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Alice Keenan wrote, “When we moved to Ipswich, this lovely old town, its long history, ancient houses and interesting people became almost an obsession. Dry names and dates mean little to me until one firms out the flesh of the past, for it’s those long-ago people without whom Ipswich and its history would be dull.”

Joseph Ross Ipswich MA Joseph Ross, 19th Century Ipswich bridge builder
Ipswich Guard during WWII The Ipswich Company, Massachusetts State Guard, 1942
Arthur Hans Hardy killed in the Vietnam war Captain Arthur H. Hardy, 1972
Eunice Stanwood Caldwell Cowles
Hannah Duston The Amazing Story of Hannah Duston, March 14, 1697
Haselelponiah Wood, buried in the Old North Burying ground in Ipswich Haselelponah Wood
Lord Timothy Dexter's house in Newburyport Lord Timothy Dexter
Daniel Denison grave at the Old North Burying Ground in Ipswich Daniel Denison
Clammer photo by Coco McCabe The Clammer
Stone Soup on Market St. in Ipswich How I came to Ipswich
Flag flying atop First Church in Ipswich A Wager on the Rooster
Emma Safford, Ipswich MA Emma Jane Mitchell Safford
Ann Bradstreet, America's first published poet Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the colony’s first published poet
Persecution of Quakers Persecution of Quakers by the Puritans
Moll Pitcher, the fortune teller of Lynn and Marblehead
Soffron Brothers Ipswich Clams
Burnham's Hooked Rugs Ralph W. Burnham, Antiques and Hooked Rugs
John Updike at typewriter John Updike, the Ipswich years
“Preserve and protect”
John Winthrop Jr., here and gone
Drunk Puritans in Plymouth Colony Drunkards, liars, a hog, a dog, a witch, “disorderly persons” and the innkeeper
Valedictory of Sarah Goodhue of Ipswich Sarah Goodhue’s advance directive, July 14, 1681
The day Nute Brown crashed through the Choate Bridge
Ipswich Red Raiders, “a melting pot of awesome contenders!”
Jake Burridge, Ipswich MA Jake Burridge, the sailor
Presidential inauguration After electoral defeat, neither Adams President attended his successor’s inauguration
“At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?”
Names of the Ipswich slaves
Lucretia Brown Ipswich MA Mary Baker Eddy Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America, May 14, 1878
Flawed people who did their best are back in town | Ipswich Local News
Ipswich mill worker immigrant families A town of immigrants
Gordon Harris and Ruth Strachan Ruth Strachan
Early American Gardens
Slave stories “My grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson.”
Old photo of the Hart House Lucy Kimball
Ipswich Notable Persons
Ipswich MA sale of a Negro girl slave named Patience Her name was Patience
Eulogy for President George Washington by Rev. Eli Frisbee of Ipswich An Eulogy on the Illustrious Character of the late General George Washington
Jack Helfant, the hermit of Sandy Point Jack Helfant, the hermit of Sandy Point, 1962-67
Madame Shatswell’s cup of tea
Ipswich Caring
Federalist Papers, Hamilton's response to Objection XIV Alexander Hamilton: “The Ultimate Object”
Col. Nathaniel Shatswell and the Battle of Harris Farm
Thomas Lord house Ipswich Homes of the Lords
Richard and Ursula Scott Kimball of Rattlesden, who settled in Ipswich
General Lafayette Lafayette returns to Ipswich
Mathison painting, "Examination of a Witch" trial of Elizabeth Howe of Ipswich The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692
Who Were the Agawam Indians, Really?
Woodcut of John Adams A Revolutionary Guest: John Adams’ letters from Ipswich
Col. Doctor Thomas Berry, “Last of the Ipswich Aristocracy”
Joseph Manning of Ipswich in Civil War battlefield Joseph Stockwell Manning, a Civil War hero from Ipswich
Appleton's Pulpit Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission The defiant Samuel Appleton
Green Street Bridge and Water Street by Theodore Wendel Theodore Wendel’s Ipswich
masconomet tombstone The Bones of Masconomet
Truth quotes Portraits of Ipswich People Who Told the Truth
The Great Storm of 1815 Jane Hooper, the fortune-teller
1874 engraving in The Illustrated London New showing Irish emigrants preparing to leave for the United States. How the Irish Made Their Mark in New England
Grape Island Hotel, circa 1900, Ipswich MA 300 years on Grape Island
Choate Island and Rufus Choate
The Gerrymander is born in Essex County, February 11, 1812
Old Graveyard 1680, Essex MA The Body Snatcher of Chebacco Parish
Ipswich MA high school class of 1948 Class of ’48
Photograph by Clarence White of Arthur Wesley Dow Arthur Wesley Dow
Summer Street Ipswich MA circa 1900 Ipswich Genealogy Resources
Crocker snow of Ipswich, an aviation pioneer Crocker Snow, Aviation Pioneer
Paul Revere's ride handing out handbills Paul Revere’s not so famous ride through Ipswich, December 13, 1774
John Wise house Tercentenary sign, Essex MA The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
The Foster-Grant house on Summer Street in Ipswich 2018 Mary Conley Award
Paul McGinley and Cathleen McGinley of Ipswich 2017 Mary Conley Award
Death in a snowstorm, December 1, 1722
Cartoon portraying Loyalist John Calef as a calf Ipswich mob attacks Loyalist Representative Dr. John Calef
Freedom for Jenny Slew
Gravestone of Michael Farley General Michael Farley
Daniel Hovey's house on Tansey Lane Daniel Hovey
Rebecca Rawson The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, 1679
“We’re Here For a Good Time, Not For a Long Time.” Remembering the Celebrated Life of Ipswich Police Officer Ed Walsh.
The Battle of Middle Ground
Caldwell house, Ipswich MA Sarah Dillingham Caldwell
Abigail Adams to John Adams: “All men would be tyrants if they could.”
Samuel Symonds, gentleman: complaint to Salem court against his two servants, 1661
Plum Island the Way it Was Nancy Weare
Norman Rockwell Depicted an Idealized Version of American Thanksgiving
Nancy Astor, Hamilton MA Nancy’s Corner
farm family in Ipswich MA Horses and Equestrians
Henry David Thoreau;s cabin Thoreau July Bicentennial Celebrated in Concord and Around the World
Abbot Cummings, Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay Abbott Lowell Cummings, author of “The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay”
Moses Jewett house, 307 High St. Homes of the Jewetts
JFK was greeted enthusiastically throughout Ireland during his 1963 visit. A St. Patrick’s Day Reflection
Living descendants of the Agawam Indians Living Descendants of the Native Americans of Agawam
Portraits from Ipswich at the turn of the 20th Century Portraits from Ipswich, a century ago
The Man in Full: Honoring the Life and Times of Ipswich Police Officer Officer Charles B. Schwartz
Martin Luther King An MLK Day Reflection – “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Lowell Offering, publication of mill workers in Lowell MA The Lowell Offering
George Washington at Mount Vernon for Christmas George Washington returns to Mount Vernon, Christmas Eve 1783
William Clancy, WWI hero
Statue of Edgar Allen Poe in Boston Remembering Poe
Teddy Roosevelt’s “whistlestop” in Ipswich, 1912
The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward Nathaniel Ward: The Simple Cobbler of Agawam in America
1910 Ipswich Census 1910 Ipswich census and maps
Thomas Dennis house, County Street, Ipswich MA Thomas Dennis, legendary Ipswich joiner

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