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Ancestry.com. Alluring Rockport : an unspoiled New England town on Cape Ann [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data: Solley, George Willis.. Alluring Rockport : an unspoiled New England town on Cape Ann : an irregular, rocky shore with ledges and sandy coves, quarries haunted by artists, campers on Bearskin Neck, old mansions built with pirates' gold, a meeting house fired on by the British in the War of 1812, a "fighting parson," a "deserted village," a "witch house," a "likker raid" of olden times, quaint stories of other days, a mecca for home-lovers, writers and artists. Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.: North Shore Press, c1924.
