. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, York or Boston. On February 22, 1826, tliemovement took shape, and a meeting was held in the old Masonichall which stood at the corner of Main and State streets inSpringfield, the site of the present Masonic temple. At thismeeting it was decided to i)etition the Grand Encampment for acharter. A ]ietition already prepared was thereupon signed byRoswell Lee. Henry Dwight. Alphens Xettleton, John B. Kirk-ham. Abirani ^lorgan. Major (lOodsell. Arnold Jenckes, AmasaHolcomb and Hezekiah Cady. Village Encampment of Greenwich
. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, York or Boston. On February 22, 1826, tliemovement took shape, and a meeting was held in the old Masonichall which stood at the corner of Main and State streets inSpringfield, the site of the present Masonic temple. At thismeeting it was decided to i)etition the Grand Encampment for acharter. A ]ietition already prepared was thereupon signed byRoswell Lee. Henry Dwight. Alphens Xettleton, John B. Kirk-ham. Abirani ^lorgan. Major (lOodsell. Arnold Jenckes, AmasaHolcomb and Hezekiah Cady. Village Encampment of Greenwich, having jurisdiction overthe territory in which the new encampment desired to be created,was requested to sanction the granting of a charter and its sanc-tion was given. In June following the charter was granted, butfor some reason, unknown to the present generation of KniglitsTemplar, the charter was not signed until June 19. 1830. fouryears latei-. However, the delay in signing the charter did notoperate to the disadvantage of the new organization, wliicli has ( 477 ). Daniel ReynoldsA prominent JIaxm from 1826 till liis ileatli. Past Commander in 1866 FREE MASVXRY always ranked as of June V^. lS_(i. Its relative position in orderof precedence was retained when the change was made from en-campments to commauderies of Knights Templar. Henry Dwight was the first Eminent Connnander of the com-mandery or encampment. The eonmiandery flourished until 1831,when in common with ]\Iasonic bodies it felt the anti-Masonicsentiment so strongly that it apparently abandoned work. FromJanuary 5, 1831, until July 4, 1851. the records are 1851, Sirs James AV. Crooks, John B. Kirkham, Ocran Dickin-son, Daniel Keynolds, Amos Call and James H. Call succeeded inreviving interest in the work, and from that date in July whenthe first meeting for twenty years appears to have been held, theinterest in the knightly degrees has never flagged. But it wasin 1861, when the late Judge \V. S. Shurt
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