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NEGRO MASONRY English Lord Gave Masonic Patent to Boston Black. Walton in The World. The ancestry of negro Freemasonry in the United States, generally termed "Prince Hall Masonry," antedates by sixteen months the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. On March 6, 1775, in a British Army Lodge holding a warrant under the Grand Lodge of England, and attached to one of the regiments stationed in or near Boston, commanded by Gen. Gage, Prince Halh and fourteen other negroes were duly initated and admitted as members of good standing in the Masonic fratern >tv ***v Nine years later the fifteen negro Masons, all of whom resided in Boston, applied to the Grand Lodge of England for permission to be set apart as a regular lodge. The application was granted and a warrant issued them on September 29, 1784, authorizing the setting up cf a regular lodge to be known as African lodge, No. 459, with Prince Hall as master. It was not until about April 29, 1787, that the warrant from the Mother Grand Lodge of the World was received, the delay in delivery being primarily due to chaotic conditions superinduced by strained relations existing between the Colonies and Great Britain. Four days after the warrant had been turned over to Prince Hall and his colleagues, the i African lodge was organized and entered on the English Registry with other Colonial Masonic bodies. The original warrant issued by the Grand Lodge of England to the fifteen negroes is to this day kept in a ti. _ t>?/k-rr Vio Prnrp tTflll vailit -1U DUSIUU UJ vuv ~ ~ Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. The document reads as follows: WARRANT OF CONSTITUTION To All and Every: j Our Right Worshipful and Loving < Brethren: We, Thomas Howard, Earl . of Effingham, Lord Howard &c., Act- < ing Grand Master, under the author- j ity of His Royal Highness, Henry I Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, c.? Grand Master of the Most Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons, send greeting: Know ye that we, at the humble petition of our Right Trusty and well-beloved brethren, Prince Hall, Boston Smith, Thomas Sanderson, and several brethren residing in Boston, New England, in North America, 3 do hereby constitute the said breth- T ren into a regular Lodge of Free and 2 Accepted Masons, under the title or * denomination of African Lodge, to be opened in Boston, aforesaid, and 1 do further, as their petition and c of the great trust and confidence re- * posed in every of the said above * named brethren, hereby appoint the 2 said Prince Hall to be Master; Bos- * Ooninr WflrHptl! and ^ LULL OIUIIU, ovuivt .. Thomas Sanderson, Junior, and for ? such further time only as shall be 1 thought by the brethren thereof, it 1 being our will that this, our appoint c ment of the above officers, shall in no c wise affect any further election of 1 officers of said Lodge, but that such 1 election shall be regulated, agreeable 6 to such by-laws of the said lodge as T shall be consistent with the Grand 1 Laws of the society, contained in the c Book of Constitution; and we hereby * will, and require of you, the said t Prince Hall Lodge, to take special c care that all and every, the said brethren, are to haVe been regularly made Masons, and that they do observe, perform, and keep all the rules j and orders contained in the Book of a Constitutions; and further, that you do from time to time cause to be env tered, in a book kept for that purpose, an account of your proceedings in the Lodge, together with all such rules, Orders and Regulations as shall be made for the good government of the same, that in no wise you omit in every year to send to us, or our successors, Grand Masters, or Rowland Holt, Esq., our Deputy | Grand Master, for the time being, an account of your said proceedings, and copies of all such Rules, Orders and Regulations as shall be made as aforesaid, together with the list of the members of the Lodge, and reasonably be expected toward the Grand Charity. Moreover, we will, and require of you, the said Prince Hall, as soon as conveniently may be, to send an account in writing of what may be done by virture of these presents. Given at London, under our, ^hana and seal of Masonry, (SEAL) "this 29th day of Ssptema t a r> 1 78A VCl ATL . JL4.) V v_7 i , * Jk.. i-'. * V by the Grand Master's command. "R. HOLT, Deputy Grand Master. Attest: WILLIAM WHITE, Grand Secretary. In 1791 Price Hall and Grand Master of Provisional Grand Master, issued a license to thirteen negroes in Philadelphia to establish a lodge in the Quaker City. Above the same time another body of negro Masons j organized by authorization of \ Prince Hall in Providence, R. I. The lodg . of Boston, Philadelphia and Providence formed the African Grand Lodge of .Massachusetts which in 1808 after the death of Prince Hall was changed to the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. From this source negro Masons spread throughout the United States. There are said to be more than one hun-| dred thousand financial Prince Hall Masons. Prince Hall was a negrc of marked ability and served in '.he American army during the Revolutionary war. He was born in Barbadoes, B. W. I., September 12, 1748. In March, 1765, the founder of negro Masonry in this country landed at Boston from a British trading vessel, having