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Gage's History of Rowley, page 20, appears this statement : " It is understood that this Jeremiah Shepard was not a member of any church, having made no public profession of religion at the time he preached at Rowley and Ipswich." He commenced his labors at Rowley, in February, 1673, and continued there some three years. Gage remarks that he was the cause of much trouble in the church and town of Rowley. The town made him a grant, 12 December, 1673, " of £50 and one load of wood from each man who has a team, for his work in the ministry " for that year. And they further agreed, in 1674, to give him £50 a year, so long as he continued to preach for them. There was, however, even then, a respectable minority who dissented. The troubles increased, and in 1676, obstinate hostility existed between his adherents and opponents. Before this year closed, it became apparent that his adversaries had risen to a decided majority. At a town meeting held 30 January, 1677, a motion was made to "invite Mr. Shepard to establish a monthly lecture." But it failed, and a motion to reconsider was unsuccessful, when the meeting " brake up in confusion." Mr. Shepard sued for his salary of that year, and his suit was con- tested. Judgment was given in his favor at the Ipswich court, and the town appealed to the Court of Assistants. Finally, he took £20 as payment in full. The discord attained such an extremity that the General Court was appealed to. And that august body, in warm terms, uttered their mandate against all irregular proceedings, declaring that they had by law "made provision for the peace of the churches and a settled ministry in each town." What their precise view on the questions imme- diately concerning Mr. Shepard was, does not seem perfectly clear; but they order that certain of his leading friends, as abettors in the turbulence, " be admonished, and pay, as costs, £6.7.8;" which they certainly would not have done had they deemed them innocent. Mr. Shepard left Rowley, soon after, and went to Chebacco parish, Ipswich, now the town of Essex, where he remained a short time, and then, in 1679, came to Lynn. I have given these passages in his life as exhibiting points of character which Mr. Lewis does not appear to have observed. And a biography is never perfect without at least a glimpse at every principal trait. Mr. Shepard was compara- tively young, at the time he preached at Rowley ; and no doubt as he gathered experience saw more and more clearly the neces- sity of restraining his natural temper; yet it would occasionally assert itself, to the end of his days.]
The name of Mr. Shepard's wife was Mary. [And she was a daughter of Francis Wainwright, of Ipswich.] She died March 28, 1710, aged fifty-three years. He had nine children; 1. Hannah, born 1676, married John Downing, of Boston, 1698. A2*
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2. Jeremiah, born 1677, died 1700. 3. Mehetabel, died 1688. 4. Nathaniel, born June 16, 1681, removed to Boston. 5. Mar garet, died 1683. 6. Thomas, born August 1, 1687, died 1709. 7. Francis, died 1692. 8. John, married Alice Tucker, 1722. 9. Mehetabel second, married Rev. James Allin of Brookline, 1717.
The following epitaph was transcribed from the grave stone of Mr. Shepard, with much difficulty, having become nearly obliterated by the dilapidations of time.
Elijah's mantle drops, the prophet dies, His earthly mansion quits, and mounts the skies. So Shepherd's gone.
His precious dust, death's prey, indeed is here,
But 's nobler breath 'mong seraphs does appear ;
He joins the adoring crowds about the throne,
He's conquered all, and now he wears the crown.
Rev. Nathaniel Henchman, who had been invited, in February, to settle as a colleague with Mr. Shepard, was ordained minister of the first parish, in December. His salary was £115; and he received £160, as a settlement. Twenty persons, " called Qua- kers," were exempted, some entirely and others in part, from the payment of parish taxes.
Rev. Nathaniel Sparhawk was ordained minister of the second parish, now Lynnfield, on the 17th of August. His salary was £70.
