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Welcome to Ipswich. Ipswich, thirteen miles north of Salem, was home to one woman hanged for witchcraft in 1692, Elizabeth How (alternately spelled Howe), and was the location of one of four jails used to imprison the accused (the others being Salem, Boston, and Cambridge). One of the most important and well-to-do towns in the Massachusetts Bay ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Ipswich, town (township), Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Ipswich River (there bridged since 1764), 28 miles (45 km) north-northeast of Boston. Settled in 1633 as Agawam, it was incorporated in 1634 and renamed for Ipswich, England. Lace making, the town’s first
Early Settlers of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Please add the profile for early settlers (first families) to this project, and also, hyperlink them below, if you can. Ipswich is located in central Essex County and is 11 miles (18 km) south of Newburyport, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Gloucester, 13 miles (21 km) north of Salem, 20 miles (32 km ...
On May 6, 1635, before the settlers had moved from Ipswich to Newbury, the House of Deputies passed a resolution that Quascacunquen was to be established as a plantation and its name was to be changed to Newbury. So Newbury was named before the first settlers arrived, interestingly Thomas Parker had taught school in Newbury, Berkshire, England ...
May 21, 2009 · Genealogy of the Fo(r)ster family; descendants of Reginald Foster, who settled in Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. A.D. 1638 by Forster, Edward Jacob, 1846-1896.
Feb 22, 2024 · John Cogswell of Chebasco later settled in Ipswich, Ma. William Furber settled in Dover NH; lived at Bloody point from 1666to 1671. He originally had a grant of two house lots, granted in 1610 in England. In 1657, he received 30 acres of the 400 reserved to the town of Dover [this was shortly after Dover came under the control of the ...
Esther Fowler (married Jothniel Bird, and (Robert Collins) Joseph Fowler (1629, married Martha Kimball) Thomas Fowler (1636, married Hannah Jordan) They arrived in New England in May, 1634, and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was admitted a on freeman, September 3, 1634. In 1651, he adopted Philip, the son of his son Joseph and wife Martha.
