Lynn Directory
And
Register
For The Year
1841

Containing A General Description Of The Town, Of The Town Officers,
Public Institutions, The Names And Occupations Of The Residents,
And Other Useful Information.

Vol. 1. No. 1.

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Shaun,

     I note your email is posted for submission of information on the web page for the Lynn Directory of 1841.
     The directory has some importance for African-American history as it was published and printed by Benjamin Franklin Roberts, an African-American printer.
     In the 1850s, this same Roberts sued the city of Boston on behalf of his daughter Sarah who had to walk by segregated whites-only schools in order to get to the only elementary school for blacks in Boston, the Smith School on Beacon Hill.
This suit was lost by Roberts when the Massachuetts Supreme Court formed a decision based on a "separate but equal" doctrine. The argument on behalf of Sarah Roberts was argued by Chales Sumner. This "separate but equal" doctrine was later taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court and the doctrine was not overturned until the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1954 on the Brown v. Board of Education case. This was the famous decision that ordered school desegregation. That decision cited Charles Sumner's argument of almost a hundred years before, essentially saying that Sumner was correct.
     Anyway, if you want more information, you might want to look at the book, "Sarah's Long Walk", published only a few years ago.

Regards,
George

Introduction, U.S. Government Information, Town Information	Pgs. 1 - 8a
Institutions	Pgs. 8b - 14
Business Directory, Streets, Courts, &c.	Pgs. 15 - 27
Abbott, James - Collins, Phillips	Pgs. 28 -38
Collins, Robert W. - Keene's Boarding House	Pgs. 39 - 49
Keith, Nathaniel - Raddin, George W.	Pgs. 50 - 60
Raddin, James - Young, Bradbury S., Nahant Directory	Pgs. 61 - 71

CONTENTS (From Pg. 71)

BUSINESS DIRECTORY, 15-25 Lynn Mechanics Rifle Company, 12

Census & list of Towns in Essex Co., 6 Lynn Mutual Fire Insnrance Co., 11

Constables, 9 Lynn Social Library, 13

CONTENTS, 71 Lynn Union Temperance Society, 13

Counting Room Almanac for 1841, 72 Militia Companies, 12

Courts, Justices, &c., 8 MISCELLANEOUS, 14 & 25

DIRECTORY, 28-62 Nahant Directory, 72

Engine Companies, 12 Newspapers, 10

Franklin Fire Club, 19 Physicians, 9

Government of Massachusetts, 6 POST OFFICE, 25

Institution for Savings in Lynn, 10 Public Houses, 10

Introduction, 3 Religious Societies and Ministers, 9

Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, 13 Rockingham Fire Insurance Co., 11

Lawyers, 9 Schools, 9

Lynn Anti-Slavery Society, 13 Sketch of Lynn, 7

Lynn Artillery, 12 Societies of Ladies for the Relief of the Poor, 14

Lynn Circulating Library, 13 Streets, Courts, &c., 26, 27

Lynn Directory and Register Abbreviation Table, 25 Town Officers, 8

Lynn Light Infantry, 12 Union Fire and Marine Ins. Co., 11

Lynn Lyceum, 13 Union Lyceum, 13

Lynn Mechanics Bank, 10 United States Government, 4

Lynn Mechanics Fire and Marine Insurance Company, 11 Watchers' Societies, 14

Watcher Society in Ward 4, 14

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