1698 On the 4th of January, Oliver Elkins and Thomas Darling killed a wolf in Lynn woods. On the 28th of February, Thomas Baker killed two wolves. This year also, James Mills killed five foxes on Nahant. Twenty shillings were allowed by the town for killing a wolf, and two shillings for a fox. The town ordered that no person should cut more than seven trees on Nahant, under a penalty of forty shillings for each tree exceeding that number. June 1. The Court enacted that no person using or occupying the feat or mystery of a butcher, currier, or shoemaker, by himself, or any other, shall use or exercise the feat or mystery of a Tanner, on pain of the forfeiture of six shillings and eight pence for every hide or skin so tanned. They also enacted that no tanner should exercise the business of a butcher, currier, or shoemaker. And no butcher shall gash or cut any hide, whereby the same shall be impaired, on pain of forfeiting twelve pence for every gash or cut. It was also enacted that no shoemaker or cordwainer shall work into Shoes, Boots, or other wares, any leather that is not tanned and curried as aforesaid; nor shall use any leather made of horses hide for the inner sole of any such shoes or boots on pain of forfeiting all such shoes and boots. 16 9 9. The platform of the meeting-house was covered with lead. The bell was taken down and sent to England to be exchanged for a new one. Mr. Shepards salary was reduced to sixty pounds. On the 7th of November, the town ordered that any person who should follow the wild fowl in the harbor, in a canoe, to shoot at them, or frighten them, should pay twenty shillings; and Thomas Lewis and Timothy Breed were chosen to enforce the order. 1700. On the 25th of May, Mr. John Witt killed a wolf. [The town paid Timothy Breed two shillings for killing of one ffox at nahant. [Dr. John Caspar Richter van Crowninscheldt, bought of Elia beth Allen, wife of Jacob Allen, of Salem, 20 June, twenty acres of land neer a certain pond called the., Spring Pond, with all the houses, buildings, waters, fishings, &c. The land appears to have previously belonged to John Clifford. The oldest grave stone in the burying ground near the west end of Lynn Common, bears this inscription: Here lyeth ye body of John Clifford. Died Tune ye 17, 1698, in ye 68 year of his age. It is on the west of the foot path leading from the front entrance, and, unlike the other old stones, faces the east. The 9 in the date has been altered, in a rough way, so as to resemble a 2, and hence some have been deceived into the belief that there was a burial here as early as 1628. Mr. Lewis declared the alteration to have been made in 1806, by a pupil at Lynn Academy. This John Clifford appears to have been the same individual who owned lands in the vicinity of Mineral Spring. He was made a freeman in 1678, and is sometimes called of Salem; which would be natural enough if he lived any where about Spring Pond. I think he married Elizabeth Richardson, perhaps as a second wife, 28 September, 1688, he being then some fifty-eight years of age. Mr. Lewis states that Dr. Crowninscheldt built a cottage at Mineral Spring about the year 1690. And in Felts Annals of Salem, under date 1695, we find the following: This year Richard Harris, master of the Salem Packet, bound to Canada river, invites Doct. Grouncell (Crowninshield,) a German, who married Capt. Allens daughter at Lynn Spring, to accompany him, but he declined. Could it have been of his mother-in-law, that the Doctor purchased the land, in 1700? At first view, there seems something like confusion in the above: but I do not see that the statements are irreconcilable.] At a meeting of the Selectmen, on the 7th of June, Mr. Shepard was chosen to keep a grammar school, for which thirty pounds were the next year allowed. 17 0.1. [Henry Sharp, innholder, of Salem, let his carriage, a calash, for the conveying of Mr. Bulkley, who had arrived at that place, sick, to his home. But as he could get no farther on his journey than Lynn, he here dismissed the driver, who returned to Salem on Sunday. For the desecration of holy time Mr. Sharp was called to answer, but was finally discharged by making it appear that the travel was necessary. This calash is noted as being one of the first carriages ever owned in the vicinity. On horse-back or a-foot our forefathers and mothers almost exclusively traveled, down to a period something later than this. The above incident well shows the solicitude with which the sanctity of the Lords day continued to be guarded.]
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