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PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 VIII 
 
 The Development of our town 
 Government 
 
 AND 
 
 Common Lands and Commonage. 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, 
 
 December 4, 1899. 
 
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 VIII 
 
 THE Development of our Town 
 Government 
 
 AND 
 
 Common Lands and commonage. 
 
 By T. Frank Waters. 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, 
 
 December 4, 1899. 
 
 Salem press : 
 The Salem Press Co., Salem. Mass. 
 

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 
 
 It was an easy matter, we imagine, for the little handful of original settlers to talk 
 over their affairs and agree on measures of public policy. They might have gathered 
 in a body and selected a spot for their meeting house, located the earliest roads and 
 apportioned themselves home lots and tillage lands. The simplest form of pure de- 
 mocracy was adequate to all their needs ; but, as their number increased, some system 
 of representative government was found necessary. 
 
 The first public official appointed was the Clerk. As the Town Record begins with 
 November, 1634, the Recorder or Clerk had been chosen before that date. The "lot- 
 layers" also appear at this time, a Committee to which was referred the delicate task 
 of assigning lands : Henry Short, John Perkins, Robert Mussey and John Gage. The 
 grants, however, were determined in open meeting, and the function of the lot-layers 
 was merely to determine locations, and fix "by metes and bounds" the lot apportioned. 
 
 "The seven men" are first mentioned under the date Feb. 20, 1636/7, but they are 
 alluded to in such an incidental way, that it would seem that they were already an es- 
 tablished feature of tOAvn polity. This first board of government consisted of Mr. 
 John Winthrop, Mr. Bradstreet, Mr. Denison, Goodman Perkins, Goodman Scott, 
 John Gage and Mr. Wade, and they were chosen to order business for the next three 
 months. Mr. Denison was chosen to keep the Town Book, enter the Town orders, and 
 "set a copy of them up in ye meeting house." He was to keep a record of land grants 
 as well, and a fee of sixpence for every entry was granted him. 
 
 But the sturdy democracy seems to have been suspicious of detriment to its own 
 power and dignity, accruing from the new officials, and forthwith they proceeded 
 to hedge in their authority by ordering that "they shall have no power to grant any 
 land in that which is commonly reputed and accounted the Cow Pasture, nor above twen- 
 ty acres in any other place." The older board of lot-layers was made to feel its subser- 
 vience to the popular will, by the addition of Mr. Appleton. Serg.' Howlett, John Perkins 
 andThos. Scott to assist them in laying out the large grants made to "Mr. Dudley, Mr. 
 Bradstreet and Mr. Saltingstall" before the H"' of May 1637. 
 
 "The seven men" seeui to have become "the eleven men" in January 1637/8, but 
 in 1639, "the seven men" reappear, and in Feb. 1640/1, their term of office is specified 
 as six months. Mr. Hubbard, Capt. Denison, Jo: Whipple, Good. Giddings, Mark 
 Symonds, John Perkins and Mr. William Payne were then chosen "for the Town's 
 business for six months, provided that they give noe lands, nor meddle with dividing 
 or stinting the Commons." Thus the lengthening of the term of service was balanced 
 by curtailing their authority in regard to lands. In 1642, further "direction to sim- 
 
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4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 
 
 plify the Town business" was desired, and a committee consisting of the two magis- 
 trates, the elders, Mr. Giles Firman and George Giddings was appointed "to prepare 
 for the next meeting of the freemen, what they shall think meet for yearly mainte- 
 nance and for the way of raysing of it." 
 
 In Feb. 1643/4, Robert Lord was chosen by the Town, "from this time forward 
 to be present at every general meeting of the ToAvn, and of the freemen and of the 
 seven men, and to record in a book what is committed to him by [ ] Moderator of 
 every such meeting, and to tend in some convenient time before the end of the meet- 
 ing to read over what is written, and he is to have [ ] third parts of the fines for 
 not appearing at meetings, for this service." He was termed Recorder, but the du- 
 ties of his office were very similar to those of the Town Clerk of later days. 
 
 Glimpses are had here of the rigor with which the body of voters directed its 
 own action. In 1648, in general Town meeting, it was ordered that all the inhabi- 
 tants of the Town that shall be absent from tlie yearly meeting, or any other where- 
 of they have lawful Avarning, shall forfeit a shilling. Robert Lord earned his two- 
 thirds no doubt, for his duties included ringing the bell, calling the roll, and collecting 
 the forfeit. Twelve freemen were soon called upon to pay a fine of 12'^ a piece for 
 absence. 
 
 In 1643, the tenure of office was extended to a year, and in 1650, the seven men 
 were called by the familiar name of selectmen. In that year, the elective officials 
 were Selectmen, two Constables, four Surveyors, and a Committee of Five " to make 
 the elders' rates," or, in plainer language, to apportion the tax for the support of the 
 ministry. Mr. Robert Payne had been appointed Committee or Treasurer for the 
 Town in May, 1642, but it does not seem to have been an annual elective office. 
 
 Road-surveyors were ai pointed in January, 1640/1, and the men appointed to 
 that office were Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Symonds, Mr. Payne, and Robert Andrews, four 
 of the most substantial citizens. The roads were hardly more than cart-paths, grass- 
 grown, except in the wheel ruts. In some localities the unused portion of the public 
 way was sufficiently broad to pay for its own maintenance. Thus, in 1640, "The 
 haye upon Chebacco waye toward Labour-in-vain Creeke [now known as the Argilla 
 road] was granted John Lee, this year only, the land itself being settled for a high- 
 way, the Town intending that by like grant he shall enjoy it, he giving no cause to 
 the contrary, it remaining in the Town's hand to give or not to give." 
 
 It was also voted, that same year, that " the highway to Chebacco beneath Heart- 
 break Hill forever be repayred by the benefit of the grass yearly growing upon the 
 same;" and John Leigh (whose name is still associated with " Leigh's Meadow," as 
 the older people among us still call the meadow land, owned by Mr. George Haskell on 
 the south side of the Argilla road) was " to enjoy all profits of the highway, and all 
 the common ground lying at the foot of Heart-break Hill, maintaining the highway 
 from Rocky Hill [now owned by Mr. Moritz B. Philipp], to William Lampson's lot;" 
 " and if there be any ground that may conveniently be planted, he hath liberty to 
 plant it and secure it for himself, he always leaving a sufficient highway for carting 
 and drift." 
 
 Within the memory of a venerable lady still living. Green Lane, as Green Street 
 was then called, was a grassy lane with a number of different ruts. Travel was chiefly 
 
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 
 
 on horseback, and the heavy farm teaming was done in two-wheeled carts or tum- 
 brils, drawn by oxen. Four-wheeled vehicles were almost unknown. In many spots 
 the roads were wet and muddy from the outflow of springs. The present Mineral 
 Street, originally Dirty Lane, was a proverbially miry thoroughfare, from its near- 
 ness to the swampy lands, that are still low and wet. The deep deposit of leaf mould, 
 which had accumulated for ages, made it difficult to maintain a passable road in many 
 quarters, no doubt. 
 
 To keep these primitive highways in fair condition was no mean task in itself. 
 But the highway surveyor had other duties. The lines of roadway were not defined 
 with any accuracy. It was easy for landholders to push out their fences and claim 
 portions of the common highway, and the surveyor was bound to detect such encroach- 
 ments and determine their extent. Men of the finest quality were needed for this 
 and other delicate tasks, and large powers were given them, as the regulations adopted 
 in 1641 indicate. 
 
 1. " Agreed that road-ways and general ways be done first." 
 
 2. " That people work the whole day." 
 
 3. " That defaulters shall forfeit the value of their wages double, both carts 
 and workmen : carts to have reasonable warning." 
 
 4. " If any man hath 24 hours warning, 't is sufficient, unless his excuse be 
 allowed by one of the surveyors." 
 
 5. " All youths above 14 years of age are to work in this common business. It 
 is intended such as doe comonly use to work." 
 
 6. " That the surveyors are to take notice themselves and information of others 
 of encroachment of all ways, and also of annoyances etc — and to bring the same to 
 the Town to be punished." 
 
 7. " For every day's default, the forfeit is in Summer S** 4<i, in Winter 2^ G'^; for 
 defect of a team each day is in Summer 13' 4<i, in Winter 10^" 
 
 To execute these regulations required much discretion. That fifth article alone 
 was enough to involve tlie unhappy surveyor in much difficulty, if he failed to recog- 
 nize the dignity of some fourteen-year-old son of a sensitive family. 
 
 To these responsible duties were added, " making up and keeping the wall about 
 the Meeting House in repair " (1650), and " repairing the highway leading to Chebacco 
 and to Castle Neck, that is, beyond that part of the way that John Leigh hath under- 
 taken" (1650). They were instructed, in 1651, to "appoint a considerable company 
 of men to fell the small wood upon the Eastern side of Jeffries Neck, to prepare it 
 for sowing to hay seed;" and in 1653, Mr. Hodges, with one other surveyor calling 
 John Perkins Sen. with them, were ordered to " call out 40 of the Inhabitants to goe 
 to Jefi*ry's Neck with hoes, to hoe up weeds that spoil the Neck and sow some grass 
 seeds." The surveyors have power also to call out all the Town for one day's work, 
 both men and teams, " to the filling up of a wharf, and mending the street against it." 
 
 Next to the question of roads and highways, their location, bounds and mainte- 
 nance, was the great matter of the common lands, which were held by the house- 
 
b THE DEVELOPMEXT OF OUR TOWy GOVERSMEXT. 
 
 holders in common, and used for pasturage, and supplies of fuel and timber. This 
 was a relic of the ancient system of land-holding in Germany and England, and was 
 reverted to naturally in the primitive colonial life from the necessities of the situa- 
 tion. 
 
 In November. 1634. it was agreed that " the length of Ipswitch should extend 
 westward unto [ ] buryinge place, and Eastward unto a Cove of the River, unto the 
 planting ground of John Pirkings the Elder.'" The cove here mentioned is that below 
 the wharves, where East street touches the River ; John Perkins Sen. owned land on 
 the opposite side of the street. Beyond these limit*, the land was held in common. 
 It was further specified that -the Neck of land adjoining Mr. Robert Coles extend- 
 ing unto the sea shall remayne for common use unto the Town forever." This may 
 mean Manning's Neck or JeflFrey's. or even both. '-The Necke of land, whereuppon 
 the Great Hill standeth. w'ch is known by the name of Castle Hill." was likewise re- 
 served. This vote, however, was revoked when Castle Hill was granted Mr. John 
 Winthrop Jan. 13, 1637/{< •• provided that he lives in the Town, and that the Town 
 may have what they shall need for the building of a fort." 
 
 To define this common land, and separate it effectually from the Town proper, a 
 fence was necessary, and the Town voted in January. 1637/S " that a general fence 
 shall be made from the end of the town to Egypt River, with a sufficient fence, and 
 also from the East end of the Town in The way to Jeffries Neck, from the fence of 
 John Perkins to the end of a creek in the marsh near land of Wt Foster, to be done 
 at the charge of all those that have land ■within the said compass, and by them to be 
 maintained.'' On the south side of the River, this fence was near Heart-break Hill, 
 (l<?5<:i) and it extended across to the present County street, near the line of the brook, 
 as seems probable from ancient deeds. Liberty was granted to fell trees for this 
 pur{>ose. and it may have been built easily of logs, piled zigzag fashion, as pasture 
 fences are still built in wooded regions. As early as 1639, a special Committee was 
 chosen to view this fence, the original " Fence Viewers," who are still elected at the 
 March town meeting. Their fimction was of the highest importance. 
 
 The principal use of these common lands was for pasturage. Johnson, in his 
 Wonder Working Providence, observes that the cattle had become so numerous in 
 1646 that many hundred quarters of beef were sent to Boston from Ipswich every 
 autumn. Swine and sheep had also increased rapidly. Every day these great herds 
 were driven out into the commons to find rich and abundant forage in the woods, and 
 along the sedgy banks of ponds and streams. The common fence was necessary to 
 keep them from straying back into the cultivated fields. Any breach in it might in- 
 volve great loss in growing crops, at a time when a scarce harvest was a very serious 
 menace to the health and comfort of the little community. No wonder they chose 
 men of the greatest sobriety and careftilness for the responsible duty of vlewin*'- 
 and having charge of this rude fence. 
 
 Their duties became even more onerous we may presume after the year 1653 when, 
 in accordance with the order from the General Court, the town ordered '-that all per- 
 sons, concerned and living in Ipswich shall, before April 20^ have their fences in a 
 good state (except farms of one hundred acres) made of pales well nailed or pinned, 
 or of five rails well fitted, or of stone wall three and a half feet high at least, or with 
 
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OCR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 7 
 
 a ditch three or four feet wide, with a substantial bank, having two rails or a hedge, 
 or some equivalent, on penalty of 5s. a rod and 2s a week for each rod while neglected." 
 
 These herds of large and small cattle needed to be watched lest they should stray 
 away into the wilderness, or be assailed by wolves. For this service, the cowherd and 
 shepherd and swine-herd were essential, and thus we find the town officials of England 
 in the Middle Ages again in vogue in our midst. Prof. Edward A. Freeman in his In- 
 troduction to American Institutional History ' aptly observes : 
 
 "Tiie most notable thing of all, yet surely the most natural thing of all, is that the 
 New England settlers of the 17th century, largely reproduced English institutions in 
 an older shape than they bore in the England of the seventeenth century. They gave 
 a new life to many things, which in their older home had well nigh died out. The 
 necessary smallness of scale in the original settlements was the root of the whole 
 matter. It, so to speak, drove them back for several centuries. It caused them to 
 reproduce in not a few points, not the England of their own day, but the England of 
 a far earlier time. It led them to reproduce in mauj' points the state of things in old 
 Greece and in medieval Switzerland." 
 
 In the earliest contract with the cowherds mentioned in our Town Records, un- 
 der date of Sept. 1639, agreement was made with Wra. Fellows to keep the herd of 
 cows on the south side the river, from the 20th of April to the 20th of November. He 
 was bound "to drive them out to feed before the sunne be half an hour high, and not 
 to bring them home before half an hour before sunset." He was to drive the cattle, 
 "coming over the River, back over the River at night," and to take charge of them "as 
 soon as they are put over the River in the morning." He was liable for all danger 
 coming to the cattle, either by leaving them at night or during the day, and was to re- 
 ceive 12 pence for each cow before he took them, a shilling and sixpence fourteen days 
 after midsummer and the rest at the end of the term in corn or money, a total of £15. 
 
 The cows on the north side of the river were herded by themselves in 1640, and 
 Wm. Fellows, Mark Quilter and Symon Tompson were the cow-keepers, receiving them 
 at Mr. Norton's gate. In 1643, the cows were gathered, "over against Mr. Robert 
 Payne's house," i. e. at the corner of High and Market streets. The cowherds were 
 instructed in 1647, at "the first opportunity to burn the woods, and to make a Bridge 
 over the River to Wilderness Hill,"- and all herdsmen were ordered "to winde a 
 horn before their going out." Theherds were driven out, partly "over Sanders", i. e. 
 over Sanders's brook on the Topsfleld road, and partly up High street. The oAvners 
 of cows were bound to provide men to relieve the coAvherds every other Sabbath 
 day. The herdsmen warned two on Friday night for each Sabbath day and refusal 
 to do the service required was punishable with a fine of three sliillings for each in- 
 stance of neglect. In 1649, Daniel Riuge was ordered to " attend on the green before 
 Mr. Rogers house " (the South Green) and the cowherd was obliged to keep the herd 
 one Sunday in four. 
 
 The whole time and attention of the cowherd and his assistants were regulated 
 
 1 Johns Hopkins University Studies, 1. 
 
 - This was the name of a hill near the present line of division between Essex and Ipswich, in 
 the vicinity of Haffield's Bridge. The name is still remembered in connection with the range of 
 hills on the east side of the Candlewood road, near Sagamore Hill. 
 
8 THE DEVELOPMENT OF ODR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 
 
 by law. By order of the General Court in 1642, the " prudentiall " men of each town 
 were instructed " to take care of such [children] as are sett to keep cattle be set to 
 some other employment withal, as spinning upon the rock,' knitting, weaving tape, 
 etc., and that boys and girls be not suffered to converse together so as may occasion 
 any wanton, dishonest or immodest behaviour." Wm. Synionds needed a special 
 permit in 1653, before he could cut two parcels of meadow in the common, near 
 Capt. Turner's Hill, while he kept the herd. 
 
 " No great cattle, except cows and working cattle in the night," were allowed on 
 the cow commons and any mares, horses or oxen found in the commons two hours 
 after sunrising, might be driven to the Pound by the finder (1639). 
 
 The cowherd's recompense varied from year to year, but was always a modest 
 return for his service. Hauiel Hosworth contracted in 1661 to keep the herd on the 
 north side of the river for thirteen shillings a week, " a peck of corn a head at their 
 going out, one pound of butter or half peck of wheat in June, and the rest of his 
 pay at the end of his time, whereof half to be paid in wheat or malt; the pay to be 
 brought to his house within six days after demanded or else to forfeit 6d a head 
 more." " Agreed with Henry Osborn to join Bosworth to keep the cows on the same 
 terms. One of them to take the cows in Scott's lane and to blow a horn at the meet- 
 ing-house green in the morning." In 1670, the town voted that every cow of the 
 herd should wear a bell and the early morning air was full of rural music, with low- 
 ing cows, tinkling bells and the sounding blasts upon the cowherd's horn. 
 
 Swine caused more trouble than the great cattle. Certain sections of the com- 
 mon lands were set apart for their special use. In 1639 it w^as agreed with Robert 
 Wallis and Thomas Manning to keep four score hogs upon Plum Island from the 10th 
 of April " until harvest be got in ;" " and that one of them shall be constantly there 
 night and day, all the tyme, and they are to carry them and bring them home, pro- 
 vided those that own them send each of them a man to help catch them, and they are 
 to make troughs to water them in, for all which paynes and care they are to have 12 
 penc a hogg, at the entrance, 2 shillings a hogg at mid summer, for so many as are 
 then living, and 2 shillings a hogg for each hogg they shall deliver at the end of har- 
 vest." A herd of swine is alluded to in 1640 on Castle Neck and on Hogg Island. 
 
 But many of the inhabitants preferred to keep their hogs nearer home, and as the 
 idea of confining them in pens about the premises had not been conceived, they were 
 driven out into the commons to graze. A good two miles was to separate them from 
 the town, and for any big pigs found within that limit the owners were liable to pay 
 a forfeit of five shillings apiece ; but it was "provided that such small pigs as are 
 pigged after P' of February shall have liberty to be about the Town, not being liable 
 to pay any damage in house lots or gardens, but if any hurt be done in house lots and 
 gardens, the owner of the fence through which they came shall pay the damage. 
 The pigges have liberty until 16 August next." 
 
 " The pigges" used their liberty injudiciously, and brought upon themselves the 
 severer edict of 1645, that no hogs should run in the streets or commons without 
 
 1 Mrs. Alice Morse Earle in " Home Life in Colonial Days," page 178, says that the hand distaff, 
 upon which thread was spun, was called a " rock." 
 
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT. » 
 
 being yoked and ringed. Finally the town undertook the care of the hogs on the 
 same basis as the cows. Contract was made with Wm. Clark in 1652 to keep a herd of 
 hogs from the 26th of April to the last of October, " to drive them out to their feed 
 in the Commons, being all ringed, between seven or eight of the clock, to have 12 
 shillings per week, six pence for every head." Hogs were to be brought to Mr. 
 Payne's corner, and the owners were ordered " to find for every six hogs one to help 
 keep them till they be wanted." 
 
 The next year, Abraham Warr and the son of Goodman Symmes were the swine 
 herds, and they were expected to take them at the Meeting House Green and drive one 
 herd through the street by Mr. P . . . (probably High St.) , the other out at Scott's Lane 
 (the present Washington St.). Robert Whitman also was commissioned to keep a herd 
 of hogs on the north side, " he and his boy to keep out with them until 4 o'clock in the 
 afternoon, to drive them out presently after the cows, — his boy has liberty to leave 
 the hogs at one o'clock." This swine-herd, Whitman, is mentioned in the record of 
 1644 as the keeper of the goat herd on the north side. 
 
 Sheep were kept on Jeffries Neck, and liberty was given sheep owners in 1656 to 
 "fence in about half an acre of ground there for a year to keep their sheep in nights," 
 and it was also ordered that " one able person out of every family shall work one day 
 in May or June as they shall be ordered, to help clear the commons for the better 
 keeping of sheep, upon a day's warning." Robert Roberts was the shepherd on Jef- 
 fries Neck in 1661 from April 8th till the end of October and his wages were £13. 
 Robert Whitman was paid 10 shillings a week to keep another flock on the north side 
 of the river. In 1662 there were three shepherds and the commons on the south side 
 were so burdened that one hundred sheep were transferred to the north side. By 
 vote of 1702 the shepherds were required to have cottages adjoining the sheep-walks 
 so as to be near their flocks. Felt says that it was the custom for each shepherd to 
 put his flock in the pen every Friday afternoon, that the owners might take what they 
 Tieeded for family use and for market. 
 
 Another public functionary of no small dignity was the Town Crier, whose task 
 it was to proclaim with loud voice any announcement of public importance. The first 
 allusion to this ofticial occurs in the year 1640, when it was voted that " Ralph Varn- 
 ham, for ringing the bell, keeping clean the meeting house and publishing such things 
 as the toAvn shall appoint sliall have for his paynes, of every man for the year past 
 whose estate is rated under 100£ 6<i, from 100 to 500£ W^, and upward 18^; the like 
 for this year to come." Henceforward the Town Crier was elected annually. 
 
 Commendable care for the neat and tidy appearance of the public thoroughfares 
 was manifested in the vote of March, 1645, that Robert Lord "keep the streets clear of 
 wood and timber under penalty 12'^ the load and as proportionable for more or less for 
 lying or standing above three days in any of the streets or lanes," and in 1652 the town 
 
 " Ordered, that all dung-hills lying in the streets shall be removed by the 20"i of 
 October and from that time noe dung hills to be layed in the streets under the penalty 
 of 10^" A stringent prohibition of felling any shade trees in the streets or high- 
 ways, under penalty of 20' for every oflence was enacted in 166C. 
 
 A Committee to provide a building for the town school was appointed in Jan., 
 165 1/2 and studious effort to secure the best educational advantages is manifest in 
 
10 THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 
 
 the annual provision for the public school and frequent contributions to Harvard 
 College. 
 
 As various industries assumed prominence, special inspectors were appointed, gen- 
 erally in compliance with some edict of the Genei'al Court. Thus, John Knowlton 
 was appointed to " search and seale leather" in 1652, that no unmarketable leather 
 might be sold by any tanner of hides, and the sealer is a regular official henceforth. 
 The Common Packer, whose function was to secure the proper packing of fish or 
 meat In barrels, I presume, came into existence in 1658. "Pounders," for the care of 
 stray animals shut up in the public pounds and the collection of flues, were chosen 
 in 1674, but some provision must have been made long before this as the pounds had 
 been built some years. Tithing men were chosen flrst in 1677, and in 1680 there is 
 mention of a Clerk of the Market Place. " Gagers of casque" were chosen in 1726. 
 The poor had been provided for always at the public expense, but the first men- 
 tion of an overseer of the poor, of which I am aware, occurs in 1734. Capt. Thos. 
 Wade was then elected to that office. Col. John Choate was chosen surveyor of flax 
 and hemp in 1735. 
 
 By the middle of the century, deer began to be scarce in the forests, and to pre- 
 vent their extinction and to regulate their destruction for food " deer reeves " were 
 established and the flrst election was made in 1743. They were elected annually for 
 many years, but as the office had been discontinued in 1797, it is probable that the 
 deer had wholly disappeared. 
 
 Thus the government of the town was systematized gradually. Every industry 
 seems to have been supervised by some public functionary and the climax of petty 
 officialdom might well have been reached in 1797, when the list of officers chosen at 
 the Town meeting included Selectmen, Overseers, Town Clerk and Treasurer, Tithing- 
 men. Road Surveyors, Fish Committee, Clerk of the Market, Fence Viewers, Hay- 
 wards, Surveyors of Lumber, Cullers of Fish, Sealers of Leather, Hog-reeves, 
 Gangers of Cask, Sealers of Weights, Measurers of Grain, Corders of Wood, Fire- 
 wards, Packer of Pork, and Cullers of Brick. Surely the thirst for public office, 
 which afflicts every American citizen, was easily gratifled. The Ipswich of a cen- 
 tury ago must have been a paradise for politicians. 
 
 COMMON LANDS AND COMMONAGE. 
 
 Ownership of a house and land within the town bounds carried with it the right 
 of pasturage, in the wide domain beyond the Common Fence. This right was definitely 
 recognized, and could be bought or sold. But the privilege of cutting wood in the 
 dense forests, which were included in these commons, was retained by the town. 
 
 Singularly enough the town claimed proprietorship even in the trees standing on 
 the houselots granted to individuals, and graciously granted permission in 1634, to the 
 grantees to have such trees on "paying a valuable consideration for the fallinge of 
 them." In 1635, the Town ordered that "no man shall sell, lend, give or convey, or 
 cause to be conveyed or sent out of the Town, any timber sawn or unsawn, riven or un- 
 riven upon pain of forfeiting their sum or price." The "consent of the Town" was 
 
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 11 
 
 necessary before any timber or clapboards could be carried beyond lier bounds. 
 The enactment of 1639 was even more strinijent. 
 
 '•Noe man shall fell any timber upon the Common to make sale of, neither Shall 
 any man fell any tree for fuel -without leave from the Constable under penalty of x' 
 for such tree felled for timber or firewood, and if any man shall fell tim])er for their 
 own use, and remove it not from oft' the Commons, or cleave it or saw it not within 
 one year after tiie felling of it, it shall be lawful for any man to make use of the same." 
 According to the vote of 1643, a special license from the Town or Seven Men was 
 necessary before a white oak could be felled, and Mr. Gardiner was to give a written 
 certificate that such license is fit. The felling of timber on "Jeflry's Neck, Castle Neck, 
 Hog Island," etc., was prohibited in 1650, but some clearings had been accomplished, as 
 provision was made in 1(!54 for .JeflVies Neck and other common lands to be "broken 
 up and planted for English." Special privilege was granted the inhabitants of the 
 Town in KiS'i, to fell for firewood the swamp between Tin\ber Hill and Bush Hill, 
 "provided no man may take above 2 rods in breadth, and to fell all and clear as they 
 go across the Swamp." By the order of 1665, oaks or walnuts might not be cut with- 
 out permission, but the m:iltsters, Capt. Appleton, Cornet Whipple and Thomas L 
 
 were granted liberty to fell some walnuts for their kilns in 1667, and permit was given 
 the tanners in 1671 "to fell for there supply for Barke for there tanning, being as 
 good Husbands for the Town as they can." 
 
 Neither did the right of commonage involve any privilege of cultivating any por- 
 tion of the commons. In 1659, twelve citizens petitioned for the privilege of plant- 
 ing two acres apiece in Jettries Neck, and they agreed to sow four bushels of hay- 
 seed per acre with the last crop. Their petition was allowed and seven others were 
 granted like privilege "if the land holds out." 
 
 This use of the common land sprang into instant favor. The next year, fifteen 
 men agreed to cultivate two acres apiece on Jeflries Neck for four years, and with 
 the fifth crop plant four bushels of hayseed, and leave it to the use of the Town for 
 Common feed as before. Twenty-four men agree to clear, and then cultivate Bush 
 Hill and Turkey Hill for six years, on the same terms, with the added proviso, that they 
 "shall keep up fence one year after to let the grass get ahead." Redroot Hill was 
 granted to eight for six years, Scott's Hill to nine, a parcel of land at Cowkeepers 
 Rock to six, land between Haffield's and Wilderness Hill to Giddiugs and John An- 
 drews. 
 
 By the time the first of these tillage rights had expired, the idea of permanent in- 
 dividual ownership had gained general acceptance. So, in 1664, the town voted that 
 Plum Island, Hogg Island and Castle Neck be divided to such as have the right to 
 commonage according to law, according to the proportion of four, six and eight. 
 Those who did not pay more than 6« S^ in personal & property tax in a single country 
 rate were to form the first division. All that did not exceed 16^ were to form the 
 second. All that exceeded 16« "together with our Magistrates, Elders, Mr. John 
 Rogers, and Mr. Thomas Andrews" (the school-master), were to constitute the high- 
 est. 
 
 The Committee to which the task was assigned, reported in April, 1665, that there 
 were 203 inhabitants who had right of commonage, that 28 were entitled to a double 
 
12 THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT, 
 
 share, 70 were entitled to a share and a half, 105 were entitled to a single share, 226 
 single shares in all. They reported as well that there -vvere 800 acres of marsh and 
 upland "beside beaches and gall'd hills," and that each single share would contain 
 three acres. These shares were laid out, first a double share, next two one and a half 
 shares, then three single shares beginning at the end of Plum Island towards Rowley, 
 then on Castle Neck, including "the Pines" and Wigwam Hill. The commoners then took 
 their shares by lot, and Cornet Whipple, Robert Lord, John Leighton and Thomas 
 Lovel went with them to show where their land was. A full list of the shiireholders 
 was recorded, and this large section of the public domain was withdrawn from com- 
 monage forever. Large tracts of common land remained however and the right of 
 commonage was granted to five men in lOfiS and to Thomas Giddings in 1674 by vote. 
 Fishermen were allowed to cut wood from the commons for needed building and 
 fuel, and each boat's crew had leave to feed one cow on the Common (1670). Yet 
 further privilege was granted them in 1696, Avhen Mr. John Appleton, Mr. Andrew 
 Dyamond, and Mr. Francis Waiuwright, were "appointed and empowered a Committee 
 to lay out the several lots that shall be desired by persons to carry on the fishing de- 
 sign at Jeffery's Neck, for flake-room and erecting stage or stages, the said lotts to 
 run up and down the hill fronting to ye River on ye Southside." Traces of these lots 
 are visible in the rows of stones, on the slope of Great Neck near Little Neck. Less 
 favor had been shown other use of common lands in 1682, when the question, 
 " whether any commoner or inhabitant may take up and inclose land upon tlie com- 
 mon or highways, as he or they shall see good, for Tobacco yai'ds and other uses," 
 was decided in the negative. 
 
 Finally, in the beginning of the next century. 1709, it was voted, that all the 
 common lands be divided into " eight parts," except what is hereafter to accommo- 
 date ancient and new commoners. These votes, we have mentioned, were all votes 
 of the town in regularly warned town meetings. Provision was made for the carry- 
 ing out of the several votes by the selectmen, the town constable and other public 
 officials. It might appear that the town in its corporate capacity had supreme control. 
 
 Nevertheless, from the very beginning, the commoners, or those who had the 
 right of commonage, met in commoners' meeting, had their own records, and legis- 
 lated with reference to all the duties and privileges of commoners. In fact, it has 
 been affirmed by a careful student, that in the town of Manchester, land grants made 
 by the town were really made by the commoners acting in their capacit3' of com- 
 moners.' In our own town, the line of distinction seems to have been drawn more 
 definitely, yet the commoners claimed and exercised very important rights. As early 
 as 1644, the Town Records allude to a gift by the commoners : " a plot of the Cow 
 Common on the north side of the River containing by estimation 3244 acres, was pre- 
 sented unto the freemen of the town. The freemen doth give and grant unto the In- 
 habitants of the Town with themselves, their heirs and successors forever [viz. all 
 such as have right to commonage] all the aforesaid Common to be improved as afore- 
 said." 
 
 In 1702, they divided the common lands into large sheep pastures. " The Great 
 
 'State Doc. " Inhabitants of the Town of Manchester versus Andrew C. Slater," p. 18. 
 
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 13 
 
 Neck by some cal'^ Jefferies Neck, now named ye Ram Pasture being part of y* 
 sheep walks on y« northerly side of the River," was to be included in the "sheep 
 walk," on the north side of the River; "and on y« South syde of ye Mill River, ex- 
 cluding y bounds of y<' flock cal"i Whipple's (Job's Hill) flock, extending from 
 Isaack Foster's in Chebacco to James Gittings his house; and from thenc to y^ vally 
 betwixt Long Hill and Wilderness Hill, and thenc in y*' valley betwext Red Root Hill' 
 and Sagamore Hill and thence on a line to Mile Brook ag*' .... land." 
 
 These " stinted sheep walks" having been defined for each flock, the commoners 
 voted that there should be nine flocks : 
 
 1st iiye Ram Pasture flock" 
 
 2. "y« Bush Hill " " 
 
 3. "Turners Hill " " 
 
 4. "Turiiey Hill " " 
 
 5. "Bull Brook " " 
 
 6. "ye Town flock, alias Windmill Hill flock as far as the Bridge below Wm 
 
 Durges & as sd Rivilet runs by Henry Gold's to Choates land." 
 
 7. "Red Root Hill or Brags & Kinsmans flock." 
 
 8. "ye Farmers flock next Weuham called Whipples flock, alias Jobs Hill flock.' 
 
 9. the Chebacco flock. 
 It was further ordered 
 
 ' ' Every sheppard shall keep his flock in the limits prescribed to the particular flock 
 yt he takes charge and care of, & not suffer them to stragle into other Flocks limits, 
 on penalty of paying as a flne of two shillings and six for each time he is convicted of 
 
 such his neglect : " Each shepherd was to have a cottage near his flock, and a 
 
 fold in which he was to put them at sunset, " and put them out at sun half an hour 
 high in y« morne day by day." Mr. Samuel Appleton & others were to have a flock 
 in the Thick Woods and Pigeon Hill. 
 
 In 1707, a division of wood, timber, etc., at Chebacco ponds. Knights fyrm, etc., 
 was made into four parts. In 1709, the final division of the common lands was made 
 by a Committee of the Commoners and a Committee of the Town. The town voted 
 on January 11, 1708/9, " That wood-land at Chebacco Ponds, that thatch banks and 
 land above Baker's Pond, and Samuel Perley's, Jefi'rey's Neck and Paine's Hill, be 
 divided into three-fifths and two-fifths shares." 
 
 Voted, "That any commoner who has one or more rights and has built one or 
 more new houses in the place of old ones, shall have only the right for a new house, 
 which belonged to the old one." 
 
 The list of old and new commoners, and old and new Jeffries Neck commoners 
 was agreed on, and then the common lands were divided into eight parts. 
 
 1. " Convenient for Chebacco, about Chebacco pond," about 873 acres. 
 
 2. " Convenient for the inhabitants of the Hamblett," about 470 acres. 
 
 3. " From Chebacco Pond running northwesterly, taking all the Comon lands 
 between the two lines to Cowkeepers Rock, and all that piece of Common up to the 
 highway by Tanner Norton's, and by the fence'to the Gate by Appleton's Mill," about 
 1181 acres. 
 
 'Now called Red-wood Hill. 
 
14 THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT. 
 
 4. " Tliick Woods & Pigeon Flill." 
 
 5. " Beginning at Kimball's corner . . . Warner's or Day's gate ..." about 
 946 acres. 
 
 6. "From Goodhue's corner to Day's corner, by the River, etc," about 578 
 acres (5 and 6 including Bush Hill and Turner's Hill). 
 
 7. Turkey Hill and land about Egypt river, 954 acres. 
 
 8. Toward Rowley line, 850 acres. 
 
 The Committee proceeded to assign the commoners to tiieir proper eighths, and 
 each man's right was decided as accurately as possible. 
 
 Some title to Castle Neck still remained in the possession of the commoners, as 
 appears from the vote of 21 Mar., 172C>, instructing the I'reasurer to execute a deed 
 of sale or conveyance of their whole right and title in the " wood tliat now is, or that 
 shall hereafter be standing, lying, or growing on any part of Castle Neck so called 
 beyond Wigwam Hill," to Symonds Epes, Esq., for ten pounds sterling. The com- 
 moners relinquished their " right att Rocky Hill unto James Fuller, Ebenezer ITuUer and 
 Jabez Treadwell, they paying the sum of sixty pounds old Tenor, for ye Com° use." 
 Aug., 1745. (This is the hill now occupied by Mr Moritz B. Fhilipp.) 
 
 Unappropriated thatch banks Avere let each year to the highest bidder, only com- 
 moners having the right to bid. Rights and privileges in the "Gravill Pit and Clay pitts " 
 were reserved by the commoners for their use and profit. The beaches belonged to the 
 Commoners, and in 1757 they voted th.it " Capt. Jonathan Fellows ot Cape Ann, have 
 the liberty of all the sands lying in the Town of Ipswich for tlie space of one year for 
 the sum of 2£ 13s. 4d." 
 
 Their authority reached also to the flats and the clams that dwelt therein, and in 
 1763 the vexed question of tlie control of the sht-U fishery led to the first regulation 
 of whicli I am aware. The commoners voted, on July 4th, " That the Committee take 
 care of all ye flats & clams therein, belonging to ye proprietors of ye Common lands 
 in Ipswich & that no person or persons be allowed to digg any more clams than for 
 their own use, & to be expended in ye Town, & that all owners of fishing vessels 
 and Boats shall apply to one of sd. Committee for liberty to dijig clams for their vessels 
 use fare by fare, & no owners of vessel or vessels, boat or boats, shall digg more 
 clams than shall be allowed by one or more of sd Committee on penaltv of prosecution ; 
 said Committee are to allow one Bar' of clams to each man of every vessel going to the 
 Banks every fare, & so also in propr. to boats fishing in the Bay, and a majority of 
 said Com. are impowered to prosecute all oflenders." 
 
 The income accruing from these sales and leases was expended for various pub- 
 lic uses. In 1771, a hundred pounds was voted -'for the use of building a work house 
 in the Town of Ipswich," provided the town build within eighteen months. In 1772, 
 £20 was voted to Wm. Dodge and others " to erect sutable land marks for the benefit 
 of vessels outward and inward bound," and Gs. to Anthony Loney foi ringing the bell 
 from Feb. 1771 to Feb. 1772. In 1773, £50 was voted for readingand writinji schools, 
 provided the town raise £40. Finally, in 1788, the majority of the commoners voted, 
 though vigorous opposition was made by the minority, to resign all their interests in 
 
thp: development of our town government. 15 
 
 lands, etc., to the town toward the payment of the heavy town debt incurred during 
 the Revolution. Mr. Felt estimated that this grant was worth about £600. 
 
 Thus the body of commoners ceased to be, but we still are reminded of tlie old 
 commonage system by the " Common Fields," so called, in the neighborliood of the 
 Poor Farm, and our South Common and the open lands in the centre of our town. 
 
BY-LAWS. 
 
 I. 
 
 The objects of the Society are the gathering and recording of knowledge of the 
 history of Ipswich and of individuals and families connected with said Ipswich; the 
 collection and preservation of printed and written manuscripts, pamphlets, and other 
 matters of historic interest, and the collection of articles of historical and antiquarian 
 interest, and the preservation of and furnishing in colonial style of one of the an- 
 cient dwelling houses of said Ipswich. 
 
 II. 
 
 The annual meeting for the election of officers shall be held on the first Monday 
 in December of each year, and meetings for literary and social purposes shall be held 
 on the first Monday of February, May and October. All meetings shall be called by 
 the directors by a warrant under their hands, addressed to the clerk of the corpora- 
 tion, directing him to give notice of such meeting by sending a notice to each mem- 
 ber of the corporation by mail four days at least before the time of holding such 
 meeting ; which notice shall contain the substance of the matter named in said war- 
 rant to be acted upon at such meeting. Said warrant shall state all the business to be 
 acted upon at such meeting, and no other business shall be transacted at such meeting. 
 
 Special meetings may be called by the directors in the same manner as other 
 
 meetings. 
 
 III. 
 
 Any member of the corporation may present the name of any person for mem- 
 bership to the clerk, Avho shall announce at the next meeting of the corporation there- 
 after the name of said person so proposed for membership; and said corporation 
 may vote to admit said person to membership of the corporation at the next meeting 
 of said corporation held after the clerk has announced the name for membership. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Every member shall pay an annual fee of two dollars which shall be due on the 
 first day of December, and failure to pay this fee for two years shall forfeit mem- 
 bership unless said corporation otherwise direct. 
 
 V. 
 
 The officers of the corporation shall be a president, two vice presidents, treas- 
 urer, clerk, corresponding secretary, librarian and three directors. 
 
 These officers shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting and their term of 
 office shall be for one year from the date of that meeting and until their successors 
 (16) 
 
BT-LAWS. 17 
 
 arc chosen. Vacancies in any of tliese offices sliall be filled by the director."? for the 
 unexpired term. 
 
 VI. 
 The directors shall determine the use to be made of the income and funds of the 
 Society ; sliall endeavor to promote the special objects of the Society in such ways as 
 may seem most appropriate, shall appoint such committees as may seem expedient 
 and shall have charge an-d custody of all property and collections of the Society. 
 
 VII. 
 These By-Laws m ay be amended at any regular meeting ou recommendation of 
 the directors by vote of two-thirds of the members present, provided that due notice 
 has been given of the proposed change at a previous meeting. 
 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
 
 The second annual meeting of the Ipswich Historical Society was held on Mon- 
 d*y, December 4, 1899, at the house. 
 
 The following officers were elected by ballot : 
 
 President — T. Frank Waters. 
 
 Vice Presidents — John B. Brown, John Heard. 
 
 Clerk — John W. Goodhue. 
 
 Treasurer — Joseph I. Horton. 
 
 Directors — Charles A. Sayward, John H. Cogswell, Everard II. Martin. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary — John H. Cogswell. 
 
 Librarian — John J. Sullivan. 
 
 The Reports of the President and the Treasurer were read and accepted. 
 
 (18) 
 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 4, 1899, 
 Read by the President, Rev. T. F. Waters, at the Annual Meeting. 
 
 The annals of the past twelve months are pleasant reading, Ave may presume, for 
 the members of the Society and its friends. When we met in this House at our last 
 annual meeting, the work on the four great rooms had been substantially completed, 
 the furnishings of the lower floor were fairly well in place, and a beginning had been 
 made in fitting up the west chamber as a typical sleeping room of the olden time. 
 The rear portion of the building was as yet untouched. 
 
 Work was continued vigorously during the month of December, and by the New 
 Year a very commodious tenement had been evolved from the unprepossessing leanto. 
 New wood work and plaster, paint and paper were the rule here, and when the low- 
 studded rooms on the first floor, and the quaint little sleeping chambers under the 
 great slant roof had been completed, the question of a tenant was easily settled. 
 Some doubt had been expressed whether a desirable tenant or family could be found. . 
 But the idea of dwelling in the venerable old house proved alluring to a number of 
 worthy folk, and long before the rooms were ready for occupancy, an ideal occupant 
 was planning to take up her abode. Miss Alice A. Gray, a lineal descendant of the Ips- 
 wich Howards of two centuries ago, after twenty-three years of service at the Fine 
 Art Museum in Boston, felt the charm of our ancient mansion so powerfully that she 
 relinquished in a large measure her work in the Fine Art Museum and became the cus- 
 todian of our house. 
 
 She brought to her new position not only the devotion of an antiquary, the ski!! 
 in arrangement learned by long experience, and exquisite taste, but a great store of 
 ancient furniture as well, and many decorative adornments. Under her deft hand, 
 tlie two chambers were made AvonderfuUy attractive and the whole house was put in 
 admirable order. In all this, her friend and companion Miss Julia Gutberlett was a 
 zealous co-worker, and an invaluable helper, and she has proved a very gracious host- 
 ess to our visitors during Miss Gray's absence. 
 
 About the first of .July, the House was opened to the public. Hours were fixed, 
 from two to half-past six every afternoon except Sunday, and it was decided to charge 
 an admission fee of fifteen cents for all visitors except members of the Society and 
 their households. An influx of visitors began at once and continued well through the 
 month of September. 1148 names were recorded in our Visitors' Book, but a consid- 
 erable proportion especially of our towns-people failed to register. In round numbers, 
 it is a fair estimate that 1600 people have been through the rooms. 
 
 (19; 
 
20 
 
 ANNUAL HEPOKT FOR THE YEAR. 
 
 Tliey represented twenty-four States besides Massachusetts, and foreign lauds. 
 I append a list of States represented, and the number of visitors accredited to each : 
 
 3 
 5 
 3 
 9 
 2 
 2 
 6 
 4 
 4 
 14 
 12 
 9 
 
 216 
 918 
 
 California 
 
 4 
 
 Colorado 
 
 Minnesota 
 
 c, 
 
 Missouri 
 
 Iowa .... 
 
 1 
 
 Wisconsin . 
 
 Illinois .... 
 
 12 
 
 Michigan 
 
 Ohio .... 
 
 5 
 
 Texas . 
 
 Florida .... 
 
 2 
 
 Louisiana 
 
 Virginia .... 
 
 5 
 
 Maryland . 
 
 Georgia .... 
 
 1 
 
 Dist. Columbia 
 
 Pennsylvania . 
 
 . 38 
 
 Rhode Island 
 
 New YorJv 
 
 42 
 
 New Jersey 
 
 New Hampshire 
 
 L'l 
 
 Maine . 
 
 Vermont 
 
 ('. 
 
 Connecticut 
 
 Massachusetts . • 
 
 
 
 Sandwich Islands . 
 
 2 
 
 Cuba . 
 
 Nova Scotia . 
 
 2 
 
 New Brunswick 
 
 Spain .... 
 
 1 
 
 Scotland 
 
 England .... 
 
 o 
 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 14 
 
 1148 
 
 All have been surprised and delighted. The most expert and critical liave ex- 
 pressed the most enthusiastic appreciation of tlie Honse, and the manner of its resto- 
 ration. Architects have come to photograpli and take exact measurements and studj^ 
 details, and liave pronounced it the most massive and wonderful specimen of seven- 
 teenth century architecture they have seen. 
 
 Lovers of old houses, familiar with the ijest of the earliest period in many old 
 towns, liave acknowledged without reserve that this was the most unique and satisfy- 
 ing. A number of cultured English gentlemen have told us that they knew of no old 
 dwelling in England that is so striking, and characteristic of tlie olden times. Another 
 very gratifying recognition of its value has recently come to our knowledge. In connec- 
 tion with the observance of the 250th anniversary of the Second church in Boston, an 
 antique exhibition was given in Copley Hall. Its principal feature was an old Boston 
 street, with exact reproductions on a small scale of Benjamin Franklin's house, the old 
 church and other buildings. Two ladies had charge of the construction of the Frank- 
 lin house under the direction of an expert architect. They applied to a gentleman, 
 deemed capable to advise, and he suggested that they sliould see this House. An ap- 
 peal to a second friend for suggestions, elicited the opinion that the old house in Ips- 
 wich was the best guide. Inquiring for helpful literature at the Boston Public Library, 
 they were told that they must go to Ipswich, if they would lind the best illustration 
 of ancient architecture. Nothing was left but to make their pilgrimage. They spent 
 a whole day under our roof, and returned, bearing a few articles loaned for their e.v- 
 
ANNUAL KKPOKT FOR THE YKAK. 21 
 
 hibit. and feeling better prepared for their responsible task. The borrowed wooden 
 latch and string and candle-mould attracted great attention. 
 
 By invitation of Miss Gray, Mr. W. H. Downs of the Boston Transcript spent a 
 Satnrday half holiday as her guest. He was greatly interested especially with our Li- 
 brary, which is of far greater value tlian is commonly supposed, and evinced his aj)- 
 l)reciation ))y writing a very admirable summary of the contents, and the history of 
 the House, for the Boston Transcript, which has had wide notice and has brought the 
 House very eftectively to the attention of a large cii'cle of readers. 
 
 While this steady current of visitors from abroad has been flowing through these 
 rooms, very few of our towns-people have been drawn hither. Occasionally when a 
 guest is being entertained, a visit is made here as a means of diversion, but our citi- 
 zens come rarely, and many members have never availed themselves of their privilege. 
 This is a matter of profound regret. The Society can attain its rightful place and ac- 
 complish its best work only as it has the intelligent and sympathetic support and co- 
 operation of the community. We rely upon our citizens to furnish funds, and addi- 
 tions, by loan or gift, to our collections. Our House is so well furnished already that, 
 many think our needs are all supplied. We need many things, particularly an eight- 
 day clock, chairs of ancient pattern, a court-cupboard, old china and pewter, wearing 
 apparel, books, manuscripts, and Indian implements of every kind. A visit to tiie 
 House may often result in very material help. 
 
 More than all else, we solicit a large active membership. We exact no conditions 
 of membership, and impose no duties bej'ond the payment of two dollars annually. 
 We give a copy of our regular publications and the free use of the House. Any per- 
 son is eligible, and names may be sent to any member or to the clerk or president. 
 Any name will be acted upon at the first business meeting after the name has been for- 
 mally proposed. We should have a membership of several hundred in our own town. 
 The annual revenue fi'om such a constituency would enable us to pay our mortgage 
 in a few years, and set aside a goodly sum annually for the publication of original 
 material, and valuable old records. During the year, 5(! ncAv members have been 
 elected, bringing the total active membership to 138. 
 
 A goodly number of additions to our cabinet collections and general furnishings 
 has been made. Mr. I). F. Appleton has contributed a line copy of the old Puritan 
 family Bible of the edition known as the " Breeches Bible," published in London in 
 1615. Mr. J. B. Brown has deposited Avith us a notable file of ancient deeds of the 
 Argilla farm. Miss H. Augusta Dodge of Hamilton has given the rosewood writing 
 desk, presented to her sister, Gail Hamilton, by her pupils in the Ipswich Female Sem- 
 inary. It still contains her diploma and letters of rare interest. Miss Ellen A. Stone 
 has sent a fine collection of antiques from her marvellous old home in East Lexington. 
 A braided mat of noble proportions is the handiwork of Mrs. Elizabeth M. P.rown. 
 Mr. Ralph W. Burnham has loaned a valuable collection of old china. 
 
 To these we must add two gifts of notable value from friends not resident in our 
 community. 
 
 Among the guests at a quiet five o'clo(;k tea in midsummer, M'as a daughter of the 
 late Amos Adams Lawrence. During his business visits to the Mill of the Lawrence 
 Corporation near by, he often came into this House, and frequently expressed a wish 
 
22 ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR. 
 
 that it might be repaired and preserved. She expressed great interest in the work al- 
 ready done. She Avas much impressed with tlie need of more laud than we then owned, 
 and especially with the desirability of securing the corner then occupied by a dilapi- 
 dated house, so Avell remembered, and using the spot for ornamental purposes. Her 
 interest found practical expression in the splendid gift of .$1800 for the purchase of 
 the corner, as a memorial of her honored father. The property was secured at once, 
 and also a small strip, six feet wide, adjoining our land on the west. The work of 
 clearing the corner of buildings, filling and grading, has been carried on steadily. 
 It was incumbent on the Society to improve the spot in accordance with the wish of 
 the donor, as a garden. Accordingly a line of stone posts has been erected on our 
 whole frontage, lawns and walks have been laid out, and our whole property graded 
 and beautified. Incidentally, permanent receptacles for sewage have been constructed, 
 some slight changes in the exterior of the house have been made, and modern improve- 
 ments have been added in the rooms occupied by Miss Gray. This has involved con- 
 siderable expenditure, of which some $300 remains unpaid. It seemed the Avisest way 
 to complete the work on the house and grounds in durable and permanent fashion be- 
 fore winter set in, and thus avoid the necessity of a resumption of the work in the 
 Spring. The town authorities have cooperated with us very generously, by rebuilding 
 the terrace on the front, changing the location of the fire hydrant, and setting a granite 
 curbing on the corner. 
 
 In response to a suggestion that the life of John Winthrop, Jr. , the Founder of our 
 town, deserved more careful consideration in its relation to Ipswich, than it had re- 
 ceived, Mr. Roberto. Winthrop, Jr., of Boston, very kindly consented to read the 
 manuscript that I had prepared, and supplement it with such new material as he might 
 find. He gave much time to the careful examination of the Winthrop papers, ap- 
 pended much new matter, assumed entire charge of the illustrations and the printing, 
 and bore the whole expense of publication. He has distributed copies very generous- 
 ly to a multitude of historical societies and public libraries, and to the great libraries 
 of the English and German universities including Trinity College, Dublin, where young 
 Winthrop studied, and representative institutions ir) other lands, as far as Australia 
 and Japan. 
 
 Our society has been brought thus into a very conspicuous place, and already re- 
 quests for our publications have come from foreign lands as Well as from many libra- 
 ries in our own country. The Society is debarred by the express wish of both these 
 generous donors from any formal acknowledgment, but we claim the privilege of grate- 
 ful mention of such noteworthy beuefactions. These large gifts from friends of the 
 Society who are not resident among us, and who are interested only remotely, it might 
 be thought, in its prosperity, should stimulate the generosity of its members and friends, 
 who are directly conversant with its aims and needs. We have accomplished our orig- 
 inal design, in securing and furnishing our House, and providing attractive surround- 
 ings. Our work however is only begun. We have passed from the stage of small 
 things. We need large gifts. We face great enterprises. The floating debt with 
 which we end the yeai should be provided for at once, for we need all the income ac- 
 cruing from membership and admission fees for the work of the Society. The mort- 
 gage of $1,()00, which encumbers our property, should be cleared. Before another 
 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR. 23 
 
 ■winter a proper steam or hot water plant should be installed for heating all the rooms. 
 The unsightly barn that remains our neighbor should be removed. Our grounds must 
 include the whole of the original lot. We need room at once for the erection of a log 
 house, with thatched roof, wooden chimney daubed with clay, and oiled paper windows, 
 as a counterpart of the humble cabins of many of the Puritan settlers. In a few years 
 we shall need more room to house and display our expanding collections and for general 
 use. A modern, fire-proof Memorial Building will be a necessity. In it a large and 
 systematic collection of Indian implements, worthy of old Agawara, of costumes of the 
 Colonial and Revolutionary periods, of ancient fabrics, table furnishings and heirlooms 
 of every sort might be exhibited. Our Library would be safe and would have room for 
 growth. 
 
 A hall for the meetings of the Society would be provided and its walls might be 
 emblazoned with the flags of the several periods of our national history, and adorned 
 with tablets recording the glorious events of our town history, and names of those 
 whose lives have illumined our annals. 
 
 The land adjoining our own is unimproved at present. The owner is willing to 
 sell. It affords an ideal site for this building that is to be. It should be secured with- 
 out delay. Who is to be the donor? Who will make the first gift, looking towards 
 the realization of these aims? If no immediate gift is available, Avho will provide by 
 will for a generous bequest ? 
 
 Old Ipswich was renowned for the quality of her first settlers, Wiuthrop, Denison, 
 Saltonstall, Symonds, Ward and Norton. She was at the front in King Philip's war 
 with her Appleton and his brave men. She raised her voice against the Andros tax. She 
 sent her sons to every battlefield in the Revolution, and Hodgkins' memory lingers in 
 these rooms, where he spent his declining years and died. Ann Bradstreet dared to 
 claim new honor for her sex, Zilpah Grant and Mary Lyon toiled and planned here, and 
 ushered in the dawn of a higher education for women. 
 
 It remains for the Ipswich Historical Society to glorify the history of old Ipswich 
 becomingly. She has a wide and inviting opportunity. The inspiration springing 
 from successful endeavor urges her on. The obligation of progress, of comprehensive 
 and ambitious eflfort in the future, is imperative. She must aim to be the most unique 
 and conspicuous of the great multitude of Societies, that is coming into being. Only 
 money is needed. Surely so trifling a lack will be easily supplied ! 
 
THE REPORT OF THE TREASURER OE THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL 
 SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 4, 18i)!». 
 
 J. I. Horton in account witli tlie Ipswich Historical Society : 
 
 To Fees and Subscrip. $944 41 
 
 " Proceeds of Supper, 
 
 Dec. 24 . . 25 00 
 
 " Proceeds of Social, 
 
 Jan. 21 . 11 80 
 
 " Proceeds Entertain- 
 ment by Daughters 
 of Revolution . 13 00 
 
 " Sale of old material 28 00 
 
 Admittance fees to 
 
 House . 
 Sale of Books at 
 
 House . 
 
