Category: Andros Rebellion

Appleton's Pulpit Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission

The defiant Samuel Appleton

By Gordon Harris on September 17, 2019 • ( 6 Comments )

In 1687, a warrant was issued for the arrest of several Ipswich men for being “seditiously inclined and disaffected to his Majesty’s government.” The 62-year-old Major Samuel Appleton scorned the appearance of submission and remained imprisoned in the cold Boston Jail through the winter.

Tercentenary plaque, the Andros Rebellion Ipswich MA

The Ipswich Revolt of 1687

By Historic Ipswich on November 23, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )

On August 23, 1687, the citizens of Ipswich, led by the Reverend John Wise, denounced the levy of taxes by the arbitrary government of Sir Edmund Andros, and from their protest sprang the American Revolution of 1689.