• 1606 - Samuel de Champlain anchors in "Beauport.

• 1623 - Dorchester Company settlers arrive and setup at Stage Fort Park

• 1630 or 1631 - Abraham Robinson, son of John Robinson (pastor), and band of Pilgrims, establishes settlement and fishing stage at Annisquam.

• 1642 - Town of Gloucester incorporated.

• 1660 - Edward Harraden house built.

• 1698 - First school house built, Thomas Riggs first school master.

• 1700 - Congregational Church organized, West Gloucester (approximate date).

• 1709 - Davis-Freeman house built.

• 1710 - White-Ellery House built.

• 1713 - Schooner ship type begins operating.

• 1716 - Second Parish Church incorporated.

• 1720 - Dyke-Wheeler house built.

• 1728 - Third Parish Church established.

• 1739 - "Great meeting-house at the harbor" built.

• 1740 - Babson-Alling house built.

• 1765 - Population: 3,763.[4]

• 1770 - Freemason Tyrian Lodge established.

• 1771 - Cape Ann Light erected on Thacher Island.

• 1775 - Battle of Gloucester.

• 1789 - U.S. custom house established.

• 1790 - Population: 5,317

• 1792 - Gloucester post office established.

• 1796 - Gloucester Bank established. Committee formed to wait on proprietors of mills and dams to know why said mills and dams be not made good as they ought to be.880 Voted Selectmen take special care of idle or disorderly children and other persons that come under their notice.881 Liberty granted to set up gate where it had always been set up sometime past on Eastern Point.882 John Stevens built [Sargent-Murray-Gilman-Hough] House [49 Middle St.].883 ‘Upstart’ House built [58 Middle St., ordered taken down in 1970].884 Request to set Pot Kiln on Pebble Stone Beach.885 1770-1775 Between 70 and 80 schooners fished Grand Banks for cod; 70 boats fished for cod, hake and pollock in shore fisheries.886 1771 Salem Selectmen wrote to Selectmen of Gloucester regarding setting a lighthouse upon some part of Cape Ann; Gloucester voted to petition General Court for same.887 Pringle, James R., History, p. 321; Tagney, p. 45. Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 121. Tagney, p. 53. Garland, Guns, p. 57. Book of the 300th, pp. 44-45. Garland, Guns, pp. 72-73; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 328-330; Tibbets, pp. 15-16. 880 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 121. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 119. Ibid., Town Records 1694-1752 Book 2, transcript, p. 117. Ibid., Peterson File HISTORIC HOUSES, GDT, May 31, Sep 8, 1973, Jun 15, 1974 and Aug 5, 1983, Jun 1, 1979; Tibbets, p. 50; Wright, p. 21. Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, GDT, Aug 8, 1970. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 117. Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 26; Pringle, James R., History, p. 282. 887 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 127. Colonial government purchased Thacher's Island and built two lighthouses.888 Beacons installed on Thacher’s Island by British.889 Richard Sylvester appointed “Land-waiter, Gauger and weigher” for Cape Ann [Customs Officer].890 Massachusetts valuation for Gloucester had 15½ grist mills, fulling mills, and saw mills listed.891 Abraham Wharf, Dogtown inhabitant, owned one house, a head of cattle, one swine and three acres of pasture land worth 2 pounds, 2 shillings.892 Samuel Plummer accused of murdering female Negro slave belonging to his father.893 1771-DATE Valuations on real estate, personal property, polls, vessels, etc., recorded.894 1772 Voted to keep powder and ammunition in the Fort or Battery House.895 Customs Officer Richard Sylvester ordered to leave Town.896 Smuggling continued.897 Rev. Obadiah Parsons settled as pastor of Third Parish.898 Gloucester protested recent ministerial “innovations” and pledged to oppose all tyranny.899 Committee of Correspondence elected.900 Commons adjoining Dogtown was divided into wood lots.901 Mill moved to Southern Woods on Saw Mill Brook [Sandy Bay].902 Liberty given to set up engine to weigh hay.903 1773 Vote passed to build a Pest House.904 888 Copeland, p. 129. 889 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 138; GDT, Sep 19. 1981, 1982 Guide to North Shore; Junior League, p. 109. 890 Pringle, James R., History, p. 322; Tagney, p. 46. 891 Babson, John J., History, p. 203; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 319. 892 Sucholeiki, p. 49. 893 GDT, Feb 17 and 23, 1989; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 313-314. 894 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 83-88. 895 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File MILITARY, Reilly, p. 11. 896 Hawes, p. 60; Pringle, James R., History, p. 322; Tagney, p. 46. 897 Tagney, p. 46. 898 Hurd, pp. 1309-1310. 899 Tagney, pp. 67-68. 900 Garland, Guns, p. 63; Pringle, James R., History, p. 69; Tagney, p. 68. 901 Babson, Roger W., p. 110. McLane, p. 45. Babson, John J., History, p. 367; Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 188. Watch House Point guarded against contaminated (with smallpox) strangers by sea.905 Town passed resolution regarding tea.906 Fort House and appurtenances let out [rented] reserving it for Town’s use when required.907 ~ Map of Gloucester [by Babson 1860]. 1774 Population was ~4,500.909 Special constables named in case smallpox should come.910 Covenant for mutual insurance of Grand Bankers.911 Gloucester sent 120 sheep to relieve Boston’s poor.912 “Voted no man hire any person to watch in his stead unless approved by Committee of the Watch.”913 Committee to consult with the Merchants in the seaports and agree on proper measures to relieve the Colonies under Act of Parliament blocking up the Town of Boston.914 “Voted unanimously not to trade with Great Britain and the West Indies (after Newbury Port voted the same).”915 “Voted exceptions to above included Hemp, Cordage, Lead and Deck.”916 Tribute to fisheries paid in House of Commons.917 Article on warrant to see if reward be granted to person who detected any person guilty of breaking open any Pound.918 Capt. Beach bought Sanders House [on Middle St.] and built ropewalk between Middle and Back [Prospect] Sts.919 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PARKS and PRESERVES, GDT, Apr 11, 1857; Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 145. Garland, Guns, p. 65. Connolly, pp. 50-51; Pringle, James R., History, p. 70; Tagney, p. 74. Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 140. 908 Ibid., Peterson File MAPS. 909 Eddy, Richard, D.D., Universalism in Gloucester, Mass, Procter Brothers, 1892, p. 10. 910 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PARKS and PRESERVES, GDT, Apr 11, 1957. 911 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, pp. 141-143; Garland, Guns, p. 78. 912 Pringle, James R., History, p. 71; Tagney, p. 90. Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 161. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 150. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 149. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, after p. 149. Ibid., Peterson File CELEBRATIONS, 250th Anniversary. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 149. 919 GDT, Nov 22, 1969. Dog walked home to Sandy Bay from Chesapeake Bay after stranding of a boat.920 1774-1793 Rev. John Murray in Gloucester.921 Pre 1775 Nehemiah Parsons House [68 Middle St.] and William Parsons House [58 Middle St.] built.922 ~1775 Some 150 schooners and 600 men were sent to Grand Banks.923 Breastworks thrown up near the Old Battery, the Stage, Freshwater Cove, Duncan’s Point and on banks near the Cut.924 Voted they desire Militia be called together to choose their officers and consideration for spending time in learning military discipline.925 Rev. John Rogers House built [64 Middle St.].926 1775 Population was 4,945.927 Annisquam claimed to have 80 dwellings, Harbor village 100.928 There was tiny fishing village at Farm Point [Freshwater Cove?].929 Peter Coffin and Samuel Whittemore sent to Provincial Congress at Cambridge.930 Vote to view arms and ammunition.931 American blood was spilt at “Lixinton” by “Brittish robbers”.932 Voted that Bradbury Sanders be Capt. of Fort Ann and William Pearson be Capt. of Fort at Stage Point.933 Gloucester forwarded 117 pounds 7 shillings 1 pence to relieve Boston’s poor.934 Meeting of Inhabitants held to consider of Means to extricate us out of difficulties.935 920 Hawes, p. 152; Pool Papers, Book II, Rockport Public Library, p. 11. 921 Eddy, Richard, D.D., Universalism in Gloucester, Mass, Procter Brothers, 1892; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 85; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, Gloucester Magazine, n.d., article by Imogene N. Goodridge, p. 34; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 291-292. 922 Tibbets, p. 50. 923 Babson, Roger W., p. 110; Pringle, James R., History, p. 282. 924 Babson, John J., History, p. 396. 925 Gloucester Archives, Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 155. 926 Tibbets, p. 50. 927 Babson, John J., History, p. 453. 928 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 1. 929 Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, pp. 1, 13. Pringle, James R., History, p. 71. Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 156. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 161. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 165. Tagney, p. 90. Voted to raise 100 pounds to purchase 50 small arms and 50 Minute Men be raised.936 New England Restraining Act passed and signed by George III, 21 peers dissented “...attempt to coerce, by famine, the inhabitants is without example in the history of any civilized nation.”937 Tories suspected, no commerce with Tories.938 Cargo of Indian corn sent to Spain from Gloucester.939 Voted that Nathaniel Warner express to Cambridge for advice and see if any firearms could be purchased.940 Mr. Epes Sargent and Capt. Joseph Foster on committee with other seaport towns “to consult on measures to be pursued in the present State of Affairs”.941 “...purchase Pork and Flour if they think proper for Town’s use.”942 Men sought refuge for their families in West Parish and Ipswich.943 Capt. Warner received 24 pounds 12 shillings and 8 pence for pay of Minutemen.944 Expenses paid for carrying prisoners to Cambridge.945 Rum for Workhouse paid for.946 Selectmen paid for beef, pork, guns, molasses, corn, flower [flour], powder, potatoes, cotton, etc., donated by Town people.947 First campaign of war, 225 men sent in.948 Total of 1565 men from Gloucester were in the war.949 Colony of Massachusetts Bay aid to Town of Glocester account for sundry articles furnished to Army.950 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 160. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 160. Garland, Guns, p. 101. Ibid., p. 79; Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 160, 161. Garland, Guns, p. 80. Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 161. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 161. Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 162. Babson, p. 375; Tagney, p. 173. Gloucester Archives, Selectmen’s Records 1756-1781 Book 3, p. 401. Ibid., Selectmen’s Day Book 1775-1782, p. 4 (bottom). Ibid., Selectmen’s Day Book 1775-1782, p. 6. Ibid., Selectmen’s Day Book 1775-1782, p. 6. Connolly, p. 55; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File MILITARY, Mass. Sea Coast Defense Muster Roll, Reilly, p. 11; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 12; Hurd, p. 1334. Book of the 300th, p. 122. Gloucester Archives, MILITARY, Box 31. 6th Essex [Militia] Regiment consisted of six companies in Gloucester and one in Manchester.951 Lamps, oil, boats and cattle taken from Thacher’s Island.952 Thacher’s Island lighthouse keeper, a Tory, forcibly removed and lights darkened for remainder of war.953 “Voted that inhabitants give notice to Committee of Correspondence of any person about to move to Nova Scotia or elsewhere.”954 Rev. John Murray appointed Chaplain to Rhode Island Regiments.955 Fort built on Fishermen’s Field [Stage Fort Park].956 Fort near Watch Hill [Fort Sq.] rebuilt.957 Captured British ordnance brig NANCY escorted into Freshwater Cove.958 At least 150 schooners and 600 men engaged in fishing.959 Embargo on Banks fishing.960 Massachusetts Congress embargo on all foreign exportation.961 Gloucester vessels left for West Indies with hogsheads of Jamaican fish.962 General Washington directed 300 lbs. of powder, 300 shot of nine lbs. for a swivel gun of small size, and 100 lbs. grapeshot be delivered to Gloucester.963 Capt. Lane directed to take Riflemen under his command to Cape Ann to protect inhabitants from all attempts of enemy.964 Town supplied with men and ammunition.965 Battle of Bunker Hill.966 Ibid., Peterson File MILITARY, Reilly, p. 11. 952 Tagney, p. 178. 953 Garland, Guns, p. 90; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File LIGHTHOUSES, Gloucester Magazine, n.d., article by D. Michael Ryan. 954 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 162. 955 Eddy, p. 13-14. 956 Tibbets, p. 45. 957 Ibid., p. 43-44. 958 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, GDT, Dec 20, 1975; Hurd, p. 1336; Tagney, pp. 222-223. 959 Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 28; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FISHING, GDT, Jun 22, 1973 and Jun 27, 1980. 960 Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 6. 961 Tagney, p. 263. 