Mr. John Lewis was master of the grammar school. The school was kept in four places ; on the Common, at Woodend, in the west parish, and in the north parish. [It is probably intended by this phraseology that the grammar school was a circulating institution ; not that there were four schools, but one school kept a part of the time in each of four places. Yet John Lewis was not the only schoolmaster in Lynn about this time. Samuel Dexter, a son of John Dexter, of Malden, and afterward minister of the first church in Dedham, taught here. In his diary he says : "Then being Desirous, if it might be, to Live nigher my friends, by ye Motion of some, I was invited to keep ye School at Lyn. Wrfore, Quitting my school at Taunton, I accepted of the Proffers made at Lyn, and, Feb. 17, 1720-21, I Began my School at Lyn, in wch I Continued a year; and upon ye Day yt my Engagement was up there A Committee from Maldon Came to treat with me in Reference to Maldon school; wch proposalls I Complyed with & kept yr school for abt six weeks & then was mostly, to the present time, [4 Dec. 1722,] Improv'd in preaching." He was a graduate of Harvard College, and at the time of taking the school in Lynn, was twenty years of age. Some of his descendants became eminent for their talents.]
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The General Court ordered fifty thousand pounds to be emit- ted in bills of credit. Of this, Lynn received £124.4 as its proportion, which was loaned at five per cent. This money, which was afterward called Old Tenor, soon began to depreciate; and in 1750, forty-five shillings were estimated at one dollar.
1721.
The small pox prevailed in New England. In Boston, more than eight hundred persons died. If the small-pox of 1633 was a judgment upon the Indians, for their erroneous worship, was not this equally a judgment upon the inhabitants of Boston ? Some men are very free in dealing out the judgments of God to their enemies, while they contrive to escape from the conse- quence of their own reasoning. If a misfortune comes upon one who differs from their opinions, it is the vengeance of heaven ; but when the same misfortune becomes their own, it is only a trial. One might suppose that the observation of Solomon, that " all things happen alike to all men," and that still more pertinent remark of our Saviour, respecting the Tower of Siloam, would teach men understanding. (Luke 13 : 4.) But though he spoke so plainly, how many do not rightly understand the doctrine of that inimitable Teacher.
[The Hon. John Burrill, of Lynn, then a Councillor, died of the dreaded disease, 10 December, aged 63 years. He was one of the most eminent men that Lynn, or indeed the colony ever produced. A biograpical notice of him appears elsewhere in this volume.]
1722.
Between the years 1698 and 1722, there were killed in Lynn woods and on Nahant, four hundred and twenty-eight foxes ; for most of which the town paid two shillings each. In 1720, the town voted to pay no more for killing them, and the number since this time is unrecorded. We have also no account of the immense multitude which were killed during the first seventy years of the town. If these animals were as plenty in the neigh- borhood of Zorah, as they were at Lynn, Samson probably had little difficulty in obtaining his alleged number.
1723.
[A terrific storm took place on Sunday, 24 February. The tide rose to an unusual height. Mr. Dexter says, in his diary, there was " ye mightyest overflowing of ye sea yt was almost ever known in this Country." Rev. Thomas Smith, in his jour- nal notes it as "the greatest storm and highest tide that has been known in the country." And on the 16th of the preceding January he says, " This month has been the hottest that ever
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was felt in the country." The hottest January, he probably means. The Boston News Letter, referring to the storm, says, " the water flowed over our Wharff's and in our Streets to a very surprising height. They say the Tide rose 20 Inches higher than ever was known before. The storm was very strong at North-east."
