Post-independence lodges: Grand Lodge of England charters Port-au-Prince and Les Cayes (1809) and Jeremie and Jacmel (1817), all in Petion's southern Republic;…

SUMMARYPost-independence lodges: Grand Lodge of England charters Port-au-Prince and Les Cayes (1809) and Jeremie and Jacmel (1817), all in Petion's southern Republic; Pennsylvania Grand Lodge also founds lodges; no lodges or membership documented in Christophe's north (Open). January 25, 1824: the English Provincial Grand Lodge becomes the Grand Orient of Hayti, first Grand Master one of President Boyer's ministers; Boyer "favored Freemasonry." April-July 1825: Boyer accepts the ransom. Record (Encyclopedia Masonica; Freimaurer-Wiki). Masonic publication (El Oriente, 2018) claims Toussaint and Dessalines were Masons = unverified/Open. Pattern: lodges returned in the half of Haiti that negotiated with outside powers. Next test: United Grand Lodge of England charter records 1809-1824; Grand Orient of Hayti minutes and officer names 1824-1825 vs. the ransom negotiators.