Our Purpose

The Mission Statement is promulgated by the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas and the Subordinate Lodges owing obedience to the same and by its Supreme Authority.  The purpose of this Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Texas is to control and regulate the practice of Freemasonry throughout its Jurisdiction, in accordance with immemorial usages of this Ancient and Honorable Craft, and to advance the moral and social interests of its membership's honesty, industry and upright living.  It cultivates the exercise of charity in its best and broadest sense, to assist the Widows and Orphans of its deceased members, to stimulate friendship, harmony and brotherly love and generally, to promote in its own way, the happiness of mankind.  It is a fraternity of good men, linked and bound together by honorable and unbreakable bonds of friendship and virtue, and to accomplish the noble purpose it eschews all interest in factional politics and sectarian religion and free from the dictation of both.

 Prince Hall, our founder, was one of our great Americans, a worthy Grand Master associated with our first Grand Lodge
and its expansion. His name is carried by our masonic organizations in the United States, and by thousands of
freemasons who regard themselves as descendants from the Grand Lodge of England, from which he received his
authority more than two centuries ago. We in America celebrated in 1976 the two hundredth anniversary of our
Declaration of Independence.   Many rumors of the birth of Prince Hall have arisen.  Few records and papers have been found of him either in Barbados where it was rumored that he was born, but no record of birth, by church or state, has been found there, and none in Bost.  All 11 of the counties were searched and churches with baptismal records were examined without a find of the name of Prince Hall.  The first record that we have of Prince Hall is a manumission paper filed by William Hall of Boston, and found in the Boston Athenaeum.