History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, including Lynnfield ...

PREFACE.
It may properly be remarked that the volume ni^w in the
reader's hand, is intended in one sense to be complete in itself;
that is, to embody a general view of our history, from the beginning
of the settlement to the present time. Yet, so far as its
record is in the form of annals, it is supplementary to the 1865
edition of the History of Lynn
;
and the reader as he proceeds
will find many references to that work. This course was adopted
for the purpose of economising in the matter of space, by avoiding
repetition, and at the same time apprising the reader where further
information upon a given topic might be found. For the same
general purpose, also, occasional reference is made to the " Centennial
Memorial." And the writer is, on the whole, prepared to
claim, with some confidence, that this volume, in connection with
that of 1865, embodies a full and reliable history of the place
from the first settlement, in 1629 down to 1882, with as few
repetitions, reviews, or recapitulations as would be consistent
with an intelligent and comprehensive view.
There has been no waste space to be provided for ;
and some
things have been omitted with hesitancy, where the press of
matter upon the writer's attention allowed him only the privilege
of choice ; a privilege that he has always exercised in a manner
that seemed most desirable for the reader.
There is, in a work of this kind, far more danger of omission
than redundancy. And it is almost certain that the reader will
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