Resources

• Archive.org
• Ipswich Public Library archives, complete list, PDF)
• Ipswich Public Library collections
• Ipswich Public Library online: Ipswich newspapers 1810 – 1999
• The Probate Records of Essex County (Haiti Trust)
  • Volume I 1634-1664
  • Volume II  1665-1674
  • Volume III 1675-1681
• Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society
• Town-Records: 1600 – 1916 (online through Town Clerk)
• Town Reports 1890 – present
• Harvard.edu Colonial Library: Ipswich
• Gordon Harris Ipswich town historian

Books

• Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by Thomas Franklin Waters
  • Volume I online at Archive.org
  • Volume II online at Archive.org
• Hammatt Papers: Early inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass. 1633-1700 by Abraham Hammatt
• Ipswich, Images of America (two volumes)
• Images of America:Ipswich Read online
  • Images of America:Ipswich Revisited Read online
• History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton by Joseph Felt Read at Google Books. Read at archive.org
• Something to Preserve by the Ipswich Historical Commission.
• The Agawam manual and directory: a directory of the Agawam district : first part, Ipswich, Rowley, and Hamilton, 1888 – Perley, M. V. B
• Directory of the Town of Ipswich, H. C. Waite, 1896

Other Recommended books and articles

• American Town, the History of Ipswich, Massachusetts Available in Print
• Ancient Records of Ipswich 1634 – 1650; at Archive.org; Available in Print
• Antiquarian Papers At Archive.org; Available in Print
• Archeological survey of Ipswich, Massachusetts edited by David R. Starbuck. Ipswich Public Library, Ipswich Room 974.4513 (not online)
• The Artisan of Ipswich Available in Print
• Bicycling on Boston’s North Shore
• Candlewood, an Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich Available in Print
• Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Town of Ipswich
• Charter of New England : 1620
• Charter of Massachusetts Bay : 1629
• Charter of Massachusetts Bay – 1691
• Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay – 1725
• The Confession of Flora Negro To the New-Gathered Congregational Church in Chebacco
• Commentaries on the laws of England : in four books by Sir William Blackstone 1723-1780
• Crochets of Division by Allison Vannah
• The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Publications of
• Country Houses Of Essex County, 1865-1930
• Danvers: View A separate listing for all historic books about Danvers MA.
• The Development of our Town Government, Thomas Franklin Waters
• The Early Homes of the Puritans by Thomas Franklin Waters
• Essex (Images of America) by Arcadia Publishing
• The Essex antiquarian (Volume 1)
  • The Essex antiquarian (Volume 1-2)
  • The Essex antiquarian (Volume 3-4)
  • The Essex antiquarian (Volume 5-6)
  • The Essex antiquarian (Volume 7)
  • The Essex antiquarian (Volume 7-8)
  • The Essex antiquarian (Volume 9-10)
  • The Essex antiquarian (Volume 11)
  • The Essex antiquarian (Volume 12-13)
• Everyday Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow
• Farmers & Fishermen
• Fine thread, lace and hosiery in Ipswich – Fewkes, Jesse At Archive.org
• First Period houses in Eastern Massachusetts
• The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
• Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts by Cutter, William Richard
  • Volume I
  • Volume II
  • Volume III
• Genealogy of the Willcomb Family of New England
•  A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
• A General History of New England; Hubbard, 1818
• The Genesis of the Massachusetts Town
• Glimpses of everyday life in old Ipswich, : Waters, Thomas Franklin
• Good Wives: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich read online
• Historic New England Magazine
• An historical address : delivered on the 140th anniversary of the organization of the South Church, Ipswich, Sunday, July 31, 1887, Waters, Thomas Franklin
• Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Index Volumes 1-60
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute volumes link at Hathi Trust
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 1 (archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 2 (Google Books)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volumes 3 (Google Books)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 4 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volumes 5-6 (Google Books)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 5 (Google Books)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 6 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volumes 7 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 8 (archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 9 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – volume 10 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 11 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 12 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 13 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 14 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 15 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 16 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 17 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 18 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 19 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute -Volume 20 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 21 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute -Volume 22 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 23 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 24 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 25 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute -Volume 26 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute -Volume 27 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 28 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 29 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 30 (Hathi Trust)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 31 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 32 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – volume 33 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 34 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 35 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 36 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 37 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 38 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 39 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 40 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 41 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 42 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 43 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 44 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 45 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 46 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 47 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 48 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 49 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 50 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 51 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 52 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 53 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 54 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 55 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 56 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 57 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 58 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 59 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 60 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 61 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 62 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – volume 63 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 64 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 65 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 66 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 67 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – volume 68 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 69 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 70 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 71 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 72 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 73 (Archive.org
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 74 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 75 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 76 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 77 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 78 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 79 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 80 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 81 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 82 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 83 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 84 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 85 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 86 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 87 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 88 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 89 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 90 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 91 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 92 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 93 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 94 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 95 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 96 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 97 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 98 (Archive.org)
  • Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Volume 99 (Archive.org)
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register
• History of Essex County by Duane Hamilton Hurd, 1885
• History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton by Joseph Felt Available in Print
• The History of Topsfield, by George Francis Dow
• The House on Ipswich Marsh Available in Print
• Ipswich (Images of America) Available in Print
• Images of America:Ipswich Revisited Available in Print
• The Indian land titles of Essex County, Massachusetts by Perley, Sidney
• Ipswich Days: Arthur Wesley Dow Available in Print
• Ipswich History 1634-1902 (from Genealogy of the Willcomb Family)
• Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Volume 1 at Archive.org Available in Print
• Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Volume 2 at Archive.org
• Ipswich 250th Anniversary Celebration
• Ipswich photos by Andrew Borsari Available in Print
• Ipswich Public Libarary Archives, Ipswich Room
• Ipswich Tiger yearbooks
• Ipswich Village and the Old Rowley Road by Thomas Franklin Waters Available in Print
• Ipswich Yesterday by Alice Keenan Available in Print
• A journal of the transactions and occurrences in the settlement of Massachusetts and the other New-England colonies, from the year 1630 to 1644, by John Winthrop
• King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict Shultz /Tougias Available in Print
• The Laces of Ipswich: 1750-1840 Available in Print
• Legends and Lore of the North Shore
• Life sketches of leading citizens of Essex County, 1898
• MACRIS, MHC through the Ipswich Historical Commission
• Marblehead: History and Traditions of Marblehead,” Samuel Roads Jr., 1880
• The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 1, 1908
  • The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 2, 1909
  • The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 3
  • The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 4
  • The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 5
  • The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 6
  • The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 7
  • The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 8
  • The Massachusetts Magazine, Volume 9-10
• Measuring Time…by an Hour Glass by Adelle Crocket Robertson Available in Print
  
