1732
Mason- Dixon Line Established
1735
Lord Weymouth Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England Grants,
John Hammerton as Provincial Grand Master of South Carolina
October 28, 1736
Solomon’s Lodge number one of Charleston
First met at Shepheard’s Tavern on the corner of Church and Broad Streets.
Solomon Lodge #1, South Carolina’s first Lodge, received its warrant from Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth, the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge in England, in 1735.
It was listed as number 45 in “List of Lodges as altered by the Grand Lodge, April 18, 1792”.
Saturday, August 4, 1753
George Washington Raised at Fredericksburg Lodge No.4
William Burrows, Worshipful Master of Solomon #1
born and educated in London. Shortly after graduating in 1743 he moved to South Carolina and practiced law in Berkley county. He served as Worshipful Master of Solomon #1 in 1754. He built a wonderful home in Charleston at 71 Broad St. which is no longer standing. The house later served as one of Charleston’s leading hotels during the 1800’s. He was one of the “Seventeen Gentlemen” who along with John Lining, founded the Charleston Library Society. His son, William Ward Burrows, served in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina. Later he helped create the United States Marine Corp. and was appointed the Corp’s first Major Commandant by President John Adams.
1779
Mason-Dixon Line Extended Westward
1780
Temporal Masonry Introduced in South Carolina
Commandery, No. 1, of Knights Templar at Charlestown
December 1782
The Accepted and Ancient Scottish Rite Established
by a Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection, at Charleston
1787
Second Grand Lodge of South Carolina formed:
The Grand Lodge of Ancient York Masons
1797
John Adams, President
First meeting of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite
at Sheppard’s Tavern in South Carolina
1808
1817
Solomon’s Lodge number 1 Merges with the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons
To form:
The Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South Carolina
Is the beginning of the Civil War?
Supreme Council of the thirty-third degree (established in Charleston in 1801) is considered the mother council of the world by Scottish Rite Freemasons.
1821
Henry Shultz establishes Hamburg.
1835
Bank of Hamburg established
1839
Slave Ship, Amastad Anchored, Long Island, New York
1840-1850
“Floods of Hamburg,”
White People abandon Hamburg.
1841
March 9, 1841
The United States vs. The Amistad Verdict:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
40 U.S. 518; 10 L. Ed. 826
JANUARY, 1841 Term
1843
1851
Freed (Black) Men settle in Hamburg.
1862
September 22, 1862
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Homestead Act
Ninth Regiment National Guard of the State of South Carolina, All Black Militia, is Formed: (Company A)
Issued Arms by the State of South Carolina under:
Governor Robert Scott
1863
Edgefield, South Carolina
Burckhalter
Last Slave Ship to arrive in port of:
Fill in the blank
Plantation
1001 Old Aiken Road
1865
William Collins Whitney admitted to the Bar Association
June 23, 1876,
Legislator and Lieutenant, Attaway and Town Marshal, James Cook, Murdered
July 4, 1876
Doc Adams, Union Militia Commander, Union Army
Under: fill in the blank
Henry Getzen
Thomas Butler
July 8, 1876
Hamburg Courthouse, Edgefield (Now, Aiken)
General M. C. Butler, counsel for Mr. Butler
Judge, Prince Rivers
Dock Adams DENIED entry to Courthouse
Hamburg Massacre
Union Army Arsenal
McKie Meriwether
“Lot in Hamburg”
Aiken County South Carolina Title Book 8, Page 279