962 Ibid. 963 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 145. 964 Gloucester Archives, Selectmen’s Records Book 3 1756-1781, p. 406. 965 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, pp. 145-148. Raiders from British warship FALCON repelled from Coffin’s Beach.967 Robert [Freeman?], Negro slave of Peter Coffin, given his freedom after saving Coffin’s life, also given land and house which descendants lived in until 1931.968 British warship FALCON under Capt. Linzee cannonaded Gloucester.969 British sloop-of-war FALCON repelled in Harbor.970 First Parish Church hit by cannon ball.971 Massachusetts Legislature passed act legalizing privateering.972 Town paid 1 pound 14 shillings for iron supplied for cannon carriage.973 Admonitory address of Rev. Samuel Chandler against doctrine of John Murray.974 Friends [Quakers] in Pennsylvania and New Jersey made second donation to Town.975 Voted that tithing men take persons that are disorderly in the time of divine service and bring them to the foot of the stairs of the broad alley.976 Dorcas Foster moved to Dogtown at age 8.977 1775 or 1776 “...Committee to take care that the Association proposed by the Continental Congress be complied with and in no way violated.”978 1775-1779 Victims of war totaled 357 who perished at sea, fell in battle or died on prison ships.979 Combined fleet of American privateers was over 650.980 1775-1783 Schools discontinued.981 966 Ibid., History, pp. 388-393, 596; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, GDT, Jun 17, 1993; Hurd, pp. 1334-1335. 967 Babson, John J., History, p. 393; Book of the 300th, p. 50; Connolly, p. 57; Copeland, pp. 157, 202; Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 19; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, GDT, Feb 23, 1989, Aug 3, 1990; Hurd, p. 1335; Pringle, James R., History, p. 76; Tagney, pp. 181 ff. 968 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 12. 969 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, TOURISM, Brooks, Mary, Through; Company G 8th Reg. History (Box 31 FF 1). 970 Babson, John J., History, p. 394; Connolly, pp. 57-60; Copeland, pp. 57, 125; Hurd, pp. 1335-1336; Tagney, 181 ff. 971 Babson, Roger W., p. 46. 972 Garland, Guns, p. 147; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, Thomson, William O., North Shore Privateers 1776, 1974, p. 41. 973 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 174. 974 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, pp. 140-141. 975 Garland, Guns, p. 155; Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 174. 976 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 158 977 Babson, Roger W., pp. 35, 38. 978 Ibid., p. 174. 979 Babson, John J., History, p. 440. 980 Pringle, James R., History, p. 83. 981 Gloucester Archives, 1882 City Document #9, p. 21. Life difficult on Cape Ann; much poverty and suffering felt in this Town.982 Domestic and foreign trade, fishing and ship building all practically ceased.983 Fishing and all maritime pursuits were impossible.984 Exportation of fish ended.985 Fishing schooners converted into privateers, many others rotted at the wharves.986 Selectmen listed privateers.987 Beef, blankets, shoes and stockings donated to Continental Army.988 Women created impetus for United States Sanitary Commission.989 Muster rolls, soldiers and sailors service recorded.990 Pine Tree Tavern on Canal St. near Cut bridge was gathering place for Negroes of the Town.991 1775-1834 Persons “warned out of Town” recorded.992 Pre 1776 Before independence was achieved, waters adjacent to British possessions were free to New England fishermen.993 Pirates’ gold found at Gully Cove [Sandy Bay].994 1776 Population was 4,512.995 Some 400 Gloucester men were in public service [military].996 Regiment of Gloucester and Marblehead fishermen collected boats of every kind & ferried Washington’s Army from Brooklyn Heights to New York.997 982 Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, Swan, Marshall, Cape Ann at the Nadir, pp. 252-259; Tibbets, p. 13. 983 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 14. 984 Eddy, p. 105; Hurd, p. 1334. 985 Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 6. 986 Connolly, p. 83; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, GDT, Aug 18, 1942; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 28; Hurd, p. 1336-1339. 987 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 65. 988 Ibid., pp. 38, 65. 989 Brooks, Alfred, p. 76; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HEALTH, Massachusetts Public Health, p. 20. 990 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 42. 991 Tibbets, p. 44. 992 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 52, 64, 77. 993 Pringle, James R., History, p. 234. 994 Currier, pp. 24-25; McLane, p. 37. 995 Tagney, p. 6. 996 Ibid., p. 246. 997 Pringle, James R., History, pp. 23-24. Again, later in December, the boats made their way back and forth across the [Hudson] river carrying the Army from New York to New Jersey.998 First fishing vessel put to sea on privateering cruise was schooner BRITANNIA, name changed to WARREN.999 SARAH and ELIZABETH, PICARY & one other prize captured by schooner WARREN.1000 Great poverty of the people. Constant drain of resources and men for privateering. Cutting off foreign commerce engendered poverty and want.1001 Town voted to petition for abatement of Province tax for the year.1002 New Committee of Safety chosen.1003 Beacon placed on Governor’s Hill to be lit on first sight of British gunboats off the coast.1004 Two schooners sent through British-infested waters to purchase grain in Virginia.1005 Schooner SUSANNA carried 304½ bushels of salt to Virginia and returned with 253 barrels of corn and smaller amounts of meal, Backo [tobacco], beans, pork, bacon, rum and flower [flour].1006 Petition to General Court “praying pay for soldiers that defended Town nine days after time of their inlistment expired”.1007 “Voted that the Boats after apprizement be delivered to Col. Foster to take the charge of diving [sic] the Town’s pleasure.”1008 “Voted that the Committee of Correspondence should consult and advise with Col. Foster with respect to setting the watches.”1009 “To know if the Town will make provisions for the supplies of the families of the men that are gone into the Army and also for the poor of the Town.”1010 998 Ibid., p. 24. 999 Babson, John J., History, pp. 409-410; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, GDT, Aug 18, 1942; Hurd, p. 1336; Pringle, James R., History, p. 78; Tagney, p. 259; Thomson, pp. 43-44. 1000 Babson, John J., History, pp. 409-410; Brooks, Alfred, pp. 32-33; Thomson, pp. 43-44. 1001 Pringle, James R., History, p. 81. 1002 Ibid. 1003 Babson, John J., History, p. 398. 1004 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 100; Thompson, p. 62; Tibbets, p. 42. 1005 Garland, Guns, p. 155; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File GOVERNMENT, GLOUCESTER, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 166, 169; Swan, Marshall, Cape Ann, p. 253. 1006 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, 1776 Account of return of Salt. 1007 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 174. 1008 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 174. 1009 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 171. 1010 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 176. Article on warrant to see what method the Town will take to settle Capt. Able Woodbury’s voyage in the schooner TWO SISTERS to Virginia.1011 “Should the Hon.able Congress for the Safety of the Colonies, declare Independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain inhabitants will solemnly ingage with their lives and fortunes to support them in the measure.”1012 Copy of above was read in the several Congregations in this Town immediately after divine service.1013 “Voted to determine the votes by the voters walking. 125 walked from the East side of the House to the west side by which they voted in the affirmative, that if the Hon.able Congress for the Safety of the Colonies, declare Independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain Inhabitants will solemnly ingage with their lives and fortunes to support them in the measure. Those that were Contrary minded were desired to walk to the Eastward but there was none that did.”1014 Declaration of Independence. Legal documents no longer dated “In the 16th year of the Reign of King George 3rd”.1015 Beacons lighted [on present site of Fitz Hugh Lane House] to celebrate Declaration of Independence.1016 Rev. John Murray solicited funds in Boston and from Army officers for relief of the needy.1017 Grist mill owners were to deal with searching “original grants and treat with the present proprietors”.1018 Bounty for each soldier that shall inlist himself to be in readiness to march for the defence of the United States.1019 Bounty six pounds “for the defence of the American States”.1020 Millers told to repair mills [Riggs Mills] and “put a faithfull Millar to attend them”.1021 Workhouse existed.1022 Selectmen viewed house and agreed it was the most convenient and safest place for a Pest House.1023 1011 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 184 1012 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 177. 1013 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 177. 1014 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 178. 1015 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 178. 1016 Ibid., Peterson File CELEBRATIONS, GDT, Jun 7, 1968. 1017 Eddy, p. 14. 1018 Gloucester Archives, Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 183. 1019 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 184. 1020 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 185. 1021 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 186. 1022 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 186. Map drawn of Cape Ann and Gloucester Harbor.1024 Selectmen directed to abate rates [taxes] of men lost in seven fishing vessels.1025 Records of Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex Counties showed 1095 vessels…taken by fishermen.1026 1776-1804 Eli Forbes was pastor of First Parish Church.1027 1776-1863 Names and owners of vessels recorded.1028 ~1777 Salt-works were set up at Norman’s Woe, at the Cut, and at Squam.1029 1777 Prices set for grains, rum, chocolate, meats, hides, wood, hay, work, woolen goods, food and craftsmen’s wages.1030 “Inhabitants to meet at the Meeting House…to see if they will give Incouragement or bounty to such Soldiers as will inlist themselves into the Continental Army.”1031 Bounty for 50 soldiers 14 pounds to be given as bounty immediately.1032 Number of soldiers raised to 60.1033 “To see whether the money paid the men to go into Capt Prentisses Company to go to Ticonderoga and Capt. Pools Company over and above the six pound bounty the Town voted shall be brought into an average and laid by a Tax.”1034 “To see if the Town will give any further Incouragement for soldiers to inlist into the Continental Army.”1035 “Voted that the soldiers hired by Elias Haskell and others who deserted from Capt. Mark Pools Company are no ways intitled to the towns bounty.”1036 “Voted Boats taken from Lyndzey to be sold for use of the Poor.”1037 1023 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 177. 1024 Courtesy of Peabody Museum, Salem, MA. 1025 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 95. 1026 Ibid., Peterson File MILITARY, The War (of 1812) newspaper, W. Woodworth and Company Printers, 473 Pearl St. NYC, 1812, p. 16. 1027 Hurd, p. 1312; Gloucester Archives, GDT, Mar 26, 1982; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 83, 292; Tibbets, p. 46. 1028 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 58. 1029 Babson, John J., History, p. 415. 1030 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 187-9. 1031 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 189. 1032 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 189. 1033 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 190. 1034 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 190. 1035 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 190. 1036 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 193. 1037 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 194. “Voted Selectmen Commee and Naval Officer and the Captains of the Forts…prevent any west India goods and provisions…from being carried out of this Town by land or water for a week.”1038 Privateer GLOUCESTER lost with 60 men.1039 The dread scourge, smallpox, appeared.1040 Pest House built for smallpox victims on Old Salem Road.1041 Capt. Jacob Allen and Samuel Whittemore Esq. to examine into case of smallpox.1042 Warrant about inoculation against smallpox “licence to be inoculated with the smallpox”.1043 Capt. William Coas was chosen 44/55 to lay before the Court Information against all enemical Parsons. [Margin heading: Court Informant]1044 Committee formed “to receive subscriptions for the relief of the soldieries Families.”1045 Town Meeting voted John Murray to depart this Town.1046 1777 and 1778 References to His Majesty and the Crown on warrants crossed out and “ye government of ye people” written in.1047 1778 Valuation showed ~1,900 head of horses and horned cattle and ~1,900 sheep [in Town].1048 Town raised 600 pounds to “fox” highways.1049 Colonial practice continued of electing Fish cutters, Deer reeves, Clerks of Market, Committee for School, wood measurers, lumber surveyors, surveyors of Hoops and Staves, Grain Measurers, etc.1050 Voted at Town Meeting to order and to do what may be necessary towards supplying the soldiers with clothing.1051 1038 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 194. 