Petition from members of Merchants' Lodge, Quebec to form a new Lodge sent to [James...

Petition to form a proposed new Lodge, York Lodge, Quebec, to [James Perry, Deputy Grand Master] sent to London by Captain David Kippen of HMS General Woolf. Lists Dr James Davidson as Worshipful Master, John Lynd as Senior Warden, Andrew Cameron as Junior Warden and names other mebers as John Hair, William Lindsay, Cuthbert Grant, Alexander Willson and William MacNider.

Merchants' Lodge was granted a warrant by the Antients' Grand Lodge to meet as No. 265 in December 1790. The Lodge was reconstituted on 13 June 1791. The Lodge purchased the warrant of Lodge No. 40A [SN 379], which met at Warrington, Lancashire until c.1765, for Five Guineas in December 1791. The Lodge met at the Merchant's Coffee House, Quebec, Canada. By 1804 the lodge was associated with the regiment of Royal Artillery, Quebec. After the Union between the Antients' and Moderns' Grand Lodges to form the United Grand Lodge of England in 1813, the Lodge met as No. 77 at an unknown location in Quebec. The Lodge appears to have lapsed about 1824, was renumbered as No. 68 in 1832 but was erased in June 1862. The lodge was named as Merchants' Lodge in 1792.