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In 1697, the General Court of Massachusetts considered the first formal proposal to build the canal but took no action.[3] In 1717, a canal was created in Orleans, Massachusetts called Jeremiah's Gutter which spanned a narrower portion of the Cape some distance to the east, but it remained active only until the late 1800s. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (commissioned by George Washington),[4] 1791,[5] 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fruition.[citation needed]