 Amos Adams Law- 
 re n c e memorial 
 sift 
 
 Balance in Treasury 
 Dec, 1898 . 
 
 137 92 
 16 00 
 
 -S1022 21 
 
 - $153 92 
 
 §1800 00 
 
 «297C 13 
 
 194 tJ3 
 
 §3170 7C 
 
 Cll. 
 
 Construction acct. 
 S. F. Canney 
 J. E. Kimball & Bro. 
 J. W. Goodhue, on acct 
 Benj. Fewkes 
 A. H. Plourt' . 
 Wall paper, etc. . 
 
 )3!1 31 
 94 75 
 25 00 
 11 00 
 9 56 
 13 95 
 
 Labor acct. 
 
 
 
 Austin L. Lord 
 
 G5 
 
 30 
 
 James Thibedeau . 
 
 43 
 
 50 
 
 Leander Goditt 
 
 34 
 
 13 
 
 Sam. J. Goodhue . 
 
 15 
 
 35 
 
 Foster Russell 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 J. Howard Lakeuian 
 
 4 
 
 00 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 35 
 
 28 
 
 Work on Corner. 
 
 
 
 Tearing down oklHous 
 
 e 30 
 
 (;r, 
 
 Filling, grading, etc. 
 
 102 
 
 40 
 
 Stone work acct. 
 
 25 
 
 00 
 
 Stone 
 
 9 
 
 05 
 
 #4(35 67 
 
 $207 68 
 
 Interest . . 43 50 
 Rent on Rooms in Odd 
 
 Fellows' building . 20 00 
 
 Printing ... 35 35 
 
 Insurance ... 23 00 
 
 Furnishings, work, etc. 27 95 
 
 Stamps, Stationery . 11 81 
 
 Recording Deed, Charter 8 9fi 
 
 $1(37 11 
 
 (24) 
 
TREASUKEK S REPORT. 
 
 25 
 
 Bills due : 
 Edward Choate 
 John S. Glover 
 Aug. H. Plonff 
 Austin L. Lord 
 Winfleld S. Johnson 
 J. I. Horton, stove 
 Francis H. Wade . 
 J. W. Goodhue 
 Michael Judge 
 S. F. Canney 
 
 Cash on hand 
 
 Fuel 
 
 Water Bill 
 Teamins 
 Miscellaneous- 
 Miss Gray 
 Stove 
 A. Damon, china 
 
 Purchase of corner 
 Cash on hand 
 
 7 85 
 
 
 tt 00 
 
 
 S 05 
 
 
 20 !t0 
 
 
 50 00 
 
 
 10 00 
 
 
 24 50 
 
 
 ft'^ffi 
 
 76 
 
 iJP^-t-'O 
 
 1950 
 
 00 
 
 81 
 
 64 
 
 .1*3170 
 
 76 
 
 70 r>3 
 
 
 15 00 
 
 
 87 OC 
 
 
 21 42 
 
 
 10 15 
 
 
 9 00 
 
 
 10 00 
 
 
 CA 99 
 
 
 3() 00 
 
 
 r.O 94 
 
 
 385 19 
 81 64 
 
 Deficit 
 
NAMES OF MEMBERS. 
 
 Frederick J. Alley 
 Mrs. Mary G. Alley 
 Dr. Charles E. Ames 
 Daniel Fuller Appleton 
 Francis K. Appleton 
 Mrs. Francis H. Appleton 
 James W. Appleton 
 Randolph M. Appleton 
 Mrs. Helen Appleton 
 Dr. G. Guy Bailey 
 Mrs. Grace F. Bailey 
 Charles W. Bam ford 
 John A. Blake 
 John E. Blakeniore 
 Mrs. Caroline E. Boraer 
 James W. Bond 
 Warren Boynton 
 Charles W. Brown 
 Edward F. Brown 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brown 
 Henry Brown 
 John B. Brown 
 Mrs. Lucy T. Brown 
 Daniel S. Burnham 
 Ralph VV. Burnham 
 Rev. Augustine Caldwell 
 Miss Florence F. Caldwell 
 Miss Lydia A. Caldwell 
 Charles A. Campbell 
 Philip E. Clark 
 Miss Lucy C. Coburn 
 John H. Cogswell 
 Theodore F. Cogswell 
 Miss Harriet D. Condon 
 Rev. Edward Constant 
 (26) 
 
 Charles S. Cummings 
 Arthur C. Damon 
 Mrs. Carrie Damon 
 Mrs. Annie K. Damon 
 Mrs. Cordelia Damon 
 Harry K. Damon 
 George G. Dexter 
 Miss C. Bertha Dobson 
 Harry K. Dodge 
 Rev. John M. Donovan 
 Arthur W. Dow 
 Rev. George F. Durgin 
 George Fall 
 Miss Emeline C. Farley 
 Joseph K. Farley 
 Rev. Milo H. Gates 
 Mrs. Pauline Gates 
 Dr. Guy W. Gilbert 
 Mrs. Florence Gilbert 
 John S. Glover 
 Frank T. Goodhue 
 John W. Goodhue 
 Rev. Arthur H. Gordon 
 James Graffum 
 Mrs. Eliza H. Green 
 Miss Lucy Hamlin 
 Mrs. Lois Hardy 
 George H. W. Hayes 
 Mrs. Alice L. Heard 
 Miss Alice Heard 
 John Heard 
 Miss Mary A. Hodgdon 
 Joseph I. Horton 
 Lewis R. Hovey 
 Miss Ruth A. Hovey 
 
 Gerald L. Hoyt 
 
 Miss Lucy S. Jewett 
 
 John A. Johnson 
 
 Miss Ellen M. Jordan 
 
 Edward Kavanagh 
 
 Charles M. Kelly 
 
 Fred A. Kimball 
 
 Rev. John C. Kimball 
 
 Aaron Kinsman 
 
 Miss Bethiah D. Kinsman 
 
 Miss Caroline L. Lakeman 
 
 Curtis E. Lakeman 
 
 G. Frank Langdon 
 
 Austin L. Lord 
 
 George A. Lord 
 
 Miss Lucy Slade Lord 
 
 Thomas H. Lord 
 
 Dr. George E. MacArthur 
 
 Mrs. Isabelle G. MacArthur 
 
 James F. Mann 
 
 John P. Marston 
 
 Everard H. Martin 
 
 Mrs. Marietta K. Martin 
 
 Miss Heloise Meyer 
 
 Mrs. Amanda Nichols 
 
 John W. Nourse 
 
 Charles H. Noyes 
 
 Mrs. Harriet E. Noyes 
 
 Mrs. Anna Osgood 
 
 Rev. Robert B. Parker 
 
 Martin V. B. Perley 
 
 Moritz B. Philipp 
 
 Augustine H. Plouff 
 
 Ernest Reynolds 
 
 James E. Richardson 
 
NAMES OF MEMBERS. 
 
 27 
 
 Miss Anna W. Ross 
 
 Fred G. Ross 
 
 Joseph Ross 
 
 Joseph F. Ross 
 
 Dr. William H. Russell 
 
 William S. Russell 
 
 Angus Savory 
 
 Charles A. Sayward 
 
 Mrs. Henrietta W. Sayward 
 
 George A. Schofield 
 
 Edward A. Smith 
 
 Henry P. Smith 
 
 Mrs. Harriette A. Smith 
 
 Rev. R. Cotton Smith 
 Mrs. Elizabeth K. Spauldinj 
 Dr. Frank H. Stockwell 
 Mrs. Alice L. Story 
 .John J. Sullivan 
 Arthur L. Sweetser 
 Rev. William 11. Thayer 
 John E. Tenney 
 Mrs. Annie T. Tenney 
 Miss Ellen Trask 
 Bayard Tuckerman 
 Charles S. Tuckerman 
 Francis H. Wade 
 
 Miss Martha E. Wade 
 Miss Nellie F. Wade 
 William F. Wade 
 Luther Wait 
 Miss Anna L. Warner 
 Mrs. Caroline L. Warner 
 Henry C. Warner 
 Rev. T. Frank Waters 
 Frederic Willcomb 
 Wallace P. Willett 
 Chalmers Wood 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 John Albree, Jr., Swampscott 
 William Sumner Appletou, Boston 
 Laniont G. Burnham, Boston 
 Eben Caldwell, Elizabeth, N. J. 
 Luther Caldwell. Washington, D. C. 
 Stephen Caldwell, Avoca, Iowa 
 Mrs. Edward Cordis, Jamaica Plain 
 Charles W. Darling, Utica, N. Y. 
 Elisha P. Dodge, Newburyport 
 Miss Caroline Farley, Cambridge 
 Mrs. Eunice W. Felton, Cambridge 
 Jesse Fewkes, Newton 
 Reginald Foster, Boston 
 Augustus P. Gardner, Hamilton 
 Charles L. Goodhue, Springfield 
 Mrs. Elizabeth K. Gray 
 Arthur W. Hale, Winchester 
 Albert Farley Heard, 2d, Boston 
 
 Otis Kimball, Boston 
 Mrs. Otis Kimball, Boston 
 Miss Caroline T. Leeds, Boston 
 Mrs. Susan M. Loring, Boston 
 Miss Adeline Manning, Boston 
 Henry S. Manning, New York 
 Mrs. Mary W. Manning, New York 
 George L. von Meyer, Hamilton 
 Mrs. Mary S. C. Peabody 
 Frederic H. Ringe, Los Angeles, Cal. 
 Mrs. Henry M. Saltonstall, Boston 
 Richard W. Saltonstall, Boston 
 Denison R. Slade, Center Harbor, N. 
 Joseph Spiller, Boston. 
 Miss Ellen A. Stone, East Lexington 
 Harry W. Tyler, Boston 
 George Willcomb, Boston 
 Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., Boston 
 
 H. 
 
ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY OF THE SOCIETY SINCE 
 THE LAST ANNUAL MEETING. 
 
 Rev. W. P. Alcott. Ancient book. 
 
 Mr. Daniel Fuller Appieton. Norton's Evangelist, London, 1G57. New England 
 Weekly Jonrnal, April 8, 1728. A Continental bill, dated February 26, 1777. A 
 "Breeches Bible," in the original binding, London, 1G15. 
 
 Mrs. Bartlett. Small glazed jug. 
 
 Miss Emeline Bishop, Rowley. Dial of an old clock. Pair of buckram stays. 
 Reed for loom. 
 
 Mrs. Caroline E. Bomer. A mirror with inlaid frame. Bellows, warming pan, 
 autographs, textiles, books, etc. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brown. Set of candle moulds, brass skimmer, leather box, 
 large braided mat. ' • Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul," Philip Doddridge, 1772. 
 "Letters of Fletcher of Madeley." 
 
 Mr. John B. Brown. Stone pestle. Deeds of Argilla Farm. 
 
 Mrs. E. Newton Brown. A saddle cloth used by the Ipswich troop, about 1824. 
 
 Mr. Ralph W. Burnham(loan). A collection of pottery, about sixty pieces, most- 
 ly early English, slip and lustre ware. 
 
 Miss Joanna Caldwell. Fringe loom. 
 
 Col. Luther Caldwell. "Life of Ann Bradstreet." 
 
 Mr. Philip E. Clark. Pair of scales, brass skimmer and ladle, tin kitchen. 
 
 Colby College, Water ville, Me. " Personal Recollections of Baptist History and 
 Biography." 
 
 Connecticut Historical Society. Connecticut Records, 1776-1778. 
 
 Dedham, Mass. "The Dedication of the Norfolk County Court House." 
 
 Miss H. Augusta Dodge. A writing desk given to Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Ham- 
 ilton) by her pupils in the Ipswich Seminary in 1854. with her diploma from the Sem- 
 inary and autograph letter. 
 
 Essex Institute, Salem. Annual Report, 1899. 
 
 Edward F. Everett, Cambridge. Record of the family of John Fuller of Ipswich, 
 1634. 
 
 Miss Anna Giddings. Printed matter, pamphlets, etc. 
 
 Mr. George Haskell. Old books. 
 
 Mr. Theodore C. Howe. A cotton coat worn by an officer of the Spanish Navy 
 at the time of the battle of Manila Bay, May, 1898. A brass projectile fired from the 
 " Olyrapia" at that time, and a glass plate Avith log cabin impressed, about 184 L 
 (28) 
 
ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND LIBKART. 29 
 
 Mr. Daniel Kimball. Sampler Avith pedigree of Whipple Family. 
 
 Knowltoii Family Association. "The KiioAvlton ancestry." 
 
 Mr. William T. Lambert, Hamilton. A petition from KoAvley men in Col. Pier- 
 son's Regiment, for land grant in compensation of service in Indian war, dated May 
 26, 1756. Copy of lease of lands of P' Parish Apr. 20. 1784. 
 
 Mr. Frederick Lamson, Salem. Photograph of a Koyal Commission dated 1765. 
 
 Mr. Daniel BoUes Lord. Salem. Ancient acconut book. 
 
 Miss Emeline Mansfield, Lynn. I'ramed sampler Avorked by Abigail Glazier, 
 1806. 
 
 Worthington Mansfield. U. S. cent, 1798. 
 
 Mr. Eben Moulton. Ancient brass scales. 
 
 Mr. Ernest Perkins. Washington button. 
 
 Mr. A. 11. Plonfl". An iron pot. 
 
 New York, University of State of. Report of the State Historian. Colonial 
 Series, 1897 and tAvo pamphlets. 
 
 Mr. Timothy Ross. Certificate of Kossnth fund. 
 
 Mrs. A. M. Russell. Braided mat. 
 
 Dr. W. E. Russell. File IpsAvich Register and other papers. 
 
 Mr. W. S. Russell. A damask table cloth and plate Avith picture of Whipple 
 House. 
 
 Miss Eunice K. Smith. Parasol. "Punkin "' hood. 
 
 Miss Anna M. Smith, Rowley. Two pieces of early English pottery, a glass bot- 
 tle'made before 1799, spectacles, HebreAv Bible, 1838. 
 
 Miss Sarah E. Smith, Salem. A piece of damask from the Tracy House, NeAV- 
 buryport, bed-curtains, under Avhich Wasliiiigton slept, Oct. ;!1, 1789, and Lafayette, 
 Aug. 31, 1824. 
 
 Henry Spaulding (loan). Fractional currency issued b}'^ Ipswich Union store. 
 
 Miss Ellen A. Stone. Furniture, bedding, homespun linen, costumes, textiles, 
 pottery and glass, kitchen utensils, carpenter and farm tools, etc., from the home- 
 stead of Stephen Robbins of East Lexington. 
 
 Mr. Daniel Stone. Candlesticks. 
 
 Mr. J. J. Sullivan. Two century plants for the laAvn. 
 
 Mrs. John F. Todd, Waldo, Florida. An Oxford Bible, 1789. Tavo miniature 
 portraits, oven shovel, pair of Avi'ought iron pipe tongs, caiuile moulds. Snuft' box, 
 etc., from the John F. Todd house, Rowley, Mass. 
 
 Topsrteld Historical Society. Report of 1S9S. 
 
 Mrs. Charles S. Tuckerman (loan). Umbrella. 
 
 Mr. Daniel TreadAvell Wade, Ncav York. The Year Book of the Sons of the 
 Revolution " in the State of Ncav York, 1899." 
 
 Miss Sarah H. Wade. Old map of Louisiana. 
 
 Mrs. George W. Wales, Boston. 29 pieces of pottery and porcelain, etc. 
 
 Mr. Wallace P. Willett, East Orange, N. J. PeAvter and china. 
 
... PUBLICATIONS ... 
 
 IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 I. The Oration by Rev. Washington Choate and the Poem by Rev. 
 
 Edgar F. Davis, on the :iOOth Anniversary of the Resistance to 
 the Andros Tax, 1887. Price 25 cents. 
 
 II. Tlie President's Addre-s and other Proceedings at the Dedica- 
 
 tion of their new room, Feb. 3, 189(i. Out of print. 
 
 ( III. Unveiling of th<' Memorial I'ablets at tlie Sonth Common and 
 I IV. Proceedings at Annual Meeting, Dec. 7, 1896. Price 26 
 cents. 
 
 V. The Early Homes of the Puritans and Some Old Ipswich Houses, 
 
 with Proceedings at Annual Meeting, 1897. Price 50 cents. 
 
 VI. Order of Exercises at the Dedication of r.he Ancient House with 
 
 a History of the House, and Proreei lings at Animal Meeting, 
 1898. Price 25 cents. 
 
 VII. A Sketch of the Lif;.- of John Winthrop the Younger, with 
 
 portrait and valuable reproductions of ancient documents 
 and autographs, by T Frank Waters. Price .$2.50. Postage 
 13 cents. 
 
 These publications will be sent to any nddress on receipt of price, 
 upon application to 
 
 T. FRANK WATERS. 
 
PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 IX 
 
 A HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 OLD ARGILLA ROAD 
 
 IN 
 
 IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 Salem (trees: 
 
 The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass. 
 
 1900 
 
PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HIS TOPICAL SOCIE T) \ 
 
 IX 
 
 A HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 OLD ARGILLA BOAD 
 
 IN 
 
 IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 BY 
 
 Thomas Franklin Waters 
 
 Salem press: 
 The Salem Press Co.. Salem, Mass. 
 
 1103 
 
fTA- 
 
 Gift 
 Tiie Society 
 
 1.<F'05 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 All attempt has been made ia the following pages to bring to- 
 gether in compact form a history of the land ownership, and inci- 
 dentally a brief sketch of the people who have owned the land 
 or made their homes along the Argilla Road. 
 
 To facilitate more minute research in regard to land titles, if 
 anyone wishes to make original investigation, a series of foot- 
 notes is appended. Reference is made to the five volumes, which 
 were written in our own Town, and which contain the earliest 
 record of land transfers, under the name, Ipswich Deeds. These 
 volumes are deposited in the Registry of Deeds in Salem. The 
 regular tile of County Records is referred to as Essex County 
 Deeds. 
 
 Ipswich, November, 1900. 
 
IMII': Ol.l) \K(;iLLA K'OAI). 
 
 riiK sciiooi, oi;ciiAi{i> ani> imu. iiiii;iiai;|) s (m.osk. 
 
 ( JovKKNou W iiitliiop's Joiiiiml ii-coids l,li:il, in INImicIi Hi.'};!, .lolm 
 W'iiilhroi), liis eldest son, lieiided m litMe eomimiiy of lliiiteeii men 
 in niakini; ;i foiinMl selllenienl :il Al:,:i\\ :ini. \\\i[. llicrc imd hccii 
 S(|ll!((iei" settlers, who wei'e ordeied :i\v:iv l>y llie (;enei:d (Onil 
 on Sept. 7, MIMO,' and t-iiey niay liavc made llieir iuinies in our 
 neiii,ld»oi'liood loi' a nnndiei' of years, and Inive made some s(.i'on;j, 
 impression on (lie raw edi;(' of wilderness lite, ('eilain it is, iJiat 
 wlien tlie lirsl pa};'es of onr 'I'own U'eeord were wiitlen in l(>.'M, 
 idlnsion is made to many loealitii'S !is already well known and heiir- 
 ini!; delinili' names. " 'I'lie lii<j,liway lo ( 'lielioUy " or Jnltixpn^ is 
 one ol' these, and it is easily idenlilied as the later " road to Ar- 
 j;illa " or '•'• llio Ar^illa Farm." 
 
 'I'he majeslii- hill, whose base is skirled Uy tiie ancient, road, is 
 '' eonunonly known as llart. hi'eak llill.'' The tidal eicelv that in- 
 toi'seels it is allnded to, as known l>y the name of Lahour-in- 
 vayne, i\\h\ llie other small liver or creek that tlows np from Fssex 
 Ivivei" is mentioned as ('hciiacco ('I'cek, and "• connnonly Ivnown 
 l>y that. name. Sa^amoic llill .-ind Castle llill also lind place in 
 the Ivi'coids. 
 
 These names are of romantic int.ei'esl. I leart-lireak is silggOHt- 
 ive of t.h(' loneliness and homesickness wliich may have come to 
 some primitive settler, lookinjj; off over the hhie ocean toward the 
 I'iiiglish home. I know that eei'fain deeds <»f a centnry a<;o allude 
 to il as llard-hrick llill, and so it is named on a 'I'own-map of 
 l.s;5() ; hnt: a centnry of nniform allnsion to if as Ileail-hreak, pre- 
 cedes fhis ma(,fer-of-fact epoch, and llc^arl-bi'euk it, shall still he, an 
 eiidiiriiiii' memorial of the sadness of many of onr I'lirilan anci'S- 
 tors. liaboiir in-vain heai's witness to the fruitless foil of some 
 unknown pioneer, in thrnst.imj, his heavy canoe against its swift 
 
 ' Mns-. n;i\ IMcordK. 
 
 0"') 
 
b THK OLD ARCILl.A KOAD. 
 
 current, and reminds us as well of the severe labor which was char- 
 acteristic of the earliest times. , 
 
 Cbebacco, or Cheboko, or Jeboke, was the best the English 
 tongue could do toward preserving the name, by which the Indians 
 had called tlie pleasant region, stretching from the creek to the 
 beach ; and Sagamore Hill is a monumental memorial of Mascon- 
 nommet, who made formal sale of the territory occupied by the 
 town, and who once held undisputed sway over a large area. 
 Here, for ages no doubt, the red men dwelt, but the}' have left no 
 trace save their stone weapons, their shell heaps and the blackened 
 stones that reveal the site of their wigwams, and an occasional 
 skeleton. Castle Hill nuiy have been named by some emigrant, 
 who was glad to find on these shores some likeness of the statelj' 
 English castles ; and Wigwam Hill was the summer home of gen- 
 erations of Indians. 
 
 Emerging from the period of mystery and romance the old road 
 speedily took on historic definiteuess. Planting lots, pastures and 
 great farms were apportioned, and houses began to be built. The 
 names of settlers began to be associated with definite localities. 
 Families sprang into being and struck their roots so deep and 
 flourished so well, that nine generations have continued to till their 
 acres, and spend their quiet lives hard by the ancestral home. 
 
 The phenomenal interest which attaches to many localities along 
 its whole length is manifest at the beginning. Turning from 
 County Road the land on the left corner, reaching beyond the Til- 
 ton barn, and extending through to Poplar Street was known for 
 nearly two centuries as the "School Orchard." Mr. Robert 
 Payne purchased this lot, estimated as containing two acres with 
 a house, of Richard Coy, attornej^ to Samuel Heifer in 1652. In 
 the succeeding year, 1653, he, " att his own i)roper cost and charge, 
 built an edifice for a grammar school," upon part of the land thus 
 purchased, and in October 1653, he executed a deed of the whole 
 property to feoffees, who were to hold it in perpetual trust for the 
 use and benefit of the Grammar School.^ The famous Ezekiel 
 Cheever was duly installed in the house, and he began his prepa- 
 ration of the Ipswich beys for Harvard College in the new school- 
 house, which, as we infer from certain old deeds, was on the cor- 
 ner diagonally opposite from the meeting-house of the South 
 Church. Other gifts of Little Neck and the great School Farm in 
 
 1 Ipfiwich Deedfi, v: •269,270. 
 
THE OLD ARGII.LA ROAD. 7 
 
 the Chebacco parish gave an umisual eudownient, and the Ipswich 
 School sprang at once into conspicuous notice. 
 
 The school was kept for many years on the spot first selected. 
 During the 18th century, its location is somewhat uncertain, but 
 at the beginning of the 19th century, it was housed in the square 
 hipped-roof scliool-house, which occupied the corner of the lot, on 
 the County Road and the road to Argilla. Men of the finest 
 character, Cheever and Andrews, Benjamin Crocker, Thomas Nor- 
 ton, Daniel Dana, Josepli McKean, Major Burnliam and a host of 
 others labored faithfully in the discharge of their high duties. 
 Many young men went from its humble rooms to college, and 
 out into high places in the world. 
 
 Down to the year 1835, the "School orchard " was leased to 
 responsible parties for tillage land, but in that year, the old school- 
 house was moved to its present location, and the land was di- 
 vided into house lots. Payne Street was laid out, and all the land 
 was sold. A number of the substantial farmers of the South 
 Parish, Abner Day, Josiah Brown, Ephraim Brown, Joseph Brown 
 Jr., Joshua Giddings, John B. Brown, Winthrop Boardman, and 
 Aaron Kinsman Jr.,i secured a lot on the southwest corner of 
 Payne Street, and built a i-ow of horse sheds for Sunday shelter,, 
 in place of an older row opposite the Cushing house. The school- 
 house continued to be used until 1874. Thus the interests of edu- 
 cation and of religion were long subserved by this two-acre lot. 
 
 How the unknown Samuel Heifer came into possession of this 
 land is not recorded ; but in a schedule of his estate, which the 
 Deputy Governor Samuel Symouds filed with the officials of the 
 town, there is indubitable allusion to it in the item : 
 
 parcel of ground, containing one and a half acres, abuttmg 
 on the East side thereof upon the lower end of Mr. W" Hubbard's 
 close before his town-liouse, and the rest of the said parcel is sur- 
 rounded with highways, which said parcel was part of Mr. .John 
 Wiuthrop's six acre lot there, granted him by the freemen of the 
 Town " — granted by "Winthrop to Symonds by deed date Oct. 24, 
 1638.2 
 
 This deed performs double service. It connects this location with 
 Winthrop and Symonds, and reveals that Mr. William Hubbard 
 owned and occupied as his town residence the adjoining prop- 
 erty, now owned by Mr. Gustavus Kinsman. No other allusion 
 
 1 Essex Co. Reconlt?, 2S1 : 213. 
 
 - Ipswich Deeds, 1 :45. Pub. of Histor. Society, v : 65. 
 
8 THE OLD ARGILLA KOAD. 
 
 to this estate occurs until 1674, June 3d, v/hen au Indenture was 
 made between Rev. Wm. Hubbard and John Richards, a merchant 
 of Boston, of his dwelling house and homestead, and other lands.' 
 This was followed by a mortgage deed of Mr. Hubbard to Rich- 
 ards, as agent for Major Robert Tompson of London, in 1677,- 
 and by a deed of sale, dated March 5, 1684, to the same parly, 
 of his " Messuage or Tenement . . . with the Orchard, Garden 
 and pasture behind the same, and Cornefield before the same, con- 
 tayneing by P^stimation Seaven acres, with other lands," for £480. 
 
 A century later, June 16, 1788, Robert Thompson of Elshani. 
 Great Britain, sold Mr. John Heard, " eight acres, adjoining land 
 belonging to the Grammar School, beginning at the East corner 
 by the road leading to Capt. Jabez Treadwell's, then by the road 
 leading to Isaac Burn ham's, thence back in the same to the land 
 first described."^ 
 
 Mary, the daughter of John Heard, sold to Augustine Heard 
 an undivided half of the land, with a barn, called the " Pinckin 
 close " containing seven acres, ^ and Augustine Heard sold the lot 
 '' commonl}' called the Pynchem lot," to Ebenezer Caldwell on 
 Nov. 1, 1851.^' Captain Caldwell erected the spacious buildings, 
 and at the decease of his widow, the estate was sold to Mr. Gus- 
 tavus Kinsman. 
 
 This fine property, still substantially of the same size as the 
 original grant, derives intense interest from the Hubbard ownei'- 
 ship. Mr. William Hubbard Avas a citizen of the finest character. 
 His son, William, was a member of the first class which was grad- 
 uated from Harvard College, in 1642. Entering the ministry, he 
 was invited to become colleague with Mr. Cobbet, the Pastor of 
 the Church, in 1656. He married Margaret, the daughter of Rev. 
 Nathaniel Rogers, took up his abode in the homestead, and in due 
 time became its owner. He continued in the ministry until 1703, 
 when infirmity compelled his retirement, and he died the following 
 year, aged eighty-three. He attained especial eminence as an 
 historian, and his History of New England, for which the Legis- 
 lature voted him £50, was subsequently published, and is still a 
 work of recognized value. But his financial troubles are best re- 
 membered. 
 
 He had no thrift in the handling of his affairs, and was contin- 
 
 ' Ipswich Dcedi<, 1 .10. ■'■ Es.sex Co. Deeds, 149: -.Wi. 
 
 Ul>.s\vich DeecLs, 4:18-2. "Essex Co. Deeds, ;5-29: 2:53. 
 
 6 E.ssex Co. Deeds, 4.52:104. 
 
TIIK OLD ARGII.LA ROAD. y 
 
 ually beset by his creditors. His misfortunes culminated, as we 
 have seen, in the loss of his paternal estate. Felt says that he 
 resided on Turkey Shore. It is known that he married the widow 
 Peirce for a second wife, and her house was probably on the site 
 of the present residence of iNIrs. Henry Lakeman, as an old cellar, 
 which was probably the Peirce cellar, was discovered when this 
 was built. So the old minister may have left his sightly location, 
 wnth its waving cornfield before the house, and the orchard behind, 
 and spent his last years in the humbler abode by the river side. 
 
 Singularly enough the Hubbard homestead was known many 
 years ago as the " Pinchon close," and his pasture in Old Eng- 
 land is alluded to as the '' Pinchon Pasture." The origin of this 
 title is unknown, but it may have come from John Pynchou of 
 Springfield, who married Margaret, daughter of Mr. Hubbard, and 
 granddaughter of Rev. Nathaniel Rogei's. 
 
 One grotesque remembrance of Mr. Hubbard, in his better 
 days, is revealed by the Records of the old Ipswich Court. The 
 good man seems to have been the prey of his servants and their 
 friends, but their peculations came at last to naught. On the 25th 
 March, 1673, they were brought to the bar of the Court. Peter 
 Leycross, Jonas Gregory and Symou Wood, "for stealing and use- 
 ing five gallons of wine from Mr. Hubbard's," were judged to pay 
 him £5. Peter Leycross and Symou Wood w^ere also arraigned 
 for stealing one gallon of wine from Mr. Hubbard, and Peter 
 Leycross, again, for stealing three quarts. Peter and Jonas were 
 also convicted of stealing a sheep and selling it, and Jonas alone 
 was called to account for " a fatt weather " stolen from the minis- 
 ter's flock. These were all sentenced to be whipped unless they 
 paid their fines. Nathaniel Emerson and Richard Pasmere were 
 convicted of being at Jonas Gregory's, and having part in the 
 revels over the stolen wine. 
 
 Poor Mr. Hubbard was little profited by these sentences, for 
 Peter was his own servant, and on the 5th of May, in the follow- 
 ing year, the Court ordered, 
 
 "Whereas, Mr. William Hubbard hath disbursed £8 for liis 
 servant Peter Laycross, in satisfaction of the sentence of Coui't 
 for his thefts," it is ordered that said Peter shall serve him two 
 years for it after his time is out. 
 
 The other side of our old road is of less interest. The corner 
 was occupied in 1828 by a hipped-roof store kept by one Wade 
 
10 TlIK 0\A) ARGILLA KOAD. 
 
 Cogswell, who sold to Mr. David Giddings,' who in his turn en- 
 larged the store and made it serve as store and dwelling. The 
 land was part of the estate of Dr. Nathaniel Cogswell of Rowley, 
 who was grandson of -Jonathan AVade, and inherited much land 
 in this vicinity from him. Samuel Wade was the owner of all the 
 land from the Wade- Cogswell corner to the Burnham estate, as I 
 am informed by an old resident, and he received it by inheritance 
 I presume. The brothers, Jonathan and Thomas AVade, two cen- 
 turies ago, seem to have owned nearly the whole tract from the 
 Argilla road to the other road to Chebacco, known now as Essex 
 road . 
 
 UO( KY II ILL. 
 
 The sightly residence of Mr. Moritz B. Phillipp crowns the blutf 
 eminence known in Mr. Hubbard's day and from the earliest times 
 as Rocky Hill. The earliest name perhaps, that is associated with 
 this hill, is that of Hum()hrey Griftin. He was a man of humble 
 birth seemingly, and with small store of worldly goods, when he 
 knocked at the door of the little settlement. He found little favor, 
 as the matter of his coming was debated in the town meeting in 
 1639, and the result was,'' the Town doth refuse to receive Hum- 
 phrey (rritiln as an Inhabitant, to provide for him as inhabitants 
 formerly received, the Town being full." Nevertheless Griffin 
 made his home here, and built his liist dwelling on the summit of 
 the hill, I surmise, near the house occupied by I\Ir. Albert Jodrey, 
 where sundry remains of an old dwelling have been turned up by 
 the plough. He prospered at his trade as a butcher, and bought 
 Mr. Denison's house near the House of the Historical Society, but 
 he was often the victim of contrary circumstances. In 1647, the- 
 Grand Jury list reveals the infelicity of his married life. 
 
 " We present Widdow Andrews . . for cursing and reviling her 
 son-in-law Humphrey Griffin." 
 
 "We present Humphrey Griffin for reviling his wive's mother.'* 
 
 He was so indiscreet as to work on the Sabbath and he was sen- 
 tenced to pay a fine of ten shillings for unloading barley on the 
 Sabbath day, before sunset, in the year 1657 ; and so unfortunate 
 as to be fined another ten shillings, the next year, for his daugh- 
 ter's violation of the law in Avearing a silk scarf. Our sympathies 
 are roused for the self-made man, and we are glad to learn that 
 
 ' Essex Co. Deeds, •2:>'^: -219. 
 
THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 11 
 
 he eventually owned some fifty acres on Heart-break as well as his 
 modest homestead on Rocky Hill. One Simon Tompson, a rope- 
 maker, bought Griffin's house and land, three acres more or less, 
 and sold it to his son-in-law, Abraham Fitt,' whom he had per- 
 suaded to leave his home in Salisbury and settle here, in August 
 1 (i58. It was inherited.by Abraham Fitts's son, Abraham, and later 
 by William Baker, son-in-law of Abraham, second of the name, 
 who sold it to Francis Crompton, the innkeeper,'- Mar. 20, 171 1. 
 
 Crompton's heirs sold to John Fitts, leather dresser, and Jabez 
 Treadwell, cooper, in 1741,3 and it continued in the Treadwell 
 family for several generations. The remainder of the rugged hill 
 belonged, for the most part, to generations of Fullers, who owned 
 it for many years. The slopes which are tilled with rocky ledges 
 remained a part of the Common-lands until 1755, when it was 
 sold to Jabez Treadwell, PLbenezei' Fuller and Samuel Lakeman, 
 one of the heirs of James Fuller, who received an acre apiece. ■* 
 
 The gently sloping field below the ledges, bordering on Wood's 
 Lane, as the way to Old England was called, and the road now 
 Rocky Hill Road, was sold by the administrators of Samuel Lake- 
 man to Ephraim Fellows, in 181 1,^ and it included the acre bought 
 from the Committee of Proprietors of Common-lands and 6/7 part 
 of the house lot formerly James Fuller's adjoining. Mention is 
 made in the deed of this committee to Samuel Lakeman of the 
 clay pits, " reserving liberty to the Inhabitants of the Town of 
 Ipswich always to dig clay at the end of the Hill." Nathaniel 
 Fuller sold James Fuller Junior, his title in a dwelling house and 
 land, which came to Nathaniel by the death of his brother Thomas, 
 on the hill called Rocky Hill, in 1699.« An old cellar was remem- 
 bered by the late Ephraim Fellows near the well in the corner, 
 which probably belonged to the James Fuller house. John Fuller 
 seems to have been living in the vicinity of Mr. J. Howard Burn- 
 ham's residence in 1658". His son James sold his interest in his 
 father's house and land to his brothers Thomas and Joseph, 1679.** 
 Ebenezer Fuller sold five acres with the buildings to Isaac Burn- 
 ham in 1768.9 Later it was owned by Aaron Burnham and Theo- 
 dore Andrews. 
 
 I Ipswich Deeds. 1. ' Essex Co. Deeds, 206: 96. 
 
 ■^ Essex Co. Deeds, 25: 82. " Essex Co. Deeds, 17 : 119. 
 
 3 Essex Co. Deeds, 8:i: 11. ' Ipswich Deeds, 1: .568. 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, 119: 136. » Ipswich Deeds, 5: 82. 
 
 9 Essex Co. Deeds, 151 : 25:3. 
 
12 TllK OlA> AKGILLA UOAD. 
 
 HEART-BREAK HILL. 
 
 A little beyond Rocky Hill the majestic slope of Heart Break 
 ■confronts us, smooth and symmetrical, in striking contrast with 
 the rugged sides of its lesser neighbor, and capable of being used 
 as tillage ground to its very summit. This broad domain was 
 ■carefully apportioned by the town into tillage lots of moderate size 
 and granted to the settleis. This was in accordance with the policy 
 of the times, which refused any large grants near the village to 
 individuals, and divided the large areas on Town Hill, Sagamore 
 and Heart Break among a large number of citizens. The reason 
 ot this preference of hillside lands to level and more easily culti- 
 vated llelds, ma}' be found in part in Captain John Smith's re- 
 mark, incidental to his visit to Agawam in 1614. 
 
 " Here are many rising hills, and on their tops and descents are 
 many corne fields and delightfuU groves."' 
 
 The settlers may have naturally availed themselves of the hill 
 clearings made by the Indians. But old-time farmers, within this 
 century, had a strong conviction that the best land lay on the hills, 
 and refusing the lower levels, they cultivated the high lands at 
 great outlay of heavy labor. The original tillers of the soil ma}' 
 have had this belief. 
 
 The record of land grants enables us to trace with reasonable 
 accuracy the various lots on the sunny southern side of the great 
 hill. East of William Fuller. Denison had four acres, and then 
 proceeding down the road, were Allen Perlie's four acre-lot, Rob- 
 ert Kinsman's six acres, Richard Hatfield's four acres, Humphrey 
 Wyeth's six acres and Alexander Knight's four-acre lot, each front- 
 ing on the road and rnnning back np and over the crest. Other 
 parts of the hill were owned by John Proctor, Thomas Wells, who 
 exchanged his six-acre lot with John 8eaborne, Mr. Dudley, who 
 sold to William White and he to Thomas Treadwell as early as 
 1G38, Mr. John Tuttle, who sold to Reginald Foster in 1G38, anil 
 whose eight acres are described as bounded by a little swamp north 
 and south. 
 
 The original grantees seem to have disposed of their holdings at 
 an early date. William Fuller removed to Hampton, and sold his 
 grant to his brother John. His lot was bounded by the Simon 
 Tonipson lot on the north and may be identified with the location 
 
 1 Hibtorv of Virginia. 
 
THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 13 
 
 now occupied by Mr. J. Howard Biirnliam. The bulk of the hill 
 came eventually into the hands of Simon Tompson, who at his 
 death bequeathed some fifty acres to bis grandchildren, Abraham 
 Fitts and Sarah Fitts, wife of William Baker, children of his sou 
 Abraham.! Generations of Fittses continued to own this laud. 
 Aaron Fitts sold sixteen acres to Nathaniel Heard in 1794.- A 
 portion of this land fronting on the Argilla Koad was sold by 
 Heard to Jabez Treadwell in 1796,^ and the remainder to -losiah 
 Burnham in 182 1.-^ 
 
 Treadwell had previously purchased a four-acre lot of Daniel 
 Fitts in 1755, on the west of this lot.'' The heirs of Jabez Tread- 
 well sold to Wm. Jenyss, in 1807,^ and Jenj^ss sold Robert Baker 
 4 Jr acres called "the old field," and 8 acres called "Fitts Pas- 
 ture" in 1809.'' " The old field" was sold by Baker to Joseph 
 Kinsman in 1818,^ and still remains m the Kinsman family. It is 
 directly opposite the residence of Mr. J. Farley Kinsman. John 
 Baker, the son of Robert, sold twelve acres to George Haskell, in 
 1850, March 9.^ Mr. Haskell enlarged his domain by five acres, 
 bought of Nathan Brown in May,io and in 1852 he purchased twelve 
 acres of Aaron F. Brown, i' who had just bought of John Baker. '- 
 By this purchase he came to own on all three sides of a six-acre 
 lot whicli Ebenezer Fuller had sold to John Appleton in 1770,^'' 
 the same presumably Daniel Hovey had sold to Joseph Fuller in 
 1689.1** John Appleton bequeathed it to his son John in 1793, i^"" and 
 in the division of the latter's estate in 1798, this field fell to his 
 daughter Elizabeth Treadwell.'^ She married a Sutton, and Wm. 
 and Ebenezer Siitton sold it to Mr. Haskell in 1855. i'^ On this 
 lot Mr. Haskell built his mansion ; but, for many years before he 
 made his home here, he had devoted himself enthusiastically to 
 fruit culture, especially experimenting with the grape to produce 
 if possible a hardy variety that would be valuable for wine. He 
 never attained this, but originated several valuable table varieties. 
 All his land on this side of the road as we have seen was included 
 in the early Simon Tompson estate. 
 
 1 Probate Records, -Jo .luiie, 1675. ^ Eeeex Co. Deeds, 425: 193. 
 
 2 Essex Co. Deeds, l.iS : 270. '« Essex Co. Deeds, 429 : 289. 
 -Essex Co. Deeds, 172: 119. >' Essex Co. Deeds, 464:299. 
 •Essex Co. Deeds, 307: IfiS. 12 Essex Co. Deed.s, 458: 125. 
 6 Essex Co. Deeds, 119 : 119. " Essex Co. Deeds, 127 : 133. 
 6 Essex Co. Deeds, 180: 266. " Ipswich Deeds, 5: 306. 
 
 ' Essex Co. Deeds, 187 : 80. 1= Probate Records, 363 : 110. 
 
 ^ Essex Co. Deeds, 216 : : 03. "^ Probate Records, 366 : 242. 
 
 1' Essex Co. Deeds, 52S :87. 
 
14 THE OLD AKGILLA ROAD. 
 
 The fiiiel\' wooded slope, recently purchased of Mr. John Gal- 
 braith by Mr. Geo. A. Barnard, was owned previously b}' Mr. 
 Frederic Bray, who bought an orchard "so called" about six 
 acres in March, 1850, of James Manning of Rockport.' It came 
 to liim from John Manning, who bought in 1841 of John B. Brown, 
 Joseph Kinsman and others, ... - and these I presume were the 
 heirs of Thomas Bnrnhani, in whose family the title had resided 
 for generations. The fine open fields beyond the old orchard were 
 included in the ancient Simon Tompson property, and when that 
 estate was divided, they fell to William Baker, who had married 
 Sarah Fitts, daughter of Abraham Fitts and granddaugther of 
 Tompson.^ Baker enlarged his holding April 1, 1697, by the pur- 
 chase of a small lot, measuring one and a quarter acres, of Jona- 
 than Wade, and it is stated in the deed that it was on the northeast 
 side of the highway that separated it from other land of ^^'ade.^ 
 Baker sold to Robert Fitts in 1714 "that island of upland and 
 meadow, which I bought of Mr. Thos. Wade . . . about one acre," 
 also " one half acre out of ye ten acres lying on the side of said 
 Island, always reserving a highway sufficient for carting through 
 said Island and half acre."^ 
 
 On Nov. 22, 1731,^ Robert Fitts sold to Abraham Fitts, his half 
 part of 56 acres, " in which is included all the land which I and 
 my said brother Abraham, bought of our uncle Baker," and the 
 land which came "• partly by inheritance from father Abraham, 
 and partly from Wm. Baker." It is specified in this deed that the 
 sale included " my dwelling house and barn in said premises." 
 Fitts sold this house and barn with three-quarters of an acre to 
 Jacob Boardman in 1734," and in 1747, Boardman sold to Richard 
 Manning, gunsmith.^ 
 
 No mention is made of the house and it may have disappeared. 
 But the location of this ancient dwelling is undoubtedly preserved 
 by the remembered location of an old cellar, near the road, and a 
 little way from the barred gateway, which used to be known as 
 the " old cellar l)ars." The house was built evidently by Robert 
 Fitts, a little later than 1714. 
 
 The heirs of Wm. Baker, John Waite, John Baker and others, 
 sold their interest in an adjoining nine-acre field to Joseph Abbe 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, 425 : 7. s Essex Co. Deeds, 29 . 9-2. 
 
 2 Essex Co. Deeds, :«!: H. « Essex Co. Deeds, 59: 130. 
 " Essex Co. Deeds, 9: 273. I(i9;{. ' Essex Co. Deeds, 67 : 44. 
 
 ^ Essex Co. Deeds, 12 : 16. ' Essex Co. Deeds, S8 : 282. 
 
THE OLD AKGILLA KOAD. 15 
 
 ill 1744.1 Abbe sold to John Appletoii in 1748,"- who also ac- 
 quired an adjoining tract of upland and niarsli, bordering on Labor- 
 in-vain Creek, in 1753,^ from Kev. Nathaniel Rogers. This prop- 
 erty had passed from father to son, from the first minister of the 
 name, and had been in the Rogers family for more than a century. 
 At Mr. Appleton's death, he bequeathed to his son William, ''all 
 the land I bought of Nathaniel Rogers and Joseph Ashljy,'"* 
 \79'3.-' When Win. Appleton's estate was divided, the Abbe and 
 Rogers lot fell to his daughter Mary Bowditch, 1809." Wm. A. 
 Bowditch and others, heirs of their mother, Mary Bowditch, sold 
 •'Abbey's lot" to Joseph Kinsman in 1834,'^ and his grandson, 
 Gustavus Kinsman, has reeentl}' sold to Mr. Geo. A. Barnard. 
 
 These prosaic facts may well be supplemented by Celia Thax- 
 ter's well-known poem, totally unhistoric, but a very pleasing 
 idyll, devised to explain tlie name. 
 
 In Ipswich town, not far from the sea. 
 
 Rises a bill Avhicli the people call 
 Heart-break Hill, and its history 
 
 Is an old, old legend known to all. 
 
 It was a sailor who won the heart 
 
 Of an Indian maiden, lithe and yonng: 
 And she saw bim over tlie sea depart, 
 
 While sweet in her ear his promise rnng; 
 
 For lie cried, as he Ivissed her wet eyes dry, 
 
 " I'll come back, sweet-heart ; keep your faith ! " 
 
 She said, " I will watch while the moons go by." 
 Her love was stronger than life or death. 
 
 So this poor dusk Ariadne kept 
 
 Her watch from the bill-top rugged and steep ; 
 Slowly the empty moments crept • 
 
 While she studied the changing face of the deep, 
 
 Fastening her eyes on every speck 
 
 Tliat crossed the ocean within her l\en ; 
 Might not her lover be wallving the deck. 
 
 Surely and swiftly returning again? 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, 89: 129. * Error for Abl)e. 
 
 ! Essex Co. Deeds, 93: 36. ^ Probate Records, 36:5; 110. 
 
 ■■'■ Essex Co. Deeds, OS: l.il. ' Probate Records, 376: 101; 378: ISl. 
 
 ' Essex Co. Deeds, -ISO: 32. 
 
16 THE OLD AKGII.LA KOAO. 
 
 The Isles of Shoals, loomed lonely and dim, 
 
 In the north-east distance far and gray, 
 And on the horizon's nttermost rim 
 
 The low rock heap of Boone Island lay. 
 
 Oh, liut the weary, merciless days. 
 
 With the snn above, with the sea afar, 
 No change in her fixed and wistfnl gaze. 
 
 From the morning red to the evening star ! 
 
 Like a slender statne carved of stone, 
 
 She sat, with hardly motion or breath. 
 She wept no tears and she made no moan, 
 
 But her love was stronger than life or death. 
 
 He never came back I Yet, faitlifnl still. 
 She watched from the hill-top her life away, 
 
 .And the townsfolk christened it Heart-break Hill, 
 And it bears the name to this very day. 
 
 BATH SPRIX(;. 
 
 Mention is made in the deed of Bowditch to Kinsman in 1834 
 of the Bath Spring. This is still seen by the roadside, though I 
 have been told by an old resident that in early days it bubbled up 
 near the center of the present highway, and that it was led by a 
 pipe to its present location. The name Bath Spring is interesting 
 as connecting it with other well-known springs or wells. The first 
 thus specified is mentioned iu a deed by Matthias Button to 
 Thomas Wells in 1644, of twelve acres upland and meadow, which 
 alludes to Goodman Ilovey's Island and " the spring well that 
 is in " this Island.' A later deed of the " Startford Farm and 
 Ilovey's Island or Bath Island," from Beamsley Perkins to Thomas 
 Choate, makes exception of "the Bath and house thereon, situate 
 in said Bath Island with liberty to re-edify the house over the bath 
 or build another of same dimensions, wliich is reserved." July, 
 1719.'-^ 
 
 A well, now filled to the curb, may still be found there, but as 
 no evidence of any dwelling is found, it perplexes us to know why 
 such value should have attached to the water of this spring or well, 
 that it was housed in, and reserved by the owner, when he sold all 
 the adjoining land. A second spring, highly valued as a bath, is still 
 
 ' Ipswich Deeds, 1: 485. '^ Essex Co. Deeds, 37: 2S. 
 
THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD, 17 
 
 covered by the brick building on Spring Street, and is used by the 
 County for a source of water supply for the House of Correction, 
 lu 1772, Dr. Berry petitioned the town in regard to it as follows : 
 
 "A petition of Doctor Thomas Berry, shewing as it has been 
 found by Experience that a cold bath is of great service to man- 
 kind, and there being a suitable and convenient place to erect one 
 at the upper end of the spring in Hogg Lane so called, nigh the 
 house of John Grow, praying that the town would please to make 
 a grant to him and his heirs of twenty feet of ground, below the 
 bank at the foot of the upper spring, to erect an edifice for the use 
 aforesaid, the Town reserving to themselves the whole benefit of 
 the Lower great Spring which is no ways to be diverted."' 
 
 This was granted, and the bath house was probably erected, 
 but whetlier for his family alone or for public use is not declared. 
 I incline to believe that the name Bath Spring, still attaching to 
 this spot, indicates that it may have been enclosed in a similar 
 structure for tiiis purpose, and it may have been of special value 
 to Robert Fitts and the other dwellers in the house that once stood 
 near it. 
 
 GIDDINGS-IiUKNHAM. 
 
 Retracing our steps to the dwellings and farms on the southern 
 side of our old highway, we consider first of all the ancient 
 dwelling, once picturesque with great chimney stack and project- 
 ing second story, now through remodelling, prosaic and coiumou- 
 place in outward appearance. It used to be said that John Win- 
 throp owned the land and built the house, but records and deeds 
 are stubborn witnesses, and their testimony is invariably against 
 this tradition. The Town Record, under the year 1635, informs 
 us that a grant had been made to George Giddings of " one hun- 
 dred acres of Land at Chebocky " (now the town of Essex), and 
 ''likewise about sixteen acres of meaddow and upland, havinge 
 the highway to Cheboky on the north-east," and a house lot as 
 well on the south side of the river. This very ambiguous location 
 becomes more definite when we find in the deed of sale^ from 
 
 Giddings to Thoraas Burnam of "my dwelling house wherein said 
 Thomas now dwelleth and twelve acres of land, bounded by the land of 
 Mr. Jonatlian Wade toward tlie North, and land of Mr. Nathaniel Rogers 
 toward the West and South, the Highway leading to Chebacco, East." 
 .Jane 3, 1667. 
 
 1 Town Records. ^ Essex Deeds, i: 217. 
 
18 THE OLD ARCilLLA ROAD. 
 
 The Rogers laud may be identified with the meadow on the turn 
 of the road, between the Ordway property and the land about the 
 old house, which continued in that family for several generations. 
 The Burnham title continued through generations of sons bearing 
 the good old names of Thomas, Isaac, Aaron, Josiah, and one of 
 finer parts, Doctor Joshua, down to the year when Mrs. Sally, 
 widow of the last Josiah, sold it to the present owner. It would 
 appear from the deed that Burnham was living on this spot at the 
 time, and it might be thought possible that the present well-pre- 
 served building is the original house. But the style of the house 
 in its original form and its general appearance, led Dr. Lyon of 
 Hartford, an expert in olden architecture, to locate it about the 
 beginning of the next century. 
 
 George Giddings, it is believed, came over the ocean in the ship 
 Planter, and an old shipping document' is of interest. 
 
 2 April, 1G35. 
 
 Theis underwritten are to be transported to New England, imbarqued 
 
 in the Planter, Nicholas Frarice, M."^ bound thither, the parties have 
 
 brought certificates from the Minister of St. Albans in Hertfordshire, 
 
 and attestacon from the Justices of peace according to the Lord's order. 
 
 George Giddins, husbandman, 25 years. 
 Jane Giddins, 20 years. 
 
 Thomas Carter ' 25 I 
 
 Michael Willinson 30 ^ Servants of George Giddins. 
 
 Elizabeth Morrison 12 J 
 
 People of the poorer sort frequently bound themselves to ser- 
 vice in the families of well-to-do emigrants, and thus secured free 
 transportation to the New World. Michael Williamson, whom we 
 may identify with Michael Willinson, above, accompanied Mr. 
 Giddings to this town, and received a grant of land on Heart] 
 break, and another on Sagamore Hill. 
 
 We have remarked on the early residence of the Fullers on the 
 other side of the road. On the occasion of a dispute as to the 
 bounds of the highway, old William Fuller was summoned as a 
 Avitness. His testimony is explicit, and suggestive of neighbor- 
 hood bitternesses of the period. 
 
 " Dec. 13, 1681. William Fuller, seventy-three years of age of 
 Hampton, testified that about forty-one years ago, the highway to 
 
 1 From "Our Early Emigrant Ancestors," edited by Jolin C. HoHen quoted in "The 
 Giddings Family." 
 
THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 19 
 
 Chebbacco was laid out by the lot-layers, and myself beiug pres- 
 ent, four rods wide between my four acre lot at the West end of 
 Heart-break Hill, between my lot and Goodman Giddings house 
 lot which is now Ensign Burnham's or which was when I was last 
 in Ipswich. I was displeased they took so much. I sold to my 
 brother John." 
 
 John Fuller, son of William, testified to the same effect, and 
 added that tliere was no land inclosed between his father and 
 Goodman Burnham's. He was thirty-eight years old. 
 
 lee's meadow. 
 
 Boundary lines were fixed by blaze marks on trees, by stakes 
 and small heaps of stones, and such convenient natural objects as 
 brooks and water-courses. As an inevitable result, boundaries 
 were always in dispute, and committees on encroachment on the 
 public domain found ample ground for their existence. The road 
 to Chebaceo was four rods wide by the location of the lot layers, 
 but practically it was only a narrow winding wheel- rut, with no 
 fence or wall to mark its course. This superfluous width was 
 turned to good advantage by the thrifty town's folk. On Feb. 10, 
 1640/1, the Town voted that " the hay upon Chebaceo waye to- 
 ward Labour-in-vain Creek be granted to John Lee this year only," 
 
 "the land itself beino; settled for a liighwaj-, the Town 
 intending that by like grant, he shall enjoy it, he giving 
 no cause to the contrary, it remaining in Town's hand 
 to give or not to give." 
 
 Having thus affirmed that John Lee shall have no ground for 
 any possible future claim to ownership of this four rod strip be- 
 cause of his privileges therein, the town proceeded most com- 
 placently, and with much of serene satisfaction with this novel 
 scheme for highway repair, to vote that the highway to Chebaceo 
 beneath Heart-break Hill '^ shall forever be repay red by the 
 benefit of the grass yearly growing upon the same." Evidently 
 John Lee paid due heed to keeping the highway in usable condi- 
 tion, presumably finding the arrangement profitable, for the town 
 voted repeatedly that he should enjoy all the profits of the high- 
 way and "all the common ground lyeing at the foot of Heart-break 
 Hill," maintaining the highway from Rocky Hill to William Lamp- 
 son's lot " and if there be any ground that may convenvently be 
 
20 TlIK OLD ARGILI.A ROAD. 
 
 planted he hath liberty to plant it and secure it for himself he al- 
 ways leaving a sufficient highway for carting and drift." 
 
