The Story of Dogtown,
The
45
"Moley Jakups,
Fifth Parish records say that
daughter of Isack and Molly, was baptized Jan. 31,
Molly and Judy Rhines, with others, seem
1763." to
have done
tation
a great deal to give to
which
also
was
Dogtown
a repu-
undeservedly conferred on
Gloucester as a whole, so that the favored residents of
Rockport were
down
led for a generation to look
No
on a native of the larger place.
traditions, except
those of a rather unsavory reputation, remain of Molly.
Almost opposite the Jacobs the road,
is
a well
marked
on the
cellar,
cellar, said
to
be
remains of the home of Dorcas Foster.
left of
all
that
She was
eight years old at the conuiiencement of the Revolu-
tionary w\ar, having been born at the
Her
Harbor
village.
father left his family in this house for safety from
the British,
whom
town, and went lived with his
he feared might come and sack the
to the
war.
George Wonson, who
grandmother when a boy,
recalls
many
of her stories of life in those troublous times.
Abram Wharf
she always referred to as
"Aunt Wharf."
bor Wharf," and called his wife
The
children used to be sent to the harbor village for
supplies,
a
"Neigh-
pound
portion.
and were accustomed of tea, Little
to
pay one dollar for
and for other necessary things
in pro-
Dorcas naturally feared the British,
sharine: the terror
which
led to the
growth
of
Dog-