1039 Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 71; Thomson, pp. 43-44. 1040 Pringle, James R., History, p. 81. 1041 Copeland, p. 214; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PARKS and PRESERVES, GDT, Apr 11, 1957, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 310. 1042 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 196. 1043 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 197. 1044 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 3. 1045 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 3, p. 200. 1046 Eddy, p. 18; Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3. 1047 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 99. 1048 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File GOVERNMENT, GLOUCESTER; Swan, Marshall , Cape Ann, p. 257. 1049 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 202. 1050 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 203. 1051 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 205. Voted Selectmen draw orders on Town Treasury to pay or redeem counterfeit bills that were paid to hire men to go into the Army.1052 Smallpox again prevailed to an alarming extent, hospitals built in various sections of Town.1053 “Vote not to allow of Inoculation.”1054 “Voted to license seven houses as Inoculating Hospitals.”1055 “Voted that the Committee of Safety…let out [rent] lands belonging to refugees and those belonging to subjects of G. Britain.”1056 “Voted that any building belonging to above persons may be sold and produce laid out to repair those other buildings as may be necessary.”1057 Clothing tax, 600 pounds, 7th part of our soldiers to be added to Town tax.1058 “Voted unanimous disapproval of proposed Constitution of Government” [constitution proposed for Massachusetts].1059 General Court passed act providing for naval officers in seaports, Samuel Whittemore appointed Naval Officer for Gloucester.1060 Mary Andrews had vision of and then married Stephen Knutsford, British Naval Officer, who jumped overboard and swam to shore at Andrew’s Point.1061 1779 Privateer GEN. STARKS with crew of 135 had “eventful cruise”.1062 Smallpox was spreading to an unusual degree.1063 Independent Christian Church [Universalists] drawn up.1064 Opponents of the Independent Christian Church called it “a solecism in nature”.1065 Bell cast in Gloucester, England [donated to City in 1915 by ex-Mayor of our Mother City, now hangs in City Hall].1066 1052 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 208 1053 Babson, John J., History¸ p. 416; Pringle p. 81. 1054 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 205, 208; Peterson File PARKS and PRESERVES, GDT, Apr 11, 1957. 1055 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 213. 1056 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 205. 1057 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 206. 1058 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 210. 1059 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 210. 1060 Pringle, James R., History, p. 322; Hurd, p. 1331. 1061 Currier, P. 35. 1062 Hurd, pp. 1337-1338. 1063 Pringle p. 81. 1064 Ibid., p. 293. 1065 Book of the 300th, p. 29. 1780 Small Independent Christian Church built corner of Main and Water Sts.1067 Uncommon darkness from noon to nightfall.1068 Town voted to borrow $60,000 for bounty to meet Continental Army quota of 32 men.1069 War reduced (able-bodied) male population from 1053 to 696.1070 From a total of 728 widows and children, only 78 did not require outside assistance.1071 About 20 % of population was heavily dependent on charity.1072 Donors of beef, blankets, shoes and stockings for Continental Army listed.1073 Gloster Dalton [Negro] paid for his attendance on the sick that came into Squam on Cartel.1074 Nathaniel Allen survived 261 days in schooner AMERICA wrecked near Georges Bank.1075 Whipping post [near corner of Middle St. and Hancock St.] used for last time.1076 Voted that Selectmen write to Mr. Thomas Jaques letting him know that Town expected him to do his proportion towards repaving bridge over Walker Creek.1077 1780-1840 Heavy importation of Chinese porcelain.1078 1780-1874 Names of tax payers, polls, real and personal taxes recorded.1079 1781 British Admiralty chart showed the protected waters of Little Good Harbor.1080 Voted that taxes paid in Old Emission [money] be paid in hard money, one for seventy-five.1081 1066 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TOURISM, Mary Brooks, Through. 1067 Babson, John J., History, p. 434; Hurd, p. 1313; Pringle, James R., History, p. 293. 1068 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 151. 1069 Hurd, p. 1339. 1070 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File GOVERNMENT, GLOUCESTER; Swan, Marshall, Cape Ann, p. 255. 1071 Swan, Marshall, Cape Ann, p. 255. 1072 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 14. 1073 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 38. 1074 Gloucester Archives, Selectmen’s Records Book 4 1781-1805, March 4, 1784. 1075 Ibid., Peterson File FISHING, Cape Ann Weekly Advertiser, May 15, 1874. 1076 Cox, p. 37; Tibbets, p. 46 1077 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 227. 1078 Sucholeiki, p. 21. 1079 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 70-72. 1080 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 73. Warrant to know what method the Town will take to procure men as Militia for the defense of Rhode Island.1082 Selectmen directed to take account of any persons that hauled rocks from the Old Fort.1083 1782 Population was 3,893; 355 were widows and 37 were Blacks.1084 Town assessed 1,562 pounds 4 shillings and 10 pence by Treasurer of Commonwealth.1085 Capt. Pheln Haskell’s wife made application for license to keep tavern. Granted.1086 Dorcas Parsons was recommended for tavern keeping.1087 Sick prisoners brought here on cartel from Halifax, Nova Scotia, bound for Boston. Gloster Dalton [Negro] was one who furnished supplies for them.1088 Sundry persons’ accounts for sundries supplied for sick in cartel from Halifax allowed by Town listed.1089 First Parish seized and sold at auction goods of three members of Universalist Society.1090 Voted that the New Emission [money] be delivered to Treasurer.1091 Circular letter from Boston respecting “Illicit Trade” read at Town Meeting.1092 Voted agreement with Town of Boston about article concerning the Fishery.1093 1782-1874 Annual Reports of Town of Gloucester recorded.1094 1783 Revolutionary War closed, peace declared.1095 Treaty with Great Britain provided that fishing banks, coasts, bays and creeks of Canada were open to United States fishermen .1096 1081 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 246. 1082 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 241. 1083 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 244. 1084 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 69. 1085 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File LAND and TAX RECORDS. 1086 Ibid., Selectmen’s Day Book 1775-1875. 1087 Ibid., Selectmen’s Day Book 1775-1875. 1088 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 9; Gloucester Archives Selectmen’s Day Book 1775-1875, newspaper clipping inserted. 1089 Ibid., Peterson File HEALTH, 1782 Sundry persons account. 1090 Eddy, p. 23; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 293-294. 1091 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 257. 1092 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 261, 261. 1093 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 248. 1094 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 5. 1095 Tibbets, p. 13. British West Indies closed to American shipping.1097 Fishing resumed, some 60 vessels sent to Grand Banks.1098 Dutch ship-of-war of fifty guns dismasted in violent gale, 40 men left in a boat, were rescued by brig and transferred to sloop sent out from Gloucester. About 303 men went down with the ship.1099 Town assessed 2,158 pounds 19 shillings and 41/2 pence by Treasurer of Commonwealth.1100 Selectmen ordered to provide stocks and whipping post at western end of harbour Meeting House.1101 Account of chaises, sulkies and chairs taken by subscribers.1102 ~1783-1840 Master Joseph Moore taught school at Freshwater Cove.1103 1784 Fishermen and farmers were buoyantly optimistic.1104 France shut off its American possessions to foreign trade.1105 Cape Pond stocked with alewives.1106 Voted that Mr. Bennett’s mill dams be opened to let fish into Cape Pond.1107 About 150 families from Cape Ann and other towns settled in New Brunswick [Canada].1108 Tract bounded by Middle, School and Church Sts. said to have been owned by refugees to New Brunswick.1109 Selectmen agreed and ordered “aprize” of bread, viz., one penny loaf, two penny loaf, etc.1110 1784-1819 Rev. William Bentley wrote his Salem diary.1111 1784-1836 Freighting business operated between Gloucester and Boston.1112 1096 Pringle, James R., History, p. 234; Hurd, p. 1326. 1097 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 71. 1098 Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, pp. 6-7. 1099 Babson, John J., History, p. 469. 1100 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File LAND and TAX RECORDS. 1101 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 269. 1102 Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER. 1103 Babson, John J., History, p. 395, Brooks, Alfred, p. 170, Garland , Gloucester Guide, p. 6; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PARKS and PRESERVES, GDT, Mar 15, 1957. 1104 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 69. 1105 Ibid., p. 71. 1106 Ibid., p. 72; Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 282. 1107 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 282. 1108 Pringle, James R., History, p. 72. 1109 Ibid. 1110 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 3-. 1111 Bentley, William, The Diary of William Bentley, D.D., 4 Vol.s., 1784-1819, Peter Smith, Gloucester, MA, 1962. 1784-1914 Applications for auctioneer, innholders, liquor, stables, victuallers, junk, etc., licenses recorded.1113 1785 First mention in Town records of Fire Companies; voted to furnish staffs for Fire Department.1114 One hundred pounds to be raised this year to begin a Workhouse and Committee chosen to consult plan. Selectmen drew plan of a Workhouse.1115 Independent Christian Society Charter of Compact [Universalists] signed.1116 Selectmen directed to give surveyor orders to build a sea wall on the Cut.1117 1786 Universalists won case in court to recover confiscated property and argued that freedom of religion and compulsory support are incompatible.1118 Petition that codfishing vessels be excused from clearing out at Naval Office and be exempt from any other burdens.1119 Selectmen sold land along beach at the Cut between road and high water mark, on condition that no ballast be taken from said land.1120 ~1787 Negroes held as slaves totaled nearly 300.1121 1787 Town Meeting voted to raise company [against] Shay’s Rebellion.1122 Ferocious storm inundated Bearskin Neck [Sandy Bay] with at least eight inches of Atlantic Ocean.1123 Selectmen directed to let out [rent] one half of the great sandbanks in Annisquam River for the current year.1124 Selectmen directed to pay for three loads of sand.1125 Town joined Towns of Beverly and Salem in petitioning bridge be built across river between Salem and Beverly.1126 1112 Babson, Roger W., p. 33. 1113 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 35-36. 1114 Pringle, James R., History, p. 309. 1115 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File POOR, 1785 Sundry matters Workhouse. 1116 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 77. 1117 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 286. 1118 Babson, John J. History, p. 435; Eddy, p. 26ff; Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 114. 1119 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 296. 1120 Ibid., Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1857 Report of Committee on purchasing beach. 1121 Pringle, James R., History, p. 86. 1122 Essex Institute, Oct 1954, pp. 317-149; Hurd, p. 1339; Pringle, James R., History, p. 86; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 73. 1123 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 73; Wright, p. 90. 1124 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 300. 1125 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 312. 1126 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 310-311. 1788 About 60 vessels on the Banks.1127 Delegates to convention to ratify Federal constitution had “generous entertainment” provided.1128 Gloucester Artillery became recognized unit of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.1129 Travel between Gloucester and Boston, a two-horse open carriage, commenced at Jonathan Lowe Tavern [corner Main and Rogers Sts.].1130 Committee chosen to view the Kettle Cove [Old Salem] Rd. through the woods.1131 Federal spinning-match held with 30 young ladies who produced 99 skeins of yarn.1132 1789 Act of Congress granted bounties on exported pickled and dried fish and salted provisions.1133 Customs House established.1134 Epes Sargent appointed first Collector of Customs.1135 Masonick Fire Society formed.1136 Fort at Stage Head renamed Fort Conant.1137 Rev. William Bentley traveled from Salem to Gloucester on a road through Chebacco.1138 1789-1790 Customs House records showed 1 brig, 16 sloops and 40 schooners.1139 1789-1931 Fire Department meetings, accounts, activities, etc., recorded.1140 1789-1991 Reasons for tax abatements, such as economic or physical conditions of persons and/or families, recorded.1141 1127 Ibid., Peterson File FISHING, GDT, Aug 18, 1942. 