 He continued his care of the way ten years at least, as the vote 
 of Oct. 31, 1650, ordering the surveyors to repair the highways 
 leading to Chebacco and to Castle Neck, makes exception of "that 
 part of the iiighway that John Leigh hath undertaken." No one 
 could do this work at greater advantage. His dwelling was on 
 the Turkey Shore road, on the site of the houses lately built by 
 the Atkinson Brothers, > and he owned the broad stretch of meadow 
 on the south side of the old road, still known by the older people 
 as " Lee's meadow," stretching from Low's lane, now Heart Break 
 Road, or thereabout, toward the Galbraith farm, and a small tract 
 of upland on the hillside. 
 
 In March, 1654, " being about seventy years old," Lee was 
 released from ordinary training, but he lived until 1671. His in- 
 ventory recorded that year mentions a 
 
 " pasture by the sate by Sergeant Burnain's, £20-0-0." 
 
 Further allusion to that gate is found in the Ipswich Court Record, 
 which has preserved to his posterity that Joseph Lee, son of John, 
 was summoned before the Court in 1681, 
 
 " for cumbering the gate at Rocky Hill near Ensign Burnam's." 
 
 We may dismiss so trilling an offence forthwith, but the allusion 
 to the gate is an item of interest. The natural inference is that 
 he obstructed some gate through which there was a public way and 
 we may venture a step farther and imagine that this was a gate 
 or place of passing through the "common fence " as it was called, 
 which encircled the town. 
 
 As early as 1637, it was voted that " a general fence shall be 
 made from the end of the Town to Egypt River, also from the 
 east end of the Town, in the way to Jeffries Neck," and liberty 
 was granted to fell any trees that may be needed for this pui-pose. 
 
 It was provided in 1639 that, " in all common passages, and in 
 such ways as lead to particular men's lands, sufficient gates shall 
 be set up at the charge of those benefitted." A general or common 
 fence of this kind, crossed the Old England road, as appears from 
 a division of land between Leigh's sons, passed over Heart-break 
 
 ' The autlior of "The Descendants of John Lee of Agawani," p. 80, is in error in 
 locating his residence on the Heart-break Hill land. 
 
THE OLD AUGILLA ROAD. 21 
 
 Hill and came down over the Chebacco way, thence across the fields, 
 over County Road near the brook and on to the river. Its location 
 was not quite agreeable to Thomas Burnani and Jolin Fuller, and 
 they presumed to move it, whereupon the Towu sternly ordered, in 
 the year 1650, that they should "remove that part of the Common 
 fence at the enterini>; of the field at Heart-break Hill, to the place 
 where it stood before." 
 
 The Lee or Leigh ownership lends a piquant flavor to this ancient 
 meadow. In his young manhood, he was of a turbulent and unruly 
 temper. In The Mass. Colonial Records, we find " April 1 -*, 1634. 
 It is ordered that John Lee shall be whipt and ffined for calling 
 Mr. Ludlowe false-hearted knave, & hard heart knave, heavy 
 friend &c." 
 
 His vicious tongue and unseemly behavior involved him in fresh 
 <lifflculties with the magistrates. In October of the same year, 
 '• It was ordered that 
 
 " John Lee shall be fined XL' for speaking rpchfuUy of 
 tlie Gov'r, saying lie was bnt a lawyers clerke, & what 
 understanding had hee more tlian himselfe ; also taxing 
 tlie court for makeing laws to pticlie mens purses, as 
 also for abuseing a mayde of tlie Gov'rs, pretending love 
 in the way of marriage when himself professes he had 
 none.'"' 
 
 Neither Judge nor Governor was safe from his revilings, and 
 his humbler neighbor fared even worse at his hands. In 1641, 
 *' John Lee of Ipswich was accused of stealing the widow Hatfield's 
 bible : was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to pay the widow 15® 
 for her bible, and lO"" for lying about it." He was fined for rail- 
 ing speeches in May, 1660, and in March, 1665, he was fined for 
 contempt by non-appearance at Court; and in his old age, in 
 March 27, 1667, he was "brought before court to answer for 
 working in his swamp on Sunday, but brought witnesses to prove 
 he was putting out a fire, and so was discharged." 
 
 We may well fear that many a by-passer felt the sting of his 
 tongue, and that his neighbors found him a sad trial, but the re- 
 membrance of his waywardness is mellowed with time, and he still 
 remains a picturesque figure in the broad meadow. 
 
 Thomas Burnham enlarged his property by the purchase of a ten 
 acre lot, of John Emery of Newburyport (which was sometime 
 
 1 Mass. Col. Record, Oct. 1634. 
 
22 THE OLD ARGILLA KOAD. 
 
 John Webster's), bounded by Leigh's land on the east, and his 
 own west, with land of John Fuller between it and the highway', 
 in 1653 (Jan. 13),' and three acres of William Fuller which 
 lay between his own land and that of John Lee, lately deceased 
 when the deed was drawn in 1671, ^ and at his death owned about 
 twentj'-five acres, ^ which was divided between his sons James 
 and Thomas, the latter receiving the house and land adjoining.'' 
 
 John Lee left two sons, as well, John and Joseph. John sold 
 his brother all his interest in the lands owned by their father.-"^ 
 He had previously bought, three acres of Willinm Fidler, adjoin- 
 ing Thomas Burnham's. He removed to Concord, and sold thirty 
 acres of meadow and upland to Major Francis Wainwriglit, Uec. 
 24, 1695. '" At this time it is evident that there was no highway 
 leaving the Argilla road where the present Lowe's lane or Heart 
 Break Road is, but the Burnhams and Lees owned the whole tract 
 continuously. 
 
 Tiie first mention of this lane at this northern end occurs in the 
 deed of Samuel Kinsman to George Creightonof Gloucester, of the 
 dwelling, house, barn and four acres of land, the property now 
 owned and occupied by Mr. J. Farley Kinsman, on July 14, 1777.''' 
 Samuel was the son of John Kinsman, who bought much of the 
 estate of James Burnham, who received it fi'om his father, James. 
 Creighton sold to Michael Kinsman, April 21, 1795,^ and his heirs 
 sold to Joseph Kinsman, grandfather of the present owner, Jan. 
 31, 1821.-' The old barn by the roadside bears the date 1822, 
 and was built, evidently, in the year following his purchase. The 
 present house was built near the same date. Joseph Kinsman 
 enlarged his modest property in 1835, by purchasing the six acre 
 field on the corner of the lane of Geo. W. Heard. It is called 
 "Lee's Meadow" in the deed,"' which further recites that the east- 
 ern bound is on laud formerly of Nathaniel Cogswell. 
 
 Nineteen acres of the original Lee's Meadow were owned by 
 Jonathan Wade at his death about 1749.'' His grandson, Dr. 
 Nathaniel Cogswell of Rowley, inherited most of his estate, and 
 his son, Northend Cogswell, of South Berwick, sold the meadow^ 
 
 • Essex Co. Deeds, 5: 11. « Essex Co. Deeds, 2: .51. 
 
 - Ipswich Deeds, iv. ' Essex Co. Deeds, 144 : 210. 
 
 ■ Essex Co. Deeds, 9 : 166. s Essex Co. Deeds, 159 :161. 
 
 < Essex Co. Deeds, 9: 161,165, 168, Nov. 28, 1693. « Essex Co. Deeds, 227: 24. 
 Ipswich Deeds, 4 : 495, Sept. 37, 1681. '"> Essex Co. Deeds, 283 : 27. 
 
 " Probate Record, 3.30 : 4.3,-). 
 
THE OLD ARGII.I-A ROAD. 23 
 
 estimated as containing sixteen acres, to .John Heard in 1823.* 
 Increase H. Brown, of Marblehead, bouglit it of Thomas Brown 
 and sold it to George Haskell in 1854.- 
 
 THE FORTY ACHKS. 
 
 The farm, now owned and occupied by Mr. John Galbraith, was 
 owned by Mr. Frederic Bray, and previously by Dr. John Man- 
 ning, who bought twenty-five acres here of Dr. Joseph Manning 
 of Salem, in 1834,-' and erected the buildings. The deed recites 
 that it -was part of the estate of John Appleton, deceased. John 
 Appleton acquired some tiiirty acres by a succession of small pur- 
 chases from John Boardman. Jacob Boardman, John Kinsman and 
 Nath. Cogswell, and it is specified in several of the transfers that 
 the lots were part of the "forty acres so called," a designation 
 which is still remembered by the old people. 
 
 Samuel Rogers, son of the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, received as 
 part of his share of the parental estate, "forty acres, adjoining 
 Mr. Wade, Mr. Saltinstall and Joseph Lee, 1684."'' I think this is 
 the same property, as Mr. Wade owned the land on the east in 
 1697,' and Mr. Nathaniel Rogers owned land immediately oppo- 
 site. Mr. Rogers was probably the original owner. 
 
 ARGILLA FARM. 
 
 The land and marsh on the east side of the Labour-in-vain Creek, 
 extending as far as the road known as the " North gate road," 
 were John Winthrop's three hundred acre farm, granted him in 
 1634. His title to the farm was beyond dispute and it redounds 
 to his credit that he subsequently made terms with the Indian saga- 
 more, whose dominions had been invaded by the English. The 
 oiiginal document, by which the Indian transferred the land to 
 Winthrop is reproduced in a Sketch of John Winthropthe Younger. ^ 
 
 " This doth testify that I Maskonomet did give to M'' John 
 Winthrop all that ground that is betweene the creeke comSly called 
 Labour in Value creeke & the creeke called Chybacko Creeke, for 
 w*"'* I doe acknowledge to have received full satisfaction in wam- 
 pampeage & other things : and I doe heerby also for the sume of 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, -274 : IW. * Ipswich Deeds, 5: 14(>. 
 
 ■■' Essex Co. Deeds, 490 : 94. ^ Essex Co. Deeds, 12 : 16. 
 
 ■■Essex Co. Deeds, 189:14. e Publications of Ipswich Histor. Society, VII. 
 
24 TIIK OLD ARGILLA UOAU. 
 
 twenty pounds to be paid unto me by the said John Wiuthrop, I 
 doe fully resigne up all my right of the whole towne of Ipsw*^'* as 
 farre as the bounds thereof shall goe, all the woods, meadowes, 
 pastures & broken up grounds, unto the said John Winthrop in 
 the name of the rest of the English there planted, and 1 doe bind 
 my selfe to make it cleere from the claimes of any other Indians 
 whatsoever. 
 
 Maskonomett — his marke 
 
 Witnesses to this : 
 
 Gyles Ffyrmin 
 
 Adam Wintlirop 
 
 Hugh Hilliard 
 
 his marke 
 
 Deane Wiuthrop 
 
 A subsequent deed dated 28 June, 1638, states that the money 
 Lad been paid. In 1637, he conveyed it to Samuel Symonds, 
 who became Deputy-Governor of the Colony, and was an eminent 
 Judge and man of affairs. When Mr. Symonds bought it there 
 were no buildings, and his first care was to erect a house for him- 
 self. He gave such minute directions to Mr. Wiuthrop, who as- 
 sumed charge of the building, and the letter is so characteristic 
 of^ the man and the times, that I append a considerable portion 
 of it. 
 
 To John Winthrop Jr. 
 
 To the' Right Worshipful! his unich honored brother, John Wenthrop 
 of Ipswich, Esqr. Speed this I pray. 
 Good Sir: 
 
 I have received your lettre, I thanke you for it, it hath bin my earnest 
 desire to have had an oportunity longe ere this to have bene with you 
 againe, but Avas hindered by the weatlier .... 
 
 Concerneiuge tlie bargaine that I liave made with you for Argilla, my 
 Avife is Avell content, & it seems that my father Peter' hath imparted it to 
 the Governor, who (he tells me) approves of it very well, alsoe soe I hope 
 I shall now meete with noe rub in that businesse ; but go on comf Ortablely 
 accordeing as I have & daily doe dispose my aflaires for Ipswich. 
 
 Concerneiuge the frame of the howse, I thanke you kiudely for your 
 love & care to further my busines. I could be Avell content to leave much 
 of the contrivance to your owne liberty vpou what we have talked to- 
 gether about it already. 
 
 1 Rev. Hugh Peter of Salem, who married Elizabetli, widow of Edmund Reade, and 
 mother of Martlia, tlie second wife of Symonds. 
 
THE OLD AR<aLLA ROAD. 25 
 
 I am indiferent whether it be 30 foote or 35 foote longe, 16 or 18 foote 
 broade. I would have wood chimnyes at each end, the frames of the 
 chimnyes to be stronger then ordinary to beare good heavy load of clay 
 for security against fire. You may let the chimnyes be all the breadth of 
 the howse if yon thinlve good; the 2 lower dores to be in the middle of 
 the howse one opposite to the other. Be sure that all the dorewaies in 
 every place be soe high that any man may goe vpright under. Tlie staiers 
 I thinlve had best be placed close by tlie dore. It makes no great matter 
 though there be noe particion vpon the first floore ; if there be, make one 
 biger then the other. For windowes let them not be over large in any 
 roome, & as few as conveniently may be : let all have current shutting 
 draw-windowes, having respect botli to present & future vse. 
 
 I think to make it a girt howse will make it more chargeable then neede ; 
 however the side bearers for the second story being to be loaden witli 
 corne etc. must not Ije pinned on, but rather eytlier sett into the studds 
 or borne vp with false studds & soe tenanted in at the ends. I leave it to 
 you and the carpenters. In this story over the first, I would have a 
 particion, whether in the middest or over the particion vnder, I leave it. 
 In the garrett no particion but let there be one or two Income windowes, 
 if two both on one side. I desire to have the sparrs reach downe pretty 
 deep at the eves to preserve the walls the better from the wether. I 
 would have it sellered all over, and soe the frame of the howse accorde- 
 ingly from the bottom. I would have the howse stronge in timber 
 though plaine nnd well brased. I would have it covered with very good 
 oake-hart inch board, for the present to be tacked on onely for the pres- 
 ent, as you tould me. Let the frame begin from tlie bottom of the seller, 
 & soe in the ordinary way upright for I can hereafter (to save the tim- 
 ber within grounde) run vp a thiu brick work without. I think it best 
 to have the walls without to be all clap boarded besides the clay walls. 
 It were not amisse to leave a doreway or two within the seller, that soe 
 hereafter one may make comings in from without, & let them be both 
 vpon that side which the Income window or windows be. I desire to 
 have the howse in your bargaineing to be as compleatly mentioned in 
 particulars as may be, at least so far as you bargaine for, & as speedily 
 done alsoe as you can. I thinke it not best to have too much timljer felled 
 near the howse place westward etc. Here are as many remembrances as 
 come to minde. I desire you to be in my stead herein, & what ener you 
 doe shall please me. 
 
 I desire you would talkewith Mr. Boreman & with his helpe buy for 
 me a matter of 40 Ijushells of good Indian corne of him or of some lion- 
 est man to be paidd for now in ready money & to be deliuered at any time 
 in the sumer as I please to vse it. I would deale witli such a man as will 
 not repent if corne rise, as I will not if it fall. Thus acknowledging my 
 bouldness, I desire to present our respectful! love to you, my sister, & 
 your little one, not forgetting my daughter, I cease, committing you to 
 him that is mercy & wisdome it selfe & soe rest. 
 
 Yours — ever 
 
 S. Svmonds. 
 
26 THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 
 
 A lengthy postscript is appended wliich is omitted here. The 
 letter bears no date, hut was written, evidently, soon after the 
 purchase of the Argilla farm, as it was called even in Winthrop's 
 time, sometime before the spring of 1638.1 Its quaint and labored 
 phrasing does not obscure the meaning. We can see the stout 
 farm house, with its overhanging eaves, and small oblong win- 
 dows, with clapboarded sides, and roof of inch oak boards, and 
 huge chimneys, one at either end, built with wooden splints well 
 daubed with clay, standing in a clearing, which is bounded b}' 
 the natural forest on the west, only a little way from the door. 
 Exceptional interest attaches to his remark about " the side bear- 
 ers " as he expresses it, being '' let in to the studs" or supported 
 with extra studs, and not simply pinned on to the studs. This is 
 precisely the style of architecture of the ancient Whipple House, 
 lately restored by tiie Historical Society, in the most ancient part, 
 which has proved a puzzle to architects, who have examined it. 
 The studs reach from sill to plate and the girths are let in to the 
 studs on the inner side and pinned to them. This may indicate 
 that this portion of the house ma}' have been built not far from 
 the time of the Argilla farm house. 
 
 It indicates as well that the earliest houses had two ciiiniiie3'^s, 
 which is confirmed by other incidental allusions I liave seen, with 
 regard to other houses, and that the single chimney-stack of huge 
 proportions was probably resorted to, -when building could be done 
 with more leisure and greater facility. In this case, however, 
 bricks are alluded to, and the}' were evidently in use at this early 
 period. 
 
 Here, in the wilderness, sat this lonely farm house, the only 
 dwelling probably in this whole region. Its exact site is uncer- 
 tain. An ancient cellar is known to have been located on a kuoU 
 beyond the causeway, southeast of the present house, and several 
 hundred feet away. Another house once stood a little to the east 
 of the present dwelling. But this was of later date. 
 
 Here the good magistrate and Deputy Governor spent many 
 restful days, when he could escape tlie bui'densome toil of his offi- 
 cial life. He had a town house with three acres of land, where 
 the old Seminary building and adjoining residences stand to-day ; 
 but he loved his farm and farm life, as his letter reveals. There 
 were times when Indian assault was feared, and in October 1675, 
 
 ' The origin of the name, Argilla, is unknown. Gradually it was extended to the 
 whole vicinity, and the road has been called by tlie same name for generations. 
 
TlIK OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 27 
 
 the General Court voted that a guard of two soldiers should be 
 stationed here at public expense, to guard his house, because it 
 was so remote from neighbors, and he was so much in the coun- 
 try's service. 
 
 In his old age, the Deputy Governor sold a piece of his faim to 
 Edward Bragg. The deed ' was drawn, April 21, 1676, and de- 
 scribes a nine-acre lot, with a barn and other buildings, Avhich 
 '' abutteth toward the east and South upon my farme called Ar- 
 gilia, & upon Mr. SaltonstaU's meadow toward the East, upon the 
 ground of Mr. Samuel Rogers toward the North, and upon the 
 ground of the sayd Mr. Rogers and of the said Edward Bragg 
 toward the West." Also "all that parcel of land (four acres and 
 a half) lying between the farme of the sayd Samuell and the pres- 
 ent common ground of Ipswich, y"^ abutteth upon an orchard of 
 the sayd Edward Bragg's toward the north and upon part of my 
 farm towards the South ; and it is the full meaning of both parties 
 that the way leading to and from the farm aforesayd called Argilla 
 & my house erected thereupon, through Edward Bragg's yard be 
 continued free forever ..... that way is not intended by the 
 word free as a connnon highway for all men, but particularly be- 
 longing to Argilla." 
 
 It appears from this that he sold Bragg, land that lay between 
 the main farm and the highway, reserving a way to his house 
 across it. In old deeds of division of a century ago, frequent 
 allusion is made to a lane, then called Caldwell's lane, which was 
 forty-five rods from the bridge over the creek. This makes it co- 
 incident with an old road, that leaves the road on the west side of 
 ]Mr. Alden Story's residence, and leads over the old causeway to the 
 knoll, where the ancient cellar has been tilled. In all probability 
 this was the way Mr. Symonds reserved, and his house stood over 
 this old cellar, on the knoll, beyond the causeway. 
 
 He died on October, 1678, while in Boston, imd was buried 
 there. He left a widow and sons, Harlakendine and William, and 
 six married daughters. The farm was divided among them, but 
 in 1695 Thos. Baker of Topsfield, who had married Priscilla, one 
 of Mr, Symonds' daughters, began to buy from the other heirs. 
 A series of these deeds, supplemented with later partitions and 
 agreements, and covering a century of the Baker ownership, with 
 a multiplicity of signatures and seals, has been preserved, and ha? 
 
 1 Ipswich Deeds, 4 : 39. 
 
28 THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 
 
 lately been given by Mr. John B. Brown to the Historical Society. 
 Baker bought tlie interest of Symonds Epes, Jan. 10, 1694-5, 
 that of Harlakenden Symonds, Feb. 4, 1695-6. The heirs of 
 William Sjnnonds gave a quitclaim on July 25, 1717. John 
 Baker, son of Thomas, succeeded to the ownership. Joseph, 
 Jacob and Philip Fowler quitclaimed to him, March 2, 1720. 
 Timothy Bragg sold seven acres and ninety rods of the land, pre- 
 viously within the farm, Feb. 1, 1723-4, and Thomas Berry, 
 attorney for the Saltonstall heirs, sold him a tract of upland and 
 salt-marsh, abutting on Labour- iu-vain-Creek, Dec. 12: 1730. 
 
 Tiie whole western portion of the original Argilla farm seems 
 thus to have come into the possession of John Baker. Colonel 
 Baker died Aug. 1, 1734, aged forty-four, and left the farm to his 
 son John. The latter became a man of large influence and great 
 public usefulness. He was Town Clerk for many years, one of 
 the Committee of Correspondence and Inspection during the Rev- 
 oUition, Colonel of a regiment, feoffee of the Grammar School, 
 and Justice of the Sessions Court, and not least of all, father of 
 twelve children. His town residence was the substantial dwelling 
 on the Heard property, facing the South Green, now occupied bj' 
 Mr. Charles M. Kelly. 
 
 In the partition of tlie estate in 1786, the widow received " the 
 southwest end of the mansion in town," and two acres near the 
 house, •' from the house-block southwest by the street, etc," with 
 the southwest end of the house at the farm with 33 rods of land 
 bounding on Caldwell's lane four rods and twenty licks, and other 
 lands. John received twenty-five and one lialf acres in ''the great 
 pasture," bounded by " the highway to the Town " and " the high- 
 way leading from Cape Ann to Castle Hill," with other lands, in- 
 cluding Eagle Nest Island. Allen Baker received fifteen acres 
 fronting on the highway, about forty-five rods from Labour-in- vain 
 Bridge to Caldwell's lane, with the northeast end of the farm house 
 and the new barn, with other land. 
 
 After their mother's death in 1797 John received " one acre at 
 the North corner of the close, so called, beginning at the north 
 corner of John's new dwelling house," and Allen, the west end of 
 the old dwelling house, etc., "with all the privilidges to sd lane 
 (Caldwell's) which belong to sd. Argilla farm." The " new dwel- 
 ling house," of John Baker is now owned and occupied by Mr. 
 Alden Story. Allen Baker built the substantial hip-roofed farm 
 
TIIK OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 29 
 
 house near bj' early in the present century. The Allen Baker 
 farm house was purchased by Mr. Elphraim Brown and inherited 
 by his son Thomas, whose widow and son own and occupy the his- 
 toric spot to-day. 
 
 JONATHAN wade's GRANT. 
 
 The next farm in the earliest period was Jonathan Wade's. He 
 received a grant in l(334i of ''two hundred acres at Cheboko, 
 haveing Mr. Winthrop's farm on the northwest, Mr. Samuel Dud- 
 ley's northeast, and a creeke called Chebacco Creeke on the South- 
 east." On April 1, 1654, he made an " indenture" to Henry Ben- 
 net of '' his farm called and known by the name of said Wade, his 
 farm, and given him by ye town of Ipswich." It was bounded 
 by land of Mr. Samuel Symonds on the north, the land of Mr. Sal- 
 tonstall on the east, and of Mr. Rogers on the west, and a creek 
 on the south containing about two hundred acres with houses, etc- 
 
 Henry Bennet sold the farm, now called Bennet's farm, to Col. 
 John Wainwright for £800 in 1697, March 14.^ Its bounds are 
 as before except that it is specified that Major Saltingstall's farm 
 is " now in ye tenure of Isaack Fellows," two hundred acres with 
 dwelling houses, barns, etc. 
 
 The Wainwrights were of an illustrious family. The first of 
 the name, Francis, was a soldier in the Pequot war and afterward 
 a wealthy merchant. He bought tiiirty acres of the Jolin Lee 
 grant, as has been mentioned. His son John, who bought the 
 Bennet farm, was a prosperous merchant, a colonel of a regiment, 
 and justice of the Sessions Court. He died in 1708, in his 60th 
 year, and his sons John and Francis received the farm. John at- 
 tained wealth, honor and influence. He was representative from 
 1720 to 1738, Clerk of the House eight years, and was always a 
 conspicuous figure in public affairs. He was Town Clerk, Justice 
 and Colonel as his father had been before him. 
 
 In 17534 (Feb. 1), Colonel John Wainwright, Mary his wife, 
 and his mother, Christian, sold sixty-five acres, "reaching to the 
 Great Creek," to Pelatiah Kinsman. In March, 1754,^ Mr. Kins- 
 man bought forty-three acres more, with a dwelling house and 
 barn, bounded by John Day's land and Francis Wainwright's. 
 
 1 Town Records. » Essex Co. Deeds, 12: 157. 
 
 2 Ipswich Deeds, 1 : i-lS. « Essex Co. Deeds, 101 : 28. 
 
 8 Essex Co. Deeds, 101 : 25. 
 
30 THE OLD AKGILLA KOAD. 
 
 He extended his domaiu yet farther in 1763 ' by tlie pnrehase of 
 another tract, "beginning near the North Gate by tlie road," also 
 " a piece of orcharding containing three-qnarters of an acre 
 bounded at John Day's line, westerly about nine rods, etc," in all 
 containing seventy-eight acres. The Wamwrights all had resi- 
 dences on East Street, and their farm properties were occupied 
 by their tenants. But Pelatiah Kinsman was a true son of the 
 soil, a direct descendant of the famous Quartermaster Robert, 
 who figured so grandly with Rev. John Wise and the others in re- 
 sisting the Andros tax. His son, Aaron, succeeded and his son, 
 Aaron, hale and hearty, in his 97th year, has lived and toiled all 
 his long life on this broad and sightly domaiu. 
 
 DUDLKY-SALTONSTALL FARM. 
 
 When Jonathan Wade's farm was granted in 1634, the farm 
 that bounded his on the northeast was owned by Mr. Samuel 
 Dudley. When he sold to Bennett in 1654, it was owned by 
 Richard Saltonstall, though occupied by Isaac and William Fel- 
 lows. INIr. Saltonstall was the foremost citizen of his time in 
 many respects, of noble birth, of great wealth, of preeminent 
 distinction in political affairs, but his residence in our town was 
 short and the majority of his best years was spent in England. 
 On the occasion of the marriage of his son Nathaniel, then resid- 
 ing in Haverhill, with Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Ward of 
 Haverhill, and granddaughter of Rev. Nathaniel Ward of Ips- 
 wich, iu 1664, he conveyed to his son, with other lands, the farm 
 at Chebacco, containing about one hundred and fifty acres. ^ On 
 April 6, 1731,^ Thomas Berry, attorney for the heirs of Nathan- 
 iel Saltonstall, sold to Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, the farm commonlj' 
 known as Day's farm, occupied by John Day, in Little Chebacco, 
 for £1850. 
 
 Mr. Rogers was the pastor of the Ipswich Church, the son of 
 Reverend John Rogers, who was also pastor of the church all his 
 life, grandson of Rev. John Rogers, President of Harvard College, 
 and great-grandson of the first emigrant, Nathaniel, pastor from 
 1638. He turned his bargain to excellent advantage, by dividing 
 the original farm into two, making the highway to Castle Hill, the 
 
 I Essex Co. Deeds, US: 35. ^ Ipswich Deeds, ii. 
 
 ■ Essex Co. Deeds, 79:203. 
 
THE OLD AKGILLA KOAD. 31 
 
 dividiDg Hue. In earlier times, it is evident that this was only a 
 cartwaj' through the farms, with gates and bars at the dividing 
 walls or fences of each farm ; and in the following century, remem- 
 brance remains of the great grandmother of the late Manasseh 
 Brown going to town from the Argilla Farm, when the road was 
 only a dim track through the woods. She used to say that she 
 could cover with her apron, the sapling oak, which still survives 
 by the Bath Spring, a gnarled and misshapen wreck. Fifty years 
 ago the owner of the land it occupied resolved to cut it down, and 
 it was saved by an appeal to the County Commissioners to change 
 the line of the road to include it in the public domain. 
 
 The eighty-foux acre tract on the southeast side of the road with 
 the dwelling and barn, the worthy minister sold to John Day, the 
 occupant, for £1696-l0s. on April 9, 1733. The deed' mentions 
 a cartway reserved, through the upland, and "the gravelly nole 
 near where the school-house now stands." He kept the other part 
 nine years and then sold it for £1250, to Stephen Smith,- except- 
 ing the w^ay from Colonel Denison's farm to the road or way lead- 
 ing to Castle Hill. John Day bequeathed his farm to his sons. 
 Nathaniel sold his half to Abner, Jr., a w'orthy man. Deacon for 
 many years of the South Church, ^ and he deeded'' to his son John, 
 in 1814, one undivided half of three undivided quarters of the 
 farm, "that my grandfather purchased of Rev Nath. Rogers." 
 It was owned later by Asa Stone, and is still the property of his 
 heirs. The old farm house stood very near the site of the pres- 
 ent dwelling. 
 
 denison's farm. 
 
 The pedigree of the breezy hill top farm, now occupied by Mr. 
 Herman H. Story, begins with the graut of 150 acres to Daniel 
 Denison, the soldier of the town, whose skill in military affairs 
 was so great that he became the commander-in-chief of the colo- 
 nial forces. His townsmen had such supreme appreciation of his 
 value as a leader in the stormy times, when Indian assaults were 
 always dreaded, that £24-7s. was raised by popular subscription 
 annually for many years. A most pretentious man, withal, very 
 proud of his dignity as civil magistrate and local aristocrat. 
 Record remains of a most unseemly dispute between the pompous 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, 89 : 46. s Essex Co. Deed.s, 147 : 285. 
 
 2 Essex Co. Deeds, 107 : ■22e5. * Essex Co. Deeds, -204 : -266, June 25, 1814. 
 
32 TUK OLl> ARGILLA ROAD. 
 
 soldier and the gentle Deputy Governor, regarding a boundary 
 between their lands. It culminated in an open quarrel ovier a load 
 of hay, and the common people enjoyed the delectable sight of a 
 suit-at-la\v between the two foremost men, which w^as settled in a 
 kindly grant of the Town to Mr. Symonds to make good what he 
 relinquished to pacify his overbearing neighbor. 
 
 It continued in the Denison family a hundred years and more. 
 John Denison sold in 1743' (Sept. 21), to Francis Cogswell, Tan- 
 ner, " the full two-thirds part of ye farm called Dennison's farm, 
 whereon I said Francis now live, containing about one hundred 
 and thirty-eight acres — bounded northeast by Jacob Smith's land, 
 south by Stephen Smith's land," etc. 
 
 Francis Cogswell bequeathed his wife Elizabeth the use and im- 
 provement of one-half his real estate, but gave all his real estate 
 to his son Francis.- His inventory-^ includes " a fustin coat, 4s, pair 
 of velvet britches 16s, silver watch 106s, Sd. 
 
 blue jacket, 6s, 8d. 2 wiggs, 5s. 
 
 a negro boy called Cato £36-5s. 4d. 
 
 the schooner Deborah & boat & all appurtenances, £80-0-0-0. 
 
 the old schooner Dolphin & boat & all appurtenances, £66-13-4." 
 
 The stately Francis with wig and watch, blue jacket and velvet 
 britches represents one extreme of the social scale of that day, 
 the black slave boy Cato, the other. The old Denison farm con- 
 tinues to be occupied by people that interest us, but no figure at- 
 tracts us more to-day than the humble chattel, clattering down 
 from Town horseback and up through the lane to the hill top farm. 
 
 The second Francis'' remembered his wife Elizabeth with "a 
 suit of suitable mourning after my decease," and his sons Francis 
 and Joseph with his real estate. The third Francis^ left a wife 
 Anstice and two sons Francis and Joseph, to whom his estate Avas 
 divided in 1793, and Joseph*' died in 1791, and his half of the es- 
 tate continued to his heirs, Ebenezer and Joseph. The brothers, 
 Ebenezer and Joseph, succeeded, and Ebenezer's sons Ebenezer 
 and Joseph owned and occupied the estate for many j^ears. 
 
 NATHANIEL WARD's FARM. 
 
 The Denison farm on the hill-top was bounded by Mr. Ward's 
 
 Essex Co. Deeds, 88 : 1". * Probate Records, 351 : 645, June 6, 1772. 
 
 2 Probate Records, 333 : 440, Feb. '25, 1755. ^ Probate Records, 362 : 533, .June 20, 1793. 
 ' Probate Records, 334 : 424. " Probate Records, 361 : 48S, Dec. G, 1791. 
 
THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 33 
 
 land ou the northeast. We may regret that the location is so 
 vague, and allusion to it so rare, for Mr. Ward was a grand 
 figure in the early days. Rev. Nathaniel Ward, as he is better 
 known, was the first Pastor of the struggling church, a man who 
 had tasted hardship in common with his Puritan brethren in 
 England, who found poverty and sickness and trouble in the new 
 life here, but who did grand work in foundation laying for the 
 new commonwealth. One very affecting incident in his history is 
 the letter he wrote to John Winthrop, Jr., about the year 1635. 
 In the postscript, he writes, 
 
 " I heare Mr. Cockling ton hath the sale & disposal! of 
 much provision come in this shipp. I intreate you to do 
 so much as to speake to him in my name to reserve some 
 meale & malt & what victuals els he thinks meete, till 
 our River be open ; our Church will pay him duely for it. 
 I am very destitute, I have not above 6 bushells corne 
 left & other things answerable." 
 
 I incline to identify the Ward farm with the northern part of 
 the Charles Smith or .John Lowe farm, though it may be included 
 in the farm, known as the Randall Andrews farm. What pathetic 
 interest attaches to the land, which was planted and watched with 
 anxious care, from early springtime to the glad harvest by the 
 poverty-stricken minister, who prayed and toiled that his harvest 
 might be ample to secure him against another experience of such 
 pinching want ! 
 
 BISHOP-WELLS-riLTON FAKM. 
 
 The land now included in the Charles Smith and adjoining farms 
 was owned at a very early date by Tliomas Bishop, who sold 80 
 acres upland and meadow to Thomas Wells in 1644.1 Matthias 
 Button sold Wells 13 acres upland and meadow, bounded by 
 widow Lumpkin's farm at Sagamore Hill, in the same year.2 Dea. 
 Symond Stone of Watertown, who had taken Sarah, Richard Lum- 
 kyn's widow, to wife, sold Mr. Wells forty acres more in 1654.3 
 
 Sagamore Hill was originally apportioned in small tillage lots to 
 a considerable number of owners, as we have seen already in the 
 case of Heart-break Hill. No record of sale remains, but it is 
 evident that in a few years they were absorbed into the Lumkyn 
 and adjoining farms. 
 
 ' Ipswicli Deeds, 1 : 419. 2 ipt^wich Deeds, 1 : 435. 
 
 3 Ipswich Deeds, 2. 
 
34 
 
 THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 
 
 Thomas Wells left two sons, Thomas and Nathaniel. Thomas 
 quitclaimed his portion to his brother, in 1669,' and the deed 
 gives the south and southeast bound on land of Samuel Rogers. 
 This Rogers' land is located by the deed of sale of Daniel Epps 
 to Mr. Samuel Rogers, for £240, of his house, barns, out-houses 
 etc., and fifty acres of land " at a place comonly called Chebacko, 
 the land of Mr. John Rogers & Thomas Wells toward north & 
 north-west, lands of Major Denison and Mr. Saltonstall's farm 
 toward the west, other land of said Samuel and a great creek 
 toward the south and east" (Jan. 24, 1664).- 
 
 This may be identified with probable accuracy with the fields on 
 the south side of the highway, nearly opposite the dwelling of Mrs. 
 ■Charles Smith, where an old cellar and well, and traces of other 
 buildings are still visible, and indicate the spot where, we may pre- 
 sume, the ancient farm buildings stood. Mrs. Martha Rogers, 
 widow of Mr. John Rogers, sold a property for £246 to Nathaniel 
 Wells in 1695, a house, barn and forty acres, which is bounded 
 substantially as the preceding and may be identified with it.^ 
 
 Thomas Wells sold Abraham Tilton Jr., his farm, described as 
 "part of ye farme which my brother bought of ye relict of Mr. 
 John Rogers, & part of ye farm of aforesaid father Nathaniel 
 Wells, deceased," sixty acres, in 1706/ and Nathaniel Wells sold 
 Tilton some sixteen acres more in 1709.^ Abraham Tilton gave 
 his sou, Daniel, a three-acre lot, on which Daniel had his residence, 
 in 1729,^ which Daniel sold back to his father in 1737." 
 
 Part of the Wells farm continued in the Wells line until 1809, 
 •when Nathaniel Wells sold to Oliver Cogswell,^ who built the house, 
 now standing, about 1815. It was purchased and occupied for 
 years by Mr. Manasseh Brown, owned later by the late Alvin 
 Story, and now by Dr. J. L. Goodale. The remainder of the farm 
 passed into other hands. Abraham Tilton conveyed one half his 
 farm to his son Abraham, the northeast part, including the three 
 acres in 1737 ;9 and in 1741, 'o Daniel Tilton and others sold Jacob 
 Smith about one hundred acres, with buildings, " lately owned 
 and possessed by our Hon''. Father, Mr. Ab"\ Tilton Gentleman," 
 including land on both sides the road, "only excepting and reserv- 
 
 ^ Ipswich Deeds, 3. 
 "Essex Co. Deeds, 3: 85. 
 3 Essex Co. Deeds, 12 : 10. 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, 20 : 19. 
 Js Essex Co. Deeds, 24: 4. 
 
 6 Essex Co. Deeds, 53 : 78. 
 ' Essex Co. Deeds, 73: 61. 
 
 8 Essex Co. Deeds, 188: ]01. 
 
 9 Essex Co. Deeds, 73 : 41. 
 I" Essex Co. Deeds, 83: 10-'. 
 
THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 35 
 
 ino" the road leading to Castle Hill, the road or way leading to Em- 
 erson farm^ (so called) now owned by John Choate, Esq., also 
 a way or privilege of passing over the south side of said farm, 
 heretofore reserved by Mr. John Rogers and after by Mr. Thos. 
 Wells, deceased." 
 
 It is interesting to note that, in the middle of the last century, 
 the highway to Castle Hill was so ill defined that there was need 
 of reserving to the public their right of way, in this deed. 
 
 Moses Wells sold Smith several lots in 1773.'- Jacob Smith 
 bequeathed his large estate to the three sons of his kinsman, 
 Adam Smith, Josluia, Asa and Bemsley.^ It included "two man- 
 sion houses," with barn, etc.'' 
 
 Joshua received the farm which he bequeathed in turn to his 
 son Joshua, and he to his son Charles, whose widow and family 
 still retain it. Asa Smith came into possession of the part now 
 owned and occupied by Mr. John Burnham. He sold Hepzibah 
 Day, wife of John Day Jr., twenty acres, " at the corner of a stone 
 wall and road or way leading to Cogswell's farm, near the southerly 
 end of the house lately the property of Adam Smith, deceased."^ 
 This establishes the pedigree of the old house, still standing 
 under its rugged old tree, now owned by Mr. Asa R. Brown. It 
 was built by Stephen Smith, who bought the land in 1742, and 
 was bequeathed to his sons, Adam and Zebulon.^ The house it- 
 self with a small piece of land was sold to John Day Jr. by Asa 
 Smith, by a deed of the same date as above.''' The eastern or 
 northeastern part of the old Tilton farm, which was sold to Daniel, 
 came into the possession of David Tilton, and at his decease, Ab- 
 ner Day bought the interest of several heirs. 
 
 The deed of Zebulon and Asa Smith to Abner Day of one 
 undivided fourth part of the widow's thirds of the estate of David 
 Tilton describes the westerly end of the dwelling house, with the 
 close or orchard before the barn, the forefield containing three and 
 three-fourths acres, " also the herbage in the lane leading to Fox 
 Point lane, from the road to the house," Nov. 5, 1802.^ 
 
 iThe Randall Andrews farm, so called, now owned by Mr. Gardiner A. Brown. 
 
 2 Essex Co. Deeds, 133:231. 
 
 3 Essex Co. Probate Records, 360 : 122. 
 < Essex Co. Probate Records, 360:405. 
 6 Essex Co. Deeds, 220:74. 
 
 6 Essex Co. Probate Records, 342 : 362. 
 ' Essex Co. Deeds, 220 : 7.5. 
 " Essex Co. Deeds, 171 : .59. 
 
36 THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 
 
 Back of the Caverly farm house is a lane with stoue wall on 
 each side, which terminates at a level and sightly spot on the hill- 
 side. An immense willow tree stands near an ancient cellar. Here 
 stood, within the remembrance of Mr. Aaron Kinsman, a venera- 
 ble house, known in his boyhood as the Tilton house. It was the 
 old home of the Tiltons, of whom we have been writing. The 
 Caverly property then owned by the heirs of Samuel Wainwright, 
 son of John Wainwright, was conveyed to John Patch by John 
 Winthrop, given by him to Capt. Tristram Brown, who built the 
 present house, bought by Mr. David Story, and then by Mr. 
 Caverly. It is said that Daniel Webster- frequently came to this 
 house for his lodging, while he enjoyed the gunning on beach 
 and marshes. 
 
 A little way beyond the by-road to the Sagamore cottages on 
 the slope of Sagamore Hill, a bridge crosses the ancient canal. As 
 early as 1652 a move was made toward cutting a passage way for 
 boats through the marshes, from Ipswich River to the River of 
 Chebacco, to avoid the long and sometimes dangerous passage 
 by the mouth of the river. In that year the town voted : — 
 
 " Granted Thomas Clark and Reginal Foster, that 
 when they shall have cut through a passage from this 
 river into Chebacco river, of ten feet wide and soedeepe 
 as a lighter may pass through laden, and to make a ford 
 and foot-bridge over, that then the town have given unto 
 them £10 towards said passage." 
 
 Evidently the canal was not completed, as in 1682 it was 
 
 " Granted to any one of the inhabitants to perfect cutting 
 the cut, that comes up to Mr. Eppes' bridge, if they will 
 submit to the selectmen yearly the selling of the toll for 
 those who pass through and who do not help cut it." 
 
 But still the work was incomplete, and in 1694 it was 
 
 " Granted that such persons of Ipswich as will may have 
 liberty to cut the cut through on the hither side of Castle 
 Neck; and if any pass through, who do not help do it, 
 they shall pay for a passage as the selectmen set the 
 price." 
 
 " Whoever Avill cut the cut through the marsh by Mr. 
 Eppes sufticient for boats to pass through laden, shall 
 have liberty. Such as pay about 5" towards doing it sliall 
 l)ass free. Such as pay nothing shall be charged 3d in 
 money for a cord of wood or load of hay, or ton of other 
 loading." 
 
THE OLD AROILLA KOAD. 37 
 
 Despite these liberal terms no one seems to have had enterprise 
 or capital to complete the work, and it was not till 1820 that a 
 stock company was formed, which dug a navigable canal from Fox 
 Creek to Chebacco or Essex River. Felt says that SUOO was 
 expended, but the tolls on tratBc were sufficient to pay nearly six 
 per cent f)U the investment. Much ship timber was brought down 
 the Merrimac, through Parker river and the canal for the Essex 
 ship yards. 
 
 Felt records the tariff rates :' "• Oak timber seventeen cents and 
 pine fourteen cents a ton. Oak sawn stuff of an incli lliick, forty 
 cents INI., and of other thicknesses in proportion. Pine sawn stuff 
 of one inch thick, thirty cents M. ; hard wood thirty cents and 
 pine twenty cents a cord. Hogshead staves seventy-five cents, 
 and Itarrel staves forty cents M. Hogshead hoop-poles one dollar, 
 and barrel hoop-poles seventy-flive cents M. Clapboards, forty 
 cents, and shingles ten cents M. Each light gondola five cents, 
 and every ton of loading fifteen cents." 
 
 The ancient cooperage industry and the commerce with tiie 
 West Indies, which made business for the old canal, have long 
 since disappeared, and the railroad furnishes more expeditious 
 means of transport for building material. Only an occasional 
 gondola laden with salt hay now floats up the canal with the tide. 
 
 Crossing the bridge we stand on Castle Neck, a broad expanse 
 of hills, islands and beaches, picturesque with its sand dunes and 
 marshes, in the early times well wooded, a clioice and coveted re- 
 gion from the earliest times. 
 
 " At a meetinge laoulden the 5 day of January 1G34 ytt 
 was ordered 
 
 " That the Neck of Land wheareuppon the great Hill 
 standeth, wch is known by the name of the Castle Hill, 
 lyemge on the other side of this River towards the Sea, 
 shall reraayne unto the comon use of the Towne forever.'"" 
 
 A few years later there were sundry disquieting rumors to the 
 effect that John Winthrop, Jr., was meditating a change of resi- 
 dence, and it may have been intended as a lure to keep him loyal 
 to the town he had founded that, in 1637 (Jan. 13tli), there was 
 " gi-anted to Mr. John "Winthorpe Castle Hill and all the meadow 
 and marsh lying within the creeke, provided y he lives in the 
 Towne, and that the Towne may have what they shall need for the 
 building of a Fort." 
 
 1 History of Ipswicli, p. 54. - Town Records. 
 
38 THE OLD ARGILLA KOAD. 
 
 Nevertheless, he removed his residence about 1639 apparently 
 to Salem, and sold Mr. Samuel Symonds, who had already pur- 
 chased the Argilla farm, one hundred acres of the Castle Hill farm 
 in 1644, and in August, 1645, the remainder.' The town con- 
 tested the validity of the title before the Court, but Mr. Symonds 
 retained possession. He sold in tarn to his son-in-law, Daniel 
 Epps or Eppes, the whole of Castle Neck, with its " ilands " and 
 marshes, some 300 acres, in 1660, Jan. 23d.- Capt. Daniel Kpes 
 left no will, and his estate was divided between his sons, Daniel 
 the elder, who afterwards removed to Salem and was master of 
 the Grammar Scliool and chaplain in the expedition against Port 
 Roj'al in 1707, and Major Symonds P^pes. 
 
 Daniel received the homestead called Castle Hill and about 230 
 acres of land " Avith ye dwelling house, out-housing, orchard, 
 ffences, trees, etc. This was a double share, as he was the first 
 born. His brother Symonds, "in consideration of his single share 
 of sd Estate and for ye two hundred and sixteen pounds allowed 
 him and due from ye estate for nine years service thereon," re- 
 ceived " the whole Islands, containing about one hundred acres, 
 more or less,"*^ and part of Castle Neck and Wigwam Hill, Feb. 
 7, 1693. 
 
 No house was included in the purchase when Capt. Epps bought 
 the farm, and the old tradition as to Winthrop's residence in the 
 ancient house that is 3'et well remembered must be dismissed as 
 unhistoric. Capt. Eppes untloubtedly built the dwelling and made 
 his home on the slope of the great Hill. The inventory of his 
 estate reveals a well-stocked farm : 
 
 "Neat cattell w^i' hay to wintei them - £104— 0—0 
 Horses, mares and colts - - - - 20 — — 
 
 Sheep 10- 0—0 
 
 Swine 12—10—0 
 
 Also Two negroes (one a Creeple) - 30 — — " 
 
 Daniel Epes sold his share of the great farm to his brother, 
 Major Symonds Epes, July 15, 1701, for £600."* Major Epes was 
 a prominent citizen, colonel of a regiment. Justice of the General 
 Sessions Court, and a member of the Governor's Council from 
 1724 to 1734. In his fifty-fourth year he married Mary Whipple, 
 a maid of only 16 years. He died in 1741, in his seventy-ninth 
 
 1 Ipswich Deeds, 1 : 27. =' Probate Rec, 303 : -216. 
 
 2 Ipswich Deeds, 2: 260. ■• Essex Co. Deeds, 14:187. 
 
THE OLD AKGILLA ROAD. 39 
 
 year, at the Hamlet, where he seems to have made his residence 
 leaving two minor children, Samuel and Elizabeth. His widow 
 became the third wife of President Holyoke of Harvard College, 
 and died at Cambridge in her ninety-second year, March, 1790.^ 
 The whole farm at Castle Neck was bequeathed to his sou Samuel. 
 He was a young man of brilliant promise. He had graduated 
 from Harvard College at the age of seventeen, aud was elected a 
 representative when but twenty-five. He had become a major as 
 well in the colonial militia. But he was the victim of consump- 
 tion aud died at Cambridge in July, 1760, after a lingering sick- 
 ness. He bequeathed £20 to the South Church for communion 
 plate, and two of the cups bear his name.- 
 
 In the year before his death he sold the ancestral estate, which 
 had been in the possession of the Epes family for three genera- 
 tions, and only six years short of a century, to John Patch the 
 thii'd.^ He was a worthy successor of the illustrious owners of 
 the goodly farm, — a man of large wealth, of great public spirit, a 
 devoted patriot and father of a goodly family of thirteen, but one 
 of whom was a son. Felt records that he left at his death twelve 
 children, seventy-eight grandchildren and twenty-four great-grand- 
 children. The patriarchal head of this great family died on Dec. 
 18, 1799, in his 79th year, and his venerable widow survived 
 until her ninetieth year, dying on Feb. 8, 1812.'* 
 
 Mr. Patch enlarged the great estate by the purchase of seven 
 acres at Sagamore Hill, of Thomas Burnham in 1784, and in 1785 
 forty acres on Sagamore Hill from John Winthrop, who held the 
 property owned by Samuel Wainwright, and inherited by him.-'' 
 
 Several provisions of his will are of especial interest. To his- 
 beloved wife Abigail, he gave the improvement of the dwelling^ he 
 occupied during the time she should remain his widow. ''I also 
 give to my said wife all my household furniture, my horse and 
 chaise and one cow, and all the Provisions which shall be in my 
 house at the time of my decease. I also give my said wife the 
 use of all my silver plate during the term above said, and further, 
 I give my said wife ten cords of wood, ninety pounds of cheese, 
 
 1 Felt's Hist, of Ipswich, p. 178. 
 
 2 Felt, Hist, of Ipswicli, p. 180. 
 
 3 Essex Co. Deeds, 108:272. 
 
 * Felt, Hist, of Ipswich, p. 185. 
 
 6 Essex Co. Deeds, 143:115. 
 
 « The house now owned and occupied by Mr. George H. Green. 
 
40 THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD 
 
 fifty pounds of butter, teu bushels of winter apples, four barrels 
 of cyder, two hundred pounds of pork, two hundred pounds of 
 beef, fifteen bushels of Indian corn, six bushels of rye, and sixty 
 dollars in Cash year by & every year during the Time she shall 
 remain my widow (in lieu of her dower in my estate)." 
 
 It was the fashion of the time thus to condition the inheritance 
 while the widow remained unmarried, but it was a most unjust and 
 unbecoming exercise of authority over a faithful and beloved Avife 
 in any case, and singularly exasperating in this, when the wife of 
 his youth and the mother of his great family had already attained 
 the 76th year of her age when his will was drawn. 
 
 To his son Nehemiah, Mr. Patch gave that part of the farm 
 called the Island, with the buildings. This estate passed to his 
 son John, and his son John in turn, then into the possession of 
 Mr. Aaron Kinsman, b}' whom it was sold to Dr. E. A. Crockett. 
 
 To his daughter, Mary Lakemau, he gave " the lower farm, for- 
 merly called Wigwam Hill," and it remains in the hands of her 
 heirs still, and has been for many years a famous abiding place 
 for summer guests. The Castle Hill farm was apportioned to his 
 daughter Itlizabeth, wife of Stephen Choate Jr., to whom he gave 
 Pine Island as well. His grandson, Tristram Brown, received the 
 Wainwright property, and he built the farm buildings now owned 
 and occupied by Mr. J. B. Caverly. Four distinct farms were 
 thus carved out of the "' Governor " Patch estate. 
 
 During the Patch ownership, the exciting period of the Revolu- 
 tionary War occurred. Realizing the likelihood of an attack by 
 sea, a guard of two men was stationed by the Town on the Hill in 
 May 1775. A flagstaff was erected, and a beacon, and in case 
 of the appearance of the enomy, a flag was to be displayed by 
 day and a fire, built of tar and other inflammable material to be 
 kindled by night. This precaution may have been due to the Great 
 Ipswich Fright of the 21st of April, 1775, which John G. Whittier 
 depicts very graphically in his " Miscellanies." A rumor spread 
 thi'ough the Town that the British were landing on the beach. As 
 the able bodied men had not returned from Lexington, and most 
 alarming reports of the cruelty of the British regulars in that en- 
 gagement had been noised abroad, the people were panic-struck 
 and hurried from their homes in wild disorder. The alarm spread 
 from town to town, and the whole eountrj'-side as far as Haverhill 
 and the New Hampshire border betook itself to flight. Happily 
 
THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 41 
 
 ■there was no fouudation for the rumor. " Governor " Patcli was 
 a piivateersman and captured many rich prizes. His son, Nehe- 
 miah, was at Ticonderoga, and his descendants still cherish an old 
 Queen's arm whicli he picked up on the battlefield, 
 
 Mr. John Patch, the last of the name, in his sketch of the old 
 farm in the Antiquarian Papers, i wi-ites that he saw the old Brit- 
 ish man-of-war La Hague, which lay outside Ipswich bar for 
 nearly a week during the war of 1812. He preserved a four 
 pound shot which was tired at the house of his grandfather and 
 ■other cannon balls, which have been ploughed up in the vicinity 
 may have been tired from the same ship. His father " drove his 
 cattle to Ring's Island to conceal them, and carried in's silver ware 
 to his brother's in Hamilton, expecting every day tlie British 
 would land and pillage the place. They did land on Plum Island 
 an<l were capturing an ox for a supply of fresh beef, when Bob 
 Pitman, a simple-minded fellows houted, " More a comino-, more 
 a coming ! Capt. Sutton," and they left the ox upon the shore 
 and tied to their boats." 
 
 Stephen Choate Jr., and his wife Elizabeth, sold Castle Hill to 
 John Patch Choate,-^ in 1811, and he transferred it two months 
 afterwards to Asa Baker and others.3 George Baker, heir of 
 Asa, an.l the other owners, Oliver Appletou, John Choate and 
 Asa Andrews, sold to James Magee of Boston in 1813.^ Capt 
 Magee, as Mr. Patch remembers, made a large and disastrous 
 venture m sheep raising, and after mortgaging the property 
 heavily, sold to Widow Margaret Magee of Roxbury, in 1814 ? 
 who sold in turn to James Baker, in ISlS.e His heirs s.Jd to 
 John Baker 3", in 1831-1832.^ In 1843, Mr. Baker sold to 
 Manasseh Brown,« and his son, Mr. John Burnham Brown, is the 
 present proprietor. 
 
 Mr. Brown has made a large outlay with conspicuous taste, 
 upon the buildings and the roads upon his estate. Fine land- 
 scape ettects have been secured by the planting of trees and shrub- 
 bery, and the view of land and sea from the summit of Castle Hill 
 IS impressive and beautiful. The lighthouse, built in 1837, is 
 near at hand, and the white beach. Broad lines of breakers dash 
 
 llVr """r; ''.""• ' ''^^'^ Co. Deed., -205:58. 
 
 pf '^ r "■ n "". '• ''' ^ ""• ' ^*««-^ Co. Deeds, 205 : 202. 
 
 HIT ?'• ?'''/■ '''•■ ''• ' ^««^- Co. DeedB 275: 197. 
 
