The following table gives the Grand Lodges in the United States and British America, with their respective and total membership brought down to a recent date:

Masonic Grand Lodges in the United States and British America, with their respective Membership at the close of 1902.

 

Alabama (12,788) Arizona (939) Arkansas (13,305) British Columbia (11,978) California (22,776) Colorado ( 8,895) Connecticut (17,730) Delaware ( 2,364) District of Columbia ( 6,257) Florida ( 4,623) Georgia ( 20,844) Idaho ( 1410) Illinois ( 59,689) Indiana (33,604) Indian Territory (4,024) Iowa (30,324) Kansas (22,388) Kentucky (20,627) Louisiana (6,361) Maine (23,224) Manitoba (3,238) Maryland (8,278) Massachusetts ( 42,093) Michigan (45,304) Minnesota (17,528) Mississippi (10,531) Missouri (34,707) Montana (3,325) Nebraska (12,767)

Nevada (885) New Brunswick (1,894) New Hampshire (9,387) New Jersey (19,150) New Mexico (1,079) New York (111,365) North Carolina (12,012) North Dakota (3,742) Nova Scotia (3,574) Ohio (48,349) Oklahoma (3,291) Ontario (26, 939) Oregon (5,598) Pennsylvania (57,266) Prince Edward Island (559) Quebec (4,019) Rhode Island (5,471) South Carolina (6,532) South Dakota (4,887) Tennessee (17,770) Texas (29,680) Utah (982) Vermont (10,235) Virginia (13,842) Washington (5,795) West Virginia (7,421) Wisconsin (18,210) Wyoming (1,167)

Total Membership: 933,022

The above American and British American Grand Lodges maintain fraternal relations with the Grand Lodges of Belgium, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Eclectic Union (Frankfort-on-the-Main), England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, New South Wales, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Porto Rico, Royal York (Berlin), Saxony, Scotland, South Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, Three Globes (Berlin), Victoria (Australia), Zur Eintracht (Darmstadt), and Zur Sonne (Bayreuth).

Besides what may be called orthodox Masonry there are two other bodies operating in the United States known as those of the Cerneau rite and the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis, which differ in ritual from the older Orders. The Cerneau Masons, or Sovereign Grand Consistory, founded in 1807 by Joseph Cerneau in affiliation with the Grand Orient of France and enrolled under the Scottish rite, has two consistories in New York City, and a ' Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General of the Thirty-third and Last Degree.' It is not in affiliation with Masonic bodies generally in America and Canada, owing to its connection with the Grand Orient of France, which does not require for admission to membership the necessity of a belief in the existence of a Supreme Being. It has jurisdiction over seventy subordinate consistories of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, which are subdivided into Lodges of Perfection, Councils of Princes of Jerusalem, Chapters of Rose Croix, and Consistories. 

The Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis was established in Montauban, France, in 1814, by Jacques Etienne Marconis and others. On November 9, 1856, the first organization of the Ancient and Primitive Rite in America was created in New York under the title of ' A Supreme Council Sublime Masters of the Great Work Ninetieth Degree' by Jacques Etienne Marconis. On March 1, 1857, he organized a 'Sovereign Grand Council-General Ninety-fourth Degree' and granted a charter with full authority for the administration and government of the Order, and on June 21, 1862, a ' Sovereign Sanctuary Ninety-fifth Degree' was created in and for the continent of America in affiliation with the Grand Orient of France. The "Mystic Temple Grand Council-General Ninety-fourth Degree' has charge of the State of New York. There are branches in existence for the government of other countries under titles of Sovereign Sanctuaries, viz. for Great Britain and Ireland, Egypt, Rumania, Naples, Palermo and India.

To see a Calendar of how different Masonic orders use several different systems of designating the year