1804A meeting house was built in Fifth Parish (Sandy Bay, now Rockport).People and Communities, Arts and Culture, Location and Setting, Buildings & Architecture, Religion
The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1803, and it was dedicated in October of 1804. Reverend Abiel Abbot preached the sermon.
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