 It currently has 28,000 members spread through 60 countries and five continents.A women's lodge existed in Boston during the last quarter of the eighteenth century.Hannah Mather Crocker, in an apology for Freemasonry written in 1815, claims to have presided over such a lodge, yet her description, "founded on the original principles of true ancient masonry, as far as was consistent with the female character" leaves the actual constitution open to question.