“In 1835 the English lecturer, George Thompson, invited to this country by Garrison, tried to speak in the First Methodist Church at the head of the Common.

A mob gathered smashed in the windows and demanded Thompson.  They really meant business.  Lynn Antis did not have it all their own way, by any means.  So Isaiah Parrot of Gravesend swapped coat and hat with him and they crossed over to Daniel Henshaw’s, who was then editor of the Record.  The got him away to the Erastus Ware farm at Marblehead, Horace and Benjamin Ware some of you must remember.  This section is now call Beach Bluff.”

Reference Data:

The Register of Lynn Historical Society, by the Society, 1905, page 127