Industries of Massachusettes : historical and descriptive review of Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Salem, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, Gloucester, Newburyport, and Amesbury, and their leading manufacturers and merchants (1886)
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana · New York : International Pub. Co. · leaf 144
emorable in the annals of mystery" was 1692, when hundreds of French and Indian ghosts were thought to haunt the Cape, and were often shot at but never hurt. So great was the panic that two regiments had to be sent to put down the sprites. With the decline of the witchcraft delusion in Salem the… … of that year Gloucester was bombarded for four hours by the British sloop-of-war " Falcon." The Minute-men held the town and captured four boats, a tender, and a prize schooner with forty men from the "Falcon." The ruined town was soon repaired, and with the close of the war, the cessation of…
