"History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: Including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant"
by Alonzo Lewis, James R. Newhall

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Order Of This History

CHAPTER I. BEGINNING ON PAGE 9:

Part 1, pgs. 9-55

Part 2, pgs. 56-110

Embraces Introductory Remarks -Notices of the Early Voyages and Discoveries in and about our territory -An account of the Indians found here, with brief Biographical Sketches of some of the more prominent -Topographical and general Descriptions, with notices of Natural History and Phenomena - Facts concerning the Business Enterprises and Employments of the Settlers, and their Religious Character, Manners, and peculiar Customs.

CHAPTER II. BEGINNING ON PAGE 111:

Part 1, pgs. 111-171 (1629-1637)

Part 2, pgs. 171-229 (1638-1650)

Part 3, pgs. 229-291 (1651-1690)

Part 4, pgs. 292-352 (1691-1786)

Part 5, pgs. 352-412 (1787-1843)

Part 6, pgs. 413-478 (1844-1864)

Carries forward our History, year by year, in the form of Annals, giving all important events under the appropriate dates, from the time of the first settlement, in 1629, to the year 1865 - interspersed with brief notices of prominent individuals, and other matters deemed pertinent.

CHAPTER III. BEGINNING ON PAGE 479:

Part 1, pgs. 479-528

Part 2, pgs. 528-574

Contains Biographical Sketches of various Natives of Lynn who from position, endowments or acts seemed entitled to some special notice.

CHAPTER IV. BEGINNING ON PAGE 575:

pgs. 575-589

Embraces various Tables -Lists of Public Officers, Names of Early Settlers, Religious Societies and Ministers, Newspapers and Editors, etc.- together with Statistical Summaries.

CHAPTER V. BEGINNING ON PAGE 590:

pgs. 590-592

Contains brief Concluding Remarks, alluding especially to the progress of Lynn during the last twenty years - and closing with acknowledgments for the friendly assistance received during the progress of the work.

THE INDEX. BEGINNING ON PAGE 593:

Contains all the Surnames in the book, alphabetically arranged in connection with the subjects. Names are so naturally connected in the mind with events that it is thought the arrangement will prove highly useful. A full index is to a work of this kind of the first importance. Indeed a good index is a valuable addition to any work. And the object of the threat of Lord Campbell to introduce a bill into the British Parliament making it penal to issue a book without an index, should be better appreciated by book makers than seems generally to be the case.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Of the Illustrations in this volume little need be said, as for the most part they explain themselves. But of the two Views at the commencement, it may be remarked that in the one taken from the base of Sadler's Rock, every church steeple in Lynn but three, to wit, the Union street Methodist, the Second Universalist, and the South Street Methodist, is shown. On the extreme left, appears High Rock, with its Observatory; and then come the steeples in this order: Second Baptist, First Universalist, Chesnut Street Congregational, Central Congregational, Boston Street Methodist, First Methodist, Roman Catholic, First Baptist, First Congregational; which brings us to the extreme right of the picture. In the View from Forest Place, proceeding from left to right, we have the First Congregational, Second Universalist, Boston Street Methodist, South Street Methodist. And thus the two pictures give every steeple in town exceping the Union Street Methodist.