[It is probable that the old Friends' meeting-house was built this year, succeeding the one "raised on Wolf Hill," in 1678. The land on which it stood was given to the Society by Richard Estes, "in consideration of the love and good will" he bore to " ye people of God called Quakers, in Lyn," by deed dated " this seventeenth day of the tenth month, called December in ye ninth year of the reign of King George, in the year of our Lord, ac- cording to the English account, one thousand, seven hundred and twenty two." The land was given " unto ye people afore- mentioned, to bury their dead in, and to erect a meeting house for to worship God in; I say those in true fellowship of the gospell unity with the monthly meeting, and those are to see to ye Christian burying as we have been in ye practice of." The meeting-house built this year was removed to give place to the new house, built in 1816; the same which is the present place of worship, occupying the rear of the lot and facing on Silsbe street. The old house may still be seen on Broad street, corner of Beach, where it stands, occupied by a firm engaged in the lumber business. The Friends are not high churchmen, and do not scruple, in common with most of the denominations around them, to take back an edifice that has once been solemnly dedi- cated to the service of the Lord, and devote it to worldly pur- poses. But even this is less objectionable, to the orderly mind, than so to devote it while it still remains professedly the Lord's.
[The first mill on Saugus river, at the Boston street crossing, was built this year. It was an important undertaking, and the town records exhibit the public action in the premises. A privilege was granted, 27 October, 1721, to Benjamin Potter, Jacob Newhall, and William Curtis, to erect a mill here. But they did not complete their project, and, in town meeting, 8 October, 1722, "resigned up their grant to the town again." At the same meeting the privilege was granted to Thomas Chee- ver and Ebenezer Merriam, under some conditions ; William Taylor and Josiah Rhodes protesting against the grant. The mill was soon in operation. In 1729, Merriam sold out to Cheever. And in 1738, Joseph Gould, a Quaker, purchased the property. He died in 1774, and the premises became dilap- idated, and for a time remained unfit for use. They were afterward purchased by George Makepeace, extensive repairs and additions were made, and the manufacture of snuff and chocolate commenced. Mr. Makepeace, in 1801, sold the pro-
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perty to Ebenezer Larkin, of Boston, and another, though he still continued to manage the business ; and the premises were afterward re-deeded to him. On the 6th of June, 1812, Ama- riah Childs bought the estate, and continued the business many years, with success. In 1844 Mr. Childs sold to Charles Sweet- ser. Saugus is undoubtedly, directly and indirectly, greatly indebted to these mills for her prosperity.]
1724.
The eastern Indians recommenced their hostilities early in the spring. On the 17th of April they attacked a sloop from Lynn, at the mouth of Kennebunk river, commanded by Captain John Felt, of Lynn, who went there for a load of spars. He had engaged two young men, William Wormwood and Ebenezer Lewis to assist him. While standing on the raft, Capt. Felt was shot dead. Lewis fled to the mill, when a ball struck him on the head and killed him instantly. The ball was afterward found to be flattened. Wormwood ran ashore, closely pursued by several Indians, and with his back to a stump defended himself with the butt of his musket, until he was killed by several balls. They were all buried in the field near Butler's rocks, and Capt. Felt's grave stones were standing but a few years since.
1726.
A ship yard was open at Lynn, where the wharves have since been built, near Liberty Square. Between this year and 1741, two brigs and sixteen schooners were built. (Collins's Journal.) It is said that before the first schooner was launched, a great number of men and boys were employed, with pails, in filling her with water, to ascertain if she was tight. [Such a way of trying new vessels was common down to the time of the Revolution, and was not unknown for some years after.
[At the Salem Court, this year, £13.15 were awarded to Na- thaniel Potter, for three pieces of linen manufactured at Lynn.]
1727.
[The bridge over Saugus river was repaired this year, the county bearing two thirds of the expense.
[News of the death of the King was received in Lynn, 14 August, and George II. immediately proclaimed.
[" This was a very hott August, throughout," says Jeremiah Bumstead, in his diary of this year.]
