1782Prisoners on a cartel from Halifax to Boston stopped in Gloucester to recover from illness.People and Communities, Government and Public Service, Health, African American History
Noted in the Selectmen’s Day Book 1775-1872, the “Select Men was obliged to take them on shore to Gloster Dalton and provide for them.”
Gloucester Selectmen’s Day Book, 1775-1782. Gloucester, 1782, https://archive.org/details/GLODAYBOOK17751782Images/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater