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INTRODUCTION.

     THE object of this work is to present with the Directory, a statistical view of the Town, with other useful information. It has been undertaken from a consciousness that such a compilation is much required both by citizens and strangers; affording the former a manual of convenient reference, and to the latter a ready guide to the localities and institutions of this flourishing Town.
     It has been the design of the Publisher, to give in this little volume, the most important details that occurred to his mind, as likely to be the most useful, and affording answers to the most frequent subjects of inquiry. Some omissions of important information must of course be expected in a first attempt of this kind; but as it is intended to continue this work annually, such improvements can be made in future editions as public convenience may suggest. Great care and laborious research have been used in collecting and preparing the materials in this work, so that its general accuracy may be depended on.
     The Publisher will be thankful to receive from persons familiar with the Town and its localities such information and corrections as a perusal of this manual may suggest, to enable him to improve upon it in future editions. To those gentlemen who have promptly answered inquiries and afforded aid to this undertaking, by the information furnished, the Publisher returns his grateful acknowledgment; and, in conclusion submits this work to the public, with entire confidence that it will be duly patronized.
     It was the intention of the Publisher to have furnished a Map of the Town and vicinity, to go with the Directory and Register; but owing to a disagreement of the parties concerned in preparing the map, he is obliged to publish the work without it. A map will be obtained, however, seasonable for the next edition, likewise an Almanac entire, and other valuable information not found in the present volume

Government of the United States.

     The 13th presidential term of four years, since the establishment of the government of the United States under the Constitution, began on the 4th of March, 1837; and it will expire on the 3d of March, 1841.
     MARTIN VAN BUREN, New York,          President, Salary $25,000.
     RICHARD M. JOHNSON, Kentucky, Vice President,    "         5,000

Cabinet.

John Forsyth, Georgia, Secretary of State, $6,000
Levi Woodbury, New Hampshire, Secretary of the Treasury 6,000
Joel R. Poinsett, Sonth Carolina, Secretary of War, 6,000
Jas. K. Paulding, New York, Secretary of the Navy, 6,000
John M. Niles, Connecticut, Post-master-General, 6,000
Henry D. Gilpin, Pennsylvania, Attorney-General, 6,000.

     In the following list of United States Senators and Representatives, it will be noticed that the Senators' names are in italics. The number of Representatives is placed at the end of the list of each State.
     Richard M. Johnson, President of the Senate.
     R. M. T. Hunter, Speaker of the House.

MAINE. 
     John Ruggles, Reuel Williams, Hugh J. Anderson, Nathan Clifford, Thomas Davee, George Evans, Joshua A. Lowell, Virgil D. Paris, Benjamin Randall, Albert Smith, 8.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
     Henry Hubbard, Franklin Pierce, C. G. Atherton, Edmund Burke, Ira A. Eastman, Tristram Shaw, Jared W. Williams, 5.

VERMONT. 
     Samuel Prentiss, Samuel S. Phelps, Horace Everett, Isaac Fletcher, Hiland Hall, William Slade, John Smith, 5.

MASSACHUSETTS. 
     I. C. Bates, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Osmyn Baker, George N. Briggs, William B. Calhoun, Caleb Cushing, Wm. S. Hastings, Levi Lincoln, William Parmenter, John Reed, Leverett Saltonstall, Henry Williams, Robert C. Winthrop, 12.

RHODE ISLAND. 
     Nehemiah R. Knight, Nathan F. Dixon, Robert B. Cranston, Jos. L. Tillinghast, 2.

CONNECTICUT. 
     Perry Smith, Jabez W. Huntington, Wm. W. Boardman, John H. Brockway, Thomas B. Osborn, Truman Smith, Joseph Trumbull, Thos. W. Williams, 6.

