
 Wrighten, John M. 
 \ Wayne, Thomas. 
 5819 Whiting, Samuel. 
 
 5825 Wood, John Wardell. 
 
 5826 WINTHROP, BENJ. R. 
 Wallace, Ebenezer. 
 Watson, Alexander. 
 
 5827 Webb, George A. 
 
l62 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 5845 Wyckoff, J. V. D. 
 
 5865 Work, Frank. 
 
 5847 Woodbury, Dwight. 
 
 Williams, A. Dennison. 
 
 •(•5850 Walters, Henry. 
 
 5866 Wainwright, W. B. M. 
 
 f Wilson, A. D. 
 
 Walbridge, D. M. 
 
 5851 Watson, E. L. 
 
 5870 Wheeler, Thomas M. 
 
 Wade, E'lias J. 
 
 5871 Wood, W. Stanard. 
 
 5853 Ward, Henry H. 
 
 WELLS, LAWRENCE 
 
 White, Samuel B. 
 
 5872 Wolff, Aaron, Jr. 
 
 5854 Wesson, E. B. 
 
 Wolff, Charles G. 
 
 Williams, J. H. 
 
 Watts, George B. 
 
 5855 Weeks, H. A. 
 
 5873 Whipple, John. 
 
 5856 Whitcomb, Virgil. 
 
 Williams, William B. 
 
 15857 Ward, Samuel. 
 
 5874 Wilmerding, J. Currie. 
 
 5858 Whiley, Charles W. 
 
 Wilmerding, F. S. 
 
 Windle, James B. 
 
 Wilmerding, F. B. 
 
 Woodward, George F. 
 
 5875 Williams, Thomas B. 
 
 Weeks, Carlysle T. 
 
 Worden, Daniel T. 
 
 5859 Whitin, Henry. 
 
 f5S77 Woodward, William, Jr. 
 
 Wainwright, J. H. 
 
 
 5860 Winchester, Thomas D. 
 
 Y. 
 
 5861 Wilmerding, J. C. 
 Weston, S. H. 
 
 5862 Wright, Charles L. 
 Wilson, John T. 
 
 5863 Wells, John, Jr. 
 WHITE, J. P. P. 
 
 5864 Wilmerding, George C. 
 Wilson, George W. 
 
 5790 Yates, Adolphus. 
 5805 Yates, John B. 
 5808 Young, William P. 
 5825 Yates, Andrew S. 
 
 5854 Young, William. 
 
 5855 Young, William. 
 5863 Young, Eben. 
 
 Whiting, Henry W. 
 
 Z. 
 
 Whitney, Stephen. 
 
 5B65 Warren, J. Kearney. 
 
 5818 Zantzinger, Richard. 
 
 Note. — Since the foregoing sheets have passed through the press, I have 
 ascertained that Edward Livingston was elected Deputy Grand Master in 
 June, 1801, at which time Robert R. Livingston retired from the office of 
 Grand Master. Thus it appears that four members of Holland Lodge have 
 held the important office of Deputy Grand Master, 
 
HOLLAND L0D3E AT DINNER. 
 
 Celebratlnsr Its Oeutennial In Style Be- 
 flttins the Event. 
 
 The history of Hollanc) Lodge, No. 8, F. and 
 A. M., ie 60 closely IdentiAed with the growth 
 of .Masonry in America, and particularly in 
 the State of New York, that an event like its 
 centenni.tl dinner, which occurred Thursday 
 evening, even if it was strictly private and 
 only about forty covers laid, deserves more 
 than a passing notice. 
 
 Holland Lodge is known as the "Silk Stock- 
 ing" lodge of America, composed as it is for 
 the most part of men of culture and wealth, 
 and ulosely associated for the past century 
 with the highest social elemeuis of this me 
 tropolis. M,tuy of tha merahers of the Union, 
 Knickerbocker, St. Nicholas, Holland and 
 ,other prominent clubs and societies, arc in 
 Holland Lodge, and it is very gratifying to 
 know that this lodge has furnished many high 
 o"tlicers to the Grand Lodge of the State of 
 New York. 
 
 This is strictly an American Lodge, a New 
 York lodge, and has no foreign antecedents 
 whatever. Georga Washington and Baron 
 Steuben were honorary members. On the 30th 
 of .May, 1787, certain worthy citizens of New 
 York, deepry impressed with the importance 
 and attractiveness of the Low Dutch language, 
 petitioned the Grand Lodge to grant a charter 
 to Holland, and to allow them to indulge in 
 the use of the Low Dutch language. It was 
 not until Sept. 5 that the request was granted, 
 and then only on condition that their records 
 be kept in English for the Inspection of the 
 Grand Lodge. However, the brethren who 
 founded the Holland showed their apprecia- 
 tion of the assault on their beloved vernacular 
 by causing their minute book to be labeled 
 outside and inside, "Handelin.gen der Holland- 
 6che L' ge." 
 
 Holland had no charter number until 1789. 
 It then voted with the majority to recognize the 
 modern charter of St. John's, No. l,and of In- 
 dependent Royal Arch, No. 2. On the 3q of 
 June, 1789, the report of the committee was 
 adopted and Independent Royal Arch, No. 8 
 became No. 2, and Holland lo Ige became No. 
 8, which original number it retains to-day. 
 
 The first master of the lodge was John 
 Meyer; senior warden, Henry Benson, and 
 junior wanien, Henry Arnold Coster. A few 
 of the prominent masters and brethren of the 
 lodge whose names have lent lustre to the 
 growth of the State and tht Masonic fraternity 
 down 10 the present time are DeWitt Clinton, 
 who successfully filled the offices of secretary, 
 warden and master; John Jacpb Astor, who 
 was worshipful master in 1789, the lodge vot- 
 ing him a past triaster's jewel; Fhllip Van 
 Cortland and William Irving, Jr., who suc- 
 ceeded Astor. He was the author of the poetry 
 in SalnMgundi, also projector of Knicker- 
 bocker's History of New York, and was a 
 brother of Washington Irving; Nathan Sand- 
 ford, Chancellor of this State in 1803; John 
 Lodman, District Attorney in 1814; A. C. Van 
 Slyck, grand sachem of Tammany, 1805; Ebe- 
 nezer Irving, another brother of Washington 
 Irving, 1807; Stephen Price was master in 
 ISSsi, and no less than eleven members of the 
 Livingston family, so famous in the Masonic 
 annals of the State, were members of Holland. 
 Governor Morgau Lewis joined in 1789 and 
 Judge Ogden Edwards in 1806. 
 
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