At the Forty Fourth Annual Communication of Grand Lodge, on June 1, 1825, a Charter was granted to the Brethren in the Town of Boston. Brother Comfort Knapp, son of the first Worshipful Master of Concord Lodge No. 346, would be Worshipful Master; Brother John Brooks, Senior Warden; and Brother Hiram Knapp, Junior Warden.
The Lodge would hold their meetings in the Town of Boston, in the County of Erie, and was registered in the name of LIVINGSTON LODGE No. 416. The Lodge was constituted and the officers installed on December 22, 1845 by W∴ John Wadsworth, Past Master of Blazing Star Lodge No. 294, Town of Aurora. It has been suggested that the Lodge was named after M∴W∴ Robert R. Livingston, Grand Master in 1785.
As you noticed there was a close tie between LIVINGSTON LODGE No. 416 and Concord Lodge No. 346, because of father and son, but I discovered another interesting fact while reading through some of the Lodge Histories of Erie County.
The story begins during the Anti-Masonic period, when all the Lodges in Erie County, including Concord Lodge No. 346 and LIVINGSTON LODGE No. 416 ceased their labors. One of the members of Living Stone Lodge No. 255, attended a lecture, back in the early 1950’s. He related that an elderly speaker said that his father had told him of attending lodge meetings during the Anti-Masonic period at irregular intervals and at different meeting places each time, and in many cases they were held on moonlight nights, out of doors, on hill tops in Boston and Concord. Through the tireless efforts of men like these, Masonry survived, although they were brethren without a Chartered Lodge.
It is also interesting to note that many of the members of LIVINGSTON LODGE No. 416, including W∴ Comfort Knapp, their first Worshipful Master, were Charter Members of Living Stone Lodge No. 255.