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HISTORY
OF
LYNN,
Gssex Dountg, Massachusetts:
INCLUDING
LYNNFIELD, SAUGUS, SWAMPSCOT,
AND
NAHANT. BY
ALONZO LEWIS
AND
JAMES R. NEWHALL.
BOSTON:
JOHN L. SHOREY, PUBLISHER,
13 WASHINGTON STREET.
1865. _____________ 1716. A gentleman whose name was Bishop, was schoolmaster. Mr. Ebenezer Tarbox was chosen, by the town, as shepherd. Three porches were added to the first parish meeting-house, and a curiously carved and paneled oak pulpit, imported from England, was set up. [Jonathan Townsend, of Lynn, graduated at Harvard College. He was settled, 23 March, in Needham, being the first minister of the place, and remained in the ministry forty-two years. He died 30 September, 1762, aged 64. A record in his hand writing, dated Needham, 17 July, 1735, states an interesting fact regarding a lady, who, it is probable, was a member of his church: "This day died here, Mrs. Lydia Chickering, in the 83d year of her age. She was born in Dedham, in New England, July 14, 1652, and about the year 1671 went up from thence to Hadley, where for the space of about a year, she waited upon Col. Whalley, and Col. Goffe (two of King Charles 1st's judges), who had fled thither from the men that sought their lives. She was the daughter of Capt. David Fisher, of Dedham, one of the magistrates of the colony under the old charter." |
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