NEW YORK. 
     Silas Wright, Jr., N. P. Tallmadge, Judson Allen, Daniel D. Barnard, David P. Brewster, Thomas C. Chittenden, John C. Clark, Edward Curtis, Amasa Dana, Nicholas B. Doe, Andrew W. Doig, Nehemiah H. Earl, John Ely, Millard Fillmore, John Fine, John D. Floyd, Seth M. Gates, Francis P. Granger, Moses H. Grinnell, A. C. Hand, Ogden Hoffman, Hiram P. Hunt, Thomas B. Jackson, Charles Johnson, Nathaniel Jones, Gouverneur Kendall, Thomas Kempshall, S. B. Leonard, Meredith Mallory, Richard P. Marvin, Charles F. Mitchell, James Monroe, J. De la Montanya, Christopher Morgan, Rufus Palen, Luther C. Peck, John H. Prentiss, Edward Rogers, David Russell, Theron R. Strong, Aaron Vanderpool, Peter J. Wagner, 40.

NEW JERSEY. 
     Garett D. Wall, S. L.Southard, William R. Cooper, Phil. Dickerson, Joseph Kille, Joseph F. Randolph, Daniel E. Ryall, Peter D. Vroom, 6.

PENNSYLVANIA. 
     James Buchanan, Daniel Sturgeon, William Beatty, H. W. Breckenbridge, James Cooper, Edward Davies, John Davis, John Edwards, Joseph Fornance, John Galbraith, James Gerry, R. H. Hammond, T. Henry, Enos Hook, Francis James, George M. Keim, Isaac Leet, C. M'Clure, George M'Cullock, A. G. Marchand, Samuel W. Morris, C. Naylor, Peter Newhard, Charles Ogle, Lemuel Paynter, David Petrikin, John Sargeant, William Simonton, George W. Tolland, David D. Wagener, 28.

DELAWARE.   
     Thomas Clayton, Thomas Rohinson, 1.

MARYLAND. 
     William D. Merrick, James Carroll, John Denis, S. Hillen,jr. Daniel Jenifer, Wm. Cost Johnson, Francis Thomas, Philip F. Thomas, J. T. H. Worthington, 8.

VIRGINIA. 
     Wm. H. Roane, Linn Banks, Andrew Beirne, John M. Botts, Walter Coles, Robert Craig, George C. Dromgoole, James Garland, William L. Goggin, John T. Hill, Joel Holleman, George W. Hopkins, R. M, T. Hunter, Joseph Johnson, John W. Jones, Wm. Lucas, Wm. M. M'Carty, Francis E. Rives, Green B. Samuel, Lewis Steinrod, John Taliaferro, Henry A. Wise, 21.

NORTH CAROLINA. 
     Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Jesse A. Bynum, Henry W. Conner, Edmund Deberry, Charles Fisher, James Graham, Micajah T. Hawkins, John Hill, James McCay, Wm. Montgomery, K. Rayner, Charles Shepard, Edward Stanly, Lewis Williams, 13.

SOUTH CAROLINA. 
     John C. Calhoun, William C. Preston, Samson H. Butler, J. Campbell, John K. Griffin, Isaac E. Holmes, Francis W. Pickens, Barnwell R. Rhett, James Rogers, T. D. Sumpter, W. Thompson, jr. 9.

GEORGIA. 
     Wilson Lumpkin, Alfred Cuthbert, Julius C. Alford, Edward J. Black, Walter T. Colquit, Mark A. Cooper, William C. Dawson, R. W. Habersham, T. B. King, Eugenius A. Nisbet, Lot Warren, 9.

ALABAMA. 
     William R. King, Clement C. May, R. H. Chapman, G. W. Crabb, James Dillet, David Hubbard, Dixon H. Lewis, 5.

MISSISSIPPI. 
     R. J. Walker, J. Henderson, A. J. Brown, Jacob Thompson, 2.

LOUISIANA. 
     R. C. Nichols, Alexander Mouton, T. W.Chinn, John Moore, Edward D. White, 3.

TENNESSEE. 
     Alexander Anderson, Felix Grundy, John Bell, Julius W. Blackwell, Aaron V. Brown, W B. Campbell, W. B. Carter, John W. Crockett, Meredith P. Gentry, Cave Johnson, Abraham McClellan, Hopkins L. Turney, Harvey M. Waterson, Charles K. Williams, Joseph L. Williams, 13.