 Essex Co. Deeds, 204 : 134 ; 201 : 1.33. s Essex Co. Deed.. 373 • 82 
 
42 THE OLD ARGILI.A ROAD. 
 
 upon the bar and the sandy shoals, upon which many a stout ves- 
 sel has been wrecked, with precious lives of sailors. Plum Island 
 stretches away to the north, where Mt. Agamenticus and the bold 
 Boar's Head and the dim Isles of Shoals lie, blue and faint upon 
 the horizon. The hills of old Newbury rise beyond the broad ex- 
 panse of Great Neck. At our feet, Ipswich River flows out to 
 meet the ocean. 
 
 Our survey of the history of this ancient and beautiful road 
 reveals a striking permanence of tenure of these goodly farms, 
 through the whole length. Generations of the same family have 
 spent their lives in honest toil upon the same broad acres. The 
 Burnhams, near Rocky Hill, passed their lands from father to son 
 for more than two centuries. Mr. J. Farley Kinsman and Mr. 
 Horace Brown are of the third generation of successive occupants 
 of their farms. Mr. Pelatiah Kinsman bought of the Wain- 
 wrights in 1753, and Mr. Aaron Kinsman, his grandson, still occu- 
 pies the farm where he was born, ninety-six years ago. Nine 
 generations of this line have dwelt in this neighborhood, or in the 
 near vicinity. Jacob Smith settled here in 1741 and his descend- 
 ants still abide on the same spot, in a substantial dwelling built, 
 it is believed, in 1756. The Lakemaus have owned their Beach 
 Farm on old Wigwam Hill for a full century. Days, Wellses, 
 Fpeses, Cogswells, Bakers, Tiltons, Patches, and Wainwrights 
 tarried here for scores of years. These families were bound to- 
 gether by frequent intermarriages, and formed a compact neigh- 
 borhood of New England Puritans. 
 
 For a century and a half, they have been identified almost with- 
 out exception, with the South Parish. " A pew- in Dr. Dana's 
 meeting-house," is a frequent item in the inventories of their 
 estates. Sunday after Sunday, in the good old times, with their 
 buxom sons and daughters, a numerous and sturdy brood, they 
 filled the square pews in the bare, cold meeting-house. No car- 
 riage was big enough to carry such families as these. We seem 
 to see a motley procession winding its way up the long road, 
 some on horseback with good wives ridiug on the pillions behind, 
 some in ancient chaises, or rumbling farm wagons, and not a few, 
 young and active, trudging afoot. 
 
 All shared the same round of endless toil. On the smooth 
 fields, there were prodigies of strength and skill, where the ranks 
 of mowers flung their scythes and pressed their leader hard. With- 
 
THE OLD ARGILLA ROAD. 43^ 
 
 in the low-roofed dwelliugs, spinning wheels hummed and heavy 
 looms boomed, and by and by, long webs of fine linen lay bleach- 
 ing on the grass, or rolls of heavy woolen were ready to be 
 fashioned into warm suits and heavy coats. There was much nice 
 dairy work and not a few forgotten industries. The same thrifty 
 economy was practised, for there were times, wliich the oldest 
 remember, when a load of hay vvas bartered for a barrel of flour. 
 Holidays were few. Training days summoned the young men to 
 the ranks of the militia in the spring, and the whole admiring 
 population greeted them on the Training-fields, and a half day on 
 the Fourth of July broke the hot round of summer toil. Yet there 
 were neighborhood frolics, no doubt, apple-bees and corn huskiugs 
 and all manner of ancient merry-makings, wherewith old-fashioned 
 boys and girls, and young men and maidens beguiled themselves, 
 and generous Thanksgiving feasts, Avhen the great families gath- 
 ered and the air was redolent with savory odors escaping from 
 the great farm kitchens. The raising of a new house or barn was 
 an occasion of great good cheer. The good wives quilted the 
 cunningly contrived patch-work in company, and went helpfully 
 to each other's houses in time of sickness or death, or in any 
 family emergency. A wedding day, or birth or funeral was an 
 event of great magnitude, in which all had common interest. 
 
 This simple, sturdy, kindly life hallows these old dwellings, and 
 these farms, older than the present dwellings. The less vivid 
 but more august memories of the old Argilla men are interwoven 
 with the later and simpler remembrances, and lend much dignity. 
 We are reminded, as we pass up and down, of AYinthrop, alert 
 and enterprising, of Symonds, so genial and gentle in his love for 
 the Indians that he wrote he "could go singing to his grave," if 
 they could only be won to Christ, — a large and saintly figure of 
 the olden time — of Saltonstall, conscious of his dignity and hon- 
 ored of all; of Denison, the military leader of the Colony, always 
 fussy and important ; of Mr. "Ward, sober and troubled with many 
 cares ; of Mr. Rogers, prosperous and well favored in worldly 
 things; and Mr. Hubbard, scholarly but unpractical, harassed by 
 creditors and pecked at by servants. 
 
 Thus our old road serves not only as a useful and pleasant 
 thoroughfare, but affords much food for thought, and inspiring re- 
 membrances of an honorable past as we wend our way. 
 
PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 
 X. 
 
 
 
 THE 
 
 
 HOTEL CLUNY OF A NEW 
 
 ENGLAND 
 
 
 VILLAGE 
 
 
 
 By Sylvester Baxter 
 
 
 
 AND 
 
 
 AN 
 
 OLD IPSWICH HOUSE 
 
 
 BY W. H. DOWNES 
 
 
 Satcm fttii'. 
 
 The Salem Press Co., Salhm, Mass. 
 
 1901. 
 
PbR LIGATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 X. 
 
 THE 
 
 HOTEL CLUNY OF A NEW ENGLAND 
 VILLAGE 
 
 By Sylvester Baxter, 
 
 AND 
 
 AN OLD IPSWICH HOUSE 
 
 By W. H. Downes. 
 
 WITH 
 
 The History of the House 
 
 AND 
 PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING DEC. 3, 1900. 
 
 Salem press : 
 
 The Salem Press Co.. Salem. Mass 
 
 1901. 
 

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THE HOTEL CLUNY OF A NEW ENGLAND 
 VILLAGE.i 
 
 BY SYLVESTER BAXTER. 
 
 The extraordinary production and huge circulation of 
 the historical novel is but one of the consequences of the 
 remarkable growth of the " patriotic societies " in this 
 country in the past few years — societies like those of the 
 Sons and the Daughters of the Revolution, the Colonial 
 Dames, and the like. One of the most admirable results 
 of the movement is the widespread interest in the estab- 
 lishment of local historical societies, particularly in the 
 old towns of New England. These historical societies 
 have a very interesting and even fascinating work before 
 them : the collection and preservation of all manner of 
 local records, the looking-up of spots of historical interest, 
 the preservation of interesting old buildings, and the 
 marking of historic sites with commemorative tablets, 
 besides the study and discussion of both local and general 
 history. In the average New England town the soil 
 proves gratifyingly fertile in these fields and the delving 
 therein bears rich fruit in the development of interest in 
 and love for the community, the heightening of civic feel- 
 ing, the encouragement of local improvements, and a care 
 for the future of the town as well as an interest in the 
 town's past. 
 
 In not a few places the local historical society has done 
 a most excellent thing by taking some fine or quaint old 
 house for its headquarters, fitting it up after old fashions, 
 and adorning it with attractive historical collections. Such 
 
 Reprinted by the kind permission of tlie Publishers, from " The Georgian 
 Period," Part VII, issued by the " American Architect & Building News" Co., 
 Boston, 1900. 
 
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 a collection on a large scale is that of the Bostonian Society^ 
 to which the city long ago gave the free use of the pictur- 
 esque Old State-house, above the ground-floor, and has 
 converted the old-time halls of legislation in the carefully 
 restored building into a rich museum of all manner of 
 antiquities relating to the history of Boston. Medford is 
 a fine Colonial town with a goodly number of stately old 
 dwellings. One of these, the Cradock House, built in 
 the year 1632 for Governor Cradock of the Massachusetts 
 Bay Colony — who never came over from England to oc- 
 cupy it — is reputed to be the oldest dwelling in the orig- 
 inal portion of the United States. Singular enough, this 
 has very lately been established to be not the picturesque 
 brick house that has long gone by that name and which is a 
 very close reproduction of a typical English farm-house, but 
 is identical with what is known as the " Garrison House," 
 in the centre of the city, still occupied as a very comfort- 
 able and prosperous looking dwelling. The highly active 
 Medford Historical Society — a member of which un- 
 earthed in London the map and other documents that 
 attested this important fact — had once endeavored to 
 secure for its headquarters the fine old Royall House with 
 its extensive grounds, a particularly imposing mansion of 
 pre-Revolutionary days, but the owners would not part 
 with it. Its use, however, was secured as the scene of a 
 notable historical festival given by the Society, a few 
 years ago. The Society thereupon contented itself with 
 more modest quarters, but most attractively and appro- 
 priately fitted up, in the shape of the old-fashioned house 
 that has an historical interest in American literature, and 
 in the anti-slavery movement, as the birthplace of Lydia 
 Maria Child. 
 
 In certain respects, however, the most notable accom- 
 plishment in this direction is the work of the Ipswich His- 
 torical Society in the restoration of an ancient dwelling 
 to its primitive condition as it existed in the primal days 
 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This work has been 
 done with such fidelity, such fine appreciation and under- 
 standing, and the house, with its collections, is intrinsi- 
 cally so full of interest, that it deserves wide celebrity, 
 both as an example of what might be accomplished in not 
 
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 a few other pluces, iind as one of the most interestincr 
 sights for visitors to New Enghind. ® 
 
 For the latter, the quaint old town of Ipswich is in it- 
 self well worth going far to see. Although one of the 
 most travelled lines of railway on the continent passes 
 through it, the heautifiil old town has preserved its ancient 
 charms in a sort of isolation amidst the wide levels of the 
 vast saltmarshes that spread l)ef()re it. The clear Ipswich 
 River rambles gently down from the inland hills, and 
 here, 111 the heart of the town, tumbles in falls down to 
 the tidal level, thence meandering through the marshes 
 to the sea, whence vessels come and go "at the wharves 
 that were once the scenes of a lively commerce in the days 
 when all the coast-ports were havens for maritime adven- 
 turings. Skirting the river are the quiet winding streets, 
 shaded by great elms and bordered by many°tine old 
 houses. Just over the town there rises the noble drumlin 
 shape of Heartbreak Hill like a gigantic billow— celebrated 
 in a poem by the late Celia Thaxter— that tenderly records 
 the legend of the Indian maiden who, from its summit, 
 daily looked in vain for the coming of her lover. It is 
 true that, upon a last-century map of the town, the desicr- 
 nation of '' Hard Brick Hill " is inscribed. But good au- 
 thority declares this to be a prosaic and ignorant corrup- 
 tion of the original name. 
 
 The charms of the town itself and the loveliness of the 
 environing landscape make Ipswich a favorite resort for 
 artists through the summer. The scenery is that which 
 Mr. J. Appleton Brown loves to paint, pastoral and idyl- 
 lic, with Its rolling uplands, its tranquil waters and 'its 
 placid marshes that enter in among the hills in mysterious 
 tree-fringed bays and coves. Artists come hither by the 
 score to feast upon the beauty of the countryside. And 
 Ipswich is the home of two painters of national repute, 
 xVIr. Arthur W. Dow, whose birthplace it is and who has 
 found here many of his strikingly original themes; and 
 Mr. Iheodore Wendell, whose wife is a daughter of the 
 town. 
 
 It would be difficult to arrange a more delightful excur- 
 sion for a summer-day, than to start out early in the morn- 
 ing from Boston on a trolley-trip to Ipswich by way of 
 
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 Lynn and Salem ; and through the diversified scenery of 
 Essex County, arriving in time to inspect the old Whipple 
 House, and then, after lunclieon, taking the little steam- 
 boat that plies between Ipswich and Newburyport twice a 
 day upon a fascinating voyage down the river and by the 
 inside route through Plum Island Sound, whose quiet 
 waters, shallow and variegated with delicate shadings of 
 green and blue, are sheltered from the tossing Atlantic by 
 the long and narrow insular barrier of sand-dunes. From 
 Newburyport a train will bring one back to Boston in an 
 hour or so. Or, one may extend the dav's pleasuring by 
 taking another steamer up the Merrimac, Whittier's beau- 
 tiful river, and there find a train for Boston. 
 
 The Hotel Ciuny, as all know, is a magnificent old 
 French chateau preserved exactly as in the ancient days, 
 and filled with a priceless collection of objects representa- 
 tive of the life of its day. It sets an exami)le of what may 
 wisely be done with fine old buildings elsewhere — though 
 the example may more wisely be bettered by a better ar- 
 rangement and classification of the collections shown there- 
 in than has been eftected at the Hotel Chmy. It is a far 
 cry, of course, from the superb Parisian chiUeau, and the 
 splendors for which it stands, to the austere Puritan age 
 and land when our mighty country was all one frontier, 
 facinof the ocean on one side and the savage wilderness on 
 the other, with a meao;re fringe of settlements. But the 
 Whipple House, of Ipswich, like the Hotel Cluny, of 
 Paris, represents the best of its day, and it stands as, 
 probably, the most faithful reproduction yet achieved of 
 the home environment of the primitive Colonial life of 
 New England in the days when our ancestors, with their 
 stern beliefs, their hafsh moralities, their appalling super- 
 stitions, might be regarded as little more than barbarians, 
 when measured by the standards of to-day. 
 
 The visitor to Ipswich l)y train finds the Whipple House 
 just across the way from the station, towards which its 
 low walled back is turned in accordance with the ancient 
 rule that faced all houses to the south when standing de- 
 tached. Venerably homely, in the truest sense of the 
 word, and restored to its original aspect as carefully as 
 the most scholarly research and the most scrupulous 
 
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 adherence to ascertained facts can make it possible, it is 
 certainly one of the most notable old houses in the United 
 States. The simple beauty of its setting is in striking 
 harmony with its character. This environment, indeed, 
 is doubtless less austere than that of the house in its prim- 
 itive days. But in its quaint charm it reproduces the ef- 
 fect of the grounds of the Colonial mansion at their best, 
 a century later; grounds such as this house may then well 
 have possessed. And a work of this character and public 
 importance, truly monumental in intention, demands sur- 
 roundings that betoken the esteem in which it is held. 
 
 When the work was undertaken it seemed an heroic 
 task to eliect creditable results from the conditions into 
 which the house and its vicinage had fallen from their once 
 high estate. The structure was shabl)y and dilapidated 
 with misuse, and mutilated by various successive recon- 
 structions, while its surroundings were of the depressingly 
 squalid character that so frequently obtains in the neigh- 
 borhood of a railway, even in a good old rural town. But 
 intelligence and energy soon radically changed the face 
 of things. The head and front of the Ipswich Historical 
 Society is its president, the Rev. T. Frank Waters, pastor 
 of the South Congregational Church, and throwing him- 
 self into the work with heart and soul, the ancient house 
 seemed to resume its proper guise as if under the touch 
 of magic. As the investigations necessary to the required 
 repairs proceeded, the original state and shape of the 
 building were gradually revealed sufficiently to afford a 
 sure guidance in the work of restoration. This work, 
 however, could not possibly have been so complete, had 
 not the mechanics employed given themselves to the work 
 with an enthusiastic devotion. And the existence among 
 these of names like Sullivan and Thibedeau, besides names 
 savoring of the soil, like Choate, Goditt and Lord, show 
 how completely the late-coming elements assimilate them- 
 selves to the New England spirit of the best old commu- 
 nities. Mr. Thibedeau, for instance, though employed as 
 a carpenter, was specially commended by the committee 
 in charge for his wonderful patience and persistence in 
 giving weeks of hard and painstaking toil to scraping and 
 scrubbing the woodwork, alw^ays standing in perfect read- 
 
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 iness to do anything however far removed from his natural 
 province. It is particuhirly gratifying to note these facts, 
 testifying to the persistence of the old spirit of the artisan 
 who finds pleasure in his work, when so much is said now- 
 adays about the decline of the modern mechanic and his 
 departure from old-time standards. But in this instance, 
 with the good old New England " fiiculty " guiding tlie 
 work, from the highest to the lowest, and practically the 
 whole community showing the deepest interest, the ends 
 were achieved with astonishing economy and completeness. 
 The sum of $1,650 purchased the place, and an expendi- 
 ture of oidy a little more than a thousand dollars accom- 
 plished ti)is commendalile work of restoration and created 
 one of the finest historical monuments in the country, a 
 perfect specimen of the seventeenth-century architecture 
 of New England. 
 
 In the course of restoration all the decayed spots were 
 cut out of the ancient beams and new wood was skilfully 
 inserted, the exterior was newly clapboarded and shingled 
 — clapboards, it seems, preceded shingles as a covering 
 for outside walls ; diamond-paned windows, low and broad, 
 replaced the perpendicular and narrow ones that an ugly 
 later fashion had given the house, and a coat of dark stain 
 restored the exterior fully to its old-time aspect. 
 
 Within, comparatively modern changes had much sub- 
 divided the four great rooms into which the main part of 
 the house was originally divided. All the partitions were 
 removed and the rooms were restored to their old shape. 
 When the plaster ceilings were torn away the original 
 floor-joists of hewn oak were revealed, with the original 
 plastering between them. The big beams and the joists 
 were carefully scrape'd and oiled, and the contrast between 
 their rich brown hue and the white of the plaster between 
 them gave to the large rooms with their very low ceilings 
 — which a person of average height can easily touch with 
 his hand — an appearance that is picturesque, and at the 
 same time is dignified with the air of old-lime stateliness. 
 As the president said in his report at the first annual meet- 
 ing of the Society, celebrating the achievement of one of 
 its prime declared objects in " the preservation of and 
 finishing in Colonial style of one of the ancient dwelling- 
 
THE HOTEL CLUNY OF A NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE. 7 
 
 houses of said Ipswich " : " the size and quality of these 
 superb oak-beams, their finely-finished moulded edo:es, the 
 substantial oak floor joists, the great posts, with their es- 
 cutcheons so laboriously wrought, the noble size of these 
 four great rooms, proclaim that this was a home of wealth 
 and refinement, and make it easy for us to believe that it 
 was the finest mansion of the town." 
 
 The work of restoration required patience, thoroughness 
 and delicacy. All the woodwork had to be lal)oriously 
 and carefully scoured to remove the grime and whitewash 
 with which it was coated in layer after layer. The proc- 
 ess of reconstruction was fascinating to follow in its rev- 
 elation of the peculiarities of ancient methods of house- 
 building. The spaces between the studs, from sill to plate, 
 were found filled-in with brickwork, and this was pre- 
 served so far as possible. In one of the chambers, the 
 manner of this construction is exhibited by means of a 
 plate of glass set into the wall and framed with the care 
 that might be shown for a treasured old master. The places 
 where the handsome old windows were were shown with 
 exactness, and their restoration proved one of the most 
 eflfective features of the house, bringing it closer into rela- 
 tion with its models across the sea, where the same form 
 of window is to-day in common use. It was of course easy 
 to disclose the iireplaces that had been shut in to allow the 
 substitution of the ugly and economical stove. But these 
 were small fireplaces of comparatively modern date, nest- 
 ing within the enormous originals — the latter so well pre- 
 served that it was an easy matter to restore them in all 
 their completeness. Much of the old plastering was so 
 perfect that it did not have to be touched. And, by way 
 of experiment, for a deal of the new work made necessary 
 to rephice the old plastering, the ancient fashion of mak- 
 ing a compound of clay, sand and salt hay was tried with 
 entire success. 
 
 Exactly how old the house is has not yet been ascer- 
 tained. But it certainly dates back to the middle of the 
 seventeenth century, and possibly a house that stood on 
 the place when its sale to Mr. John Whipple, an eminent 
 man of Ipswich, was completed by a quitclaim deed from 
 John Fawne in the year 1650, may have formed a portion 
 
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 of it. Mr. John Whipple had been living on the spot since 
 1642 at least. 
 
 The Whipple House in its present shape is a growth 
 formed by successive enlargements made in the course of 
 a considerable number of years. In its original shape it 
 apparently consisted of what is now the western half of the 
 main portion. First the house was doubled in size and 
 then two successive additions were made in the rear, giv- 
 ing it the long sloping roof on the north side so charac- 
 teristic of many old farmhouses. In its present shape, 
 therefore, the house in its very old portion comprises four 
 remarkably large rooms, two on the ground-floor and two 
 above, each with a fireplace big enough to contain great 
 logs of wood. In the adaptation of the house to the uses 
 of the Historical Society, and its conversion into what 
 may be called a museum of the ancient New England 
 home, each of these four rooms, with its collections, has 
 been given a typical character. 
 
 First and chief of these comes the "hall" in the great 
 east room. This is by no means the hall of the eighteenth- 
 century Colonial mansion — the spacious entrance-room, 
 with its stately staircase, running through the centre of 
 the house. Here the front door is likewise in the middle, 
 but a tall man must stoop to enter, and keep stooping 
 while in the diminutive entry, where a steep and narrow 
 flight of stairs twists itself upward besides the gigantic 
 chimney-stack that shows how its original size was doubled 
 when the house was. In New England, as in Old, the hall 
 was the common gathering-place of the family — the place 
 where the meals were cooked and eaten, where the spin- 
 ning and weaving were done, where the household came 
 together to enjoy the heat and the light of the enormous 
 fire on the health beneath a chimney which, as Mr. Waters 
 tells us, was ample enough to allow boys on mischief bent 
 to drop a live calf from the roof, as they did one night 
 into poor old Mark Quilter's kitchen. It was often a 
 scene of much jollity, we may believe, for the Puritans 
 could not always and universally have maintained their 
 traditional austerity. And the room was so spacious that 
 we may be sure that it invited to no little frolicsomeness 
 among the young folks, and we may even fancy that at 
 
THE HOTEL CLUNY OF A NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE. 9 
 
 times the floor was cleared for a bouncing good dance. 
 So the place was a "hall" in the amplest sense of the 
 word. It was not until a much later date that the room 
 became exclusively a kitchen. And our Irish fellow-citi- 
 zen, even though he may have rolled up wealth in city 
 contracts, is but perpetuating the traditions ot the baro- 
 nial hall when he insists on spending his home hours sit- 
 ting by the kitchen-stove in his shirt-sleeves, with clay- 
 pipe in mouth. 
 
 The beautiful old hall of the Whipple house is a fasci- 
 nating gallery of the quaint utensils ot domestic and indus- 
 trial use in the old-time New England home — everything 
 that entered into kitchen-service, barn-service, field-ser- 
 vice, spinning, weaving, etc., beside various other things 
 whose purposes the most patient research, the most ingen- 
 ious conjecture, have not yet been able to discover. We 
 laugh at the clumsiness of certain of these utensils, but 
 we are compelled to admire the simple way in which many 
 others met the needs of the time. Clever examples of 
 Yankee, or pre- Yankee, ingenuity are some of these 
 things: for instance, the " cradle-churn," where the milk 
 was contained in a long, trough-like receptacle mounted 
 lengthwise on rockers. As the house- wife and others 
 went about their domestic tasks they would give it a touch 
 in passing. This was sufficient to keep it going, and so 
 the butter was made without any a[)preciable eflfort. 
 
 In the corner of the large west room there remained a 
 fine old buffet as a relic of the olden days. This sug- 
 gested the wainscoting of the room with some handsome 
 panelling taken from an old house in the town, the Rogers 
 Manse, built in 1728, and given to the Historical Society 
 by the owner. Over the mantle a quaint painted panel, 
 representing a panoramic view of Ipswich town from the 
 river, with Jeffries Neck in the background, and the 
 water enlivened with old-fashioned shipping, was inserted. 
 The woodwork was painted white, making a typical eight- 
 eenth-century room of it. This is appropriately used for 
 the exhibition of old china and crockery, silver, etc., old- 
 fashioned musical instruments, a collection of rare old 
 books, pamphlets and manuscripts, and many other inter- 
 esting things. 
 
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 The east chamber has been (itted up after the fashion 
 of an old-style "best room," enriched with many beautiful 
 old curios of historic value. The interest taken in the old 
 house brought to the collections in these three rooms an 
 extraordinary number of antiquities, given or loaned not 
 only by the peoi)le of Ipswich, but by friends throughout 
 Essex County and in many other parts of the country. 
 
 The west chamber was made the room of the resident 
 care-taker. It was a piece of good fortune for the Society 
 to secuie for this responsible position a latly of the expe- 
 rience and capacity of Miss Alice A. Gray, curator of the 
 Department of Textiles in the Boston Museum of Fine 
 Arts, and a niece of the famous botanist, the late Prof. 
 Asa Gray. It was equally a pleasure for Miss Gray to 
 make her home in an ideal old-fashioned house and to su- 
 pervise the arrangement of its fascinating collections. 
 This chamber has been fitted up as a typical old-style 
 ''best chamber" — a special addition to the attractions of 
 the house. The rear portion of the house was, moreover, 
 converted into a charming apartment for herself and her 
 housekeeper ; a cosy suite with a delightful air of old- 
 fashioned comfort unobtrusively reinforced by the modern 
 conveniences without which life in a house of the kind 
 would be a i)astime that a child of the nineteenth century 
 would soon weary of. An attractive feature of this suite 
 is the row of snug little chambers with slant ceilings 
 under the roof on the second iloor. 
 
 A sort of thorn in the flesh for the Historical Society, 
 after the completion of its task, was the uncomfortable 
 proximity of a most disreputable-looking old tenement- 
 house on the rear side, between the ancient mansion and 
 the rail way- track. But one day Miss Gray had a visit 
 from a Boston friend, a lady whose means enable her to 
 follow her natural inclination to do all sorts of good deeds. 
 The visitor was thoroughly delighted with what had been 
 accomplished, and within a few days Miss Gray received 
 from her a check for $1800 to enable the Society to com- 
 plete its work by giving its home a suitable environ- 
 ment through getting rid of the adjacent eyesore. With 
 this money the tenement house was purchased and demol- 
 ished, and a new old-fashioned garden was laid out on its 
 
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 site, and about the ancient dwelling : a gay multitude of 
 the blooms cherished by our mothers, our grandmothers, 
 our great grandmothers, and losing no favor in the eyes 
 of ourselves or our children, assemble their gladsome mot- 
 ley before the sober gray of the ancient walls ; a box-bor- 
 dered walk leading up to the caretaker's door past a hand- 
 some sun-dial of stone ; a well with its old-time sweep at 
 the side of the house. These touches made the whole 
 complete. 
 
FROM AN ARTICLE WITH THE CAPTION, '' AN 
 
 OLD IPSWICH HOUSE" BY MR. W. H. 
 
 DOWNES. 
 
 (In The Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday, Octoker 7. 1899.) 
 
 The old house bought by the Ipswich Historical Society 
 about a year ago is the best surviving example in New 
 England of the earliest seventeenth-century colonial archi- 
 tecture. There are several finer and grander specimens 
 of the domestic architecture of later periods in Essex 
 County, but in all the category of colonial houses there is 
 no such perfectly preserved and authentic type of the 
 domestic architecture of the middle of the seventeenth 
 century. The exact date of its erection is unknown, but 
 ail the valid evidence available, in the absence of documen- 
 tary records bearing directly on this point, indicates that 
 it w^as built as early as 1650, and there are architects who 
 believe that it was erected still earlier. The extreme 
 rarity of houses dating from that remote period, so soon 
 after the settlement of Massachusetts, is due primarily to 
 the limited longevity of wooden building, and secondarily 
 to the fact that the colonists were at first obliged by the 
 paucity of proper building materials to erect only tempo- 
 rary cabins of logs, which were subsequently abandoned 
 and neglected, after more comfortable dwellings were 
 made possible by the establishment of saw-mills and 
 forges and roads. Ipswich was settled in 1633. The 
 first saw-mill in the town was established in 1649. The 
 great posts and girders, with other surviving timbers of 
 the frame of the old house in question, bear no marks of 
 the axe or the adze, and it would be a fair inference that 
 they were sawed, though not necessarily by water power, 
 for we know that some extensive sawing was done by 
 hand in sawpits. 
 
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 . . There are three or four successive parts or chapters 
 in the serial story of the old house. The west end of the 
 main structure was built first ; of this there is evidence in 
 the material, the workmanship, the age of the woodwork, 
 and in indirect, but convincing written evidence. The 
 main beams of the frame — the posts, sills, girders, joists, 
 rafters, etc. — in this wing are of American larch or 
 tamarack, a soft wood, which, however, has shown aston- 
 ishing durability in every part except where it has been 
 exposed to moisture. The east part of the main structure, 
 the second chapter, was possibly added in the time of the 
 affluent and pious Captain John Whipple, the second of 
 that name, who, in 1683, was estimated to be "worth" 
 $16,570. In this part of the house the main beams are 
 of oak, and the posts and girders are carved with some 
 attempt at elegance of finish. Later a lean-to was added, 
 the rafters on the north (rear) side of the roof being sup- 
 plemented by a new set of rafters at an easier angle, 
 carrying the roof at one point almost to the ground. 
 Whether the lean-to was entirely built at one time, or in 
 two sections, is unknown and is not of importance. The 
 lean-to is a relatively modern part, and the original pro- 
 file of the exterior must have been very angular and high- 
 shouldered in proportion to its ground area. 
 
 Now, here are the more interesting dimensions of the 
 building, as it stands. Length, on the ground, fifty feet ; 
 width, thirty-six feet. Great east room, ground floor, 
 twenty-four by seventeen and one-half feet ; height seven 
 feet. Fireplace in this room, seven feet and three inches 
 wide ; two feet, nine inches deep. Dimensions of oak 
 girders, fourteen by fourteen inches. Windows, diamond 
 panes, and hung on hinges, five feet, three inches wide, 
 and two feet, six inches high ; three sashes each ; should 
 be leaded glass. East chamber, same measurements as 
 east room below. Fireplace in this room, six feet two 
 inches wide, and two feet two inches deep. These figures 
 may mean but little to the layman, but they are full of 
 significance to the architect, the builder, and the antiqua- 
 rian. The exterior of the Whipple house has nothing in 
 its aspect that would serve to draw especial attention to 
 it ; but the interior possesses these two distinct points of 
 architectural merit, remarkable massiveness of construe- 
 
14 "an old IPSWICH HOUSE." 
 
 tion, and fine, dignified proportions. The two main 
 rooms on the ground floor are in fact superb for their 
 simplicity, size and solidity. The beautiful rich brown 
 tone of the old oak posts, girders and joists gives the key 
 of color. There is a white plastered ceiling between the 
 joists, the pUister being put directly on the floor-boards of 
 the second story. . . . 
 
 One thing is evident, to any visitor who stands in the 
 great east room, and contemplates the stately propor- 
 tions of the interior ; that is, that the Whipples must 
 have been great swells in their day, to possess such a 
 mansion. Indeed, no further proof of their status, so far 
 as means are concerned, is needed than is furnished by 
 the entertaining inventory of Captain John Whipple's 
 estate in 1683, with its painful particularity, itemizing 
 each separate article of household use, apparel, tools, 
 edibles, beverages, and even " Lawrence ye Indian," who 
 was valued at four pounds, a sum which seems inexpen- 
 sive, even where the supply of Indians exceeded the 
 demand. It is enough to make collectors' mouths water 
 to run over this list of old furniture, silverware, pewter, 
 china, arms, andirons, brasses, coppers, gallipots, buc- 
 kles and buttons, "kittles," warming-pans, trenchers, 
 candlesticks, "tin lanthorns," beakers, flagons, "basons," 
 piggins, "sully bub" pots, spinning wheels, and a score 
 of other things, more or less phonetically spelled, after 
 the excellent fashion of the epoch, when, as George Eliot 
 remarks, spelling was mostly a matter of taste. 
 
 The first John Whipple, whose estate was inventoried 
 in 1669, was not nearly so well off" as his son afterwards 
 became, though he had a farm of about 360 acres of land, 
 worth $750, and houses and lands in the town, worth 
 $1250, with $45 worth of "apparell," $35 worth of 
 " fieather beds," $6.75 worth of "chayres," and $12 worth 
 of " bookes." 
 
 Speaking of books, the Ipswich Historical Society has 
 in its custody, in the west room of the old house, the 
 most unmitigatedly pious lot of old books I ever saw. 
 They come from the Religious Society in Ipswich, and 
 the visitor may while away long hours in reading such 
 light literature as Jonathan Edwards' " Sinners in the 
 Hands of an Angry God" (Salem, 1786), Increase 
 
"an old IPSWICH HOUSE." 15 
 
 Mather's " Angelac:raphia" (Boston, 1696), or "The Lov- 
 ing Invitation of Christ to the Aged, Middle-Aged, Youth 
 and Children, from the moutli of Elizabeth Osborn, only 
 Three Years and Nine Months Old." The collection of 
 books, manuscripts, autographs, etc., displayed in this 
 room embraces a copy of tlie Breeches Bible (1615) ; an 
 autograph letter from John Winthrop, Jr., founder of 
 Ipswich (1634) ; an inventory of the household goods in 
 Winthrop's house in Ipswich ; several old petitions, 
 deeds, wills, and other Colonial and Revolutionary docu- 
 ments of interest. On rainy days, when the outside 
 world is dark and dismal, and the time hangs heavy on 
 one's hands, it will be consoling for the people who like 
 that sort of thing to sit down and run through Owen's 
 work on "Indwelling Sin," Baxter's "Call to the Uncon- 
 verted," Woodward's " Fair Warning," Crawford's "Dying 
 Shots," the account of "Count Struensee's Conversion," 
 Cooper on "Predestination," Edwards on "Original Sin," 
 Shepard's " Sound Believer," Langdon on " The Revela- 
 tion," Coleman's "Parable of the Ten Virgins," Webb's 
 "Direction for Conversion," Bellamy's "Glory of the 
 Gospel," Dittou on "The Resurrection," Doddridge on 
 "Regeneration," or Stoddard's "Safety of Appearing in 
 ye Righteousness of Christ." But, though the theology 
 of these stalwart Calvinists may seem a bit inflexible and 
 unlovely to modern eyes, what they did not know about 
 setting up a title-page was not worth knowing. As 
 religionists they were of their day, took their creeds 
 straight and hot, and their rum ditto ; but they were first- 
 rate printers ! 
 
 The house is a veritable museum of seventeenth- and 
 eighteenth-century relics and curios. There is a buffet 
 full of old china in the west room which contains some 
 very rare and choice pieces. The andirons in this room 
 are cast-iron figures of Hessians, in grenadier caps, picked 
 out with gilt. The iron fire-back is dated 1693. The 
 andirons in the east room are dated 1596. The great 
 east room is fitted up as a kitchen. The fire burns on the 
 hearth as of yore, and the spacious fireplace is fully 
 equipped with ancient cooking utensils. Huge pewter 
 platters and obsolete fire-arms adorn the walls. The 
 spinning wheels, cheese press and churns are in their 
 
16 "an old IPSWICH HOUSE." 
 
 places. Here we find the yam reels, the great winnow- 
 ing fan, the old cradle, foot-stove, candle-mould, candle- 
 sticks, nice pieces of old needlework, samplers, old lamps, 
 pewter porringers, tinder-boxes, trivets, lanthorns, tram- 
 mels, till kitchens with spits, etc., and a highly interesting 
 collection of old fm-niture. In the west room are the cabi- 
 net of old china, snndry heirlooms, an ancient piano, 
 antique chairs and pictures. The paintings comprise a 
 smoky old panel depicting the harbor of Ipswich, in which 
 the vessels tly the British flag, showing that it was painted 
 prior to the revolution, and a life-size bust portrait of 
 Whitefield, anonymous, and somewhat queer about the 
 eyes. Whitefield preached in Ipswich, and he did so to 
 such good efieet that Satan fled through the meeting- 
 house window, leaving on the window-ledge the print of 
 his cloven hoof. Mr. Waters may not believe this, but 
 it is just as true as some other local traditions. 
 
 . . . "The old mansion," says President Waters, in a 
 passage of retrospect which shows how sympathetic is his 
 vein of fancy, " is a constant reminder of all the glorious 
 names which hallow and illumine the early years of our 
 town life, — Saltonstall and Winthrop, Symonds and 
 Denison, Ward and Norton and Hubbard and all the rest. 
 They were all friends of the Elder. Every one of them 
 may have crossed our threshold. As we sit here in the 
 flickering firelight we seem to see them sitting, as of old, 
 and conversing on the great themes. . . . The old 
 pavement in the dooryard rings again with the hoof beats 
 of Ca[)tain Whipple's horse hurrying to lead his troopers 
 on a swift ride to Andover to repel an Indian assault. 
 John Appleton and Thomas French are talking in this 
 very room of their imprisonment and trial for advocating 
 resistance to the royal governor's edict and demanding 
 representation before they would submit to taxation. 
 Colonel Hodgkins and Colonel Wade and Major Burnham 
 smoke and sip their steaming cups and chat of Bunker 
 Hill and Yorktown, of Burgoyne and Cornwallis, Wash- 
 ington and Lafayette." And he evokes a vision of the 
 ancient life, its feasts, weddings, funerals, departures and 
 home-comings, its daily toil, and all the lights and shad- 
 ows of the remote Puritan home life, that revives the far- 
 off" days with a singular and touching reality. 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 BY THOMAS FRANKLIN WATERS. 
 
 {Reprinted from Number VI of the Publications of the Ipswich 
 Historical Society.) 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Ipswich Historical Society 
 on December 6, 1897, the President's Eepoit called the 
 attention of the Society to the ancient house near the 
 depot, commonly known as the Saltonstall house, as an 
 hiteresting local relic of the remote past, an admirable 
 type of an early style of architecture, too valuable to be 
 allowed to fall into utter ruin, and an ideal home for the 
 Society. A committee of inspection was appointed, and 
 a thorough examination of the house was made. It was 
 found that notwithstanding the decayed condition of the 
 exterior, the interior was well preserved, and of such 
 phenomenal attractiveness that the work of repair and res- 
 toration, while extensive and costly, was well worth un- 
 dertaking. The owner, Mr. James W. Bond, was willing 
 to sell, and the committee reported favorably to the project. 
 
 In May, 1898, after some preliminary canvass for fnnds 
 had been made, the Society voted to purchase the property, 
 and a committee of five was appointed to repair and re- 
 store the house, as it seemed best to them. The work 
 was begun as soon as the transfer of the title to the desig- 
 nated trustees was accomplished, and was pushed as 
 rapidly as possible through the summer. On Wednesday, 
 Oct. 19, the work of repairing and restoration being well 
 completed, the Society dedicated its new home. 
 
 As a specimen of seventeenth-century architecture, this 
 house is an object of just pride. The size and quality of 
 these superb oak beams, their finely finished moulded 
 edges, the substantial oak floor joists, the great posts with 
 
 ^ (17) 
 
18 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 their escutcheons so laboriously wrought, the noble size 
 of these four great rooms, prochiini that this was a home 
 of wealth and refinement, and make it easy for us to be- 
 lieve that it was the finest mansion of the town. Many 
 ancient houses have disappeared, but the most tenacious 
 memory of the oldest inhabitant cannot recall such 
 strength and elaborate finish as we find here. So far as 
 I am familiar with the oldest houses now remaining, none 
 can compare with this for a moment. 
 
 The question of its age is constantly raised, by town- 
 folk and stranger alike. The other question of its owner- 
 ship is still vigorously argued. 1 think I can do no better 
 service at this time than tell the story as I have been able 
 to discover it, by long and careful and repeated research. 
 
 Many remember Mr. Abraham Bond, the father of Mr. 
 Jas. W. Bond, from whom our Society purchased the 
 property. He bought the house and about an acre of 
 land of Caleb K. Aloore, October 7, 1841 (Essex Co. 
 Deeds, 327 :157) and made his home here for the remain- 
 der of his life. Mr. James W. Bond remembers that in 
 his boyhood, the floor joists were exposed as we see them 
 now, but fashion decreed that a more modern style was 
 to be preferred, and vandal hands chipped and hacked the 
 venerable timbers, nailed laths upon them, and covered 
 them from sight with very commonplace plastering. The 
 old fireplace in the kitchen in the leanto was bricked up 
 within his remembrance, and the latest addition on the 
 northwest corner was built. 
 
 Mr. Moore had purchased the house with an acre and 
 eleven rods of land from Mr. Nathaniel Wade and others, 
 heirs of the estate of Col. Joseph Hodgkins, in 1833, 
 October 31st(E88ex Co. Deeds, 271 :164). This was only 
 half of the Hodgkins estate, however, and on Aug. 11, 
 1841, the heirs sold the balance of the property, measur- 
 ing an acre and eleven rods, to James Estes. As the deed 
 describes it, this piece of land extended down Winter 
 street, to the liarn and land of Joseph Farley, now occu- 
 pied by the buildings of the Ipswich Mill, followed the 
 line of the Farley land to the river, extended along the 
 river bank to the Samuel Wade property, and followed 
 this line to Moore's boundar}' line. The Hodgkins prop- 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 19 
 
 erty thus extended from the main road to Topsfield to the 
 river, and measured two acres and twenty-two rods 
 (Essex Co. Deeds, 326 :215). 
 
 Colonel Hodgkins had married for his third wife, Mrs. 
 Lydia Treadwell, relict of Elisha Treadwell and daughter 
 of Dea. John Crocker. Her brother, Joseph, at his death 
 owned and occupied the house, and the other heirs sold 
 their interest to her husband. The original deed of sale, 
 bearing date of May 16, 1813, is before me as I write, 
 conveying to Colonel Hodgkins five-sixths of the estate for 
 $750. One chamber was reserved to the unmarried sister, 
 Elizabeth Crocker, who occupied it by the express pro- 
 vision of her fjither's will drawn in 1804. The deed still 
 reserves to Elizabeth " the great chamber in the west end 
 of the house, with the privilege of going in and out at 
 the front door, and a right to use the entry way and stairs 
 in common, and a right to bake in the oven in the north- 
 easterly room, to go to and from the well, and a privilege 
 in the cellar to put and keep so much cider, vegetables 
 and other necessaries sufficient for her own use, also lib- 
 erty to pass and repass to and from the ydrd at the south- 
 west end of said house, and to keep therein the wood for 
 her own use, said reservations to continue so long as she 
 shall remain single and unmarried, as expressed in the 
 last will and testament of said John Crocker deceased." 
 Miss Sarah Wade, the granddaughter of Colonel Hodgkins, 
 is very sure that he did not take up his residence ni the 
 old mansion until 1818, and she tells me that her father 
 built on the pantry, which now serves as the hallway of 
 the caretaker's tenement, in that year, to increase the con- 
 venience of that portion of the house. Miss Wade, then 
 a smart slip of a nine-year-old girl , was often at the house 
 and has vivid recollection of her honored grandfather and 
 his home. He was then 75 years old, with thin hair 
 which was gathered into a queue, a very tall man with 
 strongly marked Roman nose. How the venerable soldier 
 must have bowed himself under these low doorways ! 
 His residence gives much character to our mansion. He 
 had served as lieutenant in the Ipswich Company of Min- 
 ute Men at Bunker Hill, and had fought at the battles on 
 Long Island, at Harlem Heights, White Plains and 
 
20 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 Princeton, and was at Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga. 
 To his last days, he would have his pewter plate, which 
 was kept with the platters on a high shelf in the kitchen. 
 The dark passage-way from the kitchen to the bed room 
 served as a cheese room. The room we have occupied as 
 our kitchen was the parlor, and the onl}'^ carpet in the 
 house covered the floor. Some roundabout chairs, and a 
 pair of great brass andirons were included in the parlor 
 furnishings, and a quaint colored English print of the 
 Countess of Suffolk's h(nise near Twickenham, published 
 in 1749, hung on the wall, and is now owned by Miss 
 Wade. The west room was the family sitting room, and 
 in this room the old Revolutionary soldier died, lying in 
 an old press bed in the centre of the room on Sept. 25, 
 1829. 
 
 Upstairs Miss Polly Crafts made her home in the East 
 chamber, and worked at her loom, weaving. Through 
 these rooms, the lively young Sarah roamed, turning over 
 the hourglasses, peering into the great fireplaces and look- 
 ing up their black throats to see the stars, and scamper- 
 ing down across the garden to the old malt-house, on the 
 site of the mill storehouse, to pick the wild roses that 
 bloomed there in profusion. She slept in the little bed- 
 room that opened from the West Lower Room, the night 
 her grandfather died : and she remembers distinctly that 
 the window in that room was diamond paned and opened 
 like a door. Her brother, Mr, Francis H. Wade, remem- 
 bers a window of the same style in the front gable end. 
 Following this clew, we have made all our windows with 
 diamond glass. 
 
 Mrs. Hodgkins, as was said, was the daughter of Dea. 
 John Crocker. That excellent man disposed of his 
 worldly goods in his will as follows : 
 
 In the name of God Amen. I John Crocker of Ipswich in the 
 
 County of Essex as to my worldly goods and estate, [I] 
 
 give, demise and dispose of the same as follows — viz. 
 
 Imprimis. I give and devise to my son Joseph his heirs & assigns 
 forever, my malt house and about one acre of land adjoining with the 
 
 ■well and drane leading to said malt house, also a desk that 
 
 his mother brought to me when we were married. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth, the great 
 Chamber in the west end of my dwelling house so long as she shall 
 remain single and unmarried. I also give her a case of drawers and 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 21 
 
 a cliest with two drawers, which was her mother's. I also give an4 
 bequeath to my said daugliter, Eliz. one cow and two sheep, such as 
 she shall choose, to be winterd and summerd for her by my son 
 John, and also sixty dollars in money. Item. I give and bequeath to 
 my daughter Mehitabel Appleton, sixty dollars in money. Item. I 
 give to my son-in-law Thomas Appleton a note of hand I have against 
 him dated April 28, 1795. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Lydia Treadwell, sixty 
 dollars in money. Item. I give to my grandson Thomas Wade and 
 Samuel Wade thirty dollars each. Item. I give and bequeath to my 
 grand daughters Mary Waldron and Abigail Waldron, thirty dollars 
 each. I give and bequeath to my son-in-law, Edward Waldron, at my 
 decease, my great Bible. Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter 
 Elizabeth, one feather bed and bedding which her mother brought to 
 me, when I married her. Item. I give and bequeath to my three 
 daughters and to my grand-children, children of my Daughters, Mary 
 and Hannah, deceased, the whole of my household goods (excepting 
 my silver tankard) to be equally divided between them. 
 
 I give to my daughters aforenamed and my aforesaid grandchildren, 
 at my decease, all my books to be divided in same manner as I have 
 ordered my household goods to be divided. Item. I give and devise 
 to my son Joseph and to my daughter Elizabeth, and to their heirs and 
 assigns in equal shares, my Pew in the South Meeting House in this 
 town. Item. I give to my sons John and Joseph all my wearing 
 apparel and farming utensils to be equally divided between them. 
 Item. I give and devise to my son -Tolin and to his heirs and assigns 
 forever all my buildings and lands, excepting such parts of my build- 
 ings and lands as I have before given to my son Joseph and my daugh- 
 ter Elizabeth. I give and bequeath to my said son, all my stock of 
 cattle and sheep, all my notes of hand, my silver Tankard, and all the 
 rest and residue of my estate. 
 
 May 3, 1804. 
 
 (Essex Co. Probate Records 374 : 9 : 10.) 
 
 An inventory and appraisement of the estate of Deacon John Crocker 
 late of Ipswich (Probate Records 374 : 81). 
 
 In the West lower room 
 a clock $1G 1 looks glass $B one desk !$5 29.00 
 
 a settee $3 black M'alnut table 4 foot, .$2.50 5.50 
 
 writing desk $1 small round table $1, light stand 30 cts 
 
 stands candlestk 1.25 3.55 
 
 one great chair and G small ditto viol back $3.50 1 round 
 
 table $1.25 4.75 
 
 one small chair turkey worked 33cts hand iron, shovel & 
 
 tongs $2.50 2.83 
 
 one feather bed, bolster and pillows $23, bedstead sacking 
 
 bottom $2 25.00 
 
 curtains $1.50 3 blankets $4.50 calico quilt $2 8.00 
 
 tea salver $1.25 great Bible $4 other books & paphts $6.00 11.25 
 2 pair small scales & weights 80 cts hearth brush 25c 1.05 
 
 Westerly bed room. 1 bed, bolster & pillows $27 under 
 bed & bedstead $2.75 29.75 
 
 2 blankets 82 2 do .^3 1 bed quilt $2 1 coverlet $2 13 pr 
 
 sheets $22.75 31.75 
 
 10 pair pillow cases $3.07 table cloths $4.75 12 napkins 
 
 $1.75 9.50 
 
22 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 East room. 3 leathd chairs $1.80 round chair & cushion 
 
 $1 2.50 
 
 four old chairs 67cts, small looking glass $1 1.67 
 
 pair small handirons 50 ct small table 12 ct .62 
 
 East bed room, underbed, bedstead & cord $1.25 3 cover- 
 lets $3.75 5.00 
 two blankets $2 1 pair sheets $2 linen wheel &, reel $1 5.00 
 tinpail 33cts scales & weights 50cts wearing apparel $25 25.83 
 32 ounces silver plate $32.42 half dozen tea spoons $2.50 34.92 
 1 pair shoe & knee buckles $3 set gold buttons $3.50 6.50 
 
 West chamber. 1 case drawers $1.50 one ditto faneerd $7 8.50 
 six leath'd chairs $2.50 one great ditto $3, small cane 
 
 backd $1 6.50 
 
 bed, bolster & pillows $22 under bed, bedstead & cord $3 25.00 
 
 curtains & valions $3 one pair sheets $2.50 5.50 
 
 289.97 
 
 one blanket $1.50 coverlet $1 bed quilt $2.00 4.50 
 small pair hand irons 60 ct. 1 maple table $1 small looking 
 
 glass .25 1.75 
 
 In the East chamber. 1 bed, bolster, & 1 pillow $25, under 
 
 bed, bed std & cord $2.50 27.50 
 
 3 blankets $3.25 three bed quilts $4 7.25 
 
 square oak table 50cts. old chest and fire screen 75ct 1.25 
 
 flaxcomb $1. iron-jack 75c 1.75 
 
 In the kitchen 1 brass kettle $3 one brass pan $2 5.00 
 
 Pewter $9, handirons $2.50 shovel & tongs $1 12.50 
 
 gridiron 50 cts candlesticks 50 toasting iron 50 1.50 
 
 1 pr brass candlesticks $1 iron and tin ware $6 7.00 
 
 bell metal skillet 30cts brass skillet $1 1.30 
 
 tin ware $1.75 warming pan $1.00 pr bellows 25ct 3.00 
 
 earthen ware & glass bottles $2 case with bottles $1.50 3.60 
 
 crockery ware & glass ditto $3 3 tables $1.75 4.75 
 
 a mortar 2 coflee mills tlesh fork, skimer and skewers 2.00 
 
 3 iron bread pans $1 3 chests $1.50 meal chest 50 3.00 
 
 kitchen chairs $1.50 old cask & tubs $2.50 50 lb. salt pork $8 12.00 
 
 cheese press $1.25 two spits $1.25 pails $1 3.50 
 
 John Crocker disposed of this property to his brother 
 Joseph (though I find no record of the transaction), who 
 seems to have owned little of this world's goods, apart from 
 the ancestral mansion. The inventory of his estate is brief; 
 
 Inventory of the estate of Joseph Crocker, malster : 
 
 House and barn and malt-house, with other buildings & land 900.00 
 1 blue coat $3.00 1 blue surtout coat $2.50 1 blue grate 
 
 coat $3.50 9.00 
 1 black waist coat $1 2 green waist coats $1 2 pair small 
 
 cloths woolen and drawers .$2 4.00 
 1 pair kersey meer small cloths 50 cts 1 pair nankin jacket 
 
 and breeches $1 1.50 
 1 pair cotton and linen trowsers $1. 8 shirts $6.50 8 pair 
 
 of hose $3.50 11.00 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 23 
 
 1 pr leather gloves 12 cts. 2 silk aud one linen handkerchief 
 
 $1.75 1-87 
 
 3 pr. old trowsers 75 cts 2 frocks $1. 2 pair of boots $3.75 
 
 2 pair of shoes $1.50 7.00 
 
 2 felt hats 60 cts. 1 gun, bayonet & snap sack and cartridge 
 
 box $5 5.60 
 
 1 gun & cartridge box, and 2 powder horns §2 live bare 
 
 cleaned 60 cts 2.60 
 
 In the return of the administrator of Joseph Crocker, 
 in March 1814, we find the items 
 
 five sixths of dwelling house and land sold to Joseph Hodg- 
 
 kins Esq. 750.00 
 
 to paid John Crocker 621.38 
 
 Deacon John received the estate by inheritance from 
 hi."* father, Benjamin Crocker, a man of excellent quality. 
 He was graduated from Harvard College in 1713, was 
 Represen'tative in 1726, 1734, 1736, taught the Grammar 
 School many years, and often preached. He made his 
 will after the pious fashion of his day and devised his 
 property as follows : 
 
 AVILL OF BENJAMIN CROCKER. 
 
 In the name of God, Amen. April 9, 1766. 
 
 I Benjamin Crocker, of Ipswich in County of Essex, in New Eng- 
 land, being in Health of Body and Mind & Memory (thro the Favour 
 of Almighty God,) i!i calling to Mind the Uncertainty of Life and Cer- 
 tainty of Death, Do make and Ordain this my last Will aud Testament, 
 and Principally and above all I recommend my Soul into the Hands of 
 God, Thro Jesus Christ, hoping for his sake and Righteousness to find 
 acceptance with God at the great Day of his Appearing ; and my Body 
 to decent Christian Burial : and touching such worldly Estate as God 
 been pleased to bestow upon me, I give and dispose of the same in 
 Manner following, viz. — 
 
 Imprimis. I give to my Avell beloved wife Elizabeth fourteen 
 pounds, and all that estate which she brought with her to me upon 
 our Marriage; provided aud on Condition she shall acquit all her 
 Right or Claim and Interest in & to all the rest of my estate. 
 
 Item. I give to my daughter, Mary Gunnison, the two best silver 
 spoons, Avhich, with what I gave her at her Marriage, together with 
 what she held of land, which she had of laud Avhich she and her 
 Brother sold to Charles Tuttle after her Marriage, which I account of 
 a sufficient Fart of my Estate. (The particulars of which I have set 
 down in a Pocket Book in mj' Desk.) 
 
 Item. I give all the rest of my Estate both real and personal of 
 what Nature soever to my son John Crocker, after my Debts and 
 funeral Charges are paid by my said Son. Ben.jajiin Crocker. 
 
 (Probate Records 343 :481.) 
 
 Mary Crocker, the first wife of Benjamin, received the 
 property from her father, Major John Whipple. No 
 
24 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 record of sale, gift or inheritance from her remains, but 
 the identity of the property is indisputable as will appear 
 from our subsequent study of adjoining estates. 
 
 The will of Major John Whipple, Crocker's father-in- 
 law, is of much interest and I append it in full. 
 
 WILL OF MAJOR JOHN WHIPPLE. 
 
 In the name of God Amen. The thirtieth day of August 1722. I 
 John Whipple, of Ipswich, In the County of Essex in New England, 
 being sick & weak of Body but of perfect Mind c& Memory, Thanks be 
 Given to God therefore. Calling to Mind y"^ Mortality of my Body & 
 knowing y' Is Appointed for all Men Once to Dye Doe make and Or- 
 daine This my Last Will & Testament; that Is to say principally & 
 first of all I Give and recommend my Soul Into the hands of God that 
 Gave it, and my Body I Recomend to ye Earth to be buryed in a Decent 
 & Christian Buriall att ye Discretion of my Exec, nothing Doubting 
 but att ye Genii Resurrection I shall receive the same againe by ye 
 Almighty power of God ; and as touching such AYorldly Estate where- 
 with It hath pleased God to bless in Tliis Life, I Give, Demise & Dis- 
 pose of the same in the following Manner or Forme. 
 
