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Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (Annisquam)

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Where is Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA? 

Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Gloucester was founded at Cape Ann by an expedition called the "Dorchester Company" of men from Dorchester (in the county of Dorset, England) chartered by James I in 1623. It was one of the first English settlements in what would become the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and predates both Salem in 1626 and Boston in 1630. The first company of pioneers made landing at Half Moon Beach and settled nearby, setting up fishing stages in a field in what is now Stage Fort Park.
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Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (Annisquam) - Gloucester and Rockport Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (Annisquam)

Gloucester and Rockport
Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
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Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (Annisquam)

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Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (Annisquam) - Pleasant Street, Gloucester, Mass.
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (Annisquam)

Pleasant Street, Gloucester, Mass.

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1623 - Gloucester founded

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1817 - August 18 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore

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1839 - December 15 - The first of triple storms hit Massachusetts Bay. The storm produced whole gales, and more than 20 inches of snow in interior New England. There was great loss of life at Gloucester MA.

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4. GLOUCESTER. [Pop. 6,350. Inc. 1642.]
Gloucester was named after Gloucester in England, from which some of the first settlers came....Read MORE...

1859
GLOUCESTER, a town and port in Essex co., in Massachusetts, 30 m. NE of Boston. It has a fine...Read MORE...

News  1869 - A well-known physician who had an extensive practice in Gloucester, (Mass.,) some forty years since,
used to say that roast beef, serenity of mind, cold water bath, and an amiable and pretty wife...Read MORE...

News  1885 - At Gloucester - An Incendiary Caught.
GLOUCESTER, Mass., Oct. 12 - A stable on Pine street belonging to Bennett Griffin & Son, lumber...Read MORE...

News  1889 - Schooner Wreck
GLOUCESTER, Mass., Jan. 11. - The schooner wrecked on Bass Rocks was the forty ton Juliette, of...Read MORE...

Gloucester Massachusetts, 1890
GLOUCESTER, long celebrated as a fishing-port, occupies the larger part of Cape Ann, the easterly...Read MORE...

News  1910 - Gloucester Buildings Prey of Forest Fires
Boston Journal Special Wire.
Gloucester, March 25. - Grass and forest fires kept the local fire...Read MORE...

1916
Gloucester, a city and port of entry of Essex co., Mass., 28 miles NNE. of Boston, is beautifully...Read MORE...

1925 - Frozen dinners were invented in Gloucester
The concept may seem obvious today, but Clarence Birdseye was the first to introduce mass-produced...Read MORE...


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Ancestors Who Were Married Here


1634
Robert ELWELL (abt. 1615 - 18 May 1683) & Joanne DOLLIVAR? (abt. 1615 - 31 March 1675)
married abt. 1634

1645
John LITTLEFIELD (1 November 1624 - 2 February 1697) & Patience WAKEFIELD (1630 - 13 January 1674)
married 1645

1658
Samuel ELWELL (abt. 1636 - 24 November 1696) & Hester DUTCH (abt. 1639 - 6 September 1721)
married 7 June 1658

1660
John HAMMOND (abt. 1638 - 1676) & Mary SOMES (1 March 1641/42 - 6 May 1689)
married 17 October 1660

1667
James TRAVERS (28 April 1645 - ) & Mercy PIERCE (PEARCE) (July 1650 - 11 December 1744)
married 8 April 1667

1668
Abraham ROBINSON (abt. 1638 - ) & Mary HARRADEN (abt. 1649 - 28 September 1725)
married 7 July 1668

1679
John MAXFIELD (1657 - 10 December 1703) & Elizabeth HAMMOND (30 December 1661 - )
married 24 July 1679

1689
Samuel SARGENT (22 March 1661 - ) & Mary NORWOOD (7 March 1672 - 27 April 1718)
married 24 May 1689

1695
Joseph GARDNER (23 October 1672 - ) & Hannah ELWELL (11 August 1674 - 29 September 1708)
married 2 January 1695

1703
Abraham ROBINSON (15 October 1677 - 28 December 1724) & Sarah YORK (abt. 1683 - 9 August 1718)
married 10 February 1703

1723
Andrew ELWELL (22 April 1704 - ) & Lydia GEARING (abt. 1705 - )
married 12 December 1723

1757
Solomon SARGENT (14 February 1735 - ) & Martha ROBINSON (17 August 1735 - )
married 16 May 1757

1783
John CLARK (19 October 1756 - ) & Martha SARGENT (23 December 1759 - )
married 10 October 1783

1825
John CLARK (abt. 1800 - ) & Esther JOSEPH (9 August 1807 - 2 May 1872)
married 28 September 1825

1909
James Frank WILLIAMS (8 May 1873 - ) & Mae (Mary) Lizzie BUZZELL (8 March 1882 - aft. 1956)
married 21 January 1909
 

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