Another son may have been Richard Bills who was a soldier in the Great Swamp Fight, 19 December 1675. "Gloucester Apprenticeship Papers, 1739-1852," by John C. Reilly, May, August & November, 1994, 8. 1866-1876, Procters' Able Sheet. Visit And Learn About The History Of Gloucester, Massachusetts Archive Grid, Military records of Annisquam, Gloucester, Mass. city directory 1942 Internet Archive, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) 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Amesbury was settled in 1655 as a part of Salisbury, but was separated from Salisbury in 1666 and incorporated as the town of Amesbury in 1668. city directory 1944 Internet Archive, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) city directory 1925 LDS Genealogy, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) 250th anniversary of incorporation of town of Gloucester. 1836 - Female Charitable Society organized. 1739 - "Great meeting-house at the harbor" built. 1828 - First Parish Church built on Middle Street. Gloucester includes: Rocky Neck, Twopenny Loaf, Annisquam, Bass Rocks, Bay View, Cape Ann, Dogtown Commons, Fernwood, Five Points, Freshwater Cove Village, Joppa . city directory 1886 Internet Archive, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) 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Search by town, surname or family list. October 16: North Shore Tricycle Run arrives in Gloucester. city directory 1951-1952, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) : Captain Kimball's Company 1797, 1800, 1814, 1816 WorldCat, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) Gloucester Isinglass and Glue in business. Massachusetts Bay Colony was a 17th Century British settlement and political unit on the east coast of North America. Historians have long appreciated the importance of English local customs in the early North American settlements, but the explicit political significance of English corporate and manorial approaches to land law in these settlements, and in the expansion of the Massachusetts Bay regime during the 1640s, have not been properly understood. Essex County MA Histories and Genealogies "Slavery in Gloucester, Massachusetts during the Colonials Period," by John C. Reilly, August 1992, 3. city directory 1955-1956 LDS Genealogy, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) Early Gloucestermen cleared great swaths of the forest of Cape Ann for farm and pasture land, using the timber to build structures as far away as Boston. city directory 1902, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) city directory 1890 LDS Genealogy, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) Gloucester Genealogy (in Essex County, Massachusetts) city directory 1866 LDS Genealogy, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) city directory 1917 Internet Archive, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) 1856-1857, Gloucester Daily News. city directory 1869, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) [2] 1660 - Edward Harraden house built. city directory 1896, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) Massachusetts - First Thanksgiving, the Wampanoag & Harvard - History Cape Ann Advertiser. In 1623, a grant was issued to a group of merchants from England who wished to establish a trade settlement overseas. Gloucester, MA 01930 Staff Directory; Popular Links. city directory 1937-1938, Gloucester (Essex County, Mass.) 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