Brother/General/President George Washington received his Masonic degrees over a nine-month period in my adopted home town of Fredericksburg, VA. He was initiated an Entered Apprentice on November 4, 1752, passed to Fellow Craft on March 3, 1753, and raised to Master Mason on August 4, 1753. This all after the Lodge had only been opened a year or two.
He served as Lt Col Commanding the VA provincial regiment in Winchester, Va from 1755 to December 1758. Now there were other Freemasons in the area as well as Riflesmiths, but no lodge until 1768. I had hoped to find a known Freemason Riflesmith that early in Lodge records while he was there during the FIW, but to no avail.
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