Ward emigrated to Massachusetts in 1634 an served for two years as the minister in Ipswich. His "Body of Liberties" established a code of fundamental principles of government. Ward's book "The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America" was published in England in 1647.
Category: People
Thomas Dennis, legendary Ipswich joiner
Arthur Wesley Dow’s images of Ipswich
The defiant Samuel Appleton
Theodore Wendel’s Ipswich
Abraham Knowlton, “Workman of rare skill”
Samuel Symonds, gentleman: complaint to Salem court against his two servants, 1661
Building wooden ships
Persecution of Quakers by the Puritans
Beginning in 1656, laws forbade any captain to land Quakers. Any individual of that sect was to be committed at once to the House of Correction, to be severely whipped on his or her entrance, and kept constantly at work, and none were suffered to speak with them. In Ipswich, Roger Darby his wife lived on High St, and were warned, fined and dealt with harshly.