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Excerpt from The Fisheries of Gloucester From the First Catch by the English in 1623, to the Centennial Year, 1876: Giving an Account of the Settlement of the Town, Development of the Fishing Business, Various Branches, Statistics of Catch, Models of Vessels, the Granite Interest, the Advantages of Cape Ann as a Place of Summer Resort, Etc;, Etc The first occupation of Cape Ann by people of the English race was in 1623, when a fishing vessel, sent by a company ia' England with a view to the establishment of a settlement somewhere on the coast, not being able to complete her lading at the usual fishing grounds on the coast of Maine, the master thought good to pass into Mattaehusetts Bay, to try whether that would yield him any. Here he Succeeded; and, having completed his cargo, proceeded with the same to Spain; having left fourteen men in the country at Cape Anne, for the purpose, without doubt, of beginning the work of the plantation projected by the English company. History refuses to gratify us with any further information concerning these men, but we know that, besides the pilgrims at Plymouth, the only other persons of European parentage they could then find within the present limits of Massachusetts were a few persons at Nantasket and a few others at Weymouth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.