The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

190 HISTORY OF LTNN. [1800.was born in 1743, and graduated at Harvard University in 1761.He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Osgood of Andover,and commenced pratice at Woburn. In 1769 he cameto Lynn, where his prudence and skill soon secured to him theesteem and confidence of the people. In the dangerous periodwhich succeeded the commencement of hostilities with England,he was chosen a member of the committee of safety, andreceived a commission of lieutenant colonel, which he soon resigned,that he might devote himself exclusively to the dutiesof his profession. In 1782 he was elected a member of theMassachusetts Medical Society, at a time when the number ofits fellows was restricted to seventy in the whole commonwealth.He also received a commission of justice of the peace, whichhe continued to hold till the time of his death. He was highlyesteemed for his temperance, humanity, and benevolence, aswell as for his extensive and successful practice as a physician.He bowed to death, " whose triumphs he had so often delayedand repelled," on the twenty-seventh of May, 1793, aged 50years. He married Susannah Fowle of Woburn, who is yetliving, at the age of 82 ; and had one daughter, Susannah, whowas married to Dr. James Gardner, 28 February, 1793, anddied 3 February, 1806.On the eleventh of June, Mr. Samuel Dyer, a gentlemanfrom Boston, was drowned in Humfrey's pond, in Lynnfield.On the twenty-sixth of July, Mr. Nathaniel Fuller, aged 38years, was drowned from a fishing boat, near Nahant.The sufierings of several persons from Lynn, who were shipwreckedthis year, are worthy of notice. Three men, whosenames were John Newhall, James Parrott, and Bassett Breed,in the employment of William Gray Esquire, of Salem, enteredthe ship William Henry, which sailed for Europe, witha valuable cargo of sugar and coffee, on the twenty-secondof April. On the eleventh day of their voyage, during whichthey had much bad weather, they found themselves about onehundred and fifty leagues to the eastward of Grand Bank. Inthe middle of the night, when all the crew, except the regularwatch on deck, were seeking that repose, which nature deniesnot to the weary mariner in an hour most rude, they were suddenlyawakened by a dreadful crash—and instantly the rushingof water was heard, pouring through the vessel's side, and ripplingthrough the thousand crannies of her hold, and aroundtheir births. They sprung from their hammocks, on which