1128 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 153; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 73. 1129 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File MILITARY, Reilly, p. 15. 1130 Babson, John J., History, p. 552; Brooks, Alfred, p. 69; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PARKS and PRESERVES, GDT, Apr 11, 1957, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 322; Hurd, p. 1332; Pringle, James R., History, p. 91; Tibbets, p. 44. 1131 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 319. 1132 Babson, John J., History, p. 471. 1133 Pringle, James R., History, p. 110: Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 84. 1134 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORIC BUILDINGS, GDT, Aug 18, 1942; Hurd, p. 1331; Pringle, James R., History, p. 322. 1135 Babson, John J., History, p. 600; Hurd, p. 1331; Tibbets, p. 46 1136 Pringle, James R., History, p. 309; Tibbets, p. 37. 1137 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PARKS, GDT, Feb 9, 1973. 1138 Bentley, Vol. 1, p. 123. 1139 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File ANNISQUAM. 1140 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 26-28. 1141 Ibid., Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 1-3. ~1790 Trade with Surinam, Dutch Guiana, began.1142 1790 Col. Pearce sent first vessel to Surinam.1143 Population was 5,317.1144 Census population showed 41 Blacks in Gloucester.1145 Merchant fleet of 4 ships, 9 brigs, 23 schooners and 7 sloops.1146 Fleet of brigs armed in Lobster Cove.1147 Voted for passageway to be opened in Bennet’s Mill Dam for the fish called wives [alewives] to pass to and from Cape Pond.1148 Petition to General Court to build a monument on Pigeon Hill for a Sea Mark.1149 Meeting House in old Parish had no minister since death of Mr. Rogers [Rev. John Rogers] “above seven years” and was much out of repair.1150 School Committee recommended Scriptures be read at least once a day.1151 Rev. Eli Forbes presented report that included provision for education of girls.1152 Proprietors School, private school, built on School St.1153 Judith Sargent Murray published essay on equality of sexes.1154 Gun House built at intersection of Pleasant and Prospect Sts.1155 There were two ropewalks.1156 Of 10,778 acres of agricultural land, only 3% under tillage.1157 There were five slaughterhouses and four tan houses.1158 1142 Hurd, p. 1331; Morison, Samuel E., The Maritime, p. 142; Tagney, p. 10. 1143 Pringle, James R., History, p. 107. 1144 Babson, John J., History, p. 542; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 74. 1145 Swan, Marshall, Town¸ p. 74. 1146 Pringle, James R., History, p. 84. 1147 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, Woodbury, History. 1148 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 339. 1149 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 334. 1150 Bentley, Vol. 1, p. 195. 1151 Connolly, p. 236. 1152 Hurd, p. 1323. 1153 Gloucester Archives, Record of School Buildings 1882, p. 80; Hurd, p. 1324. 1154 Ibid., Peterson File WOMEN, GDT North Shore, Nov 23, 1974. 1155 Ibid., MILITARY, Reilly, p. 15; Selectmen’s Records 1831-1849, Aug 9, 1791. 1156 Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 14. 1157 Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 14. 1158 Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 15. 1790-1804 Fishing profits low and business declined.1159 1790-1810 Trade with principal ports in Europe and the West Indies. 1160 1791 Rev. William Bentley wrote detailed description of Gloucester Harbor and the coast from Eastern Point to Manchester.1161 Ship arrived at Cape Ann from a whaling voyage with 1,600 barrels of oil on board.1162 1792 Man from Marblehead “fell in with a large turtle” of 712 lbs. about 15 leagues from Cape Ann.1163 There were 133 Chebacco boats owned on Cape Ann.1164 Thirteen boats fished from Pigeon Cove.1165 Selectmen directed to prevent smallpox spreading by erecting smoke houses in parts of Town they deem most necessary.1166 Bill of Mortality for First Parish was 50 persons, 10 of consumption.1167 Article on warrant to vote for four good and “justible” men to represent the Congress of the United States for County of Essex.1168 Mails were received semi-weekly at Haskell’s Tavern, Middle St.1169 Post Office established, first postmaster was Henry Phelps.1170 Russia Sea Captain built house near Meeting House Green.1171 Five acres on Pigeon Hill formerly reserved for a Sea Mark laid out and bounded.1172 Limitations were imposed of not more than two scholars [school children] per family at one time.1173 Committee chosen to join Manchester Committee to petition General Court to preserve the growth of wood westward of the Cut.1174 1159 Ibid., Peterson File VESSELS, Woodbury, History. 1160 Ibid., Peterson File ANNISQUAM. 1161 Bentley, Vol. 1, pp. 266-267. 1162 Ibid., p. 231. 1163 Ibid., p. 302. 1164 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 14. 1165 Babson, John J., History, p. 546. 1166 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 368. 1167 Bentley, Vol. 2, p. 3. 1168 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 369. 1169 Pringle, James R., History, p. 323. 1170 Hurd, pp. 1331-1332; Pringle, James R., History, p. 323; Tibbets, p. 16. 1171 Cape Ann Scientific, Literary and Historical Association, Along the Old Roads of Cape Ann, F. S. and A. H. McKenzie, Gloucester, MA, 1923, p. 55. 1172 Chamberlain, p. 14. 1173 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 74. Committee chosen to petition General Court to prevent cattle going at large.1175 Article on warrant to know if Town will clear the roads in the winter.1176 General Post Office proposed a stage from Salem to Cape Ann.1177 1793 First hand tub fire engines bought.1178 Sandy Bay Harbor had 62 sailing vessels.1179 Amesbury boat shop began building thousands of dories, most for Gloucester fishing fleet.1180 Rev. William Bentley spent several days on Cape Ann at Tyrian Lodge meeting, visits with Rev. [Eli] Forbes, the Rogers, the Pearces and others.1181 School built [on Granite St.].1182 Granite St. school used for Town offices.1183 School Committee recommended “provision be made for education of females”.1184 Rev. John Murray dissolved connection with the Universalist Society and removed to Boston.1185 Selectmen petitioned General Court for lottery to “turn” the road through Kettle Cove woods.1186 Throat distemper carried off 62 children.1187 Sea serpent seen off Mount Desert, Maine.1188 1794 Gloucester ceded Watch House Neck [“The Fort”] to United States.1189 United States had commercial treaty with England that incensed the French who seized 17 Gloucester ships.1190 1174 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 368. 1175 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 368. 1176 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 358. 1177 Bentley, Vol. 1, p. 361. 1178 Pringle, James R., History, p. 309; Tibbets, p. 37. 1179 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 72. 1180 Garland, Gloucester on, p. 26. 1181 Bentley, Vol. 2, pp.6-8. 1182 Gloucester Archives, Record of School Buildings 1882, p. 80; Peterson File SCHOOLS, GDT, Sep 24, 1964, Mar 26, 1982; Hurd, p. 1323; Webber, p. 8. 1183 Hurd, p. 1323. 1184 Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 83. 1185 Hurd, p. 1314. 1186 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 376. 1187 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 75. 1188 Bentley, Vol. 4, p. 473. 1189 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 138; Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 391. Fifty men, women and children, driven out of St. Pierre by the French, arrived at Long Cove, Sandy Bay.1191 Town pump installed across from Bearskin Neck entrance [Sandy Bay].1192 1794-1797 USS CONSTITUTION built with Gloucester timber.1193 1794-1946 Beacon School on Beacon St.1194 1795 Granite St. school house erected adjoining Poor Farm.1195 Town Grammar School dedicated near Granite St., later moved to Beacon St.1196 Meeting called for purpose of establishing some sort of banking institution.1197 Committee chosen to cause encumbrances on highways and landings be removed.1198 Slaughterhouse owned by Nehemiah Parsons.1199 Bye Laws of Town of Gloucester approved by Massachusetts General Sessions of Peace.1200 Ordered that no guns, pistols, crackers or squibs be fired on any streets or alleys in Town.1201 To prevent fraud, no person shall offer for sale any wood brought into Town on carts or sleds unless the quantity be determined by a Wood Surveyor.1202 Ordered that no geese or ducks be permitted to go at large to prevent voiding or “dunging” in springs or watering places.1203 Ordered that all pumps and wells be kept in good and sufficient order for extinguishing fires.1204 1190 Pringle, James R., History, pp. 84-85. 1191 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 78. 1192 McLane, p. 9; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 78. 1193 Connolly, pp. 90, 104. 1194 Gloucester Archives, Record of School Buildings 1882, p. 28; Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1895 Public Property Report. 1195 Pringle, James R., History, p. 307. 1196 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TOURISM, Brooks, Mary, Through; 1882 City Document #9, p. 22; Pringle, James R., History, p. 307. 1197 Webber, p. 9. 1198 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 400. 1199 Ibid., Valuations 1795 West Ward, Box 62, FF2. 1200 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 408-414. 1201 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 414. 1202 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 413, 414. 1203 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 412. 1204 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 412. Ordered to prevent danger and mischief arising from galloping horses in the streets, no person shall ride on a canter or ride or drive a gallop within streets, lanes or alleys of this Town.1205 Ordered that whoever shall profane the Lord’s Day by swimming or skating or sailing about in boats in the Harbour or publicly exercising shall pay the sum of 5 shillings.1206 No person permitted to light or smoke any “segars” or pipes after 10 of the clock at night in the open air [fire danger].1207 Ordered that every chimney be regularly swept twice in every year.1208 Article on warrant to see if Town will let singers in the harbour and Town meet once a week in new school house chamber.1209 Article to know if Town will build a Workhouse the current year.1210 All and every fine for breach or breaches of Town orders or Bye Laws went for use of the poor.1211 1795-1810 Gloucester owned and fitted out 8 ships and 25 brigs.1212 1795-1824 Names recorded by Town Clerk of persons belonging to various religious societies.1213 1796 Voted that memorial be presented to Congress that Treaty [with Great Britain] be carried into full effect.1214 Boston ship INDUSTRY went ashore near Salt Island during violent snowstorm.1215 Road lottery granted by General Court “to defray expense of turning road in Freshwater Cove”.1216 Completion of workhouse.1217 Almshouse erected [Granite St.].1218 Gloucester Bank organized, one of first in new nation.1219 1205 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 410. 1206 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 410-411. 1207 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 413. 1208 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 411. 1209 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 396. 1210 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 395. 1211 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 413. 1212 Pringle, James R., History, p. 322; Hurd, p. 1331. 1213 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 47, 62. 1214 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 423, 426. 1215 Cox, p. 34. 1216 Babson, History, p. 475; Bentley, Vol. 2, p. 173 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PARKS and PRESERVES, GDT, Apr 11, 1957. 1217 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 49. 1218 Pringle, James R., History, p. 87; Tibbets, p. 43. New Banking Company did not obtain in the General Court.1220 Social Library was formed.1221 Committee chosen to view public roads to Ipswich and Salem and make report whether said roads should be repaired or turned.1222 New road [built] from Salem to Gloucester to avoid dangerous hill.1223 Article to know if Town will order a Pound to be built in each Parish.1224 1797 About 40 vessels in Sandy Bay Harbor.1225 Bounties on exported pickled fish and salted provisions increased, duty on salt importation raised.1226 Proprietors school built in Sandy Bay.1227 Proprietors of Social Library given liberty to place their library in part of Town School House.1228 1798 Gale of wind.1229 Relations with French government strained, 52 men of Cape Ann shipped on board a sloop of war.1230 Customs houses collected fees from American ships for support of marine hospitals.1231 First school house in Annisquam erected on Blue Rocks Rd.1232 Sandy Bay stone used for building up Fort on Castle Island in Boston Harbor.1233 Highway from Granite St. to Sea Mark [Pigeon Hill, Sandy Bay] laid out.1234 Voted to accept Committee’s report about road to Pigeon Hill and fencing in land belonging to Town on Pigeon Hill.1235 1219 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 110; Pringle, James R., History, p. 326; Tibbets, p. 30; Webber pp. 9-10. 