Question
What was the relevance St. Andrew's Lodge had to patriotic activity in the 1760s and 1770s in Boston?
Answer
- It owned the Green Dragon Tavern (according to pages 88 and 90 Old Boston Taverns and Tavern Clubs by Samuel Adams Drake, Walter Kendall Watkins). You can read more with https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42999/42999-h/42999-h.htm
- The freemasons of St. Andrew's Lodge typically held radically patriotic views on the events that unfolded with British government (page 26 of Steblecki's book Paul Revere and Freemasonry). The members were disproportionately crafty according to https://www.paulreverehouse.org/paul-revere-and-freemasonry-a-lifelong-pursuit/.
- The members of St. Andrew's Lodge included Joseph Warren, Thomas Crafts Jr. and Paul Revere. Not that many people in North America were freemasons in the 1770s.