The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

1770.] HISTORY OF LYNN. 1691768.On the seventh of November, Mr. John Welhnan and Mr.Young Flint, were drowned in Chelsea river, and their bodiestaken up the next day.A Catamount was killed by Mr. Joseph Williams, in theLynn woods.1769.A snow storm, on the eleventh of May, continued twelvehours.On Wednesday evening, July nineteenth, a beautiful nightarch appeared. It was widest in the zenith, and terminated ina point, at each horizon. The color was a brilliant white, andit continued most of the evening.On the eighth of August, as a party were going on board aschooner in the harbor, for a sail of pleasure, the canoe, inwhich were six women and two men, was overset, and two ofthe party drowned. These were Anna Hood, aged 23, daughterof Mr. Benjamin Hood ; and Ahce Basset, aged 17 years,daughter of Mr. Daniel Bassett.In a great snow storm on the eighth of September, severalbuildings were blown down, and a sloop driven ashore atNahant.1770.After the repeal of the stamp act, the English Parliament,in 1767, passed an act imposing duties on imported paper,glass, paints, and tea. This again awakened the opposition ofthe colonies. The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1768,published a letter, expressing their firm loyalty to the king,and their unwillingness to submit to any acts of legislative oppression.This letter displeased the Enghsh government, theGeneral Court v/as dissolved, and seven armed vessels, withsoldiers, were sent from Halifax to Boston, to ensure tranquillity.On the fifth of March, 1776, a part of these troops,being assaulted by some of the people of Boston, fired uponthem, and killed four men. The soldiers were imprisoned,tried, and acquitted.