• National Registry of First Period Houses in Eastern Massachusetts
• A Natural History of Boston’s North Shore
• The New England Historical and Geneaological RegisterVolumes 1-50
  • • The New England Historical and Geneaological Register Volume 28
    • The New England Historical and Geneaological Register Volumes 37-52
    • The New England Historical and Geneaological Register Volume 59
• The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts; with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton
• Old Ipswich, a magazine of local Genealogy and History
• The Orchard by Kitty Crocket Robertson Available in Print
• The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich Massachusetts
• People and Place: Oral Histories and Portraits of Ipswich Seniors
• Pictorial Ipswich
• Plum Island, Ipswich, Mass, Waters, Thomas Franklin
• Plum Island the Way it Was, Nancy Weare (view on this site)
• Publications and Collections of the Peabody Essex Museum
• Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society Volumes 1 – 6
  • Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society Volume 7
  • Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society Volume 12
  • Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society Volumes 8 – 15
  • Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society Volumes 13-15
  • Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society Volume 18
  • Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society Volumes 21 – 25
• The Puritan Way, by David E. Shi
•  Records of the Governor & Company of the Massachusetts bay in New England
  • Volume 1: Records of the General Court, 1628 to 1641
  • Volume 2: Records of the General Court, 1642 to 1649
  • Volume 3: Records of the House of Deputies, 1644 to 1657
  • Volume 4, Part 1: Records of the General Court: 1650 to 1660
  • Volume 4, Part 2: Records of the General Court: 1661 to 1674
  • Volume 5: Records of the General Court, 1674 to 1686
• Richard Irons: Restoring Antique Masonry
• Roadside Geology of Massachusetts
• Sand dunes and salt marshes by Charles Wendell Townsend
• The Simple Cobbler of Agawam
• A SKETCH OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF IPSWICH. THE SUBSTANCE OF A DISCOURSE, IN TWO PARTS, DELIVERED IN THAT TOWN, DECEMBER, 1820
• Sketch of the life of John Winthrop, the younger, founder of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1633 – Waters, FT
• Stories from the River’s Mouth Available in Print
• Topsfield Historical Society Historical Collections
• Town proprietors of the New England Colonies by Akagi, Roy Hidemichi
• The Transplantation and Transformation of the English Shire in America, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1768 (UNH dissertation by Pinkham, Harold Arthur, 1980)
• Vital Records of Ipswich to End of 1849 , by the Essex Institute
• Warning Out in New England by Josiah Henry Benton
• Wonder-Working Providence, Johnson (1910)