1220 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 74. 1221 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 13. 1222 Ibid., Town Records Book 3. 1223 Bentley, p. 186. 1224 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3, p. 424. 1225 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 72. 1226 Pringle, James R., History, p. 110. 1227 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 76. 1228 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 430, 434. 1229 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, pp. 69, 100. 1230 Pringle, James R., History, p. 85. 1231 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HEALTH, Massachusetts Public Health, pp. 6, 46. 1232 Copeland, p. 172. 1233 Erkkila, Hammers, p. 4. 1234 Chamberlain, p. 15. Voted that Clerks of Market weigh bread once a month.1236 Voted to borrow money to build a Powder House.1237 Whale beached at Steep Bank Cove [Whale Cove, Sandy Bay].1238 Ebenezer Pool House built [Dock Sq., Sandy Bay].1239 Judith Sargent Murray published The Gleaner.1240 1798-1804 Nathaniel Harraden was sailing master on USS CONSTITUTION.1241 1798-1920s Granite industry thrived.1242 ~1799 Artillery House stood at intersection of Prospect and Pleasant Sts.1243 1799 Population was ~5,300.1244 Bounty on exported pickled fish raised.1245 Law passed that gurry or dressings of fish be carried off into channel or where salt water shall not leave the same at the lowest tides.1246 There were 300 fish houses on Cape Ann.1247 Long Cove landing laid out [Sandy Bay].1248 Rev. William Bentley was intrigued by all the mooring stones with sunken trees at Folly Cove and Halibut Point.1249 Rev. William Bentley described Cape Ann in great detail.1250 Sandbanks on westerly side of Annisquam River sold to Peter Coffin for $400.1251 David Lane House built [1093 Washington St., Lanesville].1252 1235 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 452. 1236 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 446. 1237 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, pp. 455, 456. 1238 McLane, p. 38. 1239 Babson, Roger W., pp. 81-82. 1240 Eddy, p. 190; Judith Sargent Murray Society Gleanings, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall, 1997. 1241 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS; GDT, Jul 14, 1971, Kippen-Smith, Priscilla, May 4, 1998. 1242 Erkkila, Hammers, p. 3. 1243 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TOURISM, Brooks, Mary, Through. 1244 Pringle, James R., History, p. 89. 1245 Ibid., p. 110. 1246 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 462. 1247 Bentley, Vol. 2, p. 304. 1248 Currier, p. 13; McLane, p. 8. 1249 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 81. 1250 Bentley, Vol. 2, pp.303-309; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 311. 1251 Babson, John J., History, p. 238. 1252 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORIC HOUSES, GDT, Apr 13, 1995. 1799 or 1800 Selectmen were directed to receive of the purchasers of the Town’s Common, which was sold at Public Auction, any specie [money] Town notes in payment for same.1253 1799-1978 City Marshal and Police activities, monthly reports, liquor seizures, duty records, journals, Police Association minutes, harbor patrol log book, etc., recorded.1254 Pre 1800 Fishing bounties granted to encourage cod fisheries.1255 GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS TIME-LINE 1800-1899 ~1800 About 600 men and 200 Chebacco boats engaged in shore fishery for cod.1256 Mackerel catching pursued by small boats.1257 Attempts to establish whale fishery proved unremunerative.1258 Windmill built [Pavilion Beach].1259 First three-story dwelling house built [near Middle and Hancock Sts.].1260 1800 Population was 5,313.1261 Population of Sandy Bay was 1,304.1262 Committee reported that neat cattle, horses or horse kind, mules or asses should not go at large within the limits of the Town without a keeper.1263 Owners of unfenced land known as White Oak lots at Fresh Marsh Hill and Fresh Marsh near Rail Cut Hill [off Old Rockport Rd.] petitioned to put up two swing gates that will enclose the land for pasturing their cattle.1264 1253 Ibid., Town Records Book 3 1753-1800, p. 472. 1254 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 55-57. 1255 Pringle, James R., History, p. 109. 1256 Hawes, p. 174; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 34. 1257 Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 50. 1258 Pringle, James R., History, pp. 285-286. 1259 Babson, John J., History, p. 177; Babson, Roger W., p. 109. 1260 Tibbets, Frederick W., The Story of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Clark the Printer, 1917, p. 46. 1261 Babson, John J., History, p. 542. 1262 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 84. 1263 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1800 Committee report on cattle’s going at large. 1264 Ibid., Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1800 Petition of John Low and others. Petition for Town to build new pair of hay scales.1265 All public business suspended on George Washington’s birthday.1266 On Washington’s birthday, Rev. Eli Forbes’ Church was draped in mourning, and a large gathering of citizens testified to the depth of the common bereavement.1267 India Company’s vessel WINTHROP AND MARY was total loss on voyage from Sumatra.1268 First granite millstone shipped out of Cape Ann to Newburyport.1269 Main Road in Sandy Bay [Straitsmouth Way] led to three landings: Straitsmouth Cove, Straitsmouth Rock and Old Garden.1270 Names recorded of 2 Negroes, 9 children, 12 men and 26 women in the Poor House on March 18th.1271 Master of schooner JACK reported that Jozar J. P. DeSilva Rurement [?], age 16, came over with him from Figueira and that he is a native of Portugal.1272 Post 1800 Fishermen from Sandy Bay and other coves outside of the Cape Parish settled on Eastern Point.1273 1800s early Customs Service enforced quarantine and health laws and kept records on trade and immigration.1274 1800s Pigeons in the thousands flew over Cape Ann.1275 Lifesaving station established at Gap Cove or Straitsmouth Cove [Sandy Bay].1276 1800s late Gypsies camped inland from Hoop Pole Cove [Sandy Bay].1277 ~1800-1810 Chebacco boats used in fishing.1278 Small wharves built along Squam River, Annisquam District, around to and in Sandy Bay.1279 1265 Ibid., Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1800 Petition of Benj. Stacy et al. 1266 Ibid., Town Records Book 3, pp.468, 469. 1267 Pringle, James R., History, p. 95. 1268 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, GDT, Aug 18, 1942. 1269 Erkkila, Hammers, p. 11; Tibbets, p. 25. 1270 McLane, p. 42. 1271 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File POOR, 1800 Account of names. 1272 Ibid., Peterson File PORTUGUESE, 1800 John Stacy statement. 1273 Babson, John J., History, p. 571. 1274 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HEALTH, Massachusetts Public Health, p. 46. 1275 Ibid., Peterson File HEALTH, Massachusetts Public Health, p. 11. 1276 Ibid., Peterson File HEALTH, Massachusetts Public Health, p. 36. 1277 McLane, p. 36. 1278 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FISHING. 1279 Ibid., 1901 City Council Document #3. 1800-1825 Grand Banks fishery almost totally abandoned, shore fishery vigorously prosecuted.1280 1800-1830 Growth at the Harbor outstripped all others [locations].1281 1800-1863 Surinam trade.1282 Fortunes accumulated [from Surinam trade] led directly to Cape Ann’s…role in the arts, as patron.1283 1800-1900 Manufactories detailed.1284 1800-1927 Town Landings documents and papers regarding encumbrances, locations, sand and seaweed removal, harbor fill, land sales, etc., were preserved.1285 1801 Annisquam lighthouse built on Wigwam Point.1286 James Sawyer appointed to examine all vessels “enfected with milignant disease” and vessels having sickness on board or has had during her voyage and order them to anchor between Ten Pound Island and Eastern Point.1287 Joseph Caffarene taught school at Annisquam.1288 Negro Robin [Robert Freeman?] owned house, barn, garden, mowing land, cow rights, woodland, marsh, oxen, cows, horse and swine.1289 1801-1826 There were three voyages to Sumatra for pepper.1290 1802 Sick prisoners arrived on cartel from Halifax, Nova Scotia.1291 Selectmen were petitioned to request rocks strewn on Long Cove Beach [Sandy Bay] be removed…danger to boats driven upon the beach by storms.1292 1803 Meeting Houses in Squam, Sandy Bay and old Town occasionally supplied [with ministers], having been vacant since the American revolution.1293 1280 Ibid., Peterson File FISHING; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, pp. 32-33. 1281 Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 1. 1282 Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 74; Connolly, pp. 92-93; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 14. 1283 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File ART and ARTISTS; Spanierman, p. 1. 1284 Ibid., 1900 City Council Document #5 Higgins. 1285 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 60. 1286 Garland, The Gloucester Guide, p. 37; Picturesque Cape Ann, 1904?, p. 69. 1287 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HEALTH, Copy of order to James Sawyer. 1288 Ibid., Selectmen’s Records Book 4 1781-1805, July 2, 1901. 1289 Ibid., Valuations 1801 West Ward/Harbor Parish, Box 62, FF2. 1290 Essex Institute, 1956, #92. 1291 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 152. 1292 McLane, p. 40. 1293 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 36. Rev. Eli Forbes and others said the underpinning of the new Meeting House at Sandy Bay is equal to any stone work in this part of the United States.1294 Baptists were a growing sect but there were no societies of them on Cape Ann.1295 Harbor pilots orders [to arriving vessels] about the plague recorded.1296 Pilots for Port of Gloucester were ordered not to bring into port or harbor, nearer than Black Bess, any vessel visited with the plague, smallpox or malignant fever, or any other malignant disease. All such vessels were ordered to anchor between Ten pound Island and Eastern Point.1297 Social Fire Society organized.1298 Ignatius Webber and Aaron Plummer built ropewalk along Canal St.1299 Rev. William Bentley “mounted Pole’s Hill and enjoyed the finest air the extensive prospect afforded.”1300 Old Parish and Harbour Parish held one burial ground.1301 1804 Only eight fishing vessels over thirty tons engaged in fisheries.1302 Most severe storm ever felt in this part of America, many boats lost or injured.1303 Uncommon scarcity of fish in the bay [Massachusetts Bay].1304 Much fish was carried from Cape Ann to Canada.1305 Rev. Ezra Leonard came to Third Parish Annisquam Church as pastor.1306 Fifth Parish [Sandy Bay] erected new Meeting House.1307 Baptists commenced their spiritual activities in Sandy Bay homes.1308 First division of Town into 11 school districts.1309 1294 Ibid., p. 54. 1295 Ibid., p. 5. 1296 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 58. 1297 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, 1803 Orders re to vessels. 1298 Pringle, James R., History, p. 309. 1299 Ibid., p. 105; Tibbets, pp. 15, 45. 1300 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 57. 1301 Ibid. 1302 Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 30. 1303 Bentley, Vol. 3, pp. 116-117. 1304 Ibid., p. 115. 1305 Ibid., p. 140. 1306 Eddy, Richard, D.D., Universalism in Gloucester, Mass., Procter Brothers, 1892, p. 50; Hawes, pp. 129-131; Hurd, p. 1310. 1307 Bentley, Vol. 3, pp. 54, 117; Hurd, p. 1312; Swan, Marshall, Town, pp. 85-86. 1308 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 86. Preceptor of Atkinson Academy recommended approval, of the candid public, members of unimpeached morals, good application and improvement, and sufficient arguments to be well qualified to teach an English school.1310 Negro Robin jr. [Robert Freeman?] taxed for estate where his father lived.1311 New Banking Companies did not obtain in General Court.1312 Poor woman on the Point befriended shipwreck survivor who sent her barrel of flour every year afterwards.1313 Probable date of construction of Capt. Davis House [occupied by Cape Ann Historical Association] and house across Federal St.1314 Death of Rev. Eli Forbes, funeral procession recorded.1315 1804-1841 Rev. Thomas Jones invited as pastor of Universalist Church.1316 1804-1865 Artist Fitz Hugh Lane [born Nathaniel Rogers Lane].1317 Pre 1805 Tolls on roads were discontinued.1318 1805 Earthquake.1319 Rev. Jacob Jewett, of Hollis, N.H., ordained as pastor of Fifth Parish.1320 Universalists prepared to build a new and larger Meeting House for Mr. Jones [Rev. Thomas Jones].1321 Old Parish remained prey to invasion of wandering zealots.1322 Anabaptists were organizing in Cape Ann Town and spoke of building a house.1323 Daily stage line established to Boston.1324 1309 Babson, John J., History, p. 553; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File SCHOOLS, GDT, Sep 24, 1964; Gloucester Archives, 1882 City Document #9, p. 22; Hurd, p. 1323; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 87. 