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Cape Ann
Original name of the present city of Gloucester, Mass., noted for more than 250 years for its extensive fishery interests.
It was chosen as a place of settlement for a fishing colony by Rev. John White (a long time rector of Trinity Church, Dorchester, England) and several other influential persons.
Through the exertions of Mr. White, a joint-stock association was formed, called the Dorchester adventurers, with a capital of about $14,000. Cape Anne was purchased, and fourteen persons, with live-stock, were sent out in 1623, who built a house and made preparations for curing fish.
Affairs were not prosperous there.
Roger Conant was chosen governor in 1625, but the Adventurers became discouraged and concluded on dissolving the colony.
Through the encouragement of Mr. White, some of the colonists remained, but, not liking their seat, they went to Naumkeag, now Salem, where a permanent colony was settled.
Population in 1890, 24,651; in 1900, 26,121.
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Salem, Ma.
A city and the county seat of Essex county, Mass.; founded in 1626; incorporated as a city in 1836; noted for its historical associations, and its educational and scientific interests; population in 1900, 35,956.
After the abandonment of Cape Ann there was a revival of zeal for colonization at Naumkeag (Salem), and John Endicott was chosen, by a new company of adventurers, to lead emigrants thither and be chief manager of the colony.
A grant of land, its ocean line extending from 3 miles north of the Merrimac River to 3 miles south of the Charles River, and westward to the Pacific Ocean, was obtained from the council of New England, March 19, 1628, and in June John Endicott, one of the six patentees, sailed for Naumkeag, with a small party, as governor of the new settlement.
Those who were there—the remains of Conant's settlers—were disposed to question the claims of the new-comers.
An amicable settlement was made, and in commemoration of this adjustment Endicott