Unidentified Group of Members of The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Louisiana
Unidentified Group of Members of The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Louisiana. By the 1840s, Charles Doughty, James B. Berry, James Hunter, John Parsons, and Jacob Norager, already Prince Hall Freemasons and members of the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church...
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| Summary: | Unidentified Group of Members of The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Louisiana. By the 1840s, Charles Doughty, James B. Berry, James Hunter, John Parsons, and Jacob Norager, already Prince Hall Freemasons and members of the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church, organized the St. James A.M.E. Church in New Orleans. According to the act introduced in the Louisiana Legislature for the establishment of the church, all members had to be free and were limited to meeting between sunrise and sunset. In December 1848, church members purchased a lot on North Roman Street between Customhouse and Bienville streets for the establishment of the church. Reverend Thomas Stringer, a Prince Hall Mason and a traveling elder for the Indiana District of the A.M.E. Church, arrived in New Orleans to serve as the pastor of the church. In 1849, members of St. James A.M.E. Church petitioned Reverend Stringer to organize a Masonic lodge. Stringer complied with the request and issued a dispensatio |
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