Excerpt from Village Communities of Cape Anne and Salem, From the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute English speculators were not slow to realize the pos sible advantages which might accrue from an occupation of the stern and rock-bound coast of New England. Even before the issue of the Cape Anne patent to men of Plymouth, certain merchants from the west of England, especially of Dorchester,5 had sent their agents to catch fish off the promontory of Cape Anne, which in 1614 had been named Tragabizanda by Captain John Smith for the sake of a lady from whom he received much favor While he was a prisoner amongst the Turks,6 but which soon gracefully yielded to the baptismal name of the con sort of King James. In 1624, encouraged by the fame of New Plymouth and by the Rev. John White of Dorches ter, the merchants of that neighborhood sent over sundry persons to carry on a regular plantation at Cape Anne, conceiving that planting on the land might go on equally with fishing on the sea. John Tylly was appointed overseer of the fisheries and Thomas Gardener, of the plantation, at least for one year. At the end of that time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.