The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

228 HISTORY OF LYNN. [1827.adioinins, having been for some lime disused, had fallen to decay.As none of the society remained in the city, the monthlymeeting determined to remove the bones of the dead, and sethe land. The disinterment commenced on the twenty-eighthof June, and was finished on the sixth July. The remains ofone hundred and eleven persons were taken up; of whomseventy-two were adults, and thirty -nme youth. The relics ofone hundred and nine were put into six boxes, and conveyedto Lynn, and placed in the Quaker burial ground. Mr. JosephHussey. who had two sisters buried m Boston, was unwillingthat they should be removed with the rest, and causedtheir remains, so dear to his memory, to be deposited in thecemetery of King's Chapel.A Society foi the promotion of Industry, frngality, andTemperance, was organized on the twentieth of December.1827.Mr. Micaiah Collins died on the thirtieth of January, at theage of 62 years. He was born on the nineteenth of April,1764, married Hannah Chase of Salem, and left no children.He was, for nearly thirty years, a useful and respected schoomaster,andwas much beloved by the pupils ^^h°.^«^f^| "^instruclions. He was also, for some time, a min ster of he^f ^^^^^ ^^^fJ^^^J*'society of Friends, and in thatmeetings of Quakers throughout the United States He wasgeneraSy regarded as a peaceable citizen and a virtuous man^ On tlfe thirtieth of April, Mr. Paul Newhall was drmvnedfrom a fishing boat, at Swampscot, m attempting to Pf ^^ DreartLedge. His body was found umnjured, thirty-nine days alter,having probably been caused to rise by heavy thunder, whichagitated the water., ^ -r^^^^On the night of Thursday, May tenth, a schooner from Kennebec,loaded with hay and wood, was driven, by a stoim, uponLvnn Beach, and dismasted..'Mr Solomon Moulton died on the twenty-sixth ot i\la},aged twenty years. He was the author of several pieces inthe Lynn MnL with the signature of Lilley. He was muchesteemed for the purity of hischaracter, the generosity ot fiisdisposition, the fervency of his friendship, and the evidence