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Tag: Ipswich Village

Pingrey’s Plain, the gallows lot

December 23, 2022March 23, 2023 Gordon Harris3 Comments
Pingrey's Plain, where the wicked were hung in Ipswich

Long before the intersection of Mile Lane and High Street became famous for the Clam Box, it was known as Pingrey’s Plain, and was where the wicked were hung.

Posted in Places, StoriesTagged 1700, Alice Keenan, hanging, Ipswich, Ipswich Village, pengry

Homes of the Jewetts

August 2, 2021February 27, 2023 Gordon Harris20 Comments
Jewett house, High St. Ipswich

Generations of the Jewett family made their homes on upper High Street, and the area near the Rowley town line came to be known as Ipswich Village.

Posted in Houses, PeopleTagged 1639, homes, Ipswich Village

Recollections of A Boy’s Life In The Village

July 23, 2019October 20, 2022 Gordon Harris3 Comments
Ipswich Village Schoolchildren

This story was written by Amos E. Jewett in 1945. At the time, he was 83 years old. having been born in Ipswich Village, near Rowley, on June 16, 1862. 

Posted in StoriesTagged Ipswich Village, Jewett, letters, Rowley

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