1758A grammar school was permanently located in the Harbor Parish.Government and Public Service, Education

The school was probably located in the building at the intersection of Middle and Washington Streets, which was built by private subscription. Samuel Whittemore was the first teacher. The other parishes continued as circulating schools.

Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed. History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co., 1888, http://archive.org/details/historyofessexco02hurd. Record of School Buildings, City of Gloucester, 1882.

Other Events

1757
Three males and six females were supported at the expense of the town.
1758
Eighty men from Gloucester enlisted to fight the French at Ticonderoga and Louisburg during the French and Indian War.
1762
Pompey Cummins, who was manumitted from slavery the previous year, purchased a house and land from William Stevens, the son of Mary Stevens, who had enslaved him.
1763
The French and Indian War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

1758A grammar school was permanently located in the Harbor Parish.Government and Public Service, Education

Other Events

Three males and six females were supported at the expense of the town.

Eighty men from Gloucester enlisted to fight the French at Ticonderoga and Louisburg during the French and Indian War.

Pompey Cummins, who was manumitted from slavery the previous year, purchased a house and land from William Stevens, the son of Mary Stevens, who had enslaved him.

The French and Indian War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.