worked a passage from Bridgeton, Barbadoes . The 17-year-old immigrant joined the colony of free negroes, tie look up the study of ministry and was ordained a Methodist preacher. Prince Hall was small of stature, a forceful speaker and wielded a potent influence among free negroes.He died December 7, 1807. Today, with few exceptions, in every state where there is a negro Grand Lodge of Masons, it has been named for the Master of the first negro Masonic lodge in the United States. The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the state of New York is raising funds through the sale of bonds to erect a Prince Hall Memorial Temple to cost $400,000. The site for the proposed temple is located at 144th street, near Seventh avenue, having a frontage of 125 feet and a depth of 100 feet. The building will consist of three stories and a basement and be provided with two elevators. Prominent officials of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the state of New York actively interested in the project are: David W. Parker, Grand Master; Arthur A. Schomberg, Grand Secretary; Henry A. Williamson, grand historian; Louis Jeppe,grand Orator; C. E. Cyril, Grand Registrar; Harvey E. Williams, Grand Treasurer, James A. Porter, Grand Lecturer, and Eugene S. Plummer, Senior Grand Warden. TEX TIMES BIGGEST CIRCUS COMING SOON World's Greatest Amusement Institution Ringlings Bros, and Bamum & Bailey Headed This Way. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Day draws near and with it will come a vast circus of "ten thousmd wonders" to exhibit in Colum)ia Friday, October 27. This mammoth amusement enter)rise of 1922 has been officially re;orded as "America's ten times greatest circus." It is a third bigger than it was in 1921. For, in iddition to the many innovations offered then, the present season's program numbers ten more trained wildmimal displays?making twenty in ill?and the most superb trained lorses acts that Europe has yet proluced. The wild-animal and equine lisplays of 1921 were introduced nerely that the Ringing Brothers night judge of their popularity. So mthusiastically were these numbers eceived that the famous showmen mmediately arranged for the purhase of the world'9 finest acts of this rind. An entire equine circus was tought outright and brought to this ountry last winter. Quite True. I "What is so rare as a day in une?" quoted the poetic young lady , s she stopped for her mail. "A day in February," replied the illoor^ r>vtt fhrmor'htfullv "Tr? fart UU V> VUVW^UV&UAAJ AM arer!" 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C., heretofore made in the case of Merchants National Bank of Richmond against S. C. Hollifield, I, J. J. Brabham, Jr., Master for Bamberg County, will sell on salesday in November, 1922, being Monday, the sixth day of said month, during the usual hours of sale before the Courthouse door, in the City of Bamberg, S. C., to the highest bidder: Terms one-third cash and the balance in one and two years, secured by bond and mortgage of the purchaser, with interest at 7 per cent, with-the privilege of paying all cash. All that lot piece and parcel of land situate, lying and being in the County of Bamberg, State of South Carolina, containing thirty-six and 5-10 (36.5) acres and bounded as follows: North by Public Road to Bamberg, East by tract No. 4 and lands of Black & Black, South by lands of Black & Black, and on the West by lands of A. L. Kirkland, said lands being Tract No. 5 shown on Plat made by H. Rudolph Schoenburg, dated October 17th, 1918 V- Also. That tract or parcel of land situate in the town of Bamberg,' S. C. measuring one hundred and fifty feet more or less on the Eastern and Western sides, and six hundred and sixty four feet more or less on the Northern and Southern boundaries, bounded North by Wilson Street; East by lands of Dr. Love and S. W. Sandrfer, South by lands of H. M. Graham, and on the West by right of way of Bamberg, Ehrhardt & Walterboro Railway Company, said lot being more fully described on plat made by H. Rudolph Schoenburg, dated October 18, 1918. J. J. BRABHAM.JR., Master Bamberg County. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the , Cold. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 30c. SPECIAL TERM OF COURT FOR BAMBERG COUNTY. State of South Carolina, In the Supreme Court, April Term, 1922. In the matter of a special term of ! the Court of General Session and Common Pleas for Bamberg County. 1 A satisfactory showing having ' been made to me that a special term of the Court of General Session and ] Common Pleas for the County of t Bamberg is needed. It is ordered that special term of * the Court of General Session and H/svm D1/vam ?r> o f aw q J v,uinuiuii ricaa uc uciu m auu ivi mv County of Bamberg, at Bamberg Court House, beginning on Monday, November 6th, 1922, and that notice thereof, as required bv law, be given. (Signed) R. C. WATTS, Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of S. C., Presiding. Columbia, S. C., Oct, 12, 1922. A true copy, attest: HARRY McCAW, Clerk. Pursuant to the above order, said session of court will convene in Bamberg on the date above mentioned. Only civil business will come before said court, as the criminal court has alreadv been held. A. L. KIRKLAND, C C C P & G S Bamberg, S. C., Oct.*16,'1922. 11-2 j DE. 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