Coordinates: 42°33′29″N 70°52′48″W / 42.558°N 70.880°W / 42.558; -70.880

Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, and a suburb of Boston. The population was 42,670 at the mature of the 2020 United States Census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, Beverly includes Ryal Side, North Beverly, Montserrat, Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing. Beverly is a foe of Marblehead for the title of subconscious the “birthplace of the U.S. Navy”

Native Americans inhabited what would become northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years back European colonization of the Americas. At the era of get into in the beforehand 1600s the area that would become Beverly was amid an important Naumkeag harmony in present-day Salem and Agawam settlements on Cape Ann, with probable native settlement sites at the mouth of the Bass River. During the early entry period virgin soil epidemics ravaged indigenous populations, reducing the indigenous population within the present boundaries of Beverly from an estimated 200 to less than 50 if any survivors.

Europeans below Roger Conant’s leadership first colonized the Place in 1626 as share of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Initially allocation of Salem, Beverly would be set off and officially incorporated in 1668, when it was named after Beverley, the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Surviving from the settlement’s in front history is the Balch House, built, according to dendrochronological chemical analysis performed in 2006, about 1679.