This walking tour of the beautiful shore-line area of Marblehead's Little Harbor discusses life in Marblehead in the 1600s, and the town's early settlement and evolution from a rugged fishing settlement in 1629 to “the greatest town for ffishing [sic] in New England” in 1660 (as stated in a report to the English king, newly ‘restored’ to the throne after a century of Civil War in England) -- up to the 17-teens, when the town began its trajectory towards its pre-Revolutionary stature an international seaport and approximately the tenth largest metropolis in America by 1765.
The 1600s are far more interesting than people realize -- a distant time that was very different than our own, and even very different than the 1700s just a few generations later.