 Impr. I give to my Daughter Mary Crocker & To the Heirs of her 
 Body Lawfully begotten my now Dwelling House & Homestead with 
 all the building upon the same. Also I give to my Daughter Crocker 
 all ye furniture both of the parlour and Parlour cliamber also one Bed 
 More such as shee shall Chuse with all ye furniture to ye same belong- 
 ing, also Three pair of Sheets, Two Large Table Cloths & Two Smaller 
 Ones & Two Dozen of Napkins, also I give unto my Daughter Crocker 
 all the utensills of y Kitciieu & Leantoe & also ray two Neb oxen & 
 all my utensills for husbandry, also One old Common Right & my 
 Negro Man & Two Cowes. 
 
 Item. I give to my son-in-law Benj. Crocker my and foul- 
 ing piece. 
 
 Item. I give to my Grandson, W'" Brown, my pistolls and holsters. 
 
 It. I give to my Granddaughter, Martha Brown, forty pounds. 
 
 It. I give to Daughter Rogers my Negroe Woman Hannah. 
 
 It. I give to my Grandson, John Rogers, twenty pounds and after 
 all my Lawful debts and all y'' above Legacies & my funerall Charges 
 are all payd, the whole of my Estate Avhich sliall then remaine Both 
 real and personal. Bills, Bonds, Whatsoever to be honestly apprized 
 & Equally Divided between my Three daughters, Martha, Mary & 
 Susannah. [Probate Records 313 : 458.] 
 
 INVENTORY. [313 : 555] 
 
 Wareing apperell £30 Book 80s Bills and Bonds £182- 
 
 U-6 horse & mare etc £112 328 14 6 
 
 coAvs, steers, hefl'ers & calves £47 9s Household stuff in 
 
 y^ Hall £1G 14s 64 3 
 
 Household goods in y bedroom below £2 5s in y« bed 
 
 room above 90s 6 15 
 
 In the Kitchen Chamber £7 8s Sheets, Pillow beers, 
 
 Napkins, Table cloths, Towells 196s 17 4 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 25 
 
 12 yds Liiinin Cloth 40s 12 yds Drngfit 40s 20 yds Cot- 
 ton & Liiiuin 40s old Curtain Cs 6 6 
 
 2 blankets, 2 Coverlids, 1 Kugg, 60s 1 Reel 10s Linnin 
 
 & Worsted yarn 38s 5 8 
 
 -wool 10s Cotton MooU 30s bottles 20s 2 sadles 96s 12 
 
 bar"^"^ 24s 2 tubbs 6s M 6 
 
 5 swine 100s Calash & Tackling 40s Slay 18s 7 18 
 
 an old saw mill standing on Ipswich River with y? apur- 
 teuances belonging to y'" mill without y<^ priviledge 
 of y streem 15 
 
 An addition of the Parsonall Estate of John Whipple Esq. taken 
 
 April 17th, 1723, 
 
 One silver headed Cain 35s one walnut staft" with silver 
 
 head 13s 2 8 
 
 one old Desk 3s pr Cards Is 4d 1 Knife and fork 2s 
 
 about 50 Gro. buttons old 6s 12 4 
 
 1 pr sheers 6d 1 old press? 18s 1 pine chest 4s 1 Table 
 
 4s 1 Do 2s 2 old Chairs Is 1 pr stillards 5s 14 6 
 
 When the Rev. John Rogers receipted for his son's leg- 
 acy, as his guardian, it is recorded that it was in accoid- 
 ance with the will of" Major John Whipple." It is im- 
 portant that every clew however slight to the successive 
 generations of Whipples be noted, as we enter now a be- 
 wildering maze of John Whipple, Captain John, Major 
 John, Cornet John, Elder John, John Senior, etc., through 
 which it is very difficult to thread our way. 
 
 This will of Major Whipple drawn in 1722 contains one 
 item of note in determining the age of different portions 
 of the house. It mentions the " kitchen & Leanto." One 
 addition, at least, had been n)ade piior to this date ; but 
 whether it was the very small leanto that seems to have 
 been built on the northeast corner, or the larger and later 
 addition that provided a new kitchen, we cannot deter- 
 mine, I incline to the former hypothesis, as there is men- 
 tion of only four rooms in the will and inventory. Two 
 slaves are included in his estate, a negro man, who was 
 given to Dame Crocker, and Hannah, who became the 
 property of the minister's wife, Mrs. John Rogers. We 
 are glad that she was a person of sufficient note to be men- 
 tioned by name. The humble black man, who was sand- 
 wiched in between "an old common right" and "Two 
 Cowes," is mentioned only as a chattel. 
 
 Major John Whipple was the eldest son of Captain John 
 Whipple Senior, who made his will in 1683. The will is 
 of value, and is inserted in full. The inventory, which 
 
26 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 follows, is minute and is published in a ver}'- slightly 
 abridged form. 
 
 THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF CAPT. JOHN WHIPPLE 
 SEN. OF IPSWICH. 
 
 I, John Whipple Sen of Ipswich, having not settled my estate be- 
 fore in case of death do thus order the estate which God hath gra- 
 ciously given me. Inprimis my will is yt Elizabeth, my well beloved 
 wife, shall enjoy one lialfe of my dwelling house so long as shee sliall 
 see cause to live therein, and if my exccul" shall provide her y" going 
 of a cow or two, with y** use of an horse for her occasions during yt 
 time : And my will further is yt my execut" shall pay or cause to be 
 paid unto her fifteen pounds by y" year, besides w' is already men- 
 tioned during y« time of her naturall Life. Item, my will is yt my 
 daughf Susan Lane shall have y" portion w''^ slie hath already Re- 
 ceived (which I judge to be about seaventy pound) made up an hun- 
 dred and fifty pounds, in like specie as before. I will also that my sd 
 daughter shall have y'' remainder of her portion paid her within three 
 years after my decease, my will likewise is. that my youngest 
 daughter Sarah Whipple shall be brought up witli her mother (if shee 
 be willing thereunto) and my executors to allow her w' maintenance 
 is necessary thereunto, & to have likewise an hundred and fifty 
 pounds for her portion at the time of her marriage, or "vvhen she 
 comes to one and twenty years of age. Concerning my three sons, it 
 was my intent y' if my estate were divided into five parts y* my eldest 
 son should enjoy two fifth parts thereof, y=^ other three to be left for 
 y« other three viz. Matthew, Joseph & Sarah. But apprehending that 
 I am not like to escape this sicknesse, I thus dispose concerning the 
 same, viz. I Avill that my son John and my sou Matthew sliall be 
 execuf'* of this my last will & testament for y" present & .y' my son 
 Joseph sliall be joyiied as an execuf w'"^ them two, as soon as ever he 
 comes to be of age. And then my Will is that if my son John enjoys 
 all y« Lands, houses, buildings & appurtenances, and Priviledges 
 thereunto belonging where he now livfs together with y Land in y^ 
 hands of Artliur Abbot to be Added thereunto: And that my son 
 Matthew eiijoyes y*" Lands, houses, wliere he now lives, the appurte- 
 nances &privilednes w"> y"^ saw mill & y^ Land in y^' tenure of Fennell 
 Ross, y' tlien my son Joseph when he comes of Age shall enjoy y« houses, 
 buildings, Malting office, w"^ y'' other Lands, pasture, Arable & meadow 
 where I now live as his right of Inheritance & portion, to him and his 
 heires forever, pi'ovided y* my son John do help him to order & man- 
 age y*^ same till he himselfe conies of Age. And also my will is that 
 then he pay an hundred pound out of his estate to his sister Sarah, 
 and y*^ rest of her and her sister Susan's portion to be paid out of y^ 
 Debts and otlier chattels which are found l)eloiigiiig to my estate. 
 But if my two elder sons be not satisfied with this Distriliution of my 
 Reall estate, my wall is y' my whole estate (Avith w^liat is in my son 
 John's and Matthew's hands already of houses and lands) lioth reall 
 and personal be equally divided by indirterent Apprizall into five parts, 
 and if then my eldest son shall have two fifths thereof, ray sou Mat- 
 thew another tif tli, and if Joseph shall have another fifth and y' y*^ last 
 fifth shall be improved to pa}' debts and other Legacies and y' w' ever 
 land falls to any of my three sons shall be to them and their Heires 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 27 
 
 forever. lu Avitness whereof I have set to ray hand & scale this second 
 of August 1683. 
 
 John Whipple. 
 
 my will also is y* if my two sons, John & Mat- 
 thew choose to enjoy y« f armes y' then J"o shall 
 also have y" ten acres of marsh by Quilters & JOHN WHIPPLE 
 Matthew as much of my marsh in y*^ Hundreds 
 to them and their Heires forever excepting y^ 
 marsh in y« Island w^'' may be sold to pay debts. 
 
 signed, sealed & Delivered in presence of us 
 
 William Hubbard 
 Samuel Phillips 
 Daniel Epps 
 [Probate Records 304 : 10.] 
 
 An Inventory of the Estate of Captaine John Whipple of Ipswich, 
 taken by us whose names are underwritten the tenth of Septemb"^ 
 1683 
 Impr* His wearing Apparell, Woollen & Linnen prized at 
 
 £27 18s 
 It. A feather Bed & Bolste'^ £5 curt"« vallins, coverl'^ all 
 
 of searge £12 
 It. A Diaper tablecloth at £2 5s a shorter Diaper table 
 
 cloth £1 2s 6d 
 It. An old cupboard cloeth 2s Lesser cupboard cloeth 5s 
 
 towells 4s 
 It. Three Pillow Beeres 9s 9 Diaper napkins 13s 6d 8 
 
 napkins 7s 
 It. Turkey worke for chairs & fringe & cloeth to make 
 
 them £3 5s 
 It. Linsy woolsey cloeth 12s 3d a Remnant of Broad 
 
 cloth Gs a yd Kersey 8s 
 It. Fine cloth to bottom chairs £3 13s cushions 9s a 
 
 chest of drawers £2 15s 
 It. Two cushion stooles at 6s a great chaire 5s Brass 
 
 cob Irons £1 5s 
 It. A looking glass 10s two wicker baskets 5s gloves 
 
 3s four chairs £1 12s 
 It. Two bolsters £1 5s coverlid £1 a blanket & sheet £1 
 It. A Bedstead & cover 16s 6 fine wrought chairs £2 8s 
 It. Three Leather chairs 9s fring chaire 6s a great 
 
 chair 6s 
 
 It. Fine Stool fringe 6s cushions 4s (covered) 
 
 It. A fine wrought form & stoole 7s brass fire pan tongs 
 
 & snuffers 
 It. Two pair of iron tongs & a warming pan 12s a case 
 
 of knives 5s 
 It. PistoUs, holsters & Belt £2 15s one cushen and mat 
 
 7s 
 It. Brush & Broomes 2s 3 Pictures 3s a Book of 
 
 Maps 5s 
 It. Thirteen napkins & towells 10s a course table cloth 
 
 IDs 
 It. T^'o old table-cloths two tOAvells & two cheese cloth 
 
 6s 
 
 27 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 7 6 
 
 
 11 
 
 1 
 
 9 6 
 
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 6 3 
 
 6 
 
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 17 
 
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28 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 It. Three sheets 18s one sheet 8s one pair of sheets 16s 
 It. One pair of fine sheets £1 5s an old pair 6s old 
 
 Books 2s 
 It. Two course pillow beers 3s three bolster cases 7s 3 
 
 pillow beers 1 sheet 
 It. One sheet 12s 6d old sheet 4s another 4s one 
 
 sheet 8s 
 It. A sheet & Bolster case 3s 6d a Pillow case & drawers 
 
 2s 
 It. A yellow silk scarfe 12s an old yellow scarf 10s 
 It. A yardi fine holand 15s Kemn'^ of hoi"''' 3s yarns, 
 
 thread tape 7s 
 It. One chest 6s a Rapeyer & Belt £1 13s a cutlas 15s 
 
 a Rapeyer 10s 
 It. Files and sawes 3s chissells, jjouges, gimblets 3s 8d 
 It. Three pair of sheares 4s 6d two locks 2s one 
 
 anger Is 
 It. One auger Is a span shackle & pin 2s old Iron & 
 
 stirrup irons 6s 
 It. Two old Bills Is whissells 3s Basket & Gloves 3s 
 It. A Basket & yarne 3s scales & lead weights 12s 
 It. A compas 2s a file Is A Razor & hone 3s Box & 
 
 old iron 2s 6d 
 It. A great Bible 16s in Books £5 8s 9d 5 Bottles of 
 
 syrrup of clove gilly fl 
 It. Tliree bottles of Rosewater 6s two Bottles of mint 
 
 water 3s 
 It. A Glass Bottle of Port wine 2s Angelica water sir- 
 
 rup of gilli flw'"'' strawberry water 3 Bottles 4s 3 
 
 pint Bottles a great Glass 4s 
 It. Three greate Gaily Pots w"» w' was in them 4s 2 
 
 earthen chamber pots, etc 
 It. A Box Drawers, two peicesof twine £1 2s a bag 
 
 with sugar Is 6d 
 It. Spurs and wyer Is 6d 2 caynes 2s croaper and a 
 
 girdle Is 3d 
 It. A Bedstead and cover above and below curtains and 
 
 vallance £2 6d 
 It. A cupboard with small things in it £2 3d A deske 
 
 and drawer.* 12s 
 It. A small Box Is a brush and a stock to do limmes Is 
 
 6d 
 It. Seaven dishes of white earthen ware one Bason and 
 
 a sully bub pot 16s 
 It. One glass slick stone earthen porrenger and pot 3s 
 
 2 flower pots Is 
 It. eight cushens £1 10s table 10s great chair 4s 3 
 
 small chaires 6s 
 It. To a great chaire 4s window curtain Is 6d part of 
 
 a Buriing cloth 8s 
 It. Forty cheeses £5 an apple trough 6s two powder- 
 ing tubs 6s 6d Lether 2s 
 It. Three beer Barrells 8s a great glass Is a powder- 
 ing tub 5s and old tubs 4s 
 It. Two andirons 14s churn 4s firkin w*** 4 lb of butter 
 
 £1 5s— 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 
 13 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 8 6 
 
 
 5 6 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 
 6 8 
 
 
 7 6 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
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 8 9 
 
 
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 3 6 
 
 
 
 4 9 
 
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 15 
 
 
 
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 16 
 
 
 
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 13 6 
 
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THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 29 
 
 It. Two earthen pots 2s 4 pound caudles 2s 8d a hand 
 
 jack Is 2d 2 p'' scales gaily pot 10 5 
 
 It. The best pewter 77 lb £7 14s 10 lb more of pewter 
 
 £1 old pewter 151b £1 candlesticks £1 10 14 
 
 It. a Bed pan 9s two basons 8s four old candlesticks 
 
 9s 5 salt sellers 5s one more 2s 113 
 
 It. Two Basons & 4 Pottingers one beaker 9s 6 new 
 
 pottingers 7s 6d a pottinger 4s 10 6 
 
 It. Two pint pots 6s flagon 14s 2 quart pots 6s 16 
 
 It. Two old chamb"" pots 10s 4 lb old pewter & a 3 qt 
 
 bason 9s cop'' pot 6s tin-ware 6s tin? 1 11 
 
 It. PlateonebowleV £3 threespoons £1 10s silver cup 
 
 10s pair buttons 2s 6d three pair buttons 3s one 
 
 buckle Is a pair of shoe buckles 6s 3 dozen of plate 
 
 buttons £1 6 12 6 
 
 It. a still with Instrum'' belonging £1 10s tin lanthorn 
 
 Is beams for scales & weights 2 10 
 
 It. a Box iron 4s a smoothing iron Is a brass copp'"'' 
 
 £7 a great Brass pan £2 14s 9 19 
 
 It. Two small brass pans £1 12s 6d old copper kittle 15s 
 
 a brass kittle £1 5s 3 12 6 
 
 It. Two small brass skillets 6s 2 small brass Ladles & 
 
 one skimmer 4s 6d 10 6 
 
 It. A brass bason 4 s skillet 5s a little brass kettle 7s 
 
 skillet 4s 10 
 
 It. "Wool combs w''' belongs to them 16s a brass chafeing 
 
 dish 3s 19 
 
 It. Two bell mettle pots one £2 5s y*' other £1 5s an 
 
 iron kettle 8s & lit' iron pot 4 4 
 
 It. Two dozen of trenchers Is 6d one tray 6 old dishes 
 
 w'h other dishes 3s 4d tAVO piggins Is 6d 16 4 
 
 It. Three cheeshoopes Is earthen Pitcher 3d one payle, 
 
 one piggin & strainer 3s 9d 5 
 
 It. An iron pot & pot-hooks 9s 6d Two tramelsw"^ irons 
 
 to hang upon 12s 116 
 
 It. a pair of bellows, meat forke, augar & gridiron 4s a 
 
 trammel with hooks to it 12s 16 
 
 It. a fowling piece £1 lOs two carbines £2 a jack, 
 
 weight & a spit £2 10 6 
 
 It. a salt box & salt Is two old bibles Is 4 old chairs & 
 
 old joynt stoole 4s 6 
 
 It. a meale trough 6s sives 3s 6d shreding knife Is 
 
 frying pan and marking iron 4s 14 6 
 
 It. a cushion 3s cap&fardingalls Is a kettle & skillet 9s 13 
 
 It. a bed & bedding 15s old spinning wheel 3s an old 
 
 chest 3s 110 
 
 It. The Homestead at towne, dwelling house, kilne & other 
 
 houses 330 
 
 It. a great saddle bridle & breast plate, crouper w"' a 
 
 cover at £3 10s 
 It. Pistols, holsters, breastplate crooper & simiter £2 5s 
 It. a tramel & slice 6s 
 It. two keelers 4 s 
 
 It. Lawrence y« Indian at £4 8 yds crape at 6s 
 It. The farme Landes, Arthur Abbots housing & land 
 It. Fennel Rosses housing & land 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 190 
 
 
 
 190 
 
 
 
30 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 It. The saw-mill w*" all implements belonging to it 40 
 
 It. John's house & barn & kilne at 140 140 
 
 It. Matthew's house & barn 140 
 The total appraisal was £3314. 
 
 It will be noticed that the homestead was apportioned 
 to Joseph in the will, but in the final division as it is re- 
 corded under date of Oct. 31, 1684, John received "the 
 mansion house his father deceased in wth Barn, outhouses, 
 Kilne, orchards & homestead wth commonage & privileges 
 in and upon Two acres & a half of land be it more or less, 
 called ye Homestead in Ipswich Towne " (Book 305 : 
 folio 135). 
 
 Captain Whipple's farm lands included the present 
 Gardner estate, I judge, in Hamilton. His wealth was 
 very unusual in his day, and the appraised value of the 
 house with its modest house lot is phenomenal. It was 
 valued at £330. 
 
 General Denison's property was inventoried the j^ear 
 before, 1682, and his dwelling house was appraised at 
 £160 (Ipswich Records 4 :506) . He was a man of wealth 
 (£2105), and his house had been built but a few years, 
 as his earlier residence had been burned, yet this fine res- 
 idence as we may imagine it to have been, was reckoned 
 worth less than half as much as Captain Whipple's man- 
 sion. 
 
 Deputy Governor Samuel Syraonds died on Oct. 13, 
 1678, five years before, leaving an estate of 2534 pounds 
 sterling, but his house and about two acres in town, in the 
 very centre, were estimated worth only one hundred and 
 fifty pounds. 
 
 These valuations confirm me in the belief that Captain 
 Whipple's mansion was the grandest in the town or in 
 the larger neighborhood. He inherited a comfortable 
 fortune from his father, John Whipple, the elder of the 
 church. His will and inventory made in the year 1669, 
 and indorsed upon the outside " Elder John Whipple " 
 are as follows : 
 
 WILL OF JOHN WHIPPLE, SENIOR 1669. 
 
 [Filed, not recorded.] 
 In the name of God, Amen. I, John Whipple Senior of Ipswich in 
 New England, being iu this present time of perfect understanding 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 31 
 
 and memory, though weake iu body, committing my soule into the 
 hands of Almighty God, and my body to decent biiryall, in hope of 
 Resurrection unto Eternall life by the Merit and power of Jesus 
 Christ, my most mercyfuU Saviour and Redeemer, doe thus dispose of 
 thetemporall Estate ■w'^^ God hath graciousely given raee. 
 Imprimis. I give unto Susanna Worth of Newhery my eldest daugh- 
 ter thirty pounds and a silver beer bowle and a silver Avine cup. 
 Item. I give unto my daughter Mary Stone twenty pounds and one 
 
 silver wine cup, and a silver dramme cup. 
 Item. I give unto ray daughter Sarali Goodhue twenty pounds. And 
 all the rest of ray household goods my will is that they be equally 
 divided betwixt my three daughters afore sayd. But for their 
 other Legacyes my will is that they should be payd them wi"^ln 
 two yeares after my decease : and if it should so fall out y' any of 
 my daughters above sayd should be taken away by death before 
 this time of payment be come, my will is that the Respective Leg- 
 acyes be payd to their Heyres when they come of age. Likewise 
 I give unto Antony Potter, my son-iu-law sometime, fourty shil- 
 lings. 
 
 Moreover I give nnto Jennett my beloved Wife ten pounds which 
 my will is yMt should be payd her besides the fourteen pound, 
 and y" annuity of six pounds a yeare engaged unto her in the Ar- 
 ticles of Agreement before our Marryage. Concerning the four- 
 score pound, which is to be Returned backe to her after my de- 
 cease, my will is y' it should be payed (both for time and manner 
 of Pay) according to y^ sayd Agreement, viz : one third part in 
 wheat, Mault and Indian Corne in equall proportions, the other 
 two thirds in neat Cattle under seaven yea™ old. Further my will 
 is y' no debt should be charged upon my said wife as touching any 
 of her daughters, until it be first proved to arise from the account 
 of Mercy, Sarah or Mary. 
 
 I do appynt ray loving friends, M'' William Hubbard and Mr. John 
 Rogers of Ipswich, the overseers of this my last will and Testa- 
 ment, and I doe hereb,y give them power to determine any differ- 
 ence y' may arise betwixt my executor, and any of the Legatees, 
 aforesayd, about y" payments aforesayd. Lastly I ordayn and Ap- 
 poynt my son John Whipple the sole executor of this my last will 
 and Testament. To whom I give all the rest of my estate, both 
 houses, lands, cattle, Debts from whomsoever due and to his 
 heyres forever. 
 
 In confirmation whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale 
 this 10th day of May, 1669. In the presence of 
 
 William Hubbard The marke of 
 
 Robert Day 
 
 The marke of J | | Edward Lummas John 7^ Whipplr 
 
 "This will was presented in court held at Ipswich 28 of 
 September, 1669, by the oath of Mr. Wry Hubbard and 
 Robert Day to be the last will and testament of Elder 
 John Whipple deceased to the best of their knowledge. 
 As attest, Robert Lord, cleric." 
 
 "An inventory of the estate of Mr. John Whipple de- 
 ceased the 30 of June, 1669." 
 
32 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 Impr. The farme contayning about three hundred 
 
 and 
 
 
 
 sixty aci-es 
 
 
 150 
 
 It. 
 
 The houses and lands in j^e Towne contayning about 
 
 
 
 one hundred acres 
 
 
 250 
 
 It. 
 
 In apparell 
 
 
 9 
 
 It. 
 
 In linnen 
 
 
 6 
 
 It. 
 
 A Heather bed with appurtenances 
 
 
 7 
 
 It. 
 
 In Plate 
 
 
 6 
 
 It. 
 
 In Pewter 
 
 
 4 
 
 It. 
 
 In Brasse 
 
 
 3 10 
 
 It. 
 
 In chayres, cushions, & other small things 
 
 
 1 7 
 
 It. 
 
 A still 
 
 
 16 
 
 It. 
 
 Two flock Beds 
 
 
 1 10 
 
 It. 
 
 Two Tables 
 
 
 OHO 
 
 It. 
 
 One musquet, one pr of mustard quernes 
 
 
 15 
 
 It. 
 
 Andirons, firepan & tongs 
 
 
 U 
 
 It. 
 
 Two mortars, two spitts 
 
 
 10 
 
 It. 
 
 In Bookes 
 
 
 2 8 
 
 444 1 
 Ipswich July 15th, '69 
 EiCHARD Hubbard 
 John Appleton 
 
 (The originals are endorsed "Elder John Whipple.") 
 " The inventory was delivered in court held at Ipswich 
 the 28 of September, 1669, npon the oath of cornett John 
 Wiiipple to be a full & true inventory of the estate of his 
 fiather, deceased, to the best of his knowledge and if more 
 appears afterward it should be added. As attest, 
 
 Robert Lord, Cleric." 
 
 The Elder's estate included the large 360 acre farm 
 which had been divided into several by the prosperous 
 Cornet and Captain, and other property, entered as 
 " houses and lands in ye Towne contayning about one hun- 
 dred acres," valued at £250. The two acre homelot and 
 homestead were contained in this beyond a doubt, bnt we 
 cannot be sure how much else is included. It does not 
 seem possible that Captain Whipple's mansion should 
 have been identical with the Elder's house. The great 
 increase in value within the short period of fourteen years, 
 1669-1683, indicates at least a substantial enlargement or 
 rel)uilding. This supposition harmonizes perfectly with 
 the fact, apparent to every observer, that the eastern half 
 of the present edifice was added to the western portion, 
 and the elaborate and costly style of the newer work 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 33 
 
 presupposes such ample wealth as Captain Whipple pos- 
 sessed . 
 
 A very interesting parallel to such an enlargement is 
 fouiul in the old Howard or Ringe house, as it is called, 
 near the Stone Bridge on Turkey Shore. In William 
 Howard's will dated July 23, 1709, he says : 
 
 " Item, I give imto my loving aaid well-beloved wife the use both of 
 the old end of my house mansion and of the new end, so far as she 
 shall have occasion for during her natural life. 
 
 " Item. I give to my two sons John and Samuel Howard, viz. to 
 my son John, the new end of my house mansion which is not yet fully 
 finished, with half the stack of chimneys built iu said new end, whicti 
 will best serve for the use thereof. 
 
 "Item. I give to my son Samuel my old mansion house and also 
 one-half of tlae stack of chimneys built in the new end of said house, 
 which will best suit for the accommodation of said mansion house." 
 
 Evidently a considerable change in the chimney of the 
 old house was involved, and in our house, it is evident 
 that the chimney stack was enlarged when this new por- 
 tion was added. The Western half of our house was 
 probably therefore Elder Whipple's home, and as the 
 fashion of houses was in those days, it was a very good 
 and comfortable house, much larger and better than many 
 which were built in that period. He acquired the property 
 from John Fawne, b}' a deed recorded in the old Ipswich 
 books (1 :89), which reads as follows : 
 
 Md. that I, John Fawne, gent, do by these presents, allow, certifle 
 & conlirnie, unto Mr. John Whipple his heires and assigns forever, a 
 certaine bargaine &sale of an house «&. house lott in Ipswich coiiteining 
 by estimation two acres & a half e, more or lesse, formerly sould unto the 
 said John Whipple by John Jolly, Samuell Appleton, John Cogswell, 
 Robert Muzzey, & Humphrey Broadstreete &doe hereby release all my 
 right and title thereunto, as witness my hand & seale, this 10th day of 
 October, 1650 John Fawne. 
 
 The original deed is not to be found, and this quit claim 
 deed only perfects the title to the property, which was 
 purchased by AVhipple from six well-known citizens acting 
 in some collective capacity, not yet discoverable. But it 
 is of great value as proving Fawne's original ownership. 
 But John Whipple was living on this spot in 1642, for in 
 that year the town ordered that John Whipple " should 
 cause the fence to be made between the house late Cap- 
 tain Denison's and the sayd John Whipple, namely on the 
 3 
 
34 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 side next Capt. Denison's." But Fawne's occupancy of 
 this location had ceased in 1638, inasmuch as in our Town 
 Record, it was recorded in 1638, that eight acres had been 
 " granted to Samuel Appleton above the Mill, the Town 
 Eiver on the South East, the house lot formerly John 
 Fawne's North East, and the highway leading into the 
 Common, North west." Whipple may have been living 
 there at that early period. 
 
 It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that this 
 western end of the old mansion may have been erected by 
 Mr. Fawne prior to this early date. 
 
 By a singular coincidence, Deputy Governor Symonds, 
 who had lately purchased the Argilla Farm, wrote Mr. 
 Winthrop in 1637 full instructions as to the kind of a 
 house, he wished to be built. 
 
 "I think to make it a girt howse will make it more 
 charsreable than neede ; however the side bearers for the 
 second story being to be loaden with corne etc. must not 
 be pinned on, but rather eyther sett into the studds or 
 borne up with false studds &soe tenanted in at the ends." 
 
 The studs of this part of the house extend from the 
 sill to the plate, and the " side-bearers " or supports for 
 the floor joists are oak i)lanks, some six inches wide, and 
 two inches thick, let into the studs and fastened with oak 
 pins, after the fashion of the modern "balloon-frame." 
 
 This similarity in construction, coupled with the fact 
 that the farm house was to be a substantial two story 
 building with garret, " 30 or 35 foote long, 16 or 18 
 foote broade," encourages the belief that this part of our 
 House was one of the earliest houses, of the better soit, 
 built by the first settlers. 
 
 These ancient grants aflbrd us the first links in the chain 
 of collateral evidence which confirms our identification of 
 the property mentioned in these various wills with our 
 mansion and lot. 
 
 Our Town Record mentions that Mr. Fawne had a 
 houselot adjoining to Mr. Appleton, six acres near the 
 mill. 
 
 Daniel Denison had a house lot, next Mr. Fawne's " to 
 come to the scirt of the hill next the swamp." Denison's 
 lot is again described as "near the mill, containing al)out 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 35 
 
 two acres, which he hath paled in and built an house upon 
 it, having Mr. Fawne's house lot on the South west." 
 
 Denison's property included the tract bounded by Mar- 
 ket, Winter and Union streets. The Appleton lot was on 
 both sides of the Topsiield road, beyond the present rail- 
 way crossing. Fawne's land lay between them. As he 
 sold only two and a half acres to Whipple the balance of 
 his original grant had been sold apparently to Mr. Apple- 
 ton as he always appears as the abutter on the western 
 side. 
 
 The grant to Denison originally included a lot that 
 bounded the Whipple hmd on the southeast, i. e. toward 
 the Kiver. This was owned afterwards by John Burnham 
 and Anthony Potter. A portion of this original Denison 
 grant was owned by Jeremiah Belcher. 
 
 On the occasion of his marriage with Mary Lock wood. 
 Belcher conveyed to Mr. Robert Paine, Richard Brown 
 of Newbury and Robert Lord of Ipswich, "in behalf of 
 the sayd Mary etc." " his now dwelling house with out- 
 houses, orchards, yards, gardens & all other the appurte- 
 nances and priviledges thereunto belonging, which house 
 is scituate, lying & being in Ipswich aforesayd, neare the 
 mill on the north side the river, having the said river to- 
 ward the southeast, and the land of John Whipple toward 
 thenorwest." 30 :7 :1652(Ipswich Deeds, 1 :239). Twelve 
 years later, Jeremiah Belcher mortgaged his farm and 
 town property to Capt. Geo. Corwin. The dwelling and 
 land about it are described as follows : " On the West side 
 of the Mill River, having the River on the East side there- 
 of, the land of Elder Whipple on the west, and on the 
 north, the Towne and mill & bordering southward upon 
 the land of Elder Whipple" (Essex Deeds, 2 :92). 
 
 On the 8th of April, 1672, Anthony Potter sold Samuel 
 Belcher (son of Jeremiah) a small piece of land, " joyne- 
 ing to the houselott of Jeremiah Belcher and bounded 
 therewith and with the river on the South and Southwest 
 syde, and with the houselott of John AVhipple on the 
 Northwest and with the highway on the North East, all 
 which piece of land I had of John Burnham" (Ipswich 
 Deeds, 3:223). 
 
 On April 20, 1672, the Rev. Samuel Belcher, Pastor on 
 
36 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 the Isle of Shoals, sold to Edward Lumase, in behalf ot 
 Richard Saltonstall, Esq. 
 
 "A parcell of ground near unto the mill, for to sett a 
 house upon for the milk'r, that shall keepe the n)ills from 
 tyme to time, to live and dwell in while he or they shall 
 keepe the sa3^d mills," " conteineini:: about six rodds of 
 land bounded by a fence of pales toward the West, the 
 barne of Jeremiah Belcher toward the South, downe to a 
 rocke near the end of the sd. barne toward the East, & 
 comon land or highway, where gravell hath beene digged 
 towards the North" (Ipswich Deeds, 3 :329). 
 
 This is the only deed which contains the name of Sal- 
 tonstall. Before remarking on it, let me add two others. 
 Mary Belcher, the widow of Jeremiah, set over to her son 
 Samuel, who then resided in Ipswich, "all that houselott 
 given & made over to me by way of Jointure on Marriage, 
 
 bounded by y*^ grist mill in Ipswich easterly, Mr. 
 
 John Aiipleton's land Southerl}^ Mr. John Whipple's 
 land Northerly, the other part bounded by the wa}^ to sd 
 Land or lott, and partly by land granted to Major Den- 
 nison, now possessed and built on by Samuel Belcher." 
 Novem. 11 :1672 (Essex Deeds 49:251). 
 
 In 1713, Sept. 25, Mr. Sanniel Belcher sold this prop- 
 erty to Capt. John Whipple "one halfe acre of Land be 
 ye same more or less with y^ house, barn and orchard 
 
 standing thereon bounded northeasterly by a highway 
 
 Leading to y'' mill. Southeasterly by Ipswich Kiver, South- 
 westerly by Land of (\)1. John Appleton, Northwesterly 
 by Land of y'' above sd Capt. John Whipple." 
 
 (Essex Deeds, 29:61.) 
 
 Comparing these deeds it Avill be seen at once that the 
 l)it of land sold to Mr. Saltonstall for the miller's house, 
 was only a part of Samuel Belcher's land, and that the 
 whole l^elcher property was bounded then, as it had been 
 for many years l)y the \Yhipple estate. Apart from that 
 a six rod lot is rather small for a mansion like this, though 
 it were then only half its present length. 
 
 The old Jerenu'ah Belcher lot reappears in the " Brack- 
 enbury lot " which William Brackeubury, of North Caro- 
 lina, planter, then in Ipswich, sold to Nath, Farley about 
 f acre, which is bounded by John Crocker, the River and 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 37 
 
 other land of Farley's. On April 30, 1771 (Essex Deeds 
 129 :112), when the heirs of Joseph Crocker sold to Col- 
 onel Hotlgkins, the lot was bounded by land of Enoch 
 Pearson and Joseph Farley, the river, etc. 
 
 Not a link of any importance is lacking. The direct 
 pedigree of the land is through Fawne, the Whipples, and 
 the Crockers to Colonel Hodgkins. The a])utting estates 
 are always bounded by these owners. Mr. Saltonstall never 
 owned an inch of land on this site. The estate always in- 
 cludes two or two and a half acres. 1 dwell on this only 
 in the interest of exact historic truth. We cannot call our 
 house by the name of Saltonstall. If any name is given 
 it, that of Whipple has first claim. 
 
 To my mind the particular name we give this house is 
 of small moment. The old mansion itself is a constant 
 reminder of all the glorious names which hallow and il- 
 lumine the early years of our town life, Saltonstall and 
 Winthrop, Symonds and Denison, Ward and Norton and 
 Hubbard and all the rest. They were all friends of the 
 Elder. Every one of them may have crossed our thresh- 
 old. As we sit here in the flickering firelight we seem 
 to see them sitting as of old, and conversing on the great 
 themes, matters of public safety, affairs of church and 
 state, and the momentous events that were happening in 
 the dear old England, which were much in their minds. 
 The old pavement in the door yard rings again with the 
 hoof-beats of Capt. Whipple's horse hurrying to lead his 
 troopers on a swift ride to Andover to repel an Indian 
 assault. John Appleton and Thomas French are talking 
 in this very room of their imprisonment and trial for ad- 
 vocating resistance to the royal governor's edict, and de- 
 manding representation before they would submit to taxa- 
 tion. Cohmel Hodgkins and Colonel Wade and Major 
 Burnham smoke and sip their steaming cups and chat of 
 Bunker Hill and Yorktown, of Burgoyne and Cornwallis, 
 Washington and Lafayette. 
 
 The mmble of Polly Crafts' loom overhead, the whirr 
 of spinning wheels, the beat of the churn, the roar of great 
 winter fires, the hissing of meats on the long spits, the 
 voices of children at their play, or demurely reciting the 
 catechism, the goodwife's chat with neighboring gossips. 
 
38 THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 the loud laughter of the slaves, the tale of love, the sol- 
 emn declaration of the last Will and Testament, the weep- 
 ing of mourners blend strangely together in these low 
 vaulted rooms. We see visions as we sit and dream of 
 Thanksgiving feast days, when the long tables groaned 
 under their weight of delicacies, of weddings and funerals, 
 of home-comings and leave-takings. 
 
 Thus the life of the ancient times revives again, the his- 
 tory of other days becomes a living reality, and the sombre 
 old mansion is made a living, speaking witness to the 
 naturalness, the simplicity, the sturdiness, the refinement, 
 the devotion of the old Puritan home life. It remains for 
 us, catching the inspiration of this hour, to make this 
 house a worthy memorial of the Past. 
 
ANNUAL MEETING, DEC. 3, 1900. 
 
 The Annual Meeting of the Ipswich Historical Society 
 was held on Monday, December 3, 1900, at eight o'clock 
 p. M., at the House of the Society. 
 
 Officers were elected for the ensuing year, as follows : 
 President — T. Frank Waters. 
 
 -r^ ., , ( John B, Brown, 
 Vice-Presidents-^ John Heard. 
 
 Cleric — John W. Goodhue. 
 Treasurer — T. Frank Waters. 
 
 ( Charles A. Say ward, 
 Directors — ^ John H. Cogswell, 
 
 ( Edward Kavanagh. 
 Corresponding Secretary. — John H. Cogswell. 
 Librarian. — John J. Sullivan. 
 
 The reports of the President and Treasurer were read. 
 
 It Avas voted that a committee of three be appointed to 
 consider the erection of suitable markers at points of his- 
 toric interest. The President appointed, John B. Brown, 
 Charles A. Sayward and Edward Constant. It was voted 
 that the President be added to this committee. 
 
 Annual Report of the President. 
 
 Ten years ago, on the 14th of April, 1900, our Histori- 
 cal Society was organized. Six years of dreamy existence, 
 without an abiding place and with only occasional mani- 
 festations of life, followed. On Feb. 3, 1896, a distinct 
 evidence of more vigorous purpose was given. On that 
 date, the room in the old Probate Building was dedicated, 
 and the collection of antiques was begun. The 19th of 
 October, 1898, witnessed the formal exercises of dedica- 
 tion of this House, and the inauguration of a new and 
 more ambitious method. The completion of our tenth 
 year finds that vigor unimpaired, and gratifying evidence 
 
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40 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 that our Society has entered upon a career of established 
 prosperity and usefulness. 
 
 As our house is our unique and most precious posses- 
 sion, its widely increasino; fame is a matter of great satis- 
 faction. The large numl)er of visitors who tind their way 
 to our doors during the summer months is, in itself, suffi- 
 cient proof that our work of restoration and furnishing has 
 been recognized as a valuable contribution to the historical 
 material of our times. During the winter months, from 
 December to April, one hundred and twenty-seven names 
 were recorded in the Visitors Book. April brought fifty 
 more. In May, there were one hundred and seven. June 
 saw two hundred and six. During the month of July, a 
 textile exhibition was arranged. A valuable collection 
 of foreign textiles was secured by Miss Gray from the Art 
 Museum and from friends. Our members and friends of 
 the Society loaned their own treasures readily. An 
 ancient loom was erected in the attic, and a web of rag 
 carpet was woven by a skilled weaver, whom we dis- 
 covered in our neighborhood. This exhibition was adver- 
 tised extensively, and came into ver}'- favorable notice. 
 Owing in fact, no doubt to this, the Jul}^ list of visitors 
 rose to three hundred and seven, and the August total 
 was five hundred and fifty-two. The admittance fee was 
 raised to twenty-five cents, and there were few who did 
 not feel that it was a very reasonable figure. The Sep- 
 tember visitors were two hundred and seven, and since 
 then there have been one hundred and twenty-five. 
 
 The goodly total of 1681 visitors for the year is an item 
 of notable significance. As was remarked in the Report 
 of last year, a surprisingly small percentage of this large 
 number is drawn from our own community, and a sur- 
 prisingly large proportion of our visitors are from remote 
 sections of our land and from foreign lands. A consecutive 
 series of twenty names recorded in the first week of October 
 reveals residents of Toledo, Ohio ; Amsterdam, Holland ; 
 Frankfort, Germany; Oakland, California; Honolulu, 
 Hawaii; Kaloa Kauai, Hawaii; Birmingham, Alabama; 
 London, England, and three of our Ipswich folk. We 
 may not presume that these travellers from afar came be- 
 cause they wished to see for themselves, as the Queen of 
 Sheba journeyed to Solomon's court, but we may be sure 
 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 41 
 
 that they were interested to turn aside from the beaten 
 round of holiday travel and spend a little while under our 
 roof. 
 
 The quality of our visitors, as well, is interesting. 
 Many are people of finest culture, and wide acquaintance 
 with history and the work of Historical Societies. Their 
 appreciation of our house and its contents is always spon- 
 taneous and enthusiastic. One gentleman from London 
 remarked on the particular value of many pieces of fur- 
 niture. Doubleday, Page and Co., of New York, sent 
 recently an expert photographer, Mr. R. F. Turnbull of 
 New York, to photograph a list of articles for a work on 
 colonial furniture by Miss Singleton. Mr. Halliday of 
 Boston, the publisher of a series of photographs of ancient 
 and historic buildings, came to spend an hour and tarried 
 nearly a day, and made some beautiful exterior views. 
 
 The contributions to our collections have been numer- 
 ous, and some are of notable value. A complete list is 
 appended, but attention may be called here to a few of ex- 
 ceptional interest. Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., has 
 sent a letter written by Elizabeth Chute, the wife of James 
 Chute, son of the ancient schoolmaster, Lionel Chute, I 
 presume, addressed in the stately form of that period : 
 To har honored and much 
 respected friend M"" John 
 Wintrup at Mr. Adam 
 Wintrup's house at 
 Boston this 
 present 
 and signed 
 
 Your lo : 'kinswomon 
 In what I can 
 Elizabeth Chute 
 From Ipswich, this 
 10*'^ of Oct: 1653. 
 
 The letter is full of anxious solicitude for her little son, 
 then in delicate health, and requests Mr. Winthrop to 
 prescribe for his and her own ailments. Its tone is most 
 tender and delicate. 
 
 A second contribution to our manuscripts is an ancient 
 
42 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 deed of Nathaniel Kinsman of Gloucester to Jonathan 
 Burley of Norwich, Conn., of "one mollatto Servant named 
 Silas of the age of Sixteen years," for his " Proper Service, 
 Use and Benefit and Behoof for and during the naturall 
 Life of the said Mollatto servant " " in consideration of 
 the sura of three hundred and fifty Pounds in Bills of 
 public Credit of the old Tenor." This pathetic reminder 
 of slavery in our midst bears the date, August 23, 1749. 
 It was contributed by Mr. Frederic J. Kingsbury of Water- 
 bury, Conn., who has also made a generous donation to 
 the treasury. 
 
 Col. Luther Caldwell very generously contributed nine 
 volumes in cloth and ten in white vellum of his "Life of 
 Anne Bradstreet," the proceeds of the sale to be used for 
 the benefit of the Society. 
 
 Mr. Francis R. Appleton has given the beautifully 
 framed portrait of Rev. Joseph McKean, D.D., which 
 now adorns our Cabinet Room. Dr. McKean was the son 
 of William and Sarah Cogswell McKean, daughter of Dr. 
 Joseph Manning. He became Professor of Rhetoric and 
 Oratory in Harvard College. He married Amy, daughter 
 of Major Joseph Swasey, and died at the early age of 42 
 in Havana, Cuba, on the IT'** March, 1818. May we not 
 hope that in due time the portraits of Daniel Dana, Daniel 
 Treadwell and Joseph Green Cogswell, Ipswich men of the 
 finest intellectual attainments, may be given by generous 
 and appreciative friends ! 
 
 Col. Nathaniel Shatswell has honored us with the gift 
 of a flag of the United States, which was made in our 
 town for the first company raised here to serve in the Civil 
 War. Mr. Joseph D. Dodge of Lynn surprised us re- 
 cently with the gift of two bronze lustre pitchers, used by 
 the judges of the Ipswich Court for thirty years from 
 1820 to 1850, in perfect preservation, and the bell used 
 by the Town Crier, Aaron Jewett his grandfather, for 
 years. Mr. Jewett was janitor of the Court House for 
 many years. It is said he used to " cry " the Court, in 
 doggerel fashion : 
 
 " Run, rogues, run, 
 The Court's begun 
 Stand before the Justice 
 And tell what you've done." 
 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 43 
 
 The pitchers came into his possession. Upon his death 
 in 1850, his widow took them with her to Hamilton where 
 she lived until the death of her son, Mr. Dodge's father, 
 in 1868. She then removed to Rowley, and the pitchers 
 and the bell went with her and found place on the library- 
 mantel of the ancestral farmhouse. There they remained 
 for thirty-two years, until they were taken down and 
 brought to this House. 
 
 The financial status of our Society is rapidly becoming 
 stable and prosperous. Though no large gifts have come 
 to us this year, our receipts have been more than suffi- 
 cient to meet our current needs. We began this financial 
 year with a loan of three hundred dollars to pay the final 
 construction bills. As the Treasurer's Report shows, 
 more than four hundred dollars were spent in settling 
 these accounts. A hedge of Japan Quince was set in the 
 spring at an expense of $44.50. Our interest account 
 required $70.70, $100 was expended for work of various 
 kinds within and without the house, and other necessary 
 expenditures brought our total expense to $905.88. 
 
 A balance of $81.64 remained from last year. Gifts 
 and membership fees netted $514.15. Our House itself, 
 from admittance fees, and the sale of our publications and 
 photographs brought us $282.87. A balance very nearly 
 sufficient to pay the loan remains in the Treasury. If the 
 same income can be secured during the year we now be- 
 gin, it may be possible for us to make some approach to 
 a fit remuneration to Miss Alice A. Gray, our devoted and 
 invaluable Curator. Her services have been rendered 
 from the beginning, freely and enthusiastically, and her 
 delicate taste, her rare knowledge of antiques and her 
 own personal collection are the principal factors in the at- 
 tractive interior arrangement and furnishing of the House. 
 Her assistant, Miss Julia Gutberlett, has been a cheery and 
 winsome housekeeper, and chaperone of visitors during 
 Miss Gray's absence. 
 
 Regard for the comfort of the Curator will require us 
 at an early day to make suitable provision for heating the 
 rear rooms by steam or hot water. Funds are needed also 
 for reprinting several numbers of our annual reports. The 
 sale of our pamphlets has been surprisingly good, and 
 
44 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 while the first expense of reprinting would be considera- 
 ble, the sales during a few years would return a good 
 profit on the investment. 
 
 The Society is indebted to the generosity of Mr. John 
 B. Brown for the entire expense of publishing the ninth 
 issue in our Historical Series, which is just passing through 
 the press. 
 
 I would make fresh appeal to friends of the Society, 
 and all interested in its advancement, to provide funds 
 for an immediate extension of our work. We need more 
 land, and means for constructing a log-house, as an illus- 
 tration of the primitive homes in the wilderness. Other 
 large schemes have already been outlined, and await real- 
 ization. 
 
 One line of work should be begun at once, the marking 
 of spots of historic interest in our town. ^Meeting House 
 Hill, with its successive meeting-houses, its fort, prison, 
 stocks and whipping-post, the site of John Winthrop's and 
 Anne Bradstreet's houses, the Argilla farm, and other loca- 
 tions, need appropriate markers. It would be a happy 
 inauguration of the new century, if provision could be 
 made, not for a simple tablet, but for an appropriate and 
 impressive memorial of the resistance to the Andros tax 
 in 1687, the largest and most enduring historic event in 
 our history. 
 
REPORT OF THE TREASURER. 
 
 45 
 
 Report of the Treasurer. 
 
 The Ipswich Historical Society 
 
 in account with T. F. Waters, acting Treasurer. 
 
 To Balance in Treasur3% December 1899, 
 Loan from Ipswich Savings Bank, 
 Membersliip Fees and Gifts, 
 Eeceipts from house admittance fees, sale 
 of boolvs and pictures. 
 
 By Construction account 
 
 i 81.64 
 300.00 
 514.15 
 
 282.87 
 
 .$1178.66 
 
 Edward VV. Choate, 
 
 
 
 
 $70.63 
 
 Augustine H. Plouflf, 
 
 
 
 
 87.06 
 
 Michael J. .ludge. 
 
 
 
 
 35.45 
 
 John W. Goodhue, 
 
 
 
 
 82.41 
 
 Austin L. Lord, . 
 
 
 
 
 27.47 
 
 Winfield L. Johnson, 
 
 
 
 
 10.15 
 
 William H. Bird, 
 
 
 
 
 13.50 
 
 S. Franklin Cauney, 
 
 
 
 
 60.90 
 
 John S. Glover, • 
 
 
 
 
 15.00 
 
 
 $402.57 
 
 Hedge and setting, 44.50 
 
 Interest on debt, 
 
 
 
 
 70.70 
 
 Printing, . 
 
 
 
 
 86.95 
 
 Labor, 
 
 
 
 
 100.30 
 
 Postage and envelopes. 
 
 
 
 
 12.16 
 
 Water bills. 
 
 
 
 
 11.30 
 
 Photographs, 
 
 
 
 
 25.09 
 
 Lawrence Memorial Tablet, 
 
 
 
 12.00 
 
 Miss Gray, 
 
 
 
 75.00 
 
 Incidental house expense. 
 
 
 
 65.31 
 
 
 «905.88 
 
 Balance in Treasury, 
 
 
 
 
 272.78 
 
 $1178.66 
 
NAMES OF MEMBERS. 
 
 Frederick J. Alley, 
 Mrs. Mary G. Alley, 
 Dr. Charles E. Ames, 
 Daniel Fuller Appletou, 
 Mrs. Susan A. R. Appleton, 
 Francis R. Appleton, 
 Mrs. Frances L. Appleton, 
 James W. Appleton, 
 Randolph M. Appleton, 
 Mrs. Helen Appleton, 
 Dr. G. Guy Bailey, 
 Mrs. Grace F. Bailey, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth H. Baker, 
 Charles W. Bamford, 
 Miss Mary D. Bates, 
 John A. Blake, 
 John E. Blakemore, 
 Mrs. Caroline E. Bomer, 
 James W Bond, 
 Warren Boynton, 
 Miss Annie Gertrude Brown, 
 Charles W. Brown, 
 Edward F. Brown, 
 Mrs. Carrie R. Brown, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brown, 
 Henry Brown, 
 Miss Isabel G. Brown, 
 John B. Brown, 
 Mrs. Lucy T. Brown, 
 Rev. Augustine Caldwell, 
 Miss Florence F. Caldwell, 
 Miss Lydia A. Caldwell, 
 Miss Sarah P. Caldwell, 
 Charles A. Campbell, 
 Edward W. Choate, 
 Philip E. Clark, 
 E. Harry Clegi?, 
 Miss Lucy C. Coburn, 
 John H. Cogswell, 
 Theodore F. Cogswell, 
 Miss Harriet D. Condon, 
 Rev. Edward Constant, 
 Charles S. Cummings, 
 Arthur C. Damon, 
 Mrs. Carrie Damon, 
 
 (46) 
 
 Mrs. Cordelia Damon, 
 
 Harry K. Damon, 
 
 George G. Dexter, 
 
 Miss C. Bertha Dobson, 
 
 Joseph D. Dodge, 
 
 Harry K. Dodge, 
 
 Mrs. "Edith S. Dole, 
 
 Rev. John M. Donovan, 
 
 Arthur W. Dow, 
 
 Mrs Charles G. Dyer, 
 
 George Fall, 
 
 Miss Emeline C. Farley, 
 
 Miss Lucy R. Farley, 
 
 Joseph K. Farley, 
 
 John S. Glover, 
 
 Frank T. Goodhue, 
 
 John W. Goodhue, 
 
 Rev. Arthur H. Gordon, 
 
 John J. Gould, 
 
 James Graft'um, 
 
 Mrs. Eliza H. Green, 
 
 Miss Lucy Hamlin, 
 
 Mrs. Lois Hardy, 
 
 Miss Margaret A. Harris, 
 
 Mrs. Kate L. Haskell, 
 
 George H. W. Hayes, 
 
 Mrs. Alice L. Heard, 
 
 Miss Alice Heard, 
 
 John Heard, 
 
 Miss Mary A. Hodgdon, 
 
 Joseph I. Horton, 
 
 Lewis R. Hovey, 
 
 Miss Ruth A. Hovey, 
 
 Gerald L. Hoyt, 
 
 Miss Lucy S. Jewett, 
 
 John A. Johnson. 
 
 Miss Ellen M. Jordan, 
 
 Edward Kavanagh, 
 
 Charles M. Kelly, 
 
 Fred A. Kimball, 
 
 Rev. John C. Kimball, 
 
 Aaron Kinsman, 
 
 Miss Bethiah D. Kinsman, 
 
 Miss Caroline L. Lakeman, 
 
 Curtis E. Lakeman, 
 
 Mrs. Frances C. Lakeman, 
 
NAMES OF MEMBERS. 
 
