1775 FRATERNAL, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS GROUP Prince Hall (1735-1807) and fourteen others joined a Masonic lodge sponsored by British Army officers at Castle William near Boston on Boston on March 6. These are the first American black Masons and the origin of the Masonic movement among blacks. On September 29, 1784, the British Grand Lodge approved the formation of African Lodge No. 459, but the notification did not arrive until 1787. The African Grand Lodge was established on June 24, 1791: Prince Hall was the grand master. A second black lodge was formed in Philadelphia in 1797. In 1808, the existing black lodges formed the Prince Hall Masons, an organization which declared itself independent from all other Masonic lodges.
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