North Star Masonic Lodge

Masonic signers of the Declaration of Independence William Ellery Rhode Island Aug. 2, 1776 First Lodge of Boston, 1748 Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Aug. 2, 1...776 Grand Master of Pennsylvania, 1734 John Hancock Massachusetts July 4, 1776 & Aug 2, 1776 became a Mason in Merchants Lodge No. 277 in Quebec, affiliated with Saint Andrew's Lodge in Boston, 1762 Joseph Hewes or Howes North Carolina Aug 2, 1776 Unanimity Lodge No. 7, visited in 1776, and buried with Masonic funeral honors William Hooper North Carolina Aug 2, 1776 Member Hanover Lodge Masonborough, N.C. Thomas McKean Delaware 1781. Perseverance Lodge in Harrisburg PA Robert Treat Paine Massachusetts Aug 2, 1776 Massachusetts Grand Lodge in 1759 Richard Stockton New Jersey Aug 2, 1776 Charter Master of St. John's Lodge in Princeton NJ 1765 George Walton Georgia Aug 2, 1776 Solomon's Lodge No. 1, in Savannah GA William Whipple New Hampshire Aug 2, 1776 St. John's Lodge, Portsmouth NH 1752 Even more impressive 1/3 or 13 of 39 signers of the Constitution were Masons Gunning Bedford, Jr. Delaware 1st Grand Master of Delaware John Blair Virginia 1st Grand Master of Virginia David Brearley New Jersey 1st Grand Master of New Jersey Jacob Broom Delaware officer in his Lodge Daniel Carroll Maryland Mason who participated in the Masonic cornerstone laying of the U.S. Capitol, with George Washington Jonathan Dayton New Jersey Member of Temple Lodge No. 1 in Elizabethtown, NJ John Dickinson Delaware Member of a Lodge in Dover, Delaware Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Grand Master of Pennsylvania Nicholas Gilman New Hampshire Member of a St. John's Lodge No. 1, Portsmouth, N.H. Rufus King Massachusetts Member of St. John's Lodge, Newburyport, Massachusetts James McHenry Maryland Member of Spiritual Lodge No. 23, Maryland William Paterson New Jersey Member of Trenton Lodge No. 5 George Washington Virginia Raised in the Lodge at Fredericksburg (now Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4), named but did not actively serve as Charter Master of Alexandria Lodge No. 22 in 1788-1789

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