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Cape Ann

noun

A Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean.

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... Douglas and Sarah Fisk, his wife. His father, a successful physician, was doubtless of Scotch descent; but the founder of the Douglas family in America was married in Northamptonshire. He landed on Cape Ann in 1639-40, but in 1660 he made his home at New London, Connecticut. Dr. Douglas's mother was an Arnold of Rhode Island, descended from that Governor Arnold who was associated with Roger Williams in the founding ...

— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown

... the payment of the passages to Boston; one half, eighty louis d'or—the equivalent of four hundred silver dollars—remained, part of which they invested in tea. Reaching the American coast in a fog, or bad weather, they were landed at Cape Ann on July 14. From Gloucester they rode the next day to Boston on horseback, a distance of thirty miles. Here they put up at a French cafe, "The Sign of the Alliance," in Fore Street, kept by one Tahon, and began ...

— Albert Gallatin - American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII • John Austin Stevens

Words linked to "Cape Ann" : Massachusetts, Old Colony, ma, Bay State, peninsula