Stories on this site about specific people

• Joseph Ross, 19th Century Ipswich bridge builder
• The Ipswich Company, Massachusetts State Guard, 1942
• Captain Arthur H. Hardy, 1972
• Eunice Stanwood Caldwell Cowles
• The Amazing Story of Hannah Duston, March 14, 1697
• Haselelponah Wood
• Lord Timothy Dexter
• Daniel Denison
• The Clammer
• How I came to Ipswich
• A Wager on the Rooster
• Emma Jane Mitchell Safford
• Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the colony’s first published poet
• Persecution of Quakers by the Puritans
• Moll Pitcher, the fortune teller of Lynn and Marblehead
• Soffron Brothers Ipswich Clams
• Ralph W. Burnham, Antiques and Hooked Rugs
• John Updike, the Ipswich years
• “Preserve and protect”
• John Winthrop Jr., here and gone
• Drunkards, liars, a hog, a dog, a witch, “disorderly persons” and the innkeeper
• Sarah Goodhue’s advance directive, July 14, 1681
• The day Nute Brown crashed through the Choate Bridge
• Ipswich Red Raiders, “a melting pot of awesome contenders!”
• Jake Burridge, the sailor
• After electoral defeat, neither Adams President attended his successor’s inauguration
• “At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?”
• Names of the Ipswich slaves
• Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America, May 14, 1878
• Flawed people who did their best are back in town | Ipswich Local News
• A town of immigrants
• Ruth Strachan
• Early American Gardens
• “My grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson.”
• Lucy Kimball
• Ipswich Notable Persons
• Her name was Patience
• An Eulogy on the Illustrious Character of the late General George Washington
• Jack Helfant, the hermit of Sandy Point, 1962-67
• Madame Shatswell’s cup of tea
• Ipswich Caring
• Alexander Hamilton: “The Ultimate Object”
• Col. Nathaniel Shatswell and the Battle of Harris Farm
• Homes of the Lords
• Richard and Ursula Scott Kimball of Rattlesden, who settled in Ipswich
• Lafayette returns to Ipswich
• The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692
• Who Were the Agawam Indians, Really?
• A Revolutionary Guest: John Adams’ letters from Ipswich
• Col. Doctor Thomas Berry, “Last of the Ipswich Aristocracy”