Stories on this site about specific people

• Jake Burridge, the sailor
• After electoral defeat, neither Adams President attended his successor’s inauguration
• 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
• Affidavit of Henry F. Dunnels of Ipswich, April 12, 1907
• 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”
• Joseph Stockwell Manning, a Civil War hero from Ipswich
• The defiant Samuel Appleton
• Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America, May 14, 1878
• 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
• 2018 Mary Conley Award
• 2017 Mary Conley Award
• Death in a snowstorm, December 1, 1722
• Ipswich mob attacks Loyalist Representative Dr. John Calef
• Freedom for Jenny Slew
• General Michael Farley
• Daniel Hovey