 47 
 
 G. Frank Langdon, 
 Austin L. Lord, 
 George A. Lord, 
 Miss Lncy Slade Lord, 
 Thomas H. Lord, 
 Mrs. Lncretia S. Lord, 
 Dr. George E. Mac Arthur, 
 Mrs. Isabelle G. Mac Arthur, 
 Rev. Frank J. Mc Connell, 
 Mrs. Mary B. Main, 
 James F. Mann, 
 John P. Marston, 
 Everard H. Martin, 
 Mrs. Marietta K. Martin, 
 Miss Heloise Meyer, 
 Miss Abby L. NeAvman, 
 Mrs. Amanda Nichols, 
 John W. Nourse, 
 Charles H. Noyes, 
 Mrs. Harriet E. Noyes, 
 Mrs. Anna Osgood, 
 Rev. Robert B. Parker, 
 Rev. Reginald Pearce, 
 Martin V. B. Perley, 
 Moritz B. Philipp, 
 Augustine H. Plouff, 
 James E. Richardson, 
 Miss Anna W. Ross, 
 Fred. G. Ross, 
 Joseph Ross, 
 Joseph F. Ross, 
 Dr. William H. Russell, 
 William S. Russell, 
 Angus Savory, 
 Charles A. Sayward, 
 Mrs. Henrietta W. Sayward, 
 
 George A. Schofield, 
 Dexter M. Smith, 
 Edward A. Smith, 
 Miss Elizabeth P. Smith, 
 Mrs. Harriette A. Smith, 
 Henry P. Smith, 
 Rev. R. Cotton Smith, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth K. Spaulding, 
 Dr. Frank H. Stockwell, 
 Mrs. Alice L. Story, 
 John J. Sullivan, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Sullivan, 
 Arthur L. Sweetser, 
 Rev. William K. Thayer, 
 John E. Teuney, 
 Mrs. Annie T. Tenney, 
 Miss Ellen R. Trask, 
 Bayard Tuckerman, 
 Charles S. Tuckerman, 
 Francis H. Wade, 
 Miss Martha E. Wade, 
 Miss Nellie F. Wade, 
 William F. Wade, 
 Luther Wait, 
 Miss Annie L. Warner, 
 Mrs. 'Caroline L. Warner, 
 Henry C. Warner, 
 Rev. T. Frank Waters, 
 Miss Susan C. Whipple, 
 Mrs. Marianna Whittier, 
 Miss Eva Adams Willcomb, 
 Frederic Willcomb, 
 Wallace P. Willett, 
 Robert D. Winthrop, 
 Chalmers Wood. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 John Albree, Jr., Swampscott, 
 William Sumner Appleton, Bos- 
 ton, 
 Lamont G. Burnham, Boston, 
 Eben Caldwell, Elizabeth, N. J., 
 Luther Caldwell, Washington, 
 
 D. C, 
 Mrs. Edward Cordis, Jamaica 
 
 Plain. 
 Charles W. Darling, Utica, N.Y. 
 Elisha P. Dodge, Newburyport, 
 Miss Caroline Farley, Cam- 
 bridge, 
 Frank C Farley, So. Manches- 
 ter, Conn., 
 Miss Katharine S. Farley, So. 
 Manchester, Conn., 
 
 Mrs. Eunice W. Felton, Cam- 
 bridge, 
 Jesse Fewkes, Newton, 
 Reginald Foster, Boston, 
 Augustus P. Gardner, Hamilton, 
 Charles L.Goodhue, Springfield, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth K. Gray, 
 Miss Emilv R. Gray, Sauquoit, 
 
 N. Y., 
 Arthur W. Hale, Winchester. 
 Albert Farley Heard, 2d, Bos- 
 ton, 
 Otis Kimball, Boston, 
 Mrs. Otis Kimball, Boston, 
 Miss Sarah S. Kimball, Salem, 
 Frederick J. Kingsbury, Water- 
 bury, Conn., 
 
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 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Miss Caroline T. Leeds, Bostou, 
 Miss Katharine P. Loring, Bos- 
 ton, 
 Mrs. Susan M. Loring, Boston, 
 Mrs.Elizabetli R. Lyman, Brook- 
 line, 
 Josiali H. Mann, Memphis, Tenu. 
 Miss Adeline Manning, Boston, 
 Henry S. Manning, New York, 
 Mrs. Mary W. Manning, New 
 
 York. 
 Geoi'ge L. von Meyer, Rome, 
 
 Italy, 
 Miss Esther Parmenter, Revere, 
 Mrs. Mary S.,C. Peabody, 
 Fi'ederic H. Ringe, Los Angeles, 
 Cal., 
 
 Mrs. Henry M. Sal tonstall, Bos- 
 ton, 
 Richard W. Saltonstall, Boston, 
 Denison R. Slade, Center Har- 
 bor, N. H., 
 Joseph Spiller, Boston, 
 Miss Ellen A. Stone, East Lex- 
 ington, 
 Miss Ann H. Treadwell, Jamaica 
 
 Plain, 
 Harry W. Tyler, Boston, 
 Mrs. George W. Wales, Boston, 
 George Willcomb, Boston, 
 Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., Bos- 
 ton. 
 
DONATIONS TO THE SOCIETY IN 1900. 
 
 William F. Abbot, Worcester, Mass. A photograph 
 portrait of Nathan Dane, founder of the Harvard Law 
 School, a native of Ipswich, with an autograph. 
 
 Francis R. Appleton. An oil painting. Enlarged copy of 
 a portrait of the Rev. Joseph McKean, D.D., LL.D., 
 of Harvard College, born in Ipswich in 1776. 
 
 Mrs. Martha Bird. A quilling wheel; a tin sconce; a 
 pitcher of English pottery ; an early English hand 
 sewing machine ; wooden stretchers used in John 
 Birch's stocking factory, and a bag made of stocki- 
 net. 
 
 The Misses Brooks, Salem, Mass. Two miniatures 
 painted on ivory, and nine bed quilts. Made by the 
 grandmother and mother of Mrs. Henry M. Brooks. 
 
 Mrs. George C. Bossox, Reading, Mass. A photo- 
 graph, portrait of Mrs. Fitz, wife of Rev. Daniel 
 Fitz, of Ipswich. 
 
 Mrs. William G. Brown. Fifteen pieces of pottery and 
 porcelain, English; two pieces of pewter; a leather 
 covered money box ; a sword or knife, brass mounted ; 
 a bureau, chair and table of early date, and a candle- 
 stick. 
 
 Mrs. D. Bryant. A toy skillet, and a night lamp. 
 
 Col. Luther Caldwell, Lynn, Mass. An engraved 
 portrait of Commodore John Paul Jones, and eigh- 
 teen copies of " The Life of Anne Bradstreet," sold 
 for the benefit of the Society. 
 
 J. D. Dodge, Lynn, Mass. Two pitchers of copper lustre 
 ware, English, once owned by Aaron Jewett, jani- 
 tor of the Court House in Ipswich, 1820-1850, and 
 used by the Judges of the Courts during that time, 
 and a town-crier's bell, used by Aaron Jewett while 
 acting as crier in Ipswich previous to 1834. 
 
 4 («) 
 
50 DONATIONS. 
 
 Mrs. Mary 8. Farley. A "fly-flap," Chinese. 
 
 A. P. Foster, Waterbury, Vt. A spinning-wheel head, 
 of early type. 
 
 Francis T. Goodhue. A mahogany silk reel, and two 
 leather-bound money boxes from the house of Miss 
 Elizabeth D. Goodhue of Salem. 
 
 Miss Frances L. Goodrich, Stackhouse, North Carolina. 
 A piece of Coverlid weaving, done by women in 
 North Carolina at the present time. 
 
 Mrs. Lois Hardy. A rapier, made in Amsterdam Hol- 
 land. 
 
 Joseph I. Horton. A collection of Natural History 
 specimens from the region about Ipswich ; a mahog- 
 any case with glass doors, once owned by Dr. 
 Thomas Manning, and the working plans for the Ips- 
 wich water works. 
 
 Mrs. Joseph I. Horton. A spice mill, brass and 
 wrought iron, German, of about 1700. 
 
 Miss S. E. Lakeman. Four pieces of paper money, 
 issued by Richard Russell of the Union Store, in Ips- 
 wich, Feb. 2, 1863. 
 
 James F. Mann. A child's chair. Used by the father 
 of Mr. Mark Newman when a child, and a large table 
 with tops of Dutch tiles, reproductions of the old 
 " bible-set " for a border. 
 
 Thomas S. Nickerson, Newburyport, Mass. A pottery 
 jar, reproduction of an old piece, made at the Ce- 
 ramic works in Newburyport. 
 
 Miss Esther Parmenter, Revere, iMass. A Dutch chop- 
 ping knife. 
 
 Miss Hannah M. Peatfield. Bobbins and thread used 
 in the Ipswich lace factory, and a piece of paper cur- 
 rency dated August 18, 177.5. 
 
 M. V. B. Perley, Portsmouth, N. H. A photograph, 
 portrait of General William Whipple, born in Kit- 
 tery, Maine, in 178.3. 
 
 Augustine H. Plouff. A leather tire bucket marked 
 " Ipswich Fire Societ3^" 
 
 Miss Leonora Pope, Boston. A parasol of about 1840. 
 
 Edward J. Ready. An epaulet, brass, found in the 
 walls of his house, and other small objects. 
 
DONATIONS. 51 
 
 Miss Mary T. Saunders, Salem, Mass. A piece of early 
 
 English furniture calico. 
 Angus Savory. A pair of hames. 
 Colonel Nathaniel Shatswell. A United States flag. 
 
 Made in Ipswich for the first company raised in the 
 
 town for service in the civil war. 
 Miss Lucy Smith. A curtain of early English furniture 
 
 calico, called "India Cotton," bought in 1798 for 
 
 hangings of an Ipswich bed room. 
 Miss Eunice K. Smith. Two pieces of pottery and 
 
 porcelain ; a piece of glass, and a tea tray. 
 W. S. Spinney. Photograph of the memorial marking 
 
 the birth pkce of Mary Lyon. 
 Edward H. Stevens, Ossipee, N. H. A loom, complete, 
 
 with warping bars, etc., etc., and a specimen of a 
 
 hand-woven coverlid. 
 The Peabody Academy of Science, Salem. A quan- 
 tity of printed labels for use in the rooms of the So- 
 ciety. 
 Rev. T. F. Waters. Three paintings on velvet, from 
 
 the house of Miss Elizabeth D. Goodhue of Salem. 
 Mrs. Wm. C. West, Salem, Mass. A pair of brocade 
 
 slippers, worn at the wedding of Miss Wise, in 
 
 1764. 
 Frederick Willcomb. A child's " standing-stool." 
 W. P. Willett, East Orange, N. J. Two pieces of 
 
 pewter, two of Britannia, and a pair of scales for weigh- 
 ing coin. 
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 PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 XI 
 
 THE 
 
 MEETING HOUSE GREEN 
 
 AND A 
 
 STUDY OF HOUSES AND LANDS IN 
 THAT VICINITY 
 
 WITH PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL 
 MEETING, DEC. 2, 1901 
 
 Salem press : 
 The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass. 
 
 1903. 
 
PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 XI 
 
 THE 
 
 MEETING HOUSE GREEN 
 
 STUDY OF HOUSES AND LANDS IN 
 THAT VICINITY 
 
 WITH PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL 
 MEETING, DEC. 2, 1901 
 
 By T. Frank Waters 
 
 Salem press: 
 The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass. 
 
 1902. 
 

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MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 No spot within our ancient township is enriched with 
 such fragrant memories, and associations of such varied 
 and intense interest. The earliest settlers set it apart for 
 public use, and it has never ceased to be the center of the 
 civic life of our community. Here they built their first 
 meeting house. A vague tradition, as Felt, the annalist 
 of Ipswich informs us,* located it on the rise of ground 
 now occupied by the Heard mansion, near the meeting- 
 house of the South Church, but there is no historic ground 
 for such a surmise. 
 
 On the 16th day of the 11th mo. 1639, f the ancient 
 keeper of our Town Records made note, " Theophilus 
 Wilson is possessed of one house lott, bought of John 
 Sanders, bounded on the Southwest by the Meeting House 
 Green, and on the Northeast by the Stony Street, on the 
 Southeast by a house lott formerly granted to Robert 
 Mozey." This houselot is easily identified with the lot 
 bounded on three sides by the Green, North Main and 
 Summer Streets, and at the date of entry, the meetino-- 
 house was already built on the Green. Under the date, 
 March 22, 1637, in the Town Record, allusion is made 
 to " the Cross Street called the Meeting House Lane." 
 
 The identification of this old way is difllcult, but the 
 inference that the meeting-house was already built is be- 
 yond question. No earlier allusion remains to us, but the 
 
 * History of Ipswich, page 243. 
 
 t The dates in this article are always as they are found in the Records. It will be 
 remembered, however, that by act of Parliament the year, which had begun on the 
 25th of March, was ordered to begin January 1, 1752, and to rectify the calendar, 
 eleven days were dropped, so that the 8d of September became the 14th. Under 
 the Old style, as it is called, January and February were the eleventh and twelfth 
 months. Hence the 16th day of the Uth month 1639 really is identical with Janu- 
 ary 27, 1640, New Style. 
 
 C3) 
 
4 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 later allusion of Edward Johnson is of interest. "Their 
 meeting-house is a very good prospect to a great part of 
 the Town and beautifully built."* This harmonizes with 
 the location on the hill-top, and has no point, when applied 
 to the tradition of the other site. 
 
 Of the building itself, we know nothing. It was 
 hurriedly built, no doubt, and may have been a structure 
 of logs with a thatched roof, or a cheap frame building. 
 As early as October, 1643, an intimation of insufficient 
 room for worshippers occurs, f "There is liberty granted 
 to such young men and youth as shal [ ] approved of by 
 the Deacons to sett up a gallery at their owne charges, and 
 the gallery to be built or approved for the manner by the 
 Deacons, Goodman Andrews, and Mr. Gardinr." 
 
 But, humble as the building may have been, it was 
 the meeting place of great souls. Nathaniel Ward and 
 John Norton were ministers of the highest repute. Nathan- 
 iel Rogers also was a preacher of excellent quality. John 
 Winthrop Jr., Thomas Dudley and Simon Bradstreet, be- 
 came famous Governors. Daniel Denison was renowned 
 as the military leader of the Colony and as a magistrate. 
 Samuel Symonds was magistrate and Deputy Governor. 
 Richard Saltonstall, Doctor Giles Firmin, the Appletons, 
 and many others, were men of grand character. Their 
 wives were refined gentlewomen. Such names as these hal- 
 low the lowliest building, and make the hill-top forever 
 venerable. 
 
 This primitive meeting-house was soon outworn or out- 
 grown, and on the 4th day ofthe 11th month, 1646, it was 
 sold to Thomas Firman for fifty shillings, " and he is to 
 remove it by the 29"' of 7*'' month next, which will be in 
 the year 1647. "| The extreme cheapness of the price 
 confirms our surmise that the building, which was not 
 more than thirteen years' old, was a rude structure. The 
 direction as to removal suggests that the spot it occu- 
 pied was needed for the new edifice. Work on the new 
 meeting-house seems to have been pushed, and hints of its 
 completion and occupancy are found in the Town Record 
 of "the 11"' of (11) 1647." 
 
 * Wonder Working Proviclence, pub. in 1654. 
 t Town Kecords, 1G43. 
 J.Town Recorde. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 " Voted that the Deacons shall have power to agree with 
 a man, whome they shall thinke fittto keepe the meeting- 
 house clean, and to ring the Bell, and what they shall 
 agree with him shall be paid out of the Town rate." 
 
 Finishing touches remained to be made, however, as it 
 was voted'in 1653,* "to make a sheete for the turret 
 window and cover for upper scuttle hole," and two years 
 later, some repairs were in order, as a bill of £10, 14s. 4d. 
 was approved for " mending the windows, new banding, 
 soldering and new glass."! This building was probably 
 of the hip-roof order, with a " turret " for the bell at the 
 apex, resembling generally the "Old Ship Church" of 
 Hingham, with diamond paned glass set in lead sashes. It 
 was "surrounded by a fort. The earlier meeting-house was 
 very likely protected in similar fashion, as the Pequot 
 War broke out in 1637 and, for a halt century after, the 
 settlers were never free from fear of Indian attacks. Often 
 the soldiers marched away at the call to arms, and when 
 the horrors of King Philip's war burst upon the Colony, 
 Ipswich men under Major Samuel Appleton bore a valiant 
 part. Men brought their arms with them to public wor- 
 ship and sentinels paced their beat without during the time 
 of service. The meeting-house was a place of deposit for 
 ammunition. Four swords of the common stock were kept 
 there in 1647, and in 1681, there was a "magazine in the 
 meeting-house."* In case of attack, as it was the largest 
 building in the town, and the one best adapted for de- 
 fence, tlie people would naturally have hurried thither. 
 Hence the value and need of the fortification which was 
 erected around it. 
 
 In 1650, it was voted by the Town, "The wall about 
 the meeting-house shall be made up and kept in repair." 
 The implication of the final clause "kept in repair," is that 
 this work was in the nature of a rebuilding of the wall, 
 that may have fallen into disrepair, and not the original 
 erection. Again, in 1672, a few years before King Philip's 
 War, the Constable was ordered to " pay John Brewer 
 208. for charge he is out about building the fort,"f and on 
 August 20, 1696, when the Indians were assailing the 
 Maine colonists, the Town Treasurer was instructed "to 
 
 * Town Records. Town Records, 1655. 
 
b MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 hire laborers at the Town charge to repair the fort about 
 the meeting-house."* 
 
 No record of the style or size of this ancient fort has 
 been preserved, but there was a similar one in Topsfield, 
 built in 1673, five or six feet high and "three foote brod 
 at the botom." On the south side of the meeting-house, 
 it was twelve feet, and on the other three sides, ten feet 
 distant, and at the southeast corner, within the wall a 
 watch-house ten feet square was built, which was called 
 " the old Meetinof-House fort " at the beginninor of the 
 eighteenth century. f Happily no occasion for defence 
 ever arose, and a few years after the last Indian outbreak 
 the Town voted in 1702, that the "rocks at the old meet- 
 ing house " should be sold and the proceeds used towards 
 buying a town clock. 
 
 As to the new meeting-house, the third on the Green, 
 the vote of Jan. 26, 1699, | directed that the foundation 
 should be laid " as near the old meeting-house as the 
 Committee shall appoint," and the Committee was in- 
 structed to " levell the place for the floor of ye said new 
 Meeting-House." The old house was turned over to the 
 Committee, but it was stipulated that they should " suffer 
 the Inhal)itant8 to meet in it until the new Meeting House 
 is finished " and " provided they remove the old meeting- 
 house in six months," " provided also they bank up with 
 stones and gravel against the sides of the new meeting- 
 house, the Town allowing stones to do it out of ye Fort."§ 
 
 The new house was a stately structure, sixty-six feet 
 long, sixty feet wide, and twenty-six feet stud. It had a 
 "turret" or belfry for the bell, and in 1702 provision was 
 made for a town-clock, with a dial. The sexton, Simon 
 Pinder, was instructed in 1716 to ring the bell daily at 
 five o'clock in the morning. The old meeting-house was 
 
 ♦Town Records. 
 
 t History of Boxford, by Sidney Perley. 
 
 t Felt inclines to believe that the third meeting-house was erected some years 
 before this. In 1667, it was " agreed with Ezeliiel Woodward and Freegrace Nor. 
 ton to gett and how the timbers for the meeting house roof." In 1671 an appro, 
 priation was made for ten days' work for raising the frame. These items refer 
 rather to enlargements or repairs of tlie existing building. It Is worth noting that 
 a Committee to repair the meeting liouse was cliosen in 1663, only about fifteen 
 years after it was built. The use of green timber, and the difficulty of keeping 
 the roof tiglit, often alluded to, may explain the frequency of repair. 
 
 § Town Records, 1699. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 7 
 
 sold back to the town by the building committee in 1701, 
 and in 1703 the town voted to sell it to anybody for £20. 
 No purchaser was forthcominfr, and a dreary suggestion of 
 the ruinous and melancholy condition into which the ven- 
 erable building fell, and the wanton appropriation of it by 
 piecemeal, is contained in the vote of March 16, 1703/4. 
 " Voted that the Selectmen do inquire and make search of 
 all p'sns y* have disorderly taken away out of ye old 
 Meeting-house and converted ye same to y"" own use, shall 
 prosecute them at law, unless they will comply and make 
 satisfaction." 
 
 The most decisive note as to the location of the new 
 house is afforded by a very curious map, made in the year 
 1717, of the north side of Main street. It locates " Pot- 
 ter's House," on the corner of Loney's lane, and there is a 
 quaint remark in the margin : 
 
 " Had there been but a little more room on this side the meeting- 
 house should have been set down." 
 
 " The meeting-house is but little more than 4 rods from Potter's 
 house." 
 
 Measuring a radius of seventy-five feet from this corner 
 brings us to the terrace north of the present building, 
 and on this the third meeting house probably w^as built. 
 
 The fourth building was erected in 1749. It was sixty- 
 three feet long, forty-seven feet wide, and was twenty- 
 six feet stud . It was admirably built and was used for a 
 century. Its location is well remembered, on the precise 
 spot occupied by the present edifice, which was erected in 
 1846-1847, but the tall steeple was at the northern end, 
 and the building stood with its broad side facing down the 
 hill. The pulpit and sounding board were famous works 
 of handicraft, and are preserved in the steeple-room of 
 the present edifice, in a much abridged form. 
 
 At the southeast corner of the Green, on the spot now 
 occupied by the chapel of the First Church, the town 
 pound was built, a fenced inclosure into which stray cattle 
 were driven and kept confined. Much annoyance and no 
 small damage were often caused by the straying of cattle, 
 horses or swine into the tilled fields or gardens. Conse- 
 quently stringent regulations were adopted by the town to 
 prevent the breach of the laws, with reference to pastur- 
 
8 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 age. Thus it is recorded under date, 13 January, 1639 :* 
 " agreed that whosoever shall find mares, horses or oxen 
 in the cow common two hours after sunrising and bring 
 same either to the Pound or to the owner of the same, the 
 said owner shall give to such a p'ty double recompense 
 for his pains. The forfeits of 10s. are to goe half to the 
 Towne, and halfe to him that shall impound such tres- 
 passing cattell." Swine were to be impounded by an 
 order of the year 1643, and in the same year, it was voted : 
 
 " The Common Pounder or any other party shall have 
 ii d a peece for all piggs, or any other Cattell, that they 
 shall impound, out of any Comon-field or fenced ground, 
 except house lotts and gardens." A discolored and dimly- 
 written old document, preserved in the Court Records in 
 Salem, has a very interesting association with this old 
 pound, and the method of enforcing the laws, which gov- 
 erned its use. It appears that John Leigh had driven 
 five cows belonging to his neighbor, Simon Tompson of 
 Rocky Hill, to the pound. To secure their release, Tomp- 
 son was obliged to petition the august magistrate. Gen- 
 eral Denison, who issued the following writ toTheophilus 
 Wilson, the constable, with his autograph in his familiar 
 hand. 
 
 To the Constable of Ipswich 
 
 You are required to replevin five Cowes of Simon Tomp- 
 son's now impounded by John Leigh, and to deliver them 
 to the sd Simon, provided he give bond to the value of 
 fifety shillings w"' sufBcient sureties to prosecute his Re- 
 plevin, at the next Court, holden at Ipswich & so from 
 Court to Court till the Cause be ended & to pay such 
 costs and damage as the sd John Leigh shal by law recover 
 ag^' him and so make a true return hereof under your hand 
 Dated 9"^ of August, 1654. 
 
 Daniel Denison. 
 
 This bears the endorsement, which is scarcely legible 
 from the scrawling; hand : 
 
 9**^ of August, 1654. I replevined 5 cowes of Simon 
 Tompson and took bond of hym accordingly. 
 
 by me 
 Theophilus Wilson 
 
 Constable. 
 
 * Town Records. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GREEN. » 
 
 Every time the pound gate closed upon a stray animal, 
 this formal proceeding was necessary before it could l)e 
 recovered by the owner. This custom contiuued for many 
 years, and " field-drivers," whose theoretical functiou it is 
 to drive stray cattle to pound, are still elected annually. 
 The spot thus used was sold to Mr. George Heard, on be- 
 half of subscribers for a vestry or chapel for the First 
 Parish in 1831, and the present building was erected 
 upon it. 
 
 Allusion has already been made to a small watch-house, 
 ten feet square, built at Topsfield in 1673, within the 
 meeting-house fort. The Ipswich watch-house was built 
 many years before this, and was near the pound, as will 
 appear from subsequent records. As early as 1636, the 
 General Court ordered that every town should provide a 
 sufficient watch-house " before the last of the 5^^ month 
 next"* (1637). But our town seems to have proceeded 
 very leisurely in the matter. On Dec. 4, 1643, "two loads 
 of wood for the watch-house," perhaps timber foi its con- 
 struction, had been delivered. In 1645 " There was pay'd 
 to Goodman Cartwright, Thomas Burnam, towards the 
 building the watch-house, two and forty shillings by Mr. 
 Bradstreete, and for a dayes work of a team to draw timber 
 by Rich. Kimball for Mr. Bradstreete, 0-8-0. "t Still the 
 building was unfinished, for, in September, 1647, the town 
 was " presented " by the Quarter Sessions Court for want 
 of a watch-house, $ and in response to this summons, the 
 seven men contracted with Philip Fowler, in the February 
 following, to build a chimney at the watch-house and clap- 
 board it.f 
 
 This building is a vivid reminder of the perils of the 
 time. A constant watch was maintained by the constables 
 from the beginning to guard against any disorder by night, 
 and in timeOf danger from Indian assault, special precau- 
 tions were taken. "Every adult male of each family above 
 the age of eighteen, including "sons, servants and sojourn- 
 ers," was liable to this service. From the last of March 
 to the last of September the streets and all exposed local- 
 
 * Mass. Bay Colony Records. t Town Records. 
 
 I Papers in Ct. Records. 
 
10 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 ities were patrolled from half an hour after sunset to half 
 an hour before sunrise. All who were abroad after ten 
 o'clock were likely to be challen2:ed by the watch, and 
 summoned to exi)lain where they were goin^ and what 
 their business was, and if they failed to satisfy the inquis- 
 itive night-guard, they were liable to arrest and detention 
 at the watch-house or "courte of guard " till morning. 
 
 When there was special fear of Indians, military offi- 
 cers were ordered to keep watch and ward day and night, 
 and it was prescribed that public alarm shoukl be given 
 by distinctly discharging three muskets, or the continued 
 beat of the drum at night, or firing the beacon, or dis- 
 charging a piece of ordnance at night. All sentinels were 
 to go immediately to all houses in their neighborhood, 
 crying. Arm ! Arm ! and all women and children, and old 
 and infirm, were to hurry within the fort, where the am- 
 munition was to be guarded. In 1645, a double mili- 
 tary watch armed with pike and musket was ordered and 
 a daily scout at the outskirt of each town.* 
 
 In all these dark and perilous times, the watch-house, 
 with its comfortable fire, was a convenient rendezvous for 
 the watch, and a place of detention for any suspicious 
 characters. Many a timid youth, afraid of his own shadow, 
 went with trembling from its safe shelter to keep his vigil 
 in the dark streets or on the outskirts of the town, and 
 right glad was he to return, when his watch was finished, 
 and report to his superior. It was dull work at best, and 
 we are not surprised that watchmen sometimes napped. 
 John Grant was called to account before the Ipswich Court 
 in 1647 "for sleeping in a barn," and Mark Quilter and 
 Thomas Willson, "for going into a barn to sleep" while 
 on their watch, were reprimanded. In 1692, Hezekiah 
 Hodgkins presumed to bring a pack of cards into the 
 watch-house to while away the night hours, and was sen- 
 tenced to pay a fine of £5.f 
 
 Near the watch-house, another building of frowning 
 aspect was erected in 1652, the county prison, which was 
 ordered by the Court, as the prison in Boston was not 
 sufficient for the colony. The vote of the town was very 
 
 * Mass. Bay Colony Records, 164 J, 1G45, 1647, 1652, 1667. 
 t Quarter Sessions Court Records. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 11 
 
 comprehensive, and we are indebted to its minnteness of 
 specitication for a very valuable description of the "prison- 
 house," as it was called. It was to be twenty feet long 
 and sixteen feet wide and the contract required, "3 floors 
 of Joyce thick set and well boarded, with partitions abore 
 and below, the sides and ends studs and stud space, and 
 to clapboard the house round, and to shingle it, and to 
 daub it whole wall and all but the gable ends, and to 
 underpin the house, and makedores and stayers, and hang 
 the dores, and sett in locks." It was specified also that it 
 should be built "adjoining to the watch-house, to beequallin 
 height and wydness with the watch-house." Forty pounds 
 sterling were appropriated for the expense of erection. 
 Theophilus Wilson, whose residence was near the present 
 Farley house, was appointed to keep the prison until fur- 
 ther notice,* and in 1657 the Court ordered that he should 
 have " £3 for the 3'ear, and for every person committed 
 into the prison 5* and all pris. before they be released 
 shall discharge their charges for food and attendance, and 
 such as are not able to provide for themselves, shall be 
 allowed only bread and water. "f In 1659, Mr. Wilson 
 " is apoynted to gett locks to secure the prison & what is 
 wanting else to make y^ doors & prison strong. "| 
 
 But locks and bars were not sufficient to make it secure. 
 On the morning of the 30th of March, 1662, the worthy 
 constable and jailer and the community generally were 
 astonished to find that a prisoner had escaped, by jail 
 breaking, " the first offence of this nature committed in the 
 country." The jailer deposed to the Court, that he " put 
 him in prison and lockt the dore fast, and put the hasp 
 on to the staple in the outsyde of the dore, which none 
 within can unhasp, and left no tooles or meanes of light in 
 the prison. "§ Another prisoner escaped, and when rear- 
 rested, he explained that he was very cold in the jail, and 
 took up some of the floor boards and departed. As there 
 is no mention of a chimney in the contract, confinement 
 in cold weather must have been particularly cheerless. 
 
 * Quarter Sessions Court Records, 27-7-1653. 
 t Quarter Sessions Court Records, March, 1()57. 
 X Quarter Sessions Court Records, 9mo., 1G59. 
 § Quarter Sessions Court Records, 1662. 
 
12 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 Evidently some one came and unhasped the door and 
 helped the prisoner out in the former case. The Court 
 proceeded to enact rigid rules to prevent such offences. 
 
 "Forasmuch as several escapes have been made out of 
 prison by the prisoners with the ayd and assistance of 
 some ill affected persons, yt is ordered that noe pson shall 
 presume hereafter to come within the prison yard nor 
 within 20 foote of the prison on the west syde thereof, 
 where there is noe fence, upon any pretence whatsoever, 
 without particular leave from the keeper while any pris- 
 oners are in the prison, upon paine & penaltye to be pro- 
 ceeded against as contentious of authority, and abettors 
 of malefactors."* 
 
 The old Court Records reveal many secrets of the olden 
 time. The Couit held its sessions probably in John Sparks's 
 inn, on or near the spot now occupied by the Baker house, 
 so called, now owned and occupied by Miss Lucy Slade 
 Lord. Frequent items of payment "to the house " occur, 
 and the Court order in 1680, that the officers of the Court 
 were not to be paid until "the debts due to the ordinaries 
 for the entertainment of the Court be discharged," seems 
 to point to this conclusion. It is certain that a court- 
 house was not built before the following century. Mr. 
 Symon Bradstreet, Mr, Samuel Symonds, Major General 
 Denison and Maj. William Hathorne were usually the 
 judges. 
 
 Many disturbers of the peace and offenders against the 
 dignity of the law were arraigned and sentenced, and 
 many a man and woman went from the court room to the 
 gloomy jail. For the ordinary poor debtors, thieves and 
 lawbreakers of the common sort, we feel slight concern, 
 but we are moved to pity for one Henry Spenser, who 
 ran away from his master, took sundry valuables of his, 
 stole a horse and saddle at Andover, and completed his 
 course by breaking prison, at Ipswich, who was sentenced 
 to be severely whipped and branded in the forehead with 
 a letter B and pay a fine of £5.t And we feel great com- 
 passion for Samuel Shattnck, Nicolas Phelps, and Joshua 
 Buffum, Quakers, who had been absent a Sunday or two 
 
 * Quarter Sessions Court Records, 1661. 
 t Quarter Sessions Court Records, 1665. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 13 
 
 from public worship in Salem, and had been apprehended 
 by the constable at the Quakers' meeting, who were all 
 sentenced to be fined, "and for persisting still in their 
 course, & opinion as Quakers the sentence of the Courtis 
 they shall be committed to the House of Correction, there 
 to be kept untill they give security to renounce their 
 opinion or remove themselves out of the jurisdiction."* 
 They were led across the Green to the prison, or house of 
 correction as it was sometimes styled, as it served for both 
 purposes, and then as the law required they were whipped, 
 fed on bread and water and compelled to work on hemp 
 and flax and no one was allowed to speak to them.j 
 They languished in prison several weeks at least and then 
 came the edict of the General Court (Oct. 19, 1658) 4 
 "Itt is ordered that the Quakers in prison at Ipswich be 
 forthwith sent for, Samuel Shattocke, Lawrenc South- 
 wick & Cassandra Southwicke his wife, Nicho Phelps, 
 Joshua Buflum & .Tosiah Southwicke, enjoined at their 
 peril to depart out of this jurisdic. before the first day of 
 the Ct. of Election next, which, if they neglect or refuse 
 to do, they shall be banished under payn of death." 
 Whittier's muse has made their names immortal in " The 
 King's Missive," "Cassandra Southwick"and other poems. 
 The whipping post and stocks were the grim accessories 
 of the prison as instruments of punishment. The site of 
 the last whipping post was identified by tradition with a 
 certain hollow in the Green, a few rods from the meeting- 
 house. It was proposed that the spot should be marked 
 by a tree, and when the hole was dug, the stump of the 
 old post was discovered. The elm that was planted by 
 Mr. Aaron Cogswell and his son, Mr. John H. Cogswell, 
 is now well grown. It is the tree nearest the meeting-house 
 on the southeast. The stocks were a wooden frame, in 
 which the feet of evil doers were fixed and held fast. 
 Imprisonment in them involved some discomfort l)ut little 
 pain, probably, and exposed the culprit to public ridicule. 
 This penalty was reserved for minor oflences. Thus, 
 Joseph Fowler, a roystering young fellow, who was always 
 
 * Quarter Sessions Court Records, 1658. 
 t Mass. Bay Colony Records, 1656. 
 X Mass. Bay Colony Records. 
 
14 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 in mischief, was bound to fjood ])ehaviour, and to sit four 
 liours in the stocks, and Benjamin Muzzy for bartering a 
 gun to Indians was sentenced to sit four hours in the stocks, 
 and pay the Indian his beavers again. John Broadstreet, 
 for his misdemeanor in assaulting the Court, was to sit 
 one hour.* Daniel Black and his wife were both sentenced 
 to the stocks, and were instructed not to miscall each 
 other, while so confined. f The precise location of the 
 stocks is unknown, but it must have been near by. For 
 the whipping, there was an officer appointed annually. 
 Francis Jordan was the first incumbent of that position, 
 of whom we have record, and he was allowed twenty 
 shillings a year.J Jeffrey Skelling was whipped in 1650 
 " for divers lyes." Henry Salter, for running away twice 
 and stealing, was sentenced to be whipped and " weare a 
 lock on his legg, and pay treble damages. "§ Women 
 guilty of unchastity felt the lash as well as men, and it 
 was generally inflicted together with fines and inprison- 
 ment for the grosser offences. 
 
 That old " goal " was the scene of many sad experiences. 
 Murderers were imprisoned there until the day of their 
 doom delivered them. On the Lecture-day before they 
 were hanged, they were taken in their chains to the public 
 service of worship. Judge Sewall mentions in his Diary a 
 Newbury woman, Esther Rogers, who was thus dealt with. 
 On January 16, 1700-1, "Mr. Rogers prai'd for the 
 prisoner of death." The sermon on that occasion, he ob- 
 serves, was the last preached in the old meeting-house. 
 Those under suspicion of witchcraft were guarded there, 
 and Giles Corey, who was pressed to death in Salem 
 because he refused to plead to the charge of witchcraft, 
 made his will within its walls. || Whittier's poem, "The 
 Changeling," recounts the fate of Goody Cole of Hampton, 
 confined there under sentence of death for being a witch, 
 and of the hurried coming of Goodman Ezra Dalton, with 
 Justice Sewall's warrant for her release. 
 
 * Quarter Sessions Court Records, 1651. 
 t Quarter Sessions Court Records, 1664. 
 X Quarter Sessions Court Records, 1650. 
 § Quarter Sessions Court Records, 1673. 
 II SewaU'8 Diary. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 15 
 
 " Then throiigh the night the hoof -beats 
 Went sounding lilie a flail 
 And Goody Cole at cock crow 
 Came forth from Ipswich jail." 
 
 It continued to serve its purpose until 1750 when it was 
 reputed to be in such a ruinous condition, "and utterly 
 insufficient" that the Court ordered it should be used no 
 longer.* But a longer lease of life was in store for the 
 ancient prison. It was decided subsequently to repair it 
 and make it fit for further use. Col. John Choate otfered 
 an order which was adopted by the Court, and prescribed 
 the exact work to be done. 
 
 " Ordered that the House in Ipswich Heretofore im- 
 proved as a Prison be forthwith Repaired by a suitable 
 Trench filled with stones round the outside thereof & on 
 those Stones a teire of Timber of five or six inches thick 
 Raised near the top of the upper lofts of the house at 12 
 or 14 inches distance from it well surported by dovetail 
 thereto & the space between the House & Timber fill with 
 suitable stone with windows through the same for light 
 and air to each Room."f 
 
 It was further ordered "that the Prison Frame adjoin- 
 ing to the house aforesaid (except the inside of the West 
 end) be . . . duly finished as soon as may be with a suit- 
 able Cellar under the same." Andrew Burley, Esq., was 
 appointed a committee to secure these repairs and £40 
 were appropriated. He reported, Sept. 26, 1752, that 
 the two lower rooms had been sufficiently repaired and 
 strengthened and it was ordered that these rooms might 
 again be used as a "common Goal," and that " the garret 
 floor be lined underneath with two inch oak Plank." 
 Again on July 10, 1753, he informed the Court that he 
 had built a fence around the prison, and the keeper's 
 house adjoining. It was ordered then that " the two 
 lower rooms be plastered overhead" and that " the North 
 chamber be finished so as to Accommodate such Prisoners 
 as may have the benefit of being under bond to Remain 
 within the limits of sd Prison." It was specified that "the 
 
 * General Sessions Court Records, July 10, 1750. 
 t General Sessions Court Records, July 9, 1751. 
 
16 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 house adjoining .... with the yard inck)sed by the fence 
 aforesaid be the limitts ot said Prison."* 
 
 Mr. Barley's son, Andrew, informed the Court on 
 Christmas day, 1753, that his father was dead and the 
 repairs were still incomplete. He was instructed to carry 
 the work forward, and in the following July, the final 
 accounts were settled. It is a noteworthy instance in the 
 olden time of the expensiveness of public undertakings. 
 Forty pounds sterling were appropriated originally. The 
 total cost proved to be two hundred and sixty-eight. 
 
 Singularly enough, after such prolonged and expensive 
 repairs, the sheriff reported in 1769 that the Goal was 
 very defective and out of repair, and on December 25, 
 1770, plans for a new building with keeper's house were 
 presented and approved, and a building committee was 
 appointed to proceed forthwith. This plan has been pre- 
 served in the Court Files. The committee was instructed 
 to negotiate with the town for a proper site. The town 
 voted that it would provide a suitable place for the new 
 prison on the west end of the county-house, provided that 
 the County would relinquish its right in the land on the 
 east side of the old house, for building a workhouse. 
 Widow Elizabeth Hunt was instructed to remove the house 
 she occupied, and clear the ground where the house stands, 
 and the shoemaker's shop of Joseph Hodgkins was also or- 
 dered away.f These buildings were on the town land. 
 
 The County and Town agreed to "set the Goal at the west 
 end of the County House and the Committee of the Town 
 of Ipswich have agreed to set off for that purpose at the 
 west end of said County House six square rods of land 
 bounded beginning at Robert Perkins land, so running 
 southwest by the end of said County House three rods, 
 thence northwest two rods, northeast three rods, then 
 southeast two rods to first bounds. Provided the County 
 relinquish their right to the land the old Goal now stands. "f 
 
 This exchange of land was made, additional land was 
 purchased of Robert Perkins, who owned and lived on the 
 spot now occupied by Mr. John H. Cogswell's residence, 
 and the prison was built at once. On March 31, 1772, 
 
 * General Sessions Court Records, 
 t Town Records. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 17 
 
 the Justices viewed and approved the building, and 
 ordered that "tlie two lower rooms and the two chambers 
 be henceforth made use of as his Majesty's Goal in this 
 County, and that the upper apartment be for a House of 
 Correction." The plan shows that the prison was a two- 
 story building with gambrel roof, and that the rooms 
 under the roof were used for the House of Correction. 
 
 In October of the same year, the County bought of 
 Robert Perkins, to enlarge the yard of the new Goal and 
 County House, "a certain piece of land containing 31 
 rods which is bounded southwest on land whereon the 
 said new Goal . . . now stands, and land beh)nging to 
 said Town of Ipswich, six rods, fifteen and a half feet, 
 southeast on land beh)nging to Nathaniel Hovey, four 
 rods, fourteen feet, northeast on land of widow Sarah 
 Pidcifer six rods two and a half feet, northwest on said 
 Robert Perkins land four rods one foot, with one other 
 small piece thereto contiguous at the westerly corner 
 thereof and containing 232 square feet, extemling twenty- 
 four feet westerly from the afore mentioned in length, and 
 ten feet in breadth rearward from said first mentioned line 
 continued on westward twenty-four feet as aforesaid."* 
 
 The County found the small attic rooms insufficient for 
 the County House and l)ought the Dumraer Jewettf prop- 
 erty on the South side and erected a new building for 
 prison use in 1790 and 1791. Land on Green street was 
 bought and a new jail built of stone, near the present 
 House of Correction, in 1806, and in 1808, the old Goal 
 site, with its yard, was sold to Rev. David Tenney Kim- 
 ball. The deed gives the bounds as follows ; 
 
 " beginning at the East corner by land of Daniel Hol- 
 land southwest on land of heirs of Nath. Kinsman deed. 
 80 feet to land of Inhabitants of Ipswich, northwest 78 
 feet 3 in,, thence on land belonging to said inhabitants 
 running south west to the training field or Common, thence 
 running north west, 63 ft. 4 in. on said Common, thence 
 running north east on said Common and land of David 
 Pulsifer to the corner of the old goal yard by his land, 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book 130, leaf 247. 
 
 t The ancient house on the Edward Wildes estate. The prison was on the Bite 
 of the adjoining house. 
 
 2 
 
18 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 thence south east on said Pulsifer's land 24 feet, thence 
 north east 51 feet, on said Pulsifer's land to land of said 
 Daniel Holland, thence running south east 101 feet 6 in. 
 on said Holland's land to bounds first mentioned," the 
 goal reserved to be taken away Jan. 1, 1808.* 
 
 Mr. Kimball enlarged his lot in the following year by 
 purchasing of the town a small piece bounded on two 
 sides by his own land and on the third by the Common 
 and the })ound.| 
 
 These details enable us to locate the ancient and the 
 more modern prisons with much accuracy. The present 
 dividing line, between the Kimball estate and Mr. John 
 H. Cogswell's, turns at a right angle about sixty-six feet 
 from the front line, and after running twenty feet south- 
 east, resumes its former course and extends fifty-eight 
 feet to the rear corner of the Kimball land. Mrs. J. Q. 
 Peabody remembers that her father, to accommodate Mr. 
 John Howe Boardman, the owner of the Cogswell property, 
 set his fence some four or five feet back from the line 
 specified by his deed. If a line, parallel to the present 
 line, and five feet nearer Mr. Cogswell's residence, be 
 prolonged into the Green, we have the northwest limit of 
 the jail premises of 1770, and a parallel line, two rods to 
 the southeast, indicates the northwest bound of the ancient 
 prison lot, while the lot on the northeast side of the 
 Chapel was undoubtedly part of the old prison yard, which 
 was surrendered to the town by the agreement made in 
 1771. The watch-house was adjacent to the old prison. 
 The prison of 1770 occupied in part, at least, the site of the 
 Kimball homestead, and the ancient prison of 1652 was 
 very near it. A large flat rock some fifteen feet in front of 
 the Kimball fence covers the well of the prison of 1771, 
 and it may have provided water for the original Goal. 
 With the keeper's house and the enclosing fences, a large 
 portion of the present corner of the Green must have been 
 occupied. We must remember, of course, that the present 
 road in front of the Cogswell and Peabody residences is 
 comparatively modern. There was nothing more than a 
 rutted driveway, which provided an approach to the 
 houses. 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book 185, le:if 152. 
 
 t Essex Co. Deeds, book ISO, leaf 71, April 12, 1809. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GKEEN. 19 
 
 We have uieutioiied that the ancient watch-house was 
 set near the pound. That corner of the old Green was 
 utilized for so many purposes that we are bewildered by 
 any attem|)t at exact location. Thus in 1655, Hum- 
 phrey Gri (fin had liberty to set up a " shamballs " or 
 slaughter house, about twenty feet square, by the pound. 
 This grant was followed by another, in 1664, to Major 
 General Denison, " soe much ground by the pound and 
 his own fence as 30 foot long and 20 foot l)road to sett up 
 a cow-house," and another of twelve feet " at the west end 
 of his barn to the pound," in 1679.* To accommodate 
 Thomas Fossey, the goal-keeper, " Four rods near the 
 Prison, by Mr. Wilson's barn, formerly so called and 
 bounded by stakes," were carved out of the old Green for 
 his residence, in 1692, and, in 1703, Samuel Graves, Jr. 
 was granted liberty to remove his hatter's shop, "and to 
 sett it some place about ye pound, where the selectmen 
 shall appoint, and ye sd Graves to remove sd shop off said 
 Ground of ye Towne, whenever the Town shall see cause." 
 
 In 1722 John Wainwright Esq. was desired to wait on 
 the Justices of the Qiuirter Sessions Court and make sale, 
 if possible, of the Fossey house, as a residence for the 
 jailer ; and the house, then in possession of Sam. Graves. 
 He conferred with the Court as instructed, and Col. John 
 Appleton, Dan' Rogers and flno. Whipple were desired 
 "to treat with said Fosdike's heirs ab* ye same and know 
 the lowest Term it may ])e had for & whether y Town 
 will give a Grant of y*^ Land where ye Prison is, & such 
 addition of lind as may be necessary & y'' Report thereof 
 may be made to ye next Sessions at Salem. "f No report 
 is recorded, but the County evidently came into posses- 
 sion of the land, as it was deeded back to the Town in 
 1771. It seems likely that the Fossey and Graves houses 
 were on or near the land now owned by the heirs of Rev. 
 D. T. Kimball. 
 
 Very early in the eighteenth century, the question of 
 an almshouse, or workhouse, as it was often called, was 
 debated, and on Feb. 3, 1717, the town voted that "an 
 
 * Denison owned the property now owned by the heirs of John Perkins and 
 W. H. Graves, 
 t General Sessions Ct. Records, March 27, 1722. 
 
20 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 Aims-House or convenient House for ye Poor be built, 
 To be a logg house of about 40 foot long, about 16 foot 
 wide, about 6 foot high w"' a flatt roof as may be sut- 
 able." It was voted in 1719, that it should be set "in ye 
 lane towards Pindars," ?'. e. Loney's Lane, but evidently 
 the attraction of the pound was too great to be overcome, 
 as in 1731* we find mention of the " alms house adjoining 
 to the Pound." But it was not an attractive place of 
 residence for the poor, or there were few poor to be 
 housed, and the spacious log house was available for other 
 uses. So William Stone, who by reason of sickness was 
 no longer able to support himself by fishing, asked leave 
 to use a room there to teach reading and writing to the 
 youth, and this was granted in the year 1722. Shortly 
 before this, the Town voted that a school should not be 
 kept in the Town House, and this oflTer of the debilitated 
 fisherman may have oftered a providential solution of the 
 school-question. 
 
 For some reason, the old Town seems to have been 
 inclined to resort to many makeshifts in regard to a 
 proper school building. As early as 1714 it was voted 
 that " the watch-house should be improved during the 
 Summer by some person who will undertake the teaching 
 of young children to read;" and, in the next year, the 
 query was, if there were not some woman, who was 
 ready to make this use of the old watch-house. Again 
 in 1731, the almshouse was resorted to, when Henry 
 Spillar was granted the use of a room at the southerly 
 end for "his teaching and instructing youth in reading, 
 writing & cyphering." In 1733 he was granted £12 for 
 his school-keeping. This almshouse seems to have be- 
 come too old for service of any sort in 1770, when the 
 location of a new one was debated at the same time the 
 new prison was projected, and some proposed that it 
 should be at the southeast end of the old county house, 
 " provided the Town will be moving the Pound and take 
 down the Alms House which is now rotten, & settle the 
 bounds between the Town land and Capt. Tread well,"* 
 but in 1784 the Selectmen were requested to sell it. 
 
 Capt. Treadwell was the owner of the Denison prop- 
 
 * Town Records. 
 
MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 21 
 
 erty, which was owned later by Nathaniel Lord, Jr., and 
 then by Mr. »Tohn Perkins, whose heirs still own the 
 corner where his late dwelling stands. The Green origi- 
 nally reached far into this lot, as we have noticed, and as 
 late as about 1850, the present line was established. In 
 the olden time, a stone wall enclosed it, and in 1702, 
 when the new meeting house had been built, a spasm of 
 kindly regard for the horses, during the time of service, 
 possessed the hearts of the fathers, and they voted that 
 sheds might be set up on the Green near the old meeting 
 house, but their second thought was better, and Nicholas 
 Wallis was allowed a place by this stone wall for a shed. 
 The original vote permitted a shed to be built " about 20 
 foot from ye Watch House, southerly toward the old Meet- 
 ing House." As the watch-house was near the present 
 chapel, any approximation to a southerly direction from it 
 would require the location of the second meeting-house and 
 fort near the present roadway, on the southeast side of 
 the meetmg-house. 
 
 Our survey cannot be completed without a glimpse at 
 the small grass plot, in front of the Methodist meeting- 
 house. Here the first Town-house was built. The order 
 of the Town, Dec. 28, 1704, specified a building about 32 
 feet long, about 28 feet wide, about 18 or 19 feet stud, 
 '' with a fiat roof raised about 5 foot." A school-room was 
 finished in the lower part, and the upper was used for a 
 court-room and for town meetings. It was replaced by a 
 new building, erected at the joint expense of Town and 
 County, in 1793-94, a much more pretentious structure 
 with a high belfry or steeple. It stood with its rear end 
 close to the high ledge, which has been blasted to its pres- 
 ent level, but which was originally as high as the eaves of 
 the building itself. Thus, in close proximity to prison, 
 stocks and whipping post, the Courts held their stately 
 sessions from 1704 to 1854, when they ceased their sit- 
 ting's, and the house was sold and removed to the corner 
 near the railroad station. It was utilized by Mr. James 
 Damon for a hall and stores, and was totally destroyed by 
 fire, April 14, 1894. Famous judges sat in the bar ; great 
 lawyers, Webster, Choate and Story, made their pleas ; 
 momentous cases were decided under its roof. 
 
22 MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 Near the old Town-house, at its easterly end, by vote of 
 the Town, permission to erect a building, fifty feet long and 
 twenty-five feet Avide, was given to a number of subscribers 
 in November, 1774, "for the encouragement of military dis- 
 cipline," and during the cold days of winter the Minute Men 
 were schooled in the manual of arms, in preparation for 
 the war that was then regarded as inevitable, and, by a 
 singular coincidence, the room in the neighboring brick 
 building, occupied by the Post Office, served as a recruit- 
 ing headquarters during the Civil War. 
 
 Thus the Green is full of memories, from the earlier to 
 the later times. Hither the hogs were driven in the morn- 
 ing, and the swine-herd, Abraham War with Goodman 
 Symmes drove them to the town-commons;* and, at the 
 sound of the cow-herd Haniel Bosworth's horn, blown on 
 the Green soon after sunrise, the cows of the neighborhood 
 were gathered there, that they might be driven in a herd 
 to the public pasture lands outside the town limits. f 
 Great gatherings have assembled on its ledges and grassy 
 slopes. From the ledge nearest the meeting-house, as 
 the tradition is, Whitefield preached to thousands, hushed 
 to solemn stillness. When Lafayette was welcomed, the 
 meeting-house was filled with the throng of citizens who 
 paid him honor. Here the militia gathered for their peri- 
 odic trainings, and the training days were great days, with 
 the pomp and parade of the military and the tents of fakirs 
 and cheap showmen. Ordination days were grand occa- 
 sions too, with their festal accompaniment of booths for 
 eating and drinking. 
 
 Happily the noblest associations are the most constant. 
 Hither the people have come to worship since the begin- 
 nings of the town life, and here, the schoolchildren stray- 
 ing a liltle from the old watch-house, the ancientalmshouse, 
 the town-house and the old gambrel-roofed school buildinjr 
 that stood where the present Denison school now stands, 
 have found a pleasant playground for two centuries. 
 
 • Town Records, 1653. t Town Records, 1661. 
 
HOUSES AND LANDS NEAR THE MEETING 
 HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 It was recorded, in 1639, that Theophilus Wilson's 
 house lot was purchased of John Sanders, and that it was 
 bounded on the southeast by the lot of Robert Mosey. 
 We may presume that Sanders and Mosey, or Muzzey, 
 were the original grantees. The Sanders-Wilson prop- 
 erty included the tract bounded by the Green, North Main 
 and Summer streets, and, nearly enough for our present 
 purpose, by a line extending from the chapel to Summer 
 street. The Mosey or Muzzey property was bounded by 
 this line, on the northwest, by Summer and County streets. 
 Whether it ever included the remainder of the square 
 bounded by Green street and the Green, is a matter of 
 doubt. But we know that Major General Denison owned 
 the lot bounded by Muzzey, County street, Green street 
 and the Meeting House Green in 1648.* 
 
 Theophilus Wilson, aged about eighty-eight years, as 
 the deed recites, sold his dwelling, orchard and land to 
 John Lovell, July 29, 1689. f John Lovell, shoemaker, 
 sold to his father, Thomas Lovell, a currier by trade, 
 Feb. 8, 16944 The elder Lovell divided the lot, and 
 sold William Donnton, mariner, the northeast portion, 
 Aug. 1, 1695. § This lot was bounded by Main street, 
 Summer street, then known as Annable's Lane, originally 
 Stony street, and the former Muzzey property, then owned 
 by Samuel Dutch. He exchanged the remainder for 
 another estate, with his son, Alexander, Oct. 16, 1697. |1 
 Alexander Lovell conveyed " my old dwelling house and 
 
 * Ipswich Deeds, book 1, leaf 149. t Ipswich Deeds, book 5, leaf 299. 
 
 X Essex Co. Deeds, book 10. § Essex Co. Deeds, book 13, leaf 60. 
 
 II Essex Co. Deeds, book 20, leaf 91. 
 
 (23) 
 
24 HOUSES AND LANDS NEAR 
 
 part of my homestead, which was Mr. Wilson's late of 
 Ipswich " and about forty square rods of land to Samuel 
 Chapman, mariner, Dec, 1715.* 
 
 The deed to Chapman is the first to give measurements, 
 and it informs us that the frontage on the Green was six 
 rods lacking one foot, and that the southeast bound was a 
 line extending from the Green to theDonnton land, about 
 two and a half feet from the easterly end of the dwelling. 
 This line coincides with the present dividing line between 
 the Farley and Cogswell properties, and it defines the 
 location of the old Theophilus Wilson house very satisfac- 
 torily. Making allowance for gradual encroachment on 
 the Green, the house stood, at least, a rod back from the 
 present front fence, and about two feet from the fence 
 which sejiarates the two estates. 
 
 This corner lot was sold by Chapman to Joseph Foster, 
 Nov. 2, 1726, 1 and bv him to Joseph and Jeremiah Per- 
 kins, Jan. 26, 1726-27. | It continued many years in the 
 Perkins line. James Perkins owned and occupied the 
 southeast half of the house and land in 1795, and sold 
 the same to Joseph Perkins of Newburyport, in February 
 of that year,§ and a James Perkins bequeathed one undi- 
 vided half of the whole estate to his sister, Susanna Ken- 
 dall, and the other to his nephew, Isaac Perkins, in 1818. || 
 Dr. George Chadwick purchased one half from the admin- 
 istrator of Susanna Kendall, and the other from Francis 
 Butler and wife of Farmington, Jan. 5, 1831.11 Chadwick 
 sold to Robert Farley, April 25, 1839,** who transferred 
 it to Joseph K. Farley, April 29, 1842. ft Mr. Farley 
 sokl the old house, which was removed to Pingree's Plain, 
 and built the present mansion, which was occupied by his 
 widow until her death. 
 
 Alexander Lovell had built a new dwelling, probably 
 before he sold the old Wilson homestead in 1715. He 
 sold a part of his lot on the southeast side, bounded by 
 the pound on the southwest, to Nathaniel Hovey, Nov. 3, 
 
 ♦ Essex Co. Deeds, book 30, leaf 187. t Essex Co. Deeds, book 48, leaf 195. 
 
 I Essex Co. Deeds, book 49, leaf 206. § Essex Co. Deeds, book 158, leaf 262. 
 
 II Essex Co. Prolmte Records, book 393, leaf 332. 
 
 TI Essex Co. Deeds, book 260, leaf 161. ** Essex Co. Deeds, book 312, leaf 295. 
 tt Essex Co. Deeds, book 332, leaf 47. 
 
