Lodge

Botetourt No. 7

Title: Botetourt No. 7
Number: 7
Status: $Chartered
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District: 11
Districts: 02; 11; 02
Division: 08 - Central Coast
Chartered: 11/06/1773
Revived
Active: 1773-1823; 1857-
Inactive: 12/11/1823
1778
1803
1828
1853
1878
1903
1928
1953
1978
2003
2028: True; True; False; True; False; False; False; False; True; False; False
Meetings: 1st Tuesday 7:30 PM
Address: 6494 Main Street
City: Gloucester
County: Gloucester
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Botetourt-Masonic-Lodge-7-103725560985771
Notes: One of the nine charter Lodges of the Grand Lodge of Virginia in 1788. Confirmed chartered by the Grand Lodge of Scotland 11/06/1773, by dispensation granted to Fredericksburg Lodge. That dispensation was in 1757, not sure about 1773 date. Assigned to District 2 in 1820. Assigned to District 11 in 18??. Assigned to District 2 in 1857. 1823 Proceedings: Listed as dormant. 1848 Proceedings: Declared extinct. 1857 Proceedings: Whereas, a Dispensation was issued by the M. W. G. Master to authorize the opening a Lodge at Gloucester C. H. by the name of Botetourt Lodge, No. ---, appointing Wm. E. Wyatt, M., Wm. B. Taliaferro, S. W., and Charles E. Yeatman, J. W., and the said Dispensation being returned with the necessary documents: Resolved, That a Charter do issue for the permanent establishment of said Lodge, by the name and designation of Botetourt Lodge, No. 7, and appointing the officers named. Shared the No. 7 with Blue Ridge No. 7 until 1867, when that Lodge was renamed Blue Ridge No. 74, although they still show up as 7 now and again.