KENTUCKY. 
     J. J. Crittenden, Henry Clay, John B. Thompson, L. W. Andrews, Linn Boyn, William O. Butler, Garret Davis, William J. Graves, Willis Green, Richard Hawes, John Pope, Phillip Triplett, Joseph Underwood, John White, Sherrod Williams, 13. 

OHIO. 
     William Allen, Benjamin Tappen, John W. Allen, Wm. Key Bond, William Doane, Alexander Duncan, Joshua R. Giddins, Patrick G. Goode, John Hastings, D. P. Leadbetter, Samson Mason, Wm. Medill, Calvary Morris, Jeremiah Morrow, Isaac Parrish, Joseph Ridgeway, D. A. Starkweather, Henry Swearingen, George Sweny, Jona. Taylor, J. B. Weller, 19.

INDIANA. 
     Oliver H. Smith, Albert S. White, John Carr, J. W. Davis, Henry S. Lane, George H. Proffit, James Rariden, Thomas Smith, William W. Wick, 7.

ILLINOIS. 
     J. M. Robinson, Richard M. Young, Zadock Casey, John Reynolds, John T. Stuart, 3.

MISSOURI. 
     Lewis F. Linn, Thomas H. Benton, John Jameson, John Miller, 2.

MICHIGAN. 
     John Norvell, Augustus A. Porter, Isaac E. Crary, 1.

ARKANSAS. 
     William S. Fulton, Ambrose H. Sevier, Edward Cross, I.

TERRITORIES. 
     FLORIDA. 1 Delegate, - Charles Downing. WISCONSIN. 1 Delegate, - James D. Doty. IOWA, - 1 Delegate, - William W. Chapman.

Government of Massachusetts.

JOHN DAVIS, ................ Governor
GEORGE HULL, ................ Lieut. Governor
Daniel P. King, ................ President of the Senate.
George Ashmull, ................ Speaker of the House.
John P. Bigelow, ................ Secretary of State.
David Wilder, ................ Treasurer.
Benjamin Stevens, ................ Sergeant at Arms.
                                          Luther S. Cushing, ................ Clerk.

Census and List of Towns in Essex County.

The following table gives a list of all the towns in Essex County, their distances from Boston, and the number of inhabitants.

Amesbury	40	2589	Manchester	22	1266
Andover	20	4951	Marblehead	16	5539
Beverly	17	4686	Methuen	26	2232
Boxford	24	964	Middleton	20	642
Bradford	30	2153	Newbury	31	3889
Danvers	15	5140	Newburyport	38	7124
Essex	25	1432	Rockport	27	2738
Gloucester	28	6394	Rowley	28	1230
Georgetown	29	1553	Salem	15	15162
Hamilton	25	823	Salisbury	40	2696
Haverhill	30	4373	Saugus	9	1202
Ipswich	27	2958	Topsfield	21	1607
Lynn	9	9375	Wenham	21	693
Lynnfield	12	689	West Newbury	33	1553

SKETCH OF LYNN.

     Lynn is one of the oldest towns in Essex County. It was settled in 1629, and incorporated in 1630. It was called Saugus till 1637, when the name was changed to Lynn. It then included Saugus and Lynnfield. It is pleasantly situated on Massachnsetts Bay, nine miles from Boston and five from Salem. The Eastern Railroad, opened in 1838, passes through the town. There is also a turnpike from Boston to Salem, on which are two bridges, one over Saugus river, 540 feet in length; and the other a floating bridge, across a pond, 450 feet. There are numerous eminences in the town, which afford a great variety of extensive and delightful prospects. There are also nine ponds, some of them like little lakes, which add their agreeable variety to the scenery. The river Saugus is on the west, and in the north is an extensive range of high and rocky hills, covered with wood. The town contains 9,375 inhabitants. The principal business is the manufacture of ladies shoes, of which about 2,500,000 pairs are annually made. The inhabitants of the eastern village called Swampscot, are chiefly engaged in fishing. The houses are generally characterised by their neatness, and the people by their industry. The public buildings are 13 churches, 9 school houses, an academy, a town house, a post office, and a bank. The houses of entertainment are the Lynn Hotel, the Railroad House, the Mineral Spring Hotel, the Ocean House, Village Hotel, and the Nahant Hotel. Two newspapers are published in the town, the Lynn Record and the Lynn Freeman.

