Stories on this site about specific people

• Thomas Dennis, legendary Ipswich joiner
• Nathaniel Ward: “The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America”
• Abraham Knowlton, “Workman of rare skill”
• William Oakes and the great Ipswich putdown
• The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, 1679
• Arthur Wesley Dow
• Abigail Adams to John Adams: “All men would be tyrants if they could.”
• My father’s letter, Feb. 10, 1948
• George Washington returns to Mount Vernon, Christmas Eve 1783
• Meeting House Green plaque commemorates Lafayette’s visit to Ipswich
• Teddy Roosevelt’s Ipswich “whistlestop,” December 1912
• Paul Revere’s not so famous ride through Ipswich, December 13, 1774
• Death in a snowstorm, December 1, 1722
• Lieutenant Ruhama Andrews and the 1775 Battle of Quebec
• Fortitude, Rectitude and Attitude. Remembering the Life and Times of Ipswich Police Sergeant Frank Geist
• Nancy Weare
• The boy who fell beneath the ice
• Ipswich woman survived two train crashes on February 28, 1956!
• Elizabeth S. Cole elected as first female Ipswich selectman, March 10, 1970
• David Tenney Kimball, pastor of First Church, 1805 – 1855
• Portraits from Ipswich a century ago
• 1774: Ipswich mob attacks Loyalist Representative Dr. John Calef
• Nathan Dane
• General Michael Farley
• Mehitable Braybrook, who burned down Jacob and Sarah Perkins’ house, married John Downing and was arrested for witchcraft
• Thomas and Susan French of Ipswich, their sons and daughters
• Descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich
• Descendants of John and Judith Gator Perkins of Ipswich
• Homes of the Jewetts
• Homes of the descendants of Richard and Ursula Scott Kimball of Rattlesden, who settled in Ipswich
• Homes of the Lords
• Homes of the Manning family of Ipswich
• 300 years on Grape Island
• Luke and Elizabeth Perkins, notorious disturbers of the peace and a “wicked-tongued Woman”
• The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
• The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692
• President Washington visits Ipswich, October 30, 1789
• John Fiske, 1939-2021
• Thomas and Elizabeth Lull, the Caldwell sons and their descendants
• A Revolutionary Guest: John Adams’ letters from Ipswich
• The witchcraft accusations against Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge
• The hanging of Ezra Ross and Bathsheba Spooner, July 2, 1778
• Nancy’s Corner
• Sally Weatherall
• Sullivan’s Corner, the last years of the farm
• The “Little Old Lady from Ipswich” who was seen around the world
• Rachel Clinton arrested for witchcraft, May 28, 1692
• William Clancy, WWI hero
• Who Were the Agawam Indians, Really?
• The Ipswich Company, Massachusetts State Guard, 1942