The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

158 HISTORY OF LYNN. [1736.September, 1778. He was never ordained, though he preachedmany times in the parishes of Essex. I have twenty six ofhis manuscript sermons, and seventeen interleaved almanacs.He appears not to have approved the settlement of Mr. Adamsas minister of the parish for whicli he was a candidate, andHe iscalls him " old Adams,the reputed teacher of Lynnfield."the first person whom I found in our records, having three names.The custom of giving an intermediate name seems not to havebeen common, till more than one hundred years after the settlementof New England. 4. John, born 24 October, 1730,was apprenticed as a shoemaker, and afterward became a physicianin Philadelphia.Mr. Stephen Chase, of Newbury, was ordained minister ofthe second parish, on the twenty fourth of November. Hissalary was one hundred pounds.On the third of August, the school house was removed fromFranklin street to Water Hill.^1732.On the fifth of September, there was an earthquake withoutnoised In October, an epidemic cold affected most of thepeople in Lynn. It ranged through America, and passed toEurope1733.A settlement was begun at Amherst, in New Hampshire,by people from Lynn.A memorandum respecting the town meeting, on the fifthofMarch, says ;" At this meeting we had a great debate andstrife, so that the town was much in a hubbub."^1736.The first meeting house in the third parish, now Saugus,was built this year.1 Collins's Journal.