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The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Connecticut is the main governing body of Freemasonry in the U.S. state of Connecticut as recognized by the United Grand Lodge of England.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= Grand Lodges in North America )〕 The Grand Lodge of Connecticut is headquartered at Wallingford, Connecticut. ==History== Freemasonry was established in Connecticut in 1750. David Wooster was the charter Master of "The Lodge at New Haven", which later became Hiram Lodge No. 1. This lodge was formed under warrant from St. John's Provincial Grand Lodge at Boston.〔Henry Whittmore, Free Masonry in North America from the Colonial Period to the Beginning of the Present Century, Artotype Printing and Publishing, 1889, p. 42〕 The Grand Lodge of Connecticut was founded on July 8, 1789 with Pierpont Edwards as its first Grand Master. At the founding of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut, it had 14 lodges with five more being chartered in the following two years. The first lodge chartered by the Grand Lodge of Connecticut was Moriah Lodge No. 15 in Brooklyn Connecticut constituted on October 15, 1790. In 1887, Hiram Lodge challenged the authority of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut to dictate the style of ritual it would use.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grand Lodge of Connecticut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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