LIFE OX THE GRAXD BANKS 



Photograph from Phelps Studio 



IN TH£ HARBOR AT GLOUCl^STlvR 



Within a few j^ears after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Gloucester had become the 

 pioneer fishing port of the New World and a "nursery" for stalwart seamen of the American 

 Navy — the men whose descendants were to make history under such leaders as John Paul 

 Jones, Perry, Lawrence, Bainbridge, and Decatur. 