An earthquake happened on the 29th of October, about twenty minutes before eleven, in the evening. The noise was like the roaring of a chimney on fire, the sea was violently agitated, and the stone walls and chimneys were thrown down. Shocks of earthquakes were continued for many weeks; and between this
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time and 1744, the Rev. Mathias Plant, of Newbury, has recorded nearly two hundred shocks, some of which were loud and vio- lent. [A memorandum in an interleaved almanac, made by James Jeffrey, of Salem, speaks of this as the most terrible earthquake ever known in New England, the first shock being of two minutes' duration, and there being a succession of shocks during the week. Rev. Benjamin Colman, in a letter to his daughter, dated Boston, 30 October, 1727, says: "My dear Child : No doubt you felt ye awful and terrible shock of ye Earthquake on ye last Night, about half an hour after ten; and some of ye after tremblings at eleven and before twelve again, and about three and five toward morning. Ye first shock was very great with us and very surprising. We were all awake, being but just got into bed, and were soon rais'd and sat up till two in ye morning, spending ye time in humble cries to God for our selves and our nei'bours, and in fervent praises to him for our singular preservations. Your mother and sister were ex- ceeding thankful yt I was not with you; that is to say, not absent from them, as we were proposing on thursday last. And as God has ordered it I hope it is much ye best. We long to hear from you, how you do after such a terrifying dispensation to ye whole land. We hear from Dedham, Watertown, Concord, Chelmsford, Lyn, &c. that ye shake was ye same, and about ye same time, with them that it was wth us. It remains a loud call to ye whole land to repent, fear, and give glory to God. God sanctify ye rod wch he has shook over us for our humiliation and reformation." [A fast was held throughout the province, on Thursday, 21 December, on account of the earthquake.]
The town, on the 22d of November, fixed the prices of grain ; wheat at 6s., barley and rye at 5s., Indian corn at 3s., and oats at 1s. 6d. a bushel.
1728.
The General Court having, the preceding year, issued sixty thousand pounds more, in bills of credit, the town received £130.4, as its proportion, which was loaned at four per cent.
A school house was built in Laighton's lane, now Franklin street.
1729.
A great snow storm happened on the 15th of February, during which there was much thunder and lightning.
The General Court was held at Salem, on the 28th of May, in consequence of the measles at Boston.
At the request of the first parish, Mr. Henchman relinquished his salary of £115, trusting entirely to the generosity of the people for his support; in his own words, " depending on what
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encouragement hath been given me, of the parish doing what may be handsome for the future." At the end of the year, the contribution amounted to £143.1.4.
1730.
On Sunday evening, 12 April, there was an earthquake.
On Monday, 24 August, " Governor Jonathan Belcher went through Lynn, and the people paid their respects to him in an extraordinary manner." (Collins.)
On the 31st of August Mr. Andrew Mansfield was killed in a well, at Lynnfield, by a stone falling on his head.
On the 22d of October, the northern lights appeared very brilliant and awful, flashing up in red streams.
1731.
The Rev. Nathaniel Sparhawk was dismissed from the pastoral charge of the north parish, now Lynnfield, on the first of July, having preached eleven years. He was a son of Mr. Nathaniel Sparhawk of Cambridge. He was born in 1694, and graduated at Harvard College in 1715. He was ordained August 17, 1720 ; and died May 7, 1732; about one year after his separation from that church. A part of his people had become dissatisfied with him, and some, whom he considered his friends, advised him to ask a dismission, in order to produce tranquillity. He asked a dismission, and it was unexpectedly granted. A committee was then chosen to wait on him, and receive the church records ; but he refused to deliver them. Soon after, he took to his bed, and is supposed to have died in consequence of his disappoint- ment. I have sixteen papers of his hand writing, the confes- sions of faith of his wife and other members of his church. He married Elizabeth Perkins, who died May 12, 1768, aged 68 years. He had four children. 1. Elizabeth, 2. Nathaniel, 3. Edward Perkins Sparhawk, born July 10, 1728, and graduated at Harvard College in 1753. He married Mehetabel Putnam, 1759. He was never ordained though he preached many times in the parishes of Essex. I have twenty-six of his manuscript sermons, and seventeen interleaved almanacs. He appears not to have approved the settlement of Mr. Adams as minister of the parish for which he was a candidate, and calls him " old Adams, the reputed teacher of Lynnfield." He is the first per- son whom I found in our records, having three names. The custom of giving an intermediate name seems not to have been common, till more than one hundred years after the settlement of New England. 4. John, born October 24, 1730, was appren- ticed as a shoemaker, and afterward became a physician in Phil- adelphia.