Beverly

• History of Beverly, Civil and Ecclesiastical: From Its Settlement in 1630 to 1842

Boxford

• Boxford Historic Houses by Sidney Perley

Essex

• History of the town of Essex : from 1634 to 1868 (Volume 1) – Crowell, Robert, 1787-1855
• Vital records of Essex, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849
• The History of the Town of Essex 1634 – 1700 Available in Print
• History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton by Joseph Felt Available in Print

Essex County

• Standard History of Essex County Massachusetts by Cyrus Mason Tracy
• The Transplantation and Transformation of the English Shire in America: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1768
• Wicked Puritans of Essex County
• Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
  • Volume 3
  • Volume 4
  • Volume 5
  • Volume 6
  • Volume 7
  • Volume 8

• The Probate records of Essex County, Massachusetts (Volume 1)
• The probate records of Essex County, Massachusetts (Volume 2)
• The Probate records of Essex County, Massachusetts (Volume 3)
• Municipal History of Essex County, Massachusetts Volume I
  • Municipal History of Essex County, Massachusetts Volume II
  • Municipal History of Essex County, Massachusetts Volume III
  • Municipal History of Essex County, Massachusetts Volume IV

Gloucester

• History of the Town of Gloucester Massachusetts by James Pringle, 1892
• The Fisherman’s Memorial and Record Book by George H. Proctor (1830 to 1873)
• Out of Gloucester by James B. Connoly (1902)

Hamilton

• History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton by Joseph Felt Available in Print
• The Agawam manual and directory : a directory of the Agawam district : first part, Ipswich, Rowley, and Hamilton – Perley, M. V. B.

Newbury-Newburyport

• Ould Newbury by John J. Currier
• The Colonial Book (Newburyport)
• A sketch of the history of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845, by Joshua Coffin
• History of Newbury, Mass 1635-1902 by John J. Currier

Rowley MA

• Publications of the Rowley Historical Society (Volume 1)
• The history of Rowley, anciently including Bradford, Boxford, and Georgetown, from the year 1639 to the present time – Gage, Thomas
• The early records of the town of Rowley, Massachusetts, 1639-1672 : being volume 1 of the printed records of the town
• Ipswich village and the old Rowley road – Waters, Thomas Franklin, 1851-1919
• Copy of the record of deaths of the First Church in Rowley, Mass. – Blodgette, George B. (George Brainard)
• The Agawam manual and directory : a directory of the Agawam district : first part, Ipswich, Rowley, and Hamilton – Perley, M. V. B.

Salem

• Architecture in Salem Massachusetts
• Old-time ships of Salem

Topsfield

• The historical collections of the Topsfield historical society
• Topsfield Historical Society Historical Collections
• Vol 1-2 (1895-96): The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 3-5: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 6-7: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 8: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 9-10: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 11-12 (1906-07): The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 13-14: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 15-16: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 17-18: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 19-20: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 21: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 22-24: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society
• Vol 25-26: The Historical collections of the Topsfield Historical Society