RECAPITULATION OF INTERESTING FACTS
Kilwinning Crosse Lodge in the beginning was nameless and
numberless.
The members were called "Free and Accepted Masons"
instead of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, by which name
they are known today.
The Kilwinning Crosse Lodge chartered other Lodges by virtue
of its Scottish Charter.
The ancient minutes are written on vellum paper and bound
in raw-hide.
All meetings were held in the Entered Apprentice Degree
until 1843, as were the meeting of all other Masonic Lodges in
Virginia.
Petitions were acted on at the very time they were presented.
All officers, except Master and Wardens, were chosen indiscriminately
from Apprentices and Fellow Crafts up to 1773.
For more than fifty years the office of Deacon was unknown
in Kilwinning Crosse Lodge.
The Master of the Lodge was styled "Right Worshipful"
instead of "Worshipful" as today.
Members elected to office in the Lodge were fined upon refusal
to serve.
The Master signed all minutes of the Lodge up to December 19,
1768.
All members were required to sign the By-Laws, which requirement
has given to history many famous names.
The Lodge was closed by being "Adjourned to Lodge in
Course," "Continued" or "Shutt."
A committee of three was appointed by the Lodge to investigate
every petitioner.
The only disturbance during the first century of the Lodge's
existence was that caused by a member in Essex county, preferring
charges against a member who lived in Westmoreland county,
in which he claimed that his "brother" sold him a watch which
would not keep time. The disturbance was settled by the
dismissal of the complaining member.
