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Advertisement, U.S., MA. Government,
Stages, Town Information (Pgs. 1 - 10) ADVERTISEMENT. The great and increasing number of inhabitants
in Lynn, the extensive business carried on with other places, the frequent
inquiries made by strangers and citizens respecting the places of
residents and business of the inhabitants, are considerations which have
induced the compiler to think that a DIRECTORY would be found useful to
many, and convenient to all. C. F. Lummus, May 1, 1832. Clapp and Hull, Printers,
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. President, Andrew
Jackson
$25,000
Governor, Levi Lincoln
Salary,
$3666.67
LEAVING LYNN HOTEL DAILY For Boston. 1st, at half past 7, A.
M. For Salem. 1st, at half past 8, A.
M.
BRIEF SKETCH OF THE TOWN. LYNN, in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, is one of the oldest towns in New England. It was settled in 1629. The first inhabitants were principally farmers, and purchased the town of the Indians. It was called Saugus till the year 1637, when the name was changed to Lynn. The first meetinghouse was built in 1632, and the Rev. Stephen Bachiler was the first minister. He removed in 1636, and was succeeded by the Rev. Samuel Whiting, and his colleague the Rev. Thomas Cobbett. In 1680, the Rev. Jeremiah Shepard, was ordained, and he was succeeded, in 1720, by the Rev. Nathaniel Henchman. Among the early settlers, were the Hon. John Humphrey and the Hon. John Burrill, who obtained an extensive reputation for their public spirit and usefulness. In 1643, an Iron Foundry was established on Saugus river, which for many years furnished most of the iron used in the colony. Among the towns settled by emigrants from Lynn, are Reading, South Reading, Sandwich, Yarmouth, Amherst, Hampton, and Southampton. In 1814, the northern parish was incorporated as a town, by the name of Lynnfield; and in 1815, the western parish was made a separate town, by the name of Saugus. Lynn is pleasantly situated on the northern shore of Massachusetts Bay, being nine miles northeast of Boston, and five southwest from Salem. It has the river Saugus on the west, and in the northern part are several beautiful ponds. A turnpike from Salem to Boston passes through it, on which are two bridges; one a drawbridge over Saugus river , 540 feet in length; the other a floating bridge, across a pond in the eastern part of the town, 500 feet in length, resting on the surface of the water. Near the centre of the town is a beautiful common, three fourths of a mile in length; and through out the town are numerous eminences, affording a variety of extensive and delightful prospects. Nahant is a peninsula on the south of Lynn, belonging to the town, and united to it by a beautiful beach, more than a mile and a half in length, and sixty rods in width, consisting of a hard and polished surface of fine sand, and furnishing one of the finest rides imaginable. Nahant is much frequented by pleasure parties, and by visiters from all parts of the continent, for the purposes of amusement and health. The pure and exhilarating sea breezes, the various and enchanting prospects of water and land, the bold and precipitous cliffs by which the peninsula is embattled, the numerous beaches, coves, and grottoes interspersed, and the curiosities everywhere presented, render Nahant one of the most delightful resorts which America affords. The Spouting Horn, the Swallow's Cave, and other similar scenes, will long detain the admirer of natural beauty; and he will find these delightfully mingled with the production of art, the spacious hotels erected for his accommodation, and the neat cottages which constitute the summer residences of gentlemen of leisure, fortune, and taste. A Mineral Spring, in the eastern part of the town, is also a place of delightful and fashionable resorts. The water possesses medicinal properties, and is said to have afforded relief in pulmonary complaints. A commodious and elegant hotel is in erected near it, on the border of a beautiful pond, provided with a sail boat and apparatus for fishing. Here the lover of tasteful retirement may pass his time agreeably, among the delights of rural scenery, and find amusement and health hovering around the classic solitude. It may be interesting to many to state, that the first person who settled at the Mineral Spring, was Casper Van Crowninscheldt, Esq. an emigrant from Germany, who built a cottage there about the year 1690. He was visited by the Rev. Cotton Mather, who notices his rural habitation and the Spring adjacent, in one of his sage works. Several of the apple trees planted by Mr. Crowninscheldt in his little garden, are still standing, on the grounds adjacent to the beautiful establishment now kept by Mayor Barton. From Mr. Crowninscheldt, descended the Hon. Benjamin W. Crowninshield, late representative to Congress from the District. Lynn contains 6200 inhabitants. The principal business is the manufacture of ladies' shoes. For the first hundred years from the settlement of the town, this business was very limited. Few persons followed it constantly, and the farmers only pursued it in the intervals of their common employment. The shoes were generally made of neats' leather or woolen cloth. In 1750, Mr. John Adam Deaggeor came from England, and gave this business its first impulse. After his arrival, shoes were manufactured of finer stuffs - of calamanco, silk and satin. They were made with long straps; for the ladies, like the gentleman, wore buckles, and the rands were commonly white. The reputation of Lynn shoes soon found way to the cities of the south, and the manufacturers began to extend their business by taking apprentice and employing journeymen. In 1783, Mr. Ebenezer Breed made a visit to England, and on his return, introduced the manufacture of Morocco leather into America. For this important service, he received a complimentary letter, containing the thanks of the National Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. He also brought with him two men from Sheffield, in England, to instruct in the manufacture of crosscut and court heels; and in the ensuing year, he procured two other workmen to make improvements, and by his excursions the business was essentially promoted. Mr. Amos Rhodes and Col. Samuel Brimblecom were also among those who took an early and very active part in its extension. There are now sixty principal manufactories. About 1800 men, and as many women, are employed in this business, and 1,700,000 pair of shoes are manufactured annually. The stock employed is estimated at about $420,000, and the shoes are valued at about $1,000,000. The inhabitants of the eastern village, called Swampscot, are chiefly engaged in catching fish, of which great numbers are taken. The public buildings are seven churches, eight
schoolhouses, an academy, six taverns, a town-house, an alms house, a post
office, and a bank.
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