PORTER LODGE

A petition for a Dispensation to form a Lodge in Black Rock, in the County of Erie, to be known as PORTER LODGE, was dated November 12, 1823, and is on file in the archives of Grand Lodge. Brother James L. Barton was to be their first Worshipful Master; Brother Nathaniel K. Olmstead, Senior Warden; and Brother Nathaniel G. Reynolds, Junior Warden.
The following names were attached to the petition:
Brothers, Lewis G. Hoffman, John D. Harty, William Burt, Adam Gray, Ethan Allen, and Donald Fraser.
The petition was recommended by Western Star Lodge No. 239, on November 15, 1823. The Grand Lodge seemed to have taken no action on this petition.

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