The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

146 HISTORY OF LYNN. [1706.On the fourteenth of December, ten pounds were allowedfor the maintenance of a grammar master ;" and such masterto have over and above the said ten pounds 2 pence per weekfor such as are sent to read, 3 pence per week for them thatare sent to write and cipher, and G pence per week for themthat are sent to learn Latin, to be paid by parents and mastersthat send their children or servants to learn as aforesaid." t. k.1704.This year another war was prosecuted with the French andIndians, called Queen Anne's War. It was begun by theIndians in the preceding year, and was productive of the mostdreadful cruelty. Several of the soldiers from Lynn weretaken prisoners. It continued about a year.Colonel Benjamin Church, who commanded in this expedition,wrote a letter to Governor Dudley, requesting. " Thatfour or five hundred pair of good Indian shoes be made ; andlet there be a good store of cow hides, well tanned, for a supplyof such shoes, and hemp to make thread, and wax, tomend and make more such shoes when wanted, and a goodstore of awls."^On the sixth of March, the town, " being informed that severalpersons had cut down several trees or bushes in Nahants,whereby there is like to be no shade for tlie creatures," votedthat no person should cut any tree or bush there, on a penahyoften shillings.Mr. Ivory Curwin was master of the grammar school.1706.This year the common lands were divided among the freeholders,according to their possessions within fence. TheNahants, which Avere now established as the property of thetown, were included in the division. The Common only wasexcepted, which was called the Training Field. The divisionwas made by a committee of three persons, inhabitants of othertowns, who were chosen on the fifteenth of April. They wereCaptain Samuel Gardner of Salem, Mr. John Greenland ofI Church's Indian Wars.