Archives of Maryland
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Freedom's Friend Lodge No. 1024
MSA SC 5496-51882
Black  Mutual Aid Society, Saint Michaels, Maryland

Sources:

Archival-

TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, (Charter Record), 01 January 1884, MSA CM 993-1, CR 10018, 63.

TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, (Land Record), 6 February 1867, William Green to Freedom’s Friend Lodge No. 1024, MSA CE 90-10, Book STH 73, page 278.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, Talbot County MD, 1850), MSA SCM 7226, 257.

Books-

Brooks, Charles H, The Official History and Manual of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Sub-Committee of Management.

Lift Every Voice: Echoes from the Black Community on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.Wye Mills, Maryland, Chesapeake College Press, 1999.

Needham, James F. (M.V.P.) General Laws and Regulations of the Household of Ruth. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Sub-Committee of Management. 1927

Vitabile, Christina, Images of America: Around Saint Michaels (Charleston, South Carolina, Arcadia Publishing, 2007).

Internet-

"Freedom's Friend Lodge Burial Ground" Find A Grave, accessed August 15, 2013, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GScid=2504720&GRid=113998950&CRid=2504720&

"Freedom's Friend Lodge" Maryland's African-American Architectual Resources, accessed August 15, 2013, http://www.udel.edu/CHAD/MHT%20African%20American%20Cultural%20Resources/FreedomsFriend.html

“Structure of the Order,” The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America and Jurisdiction, http://guoofamerica.com/oddfellows_natl/Structure.html.

"Warm Up with Blue Crab Coffee" Blue Crab Coffe Company, accessed August 15, 2013, http://www.bluecrabcoffee.com/
Newspaper-

"Oldest Odd Fellows Lodge to be Restored with Historic Trust Grant." (Saint Michaels, Maryland), July 24 to July 30, 1991.


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