THE MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 25 
 
 1739,* and he gave a small lot fronting on the Green, 
 eighteen feet front and forty feet deep, "12 foot from the 
 southeast end of my dwelling house," to his daughter 
 Sarah Pulsipher, and her husband Joseph Pulsipher, Oct. 
 21, 1746. t He bequeathed one-half of his house and land 
 to Jonathan Wells, his son-in-law, and the other to Joseph 
 Pulsipher.! Pulsipher or Pulcifer acquired the other half 
 by purchase Dec. 24, 1747, from William Pulcifer and 
 Mary his wife, daughter of Lovell,§ and Jonathan Wells, j 
 Abraham Tilton sold the southeast half to Robert Per- 
 kins March 7, 1761, || and the deed specified that the line 
 of division began at the middle of the house, ran through 
 the house aud the middle of the well. This well is in the 
 rear of Mr. Cogswell's resideuce. Its location indicates 
 that the house, which Alexander Lovell built, was a little 
 northwest of the preseut dwelling. Perkins sold land to 
 the County for the new jail of which mention has already 
 been made,1[ now owned by the heirs of Rev. David T. 
 Kimball, Oct. 29, 1772,** and conveyed his title in the 
 remainder of the estate to Stephen Lord, March 6, 1793. ft 
 Lord sold to Thomas Kimball, mariner, April 23, 1795, JJ 
 who also purchased from Sarah Safford the small rectan- 
 gular piece, eighteen feet by forty, which she had received 
 from her father, July 16, 1796. §§ One item of peculiar 
 interest attaches to this deed. It defines the land in ques- 
 tion as bounded by the Green on the southwest. The 
 line then extended northeast by the land occupied by the 
 prison, seventeen feet, and so on the same course, twenty 
 three feet to Kimball's land. The conclusion seems nat- 
 ural that the line of the Green at that time touched the 
 present fence between the Cogswell and the Kimball prop- 
 erties, seventeen feet from the northeast corner of the fence. 
 The distance from this corner to the present line of the 
 Green is sixty-one feet seven inches, or forty-four feet 
 farther into the Green. As the line was indefinite, and un- 
 marked by fences or bounds, encroachment was easy, and 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book 88, leaf 277. t Essex Co. Deeds, book 106, leaf 90. 
 t Essex Co. Probate Records, book .327, leaves 306-309. 
 
 § Essex Co. Deeds, book 104, leaf 132. || Essex Co. Deeds, book 109, leaf 116. 
 IT Cf. " The Meeting House Green." ** Essex County Deeds, book 130, leaf 247. 
 tt Essex Co. Deeds, Look 155, leaf 201. U Essex Co. Deeds, book 160, leaf 32. 
 §§ Essex Co. Deeds, book 160, leaf 272. 
 
26 HOUSES AND LANDS NEAR 
 
 record remains of a grant, soon to be noted. Thomas 
 Kimball sold to David Pulcifer, Nov. 6, 1798,* who ac- 
 quired a small tract in the rear of Elizabeth Holland, 
 July 30, 1812. t 
 
 In the meantime, Sarah Safford, widow of Joseph Pul- 
 cifer, of Campton, Moses Jewett of New Milford, Israel 
 Eliot Pulcifer of Beverly, and Samuel Little of Beverly, 
 executed a deed of the northwest half of the house with 
 land to Aaron Perkins, Jun., cooper, Nov. 7, 1797,:}: who 
 transferred it to Daniel Holland, March 13, 1802. § On 
 the night of June 9, 1811, the house took fire and was 
 burned with most of its contents, and a boy, Abraham 
 Burnham, who died at a good old age a few years since, 
 slee|)ing in the house was forgotten until the last moment. 
 Captain Pulcifer proceeded at once to rebuild and made 
 request that his line might be extended into the Green ten 
 feet. In view of the great loss he had suffered, the town 
 generously granted it,||and the widow Holland was equally 
 favored. 
 
 Separate houses were now built by the widow Holland 
 and Capt. Pulcifer. He sold his house and land to John 
 How Boardman, April 4, 1826, 1[ and it came by inheri- 
 tance to his son, Mr. Aaron Cogswell, the excellent school 
 teacher for many years, and his grandson, xMr. John How 
 Cogswell, the present owner. Mrs. Holland in due time 
 became Mrs. Gage, wife of Samuel N. Gage, of Rowley, 
 but survived her second husband. The executor of her 
 estate sold it to Aaron Cogswell, May 24, 1841,** and the 
 house was removed by Mr. John H. Cogswell to the cor- 
 ner of County and Green streets a few years since. 
 
 Rev. David Tenney Kimball, who had recently begun 
 his pastorate with the First Church, bought the land owned 
 by the County and occupied as a prison on Jan. 1, 1808, 
 and erected the spacious and comfortable parsonage Avhich 
 still stands. For many years the most liberal hospitality 
 was dispensed. Miss Zilpah Grant and Miss Mary Lyon 
 were much here, when the Female Academy was just 
 
 ♦ Essex Co. Deeds, book 163, leaf 223. t Essex Co. Deeds, book 199, leaf 141. 
 t Essex Co. Deeds, book 164, leaf 229. § Essex Co. Deeds, book 171, leaf 50. 
 II Town Records, Feb. 4, 1811. IT Essex Co. Deeds, book 241, leaf 161. 
 
 ** Essex Co. Deeds, book 326, leaf 165. 
 
THE MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 27 
 
 beginning its noble work. Famous ministers tarried a 
 little while as they travelled or exchanged with the worthy 
 pastor, Lyman Beecher, Calvin Stowe, Leonard Woods, 
 and many another. Catharine Beecher and Ann Hazel- 
 tine Judson, N. P. Willis, Garrison, Rufus Choate, Caleb 
 Cushing and Daniel Webster, tasted the good cheer. 
 
 William Donnton, we mentioned, bought the lot on the 
 corner of North Main and Summer streets, in 1695. The 
 deed mentions no building of any sort, only a plain hun- 
 dred rods out of Mr. Wilson's houselot. Donnton built 
 a home for himself, and it stood until a few years since, a 
 low-roofed, big-chimneyed dwelling house, picturesque in 
 its simplicity, a venerable landmark, whose disappearance 
 we may well regret. On Nov. 5, 1721, Robert Perkins and 
 Elizabeth, his wife, one of the daughters of William 
 Donghton, deceased, sold their interest in the estate to 
 Joseph Holland, mariner, their "loveing brother-in-law."* 
 The deed conveyed house, barn and outbuildings with a 
 measurement on Annable's lane, of twelve rods and eight 
 feet, to a stake. Holland was a fisherman, and had a 
 privilege in a certain fishing stage, and flake-room, on the 
 southward side of Jefiry's Neck, next adjoining to the 
 stage of William Wilcomb.f 
 
 The executors of Mary Holland, widow of Joseph, sold 
 the property to Dr. Francis Holmes, Jan. 1, 1765. | After 
 the death of Dr. Holmes, the estate was divided by order 
 of the Probate Court. The homestead or a two-thirds 
 interest was set off to his son, John. The widow had a 
 right of dower in another house, which had been built 
 where Mr. Sayward's house now stands, also in a house 
 lot, which had been divided from the original lot on Anna- 
 ble's lane, John Holmes sold his interest in the home- 
 stead to tToshua Blanchard of Boston, April 11, 1767, § 
 Avho sold in turn to Ezekiel Dodge, Aug. 20, 1775. || 
 Anna Dodge, widow and administrator of Ezekiel, sold 
 the same two-thirds interest to Ezekiel Dodge, painter, 
 July 5, 1789.11 Ezekiel sold one half his interest to Anna 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book 41, leaf 24. 
 
 t Essex Co. Deeds, book 38, leaf 271, 1721-2. 
 
 J Essex Co. Deeds, l)00k 106, leaf 195. § Essex Co. Deeds, book 121, leaf 246. 
 
 I| Essex Co. Deeds, book 135, leaf 53. IT Essex Co. Deeds, book 158, leaf 132. 
 
28 lU^IlSI'uM ANI> I.ANKS NKAK 
 
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 torn itf Aniin, ,st>M (Iumt iiiUMi>s| lo l'i/.«>lvi«'l, Sept. 1*1, 
 l.SIO.f M/,««kitNl sold llu^ lull two-lliirds and t»u«'-lirth o{' 
 rtMiuiiniii;!;' part 1«) Maiiinii«:^ l>(tdi;»*, (MiarloK*^ and Mary 
 I>(>di2;«>, Marcli 1*1, ISi'.'l.j Tlu' lu'irs ol" Mauirnii»; |)od«>;o 
 Mold (o Mr. 'riuMMJon^ l'\ (\»s;s\v«>ll in h^HS, Apiil •{,§ ami 
 
 tlM^ luMIMO was loin dt>\Vliat (>IUM>Mlld |Im> pil'Sflll ITsidtMU'O 
 
 of Mr. HtMir^'o 10. l''arloy was «mo(I»mIom llic Haiuc .sitii. 
 Mai'v ll()lllu^M, widow o\' l>r. Ilnlnu's, sold Imm- t^tpiily in 
 |Im» holls^^ sho ooiMipiod (o Ium' Sim, .loliii, Maroli 11, I77l>.|| 
 lit* (I'aiiMloiTod it to Vima notlt^**, Ap»"iloO. 17'.>1.* Man- 
 nii\i!, I >od;;t> Mold it, willi land, lo .loliii How noai'dmaii, 
 flan. S, 1S'J7.1 llo Mold it to MaiiMitiu; Podiio ayaiu, .\ii<j:. 
 2^, 1S;»i*. \v1u> h-ansriMTiMJ it to (^ipl. .lolin Loid .'mI, on 
 tlu^ saiuo day.** Il wax plM'^'lla.s(^d I:i1«m- l)y Pr. Isaao 
 l*MirlilMor, wlu» laiilt tlu^ lioiist* now occiipit'd l»y Mi-. S;iy- 
 waiil, in IS,M)-(»0. (i. 1<\ l<Michtnt>r honuhl tlio ii\lor»<sl 
 oftlu^ othor hoii's, April. ISSO.t | and noM lo Mr. Cliailos 
 A. Sayward in ISSl.jj Tlu^ old lions.- wms niovtnl to 
 \\'aMhinj;l(M» strrt^l, and is owntnl l)y lln- lu-iis of tlu< lat^^ 
 Mi*-lia«^l lx(«:id\ . 
 
 W lioi\ lln* I lolnnvs os|;il<' was divid«Ml, nuMillon w;is niado 
 o( a Inniso lot llial had Ixhmi slaUt-d oil :il llu* lo\vt>r vn*! 
 »>r tho li>l ttn Annal»U»'s Lan**. This roinainr«l in poss»<s- 
 wion ol' tluN lloln»^^s Innrs, an>l on ,)nm> 10, ISO."?, Sarah 
 llolnu<s, wi<low ol'.lolui.sold il lo IviMti.'unin K indtall, >lnn. v^ v^ 
 Ho Iniill a honso, and soM land and lions(\ SopI . o, 1S(),>, 
 t(t Klisha (ion Id. II || Ho sold loCapl. Haniid LaktMnMn, (>i-|. 
 *io, ISM ini (\iplain liaUonjan soKl llu' notlliwrsi liall'tir 
 iUo lionstN wi(i\ a narr(»w tVonla^i^ lo ,l;nni<s Slanit'oril May 
 (i, ISIU't.*** ri\o l•«Mn;»indl^^ ot tho [U'optM'ty was st'oni»>d 
 at a lattw dato. ll is «)wnod si ill by tho Sl!inil\>id 
 
 Tho dooil of salt* iVoni Iho wid*»w Mary lloll.-nul lo Hi-. 
 Hohntvs oivt^s lh»< land »>! widow I'Mi/aholh I'lillor as iho 
 
 * Kiwax Co, Ooodrt, iioKk \>Ns, lo«i' uw. I K.tao\ r». Oooiis. Look I'.m, lo.-ir.Vi. 
 
 t Kii«tv\ Oo, Uootlti, K>i>k -.W, loiif Wi. § K.^rtOX t\>. 1>00(Im, lnu>k 1JH>, lonfMM. 
 
 II KHi>t>\ Co. l>ooiU, IvooK I.N7, lonf -JU. 'I Ksoox Co, l>oo»l.s, Itook .MS, lonf JA^J. 
 ♦* KaaoN Co, Ooods, >>ook OW, lonf^'iiC. tt K'««o\ t'o, Ooodtt, ht.ok las.%, loHf CO, 
 II Kiiti«»v «'», Oooits. liook liV>l, loaf l-.M, S§ Ksnon Co, l>ooil.t. l>ooK. IT'.', loaf JS, 
 llll K««to\ l"o, l>ooa«, >>ook 174. loaf 17'J, ^m K!t,io\ Co, Ooodt*. lu>olv U>,\ loaf U. 
 *>■•♦ IC!4i»«ix i\>, Uomlit, liookdW. loaf -JU'. 
 
nil IMK.K I IN«) IIOHMK (lUKKN. 29 
 
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 {\\0 DWIMMsllip ill lllill (mU\ MM lIlO widow I'llllcl lioltl IwM" 
 
 lioiiMt* Miiil li»t «Mi Vo\>. :' I , l<,>l l(» I'lmmiis I'l oiulwt'll. * 
 His willow rcltiiiKMl hoiiio itxniiM iii (h«> Iumino, mikI pint ol* 
 llu> ImihI, l»y \\oy i\;<\\{ «)!' iI(»w«m', wIioii IIm^ <>«ImIo wmn ,s«>l(l 
 (o Imiimt |)otli;o, .Inly M), I ('(•/. | (\>l. .loHcpli I li)(l|>lviiiH 
 Moiil liic cIiuIuImM' tllld /L^liri'tl nl llu^ »lw cllin;', niul ( w o (IiiiiIm 
 ol llir tH>lliir, " IxMii*.', ( lu> w lioli* ol llit> »hv«»llm,", i>l TlumiMM 
 
 'rr«>lul\Voll, 0\«'0|l| wlllll W tlH S«^( (ill' IIIkI IIHHi;.>IMMl Io \vitl(>W' 
 
 K,m|Ii(>i rr«'iulw«<ll." l(» Simmol Sloiie, Miiy 1.M1, I71MJ. Sloiio 
 lt(»ii;.'lil lli«> Wiilimro »>r (lu^ omIhIo, ^\^^. 'i-'fi, ISOI.j iViiiii 
 |)r. .loliii IM.'iiiniii^'. U'oIxmI I'miIim w.mm im |»(tM;u>Msu>ii lulor 
 lUid sold lo l'//,olvioll)(ul;,>v. .Inn.'. M:l^ II, iS'.'.i.^^ Ili.i 
 dMn<.>lilor iniin'i«Ml NolKMiiitili IIuhKoII, wIiomo linri Mlill 
 t»w n llio |>iop«>rly . 
 
 '^l»«^ TrtMidwi'll osliilt* Mi»cni) lo li!i\<^ inclndtMl llic iid 
 joiniii;' |iio|i(mU now owned l»y Pr. ^^ illuiin II. I\nMM(^ll. 
 ('ol. .lost'pli llodi'lvinM iind Ids w ir«\ livdiii. widow ol" 
 lOliMliM 'ri'tMidwtdl, d(<«Ml(«d oiKt liidf llio hind iind Iioiin*^ (<» 
 Slt'pluMi Low, Iind llio oIIkm' liiiir l(t liis wir«\ Siiridi. on 
 M.ii.li :".>. I Si.':., II h WMM inli.-rilrd l.y Ids son. W inl In ..p. 
 Iind l>y l>r. ICiiMSrll iVoin linn. 'V\\o liiiNsrll prop«Ml\ is ii. 
 piirl (»l t li(> imcitMil 'rii(<opliiliiH W ilson ('mIiiIo, I hi I (lie I >tin 
 i«^l (MiirU hons<< iind liind wmm purl ol llm M<>c(tiid (Mi;i;iniil 
 divinitMi. 
 
 l\ol»«>rl lMn/,,',oy, wo ll;l\(^ s(M>n, iippciiM lo Ii;i\o Ihmmi IIm^ 
 ori^iniil <;rMiilo»' td llii> stMonil Mock ol lliis •.(|iimi(\ Iml 
 Miillliow WiiippltN WHS ill poss^^MHnnl w litwi li<^ di(>d, iihIIio 
 \\v\ . Nidluinitd Iv'i »,'.',« mm, iind lli<< oMuir «>\o('nloi>t id' \\'liip 
 pU^'s will. Hold (o IxoltnrI W liilniiin, lor i'.'t, ii lioiisii iind nil 
 ticrc or<>i'onnd, ltonnd«td Im \\'ilMoniiiid I >(niison, tiinl piih- 
 lit' ways. Miiy .'. ICIS.IJ W liil iniin sold d lo Wdliiini 
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 niiin, WMM ill posMi^ssion in I (!(i(), ms m in(Ml,'.';M|i»(i dood iniikoH 
 cvitliMil . I I No iiKMilitni oI'm lionst^ is lllnd(^ in I his d«>(Ml. niid 
 {\u\ rorinrr (InMip d w (dlin<' Ihid had Im'oii l)i)n<.>;hl willinii 
 iUM'o (d hind lor l.) in IlilS h.'id cnl irrl \ diMapp<^Hr«'d . In 
 
 I (>7(>, I >nl eh t'onveyiMl lo his son S.Minnrl ahonl a tjiiMi lor oi' 
 
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30 HOUSES AND LANDS NEAR 
 
 an acre, part of his "pasture," bounded by Denison on the 
 south, and the highway on the east,* and he sold him the 
 balance of the land on Dec. 12, 1683. f This deed speaks 
 of his "homestead" as adjoining, and indicates that Samuel 
 Dutch had built a house on the County street side of the 
 lot. Dutch seems to have met with financial reverses in 
 the year 1718, for in that year he mortgaged his dwelling 
 to Joseph Boles and John Gains, J and divided his orchard 
 into building lots, with an uniform frontage on Annable's 
 Lane of three rods. The corner lot where Miss Sarah 
 Caldwell's house now stands was sold to Samuel Harris, 
 Nov. lst.§ Nathaniel Hovey bought the lot adjoining 
 Lovell's land about midway of the Lane, Nov. 5, 1718|| 
 and Richard Ringe the adjoining lot on the southeast on 
 the same day.Tf Jonathan Pulcifer acquired the lot south- 
 east of Ringe on Nov. 17th** and Deborah Lord, spinster, 
 the next, Nov. 18, 1718. § Dutch died soon after, and 
 his mortgagees sold his mansion-house, warehouse and 
 part of his homestead, twelve rods in length on Dutch's 
 Lane, as it was commonly called, now County street, April 
 3, 1722 to Anthony Attwdod.f t The remaining lot on 
 Annable's Lane was sold to Jonathan Pulcifer, Nov. 7, 
 1724.1$ 
 
 Hovey enlarged his lot by the purchase of eleven square 
 rods, from Alexander Lovell, in the rear of the land sold 
 to William Donnton, in 1739. §§ It was owned by Capt. 
 Nathaniel Kinsman, and b}'^ his son Capt. John Choate 
 Kinsman. The latter sold the house and land to Warren 
 Nourse, April 7, 1846, j] |1 who sold half of it to Anna New- 
 ton, wife of Aldred Newton, April 18, 1846. ITIf Daniel 
 Clark bought one-half the house from Asahel H. Wildes, 
 April 24, 1850.*** Mary P., wife of Daniel, acquired the 
 other half, Feb. 30, 1878. fff It is now owned by Mrs. 
 Philip E. Clarke. 
 
 The next of the original Dutch lots was sold by Richard 
 
 * Ipswich Deeds, book 5, leaf 193. t Ipswich Deeds, book 5, leaf 231. 
 
 X Essex Co. Deeds, book 36, leaf lO.'i. § Essex Co. Deeds, book 36, leaf 112. 
 
 II Essex Co. Deeds, book 33, leaf 260. IT Essex Co. Deeds, book 49, leaf 259. 
 
 ** Essex Co. Deeds, book 35, leaf 81. ft Essex Co. Deeds, book 40, leaf 76. 
 
 Xt Essex Co. Deeds, book 44, leaf 57. §§ Essex Co. Deeds, book 88, leaf 277. 
 
 nil Essex Co. Deeds, book 366, leaf 77. ^V Essex Co. Deeds, book 369, leaf 127 
 
 *** Essex Co. Deeds, book 471, leaf 256. ttt Essex Co. Deeds, book 993, leaf 4. 
 
THE MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 31 
 
 Ringe, heir of Richard, who had bought in 1718, with a 
 house, to John Finder, Jan., Feb. 5, 17H0.* His widow, 
 Sarah, sold to Wm. Leatherland, Jan. 3, 1799. f By order 
 of Probate Court, Clias. A. Say ward, as guardian of Jacob 
 Leatherland, insane, sold the property, and it was pur- 
 chased by Daniel Clark, Feb. 21, 1872. | It is now owned 
 by his son, Philip E. Clark, whose cabinet shop and un- 
 dertaker's establishment occupies the site of the old house. 
 
 We observed that Jonathan Pulcifer purchased the next 
 lot in 1718, when the Samuel Dutch property was divided 
 into house lots, and another in 1724. He seems to have 
 owned a continuous frontage to the corner now occupied 
 by Miss Sarah P. Caldwell's residence. His heirs appar- 
 ently sold the house now owned by Theodore H. Howe to 
 Richard Lakeman, May 14, 1796. § He sold to Daniel 
 Lakeman,§ and Daniel transferred to Jane Gould, wife 
 of Elisha Gould, Oct. 23, 1811. |1 The Goulds sold to 
 Elizabeth Fuller, Nov. 23, 1827,11 and Reuben Daniels 
 sold it to Chas. H. Howe, May 16, 1867.** 
 
 Bickford Pulcifer sold Jonathan Lakeman, a house and 
 six square rods of land on Annable's lane, surrounded by 
 his land, Dec. 28, 1769. ff He acquired the next lot which 
 was owned or occupied in 1745 by Solomon Lakeman, |J 
 and in 1793, March 11, he bought of Bickford Pulcifer, 
 the land that fronts on County street, then known as 
 Dutch's lane, and later as Cross street, and extended back 
 of the lots on Annable's lane. His heirs by mutual quit- 
 claims divided his estate. His daughter Margaret, wife 
 of Jedediah Chapman, received the house next to the 
 Howe property, §§ and it is still owned by the Chapman 
 heirs. His daughter Abigail, wife of Daniel Jewett, had 
 possession of the adjoining house and land, since purchased 
 by the heirs of Capt. Sylvanus Caldwell. The land on 
 County street was quitclaimed to Lydia, wife of Isaac B. 
 Shepard of Salem. || || 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book 163, leaf 23. f Essex Co. Deeds, book 163, leaf 256. 
 
 X Essex Co. Deeds, book 85,5, leaf 157. § Essex Co. Deeds, book 176, leaf 263. 
 
 !| Essex Co. Deeds, book 196, leaf 44. IT Essex Co. Deeds, book 246, leaf 194. 
 
 ** Essex Co. Deeds, book 726, leaf 63. ft Essex Co. Deeds, book 158, leaf 72. 
 tt Essex Co. Deeds, book 87, leaf 169. 
 §§ Essex Co. Deeds, book 266, leaf 280, June 23, 1832. 
 nil Essex Co. Deeds, book 266, leaf 129. 
 
32 HOUSES AND LANDS NEAR 
 
 The corner lot of the Dutch-Muzzey grant was bought 
 as was remarked in 1718, by Samuel Harris. He sold it 
 to Joseph Bennett, May 8, 1723.* Bennett built a resi- 
 dence and occupied it until his death. Sanuiel Ross, Jun., 
 one of the heirs, sold a third of a third part of the house 
 and land to Joseph Lakeman Ross, Dec. 15, 1789, f and 
 he, with Mary, his wife and Mary Bennett, spinster, con- 
 veyed the property to Daniel Holland, Oct. 10, 1796.:}: 
 He sold to Aaron Perkins, April 13, 1802, § who trans- 
 ferred it to Capt. Sylvanus Caldwell, March 12, 1818. || 
 His daughter, Miss Sarah P. Caldwell, still occupies the 
 comfortable old mansion. 
 
 Samuel Dutch received from his father, Robert Dutch, 
 about a quarter of an acre, in 1676.11 He bought the re- 
 mainder of the lot in 1683, Dec. 12,** and as this deed 
 mentions that the new purchase adjoined his homestead, it 
 seems that he had built a dwelling prior to this date. We 
 mentioned that in 1718 he sold his land in small building 
 lots and mort^ao^ed his house. The morto-agees sold it 
 after Dutch's death to Anthony Attwood.f f Attwood sold 
 to Ca])t. Stephen Perkins, |$ and his executors conveyed 
 it to Henry Morris, Jan. 20, 1733. §§ Morris sold to 
 Richard Lakeman, Nov. 20, 1745 (book 87, leaf 169) and 
 Lakeman to Bickford Pulcifer, March 18, 1761 (book 
 110, leaf 34). Pulcifer sold a quarter acre lot with the 
 house, etc., to Nathaniel Perley, Feb. 23, 1774 (book 
 132, leaf 193). Benjamin Dutch bought it of Perley, 
 May 8, 1778 (book 147, leaf 242) and sold to John Dutch, 
 May 27 (book 137, leaf 202). John Dutch conveyed it 
 to Dr. John Manning, July 30, 1783 (book 148, leaf 80) 
 who sold it to Rev. Ebenezer Dutch of Boxford, Feb. 12, 
 1788 (book 147, leaf 124). 
 
 The Rev. Ebenezer sold to his fellow clergyman. Rev. 
 Levi Frisbie, Pastor of the First church, June 11, 1788 
 (book 147, leaf 242) and in his hands, this property, 
 which had been so long in swift transition, remained in 
 quiet use as a parsonage for many years. He removed or 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book 43, leaf 152. f Essex Co. Deeds, book 151, leaf 64. 
 
 t Essex Co. Deeds, book 161, leaf 68. § Essex Co. Deeds, book 170, leaf 271. 
 
 II Essex Co. Deeds, book 217, leaf 41. IT Ipswich Deeds, book 5, leaf 193. 
 
 ** Ipswich Deeds, book 5, leaf 231. ft Essex Co. Deeds, book 40, leaf 76. 
 
 tt Essex Co. Deeds, book 51, leal 278. §§ Essex Co. Deeds, book 86, leaf 53. 
 
THE MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 33 
 
 took down the old house and erected the present dwelling. 
 Mr. Frishie began to preach as a colleague with Rev. Na- 
 thaniel Rogers in 1775, and was installed Feb. 7, 1776. 
 If he began his housekeeping when he purchased the house, 
 the new parsonage was the scene of a great sorrow, as his 
 young wife died on Aug. 21, 1778, after an ilhiess of only 
 six days, in the thirty-tirst year of her age. lie continued 
 in the pastorate thirty years and died Feb. 25, 1806, hav- 
 ing received Rev. David Tenney Kimball as a colleague. 
 His widow, Mehitable, daughter of Rev. Moses Hale of 
 Newbury, whom he married in 1780, survived him many 
 years. She died in 1828, and bequeathed her estate to her 
 niece, Hannah and nephew, Joseph Hale.* Joseph Hale 
 sold it to Charles Bamford, March 2, 1842f and it remains 
 in the possession of his son, Charles W". Bamford. The old 
 house has been enlars^ed and chano^ed. 
 
 The third block in this square was owned by Major 
 Daniel Denison in 1648, as appears from the deed of the 
 Matthew Whipple property to Robert Whitman.^ But 
 he sold his earlier house near the mill on the two acre tract 
 now occupied by Mr. J. J. Sullivan, Dr. Bailey and 
 others, on Jan. 19, 1641, § to Humphrey GrifBn, and it is 
 very prol)al)le that he acquired this lot and built his house 
 near that date. 
 
 Denison was a very conspicuous figure in the town and 
 colony. He married Patience, daughter of Gov. Thomas 
 Dudley. He was recognized as a military leader of excep- 
 tional ability at once. He was commissioned Captain in 
 1636-7, and in 1648, he was regarded as indispensable to 
 the safety of the community to such a degree, that a pop- 
 ular subscription was raised by one hundred and fifty-five 
 citizens, " to allow Major Denison the sum of £24 7s. 
 yearly, as long as he shall be their leader, to encourage 
 him in his military helpfulness. "§ He was appointed 
 Major General of the Colony, eleven years between 1652 
 and 1680. In civic affairs, as well, he was very promi- 
 nent. He was Representative to the General Court for 
 many years, and was Speaker of the House in 1649 and 
 1652, a Justice of the Quarter Sessions Court, and anAs- 
 
 * Probate Records, book 406, leaf 493. Felt's History of Ipswich, p. 240. 
 t Essex Co. Deeds, book 3-29, leaf 287. X Ipswich Deeds, book 1, leaf 149. 
 § Town Records. 
 3 
 
34 HOTTSES AND LANDS NEAR 
 
 sistant from 1654 to 1682. He was a member of a Com- 
 mittee to revise and correct the Colony laws, and was 
 frequently a Commissioner for the adjudication of delicate 
 public questions. 
 
 His house was probably on or near the site of the resi- 
 dence of the late W. H. Graves. It was destroyed by an 
 incendiary fire May 3, 1665, which was suspected to be 
 the act of a woman servant, who was charged with stealing 
 from Denison, and was sentenced to be whipped ten 
 stripes for lying about it. A new house was erected, and 
 here he lived until his death Sept. 20, 1682, at the age of 
 seventy. His will subscribed "manu propria scripsi,Daniel 
 Denison," with the inventory appended, is of especial in- 
 terest. The inventory lacks that detail which is often 
 found, and fails to give us a satisfying view of the various 
 rooms of his mansion, but it is worth our notice. It was 
 made on the 17th of October, 1682. 
 
 INVENTORY. 
 
 £ 
 Clothes, linnen and woollen 33-15-0 
 
 Anus and horse furniture 12- 8-0 
 
 Beds with furuiture 41- 0-0 
 
 7 doz" of napkins, 6^ 8' table cloths 3-^ Towells d' etc 10- 5-0 
 
 Sheets 4G ^7^ chayres 3^ cushens 1^ 10^ 50-17-0 
 
 carpetts 1* 5^* pillow beers 3^ stooles 16' tables 4*^ -7^ 9- 8-0 
 
 Trunkes & chests 5^ 6" cuberd cloth 1^ 10» etc 7-12-0 
 
 Dog-cobirons, brasse cobirons, tongs, flre-shovell, back for 
 chimney, trammells, jacke, frying pan, spitts, bellows 
 & other cobirons 10-16-0 
 
 Basketts and hatchett 14% a long candlestick 14" 
 
 a cup board 8" 1-16-0 
 
 boxes and cases with bottles, 1^ 13^ 
 
 looking glass with other small things 12' 2- 5-0 
 
 box-irons S** warming pans 18^ earthen ware 18^ 2- 4-0 
 
 yarne 1^ 5" 204 yds of linnen cloth 30* woolen cloth 2*: 14^ 33-19-0 
 
 Spinning wheels & woole 1* 
 brazen ware 4^ iron ware wooden ware 
 books 3-^ 10^ 
 The Dwelling house, orchard and out housing 160- 0-0 
 
 A farm at Chebacco* 700- 0-0 
 
 New England moneyes 392- 0-0 
 
 Plate 20- 7-0 
 
 * Now owned by Herman U. Story, at Argilla. 
 
THE MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 35 
 
 His daughter Elizabeth married Rev. John Rogers, who 
 became President of Harvard College. She inherited the 
 homestead, and sold it to her son, Daniel Rogers, then 
 teacher of the Grammar School, Jan. 18, 1708-9.* He 
 graduated at Harvard College in 1686. He was Repre- 
 sentative in 1716, and became a Justice of the Quarter 
 Sessions and General Sessions Courts. He served the 
 town as Town Clerk and Physician. Returning from 
 Salisbury where he had been holding Court, he lost his 
 way in a blinding snowstorm, Dec. 1, 1723, and strayed 
 Out on the marshes, where he perished. His gravestone 
 in the old burying ground recites the sorrowful story in 
 a long and graphic Latin inscription. f His son, Daniel, 
 minister of Littleton, sold the ancestral property April 6, 
 1759 to Capt. Nathaniel Treadwell,| and it is to be noticed 
 that the Denison mansion had disappeared at that time. 
 The deed describes the property as an acre and a half of 
 pasture land. It was inherited by Jacob Treadwell, son 
 of Nathaniel, and his heirs sold it to Nathaniel Lord 3d, 
 familiarly known as "Squire Lord," Aug. 10, 1815. § 
 
 The heirs of Nathaniel Lord, Jr. sold it to John Per- 
 kins, April 28, 1855,11 and when it came into his posses- 
 sion, it remained of the exact size of the oris^inal Denison 
 estate, except a triangular piece, fourteen feet on County 
 street, and ninety feet on his line, which Jacob Treadwell 
 had sold to John Dutch, March 9, 1779.11 Mr. Perkins 
 built the house now owned by his heirs, and sold a piece 
 abutting ori the Bamford property to James M. Welling- 
 ton, Dec. 25, 1858.** Mr. Wellington moved a mill build- 
 ing, erected by Mr. Hoyt near the dam of the upper mill 
 on South Main street for veneer-sawing, and located it on 
 this site, where it was occupied in part as a residence by 
 Mr. Wellington and in part as a siioe factory. 
 
 Mr. William H. Graves purchased the corner and erected 
 his residence.! f -^ stitching shop, which stood near the 
 dwelling, was removed to a lot near the Wellington build- 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book 31, leaf 103. f Felt's History of Ipswich, page 202. 
 
 t Essex Co. Deeds, book 177, leaf 133. § Essex Co. Deeds, book 308, leaf 11. 
 
 II Essex Co. Deeds, book 571, leaf 258. IT Essex Co. Deeds, book 147, leaf 242. 
 
 ** Essex Co. Deeds, book 583, leaf 169. ft Essex Co. Deeds, book 636, leaf 222. 
 
36 HOUSES AND LANDS NEAR THE MEETING HOUSE GREEN. 
 
 ing a few years since, and converted into a dwelling now 
 owned and occupied by George A. Schofield. 
 
 The school-house was built in 1848, on the site of an 
 ancient gambrel-roofed building, that had been used as a 
 school for many years. 
 
^. s 
 
 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
 
 The Annual Meeting of the Society was held on Dec. 2, 
 1901, at the House of the Society. The following officers 
 were elected for the year ensuing : 
 
 President. — T. Frank Waters. 
 Vice Presidents. — John B. Brown, 
 
 John Heard. 
 Clerk. — John W. Goodhue. 
 Directors. — Charles A. Say ward, 
 
 John H. Cogswell, 
 
 Edward Kavanagh. 
 Corresponding Secretary. — John H. Cogswell. 
 Treasurer. — T. Frank Waters. 
 Librarian. — John J. Sullivan. 
 
 The following Committees were chosen : 
 
 On Historical Tablets. 
 
 Charles A. Say ward, 
 John H. Cogswell, 
 John B. Brown, 
 T. Frank Waters. 
 
 Social Committee. 
 
 Ralph W. Burnham, 
 Edward Kavanagh, 
 Mrs. J. J. Sullivan, 
 Miss S. C. Whipple, 
 Miss Lucy S. Lord, 
 Mrs. E. F. Brown, 
 Mrs. John E. Tenney. 
 
 On Membership. 
 
 John W. Nourse, 
 Chester P. Woodbury, 
 Ralph W. Burnham, 
 Mrs. Harriet E. Noyes, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brown. 
 
 The Reports of the Treasurer, Curator and President 
 were read and ordered to be printed. 
 
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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE IPSWICH 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 I take pleasure in reporting a year of gratifying pros- 
 perity, though not of phenomenal growth. L'lst year a 
 special exhibit of Textiles was opened in July and con- 
 tinned nntil September. This was widely advertised and 
 the nunil)er of visitors reached the highest figures thus far 
 attained. The state of Miss Gray's health rendered it im- 
 possible for her to attempt anything of this nature this 
 summer. It was deemed desirable as well to test the in- 
 terest of the public in the House and its contents, without 
 any special endeavor to bring it conspicuously into notice. 
 Accordingly the House was opened only during the reg- 
 ular hours in the afternoon, and as Miss Gray felt unequal 
 to the task of receiving visitors, Miss Alice M. Brown was 
 engaged as care-taker and hostess. She performed her 
 duties in excellent fashion, and we are sure that all visitors 
 were received hospitably and entertained very intelligently 
 during: the eleven weeks she remained in charo^e. 
 
 The total number of visitors for the year ending Dec. 
 1st, was 1008, considerably less than last year's record as 
 would be supposed for the reasons just noted. Beside this, 
 the summer season was not favorable. Tlie visitor's book 
 at the Essex Institute, Salem, and the diminished business 
 of the professional guides in that city, indicate a marked 
 falling oft" in the average number of visitors, and this is 
 explained by the attractions of the Pan-American Fair at 
 Buffalo, which led many to take their vacations in that 
 quarter. But a goodly number found our House, and we 
 may well be satisfied. 
 
 The Report of the Curator, wnth tabulation of visitors, 
 is appended to this report. 
 
 The most distinguished visitors of the year were the 
 
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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 39 
 
 senior Senator from Massachusetts, Hon. George F. Hoar 
 and wife, who spent several hours in town by invitation of 
 the Society. They were greatly interested in the House 
 and in the work of the Society, and enjoyed as well a ride 
 about our town and a visit to the home and place of burial 
 of Dr. Manasseh Cutler in Hamilton. Mr. Halliday of 
 Boston, an expert authority in old houses, has repeated 
 his visit and made interesting photographs. His opinion, 
 given very enthusiastically, is that "there is nothing in the 
 country that can touch it." Mrs. Alice Morse Earle, the 
 fjimous writer on Colonial themes, and her sister, Miss 
 Morse, spent several hours here, and a considerable num- 
 ber of photographs of ancient pieces of furniture were car- 
 ried away with them. 
 
 Four numbers of Miss Esther Singleton's " Furniture of 
 our Forefathers," have been published by Doubleday, 
 Page & Co., of New York. In the third number of this 
 series a full page was given to a photograph of our ancient 
 Kitchen, with its unique furnishings, and another to the 
 ancient mirror with inlaid olive-wood frame, presented by 
 Mrs. Bomer. Drawings of chests, etc., in our possession, 
 also found place, and eulogistic mention was made of the 
 Kitchen as an architectural study. The New York Trib- 
 une, in its Illustrated supplement of July 28, 1901, re- 
 viewed the Singleton books, and honored us by selecting 
 the picture of the Kitchen for full-size reproduction, the 
 only illustration borrowed from the whole series. 
 
 In September, Miss Alice A. Gray, the Curator of the 
 House since it was opened to the public, resigned her office 
 and removed her possessions. This was due chiefly to the 
 impaired state of her health, and the loss of her efficient 
 housekeeper and assistant, Miss Julia Gutberlett. We 
 contemplated this event with dismay, for Miss Gray's col- 
 lection of antique furniture, pictures and bric-a-brac, had 
 made the parlor a very beautiful room, and her rare taste 
 had been manifest in the arrangement of the whole house. 
 Her wide acquaintance had brought many interesting vis- 
 itors, and some munificent gifts, the most notable of which 
 was the splendid contribution of $1800 from Mrs. W. C. 
 Loring, for the purchase of the corner lot, which has added 
 so much to the value and beauty of our grounds. Long 
 
40 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 and patient inquiry had foiled to reveal a suitable successor 
 available for this important office, but at the very last mo- 
 ment, by rare good fortune, we found that our former fellow 
 townsman, Mr. Ralph W. Burnham, desired the position. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Burnham took possession at once, and 
 brought an unrivalled collection of beautiful ancient ma- 
 hogany furniture, and a large and costly collection of old 
 china. Entering enthusiasticalh' upon the work, they have 
 re-arranged the upper rooms very tastefully, and with fine 
 effect, and are prepared to receive visitors at any reason- 
 able hour. A reception was given by the Society to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Burnham on Wednesday, November 20th, and 
 other social events are in prospect. By this means we 
 hope to quicken the interest of our members, and draw in 
 many who have not yet joined our Society. 
 
 The Society has now about one hundred and eighty act- 
 ive members. A considerable enlargement is very desir- 
 able. Popular interest is enhanced by a large body of 
 members scattered over the whole community, who re- 
 ceive and distribute the publications and come with their 
 friends to the House. The enlargement of revenue accru- 
 ing from this source provides the funds that are needed 
 greatly for extending the Avork we wish to accomplish on 
 many lines. I suggest that a Committee on Membei'ship 
 be elected, and that it shall be the duty of this Committee 
 to make a special canvass for new members and report the 
 names at intervals to the officers. 
 
 Since the last annual meeting, the tenth number of our 
 Historical Publications, entitled "The Hotel Cluny of a 
 New England Village," has been distributed. The demand 
 for our earlier publications has exhausted the editions, and 
 no provision has been made for a reprint of the numbers, 
 no longer in hand. Profiting by this experience, a nnich 
 larger edition of the last issue was ordered, and the bulk 
 of the expense was borne very generously by Mr. D. F. 
 Appleton. 
 
 The question of the early enlargement of the scope of 
 our publications is one that is confronting us with increas- 
 ing force. The great demand for genealogical material 
 gives large and widely extended value to the vital statis- 
 tics and other records of the town. The topography of 
 
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 41 
 
 the ancient town is of great interest. Biographical sketches 
 of the famous men whose names adorn our annals, reprints 
 of ancient publications, and pictures of buildings and lo- 
 calities as they are to-day, all should be made. A quarterly 
 or semi-amiual publication of unique value could be issued, 
 and those, whose opinion is authoritative, are sure that it 
 would soon come to self-support. 
 
 The financial status of the Society is excellent. Though 
 the receipts, $()49.04, have been smaller than usual, the 
 completion of the House has enabled us to finish the year 
 with a small balance in the treasury. All accounts inci- 
 dent to House and grounds are now settled, and the orig- 
 inal mortgage of $1600 is the only encumbrance on our 
 property. The Society would be helped ver}' materially, 
 if this could be removed, and some friends may eventually 
 find the means. The interest, however, is not a heavy tax 
 upon our resources, and certain building operations, the 
 erection of a log-house, and the construction of a fac- 
 siniile of an ancient "cage," seem to make more immediate 
 demands upon our funds. The yet larger scheme of acquir- 
 ing the adjoining land and ei'ecting a fire-proof memorial 
 building for the use of the Society, must be kept constantly 
 in mind. A broad-minded and generous descendant from 
 old Ipswich stock may yet be found, who will count it a 
 privilege to show his regard for the ancestral home by 
 providing the requisite funds. 
 
REPORT OF CURATOR. 
 
 TABULATION OF VISITORS, WITH COMPARISON OF YEARS 
 
 1899-1900-1901. 
 
 Alabama, 
 
 California, - 
 
 Colorado, 
 
 Connect iciit, 
 
 Dist. of Columbia, 
 
 Florida, 
 
 Georgia, 
 
 Illinois, 
 
 Indiana, 
 
 Iowa, 
 
 Kansas, 
 
 Kentucky, - 
 
 Louisiana, 
 
 Maine , 
 
 Maryland, 
 
 Massachusetts, 
 
 Michigan, 
 
 Minnesota, 
 
 Missouri, 
 
 Montana, 
 
 Nebraska, 
 
 New Hampshire, 
 
 New Jersey, - 
 
 New York, 
 
 North Carolina, 
 
 North Dakota, 
 
 Ohio, - 
 
 Oregon, 
 
 Pennsylvania, 
 
 Rhode Island, 
 
 South Dakota, 
 
 Tennessee, 
 
 (42) 
 
 1899 
 
 1900 
 
 1901 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 17 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 38 
 
 32 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 19 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 918 
 
 1200 
 
 708 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 1 
 
 21 
 
 16 
 
 10 
 
 14 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 42 
 
 79 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 13 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 38 
 
 20 
 
 38 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR. 43 
 
 1899 1900 1901 
 
 Texas, - 
 Vermont, - 
 Virginia, 
 West Virginia, 
 "Wisconsin, 
 Wasliiugton, 
 
 Canada, 
 
 China, 
 
 Cuba, 
 
 England, 
 
 Germany, 
 
 Holland, 
 
 Hawaii, 
 
 Ireland, 
 
 New Brunswick, 
 
 Nova Scotia, 
 
 Quebec, 
 
 Scotland, - 
 
 Spain, - 
 
 Sweden, 
 
 States represented, 
 Counties represented. 
 
 Yon will notice Massachusetts gained 282 in 1900 over 
 1899, but lost 492 in 1901 due, no doubt, to the Pan 
 American Exposition. Gain in States of 1900 over 1899, 
 379. Loss in States in 1901 from 1900, 505. Also 
 notice that the gain in States of 1900 is more marked in 
 the inland States rather than the seaboard States, owing 
 perhaps to the travel to the Paris Exposition, Boston be- 
 ing the point of sailing, and the tourists upon their re- 
 turn visiting points of interest here previous to returning 
 West. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 Ralph Warren Burnham. 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 1,134 
 
 1,513 
 
 1,008 
 
 1899 
 
 1900 
 
 1901 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 L 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 
 1899 
 
 1900 
 
 1901 
 
 24 
 
 34 
 
 32 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR THE YEAR 
 ENDING DEC. 1, 1901. 
 
 T. Frank Waters in account with Ipswich Hist. Societij. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 To fees, gifts, etc .$479 53 
 
 House-fees, sale of pictures, etc., . . . 169 51 
 
 Balance from 1900, 272 78 $921 82 
 
 Cr. 
 
 House account. 
 
 Furniture, $56 66 
 
 Care of grounds, 33 90 
 
 Fuel, ."" 28 00 
 
 Mrs. Taylor, work, 27 00 
 
 Miss Alice M. Brown, care of house, . . 33 00 
 
 Ralph W. Burnhara, Curator, .... 25 00 
 
 Water bills, 8 95 
 
 Miscellaneous, 11 80 224 31 
 
 Interest, 70 00 
 
 Insurance, 22 00 92 00 
 
 Construction account, 335 97 
 
 Total, house account, 652 28 
 
 Printing account. 
 
 Publications, 192 59 
 
 Miscellaneous, 6 25 
 
 Envelopes and pofstage, 13 29 
 
 212 13 
 
 Miscellaneous, 19 49 
 
 Balance in hand, 37 92 57 41 
 
 $921 82 
 
 (44) 
 
DONATIONS TO THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL 
 
 SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR ENDING 
 
 DECEMBER 1, 1901. 
 
 Daniel Fuller Appleton. Cox's "Suffolk, Topo- 
 graphical Ecclesiastical and Natural History," pub. 
 in 1700 (rebound). Monumental Inscriptions in 
 the Parish of St. Matthew, in Ipswich, Eng., 1884. 
 " Indian Battles," 1859. Pamphlet, " Defence of the 
 Legislature of Mass.," 1804. "An Account of the 
 Late Revolution in New Enghmd," 1689 (reprint). 
 Catalogue of D. F. Appleton's Collection of Bibles 
 and Prayer Books, 1899. Almanack, 1713, by Dan- 
 iel Leeds ; printed by Will. Bradford, N. Y. Alman- 
 ack, 1776, by Samuel Stearns ; printed by Isaiah 
 Thomas, Worcester. Constitution of the State of 
 Mass. Washington's Farewell Address. 
 
 Mrs. a. p. Bachelder. File of old Almanacs. Dash 
 churn. 
 
 Bangor Public Library. Annual Report. 
 
 J. Francis Patch LeBaron. Pamphlet, Register of 
 the Society of the Sons of the Revolution of Florida. 
 1899. 
 
 Mrs. Caroline E. Bomer. Chair owned by her great- 
 grandfather, Col. Daniel Warner, who was the grand- 
 son of Elder Philemon Warner, who went from 
 Ipswich to Gloucester in 1710. The chair was prob- 
 ably owned by the Elder. A mirror, with olive- 
 wood inlays, which belonged to the family of Rev. 
 John White, of Gloucester, who married the daugh- 
 ter of Rev. John Wise of Chebacco. An Answer 
 to Rev. John Wise's Essay on Taxation. A warm- 
 ing pan, owned by Col. Warner. Piece of em- 
 broidered bed-curtain. Fragment of curtain of a 
 
 (45) 
 
46 DONATIONS TO THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 bed iu which Gen. Washington slept in Newburyport. 
 Pair of bellows, owned by Dr. Thomas Manning. 
 Books, etc. 
 
 Mrs. William G. Brown. Turned legged table. Chairs. 
 
 Cambridge (England) Univ. Library Report, 1900. 
 
 Thomas Carroll, Peabody. " Bands and Band Music 
 of Salem." 
 
 Anson L. Clarke. Sample of powder used in the 
 Revolution by Ambrose E. Davis, and cartridge used 
 in the Civil War. 
 
 Benj. H. Conant, Wenham. Photographs of mile-stones, 
 with an historical sketch of these stones. 
 
 Chas. W. Darling, Utica, N. Y. " Account of Impor- 
 tant Versions and Editions of the Bible." 
 
 Doubleday, Page & Co., N.Y. Three volumes. "The 
 Furniture of our Forefathers," by Miss Esther Single- 
 ton. 
 
 Old Eliot. Publications, 1901. 
 
 Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. Historical Collections, 
 quarterly numbers, 1901. 
 
 Estate of Mrs. Mary Farley. A round tea-table. A 
 skewer hook. 24 books. 
 
 A. P. Foster, Waterbury, Vt. Flax. 
 
 Estate of Hauriet P. Fowler, Danvers. " Particulars 
 of the death and burial of Chas. W. Giddiugs." 
 Marker of the grave of C. W. Giddiugs. Funeral 
 wreath. 
 
 CuRTiss C. Gardner, St. Louis, Mo. "Lion Gardiner 
 and Descendants. 
 
 Dr. E. S. Goodhue, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaiian Islands. 
 "Beneath Hawaiian Palms." "The Anglo-American 
 Magazine." 
 
 Thomas D. Gould. Quadrant used by Capt. Daniel 
 Gould. 
 
 Miss Alice A. Gray. Book, " Abraham Howard of 
 Marblehead." 
 
 Hon. George F. Hoar, M. C. "Oration at the celebra- 
 tion of the Centennial of the Northwest, at Marietta, 
 Ohio, April 7, 1888. "Oration on occasion of 
 placing a tablet to the memory of Rufus Putnam, 
 upon his dwelling-house at Rutland, Sept. 17, 1898." 
 
DONATIONS TO THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 47 
 
 George Hovey. An engraving by G. G. Smith, Salem, 
 Mass. " Massacre of the American Prisoners of War 
 at Dartmouth Prison, April 6, 1815." Tomahawk. 
 
 Ipswich Annual Report. 
 
 The Kimball Family News. Topeka, Kansas. 
 
 Miss Susan Kimball. Lignum-vitse pestle. Ancient 
 book. 
 
 Frederick J. Kingsbury, Waterbury, Conn. Author 
 of the following pamphlets : " John Winthrop Jr." 
 'The Tendency of Men to live in Cities." "The Reign 
 of Law." " A Sociological Retrospect." "The Devel- 
 opment of an Organized Industry." "Relative Value 
 of the three Factors that produce Wealth." 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Kinsman. Pair of ancient slippers. 
 
 Lynn Historical Society. Report 1901. 
 
 Manchester Historical Society. Historic Quarterly, 
 Mar. 1901. 
 
 James F. Mann. Two chairs. 
 
 Marblehead Historical Society. Report Abbott Pub- 
 lic Library, 1900-01. 
 
 Nantucket Historical Association. "Proceedings of 
 seventh annual meeting." "Bulletin No. 1. Nan- 
 tucket Lands and Land-owners." 
 
 New England Historic and Genealogical Society. 
 Register, 1900, 1901. 
 
 Miss S. Sophia Nourse. Pocketbook with name "Will- 
 iam Southwick His pocket-book," worked in cross- 
 stitch . 
 
 Miss Esther Parmenter, Rowley. A pair of blue satin 
 slippers worn at the wedding of Eunice Harris Jewett 
 of Rowley. A linen baby's-shirt with lace sleeves and 
 edging, made by Eunice Harris Jewett for her son 
 Harris Jewett. A black silk night-cap worn by Mary 
 Harris Savage of Rowley while travelling by stage at 
 night. Kid glove worn by Mrs. Mary Harris Savage 
 about 1830, and black netted glove. Sampler, worked 
 by Sarah B. Judkins of Rowley, in 1825, when nine 
 years old. . . Her miniature, when three years 
 old, is owned by the Society. Sampler, worked by 
 Ann Ilsley when eleven years old. She was born 
 Aug. 22, 1799, daughter of David and Anna Frazier 
 
48 DONATIONS TO THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 Ilsley of Newbuiyport. Embroidered pocketbook 
 or letter case, owned by David Ilsley, born Au^. 5, 
 1767. Colored lithograph: "The Mourning Piece" 
 of Anna, wife of Daniel Ilsley, died Sept. 11, 1804, 
 aged thirty-two years, daughter of John and Hepzibah 
 Frazier. (The Family Bible with records is owned by 
 the Society.) Knife, used by a member of the Ilsley 
 family on a whaling cruise. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Parsons, Lynnfield. Windsor chair. Foot- 
 stove, foot-stool. 
 
 Peabody Institute. 49th Annual Report. 
 
 Rev. a. p. Putnam, D.D. Address: "Gen. Israel Put- 
 nam and Bunker Hill." 
 
 Redwood Library, Newport, R. I. Annual report. 
 
 Moses A. Safford, Kittery, Me. Aut()gra|)h letter of 
 Sir Wm. Pepperrell, dated Nov. 26, 1718. 
 
 Chas. a. Sayward. Seven Old Farmer's Almanacs and 
 a newspaper 1849. 
 
 Mrs. Louisa J. Sherburn. Two pictures. 
 
 Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, 
 whose graves are marked by the Mass. Society of the 
 Sons of the Revolution. Donor unknown. 
 
 Mrs. Ha.nnah Appleton Thayer. Fragment of an In- 
 dia shawl, once owned and worn by Madam Hancock, 
 wife of Gov. Hancock, and a skein of India sewing 
 cotton, used by the daughters of Rev. Wm. Greeu- 
 ough, of Newton, early in the nineteenth century. 
 
 Topsfield Historical Society. Historical Collections, 
 Vol. VI, 1901. 
 
 University of State of New York. New York at Get- 
 tysburg, 3 vols. Three volumes, "Report of the Ad- 
 jutant General of the State of New York." " New 
 York in the Spanish American War." 
 
 Western Reserve Historical Society. Archaeological 
 collections. 
 
 Maynard Whittier. Pocket-book once owned by Dr. 
 Bonier. Oak tree nail and pins, and wrought iron 
 nail from Henry Wilson house. 
 
 Frederic Willcomb. Calendars. Manuscript on death 
 of Rev. Daniel Rogers. Epitaph for his tombstone. 
 Leaflet, Washington coat of arms, and inscription 
 
DONATIONS TO THE IPSAVICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 49 
 
 of Lawrence Washinijton's tomb. Leaflets, copy of 
 papers composed hy Samuel Prince, of Hull and 
 Sandwich, 1685. 
 
 Wallace P. Willhtt, East Orange, X. J. Engraved 
 portrait of Rev. John Murray, pastor of Presl)yterian 
 Church, Newburyport, who died March 13, 1793. 
 
 Joseph Willcomb. Pair of bellows. 
 
NAMES OF MEMBERS. 
 
