1651William Perkins and William Stevens served as the Town Clerks.Government and Public Service, City Government

Stevens was a shipbuilder, and Perkins took over the ministry after Reverend Blynman left Gloucester.

Babson, John James, and Samuel Chandler. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Anne, Including the Town of Rockport. Procter Brothers, 1860, http://archive.org/details/historytownglou00changoog

Other Events

1650
William Perkins, a teaching elder, arrived from Weymouth to lead religious activity.
1650 (ca.)
Shipbuilding in Chebacco (Essex) began around this time.
1651
English Puritan minister John Eliot began to establish "Praying Towns" for the protection and assimilation of Indigenous people who converted to Christianity.
1652
A third mill was built in 1652 at Saw Mill Dam, Riverdale.

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