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experience and the awe-inspiring picture of the expanse 
ci old ocean and the marine panorama as viewed from 
the island’s shores or from the top of the great light- 
house towers. 
Straitsmouth Island, so-called in 1699, was granted 
by the General Court to Capt. James Davis for the 
service and financial aid he rendered in the French and 
Indian War. In 1732, its value was two hundred and 
fifty-five pounds. A lighthouse was erected on this 
island to guide inshore navigation about Cape Ann and 
today is performing faithfully a like duty. 
Milk Island is situated a short distance south of 
Thatcher’s Island and came near playing an important 
part in the scientific world by the proposed plan, not 
so many years ago, of harnessing its ocean waves to 
provide water power for manufacturing. The plan did 
not materialize. The island is now used as a ballast 
ground for Cape Ann shipping interests. 
Salt Island, which lies inland off Good Harbor 
Beach, Bass Rocks, is reached by boat or at low tide 
ean be visited on foot. For many years, the fish huts 
of shore fisherman have dotted its elevations. 
Proceeding along the coast, we come to Kettle Isl- 
and, near the entrance of Magnolia harbor, believed 
te have been ‘called after John Kettle, one of Manches- 
ter’s first settlers. It was known by that name as early 
as 1634. During the Revolutionary War it was a van- 
tage point from which to watch the movements of and 
cuard against the British enemy. 
Ten Pound Island, midway in Gloucester’s outer 
harbor, was historically mentioned as early as 1644, 
particularly as a pasture for ‘‘sheep only.’’ If this rule 
was disregarded ‘‘a forfeit of 2s. 6d. per head’’ would 
be demanded. 
The modern use of Ten Pound Island is two-fold 
and important. Located there is the U. 8. Government’s 
Fish Hatchery, which so materially multiplies the finny 
tribes of our country’s New England waters. Likewise 
is loeat.-d there a lighthouse and dwelling house. The 
name Ten Pound Island was derived from the price paid 
for the island. The same derivation apples to Five 
Pound Island, which lies near Harbor Cove in Glouces- 
ter’s inner harbor and this little island with its aban- 
doned fish houses and wharves is a Revolutionary land-- 
mark of importance. 
The battle of Bunker Ihll brought the sloop-of- 
war, ‘‘Faleon,’’ Capt. Lindsay, to New England to aid 
the British. On the fifth of August, 1775, the Falcon 
made her appearance in Ipswich Bay and eame nearly 
to the mouth of Annisquam Harbor. She also cruised 
about Cape Ann. On August 8th, Capt. Lindsay’s de- 
sire for capture and booty was satistied by his over- 
taking two schooners from the West Indies bound to 
Salem. He secured one vessel and chased the other into 
Gloucester Harbor. The captain, before he would sur- 
render, ran her ashore on the flats near Five Pound 
Island. Lindsay, who followed her as far as safety 
would permit, came to anchor and proceeded to take her 
where she lay. Then there was battle royal by smart 
fring from the old colonial swivel guns mounted on 
the Gloucester hills nearby. The bravery and persistent 
activity also of the Gloucester settlers helped to ward 
off destruction of home and property. The shots fired 
irto the First Unitarian church by Lindsay, which is 
located on Middle street, Gloucester, have been 
preserved. One of Lindsay’s impressed men, William 
Moore, who resided at Fresh Water Cove, built a house 
and taught at the publie school of Cape Ann there in 
1757. He was taken by Lindsay, while out in a boat 
with his son and was earried away and never returned. 
His son, a boy of twelve, was released and put ashore 
near Fresh Water Cove. Later in life, he became a 
pubhe school teacher and a teacher of navigation. He 
cied in 1845, aged 82 years. 
Hangman’s Island in Annisquam River, revives 
traditions of the colonial pirates, who menaced the life 
and property of North Shore settlers. 
The sloop Squirrel owned at Annisquam by Capt. 
Andrew Haraden met such a fate during April, 1724. 
«Among Capt. Haraden’s crew was one John Fillmore. 
Millard Fillmore, late president of the United States, 
was the son of Nathaniel Fillmore, a grandson of the 
original John Fillmore of Annisquam, mentioned above. 
The Squirrel was captured by John Phillips, a noted 
pirate: of those days, who abandoned his own 
vessel and took possession of the Squirrel, which was a 
new craft and not entirely finished—work being done 
on the sloop while on her trip. Therefore plenty of 
carpenters’ tools were aboard, which providentially 
provided weapons to incapacitate and eventually kill a 
portion of the piratical crew, and to good purpose, for 
the rest of the crew surrendered. The carpenters’ broad 
axe and adze proved timely intermidiaries. . 
Traditions of Hangman’s Island relate that some of 
the pirates brought to Annisquam were hung on this 
little island in ‘‘Squam River’’, or their dead bodies 
were suspended there on trees as mock gallows. The 
eaptures of these pirates were awarded thirty-two 
pounds each by the General Court for the service per- 
lormed by their eapture. 
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