The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

160 HISTORY OF LYNN. [1744.1741.A difference had existed, for several years, between Mr.Henchman and his parish, in consequence of their refusal tomake so large an addition as he desired to his salary, on whichhe declined to accept it. This year he offered to preach lecturesto them gratuitously, for which he received their thanks,and an increase of his salaryJGreat commotions were excited in the neighbouring towns,by Mr. Whitefield's preaching. In some places, meetings wereheld almost every evening ; and exhortations and prayers wereoffered by women and children, which had never before beendone in New^ England.-On the eighteenth of February, the Winnesimet ferry boatwas overset, and a Frenchman drowned.^1742.An evening meeting of^the followers of Mr Whitefield, ondie eleventh of March, is'thus noticed. "This evening sundryyoung persons were struck, as they call it, in the religious manner.This is the first of so in our town.^"On the eighteenth of June, Mr. Nathaniel Collins's house wasstruck by lightning.^On the twelfth of October, Mr. Jonathan Norwood fell froma fishing boat, near Naliant, and was taken up dead. On thethirteenth of July, 1643, Mr. Moses Norwood, of Lynn, wasdrowned at Boston.1744.On Sunday morning, June third, there was an earthquake,sufficiently violent to throw down stone wall. It was repeatedon the twentieth.^On the fourteenth, a small company of men were impressed,to be sent, with other troops from Massachusetts, against theFrench and Indians, who were making depredations on thenorthern frontier. The town was furnished with a stock of powder,which was stored in a closet, beneath the pulpit of the firstparish meeting house.1 Parish Records. 2 Collins's Journal.