"This year [1637] a large number of people removed from Lynn, and commenced a new settlement at Sandwich. The grant of the town was made on the 3rd of April, by the colony of Plymouth. "It is ordered that these ten men of Saugus, namely Edmund Freeman, Henry Feake, Thomas Dexter, Edward Dillingham, William Wood, John Carman, Richard Chadwell, William Almy, Thomas Tupper, and George Knott, shall have liberty to view a place to sit down on, and have land sufficient for three score families, upon the conditions propounded to them by Governor and Mr. Winslow." Thomas Dexter did not remove, but the rest of the above named went, with forty-six other men from Lynn.".....

"This year the name of the town was changed from Saugus to Lynn. The record of the General Court, on the 15th of November, consists of only four words: "Saugus is called Lin."

"History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant" by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, Boston, 1865, p.165.