     Nahant is a peninsula, on the south of Lynn, and connected to it by a beautiful beach of smooth hard sand, sixty rods in width and more than a mile and a half in length. Nahant is much visited in the summer season by parties of pleasure, and contains many cottages, the residence of gentlemen of fortune and taste. The pure sea breezes, the delightful prospects of water and land, the numerous beaches, cliffs, coves, and grottoes interspersed around the shores, afford much delight to the admirers of natural beauty, and render Nahant one of the most delightful resorts in the country.

     A valuable History of Lynn has been published by Alonzo Lewis, Esq. accompanied by a Map.

TOWN OFFICERS, ETC.

Town Officers.
[CHOSEN IN MARCH, 1840.]

     Town Clerk. - Thomas Bowler.
     Selectmen and Assessors. - Stephen Oliver, Daniel Farrington, Samuel Tufts, Nehemiah Barry, Henry Newhall.
     Treasurer. - Amos Rhodes.
     Overseers of the Poor. - Jacob Purinton, Theophilus Hallowell, Silvanus Newhall.
     School Committee. - Edward L. Coffin, Parsons Cooke, Aaron Lummus, Gustavus Atwill, Gould Brown, Wm. G. Swett, Mark Staples, John Allen, Joseph Dampney.
     Tythingmen. - Harris Nichols, Calvin Stephens, James Stone, jr., John Hallowell, Benjamin H. Jacob, William Webster, John F. Hall, Stephen Morton, William H. Holt, George Little, Eleazer C. Richardson. jr., William F. Johnson, John Alley 4th.
     Fence Viewers. - Daniel R. Witt, Israel Buffum, Silvanus Newhall.
     Surveyors of Lumber. - Benjamin Clifford, Joshua Patch, Andrews B. Breed, Ezekiel H. Parker, Consider Orcutt, Epes Mansfield, Jephthah P. Woodbury, Stephen P. Heath.
     Measurers of Wood and Bark. - Stephen P. Heath, John W. Alley, Epes Mansfield, Andrews B. Breed, Abraham Pray, Consider Orcutt, Jacob Purinton, Aaron Newhall, Samuel Viall, John Raddin, Jesse Rice, Nathaniel Ingalls 3d, Micajah Alley, John Stone 3d.
     Field Drivers and Hogreeves. - Sydney B. Pratt, George Farrington, Jacob Alley, Edmund Brown, Samuel P. Cheever, Henry Larrabee, Isaac O. Hudson, William M. Haskell, James Palmer, Benjamin P. Chase, Henry Skerry, William Gutterson, Oren Dalrymple, David E. Parker, Albert Ramsdell, William D. Rowe, Jonathan Mansfield.
     Board of Health. - Aaron Lummus, Esq., Dr. Asa T. Newhall, Dr. Charles O. Barker, Dr. Daniel Perley, Dr. William Prescott.
     Surveyors of Highways. - Ward 1, William Collins, jr.; 2, Joseph Ingalls, jr.; 3, Eppes Mansfield; 4, George W. Mudge; 5, Otis Newhall; 6. William Gutterson; 7, Oren Dalrymple; 8, Elbridge G. Hood; 9. Breed Bacheller.
     Pound Keeper. - Daniel Moulton.
     Beach Committee. - Israel Buffum, James Breed, jr. Moses Breed, Samuel Tufts, Samuel Viall.
     Fish Committee. - Isaac O. Hudson, Robert Mansfield, Samuel Viall, Albert B. Ingalls; Joseph Moulton, jr.
     Auditing Committee. - Isaiah Breed, George Hood, David Taylor, Charles O. Barker, Francis S. Newhall.

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