1310 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File SCHOOLS, 1804 Moses Moody, Moses H. Elliot School Recommendation. 1311 Ibid., Valuations 1804 West Ward/Harbor Parish, FF2. 1312 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 74. 1313 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 157. 1314 Brooks, Alfred, p. 151; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORIC HOUSES, GDT, Mar 3, 1926 and Oct 26, 1974, Aug 15, 1975; Wright, John, pp. 24-25. 1315 Bentley, Vol. 3, pp. 127-129; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PEOPLE. 1316 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 115; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TOURISM, Brooks, Mary, Through; Hurd, p. 1314. 1317 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File ART and ARTISTS, GDT, Mar 15, 1969 and Mar 25. 2980; Gloucester Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 1 Nov/Dec 77; Spanierman, p. 1; Wilmerding, John , Fitz Hugh Lane, New York, Praeger Publishers, 1971. 1318 McLane, p. 70. 1319 Swan, Marshall, Town¸ p. 89. 1320 Hurd, p. 1312. 1321 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 169. 1322 Ibid., pp. 167-168. 1323 Ibid., p. 195. Voted swine do not go at large the current year.1325 Death of John Gibaut, Esq., Collector of Port of Gloucester.1326 Dr. Kittredge appointed Collector of the port.1327 Death of Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland.1328 Caleb Pool published News from Heaven by Visions, Communicated Miraculously.1329 1805-1811 Rev. Perez Lincoln of Hingham was pastor of First Parish.1330 1805-1827 Sheep were impounded at Beaver Dam.1331 1806 Independent Christian Church [Universalist] built on Middle St.1332 Timber of frame of Independent Christian Church felled in the British Provinces and shipped for England; vessel was disabled near Gloucester Harbor and frame purchased for Church.1333 Dedication of new Universalist or Rellyite Meeting House with spire and bell, Mr. Murray [Rev. John Murray] prayed and Mr. Jones [Rev. Thomas Jones] delivered a sermon.1334 Russia Sea Captain lived in Ellery House at Meeting House Green.1335 Present appearances in Gloucester were in favor of the Republican ticket.1336 1807 American Embargo Act prohibited American or foreign vessels from leaving United States for foreign ports.1337 All laws laying duty on imported salt and paying bounties on exported pickled fish and salted provisions repealed.1338 Fishermen from Squam had their corn ground in Boston when they were there with their fish.1339 1324 Babson, John J., History, p. 552; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PARKS and PRESERVES, GDT, Apr 11, 1957, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 322; Hurd, p. 1332. 1325 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 4, p. 55. 1326 Bentley, Vol. 3, pp. 180-183. 1327 Pringle, James R., History, p. 94. 1328 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 172. 1329 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 89. 1330 Babson, John J., History, p. 492. 1331 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 47. 1332 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 254; Eddy, p. 41-42; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 85; Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 113; Pringle, p. 296; Tibbets, p. 48; Wright, p. 16. 1333 Eddy, p. 42; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 86. 1334 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 254. 1335 Along the Old Roads of Cape Ann, 1923, Cape Ann Scientific, Literary and Historical Association, p. 55. 1336 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 226. 1337 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 88. 1338 Pringle, James R., History, p. 110. In election of (House of) Representatives, Republican ticket won in Gloucester.1340 United Fire Society organized.1341 Fire protection inaugurated at Sandy Bay.1342 Experiments with new lamp system on Thacher’s Island that soon became standard.1343 Gloucester Artillery Company participated in Brigade Review in Danvers.1344 Trading ship HOWARD wrecked on Eastern Point, cargo of goods from India strewn along the shore.1345 Gloster Dalton taxed for house and garden. A worthy man, David Pearce, who made money in the late war (Revolutionary War) and became rich, was brought to prison in Salem for a paltry debt.1346 Dr. Phelps said “Cape Ann was kept free of illiterate Baptist preachers by employing fife and drum and enough followed them.”1347 Federal-style mansion house built [Church St.].1348 ~1808 Cashes Ledge fisheries began.1349 1808 Great gale on Cashes Ledge.1350 Massachusetts mackerel fisheries catch was 238 barrels.1351 American Embargo Act was bitterly opposed by the Town.1352 Selectmen were petitioned to forward a respectful petition to President of the United States on behalf of the Town requesting suspension of the embargo or to call Congress together for that purpose.1353 Affray occurred at United States service recruiting in Gloucester.1354 1339 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 312. 1340 Ibid., p. 295. 1341 Pringle, James R., History, p. 309. 1342 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 89. 1343 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File LIGHTHOUSES, Gloucester Magazine, n.d., article by D. Michael Ryan, p. 27. 1344 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 323. 1345 Ibid., p. 280; Hawes, p. 162. 1346 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 327. 1347 Ibid., p. 291. 1348 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORIC HOUSES, GDT, Molinski, 1988. 1349 Sheedy. 1350 Babson, John J., Notes, Part First, p. 61. 1351 Tibbets, p. 22. 1352 Pringle, James R., History, p. 96; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 88. 1353 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HARBOR, 1808 petition of Thomas Parsons et al. Soldiers of the United States Army, 75 privates, were marched into Salem, Marblehead and Gloucester.1355 Calvinists met briefly.1356 First Baptist Church instituted at Sandy Bay.1357 Legislature of Commonwealth granted half a Township of land to Town of Gloucester “for purpose of filling up a gap and making a harbour convenient at Pigeon Cove”.1358 A 750 feet ropewalk built [between Middle and Prospect Sts., west of Dale Ave].1359 Cargoes, i.e. sugar, brandy, etc., described.1360 Col. William Pearce owned $10,000 worth of “brandy on hand” and 90 acres of pasture valued at $250.1361 Mary Harraden, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary D., born on board frigate USS CONSTITUTION.1362 Robert Freeman [Negro] sold land in Kettle Cove to Jonathan Knowlton.1363 1808-1870 George H. Rogers, “the great conveyancer”.1364 1808-1888 Addison Gilbert.1365 1809 Enforcing Act permitted port collectors to seize goods that even “appeared” to be destined for foreign ports.1366 Town passed votes against the Embargo laws.1367 Mackerel fleet took 8,225 barrels.1368 Cape Ann Fort fell, supposedly by being built in frosty weather.1369 The spirit (of Universalism) was greatly quieted, fanaticism assumed a more decent form.1370 1354 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 386. 1355 Ibid., p. 401. 1356 Gloucester Archives, Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 13. 1357 Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 86; Hurd, p. 1315; Pringle, James R., History, p. 297. 1358 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File ROCKPORT, 1810 Petition of Wm. Parsons et al. 1359 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 115; GDT, Jul 13, 1979. 1360 Gloucester Archives, 1808 Valuations West Parish or West Ward, pp. 109, 193, 267, 307, 411. 1361 Ibid., 1808 Valuations Harbour, West Ward, p. 33. 1362 Ibid., Death Certificate Nov 28, 1883. 1363 Hartt, p. 11. 1364 Brooks, Alfred, pp. 62-74. 1365 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HOSPITAL, Gloucester Magazine, n.d., article by Paul Kenyon., p. 14. 1366 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 88. 1367 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 409. 1368 Hurd, p. 1325. 1369 Bentley, Vol. 3, p. 432. Cape Ann had so few visits from Strangers that they were obliged to form parties of pleasure frequently.1371 Selectmen in Old Town, Cape Ann, interfered with fanatics, called Free Will Baptists, who left the place.1372 Mr. Joshua Moody engaged to teach school.1373 1809-1886 John James Babson.1374 1810 Population census count was 5,943.1375 “Cold Friday”.1376 Foster and Mason pastures on Granite and Bridge Sts. purchased for Poor Farm.1377 Town of Ipswich appealed to Selectmen of Gloucester to oppose moving Supreme Judicial Court to Newburyport rather than where established by law at Ipswich, particularly since the Stone Gaol is in Ipswich.1378 Free Will Baptists met briefly in Annisquam.1379 James Tappan built brick home at corner of Main and Washington Sts. [Blackburn Tavern].1380 Hotel built [Annisquam?].1381 1810-1816 Chebacco boats evolved into separate class known as pinkies, 30-45 tons.1382 1810-1935 Brick distillery made rum [Captain Courageous Restaurant].1383 1811 Sandy Bay Pier Company incorporated.1384 Breakwater near Bearskin Neck, Sandy Bay, built.1385 1370 Ibid., p. 452. 1371 Ibid., p. 470. 1372 Ibid., p. 445. 1373 Hurd, p. 1322. 1374 Babson, John J., History, p. xxxxvix; Brooks, Alfred, p. 81; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PEOPLE, GDT, Apr 30, 1982; Jun 30, 1995. 1375 Pringle, James R., History, p. 96. 1376 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 155: Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 84. 1377 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1895 Public Property Report. 1378 Ibid., Peterson File POLICE, 1810 Town of Ipswich’s address. 1379 Ibid., Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 13. 1380 Ibid., Peterson File HISTORIC BUILDINGS, Boston Daily Evening Transcript, Jun 29, 1849; GDT, Jan 10, 1976, Jul 21, 1978; Gloucester Telegraph, Mar 3, 1849; Pringle, James R., History, p. 95; Tibbets, p. 44. 1381 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 16. 1382 Garland, Gloucester on, p. 11; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FISHING, Old-Time New England, Vol. XX, No. 4 Apr. 1930; VESSELS, GDT, Aug 18, 1942. 1383 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, GDT, Nov 29, 1975. 1384 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 88. 1385 Hawes, p. 156; Junior League, p. 113. Committee reported that “public inoculation of the Kine Pox [against Smallpox] should be communicated to all classes of Fellow Citizens”.1386 First Baptist Society incorporated.1387 Fourth Parish converted to Universalism.1388 Gloucester had five Parish Meeting Houses and two bells.1389 Artillery of the Brigade was reviewed in Gloucester.1390 Annisquam Village Hall built by shipbuilder Deacon Epes Davis.1391 Town of Gloucester donated $1021 to sufferers of fire in Newburyport.1392 Sandy Bay inhabitants requested removal of large quantities of seaweed, creating nauseous and disagreeable fumes, on the square by the pump and on the upland.1393 Pre 1812 British embargo on American vessels.1394 1812 Congress declared war on Great Britain.1395 Gloucester Artillery dress was black, turned up with full red, white underclothes, spatterdashes all half leg, black.1396 At Town Meeting, 494 votes cast for moderator who was against the war policy, 401 votes for candidate who championed the acts of the administration.1397 Dunfugen cow rights listed.1398 Pigeon Cove land, granted to build Harbor, sold at auction for 20 cents an acre.1399 Early undated maps show Oceana Bluff and Duck Rocks at Pigeon Cove.1400 Murray Meeting House moved from corner of Main and Water Sts. to Col. Pearce farm near Mill Pond.1401 1386 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HEALTH, 1811 Report of Committee. 1387 Babson, John J., History, p. 508. 1388 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 13. 1389 Bentley, Vol. 4, p. 41. 1390 Ibid., p. 53. 1391 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, Woodbury, History. 1392 Ibid., Peterson File FIRES, 1811 Communication from Selectmen of Newburyport. 1393 Ibid., Peterson File ROCKPORT, 1811 Petition from Sandy Bay. 1394 Ibid., Peterson File ANNISQUAM. 1395 Connolly, p. 100. 1396 Bentley, Vol. 4, p. 125. 1397 Currier, p. 14; Pringle, James R., History, p. 97. 1398 Gloucester Archives, 1812 West Ward Valuations. 1399 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 155. 1400 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File NAMES, Essex Institute, Vol. LXXXVIII, Apr 1952, p. 147. Spermacitia House [candle shop] and Distill House owned by John Somes.1402 Death of Jacob Smith, architect of Federal buildings in Gloucester.1403 1812, War of Mr. Madison’s War.1404 Some 552 Gloucester men took part.1405 Brig PICKERING recaptured by crew and carried to Gloucester.1406 Fishing schooners FOUR SISTERS and FOUR BROTHERS recaptured by privateers.1407 Privateers JEFFERSON, SWORDFISH, THRESHER, ORLANDO, BABSON, MADISON and MADISON SECUNDUS sailed from Gloucester.1408 British brig TAR ABBEY was prize with full cargo Newfoundland fish to privateer THRESHER.1409 Cartel brig arrived from Halifax with 288 Americans.1410 Congregational Church, Sandy Bay, fired upon by British frigate NYMPH to stop bell ringing.1411 Crew of frigate NYMPH went ashore on Folly Point and killed cow belonging to Annie Gale Woodbury.1412 French privateer INVINCIBLE NAPOLEON chased ashore near Magnolia Point.1413 Restriction of trade was more injurious to United States than loss of life.1414 Protection of Gloucester, powder and shot, equipment, batteries, barracks, etc., recorded.1415 Fort on Fishermen’s Field [Stage Fort Park] rebuilt.1416 1401 Ibid., Peterson File CHURCHES or HISTORIC BUILDINGS, GDT, Aug 21, 1964. 