Essex County

Amesbury (incorporated 1666 from Salisbury)
Andover (incorporated 1646)
Beverly (incorporated 1668 from Salem)
Boxford (incorporated 1685 from Rowley)
Bradford (incorporated 1668 from Rowley. Annexed by Haverhill 1897)
Danvers (incorporated 1757 from Salem)
Essex (incorporated 1819 from Ipswich)
Georgetown (incorporated 1838 from Rowley)
Gloucester (settled 1623)
Groveland (incorporated 1850 from Bradford)
Hamilton (incorporated 1793 from Ipswich)
Haverhill (founded 1640)
Ipswich (established 1634)
Lawrence (incorporated 1847 from Methuen and Andover)
Lynn (established 1629, named Lynn 1637)
Lynnfield (incorporated 1814 from Lynn)
Manchester-by-the-Sea (incorporated 1645)
Marblehead (incorporated 1635)
Merrimac (incorporated 1876 from Amesbury)
Methuen (incorporated 1725 from Haverhill)
Middleton (incorporated 1728 from surrounding towns—Salem, Topsfield, Andover, etc,)
Nahant (incorporated 1853 from Lynn)
Newbury (founded 1635)
-Byfield (a village of Newbury)
Newburyport (incorporated 1764 from Newbury)
North Andover (incorporated 1855 from Andover)
Peabody (incorporated 1855 from Danvers)
Rockport (incorporated 1840 from Gloucester)
-Pigeon Cove (a village of Rockport)
Rowley (founded 1639)
Salem (founded 1626)
Salisbury (established 1640)
Saugus (incorporated 1815 from Lynn)
Swampscott (incorporated 1852 from Lynn)
Topsfield (established 1650)
Wenham (settled 1638)
West Newbury (incorporated 1819 from Newbury)