Rev. Stephen Chase, of Newbury, was ordained minister of
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the second parish, on the 24th of November. His salary was £100.
On the 3d of August, the school-house was removed from Franklin street to Water Hill.
1732.
[A severe northeast snow storm took place on the night of the 5th of April. A memorandum in an interleaved almanac says : " Very wett going to the Fast."]
On the 5th of September, there was an earthquake without noise.
In October, an epidemic cold affected most of the people in Lynn. It ranged through America, and passed to Europe. (Collins.)
1733.
A settlement was begun at Amherst, in New Hampshire, by people from Lynn.
A memorandum respecting the town Meeting, on the 5th of March, says: " At this meeting we had a great debate and strife, so that the town was much in a hubbub." (Collins.)
[The following appears on the Lynnfield church records : " Dec. ye 20, 1733, at a Chh. meeting. Voted that every Com- municant of this Chh. shall pay three pence every Sacrament day, in Order to make provision for the Lord's table."]
1736.
The first meeting-house in the third parish, now Saugus, was built this year.
On the 4th of September, Thomas Hawkes was drowned.
1737.
On Sunday, 6 February, there was an earthquake, says Col- lins's journal.
Square toed shoes went out of fashion this year, and buckles began to be used. [It took buckles about three years to get into general use. Square toed shoes were again in use in 1833, and continued for about seven years. They are now again in fashion, and ought never to give place to the cramping round or pointed toe.]
1738.
On the 31st of March, two houses were burnt; one of which belonged to Mr. Edmund Lewis, and the other to Mr. John Hawkes.
Mr. Richard Mower was schoolmaster.
The town tax was £119.16.10.
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1739.
On the 3d of March, Mr. Theophilus Burrill's barn was burnt. Rev. Edward Cheever was ordained minister of the third parish, now Saugus, on Wednesday, the 5th of December.
Mr. Edmund Lewis and Mr. Ralph Lindsey, were chosen by the town, to enforce the act of the General Court, to prevent the destruction of deer.
1740.
A fatal disease, called the throat distemper, prevailed in Lynn, and many fell victims to it. In October, six children died in one week. (Collins.)
[The summer was uncommonly wet.]
In a great snow storm, on the 17th of December, a schooner was wrecked on Nahant rocks.
The winter was exceedingly cold, with many storms. The rivers were frozen in October. Snow began to fall on Thanks- giving day, November 13, and on the 4th of April following it covered the fences. (Collins.)
1741.
The winter of 1741, was perhaps the coldest ever known in New England, since its settlement. Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence, drove his horse from New York to Barnstable, the whole length of Long Island Sound, on the ice.
"For these 3 weeks we have had a continued series of ex- treme cold weather, so that our harbors and rivers are entirely frozen up. On Charles river a tent is erected for the entertain- ment of travellers. From Point Alderton along the south shore, the ice is continued for the space of above 20 miles." (Boston Post Boy, Jan. 12.)
" People ride every day from Stratford, Con., to Long Island, which is three leagues across, which was never known before." (Boston News Letter, March 5.)
" We hear that great numbers of horses, cattle, and sheep, are famishing for want of food. Three hundred sheep have died on Slocum's Island, and 3000 on Nantucket. Neat cattle die in great numbers." Some farmers offered half their cattle for the support of the rest till May, " but in vain." (Same, 26 March.)
" Dorchester, March 28. People from Thompson's Island, Squantum, and the adjacent neighborhood, have come fifteen Sabbaths successively upon the ice to our meeting." (Same, 2 April.)