1402 Ibid., 1812 West Parish or Ward Valuations, pp. 109, 193, 267, 307, 411; Dow, p. 127. 1403 Brooks, Alfred, Gloucester Recollected, p. 151-152; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PEOPLE, GDT, Jan 31, 2000. 1404 Swan, Marshall, Town, pp. 91-99. 1405 Babson, Roger W., p. 22; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File MILITARY, Reilly, p. 15; Tibbets, p. 18. 1406 Gloucester Archives, Peterson Files MILITARY and PRIVATEERS, The War (of 1812) newspaper, S. Woodworth and Company Printers, 473 Pearl St. NYC, 1812, p. 11. 1407 Ibid., pp. 31, 35. 1408 Ibid., pp. 39, 47, 92, 116. 1409 Ibid., p. 75. 1410 Ibid., p. 108. 1411 Babson, Roger W., p. 76; Currier, p. 14. 1412 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, Woodbury, History, p. 6. 1413 Foster, p. 25; Hartt, p. 55. 1414 Hurd, pp. 1339-1340. 1415 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 38. “The Fort” reactivated [as Fort Defiance].1417 Fort and barracks built in Sandy Bay [Bearskin Neck].1418 Landing site of the British was the “Eastern Gutter” or “Great Gutter” on Bearskin Neck.1419 England had 700 warships; America’s young Navy had 17.1420 Nathaniel Harraden was on USS CONSTITUTION.1421 Small fort with two 6-pounders built on Cambridge Ave. to protect Annisquam.1422 Annisquam’s Andrew Harraden House used as soldiers’ barracks.1423 1812-1813 Salem’s “Stone Gaol” built with Pigeon Cove granite.1424 1813 British entered Lobster Cove and destroyed several vessels.1425 British ship NYMPH captured coasters and fishing craft.1426 English frigates attacked PRIZE and ran it ashore between Manchester and Cape Ann.1427 Act of Congress gave bounties on exported pickled fish; salt duty also revived.1428 Small vessels went on coasting voyages to Southern ports, where they were detained by Embargo Act.1429 Halifax schooner smuggled in contraband British products.1430 One of the Overseers made journey to Maine to attend to such as were supported there at charge of the Town.1431 Man who owned new 13 ton boat in Scarborough wrote Selectmen to find “faithful person” to take charge of boat for fishing season.1432 1416 Babson, John J., History, p. 511; Tibbets, p. 45. 1417 Tibbets, pp. 43-44. 1418 Babson, Roger W., p. 68; McLane, p. 19. 1419 McLane, p. 21. 1420 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File MILITARY, GDT, Jul 17, 1997. 1421 Ibid., Peterson File VESSELS, GDT, Jul 14, 1997. 1422 Ibid., Peterson File VESSELS, Woodbury, History. 1423 Copeland, p. 168. 1424 Erkkila, Hammers, p. 7. 1425 Hawes, p. 132. 1426 Pringle, James R., History, p. 97. 1427 Bentley, Vol. 4, pp. 168-169. 1428 Pringle, James R., History, pp. 110-111. 1429 Babson, John J., History, p. 518. 1430 Hawes, p. 73. 1431 Babson, John J., History, p. 508. 1432 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, 1813 Communication from Israel Perry. Gloster Dalton died, Negro, signer of Universalist Charter of Compact, “All men are born Free”.1433 ~1814 Beaver Dam named by Dr. Manning.1434 1814 October gale swept away Sandy Bay breakwater and destroyed 14 of 16 vessels at Pigeon Cove.1435 British frigate captured fishing vessel WELCOME HOME.1436 Privateer chiefly manned with smugglers from Sandy Bay.1437 Skirmish with British near Bearskin Neck.1438 Destruction of vessels in and off Sandy Bay, Cape Ann.1439 Dispute encouraged between troops of Gloucester and regular troops of the United States by forbidding return of some guns in new fort belonging to the United States.1440 There was example from Cape Ann of a vessel sailing with supplies for the enemy.1441 Gun House off Back St. [Prospect St.].1442 Folly Cove requested and received receipt for cartridges after enemy landed.1443 Total of 108 cartridges with balls expended after enemy attack at Pigeon Cove.1444 Committee reported additions to Bye Laws of Town about sale of cordwood.1445 Committee reported growth of intemperance.1446 Only six houses left in Dogtown out of original 60 or more.1447 Abraham Wharf lived in and committed suicide in Dogtown.1448 1433 Ibid., Peterson File BLACKS, GDT, Feb 23, 1989 and Apr 24, 1998; Tibbets, p. 15. 1434 Babson, Roger W., p. 100. 1435 Essex Institute Historical Collections, VOL. XCV, 1959, P. 314. 1436 Copeland, pp. 158-161; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File ANNISQUAM. 1437 Bentley, Vol. 4, pp. 305-306. 1438 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HISTORY, GLOUCESTER or MILITARY, GDT, Nov 23, 1991; Hurd, p. 1340; Junior League, p. 114. 1439 Bentley, Vol. 4, pp. 259-260. 1440 Ibid., pp. 277-278. 1441 Ibid., pp.263-264. 1442 Gloucester Archives, Oct 1814 City Engineers’ map. 1443 Ibid., MILITARY, Box 31 FF3-4. 1444 Ibid. 1445 Ibid., Peterson File TIMBER, 1814 Report of Committee re cordwood. 1446 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 156. 1447 Babson, Roger W., p. 29. Windmill erected on Pavilion Beach by Ignatius Webber.1449 Grist Mill moved from Alewife Brook to Pavilion Beach windmill.1450 1814-DATE Registered voters recorded including name, address, place of birth, age, naturalization details, etc.1451 1815 India Sq. [Franklin Sq.], corner of Prospect and Pleasant Sts., named for business India Company.1452 Spanish ship ARMISTAD ran into Kettle Cove in snow storm, struck bar and knocked off her rudder, coffee thrown overboard.1453 Death of Rev. John Murray.1454 William Hubbard published A General History of New England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX which includes a long chapter titled “the discovery and first planting of the Massachusetts”.1455 1815-1819 Rev. Levi Hartshorn pastor of First Parish.1456 1816 “The Cold Summer”.1457 Both Bay and Bank fisheries were good in Cape Ann.1458 Fishery abandoned in Salem to Marblehead, Manchester, Gloucester, and Beverly in which it could be better carried on.1459 Jigs invented to catch mackerel.1460 Massachusetts legislature passed act regulating taking of alewives from Alewife Brook.1461 Mill owners were ordered to prepare openings in dams so fish could pass through.1462 Request to petition General Court for opening of stream that leads from Cape Pond into Squam River and for taking of alewives as they pass up the stream.1463 1448 Ibid., pp. 31, 39-40; Sucholeiki, p. 2. 1449 Babson, John J., History, p. 177; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 104-105. 1450 Brooks, Alfred, p. 163; Copeland, p. 53-54; GDT, Feb 2, 1974, North Shore, Jan 10, 1976; Tibbets, p. 45. 1451 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 96-99. 1452 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 101. 1453 Foster, p. 26; Hartt, p. 56. 1454 Eddy, p. 53. 1455 Hubbard, William, A General History of New England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, 1815; White, Introduction. 1456 Babson, John J., History, p. 493. 1457 Pool Papers, Rockport Public Library, Book II p. 32. 1458 Bentley, Vol. 4, p. 403. 1459 Ibid., p. 422. 1460 Garland, Gloucester on, p. 71; Hawes, p. 181. 1461 Copeland, p. 29; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 72. 1462 McLane, p. 45. Manchester Meeting House built upon same plan as new Meeting House in Gloucester.1464 1816-1894 Alewife fisheries detailed.1465 1817 Steam boat ran between Salem and Cape Ann.1466 Paving stones were sent from near Fresh Water Cove to Salem.1467 Hearse purchased by subscription in Third Parish Church and was used for 100 years.1468 Commonwealth required Selectmen to ascertain and report the number of deaf & dumb persons in the Town.1469 Ropewalk [Canal St.].1470 Sea serpent sightings in Harbor.1471 A Narway [narwhal] Kraken [fabulous Scandinavian sea monster] visited within Ten Pound Island.1472 There were 40 wherries within the Long Cove [Sandy Bay] piers and trunks of trees sunk into the “bason” by rocks around their roots.1473 1818 First trip for mackerel to be salted made by PRESIDENT.1474 Treaty with England forbade fishing within 3-mile limits excepting parts of Labrador, Magdalen Islands and Newfoundland.1475 Massachusetts fishing fleet took 46,348 barrels of mackerel.1476 National government ordered bounty of $2 per 100 lbs. for fish brought to market.1477 Separation of Fifth Parish [Sandy Bay] was brought into Town Meeting.1478 1463 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FISHING, 1816 Petition of Jabez Tarr and others. 1464 Bentley, Vol. 4, p. 414. 1465 Gloucester Archives, 1894 City Council Document #48, CITY CLERK, Box 6-7. 1466 Bentley, Vol. 4, p. 471. 1467 Ibid. 1468 Book of the 300th, p. 60. 1469 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File HEALTH, 1817 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1470 Garland, Gloucester Guide, pp. 141-142. 1471 Babson, John J., History, pp. 521-522; Bentley, Vol. 4, p. 473; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File MYTHS and LEGENDS; Cape Ann Advertiser, Sep 17, 1886 & Aug 19, 1892 GDT, Jul 14, 1979, Jul 12 & 21, 1991, Jul 2, 1993; Hawes, pp. 103-104; Hendrickson, Robert, The Ocean Almanac, Doubleday, 1984, pp. 93-94; Swan, Marshall, Town, pp. 103-104. 1472 Bentley, Vol. 4, p. 471. 1473 Ibid., p. 477. 1474 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FISHING, GDT, Aug 18, 1942; Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 50. 1475 Hurd, p. 1326; Kenny, p. 125; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 234-235. 1476 Hurd, p. 1325. 1477 Connolly, p. 112. 1478 Hurd, p. 1304. Committee reported on separation of Fifth Parish [Sandy Bay], boundary.1479 Gloucester Bank shut and all business with it ceased due to use of its “plates” for forgery.1480 Ship reported going aground at Doyle’s Cove on Bearskin Neck.1481 Death of David Pearce.1482 1818-1858 Offshore banks fishing flourished, mackerel shore fishing became of good value and foreign commerce showed signs of life again.1483 1819 Halibut discovered on Middle Banks.1484 Massachusetts mackerel fleet took 100,111 barrels.1485 Gloucester Fishing Company went into operation and built six schooners.1486 Voted that Overseers of the Poor were authorized to buy and sell real estate.1487 Foster and Mason pastures on Granite and Bridge Sts. purchased for Poor Farm.1488 Men worked in preparing stone [granite] for foundations of houses.1489 Committee recommended that the Town Parish Pound be repaired and another Pound be erected of stone near the Almshouse.1490 Scipio Dalton [Negro] of Boston bought Kettle Cove land, paid for by African Humane Society.1491 Chebacco Parish of Ipswich became Essex.1492 Sea serpent seen off Race Point [Salem?] and Cohasset as well as other locations.1493 1820 National census showed Gloucester population at 6,384.1494 1479 Gloucester Archives, 1818 City Document Box 52. 1480 Bentley, Vol. 4, pp. 503, 504, 628. 1481 McLane, pp. 36-37. 1482 Bentley, Vol. 4, pp. 509-510. 1483 Connolly, p. 112. 1484 Fuess, C. M., p. 281. 1485 Hurd, p. 1325. 1486 Babson, John J., History, p. 570. 1487 Chamberlain, p. 16. 1488 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1895 Public Property Report. 1489 Bentley, Vol. 4, pp. 615-161. 1490 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1819 Report of Committee re Town Pound. 1491 Hartt, p. 11. 1492 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 308. 1493 Bentley, Vol. 4. First trawl made and was set across Brace’s Cove.1495 Petition to cede Ten Pound Island to United States government for purpose of erecting lighthouse.1496 Committee reported additions to Bye Laws of Town about sale of cordwood.1497 First bait mill for tearing bait for mackerel was invented.1498 Second Parish converted to Universalism.1499 Rev. James A. Boswell settled as first minister of first Baptist Church at Sandy Bay.1500 Postal service started in Annisquam.1501 Commoners’ organization ceased to exist.1502 Sandy Bay’s first delivery of coal was unloaded in the Old Harbor for the isinglass factory.1503 1820s South End was farming center of Sandy Bay.1504 1820-1830 Ship building an active industry at Annisquam.1505 1820-1840 Fisheries reached their lowest ebb.1506 1820-1870 Passengers [immigrants] arrived at Port of Gloucester.1507 1821 First cod fishing trips to Georges and Bay St. Lawrence.1508 Fourth Universalist Society (Universal Benevolent Society) organized at Sandy Bay.1509 Ten Pound Island Lighthouse lit.1510 1494 Pringle, James R., History, pp. 96, 104. 1495 Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 51. 1496 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File LIGHTHOUSES, 1820Request to call meeting. 1497 Ibid., Peterson File TIMBER, 1820 Report of Committee. 1498 Ibid., Peterson File FISHING, GDT, Feb 18, 1983. 1499 Ibid., Ibid., Peterson File HISTORY GLOUCESTER, MHC Reconnaissance, p. 13. 1500 Hurd, p. 1315. 1501 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File ANNISQUAM, GDT, Jul 27, 1971. 1502 Babson, John J., History, p. 238. 1503 McLane, p. 18 1504 Ibid., p. 13. 1505 Copeland, p. 88. 1506 Cox, p. 47. 1507 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 58. 