Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Ipswich pastor Thomas Franklin Waters, founder of the Ipswich Historical Society, wrote the two volume set Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They are the authoritative source for research about the town from its early beginnings up to the 20th Century, and my copies are well-worn from use. The two volumes are online through Archive.org and I provide links below to each chapter: Part I Historical; Part II Houses and Lands

Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Vol. I: 1633-1700, published in 1905

• Part I: Historical 
  • Chapter 1: Primeval Agawam
  • Chapter II: The Coming of the English
  • Chapter III: Homes and Dress
  • Chapter Iv: Some Notable Settlers
  • Chapter V: The Development of our Town Government
  • Chapter VI: Common Lands and Commonage
  • Chapter VII; Trades and Employments
  • Chapter VIII: The Body Politic
  • Chapter IX: The Sabbath and the Meeting House
  • Chapter X: the Early Military Annals
  • Chapter XI: The Charter in Peril
  • Chapter XII: The Grammar School and Harvard College
  • Chapter XIII: King Philip’s War
  • Chapter XIV: Ipswich and the Andros Government
  • Chapter XV: Laws and Courts
  • Chapter XVI: Witchcraft
  • Chapter XVII: War of William and Mary and Other Indian Troubles
• Part II: Houses and Lands and Appendixes
  • Houses and Lands 
  • Appendix A: Names of the First Settlers
  • Appendix B: Some Early Inventories
  • Appendix C: Letters of Rev. Nathaniel Ward
  • Appendix D: Giles Firmin’s Letters
  • Appendix E: Letters of Samuel Symonds
  • Appendix F: A Valedictory and Monitory Writing by Sarah Goodhue
  • Appendix G: The narrative of Rev. John Wise
  • Index

Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Vol. II: 1700-1917, published in 1917

• Chapter I: The Beginnings of the 18th Century
• Chapter II: Queen Anne’s War
• Chapter III: Some Great Funerals
• Chapter IV: Inns and Innkeeprs and the Traffic in Strong Drink
• Chapter V: Laws, Courts and Judges
• Chapter VI: Division in the Parish. The Hamlet. Linebrook. The Great Awakening. The South Parish
• Chapter VII: Colonial Currency and the Land Bank
• Chapter VIII: The French and Indian or Seven Years War, 1755-1762 and The Acadians in Ipswich
• Chapter IX: Slaves, Servants and Apprentices
• Chapter X: Fishing and Commerce in the 18th Century
• Chapter XI: Trades and Employments in the 18th Century
• Chapter XII: Schools and School Masters of the 18th Century
• Chapter XIII: The Breach with Great Britain
• Chapter XIV: The Revolutionary War
• Chapter XV: After the Revolution
• Chapter XVI: The Poor and the Stranger Within the Gates
• Chapter XVII: The New Century. Wars and Rumors of Wars
• Chapter XVIII: The First Church after 1747
• Chapter XIX: The Linebrook Church, 1746
• Chapter XX: The South Church, 1747
• Chapter XXI: the Baptist Church, 1806
• Chapter XXII: The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1822
• Chapter XXIII: Schools and School Teachers in the 19th Century
• Chapter XXIV: The Ipswich Academy, Later Known as the Ipswich Female Seminary
• Chapter XXV: Ipswich, Seventy-Five Years Ago
• Chapter XXVI: Shipping and Sailors of the 19th Century
• Chapter XXVII: The Textile Industry
• Chapter XXVIII: The Unitarian Church, 1830
• Chapter XXIX: The Protestant Episcopal Church
• Chapter XXX: The Civil War, 1861-1865
• Chapter XXXI: Some Public Utilities, Roads and Bridges, Fire Department, Water and Light
• Chapter XXXII: Along Some Old Roads
• Chapter XXXIII: Ipswich, Then and Now
• Appendix I: A list of Soldiers and Sailors Credited to Ipswich in the French and Indian War
• Appendix II: Narrative of the Wreck of the Ship, “Dorchester” by Captain Eben Caldwell
• Appendix III: The roll of Ipswich Soldiers and Sailors in the Civil War, the Spanish War, 1898, and on the Mexican Frontier, 1916

Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society

The following papers were presented by Thomas Franklin Waters and other members of the Ipswich Historical Society during the late 19th and early 20th Century.

• I Order of Exercises at the Ipswich Town Hall
• II The President’s Address and Other Proceedings at the Dedication of their Room, Friday Feb. 3, 1896
• III Exercises at the Unveiling of the Memorial Tablets at the South Common, Ipswich, July 29,
• V The Early Homes of the Puritans
• Some Old Ipswich Houses
• VI Dedication of the Ancient House
• VII A Sketch of the Life of John Winthrop the Younger
• VIII The Development of our Town Government
• IX The Old Argilla Road
• X The History of the (Whipple) House
• X The John Whipple House and the People Who Have Owned It
• XI The Meeting House Green, and a Study of the Houses and Lands in that Vicinity
• XII Thomas Dudley, and Simon and Ann Bradstreet
• XII A Study of the Original House Lots on High Street
• XIII Fine Thread, Lace and Hosiery by Jessie Fewkes
• XIII Ipswich Mills and Factories
• XIV The Simple Cobbler of Agawam, (by Rev. Nathaniel Ward)
• XV A Genealogy of the Ipswich Descendants of Samuel Appleton
• XV The Old Bay Road from Saltonstall’s Brook and Samuel Appleton’s Farm
• XVI Candlewood, an Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich
• XVI Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Robert Kinsman
• XVI Genealogical Record of the Descendants of William Fellows of Ipswich
• XVI A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Brown of Ipswich
• XVII Fine Thread, Lace and Hosiery by Jessie Fewkes
• XVIII Jeffreys Neck, and the Way Leading Thereto
• XIX Ipswich Village and the Old Rowley Road
• XX The John Whipple House
• XXI Augustine Heard and His Friends
• XXII Plum Island
• XXIII The Chronicles of Ipswich during the War, 1917-1918
• XXIV The Ipswich River, its Bridges, Wharves and Industries
• XXV Glimpses of Everyday Life in Ipswich
• XXV Governor Thomas Dudley in Ipswich
• XXVI John Wise of Chebacco
• XXVI Michael Farley, First, Second and Third of Ipswich
• XXIX Memento Mori, the Old North Burying Ground