

The first known post office in Ipswich was on North Main Street in the small red building across from First Church. It was built in 1763, probably as a barn or warehouse.
In 1775, a committee from Ipswich began meeting with other towns, from Newburyport to Danvers, regarding the establishment of a regular postal route. The Provincial Congress appointed a post office for Ipswich, and James Foster to be its keeper. The mail had been carried through Ipswich up to this time, carried by horseback on a route that took six days from Boston to Portsmouth and back again.
The Ipswich Post Office was established on May 4, 1775 with Deacon James Foster as Postmaster. Daniel Noyes succeeded him on Oct 5, 1775. He graduated at Harvard College in 1758, was the teacher of the Grammar School and was Representative to the Provincial Congress in 1774, 1775. After twenty-five years of continuous service, he was succeeded by Joseph Lord in 1800.




Ipswich Postmasters
James Foster | Postmaster | 10/11/1773 |
Daniel Noyes | Postmaster | 01/05/1776 |
Joseph Lord | Postmaster | 11/25/1800 |
Isaac Smith | Postmaster | 07/01/1805 |
Nathan Jaques | Postmaster | 09/14/1807 |
Ammi Smith | Postmaster | 10/05/1818 |
James H. Kendall | Postmaster | 08/10/1829 |
Stephen Coburn | Postmaster | 08/28/1832 |
John H. Varrell | Postmaster | 04/18/1861 |
Joseph L. Herman | Postmaster | 07/20/1865 |
John H. Cogswell | Postmaster | 01/03/1868 |
Edward P. Kimball | Postmaster | 08/02/1886 |
Luther Wait | Postmaster | 07/11/1890 |
George A. Schofield | Postmaster | 08/16/1894 |
George P. Smith | Postmaster | 05/04/1898 |
Olive P. Smith | Postmaster | 12/10/1900 |
Luther Wait | Postmaster | 04/22/1902 |
James H. Lakeman | Postmaster | 05/01/1914 |
Charles E. Goodhue | Postmaster | 01/31/1923 |
Sylvester D. Conley | Postmaster | 07/10/1935 |
Eugene Matheson | Acting Postmaster | 02/15/1944 |
Eugene Matheson | Postmaster | 03/16/1945 |
David DeMario | Acting Postmaster | 04/13/1959 |
David DeMario | Postmaster | 09/21/1959 |
Marlene A. Kinan | Officer-In-Charge | 12/19/1975 |
John M. Warren | Postmaster | 07/03/1976 |
Paul I. Chase | Officer-In-Charge | 11/30/1979 |
David E. Hyde | Postmaster | 03/08/1980 |
Linda L. Coan | Officer-In-Charge | 12/27/1989 |
J. R. D’Allocco | Postmaster | 10/19/1991 |
Deb Tinney | Officer-In-Charge | 02/20/1997 |
Peter Golden | Officer-In-Charge | 05/27/1997 |
David R. Gamache | Officer-In-Charge | 11/19/1998 |
James D. Lance | Postmaster | 03/27/1999 |
Michael C. Quinn | Postmaster | 10/13/2007 |