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

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1 88 Biographical Sketches. Newhall.
town, and much respefted. In 1696, the town granted him
liberty to " sett up a pewe in y^ east end of y^ meeting house
Between y^ east dowre & the stares ;
prouided itt does nott
prejudice the going up y^ stares into y^ gallery, & maintains so
much of the glas window as is against s^ pewe." He was a
member of the General Court, and died while in office. And in
this connexion it may be remarked that the pay of Representatives
and indeed of all public officers, was at a rate that did not
encourage that degree of hankering for official position so lamentably
prevalent in our time. Upon the records is found this
item of account with Mr. Newhall :
" Dec. 1706 to his serueing a
Representative at the generall court in the year 1705, untill his
death, y6 days at 3s per day — 11 ;^ 8^ o''." True, the value
of money was at that time very different from what it is at present
but the difference was not sufficient to make office the matter
of anxious seeking that it
now is.
Mr. Newhall perished while on his way from Boston to
Lynn,
in a great snow storm, in January, 1705-6. His grave-stone is
in the Old Burying Ground, near the western wall ; it gives his
age as 47, and his title as Ensign. He had eleven children, all
of whom survived him.
Newhall, Josiah — a prominent and public spirited citizen —
born January 17, 1790, died November 7, 1842. His residence
was at the east end of the Common. For biographical notice
see History of Lynn, 1865 edition, page 533.
Newhall, Gen. Josiah.
General Newhall was born in Lynn,
in the distrift now constituting Lynnfield, on the 6th of June,
1794, and was a lineal descendant from Thomas, the early settler.
His long and aftive life closed on the 26th of December, 1879.
During several years of his earlier manhood he followed the
profession of teaching but as time advanced retired to the more
congenial employment of agriculture. He however retained his
love for study, and became quite proficient in some branches, his
attainments bearing his fame even to the other side of the Atlantic,
where, in 1876, he received the honor of being elected a
fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. He
served in the war of 181 2, and was afterwards much interested