The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

1814.] HISTOBY OF LVNN. 209rence, sailed out beyond Nahant, in all her pride and beauty,and engaged widi her adversary. Alter a short and desperateconflict, Captain Lawrence fell, the colors of the Chesapeakewere lowered, and the Shannon with her prize departed forHalifax.The anniversary of American Independence was this yearcelebrated by the people of Lynn. An oration was deliveredat the First Congregational meeting-house, by Robert W. Trevett,Esquire ;after which a considerable number of the uihabitantsdined at the Hotel.]Mr. Isaac Hurd was ordained pastor of the first parish, onthe fifteenth of September.1814.The district of Lynnfield, which was separated from Lynnon the third of July 1782, was this year incorporated as a town,on the twenty-eighth of February. On the same day, theLynn Mechanics' Bank was incorporated, with a capital of onehundred tliousand dollars. The Town-House on the Commonwas begun the same month.A company of militia, consisting of seventy-eight men fromEssex county, was detached, in July, for the defence of thesea-coast. Of this number, Lynn furnished fifteen, and thewhole were placed under the command of Captain SamuelMudge, of this town. On the first of August, they mustered atDanvers, and on the next day marched to Salem, and encampedon Winter Island. On the twenty-seventh, a violent stormblew down most of the tents, and on the next day the detachmentremoved to Fort Lee. On the night of the twentyeighthof September, a great alarm was occasioned by somemen who were drawing a seine at Beverly. Alarm guns werefired about midnight, and in less than thirty minutes the Salemregiment was drawn up for orders. Nearly sixty old men ofthat town also took their arms, went directly to the fort, andpatriotically offered their services to Captain Mudge. Thealarm spread to the neighboring towns, and within an hourthe Lynn regiment was in arms, and on its march toward Salem.The promptitude whh which these two regiments wereformed, the self-possession manifested by the officers and soldiers,and the readiness with which they marched toward what