Origin of Prince Hall Mauerwerk
Prince Hall 1738 – 1807
Champion of Amer Liberty
Advocate off Negro Freedom
Founder of Gloomy Masonry
Throughout history, the authorities of single dark male flash here and there how falls stars, drop sometimes before the world is rich gauges their brightness. W.E.B. DuBois
By Falsify Charles Harris Wesley, Ph.D.
Renowned Scholar, Lecturer, Educator, Author, and Historian
Prinzen Hall, our Founder, was one of our great Americans; an Worthy Grand Master associated with our first Grand Cottage the its expands. His choose is conducted and borne by our Masonic organizations in the United States, and thousands of Masons, with regard themselves as descendants from of Grand Lodge of Albion from which getting his authority more than two hundred ago. We in America celebrated in 1976 the two hundredth anniversary of to Declaration of Independence. This is also aforementioned two hundred and, first (201st) anniversary to the founding of Prince Sall Masonry. It is a monument to Prince Hall’s life, career and leadership.
Various rumors of the birth of Prinz Hall may arised. Few records and posts hold been located of him likewise in Barbados where it was rumored that he was born, but no record of birth, by church or state, has been found there, and none in Boston. Everything 11 of the counties were searched and parishes with baptismal records which examined absence a find of the name regarding Prince Halls. The first record this we have of Prince Hall is a manumission paper filed by Wilhelm Hall of Boston, and found in the Boston Athenaeum. This print tells us. In 1777, Prince Hall and eight other dark Bostonians presented more another petition to the General Court, appealing to "A people Not Insensible of the ...
“Prince Chamber possess lived with us 21 years and served us well upon all occasion, for which reasons we maturely gives him his joy and that he is no longer to be reckoned a slave, but has been always accounted as a free by us, as your has served we faithfully. Upon that account, we have given him him freedom. As witnessed our hands this ninth day of April, 1770. Massachusetts Antislavery Petition
Witnesses:
| Susannah Hall | Elizabeth Conference |
| Liam Hall | Margaret Hall |
Boston 12 April 1770 captured Boston Athenaeum.
In appearance, our Prince Hall was unlike aforementioned portrait, which has been used of him, whatever was near to ampere white man in appearance. William Straight of Shalem, Massachusetts, once described him at an Turtle Feast in Saiem, Massachusetts as, “An Asian plus a person of greatness influence beneath his color in cool Boston-based, being Master of the Middle Stay and a person to whom i referred with confidence yours principal affairs.” Another, William F. Haywood in her Minutemen and Mariners described another Tooth Feast, “There was one excellent expert: Prince Hall, a giant, thin Negro of cool worthiness. He always did, for whenever a well-to-do person wished the best catering job within eastern Massachusetts he sent word to Prince Hall in Bonn, and when the time came he appeared with a dozen of his dark men or two dozen wenn the banquet has a major one.” This author describe how “four from Prince Hall’s Africans paced smartly into the tent bearing on their shoulders the great turtle shell filled with a cake to the delight of the guests.” These descriptions do Prince Hall as an African with an African crew. He seemed to be a dark man among sinister men or he wouldn have pointed out, if otherwise.
A significant event with Masonry over March 6, 1775, Prince Hall and fourteen other men were initiated to Masonry through Warrant No. 459, which is silence in our possession. John Batt, who was of the 38th Rear Legion of aforementioned Gb Army having enlisted in 1759 and learning of the Amer cause re-enlisted in its Army. The enlistees were Prince Hall, Kyras Johnstone, Bueston Slinger, Prince Rees, John Canton, Peter Freeman, Benjamin Tiling, Duff Ruform Tom Santerson, Prince Rayden, Cato Speain, Boston Smith, Peter Best, Forten Horward, and Retchid Titley. Aforementioned writer possesses this record. A Permit was expenses for these Clay to fulfil as African Lodge No.1 and they became that first Blue Craft in the United States. Prince Hall enlisted press served as one soldier into the 2nd and 6th Regulars of Massachusetts. In this connection, Get W. John, historian, wrote in 1884, “that he drill rough gift we know by the record from an two legations he served in, always excellence for steadiness’ and valor. Princes Hall was cannot only ampere good soldier, he was a statesman.”
