Stories on this site about specific people

• 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
• Who Were the Agawam Indians, Really?
• John Adams’ letters from Ipswich
• Col. Doctor Thomas Berry, “Last of the Ipswich Aristocracy”
• Joseph Stockwell Manning, a Civil War hero from Ipswich
• The defiant Samuel Appleton
• Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America
• Theodore Wendel’s Ipswich
• Soffron Brothers Ipswich Clams
• The Bones of Masconomet
• Portraits of Ipswich People Who Told the Truth
• Jane Hooper, the fortune-teller
• How the Irish Made Their Mark in New England
• 300 years on Grape Island
• Choate Island and Rufus Choate
• The Gerrymander is born in Essex County, February 11, 1812
• The Body Snatcher of Chebacco Parish
• Class of ’48
• Arthur Wesley Dow
• Ipswich Genealogy Resources
• Crocker Snow, Aviation Pioneer
• Paul Revere’s not so famous ride through Ipswich, December 13, 1774
• The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
• Early American Gardens
• 2018 Mary Conley Award
• 2017 Mary Conley Award
• Death in a snowstorm, December 1, 1722
• Ipswich mob attacks Loyalist John Calef
• Freedom for Jenny Slew
• General Michael Farley
• Daniel Hovey
• “At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?”
• The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, 1679
• “We’re Here For a Good Time, Not For a Long Time.” Remembering the Celebrated Life of Ipswich Police Officer Ed Walsh.
• The Battle of Middle Ground
• Sarah Dillingham Caldwell
• Abigail Adams to John Adams: “All men would be tyrants if they could.”
• Samuel Symonds, gentleman: complaint to Salem court against his two servants, 1661
• Nancy Weare
• Norman Rockwell Depicted an Idealized Version of American Thanksgiving
• Nancy’s Corner
• Horses and Equestrians
• Last Roundup at the Lazy-K Ranch
• Thoreau July Bicentennial Celebrated in Concord and Around the World
• Abbott Lowell Cummings, author of “The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay”
• Homes of the Jewetts
• A St. Patrick’s Day Reflection