_As Shown by the Diary of Joseph Lye, Shoemaker._
For all the facts in this little book the writer is indebted to
Henry F. Tapley, who gave the Lye, or Tapley, shoe shop to the Essex
Institute, and who related the record of it, as well as extracts from
the diary of Joseph Lye, to the Lynn Historical Society, October 14,
1915.
Mr. Tapley’s story is published in the Register of the Lynn Historical
Society, Number XIX, for the Year 1915.