A letter dated at New London, on the ninth of July, five days later than our day of Independence, says: "There is now at B2
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Lyme on the east side of Connecticut river, at a saw mill, a body of ice, as large as two carts can draw, clear and solid, and I believe might lay there a month longer, were it not that so many resort, out of curiosity, to drink punch made of it." (Same, 27 July.)
On the 17th of July, a mass of " snow congealed into ice," lay at Ipswich, "nearly four foot thick." (Same, 22 July.)
A difference had existed for several years, between Mr. Hench- man and his parish, in consequence of their refusal to make so large an addition as he desired to his salary, on which he declined to accept it. This year he offered to preach lectures to them gratuitously, for which he received their thanks, and an increase of his salary.
Great commotions were excited in the neighboring towns, by Mr. Whitefield's preaching. In some places, meetings were held almost every evening; and exhortations and prayers were offered by women and children, which had never before been done in New England.
1742.
The Rev. George Whitefield preached in Lynn. An evening meeting on the 11th of March, is thus noticed. " This evening sundry young persons were struck, as they call it, in the reli- gious manner. This is the first of so in our town." (Collins.)
On the 18th of June, Mr. Nathaniel Collins's house was struck by lightning.
On the 12th of October, Mr. Jonathan Norwood fell from a fishing boat, near Nahant, and was taken up dead.
1743.
[A memorandum, 27 June, says, " Multitudes of worms eat almost every green thing in the ground."]
On the 13th of July, Mr. Moses Norwood, of Lynn, was drowned at Boston.
1744.
On Sunday morning, June 3d., there was an earthquake, suffi- ciently violent to throw down stone wall. It was repeated on the 20th. (Collins.)
On the 14th, a small company of men were impressed, to be sent, with other troops from Massachusetts, against the French and Indians, who were making depredations on the northern frontier. The town was furnished with a stock of powder, which was stored in a closet beneath the pulpit of the first parish meeting-house.
On the 31st of December, Mr. Theophilus Merriam was found dead on the ice, on Saugus river.
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1745.
On the evening of March 9th, there was a night arch.
Rev. George Whitefield came to Lynn, on the 3d of July, and requested Mr. Henchman's permission to preach in his meeting- house, which was refused. Some of the people resolved that he should have liberty to preach ; and taking the great doors from Mr. Theophilus Hallowell's barn, and placing them upon some barrels, they made a stage, on the eastern part of the Common, from which he delivered his address. [The barn alluded to was an outbuilding belonging to the Hallowell house, which still stands on North Common street, the second east from St. Stephen's church. It did not then belong to Mr. Hallowell, who was not born till 1750, but to Benjamin Newhall, who built the house, and whose daughter Mr. Hallowell, many years after, married. Mr. Newhall was town clerk, and died during the Revolution.] Mr. Whitefield also delivered a dis- course, standing on the platform of the whipping-post, near the first parish meeting-house. On the first application and refusal, Mr. Henchman addressed a letter, in a printed pamphlet, to the Rev. Stephen Chase, of Lynnfield, containing reasons for declin- ing to admit Mr. Whitefield into his pulpit. Some of these reasons were that Mr. Whitefield had disregarded and violated the most solemn vow, which he took when he received orders in the Church of England, and pledged himself to advocate and maintain her discipline and doctrine - that he had intruded into places where regular churches were established - that he used vain boasting, and theatrical gestures, to gain applause - that he countenanced screaming, trances, and epileptic fallings - that he had defamed the character of Bishop Tillotson, and slandered the colleges of New England. To this letter, Mr. William Hob- by, minister of Reading, made a reply; and Mr. Henchman rejoined in a second letter. The controversy extended through- out New England, and many pamphlets were written, both for and against Mr. Whitefield. Some good seems to have been done by him, in awakening the people to a higher sense of the importance of piety ; but seeking only to awaken them, and not direct them to the Church, of which he was a minister, they were left to form new separations, and to build up other sys- tems of faith.
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