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1874 engraving in The Illustrated London New showing Irish emigrants preparing to leave for the United States.

How the Irish Made Their Mark in New England

By Historic Ipswich on June 22, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

From the New England Historical Society: Over 50,000 men, women, and children of Irish descent were forcibly transported to British imperial colonies to serve as indentured labor. By 1790, there were 400,000 Americans of Irish birth or ancestry out of a population of 3.9 million.

Ipswich mill worker immigrant families

A town of immigrants

By Gordon Harris on February 11, 2017 • ( 6 Comments )

Puritans founded Ipswich during the “Great Migration” of the early 17th Century. Many residents of the town descend from immigrants who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to work in the mills.