Excerpt from Freemasonry in Northumberland Snyder Countries, Pennsylvania: Dating From the Constitution of Lodge No; 22, October 4, 1779
During the term that the writer was serving Milton Lodge, No. 256, as Worshipful Master it was his pleasant duty to search for some records of more than recent date and in this task found several references to the appointment of "Committee on History of the Lodge," and on further investigation learned, as is so frequently the case, that all these committees ever did was to report "progress" and after years of patience upon the part of the members of the Lodge, would finally be discharged and a new committee appointed in its stead. When the writer learned that Freemasonry had gained a foothold in this valley more than a century and a quarter ago, long before the treacherous Indians had ceased to be a disturbing factor in the settlement and development of the West Branch valley; that the anti-Masonic persecutions had but tested the real strength and character of the members of the craft and after the storm had cleared away, only a few lodges, like the sturdy oak of the forest, had weathered the storm and the fraternity emerged stronger than ever before; that the Lodge of which he was a member had suffered the loss of its books, papers and other property three different times through disastrous fires; that like all other lodges, its roster contained the names of the most celebrated and revered citizens of the community, it was then that the earnest desire was created for a history which would begin at the beginning and chronicle the transactions of the craft and its members with exactness and accuracy.
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