The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

168 HISTORY OF LYNN. [1766.observed, in consequence of the drought ; and on the Sundayfollowing, there was " a fine shower of rain."*1763.Mr. John Treadwell was ordained minister of the first parish,on the second of March.1765.This year an act was passed, by the Parliament of England,called the Stamp Act ; requiring the people of the AmericanColonies to employ papers stamped with the royal seal, in allmercantile and legal transactions.This act called forth a generalspirit of opposition, particularly in Boston ; where, on thenight of the twenty sixth of August, a party of the people collected,and nearly demolished the house of Lieutenant GovernorHutchinson, and several others. In many other placesthe people manifested their displeasure, by tolling bells, andburning the effigies of the stamp officers.Mr. William Perkins was born on the eighteenth of February,1738, and graduated at Harvard University in 1758.He was schoolmaster, in the first parish, for several years ; anddied on the ninth of October, 1765, aged 27. He was muchadmired and respected for his uncommon abilities, extensiveacquirements, and unaffected manners.1766.On Saturday, the eighth of February, an English brig, fromHull, was cast away on Pond Beach, on the south side ofNahant.This year the stamp act was repealed. The people of Lynnmanifested their joy by ringing the bell and making bonfires.On the first of December, they directed their representative,Ebenezer Burrill, Esquire, to use his endeavors to procure anact to compensate Mr. Hutchinson, and others, for theirin the riot of the preceding year.losses1 Collins.