AMHERST LODGE No. 429 also received their Charter at the Forty Fourth Annual Communication of Grand Lodge, on June 1, 1825. The names that were entered on the Charter were Brothers Frederick S. Sheldon, Worshipful Master; Job Beston, Senior Warden; and Ebenezer A. Lester, Junior Warden. They were authorized to hold a Lodge meeting in the Town of Amherst, in the County of Erie.