Editing Lynn, Massachusetts (section)

===17th century===
English colonists settled Lynn not long after the 1607 establishment of [[Jamestown, Virginia]] and the 1620 arrival of the ''[[Mayflower]]'' at [[Plymouth, Massachusetts|Plymouth]].<ref>https://archive.org/details/historyoflynn02lewi History of Lynn (1829). Retrieved on 2016-03-16</ref> European settlement of the area was begun in 1629 by [[Edmund Ingalls]], followed by John Tarbox of [[Lancashire]] in 1631. The area today encompassing Lynn was originally incorporated in 1629 as [[Saugus, Massachusetts|Saugus]], the [[Massachusett language|Massachusett]] name for the area. Three years after the settlement in Salem, five families moved onto Naumkeag lands in the interior of Lynn, then known as Saugus, and the Tomlin family constructed a large mill between today's Sluice and Flax Ponds. The mill not only supplied grains and sustenance for the settlers and trade with the Naumkeag people, but was used to create brews and many fermented casks of hops and wines to send back to King George in England.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

Lynn takes its name from [[King's Lynn]], [[Norfolk]], [[England]], in honor of [[Samuel Whiting Jr.|Reverend Samuel Whiting (Senior)]], Lynn's first official minister who arrived from King's Lynn in 1637.<ref name="Whiting_1637">{{cite web |url=http://www.lynnma.gov/about/history.shtml |title=A BRIEF HISTORY OF LYNN |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=About Lynn |publisher=City of Lynn |access-date=2021-12-01 |quote=When the first official minister, Samuel Whiting, arrived from King's Lynn, England, the new settlers were so excited that they changed the name of their community to Lynn in 1637 in honor of him. |archive-date=October 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005040951/http://www.lynnma.gov/about/history.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="cihist">[http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/aboutlynn_history.shtml Brief History of Lynn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829100613/http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/aboutlynn_history.shtml |date=August 29, 2012 }} at City of Lynn website</ref>

A noteworthy early Lynn colonist, Thomas Halsey, left Lynn to settle the East End of Long Island, where he and several others founded the Town of [[Southampton, New York]]. The resulting [[Halsey House (Southampton, New York)|Halsey House]]—the oldest extant frame house in New York State (1648)—is now open to the public, under the aegis of the Southampton Colonial Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/thomashalseyofhe00hals/thomashalseyofhe00hals_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton, Long Island, 1591-1679 : with his American descendants to the eighth and ninth generations"|website=archive.org|year=1895 |access-date=July 4, 2017}}</ref>

As English settlement pushed deeper into Naumkeag territories, [[Virgin soil epidemic|disease]], [[Praying town|missionary efforts]], and loss of access to seasonal hunting, farming, and fishing grounds caused significant disruption to Naumkeag lifeways. In 1675, Naumkeag [[sachem]] [[Wenepoykin]] joined [[Metacomet]] in resisting English colonization in [[King Philip's War]], for which he was enslaved and sent to [[Barbados]].<ref name="Perley-1912" /> In 1686, under pressure to demonstrate legal title for lands they occupied during the administrative restructuring of the [[Dominion of New England]], the selectmen of Lynn and Reading purchased a deed from [[Wenepoykin|Wenopoykin]]'s heirs Kunkshamooshaw and [[Quonopohit]] for 16 pounds of sterling silver,<ref name="Perley-1912" /> though by this time they and most surviving Naumkeag were residents of the [[Natick, Massachusetts|Natick]] Praying Town.

Further European settlement of Lynn led to several independent towns being formed, with [[Reading, Massachusetts|Reading]] created in 1644; [[Lynnfield, Massachusetts|Lynnfield]] in 1782; [[Saugus, Massachusetts|Saugus]] in 1815; [[Swampscott, Massachusetts|Swampscott]] in 1852; and [[Nahant, Massachusetts|Nahant]] in 1853. The City of Lynn was incorporated on May 14, 1850.<ref name="Semi-Centennial_Incorporation"/><ref name="cityoflynn.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.cityoflynn.net/aboutlynn_history.shtml|title=Brief History of Lynn|website=www.cityoflynn.net|access-date=July 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707163458/http://cityoflynn.net/aboutlynn_history.shtml|archive-date=July 7, 2017|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

Colonial Lynn was an early center of tannery and shoe-making, which began in 1635. The boots worn by [[Continental Army]] soldiers during the [[American Revolution|Revolutionary War]] were made in Lynn, and the shoe-making industry drove the city's growth into the early nineteenth century.<ref name=cihist/> This legacy is reflected in the city's seal, which features a colonial boot.<ref>[http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/ City of Lynn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010723123312/http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/ |date=July 23, 2001 }} official website</ref>