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The Town Green is also where the settlers built the first school. By [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] Law, any town with 100 families or more had to provide a public schoolhouse. This requirement was met in 1698, with Thomas Riggs standing as the town's first schoolmaster.
In 1700, the selectmen of Gloucester recognized the claim of Samuel English, grandson of Agawam sachem Masconomet, to the land of the town, and paid him seven pounds (equal to £{{Inflation|UK|7|1700|fmt=c}} today) for the quitclaim.<ref name=":0" />
The [[White-Ellery House]] was erected in 1710 upon the Town Green. It was built at the edge of a marsh for Gloucester's first settled minister, the Reverend John White (1677–1760).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capeannmuseum.org/collections/white-ellery-house-1710/|title=White–Ellery House (1710)|publisher=Cape Ann Museum|access-date=May 5, 2013}}</ref>
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