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tion of the fact that the name still exists in the neighbor- 
hood. Jeffreys is supposed to have been a fisherman, who 
cast his lot with the Allens and the Normans when they 
abandoned the fishing station at Cape Ann in favor of 
newer fields. The sheltered situation of Manchester made 
it admirably adapted to their purposes and it became 
known as Jeffrey’s Creek. The name is still applied to 
a ledge not far from the town. Jeffreys himself dis- 
appeared from the settlement in about the year 1633, but 
whether he returned to his old haunts at Plymouth, from 
which colony he is supposed to have come, or whether he 
was the William Jeffreys afterwards heard of at Ipswich, 
is not known. Certain itis that on May 14, 1645, the 
settlers of Jeffrey’s Creek petitioned the Great and Gen- 
eral Court at Salem to allow the village to be incorporated 
as a separate town and to take the name, Manchester, 
from old Manchester in England. For many years Man- 
chester was allowed to remain quiet in the midst of her 
hidden charms but in 1845 Richard Henry Dana built the 
first summer residence there, thus discovering the pic- 
turesque little village to the outer world. The late James 
T. Fields, the publisher, who, also, had a summer home at 
Manchester, was the first to call the place Manchester-by- 
the-Sea. 
The first settlers at Manchester landed at the shelter- 
ed beach, which afterwards received from the leader of 
the band, John Kettle, the name of Kettle Cove. This 
picturesque little bit of coast was called by the inhabitants 
Kettle Cove until about forty years ago when it became 
one of the most fashionable watering places of the Shore, 
which is only another way of saying, in the country. Then 
the late Andrew Fuller, a large property holder with more 
than the average amount of far-sightedness and fitness, 
named the place Magnolia from the beautiful Magnolia 
trees, which the initiated may find there in the depths of 
the woods. The flower magnolia is found nowhere else 
in Massachusetts and, some say, nowhere else north of 
Virginia. It was a Virginian, Christopher Bearse Cranch 
who wrote the following lines about the graceful blossom: 
‘“Majestic flower! How purely beautiful 
Thou art, as rising from thy bower of green, 
Those dark and glossy leaves so thick and full, 
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Thou standest like a high-born forest queen 
Among thy maidens clustering round so fair;— 
I love to watch thy sculptured form unfolding, 
And look into thy depths to image there 
A fairy cavern; and while thus beholding, 
And while thy breeze floats o’er thee, matchless flower, : 
I breathe the perfume, delicate and strong, 
That comes like incense from thy petal bower; 
My fancy roams those southern woods along 
Beneath that glorious tree, where deep among 
The unsunned leaves thy large white flower-cups hung, *” 
toh ies) 
Although the credit of naming the town is due to Mr. — 
Fuller, the title, Magnolia, had been used in the com-_ 
munity at a much earlier period. In the old stage-coach 
days there was a tavern at the corner of Magnolia avenue — 
and Western avenue, which was called the Magnolia 
House or the Magnolia Hotel, being the first time so far 
as we know, that the name was used in the village. The 
house is now known as the Stanley cottage. 
We hear of Captain John Smith again at Gloucester, 
for it was he who named the cape in honor of a Turkish 
lady, Tragabizanda, whom he had reason to remember for 
her kindness to him. His sovereign, Prince Charles of 
England, however, changed the name and called the place 
Cape Anne for his mother, Anne of Denmark. Cape 
Ann, as we spell it now, was one community and it in- 
cluded Gloucester, Rockport and the other cape towns 
vex before, all of which served to save oil. Captain 
and was bounded by Ipswich and Jeffrey’s Creek. It was 
under the jurisdiction of Salem and in May of the year 
1642, the residents of the prospering fishing village peti- 
tioned the General Court that they be incorporated as a 
separate town, bearing the name Gloucester, as many of 
them had come from the place of that name in England. 
Wenham was settled at about the same time as Glou- 
cester and was named Enon by the first settlers. It 
bore that name for only a few years, however, and on 
September 7, 1643, the Great and General Court at. Salem 
ordered that “Enon shall be called Wennam. Wennam 
is granted to be a town and hath liberty to send a deputy.” 
The town was doubtless named from the parish of Wen- 
ham in England. 
The settlement of Ipswich is unique in the history of 
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How Some People Spend the Summer—Houseboat at Marblehead. 
