"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . n New York or Boston. On February 22, 1826, themovement took shape, and a meeting was held in the old Masonichall M^hich stood at the corner of Main and State streets inSpringfield, the site of the present Masonic temple. At thismeeting it was decided to petition the Grand Encampment for acharter. A petition already prepared was thereupon signed byKoswell Lee, Henry Dwight, Alpheus Nettleton, John B. Kirk-ham, Abiram Morgan, Major Goodsell, Arnold Jenckes, AmasaHolcomb and Hezekiah Cady. Village Encampment of Greenwich
"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . n New York or Boston. On February 22, 1826, themovement took shape, and a meeting was held in the old Masonichall M^hich stood at the corner of Main and State streets inSpringfield, the site of the present Masonic temple. At thismeeting it was decided to petition the Grand Encampment for acharter. A petition already prepared was thereupon signed byKoswell Lee, Henry Dwight, Alpheus Nettleton, John B. Kirk-ham, Abiram Morgan, Major Goodsell, Arnold Jenckes, AmasaHolcomb and Hezekiah Cady. Village Encampment of Greenwich, having jurisdiction ovei*the 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 KnightsTemplar, the charter was not signed until June 19, 1830. fouryears later. However, the delay in signing the charter did notoperate to the disadvantage of the new^ organization, which has ( 477 ) 1. i Daniel ReynoldsA prominent Mason from 1826 till his death. Past Commander in 1866 FREE MASONRY always ranked as of June 19, 1826. Its relative position in orderof precedence was retained -when the change was made from en-campments to commanderies of Knights Templar. Henry Dwight was the first Eminent Commander of the com-mandery or encampment. The commandery flourished until 1831,when in common with JNIasonic 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 \Y. 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 W. S. Shurtleff
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