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==Etymology==
During the summer of 1606 French explorer, Samuel de Champlain visited Cape Ann for the second time. He came ashore in Gloucester for a peaceful encounter with some of the 200 Native Americans. Before leaving Gloucester, he drew a map of the Gloucester harbor, naming it as le Beau port. Eight years later, the English Captain [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]] named the area around Gloucester ''Cape Tragabigzanda'', after a woman he met while interned in Turkey as a prisoner of war.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Cape Ann |url=http://www.capeannmuseum.org/about/history-cape-ann/ |access-date=July 4, 2022 |website=Cape Ann Museum}}</ref> He had been taken as a [[prisoner of war]] and [[Slavery in the Ottoman Empire|enslaved in the Ottoman Empire]]
When Smith presented his map to [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], he suggested that Charles should feel free to [[geographical renaming|change any of the "barbarous names"]] (meaning the many [[List of Native American Place Names|Native American place names]] he had adopted) into English ones. The king made many such changes, but only four survive today. One was Cape Ann, which Charles named in honor of his mother, [[Anne of Denmark]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Stewart |first= George R. |author-link= George R. Stewart |title= Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States |url= https://archive.org/details/namesonlandhisto0000stew |url-access= registration |orig-year= 1945 |edition= Sentry edition (3rd) |year= 1967 |publisher= [[Houghton Mifflin]] |page= [https://archive.org/details/namesonlandhisto0000stew/page/38 38]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/lutherania/denmark.html|title=The Church of Denmark and the Anglican Communion|publisher=Project Canterbury|author=Rasmus Andersen|access-date=November 7, 2015}}</ref>
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