The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

172 HISTORY OF LYNN. [1775.such teas in America, and will not suffer any teas, subjected toa parliamentary duty, to be landed or sold in this town ; andthat we stand ready to assist our brethren of Boston, or elsewhere,whenever our aid shall be required, in repelling allattempts to land or sell any teas poisoned with a duty."'A deer was this year started in the Maiden woods, andchased, by some hunters, through Chelsea, to the Lynn marsh.He plunged into the Saugus river, and attempted to gain theopposite shore ; but some Lynn people, coming down the riverin a boat, approached ; and throwing a rope over his horns,brought him ashore at High Point.1774.The destruction of the tea at Boston gave great offence towas passed, by which thethe English government, and an actharbor of Boston was closed against the entrance or departureof any vessels. The inhabitants of Lynn held several meetings,in which they expressed their disapprobation of theshutting of the port of Boston, and their abhorrence of everyspecies of tyranny and oppression.On the seventh of October, a congress of delegates from theseveral towns of Massachusetts, assembled at Salem, to considerthe state of public affairs. The delegates from Lynnwere Ebenezer Burrill Esquire, and Captain John Mansfield.On the fourteenth, they adjourned to Cambridge. They madeaddresses to Governor Gage, and to the clergy of the province,chose a committee of safety, and recommended measures forthe regulation of public conduct.This year the northern lights cast a luminous night arch, ofa milk white hue, across the heavens, from the east to thewestern horizon. Another night arch appeared in 1775 ; andin 1776, another.21775.On the morning of Wednesday, the nineteenth ofApril, theinhabitants of Lynn were awakened, by the information that adetachment, of about eight hundred troops, had left Boston, inthe night, and were proceeding towards Concord. And who1 Town Records. 2 Perkins's Mb.