In response to a petition by 15 Masons living in and around Chelmsford a Charter was granted for them to form Pentucket Lodge on March 9th 1807. Legend has it that the name of the Lodge was supposed to be Pawtucket and it was poor penmanship that earned us the title Pentucket. In 1834 at the height of the Anti-Masonic fervor Pentucket's Charter was surrendered and it wasn't until 1845 that it was restored.