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Acknowlegements
- Thomas Franklin Waters: Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Vol. 1
- Thomas Franklin Waters: Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Vol. 2
- Joseph Felt: History of Ipswich, Essex and Hamilton
- Harold Bowen: Tales of Olde Ipswich
- Bill Varrell: Ipswich
- Bill Varrell:
- Ipswich RevisitedMargaret E. Welden, Ipswich Historical Commission, MACRIS site
- Alice Keenan, Ipswich Yesterday
- Melissa Berry
- Helen Breen
- Susan Howard Boice: Historic Ipswich
- Harold Bowen
- Prudence Fish
- John Fiske
- Paul McGinley
- Barbara Forster
- Alice Keenan
- Gavin Keenan
- Bruce Laing
- Mary Ellen Lepionka
- Charlotte Lindgren
- Beverly Perna
- Sam Sherman: Stories from the River’s Mouth
- Brian Townsend
- Alan Pearsall: American Town: The History of Ipswich Massachusetts
- Dozens of books about Ipswich available online
- Something to Preserve
- Town Reports, 1880 – 2014
- Ancient Records of the Town of Ipswich
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Hi Laurie, thanks for your comments. I have started a post about the house at 44 East St. at https://storiesfromipswich.org/roberts-house-44-east-st/. I would love to add any photos or additional information you might have.
Park at the Rite Aid parking lot at Lords Square to visit the First Period houses on upper High St.
I would like to visit the Joseph Fowler house and other points of interest in that area in the near future. Is there a good place to park for a shorter walk/photography undertaking of that nature?
Sorry, she gave me a copy but I don’t find it available online. It’s copyright 2009 by Charlotte Lindgren Winslow and was published by Lindgren & Reid Design, Reading MA.
Gordon, your mention of the book “life and lineage of Hilmer h. grace lindgren” sounds interesting. Is it available to read locally? Jim
I have no records of an Adams tavern in the Hamlet. On Nov. 20, 1790, John Jay travelled through Ipswich (including the Hamlet) on a trip from Boston to Exeter. John Adams often stayed at Treadwell’s Inn , but that was in the center of Ipswich. Could it be that they met there? https://ipswich.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/john-adams-ipswich/