That the Oliver Griffin House c.1761 on Leonard Street is also known as the house at the head of the cove?
Oliver Griffin, son of Samuel and Mary Goss Griffin, was born in Gloucester December 9, 1739 died in June 1815. Babson’s history says he seems to have been a mariner most of his life, and that the sea took the lives of all six of his sons. In March 1763 he married Mary Wise who was born in 1742 and died in June 1821. Mary was a granddaughter of Joseph York, a successful fisherman at Lobster Cove who settled in Annisquam and married Abigail, daughter of Abraham Robinson (of the Dorchester Company).
Mary Wise Griffin herself was an educated woman and strong character, a careful student of the Bible and a faithful expounder of the doctrine of the Universalist church. It was she who discussed theological subjects so forcibly with Rev Dr Ezra Leonard that he converted from the Orthodox Congregational faith to a zealous Universalist, and his conversion was followed by all members of his former church except two families.
(from History of Essex County, MA by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1888)
E.J. Lefavour
Good Morning Gloucester 
I am thrilled to see this post–have wondered about this neat house many times driving past. Thanks so much! Happy New Year!
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Glad you enjoyed it Ann. I have always really liked this house and just recently noticed the plaque which gave me something to research. I thought the connection to Abraham Robinson of the Dorchester Company, who first landed in Annisquam and set up fishing stages in 1631, was fascinating.
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