1508 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FISHING, Cape Ann Weekly Advertiser¸ Jun 6, 1879; Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 50. 1509 Hurd, pp. 1314-1315; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 102-103. 1510 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 89; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File LIGHTHOUSES, GDT, Aug 17, 1979, Dec 6, 1995, Apr 6, 1990 or 1999. Commonwealth wrote that certificates were necessary to send three Gloucester deaf and dumb boys to Hartford Asylum for education at State expense.1511 All oak trees cut off Pearce’s Island.1512 Twelve-year-old boy murdered in Squam woods.1513 1822 First mackerel caught on Georges.1514 First producer of isinglass in United States at Sandy Bay [Bearskin Neck].1515 Baptists erected first Meeting House [Pleasant St.].1516 First Baptist Church in Sandy Bay built house of worship.1517 Gloucester Canal Corporation formed to clear and rebuild the Cut.1518 Petition for building pound in West Parish.1519 Maine Indians still summered on Cape Ann.1520 Drawbridge built over the Cut, later closed when solid roadway built.1521 1823 First square stern vessel ever built at Squam.1522 Fly lines used for fishing.1523 Quarry industry started at Pigeon Cove.1524 Nehemiah Knowlton advertised cut granite [for paving blocks] in Boston newspaper.1525 William Saville drew map of old roads and landings.1526 Folly Cove flakes ordered to be removed by Capt. William Pierce.1527 1511 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File SCHOOLS, 1821 Communication of Sec’y. of Commonwealth re to certificates. 1512 Copeland, p. 185. 1513 Babson, John J., Notes, Second Series, p. 156; Pringle, James R., History, p. 315. 1514 Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 50. 1515 Copeland, p. 134; Pool Papers, Book I, p. 63; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 105. 1516 Pringle, James R., History, p. 105. 1517 Hurd, p. 1315. 1518 Babson, p. 9; Copeland, p. 178; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 305. 1519 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, Petition of Isaac Haskel et al. 1520 Ibid., Peterson File INDIANS, Gloucester Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 4 1978, p. 14. 1521 Ibid., Peterson File BRIDGES, GDT, Aug 28, 1957. 1522 Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 40. 1523 Ibid., p. 50. 1524 Chamberlain, p. 62; Copeland, p. 141; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 77; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File QUARRIES, Gloucester Magazine, n.d., article by Paul Kenyon, p. 25; Thompson, p. 10. 1525 Erkkila, Hammers, p. 13; Tibbets, p. 26. 1526 Gloucester Archives, Engineers’ vault, map Drawer I #1. 1527 Ibid., map LIA-620A. 1823-1917 Codfish industry amounted to $500,000,000.1528 1823-1965 First Collins School on site of old windmill [Prospect St.].1529 1824 Extensive quarrying business began at Sandy Bay.1530 Lobstering was regulated.1531 Ordered that Selectmen appoint proper person of good character to patrol the Town who shall be called the Inspector of Police.1532 Ordered that no person is permitted to light or smoke any “segar” or pipe after setting of the sun in any street, lane or alley.1533 Winter wind blew down “vains” of windmill on Pavilion Beach.1534 Inhabitants requested warrant to see if the Town would defend each and every person taking off seaweed or any other thing from any of the Town’s landing places.1535 ~1825 First organized camping-out parties from Boston to Gloucester.1536 1825 One mackerel jigger took over 1,300 barrels.1537 Rev. Hosea Hildreth chosen pastor of First Parish.1538 Sandy Bay Post Office established.1539 1825 (1850)-1894 “Old” Riggs School on Washington St. [corner of Reynard St.]1540 1826 Town Grammar School in Harbor Parish made circulating school.1541 Methodist Society organized, built their first church in 1828 [corner of Taylor and Prospect Sts.].1542 1826-1830 Pigeon Cove Pier Company formed, erected stone pier, breakwater and wharves in Pigeon Cove.1543 1826-1908 Names and addresses of owners’ of dogs recorded.1544 1528 Tibbets, p. 24. 1529 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TOURISM, Brooks, Mary, Through. 1530 Hurd, p. 1332. 1531 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 100. 1532 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File POLICE, 1824 Legal, Acts, Resolves and Laws. 1533 Ibid., Peterson File POLICE, 1824 Legal, Acts, Resolves and Laws. 1534 Ibid., Peterson File, GDT, Feb 21, 1974. 1535 Ibid., Peterson File TOWN LANDINGS, 1824 Petition of sundry inhabitants. 1536 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 3. 1537 Webber, p. 14. 1538 Hurd, p. 1307. 1539 Hawes, p. 156; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 106. 1540 Gloucester Archives, Record of School Buildings 1882, p. 49; Peterson File PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1895 Public Property Report. 1541 Babson, John J., History, p. 553. 1542 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File CHURCHES, GDT, Jul 16, 1947; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 85; Hurd, p. 1316; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 300-301. 1543 Swan, Marshall, pp. 102-103. 1827 First printing press established at Christian Telegraph office.1545 First newspapers published, Christian Neighbor and Gloucester Telegraph.1546 At least six ship or vessel yards in Squam.1547 About 10,000 lobsters were taken from the harbor annually and it tended to destroy other bay fishing (say, cod, haddock and herring).1548 Delegates voted that each Town in County of Essex send delegate to Ipswich to recommend location of new House of Correction.1549 Trees set out in yard of Independent Christian Church.1550 Dry goods house established.1551 1827-1848 Sea Captain Moses A. Low kept account book of his voyages.1552 1828 New First Parish Church built on site of 1738 Meeting House [Middle St.].1553 Orthodox Congregational Society organized in Lanesville and chapel erected.1554 Frame of Congregation chapel in Lanesville was prepared in Beverly.1555 First Methodist Church built on Prospect St., occupied until 1858.1556 Lane’s Cove Pier Company formed.1557 Annisquam Village Hall built for Baptist Meeting House.1558 Sea Captain Solomon H. Davis went on shore in “Buenos Ayres” and, to his surprise, found his brother.1559 Captain Solomon H. Davis married Miss Mary Babson, sister of John James Babson.1560 1544 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, p. 24. 1545 Babson, John J., History, p. 529. 1546 Ibid., pp. xi , 528-529; Pringle, James R., History, p. 326. 1547 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File ANNISQUAM. 1548 Ibid., Peterson File FISHING, 1828 Report of Committee on Lobster. 1549 Ibid., Peterson File ESSEX COUNTY, 1827 Vote passed re House of Corrections. 1550 Ibid., Peterson File CHURCHES, Cape Ann Weekly Advertiser, Apr 18, 1873. 1551 Pringle, James R., History, p. 340. 1552 Hawes, pp. 96-97. 1553 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File CHURCHES, GDT, Aug 13, 1954; Hurd, pp. 1307-1308. 1554 Hurd, p. 1317; Orthodox, p. 83. 1555 Orthodox, p. 13. 1556 Gloucester Archives, TOURISM, Brooks, Mary, Through; Pringle, James R., History, p. 301. 1557 Erkkila, Village, p. 39; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File LANESVILLE, GDT, Jun 25, 1991, Peterson File FINNS, Essex Institute, Vol. XCV, 1959, p. 314. 1558 Copeland, p. 173. 1559 Davis, Solomon H., Journal of Captain Solomon H. Davis, Plimpton Press, Norwood, MA, 1922, p. 32. ~ ~ 1828- 1923 Hotel run in Blackburn Tavern, Tappan Building, corner Main and Washington Sts.1561 1828-1843 Construction of Lane’s Cove breakwater.1562 1829 Lighthouse at Eastern Point built.1563 Evangelical [Trinity] Congregational Church organized in First Parish.1564 Frame for Meeting House was “gotten out” at Cambridge and floated to Sandy Bay.1565 Universalists erected new Meeting House in Sandy Bay.1566 Application to General Court to build bridge across Goose Cove.1567 Commonwealth directed Selectmen to ascertain and report the number of blind persons in the Town.1568 Small pleasure steamer TOM THUMB passed through Cut on circuit of the Cape.1569 Brig PERSIA smashed up off Eastern Point.1570 Tammy Younger, “Queen of the Witches”, died [lived on Cherry St.].1571 Rhoda Freeman (Negro), wife of Robert Freeman (Negro), died and was buried in burial ground off Concord St. in West Gloucester.1572 1829-1832 Annisquam was home port for 75 vessels.1573 1829-1859 Whole number of 48 vessels and 336 men lost, including passengers.1574 1829-1869 Report of Committee of Investigation on Goose Cove Dam.1575 Pre 1830 Ample gardens and fruit trees were behind the houses and above the wharves.1576 1560 Ibid., foreword. 1561 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File WEST END, GDT, May 11, 1979. 1562 Erkkila, Village, p. 39; Essex Institute, Oct 1959, p. 314; Wright, p. 118. 1563 Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 79; Thompson, p. 16. 1564 Brooks, Alfred, p. 92; Procter Brothers, The Fisheries, p. 86; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 103-104. 1565 Hurd, p. 1315. 1566 Pringle, James R., History, pp. 102-103. 1567 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 10 1868-1873, p. 130. 1568 Ibid., Peterson File HEALTH, 1829 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1569 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 305. 1570 Babson, John J., History, p. 529; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File VESSELS, GDT, North Shore, Dec 4, 1971. 1571 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File WOMEN. 1572 Hartt, p. 13. 1573 Copeland, p. 161. 1574 Babson, John J., History, p. 597. 1575 Gloucester Archives, Town Records Book 10, pp. 130-144. 1576 Ibid., Peterson File WEST END, GDT, Apr 11, 1964. Essex Ave. causeway filled in over the marsh.1577 1830 First Irishmen came to work in quarries.1578 First Lanesville church built, the Orthodox Congregational Church.1579 First Georges halibut fishery.1580 First mackereling trip to Bay St. Lawrence.1581 Population was 7,510.1582 About 500 to 600 fishermen in Harbour.1583 Massachusetts mackerel fleet took 308,463 barrels.1584 Georges Banks was fished.1585 High tide cut new channel to the sea at Cape Hedge [Sandy Bay].1586 The Cut was filled in solid.1587 Indians from western part of New Hampshire summered on Merchant’s Island [Rust Island].1588 Sandy Bay’s first blaze of consequence burned down farmhouse of Deacon Solomon Pool.1589 “Great fire” on Front St. in business district.1590 Tavern [corner of Main and Rogers Sts.] destroyed by fire.1591 Party of Penobscot Indians were in Town, exerted themselves with great bravery [in fighting most distressing fire].1592 About 300 females exerted themselves with uncommon spirit by passing full and empty buckets of water [during fire].1593 1577 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File TRANSPORTATION, Essex Institute, Oct 1955, p. 307. 1578 Erkkila, Hammers, p. 121. 1579 Erkkila, Village, pp. 127, 136; Junior League, p. 126; Pringle, James R., History, p. 291. 1580 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FISHING, Cape Ann Weekly Advertiser¸ Jun 6, 1879; Procter Brothers, The Fishermen’s, p. 50. 1581 Ibid. 1582 Bureau of the Census, Census of Population: 1950, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1952, p. 21-7. 1583 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FISHING, Gloucester Telegraph, Sep 18, 1830. 1584 Hurd, p. 1326. 1585 Connolly, p. 113. 1586 McLane, p. 50; Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 101. 1587 Copeland, p. 179. 1588 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File ANNISQUAM, HISTORY (GLOUCESTER), INDIANS or ISLANDS. 1589 Swan, Marshall, Town, p. 107. 1590 Archives Committee, Guidebook Vol. I, pp. 26, 65; Babson, John J., History, p. 533; Garland, Gloucester Guide, p. 109; Gloucester Archives, Peterson File FIRES/FIRE DEPT., GDT, Apr 11, 1964; Pringle, James R., History, pp. 309-310; Tibbets, p. 37. 1591 Pringle, James R., History, p. 91. 1592 Gloucester Archives, Peterson File, Gloucester Telegraph, Sep 18, 1830. Selectmen appealed to neighboring towns for aid and charity for their suffering fellow townsmen who lost 43 stores and 17 homes in the fire.1594 Towns and churches from as far away as South Carolina, Maryland, New York and New Hampshire responded with over $6,000. Carpenters’ planes and ten yards of flannel were also contributed.1595 Social Library was under care of T. Stephenson, Esq.1596 Second Parish voted in favor of Universalist denomination.1597 Second Baptist Church organized and church built on Pleasant St.1598 Rev. Epes Davis built Baptist Meeting House at Annisquam Point that became known as “Mechanics Hall”.1599 Order passed by County Commissioners laying out highway across Goose Cove with sluiceway to admit of a draw for passage of vessels.1600 Tide water mill built at Goose Cove.1601 Last inhabitant of Dogtown taken to Poorhouse.1602 Addison Center, Civil War soldier and artist, born.1603 Sloop from Nantucket ran aground in Whale Cove.1604 Gloucester Lyceum formed.1605 Hydraulion [Fire Engine] House built on Church St.1606 1830-1831 Annisquam Village Church built.1607 1830-1865 Phenomenal growth in fishing industry.1608 1830-1870 Fishing boats came to be owned by “district class of merchant ship owners who kept general stores and acted as wholesale distributors.”1609