The history of Lynn - Lynn Massachusetts Genealogy Project

234 HISTORY OF LYNN. [1829.On the tweli'lh of October, at seven o'clock in the evening,a brilliant meteor appeared in the south-east.Mr. Joseph Fuller died on the seventh of November, aged82 years. He was a patriotic citizen and a benevolent man.He was lor several years a selectman, and in 1820 was chosena delegate to amend the state constitution. His son, Hon. JosephFuller, was born 29 March, 1772, and died in 1815, aged43 years. He was six times chosen representative, and waselected a senator for Essex county in 1812. He was also thefirst President of the Lynn Mechanics' Bank, and an associateJudge of the Court of Sessions.Mr. David Hatch Barlow was ordained minister of the SecondCongregational Society, on the ninth of December.The town tax this year was 8500 dollars ; of which 3200dollars were appropriated for the support of Schools. Thenumber of ratable polls was 1457, and the voters 1276. Thenumber of marriages was fifty four, and the births were twohundred and forty three. The deaths were ninety seven ofwhom twenty were of the following ages ; 71, 87, 60, 87, SO,88, 73, 64, 87, 69, 70, 68, 76, 86, 75, 82, 63, 64, 72, 83;making in all 1505, or an av^erage of 75 years; probably agreater number of persons than ever before died in the townin one year. There arc now ninety four persons living morethan seventy years of age. The oldest person is Mrs. HannahHudson, whose age is ninety one years.We have thus passed through two hundred years of the annalsof Lynn. The thirtieth of June, 1829, completed thesecond century, since the first known settlement of white menwas made in the town. Could the men of that early day returnto the place of their ancient forest, how would they besurprised to find it traversed by beautiful streets, filled withneat houses, and inhabited by thousands of their happy descendants,whose children sleep undisturbed, where theirs werefrightened in the day time by companies of Indians, and alarmedat night by troops of wolves, trotting by the doors of theircottages! How would they be pleased to see Nahant, whichwas once the portion of foxes, now bright with beautiful dwellings,furnished with every accommodation of comfort and pleasure,and visited from afar by the best and fairest of the land.