On this day in 1777, a nineteen year old Mason and French Aristocrat name Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette, arrives in South Carolina with the intent to serve as Mason and General George Wahington’s second in command.

On this day in 1967 President Lyndon Johnson appoints Mason (PHA) and Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill a seat in the United States Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall Negro lawyer and Prince Hall Freemason. He was born on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a Graduate of Lincoln University in 1930 and 1947. He was admitted to the bar in 1933 and practiced at Baltimore, Maryland in 1933-1937, and afterwards in New York City. He has been special counsel for the National Association for Advancement of Colored People since 1938, and has won a number of important decisions before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1951 he visited Korea to make investigation of court martial cases involving negro soldiers. He has been director and counselor of the Prince Hall Grand Master's Conference and is a 33° AASR, (Prince Hall).

Having hurried ahead of the main exoedition body, Mason and explorer Merriweather Lewis and four other men arrive at the Great Fall of the Missouri River, confirming that the expedition of Lewis and Clark (both masons) were headed in the right direction.