The charter of the Seneca Lodge, of Free and Accepted Masons, was granted June 13, 1817, and the persons who petitioned for the charter, and became the chartered memebers were the following:

Chauncey Humphrey                        Harvery Palmer

Samuel Hurlbut                                   Aaron Smith 

Leonard Hurlbut                                  Amos Bradley

Drake Mills                                            Hugh Kearney

William Crum                                        Edward Taylor

Lemuel Hurlbut                                    Samuel Bradley

Truman S. Wetmore                            Norman Wilson

John Mc Alpin                                       Israel Coe

Daniel Phelps Jr                                  Christopher Pierce

William Bunnel                                    James Green

Stephen Flyer                                      Miles Beach 

Joseph D. Humphrey                        George Lyman

Charles Andrus                                   Norman Fowler

John Wetmore                                    Alanson H. Kimberly

Elisha Hinsdale                                 Joseph R. Judson

Raphael Marshall                            Phineas Reed

Russell C. Abernethy                       Ichabod Loomis

Asahel Smith

T he lodge was organized and its first meetin held at the house of Stephen Fyler, in Newfield, where they continued to meet for over siz years. It was desired at that time to have the lodge meet at Wolcottville, but the law of boundaries between the different lodges, at that time, made it necessary to go to Newfied, beacuse that place was ten miles distant from the any other lodge. In July 1823, Mr Harlow Flyer brought home his bride, and soon after a lodge meeting was held at his father's house, where he and his bride.......