 Frederick J. Alley, 
 Mrs. Mary G. Alley, 
 Dr. Charles E. Ames, 
 Daniel Fuller Appleton, 
 Mrs. Susan A. R. Appleton, 
 Francis R. Appleton, 
 Mrs. Frances L. Appleton, 
 James W. Appleton, 
 Randolph M. Appleton, 
 Mrs. Helen Appleton, 
 Dr. G. Guy Bailey, 
 Mrs. Grace F. Bailey, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth H. Baker, 
 Miss Katharine C. Baker, 
 Charles W. Bamford, 
 Miss Mary D. Bates, 
 John A. Blake, 
 John E. Blakemore, 
 Mrs. Caroline E. Bomer, 
 James W. Bond, 
 Warren Boynton, 
 Miss Annie Gertrude Brown, 
 Charles W. Brown, 
 Edward F. Brown, 
 Mrs. Carrie K. Brown, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brown, 
 Henry Brown, 
 Miss Isabelle G. Brown, 
 James W. Brown, 
 John B. Brown, 
 Mrs. Lucy T. Brown, 
 Miss Alice G. Burnhara, 
 Daniel S. Burnham, 
 Frank T. Burnham, 
 Ralph W. Burnham, 
 Mrs. Nellie Mae Burnham, 
 F"red F. Byron, 
 Rev. Aufiustine Caldwell, 
 Miss Florence F. Caldwell, 
 Miss Lydia A. Caldwell, 
 Miss Sarah P. Caldwell, 
 Charles A. Campbell, 
 Mi's. Lavinia Campbell, 
 
 (50) 
 
 Edward W. Choate, 
 Philip E. Clark, 
 E. Harry Clegg, 
 Miss Lucy C. Coburn, 
 John H. Cogswell, 
 Theodore F. Cogswell, 
 Miss Harriet D. Condon, 
 Rev. Edward Constant, 
 Miss Roxie C. Cowles, 
 Charles S. Cummings, 
 Arthur C. Damon, 
 Mrs. Carrie Damon, 
 Mrs. Cordelia Damon, 
 Harry K. Damon, 
 Mrs. Abby Dan forth, 
 George G. Dexter, 
 Miss C. Bertha Dobson, 
 Joseph D. Dodge, 
 Harry K. Dodge, 
 Mrs. Edith S. Dole, 
 Rev. John M. Donovan, 
 Arthur W. Doav, 
 Mrs. Charles G. Dyer, 
 George Fall, 
 Miss Emeline C. Farley, 
 Miss Lucy R. Farley, 
 Joseph K. Farley, 
 Benjamin Fewkes, 
 John S. Glover, 
 Dr. E. S. Goodhue, 
 Frank T. Goodhue, 
 John W. Goodhue, 
 John J. Gould, 
 James Graffum, 
 Ralph H. Grant, 
 Mrs. Eliza H. Green, 
 Mrs. Lois Hardy, 
 Mrs. Kate L. Haskell, 
 George H. W. Hayes, 
 Mrs. Alice L. Heard, 
 Miss Alice Heard, 
 Jolin Heard, 
 Miss Mary A. Hodgdon, 
 Miss Ruth A. Hovey, 
 
NAMES OF MEMBERS. 
 
 51 
 
 Gerald L. Hoyt, 
 Miss Lucy S. Jewett, 
 John A. Johnson, 
 Miss Ellen M. Jordan, 
 Edward Kavanagh, 
 Charles M. Kelly, 
 Arthur S Kimball, 
 Fred A. Kimball, 
 Rev. John C Kimball, 
 Aaron Kinsman, 
 Miss Bethiah D. Kinsman, 
 Miss Mary E. Kinsman, 
 Mrs. Susan K. Kinsman, 
 Curtis E. Lakeman, 
 Mrs Frances C. Lakeman, 
 G. Frank Langdon, 
 Austin L. Lord, 
 George A. Lord, 
 Miss Lucy Slade Lord, 
 Thomas H. Lord, 
 Mrs. Lucretia S. Lord, 
 Dr. George E. Mac Arthur, 
 Mrs. Isabelle G. Mac Arthur, 
 Rev. Frank J. Mc Connell, 
 Mrs. Mary B. Main, 
 James F. Msinn. 
 John P. Marston, 
 Everard H. Martin, 
 Mrs. Marietta K. Martin, 
 Miss Heloise Meyer, 
 Miss Abby L. Newman, 
 Mrs. Amanda Nichols, 
 William J. Norwood, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Norwood, 
 John W. Nourse, 
 Charles H. Noyes, 
 Mrs. Harriet E. Noyes, 
 Mrs. Anna Osgood, 
 Rev. Robert B. Parker, 
 Rev. Reginald Pearce, 
 Moritz B. Philipp, 
 Auirustine H. Plouff, 
 Fred. H. Plouff, 
 James H. Proctor, 
 James E. Richardson, 
 Mrs. Lucy C. Roberts, 
 Miss Anna W. Ross, 
 Fred. G. Ross, 
 Mrs. Mary F. Ross, 
 
 Joseph Ross, 
 
 Mrs. Joan Ross, 
 
 Joseph F. Ross, 
 
 Mrs. Helene Ross, 
 
 Dr. William H. Russell, 
 
 William S. Russell, 
 
 Daniel Safford, 
 
 Angus Savory, 
 
 Charles A. Say ward, 
 
 Mrs. Henrietta W. Sayward, 
 
 George A. Schofleld, 
 
 Dexter M. Smith, 
 
 Edward A. Smith, 
 
 Miss Elizabeth P. Smith, 
 
 Mrs. Harriette A. Smith, 
 
 Henry P. Smith, 
 
 Rev. R. Cotton Smith, 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth K. Spaulding, 
 
 Dr. Frank H. Stockwell, 
 
 Mrs. Alice L. Story, 
 
 Edward M. Sullivan, 
 
 John J. Sullivan, 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Sullivan, 
 
 Arthur L. Sweetser, 
 
 John E. Tenney, 
 
 Mrs. Annie T. Tenney, 
 
 Rev. William H. Thayer, 
 
 Samuel H. Thurston. 
 
 Miss Ellen R. Trask, 
 
 Bayard Tuckerman, 
 
 ('harles S. Tuckerman, 
 
 Francis H. Wade, 
 
 Miss Martha E. Wade, 
 
 Miss Nellie F. Wade, 
 
 William F. Wade, 
 
 Luther Wait, 
 
 Miss Annie L. Warner, 
 
 Mrs. Caroline L. Warner, 
 
 Henry C. Warner, 
 
 Rev. T. Frank Waters, 
 
 Miss Susan C. Whipple, 
 
 Fred G. Whittier, 
 
 Mrs. Marianna Whittier, 
 
 Miss Eva Adams Willcomb, 
 
 Wallace P. Willett, 
 
 Robert D. Winthrop, 
 
 Chalmers Wood, 
 
 Chester P. Woodbury. 
 
 HONORARY JIEMBERS. 
 
 John Albree, Jr., Swampscott, 
 William Sumner Appleton, Bos- 
 ton, 
 Lamont G. Burnham, Boston, 
 Eben Caldwell, Elizabeth, N. J., 
 
 Luther Caldwell, Lynn, 
 
 Mrs. Edward Cordis, Jamaica 
 
 Plain, 
 Charles W. Darling, Utica,N.Y., 
 Elisha P. Dodge, Newburyport, 
 
,')L' 
 
 llONOIvAKV >!K.Mni.i;s. 
 
 Miss (\iri)liiu' K.-irU'y, Caiu- 
 
 l)ri(lL;i', 
 Kraiik (\ Karlcv, So. Manclios- 
 
 tor, Comi., 
 Miss Kiitlu'riiu' S. Farley, So. 
 
 M iiurlu'st.er, Conn., 
 Mrs. lOnnioo W. Felton. (.'ain- 
 
 l)ri(lu;o, 
 •li'sso Fowkos, No\vtt>n, 
 UciiinaUl FosUm*, Moston, 
 An^n-it.ns I'. Gardrn'r, Hamilton, 
 Cliarlos li. GoodluH', Sprinij- 
 
 (ioUl. 
 Mrs. I'Mi/.alu'Mi K. Gray, 
 Miss Fiiiilv Iv. lirav, Sauqnolt, 
 
 N. Y, ■ 
 .\ninir \V. Half, Wincliostor, 
 Albort. Farley Hoard, L'd, Bos- 
 ton, 
 Oils Kimball, Uosttui, 
 Mrs. Otis Kimball. Boston, 
 Miss Sarah S. Kimball, S.alom, 
 FredorirU .1. Kinjisbnry, Wator- 
 
 bnry. (^)nn., 
 Miss ("arolinc T. Leeds, Bo-<toii, 
 Miss Katharine V. Lorini;, Bos- 
 ton, 
 Mrs. Susan M. Loriug, Boston, 
 
 Mrs. Klizal)eth U. Lyman, Brook- 
 line, 
 Joslah H. Mann, Memphis, Tenn. 
 Miss Adeline Manninjj, Boston, 
 Henry S. Manninir, New York, 
 Mrs. Mary W. Manninij;, New 
 
 York. 
 Georije L. von Meyer, Kome, 
 
 Italy, 
 Miss Fsther I'armeiiter, Revere, 
 Mrs. Mary S. C. Feabody, 
 Frederie H. Rinne, Los .Viisjelos, 
 
 <\al.. 
 IMehanl W. Saltonstall, Boston. 
 Dciuson 11. Slade, Oenler llar- 
 
 l)or, N. IL. 
 .losepli Spiller, Boston, 
 Miss I'llleii A. Stone, East Lcx- 
 
 iiiiitun. 
 Miss .\nn 11 Treadwell, .lamaica 
 
 IMain. 
 Harry \V. Tyler, Boston, 
 Albert Wade, Alton, 111 , 
 Mrs. George \V. Wales. Moston, 
 tietM-jie Willeomb, Boston, 
 Robert 0. Wiuthrop, Jr., Bos- 
 ton. 
 
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 PUBLICATIONS OF TEE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 XII. 
 
 THOMAS DUDLEY 
 
 SIMON AND ANN BRADSTREET 
 
 A STUDY OF HOUSE-LOTS TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION 
 OF THEIR HOMES 
 
 THE EXERCISES AT THE DEDICATION OF 
 TABLETS, JULY 3I, 1902. 
 
 Proceedings at the Annual Meeting 
 Dec. 1, 1902. 
 
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 1903 
 
PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 XII. 
 
 THOMAS DUDLEY 
 
 SIMON AND ANN BRADSTREET 
 
 A STUDY OF HOUSE-LOTS TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION 
 OF THEIR HOMES 
 
 THE EXERCISES AT THE DEDICATION OF 
 TABLETS, JULY 3I, 1902. 
 
 Proceedings at the Annual Meeting 
 Dec. 1, 1902. 
 
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 The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass. 
 
 1903 
 

DUDLEY AND BRADSTREET. 
 
 It was a day of note in the annals of Ipswich when 
 Thomas Dudley and his good wife, Dorothy, came to 
 occupy the generous grant of nine acres, which the Town 
 had made in recognition of his making his residence here. 
 He was already in his sixtieth year. In his young man- 
 hood he had been a soldier of Queen Elizabeth ; relin- 
 quishing the service of arms, he became steward of the 
 estate of the Earl of Lincoln, then on the verge of 
 bankruptcy and, in ten years, by rare business tact, freed 
 it entirely from debt. He was profoundly impressed with 
 the new Puritanism and cast in his lot unreservedly with 
 the movement. Under the persecutions of Laud, life in 
 old England became intolerable to the Puritans, and in 
 1630, Dudley embarked for the Xew World, accompanied 
 by Simon Bradstreet, who had married his daughter Ann 
 two years before. 
 
 Dudley was made Deputy Governor and Winthrop, 
 Governor of the new Colony before the ship sailed, and 
 he held the office of Deputy Governor until 1634, when 
 he was chosen Governor. He retired fi-om that office in 
 May ,'1635, and came from Cambridge to take up his abode 
 in Ipswich. Daniel Denison had married his daughter, 
 Patience, and came with him probably, as the Town as- 
 signed him land in the same year. Bradstreet delayed his 
 coming, but in a year or two he had established his home. 
 Dudley and Bradstreet were near neighbors, and a rare 
 neighborhood indeed, it soon became. The political promi- 
 nence of Dudley must have made his house a centre of 
 influence. He became Deputy Governor again in 1637, 
 and retained the office until 1640, when he became Gov- 
 ernor. He was elected for a third term in 1645, and was 
 Deputy Governor from 1646 to 1650, when he was 
 
4 DUDLEY AND BKADSTREET. 
 
 elected for his fourth term, and continued as Deputy until 
 1G53. This astute politician, bold-spoken and irascible 
 in manner, well-furnished with wealth, a lover of books, 
 and possessed of a library of unusual size, was a notable 
 addition to the Ipswich settlement. 
 
 But the Bradstreet home was the centre of attraction 
 above all others. Bradstreet himself was a man of 
 singularly winning character, and an official constantly in 
 the service of the Colony. His wife, Ann, while dwell- 
 ing here, wrote the larger part of the poetry, Avhich was 
 hailed with rapture as the song of " The Tenth Muse." 
 Nathaniel Ward, the famous minister of the Ipswich 
 church, was a devoted friend and an admirer of her verse. 
 John Norton, the scholarly teacher of the Ipswich church 
 until he was summoned to his ministry in Boston, gave 
 unstinted praise. Nathaniel Rogers and his son John, 
 President of Harvard College for a few months before his 
 death, were warm friends. Denison would have resorted 
 naturally to the home of his sister-in-laAV ; Winthrop and 
 Symonds, as well, to the home of their fellow-magistrate. 
 The best and most intelligent life of the Colony illumined 
 that home. 
 
 Dudley remained in Ipswich about four years, it is 
 commonly thought, and then removed to Roxbury. 
 Bradstreet tarried longer. The frequent mention of his 
 name in the Town Records makes it possible that he was 
 here until about 1644. He was resident in Andover in 
 1647. 
 
A STUDY OF THE ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS 
 ON HIGH STREET, 
 
 WITH A VIEW TO THE EXACT LOCATION OF GOV. THOMAS 
 DUDLEY AND SIMON BRAD8TREET. 
 
 1634. 
 
 " Att a meeting houlden in November [ ] was con- 
 sented and agreed unto the length [ ] of Ipswitch 
 should extend westward unto [ ] burjinge place and 
 Eastward unto a Cove of the River unto the plantinge 
 ground of John Pirkeings the Elder." 
 
 Thus the Town Record begins, and it defines the limit 
 of the ancient settlement, from the old burying-place on 
 the hill slope to the cove on East street, w^here the high- 
 way borders on the tide-water. The warm southern slope 
 of Town Hill was a favorite location, and the whole length 
 of it between these bounds was allotted to the earliest 
 settlers. 
 
 The Town Record further informs us : 
 
 "Their was Given and Granted to Thomas Dudley, 
 Esq., in October, 1635, one parcell of ground contain- 
 ing about nine acres, lyeinge betweene Goodman Cross 
 on the West, and a lott intended to Mr. Broadstreet on 
 the East, upon parcell of well nine acres, Mr. Dudley 
 hath built an house." 
 
 Goodman Cross is thus shown to be the western 
 abutter of Dudley, and as subsequent deeds make it cer- 
 tain that only one house lot intervened between the 
 burying place and the Dudley lot, we locate Cross with 
 confidence on the lot adjoining the ancient cemetery on 
 High street. The deed of Richard Hubbard to Symon 
 
 (6) 
 
6 ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 
 
 Stacy,^ July 5, 1671, locates Richard Kimball, Sen., here, 
 though no record of his purchase remains. Simon Adams, 
 son-in-law of Kimball, received the estate and sold it, 
 bounded by the burying-place on the northwest, specifying 
 that it was "formerly old father Kimball's" and that there 
 Avere a house and barn on the lot, to Shoreborne Wilson, 
 June 6,1698.2 Adams had sold a part of the land pre- 
 viously to the Town, as the Town Record contains the 
 item. May 5, 1698, "Voted that £15 be allowed to Symon 
 Adams for about half an acre of land to add to ye bury- 
 ing-place as the selectmen shall agree to stake it out." 
 
 During Wilson's ownership, the Town enlarged the 
 burying-place again by buying "a quarter and half a 
 quarter of an acre," April 3, 1707. He sold the re- 
 mainder, which still contained about three acres, with the 
 house he then occupied, to Daniel Rogers, the school- 
 master, "in the Long street, so called," July 18, 1709.^ 
 Rogers was the son of Rev. John Rogers, and grandson 
 of General I Denison. He attained a conspicuous place 
 as judge, town clerk and physician. His tragic death 
 in a snowstorm on the Salisbury marshes lends pathos 
 to his name.^ As Mr. Rogers bought the Denison home- 
 stead in January, 1708-9, it is doubtful if he occupied 
 the High street property, which he sold, in 1715 (Sept. 
 15)^, to Stephen Perkins, mariner. 
 
 The executors of Captain Perkins sold the property, 
 which included about two acres, as the deed specifies, 
 though no record of sale is found, to Edward Eveleth, a 
 prominent citizen, Feb. 13, 1734, ^ who sold it the next 
 year to Nathaniel CaldwelF (Dec. 3, 1735). John Cald- 
 well, son of Nathaniel, inherited his real estate. s 
 Thomas Cross was the next owner, though the deed of 
 purchase is not recorded. He sold to James Foster, 
 Nov. 10, 1741.9 This deed gives the north bound, "ex- 
 
 1 Ipswich Records Deeds, book 3, leaf 253. 
 
 "^ Essex County Deeds, book 12, leaf 89. 
 
 ' Essex County Deeds, book 21, leaf 103. 
 
 * See Publications Ipswich mstorical Society No. xi, page 35. 
 
 5 Essex County Deeds, book 27, leaf 205. 
 
 " Essex Co. Deeds, book 70, leaf 143. 
 
 T Essex Co. Deeds, book 70, leaf 243. 
 
 8 Essex Co. Probate Records, book 322, leaf 365 (1738). 
 
 » Essex Co. Deeds, book 82, leaf 247. 
 
ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 7 
 
 tending one rod from the backside of the house towards 
 the Town Hill, on land lately deeded to the Parrish for a 
 burying-place." This was the third encroachment of the 
 burying-ground, and nothing remained of the goodly 
 original lot but the narrow strip separating the cemetery 
 from the street. Mr. Foster lived in the house until his 
 death, and his heirs, William Caldwell, Nathan Foster 
 and Nathaniel Foster of Salem, sold the estate to Isaac 
 Martin^ of Gloucester. Martin sold to John Lawson 
 the quarter acre lot with house and well, Nov. 15, 1769,2 
 who sold in turn to Samuel Lord, 3d, Gentleman, 3 Oct. 
 1, 1772. 
 
 Small as the lot was, it was yet further divided. Eight 
 years after he bought it, Mr. Lord sold about eight square 
 rods with half the house bounded by the burying-ground 
 on the west, measuring forty-eight feet on the street, to 
 Jonathan and William Galloway, Dec. 25, 1780.^ The 
 dividing line on the east passed through the house and 
 the middle of the chimney. The Galloway heirs, Martha 
 Coburn, Eliza Williams, Mary Widdecomb and Harriet 
 Galloway, singlewoman, of Washington, D. C, sold their 
 interest in this property to Andrew Russell, cabinet 
 maker, April 20, 1847.^ He lived on the other side of 
 the street and had his shop for cabinet making on this 
 spot. The old Galloway house is remembered in a 
 ruinous state by the old people on High street. 
 
 Andrew Russell sold to Francis and Lisette Ross, 
 July 17, 1867,6 who transferred it to Timothy B. Ross, 
 the present owner, March 13, 1879.''' The cabinet shop 
 was remodelled into a house, and is the present resi- 
 dence of Mr. Ross. The remainder of the house, known 
 as the Galloway house, was sold by Samuel Lord, jr., to 
 Policy Clioate, seamstress, June 5, 1790.^ She sold to 
 Nath. Tread well. The deed is not recorded, but in 
 Treadwell's deed to Elisha Gould, ^ Dec. 28, 1811, refer- 
 ence is made to the deed of "Dollv" Choate given April 
 25, 1803. Elisha Gould sold to Timothy Ross, jr., Oct. 
 11, 1814.10 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, book 110, leaf 21. « Essex Co. Deeds, book 744, leaf 254. 
 
 » Essex Co. Deeds, book 127, leaf 11. ' Essex Co. Deeds, book 1014, leaf 54. 
 
 3 Essex Co. Deeds, book 122, leaf 209. » Essex Co. Deeds, book 168, leaf 25. 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book 138, leaf 278. » Essex Co. Deeds, book 208, leaf 39. 
 
 5 Essex Co. Deeds, book 399, leaf 54. " Essex Co. Deeds, book 207, leaf 51. 
 
8 ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 
 
 When Samuel Lord, 3d, bought, the eastern bound was 
 the Lummus propert}^ but when Samuel Lord, jr., 
 sold to Polley Choate, it was bounded by Robert Stone's 
 land. This was undoubtedly part of the original estate, 
 as in Stone's deed to William Bobbins, Nov. 3, 1807,^ of 
 land and house, it was bounded by the burying ground on 
 the north, Lummus on the east, and three rods and four 
 feet on the street. Captain Robbins sold to Timothy 
 Harris of Rowley, July 8, 1812. ^ Timothy and Daniel 
 Harris of Rowley sold to Daniel Caldwell, April 16, 
 18283 who sold to William W. Rust, jr., blacksmith, on 
 Dec. 13, 1851.^ Caldwell's deed mentions that the 
 property he sold was that which he bought of Timothy 
 and Daniel Harris, and also a portion, which he bought 
 of John Lord 3d, June 13, 1839. The latter deed Avas 
 not recorded. The heirs of Rust own and occupy this 
 estate. The house is first mentioned in Stone's deed, 
 1807. 
 
 THE GOV. DUDLEY LOT. 
 
 The second of the original lots is that which has already 
 been referred to, as identical with that " given and granted 
 to Thomas Dudley Esq. in October, 1635," "one parcell 
 of ground containing about nine acres lyeing between 
 Goodman Cross on the West and a lott intended to Mr. 
 Broadstreet on the East. Upon parcell of wch. nine acres, 
 Mr. Dudley hath built an house," with other lands, "all 
 which premises aforesayd, with the house built thereon 
 and the palinge sett up thereon, the sayd Thos Dudley 
 Esq. hath sold to Mr. Hubbard and his heirs &tc."^ 
 Thos. Dudley is the redoubtable Governor Dudley, who 
 removed his residence from Cambridge at this time, and 
 removed to Roxbury in 1639.^ 
 
 "Mr." Hubbard is undoubtedly Mr. William Hubbard, 
 a prominent character in our early town history, feoffee. 
 Deputy to General Court, and Justice of the Quarterly 
 Court. He removed to Boston about 1662. He died in 
 1670, leaving three sons, William, the Pastor of the 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, book 182, leaf 292. " Essex Co. Deeds, book 466, leaf 43. 
 
 » Essex Co. Deeds, book 199, leaf 29. b Town Records. 
 
 3 Essex Co. Deeds, book 252, leaf 65. « Felt, History of Ipswich, p. 72. 
 
ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 9 
 
 Ipswich church and Historian of the Indian wars, Richard 
 and Nathaniel. Johnson's tribute to him was, "a learned 
 man, being well read in State matters, of a very afiable 
 and humble behaviour, who hath expended much of his 
 estate to helpe on thisAVorke. Althohe be slow in speech, 
 yet is hee downright for the businesse.''^ His son, Richard, 
 sold Symon Stacy the dwelling, and nine acres of land, 
 bounded by High street on the southwest, by Richard 
 Kemball's land on the northwest, and Robert Collins on 
 the southeast, July 5, 1671.2 This house-lot was the 
 largest ever granted by the town, and its size alone would 
 identify it with the Dudley lot. 
 
 The administrators of Captain Stacy, William Baker 
 and John Staniford, sold the homestead, bounded west by 
 "Shoarborn" Wilson and east by Sergeant Robert Lord, 
 to Jonathan Lummus, sen., June 18, 1712.3 Lummus 
 bequeathed his lands to his son Jonathan by his will, 
 approved Aug. 17, 1728. ^ He bequeathed his son Daniel, 
 "a small piece of land out of my homestead adjoining 
 to his homestead, to make him a convenient way to his 
 barn, and so to extend from the northerly end of his 
 homestead, until it come to the cross fence as it now 
 stands," and "the residue of the real estate, save a part 
 of the house reserved for Margaret his daughter, to his 
 son Jonathan." Approved, Sept. 25, 1769. ^ Jonathan, the 
 third successive owner bearing this name, bequeathed the 
 ancestral property, to his nephews, Isaac and Daniel 
 (will approved, June 7, 1791).*^ 
 
 Isaac quitclaimed to Daniel his interest in the western 
 half of the estate, with half of the house, April 9, 1799,"' 
 and a piece of land at the west corner of the homestead, 
 beginning at an elmtree by the road, 3 rods, 13 feet north 
 to the barn, 6 rods 14 feet west to the burying ground. 
 Daniel was the son of Daniel mentioned in the Avill of 
 the first Jonathan as his son. His father had already sold 
 
 1 Felt, History of Ipswich, p. 75. 
 ' Ipswicli Deeds, book 3, leaf 253. 
 3 Essex Co. Deeds, book 24, leaf 236. 
 
 • Essex Co. Probate Records, book 316, leaves 378-80. 
 
 • Essex Co. Probate Records, book 345, leaves 529-531. 
 
 • Essex Co. Probate Records, book 360, leaf 476. 
 ' Essex Co. Deeds, book 217, leaf 19. 
 
10 ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 
 
 him one-half of his house and barn with a half acre of 
 land, April 4, 1770.i 
 
 The Committee appointed to divide the estate of Daniel 
 Lummus, son of the first Daniel, assigned to the widow, 
 Anna, the eastern half of the Daniel Lummus homestead, 
 bounded by land of Samuel Baker ; to his son Daniel, the 
 other half of the homestead, and to his daughter Anna, 
 wife of John Hodgkins, jr., the eastern half of the house 
 now known as the Low house, May 4, 1813;^ at his 
 mother's death, Daniel received her half of the house, and 
 at his death (about 1843) his sister, Mrs. Anna Hodgkins, 
 inherited it. She bequeathed it to her daughter, Mary, 
 wife of George Willett. She left it to her children, 
 George A. and Mary E. Willett, wife of George Tozer. 
 
 George Willett had sold a strip of land on the southeast 
 corner, thirty-four by sixty-four feet, to Sophia A. Tyler, 
 wife of James S. Tyler, June 2, 1873.3 Mr. Tyler re- 
 moved the house that stood on the site of Mr. John A. 
 Johnson's present residence, and placed it on this lot. 
 The homestead is owned still by George A. Willett and 
 William H. Tozer. The house is probably the original, 
 built by Daniel Lummus before 17(39. 
 
 Isaac Lummus bequeathed the western half of the old 
 Jonathan Lummus homestead to his nephews John and 
 Abrahan, sons of Wm. Lummus (approved 1849).'* 
 Abram Lummus, son of Abraham, and other heirs sold 
 to John C. Low, May 12, 1882, and it is described as 
 still containing eight acres more or less.^ It was sold by 
 him to John B. Brown, and by Mr. Brown to Chester W. 
 Bamford. The house has lately been remodelled. It 
 was built in all probability during the Lummus owner- 
 ship. The small piece adjoining the Wallis Rust land was 
 sold by Capt. John Hodgkins to his son John, and sold 
 by Caroline E. Hodgkins to Olive R. Ross, Nov. 5, 1869.6 
 
 I am aware that some transfers of minor importance 
 have been stated in a general Avay. My purpose is, not 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, book 126, leaf 16. 
 
 ' Essex Co. Probate Records, book 383, leaf 622. 
 
 3 Essex Co. Deeds, book 886, leaf 62. 
 
 * Essex Co. Probate Records, book 415, leaf 16. 
 
 ' Essex Co. Probate Records, book 1113, leaf 99. 
 
 « Essex Co. Deeds, book 451, leaf 204; book 819, leaf 211. 
 
ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 11 
 
 to establish the legal title of present owners, but to show 
 that the original Lummiis estate had a frontage on High 
 street from the Wallis Rust property to the Samuel Baker 
 estate, and that this is the identical nine acre grant to 
 Governor Thomas Dudley. 
 
 KOLFE COLLING S. 
 
 The next grant was in possession of . . . Rofe or Rolfei 
 in 1652 and Robert Collings, in 1054.2 Abraham Per- 
 kins sold to Robert Lord, sen. ''my dwelling house, 
 barn etc and three and three quarters acres of land, which 
 I lately purchased of Robert CoUins of Haverhill," 
 bounded by Simon Stacy on the west and John Caldwell 
 on the east, April 11, 1682.3 The will of Robert Lord, 
 sen., probated in 1683, bequeathed "to my youngest son, 
 Nathaniel, my dwelling, barn, land w*'^ the close I pur- 
 chased of Thos. Lull which lieth on the other side of ye 
 street . . . whereas I am out £40 for ye house I bought 
 of Abraham Perkins, my will is that my grandchild, 
 Robert Lord, Tertius, paying of y^ £40 to me or my heirs, 
 shall have said house, in which sd Robert now dwells. 4" 
 
 Robert Lord, blacksmith, left his estate to his son 
 Samuel and his six daughters, by his will approved in 
 1735.5 Samuel Lord, sen., blacksmith, left certain lands 
 to his only son Samuel, and mentions that the rest of his 
 real estate was entailed by his father. His will was ap- 
 proved in 1755.^ In 1765, the estate was finally divided.'' 
 The w-idow received her dower, which I do not find re- 
 corded. The remaining two-thirds of the dwelling and 
 so much of the land adjoining " to begin at the corner by 
 Daniel Caldwell's land so running northwest by sd road 
 57 feet to a stake, thence across the middle of the well 
 up the Hill ward 65 feet to a stake, thence on a square 65 
 feet to a stake, thence on a square 55 feet to Daniel 
 Caldwell's land," and a two acre piece above the widow's 
 
 1 Caldwell Records. 
 
 s Ipswich Deeds, book 2, page 128. 
 
 s Essex Co. Deeds, book 15, leaf ll.i. 
 
 * Essex Co. Probate Records, book 304, leaves 16, 18. 
 
 6 Essex Co. Probate Records, book 320, leaves 177-178. 
 
 8 Essex Co. Probate Records, book 333, leaves 217, 352. 
 
 ' Essex Co. Probate Records, book 343, leaf 499. 
 
12 ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 
 
 thirds, was assigned to the daughter Mary Lord. About 
 136 poles in the homestead, between the part assigned to 
 Mary Lord and the Lunmius property, was assigned to 
 Samuel Lord. Martha and Abigail received other por- 
 tio;is of the estate. 
 
 Samuel Lord, the fourth, and others, legal heirs of 
 Sanmel Lord, blacksmith, sold to Samuel Baker, felt- 
 maker, their father's homestead, with 5 rods 4 feet 
 frontage, extending from the Lunmius land to the well, 
 Jan. 14, 1775.^ Samuel Baker left the southeast half to 
 the children of his son John Baker, the other half after his 
 widow's decease to his daughters Elizabeth and Mary. 2 
 
 Mary Lord sold to her brother-in-law, Elijah Boynton, 
 husband of Martha, her share with all the upper part of 
 the dwelling, Dec. 7, 1772-3 Elijah Boynton sold the 
 same to Dr. John Manning, Aug. 14, 1782."* Samuel 
 Lord, 3d, and Mary sold Sanmel Lord, 4th, al)out six rods 
 and half a house, "beginning at the highway opposite 
 the middle of the chimney of the house, on a line through 
 the middle of the chimney," etc. , April 23, 1784.^ Samuel 
 Lord, "4th, conve3^ed the same to John Manning, Jan. 8, 
 1787*"' and Dr. Manning thus became sole owner. He 
 sold to Thomas Dodge, jr., Oct. 3, 1796 ;''' Dodge, then of 
 London deny, to John Cooper of Newbury port, Feb. 13, 
 1815 ;« Cooper to Elizabeth JeAvett, wife of Mark R. 
 Jewett, March 8, 1828 ;« the Jewetts to William Russell, 
 June 5, 1833.1" Lewis Titcomb and Sarah sold to Martha 
 S. Russell, a small piece on the corner of the lot, where a 
 felt-maker or hatter's shop stood, June 9, 1851. ^^ 
 
 Martha S. Russell sold to Daniel S. Russell, May 17, 
 1866.12 He reconveyed it to Martha S. Russell, Nov. 13, 
 
 » Essex Co. Deeds, book 1-10, leaf 40. 
 
 * Essex Co. Probate Records, book 392, leaf 1. 
 'Essex Co. Deeds, book 131, leaf 118. 
 
 * Essex Co. Deeds, book UO, leaf 23. 
 » Essex Co. Deeds, book 1,37, leaf 212. 
 « Essex Co. Deeds, book 146, leaf 200. 
 ' Essex Co. Deeds, book 161, leaf 69. 
 
 8 Essex Co. Deeds, book 206, leaf 177. 
 
 Essex Co. Deeds, book 269, leaf 74. 
 i» Essex Co. Deeds, book 307, leaf 256. 
 " Essex Co. Deeds, book 486, leaf 20. 
 " Essex Co. Deeds, book 704, leaf 300. 
 
ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 13 
 
 1872,1 and she .sold it on the same date to Carlton Copp.' 
 He sold to Mary A. Rutherford, the present owner, Oct. 
 (), 1894.2 The house now stands end to the street, but 
 the deed of Samuel Lord, 4th, to Doctor Manning in 1784 
 specihes aline of division, which shows that the old Samuel 
 Lord house stood with its front to the street. It seems 
 probable therefore that the house now standing was built 
 since that date. 
 
 BRAD8TREET CALDWELL. 
 
 It Avas specified in the record of Dudley's grant and 
 sale, that his land lay between Goodman Cross's and "a 
 lot intended for Mr. Broadstreet." 
 
 The earliest owners of this adjoining lot, however, who 
 are known to us, are a Rofe or Kolfe, who occupied " or 
 owned in 1652 and Robert Collins, who was in posses- 
 sion in 1654. Bradstreet may have owned this lot and 
 the adjoining one, or, it may be, he never owned the im- 
 mediatel}^ adjoining lot, but settled on the one next be- 
 yond, which came into the possession of the Caldwell 
 family at a very early period. 
 
 The one conclusive link of evidence that connects 
 Bradstreet's name with this lot, is the record of Edward 
 Brown's house-lot, of one acre, that it was bounded south 
 east by the lot granted to William Bartholomew and 
 northwest by the house-lot now in possession of Mr. 
 Simon Bradstreet (1639).^ It may have been granted 
 originally to John Jackson, as his lot was "on the side of 
 the hill next to Edward Brown's at six rod's broad" 
 (1637). 
 
 In connection with this record of Edward Brown's 
 house-lot the deed of Richard Betts, published in the 
 Caldwell Records, is of conclusive weight. 
 
 "This present wrighting wittnesseth that Richard Betts 
 of Ipswich and Joana his wife, of Ipswich in the County 
 of Essex for and yn consideration of thirty pounds by 
 bill and otherwise in hand payd before the sealeing 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, book 869, leaf 52. 
 
 2 Essex Co. Deeds, book 1424, leaf 482. 
 s Town Records. 
 
14 ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 
 
 heereof Have Granted Bargayned, & Sould and bye these 
 presents doe fully Grant, Bargayne and Sell vnto Cor- 
 nelius Waldo of the same Town and County, Marchant, 
 all that his dwelling-house situate and being in Ipswich, 
 aforesayd, with all the yards, fences and lands about it, 
 haveing the house and land of Edward Browne toward 
 the southeast, the house and land late .... Rofes 
 (Daniel Rolfe?) toward the norwest, abutting on the 
 street toward the southwest, and on the land of Thomas 
 Lovell, toward the Noreast, etc. etc., 
 
 this 14th of September, 1652" 
 
 Cornelius Waldo sold to John Caldwell for £26 "the 
 house I bought of Richard Betts the land of Edward 
 Brown southeast, the street southwest, house and land of 
 Robert Collings, northwest." Aug. 31, 1654.^ 
 
 Thus it appears that Bradstreet was bounded southeast 
 by Edward Brown in 1639, and that Betts, Waldo and 
 Caldwell, were bounded by the same in 1652 and 1654, 
 and that the Bradstreet lot is identical with the Caldwell. 
 
 It is generally believed that Mr. Bradstreet removed to 
 Andover in 1644. He was certainl}^ resident there in 
 1647 as the deed of William Symons to Simon Bradstreet 
 of Andover, makes evident. ^ 
 
 John Caldw^ell's will was proved Sept. 28, 1692.3 It 
 gave his wife Sarah the use and improvement of all the 
 estate during her widowhood, with the privilege of dis- 
 posing of it or any part of it for her necessity, and if she 
 married again, she should have her third part. After her 
 decease, his son John w^as to have a double part, i. e. two 
 parts out of eight, with the dwelling house if he desired 
 it, paying to his brothers and sisters what belonged to 
 them. 
 
 The widow made her will, as follows : 
 
 "having for many years past had supply of her son 
 Dillingham Caldwell, for ye supply of her necessities, & 
 dureing her naturall life not knowing how or where to be 
 better supplied and taken care of, he and his wife being 
 att all times ready to supply his necessities." As he had 
 advanced her £100 she deeded him the dwelling, barn, etc. 
 
 » Ipswich Deeds, book 2, leaf 128. 
 
 2 Essex Co. Deeds, book 1, leaf 35. 
 
 3 Essex Co. Probate Records, book 303, leaves 84-85; Inventory, leaf 164. 
 
ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 15 
 
 "with all the said homestead containing one acre more 
 or less, bounded by Street on one end, the other end by 
 land of Lovels, formerly ye one side bounded by land of 
 Robert Lord, ye other side by land formerly Joseph 
 Brown's except during sd Sarah's natural life, yt the use 
 and Improvement of yt end of ye dwelling house wdierein 
 she keeps and lodges" (19 January 1709). John Cald- 
 well quitclaimed to Dillingham. The widow died Jan. 
 26, 1721-2, aged 87- 
 
 Dillingham Caldwell was a weaver by trade, and a man 
 of influence and wealth. He died May 3, 1745, aged 
 79 years. His will, dated Dec. 21, 1742, ^ left his widow 
 the improvement of the easterly end of the dwelling, and 
 provided for her maintenance very quaintly : 
 
 "also I give unto my wife yearly and every yesir she 
 shall remain my widow, ten bushells of Indian corn, two 
 bushells of Rie, tAvo bushels of Malt, one hundred pounds 
 of pork, eighty pounds of beef, one barrel of cyder, a 
 milch coAv that shall be kept for her use, winter and sum- 
 mer, and the calf such cow may bring, and four ewes 
 kept for her use, summer and winter, and ye lambs such 
 ews may bring, and six pounds of Flax Year, and so 
 many apples as she shall want for her own use, and suf- 
 ficient firewood for her use, brought to her door, cut and 
 carried into her room, where we now dwell. Also two 
 gallons of oyl." 
 
 The estate, real and personal, not otherwise bestowed, 
 was given to his son Daniel. He died childless and the 
 house and land became the property of John, his only 
 brother, and his heirs, Daniel, John and Elizabeth, wife 
 of Capt. John Grow. 
 
 John Caldwell, jun.,soldto his son Daniel Caldwell, 
 jun., mariner, the northwest end of the house, and an 
 undivided half of the land, Oct. 31, 1797. ^ He was lost, 
 probably on Ipswich bar, in November, 1804, at the age 
 of 34 years, leaving two minor children, Daniel, six years 
 old, and David H., 17 mos., who inherited his estate. ^ 
 Daniel died when about twenty years old, and David H. 
 
 1 Essex County Probate Records, book 326, leaves 290-2. 
 
 2 Essex Co. Deeds, book 164, leaf 233. 
 
 3 Probate Records, book 376, leaf 117; book 373, leaf 421. 
 
16 ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 
 
 inherited his half. David sold or transferred his in- 
 terest to Daniel Smith, who died insane, but bought it 
 back again, and hi« widow, Emmeline, sold it to Charlotte 
 M. Jones, wife of William Jones, and daughter of Eliza- 
 beth (Caldwell) Grow, the daughter of John, Feb. 4, 
 1868.1 
 
 John Caldwell occupied the eastern end of the house 
 until his death, and his unmarried daughters, Lucy and 
 Mary, made it their home until their death. Mary died 
 Jan. 26, 1861, aged 84, and Lucy died in April, 1868, 
 aged 85. Their niece, Eliza, daughter of Elizabeth 
 Caldwell and Capt. John Grow, lived with them and re- 
 ceived this part of the house at their death. She married 
 Charles Dodge, and her interest in the house fell to her 
 daughter, Harriet Lord Rogers Dodge. 
 
 The age of the venerable mansion is uncertain. It can- 
 not be assumed with any confidence that it is the original 
 Bradstreet home. Unless there is positive reason for 
 believing it to be of such great antiquity, the probabilities 
 of the case point to a lesser age. A significant item in 
 its history is that Richard Betts sold for £30 in 1652, 
 and John*^ Caldwell bought of Waldo for £26 in 1654. 
 His will was proved Sept. 28, 1692, and the inventory of 
 the estate included 
 
 House and lands at home and three acres of land £109-0-0 
 
 Oxen, cows, horses, sheep and swine 40-0-0 
 
 Implements of husbandry, carts, plows 48-0-0 
 
 Bedsteads, bedding linen 19-8-0 
 
 The three " acres of land "' are identical probably with 
 "foure acres be it more or less, within the Common fields, 
 neare unto Muddy River," which he bought of William 
 Buckley and Sarah, his wife, Aug. 31, 1657 for £7, and 
 which Buckley bought of Thomas Manning.^ The home- 
 stead was valued then at about £100, and for this sum the 
 widow sold it to her son Dillingham. There is nothing 
 to indicate any especial depreciation of the currency in 
 the valuations of stock, tools, etc. in the inventory and 
 the only way to explain the enhancement of value from 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, book 759, leaf 136. - Caldwell Records, p. 6. 
 
ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 1^ 
 
 £26 in 1654 to £100 a half century afterward is to as- 
 sume that John Caldwell replaced the house he bought, 
 the house owned and occupied by the Bradstreets, with a 
 new one of far greater value. But there seems no room 
 for doubt that the Bradstreet home was on or near this 
 spot, and the tablet has been located with confidence. 
 
 THE EDWARD BROWN LOT. 
 
 The Edward Brown lot of one acre, southeast from 
 Bradstreet, has already been mentioned. He had a son 
 John, who resided in Wapping, England, in 1683, when 
 he sold land in the conmion fields left by his father 
 Edward.^ The widow Sarah Caldwell's deed to Dilling- 
 ham gives the eastern bound "land formerly Joseph 
 Brown's." From the Probate Records, we learn that 
 Joseph Brown died before 1694, and that his estate was 
 divided to his sons, John and Benjamin, ^ in 1721. 
 
 John Brown, Turner, granted in his Avill, proved in 
 1758, to Elizabeth, his wife, ''all the household goods 
 she brought to me, and all the linnen shee hath made since 
 I married her to be at her Disposal," to his son John, the 
 improvement of the two lower rooms and the northeast 
 chamber and some real estate, to his daughter Esther 
 Adams, and the children of his daughter Mary Lord, the 
 household goods, and all the residue of real estate to his 
 son Daniel.^ The house, barn and land were valued at 
 £60.^^ 
 
 Daniel Brown, bequeathed the improvement of his 
 property to his widow Hannah, during her life or until 
 her second marriage. He made his nephew, Daniel Smith, 
 his sole heir. The will was approved, Jan. 4, 1796.5 
 Daniel Smith's will, proved in 1844, provided for the 
 division of his estate among his sons, Daniel Brown 
 Smith, Thomas and Benjamin, and the Probate Record 
 contains this interesting item : "Daniel Smith was a 
 
 1 Essex Co. Deeds, book 4, leaf 534. 
 'Essex Co. Probate Records, book 313, leaves 559,560. 
 » Essex Co. Probate Records, book 335, leaf 229. 
 ♦ Essex Co. Probate Records, book 336, leaf 17. 
 » Essex Co. Probate^Records, book 364, leaf 232. 
 2 
 
18 ORIGINAL HOUSE LOTS ON HIGH STREET. 
 
 Revolutionary pensioner, that he died on the 28"' day of 
 January, 1844, that he left no widow, and that he left 
 seven children and no more, viz. Daniel B., Thomas, 
 Benjamin, Polly Lord, Elizabeth Treadwell, Sarah Per- 
 kins, & Anna Kimball, and that they all of them are 
 living and each of them is of full age.''^ 
 
 Thomas received the homestead, and occupied it until 
 his death at a great age, when he bequeathed it to his 
 nephew Charles Smith, who removed the old buildings 
 and built his present residence in the rear of the site of 
 the homestead. Daniel B. received a part of the house-lot 
 and built a house upon it, which he sold to his son, 
 Nathaniel P. Smith, March 1, 1866. ^ It is now owned 
 and occupied by his widow. 
 
 1 Essex Co. Probate RecoiriB, book 412, leaves 315, 316. 
 » Essex Co. Deeds, book 707, leaf 16. 
 
THE EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE 
 TABLETS. 
 
 On Thursday afternoon, July 31, 1902, at two o'clock, 
 a goodly number of the members of the Historical So- 
 ciety, with invited guests, and the citizens of the town, 
 gathered about the ledge on the southeast side of the 
 Meeting House, in which a bronze tablet had been in- 
 serted. The President of the Society introduced Hon. 
 Charles A. Say ward, who spoke as follows : 
 
 We stand upon historic gronnd. No part of the ancient 
 town has so many historical associations connected with it as the 
 place where we are gathered. 
 
 Two hundred and sixty-nine years ago, John Winthrop, Jr., 
 and his twelve associates came through the wilderness from 
 Boston and began the settlement of the town. Here they 
 erected their first meeting house, which soou proved to be too 
 small, and a larger and better building was erected. In 1700, 
 this was found to be too small, and a more commodious building 
 was erected. In time this gave way to the fourth meeting house, 
 which stood until 1846, when it was removed and the present 
 building erected. 
 
 To this place Governor Winthrop came from Boston on foot 
 in order that he might "exercise by way of prophecy" the people 
 who were without a minister at the time. Here preached 
 Nathaniel Ward, Nathaniel Rogers, John Norton, Thomas 
 Cobbett, William Hubbard, the celebrated historian of the 
 Indian wars; John Rogers, afterward president of Harvard 
 college ; John Denison and a long line of able and eloquent 
 ministers. Here the celebrated George Whitefield held great 
 throngs entranced with his fiery eloquence. 
 
 But the ministers and hearers were not entirely absorbed 
 in purely religious work. The same men established the town 
 government; "they built roads, established schools, cared for the 
 poor, looked after the morals of the community, raised and 
 drilled troops, not only for their own protection, but for the pro- 
 tection of the colony. 
 
 In the rear of this meeting house stood a fort ; across the 
 street stood the prison, in front of which were the stocks ; 
 
 (19) 
 
20 EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLETS. 
 
 aud at the corner of the church, where the elm tree now stands, 
 stood the whipping post. 
 
 For many years the children gathered in the schoolhouse 
 where the Denison schoolhouse now stands, across the way, 
 and were educated to become worthy aud useful citizens. 
 
 So you see this spot is fragrant with memories of the past, 
 and it is our duty to keep these memories fresh for coming gen- 
 erations. I may reverently describe it in the language of the 
 Lord when he addressed Moses at Mount Horeb and said unto 
 him ' ' Put off thy shoes from off tliy feet for the place whereon 
 thou standest is holy ground." 
 
 Therefore the town, under the direction of the Ipswich His- 
 torical Society, has secured proper inscriptions, setting forth 
 some of the prominent historical facts concerning this spot, in 
 order that coming generations may not forget the story of the 
 early days of the town and its founders, and we are here today 
 to unveil and dedicate the tablet which records some of these 
 historical facts. 
 
 By invitation of the President, Miss Ruth Appleton, 
 daughter of Mr. Francis R. Appleton, and a lineal de- 
 scendant of Samuel Appleton, one of the earliest settlers, 
 then removed the flag wliich covered the bronze tablet. 
 The inscription is as follows : 
 
 Ipswich was settled in March, 1633. On this hill-top the first meet- 
 ing-house was built and surrounded with a stone fort. The present 
 edifice is the fifth which has occupied this spot. Nathaniel "Ward, 
 Nathaniel Rogers, John Norton, William Hubbard and Thomas Cobbett 
 were the earliest in the long line of eminent ministers. 
 
 The whipping-post, stocks and prison, were a few rods distant. 
 
 Erected by the town in 1901. 
 
 Nearly all present walked or rode to the ancient Cald- 
 well house on High street, in front of which a boulder 
 had been set, bearing a tablet, which marks the site of 
 the Simon Bradstreet dwelling. The flag which covered 
 it was removed by Oliver Wendell Hohnes, Chief Justice 
 of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, a descendant 
 from the Bradstreets. 
 
 The inscription is as follows : 
 
 Near this spot was the home of 
 
 Simon Bradstreet 
 
 Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 
 
 1675-168(5 aud 1689-1692. 
 
 His wife, Ann, daughter of Gov. Dudley, was 
 
 the first American poetess. 
 
 They lived in Ipswich, 1635-1644. 
 
EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLETS. 21 
 
 A little farther along, in front of the old Lummus house, 
 now owned by Mr. Chester W. Bamford, a granite slab 
 had been erected, with a bronze tablet, marking the 
 Dudley location. This was unveiled by Augustine Jones, 
 Esq., Principal of the Friends School, Providence, R. I., 
 and a direct descendant from Governor Dudley. 
 
 The inscription is : 
 
 On this lot, originally nine aci'es 
 
 was the house of 
 
 Thomas Dudley, 
 
 Governor of 
 
 Massachusetts-Bay 
 
 1635, 1640, 1645 and 1650. 
 
 He dwelt here 
 
 1635—1639. 
 
 Returning to the Meeting-house of the First Parish, 
 the Pastor of the Church, Rev. Edward Constant, offered 
 prayer. Robert S. Rantoul, Esq., of Salem, President 
 of the Essex Institute, was then introduced by the Presi- 
 dent and spoke as follows : 
 
 It would be a pleasure, if we were at liberty to do so without 
 neglect of other topics claiming our attention, to devote the 
 hour to the memory of Simon Bradstreet. The speaker who 
 stands forth in an ancient community like this, proposing to 
 address himself to the historic past, is embarrassed first of all 
 with a plethora of topics. Time limits us to the merest passing 
 thought. Neither one of the three famous preachers we are 
 to commemorate today can be dismissed without a reverential 
 word — one of them a travelled scholar, the first compiler of 
 our Statute Laws, his resulting code well styled, in recognition 
 of what laws ought to be, " The Body of Liberties ;" one of 
 them the fast friend of Conant and the early chronicler of our 
 infant years; one of them, in 1662, an embassador plenipo- 
 tentiary to the mother country at the most critical epoch of our 
 colonial life. Again, the market-place of the ancient town, 
 perched like the Acropolis upon its highest hill-top, girt round 
 about with the Court House, the whipping-post, the stocks, the 
 witchcraft prison and the meeting-house on either hand, — this 
 spot demands commemoration and a history by itself. And 
 the two Colonial Governors, neighbors in their Ipswich homes, 
 father-in-law and son-in-law, each with his famous spouse, 
 the one the dean of Winthrop's company and deputy-governor 
 before they sailed ; the other, outliving all the rest and living 
 to see the longest term of service among the colonial magistrates 
 of his century, and to be recalled by Hutchinson, following 
 
22 EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLETS. 
 
 Mather and writing a centur}' later, as " The Nestor of New 
 England," — what shall we say of these two men, both fitly to 
 be honored in the services of today, except to plead the utter 
 inadequacy of the time to do justice to such a tempting field 
 of thought ! Indeed, one feels a sense of privation in being 
 brought into the presence of personalities like these, — in 
 having summoned up their august shades, only to wave them 
 aside with the " hail and farewell "the crowded hour permits. 
 They helped to make New England what it is. They are too 
 human and too great to be simply marshalled in cold review. 
 Each one of tliem claims his honorable notice and deserves his 
 hour. And when I reflect that I am not the only speaker 
 bidden, nor is mine the only topic to be treated, I am assured 
 of your indulgence if I leave to others the broader field 
 embraced in this unique occasion, while I devote the little time 
 allotted me to the name and memor}'^ of Bradstreet. 
 
 To this I am impelled by a variety of motives. His career 
 was certainly a very marked one. It was a long, a varied, 
 and an honorable career. Savage, the learned editor and anno- 
 tator of Wiuthrop's Journal, ranks him with Saltonstall and 
 the Winthrops ; saj's he was one of the younger magistrates 
 when he was chosen a Commissioner of the United Colonies, 
 and adds : " Perhaps the desert of none of our early rulers 
 except the two Winthrops is equal to that of Governour Simon 
 Bradstreet, whose labors equalled them both in duration ;" and 
 again: "It has happened, that the talents of Governour 
 Bradstreet have not been rated so highly as to me they seem to 
 deserve, but the cause, probably, was his moderation in politics 
 and religion. Our author [Winthrop] calls him a very able 
 man. His contemporaries, in 1662, designed to send one of 
 the ablest men in the country, as companion with Norton, to 
 effect the difficult purpose of conciliating the crown ; and his 
 success in that mission naturally dissatisfied some of the more 
 eager spirits, whose disgust at the royal favour, thus obtained or 
 promised, pursued Norton to the grave. The arguments about 
 LaTour's business, and his defence of our titles to lauds against 
 Andros's pretensions, give honourable evidence of talents." 
 
 It may be true that the Nestor Governor has not had entire 
 justice done him, though Mather, in his Magnalia, singles him 
 out, as he does William Bradford and John Winthi"op, for a 
 special chapter, and though Mather, while at issue with the 
 Governor in the witchcraft troubles, speaks of him with unmixed 
 and rather fulsome praise. Designating him as "Pater Patriae," 
 he applies to him the Latin epitaph of the famous Roman 
 lawyer, Simon Pistorius, which he translates thus : 
 
 "Earth holds his mortal part : his honored name 
 Shall put Time's impious hand to open shame," 
 
EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLETS. 23 
 
 adding a Latin couplet of his own which he renders as follows : 
 
 "Here lies New England's father ! Woe the day ! 
 How mingles mightiest dust with meanest clay !" 
 
 And Upham, in his exhaustive treatment of the witchcraft 
 horror, says that Bradstreet was living, at the age of 90, at 
 Salem during the witchcraft prosecutions in 1692, but, old as 
 he was, and [)eriIous as it was, he made known his entire disap- 
 proval of them. " It is safe to say," adds Upham, '' that, if 
 he had not been superseded by the arrival of Sir William Phips 
 as Governor under the new charter, they would never have taken 
 place." 
 
 Upham's treatment of Bradstreet's part in these transactions 
 demands more space.* He says : 
 
 At a Court of Assistants, on adjournment, held at Boston, on the 
 20th of May, 1680 : The Grand Jury having presented Elizabeth Morse, 
 wife of William Morse, she was tried and convicted of the crime of 
 witchcraft. The Governor, on the 27th of May, "after the lecture," 
 in the First Cluirch of Boston, pronounced the sentence of death upon 
 her. On the 1st of June, the Governor and Assistants voted to re- 
 prieve her "until the next session of the Court in Boston." At the 
 said next session, the reprieval was still further continued. This 
 seems to have produced much dissatisfaction, as is shown by the 
 following extract from the records of the House of Deputies : — 
 
 "The Deputies, on perusal of the Acts of the Honoured Court of 
 Assistants, relating to the woman condemned for witchcraft, do not 
 understand the reason why the sentence, given against her by said 
 Court, is not executed : and the second reprieval seems to us beyond 
 what the law Avill allow, and do therefore judge meet to declare our- 
 selves against it, with reference to the concurrence of the honoured 
 maiiistrates hereto " 
 
 The action of the magistrates, on this reference, is recorded as 
 follows : — 
 
 " 3d of November, 1680. — Not consented to by magistrates. 
 
 Edward Rawson, Secretary." 
 
 The evidence against Mrs. Morse was frivolous to the last degree, 
 without any of the force and effect given to support the prosecutions 
 in Salem, twelye years afterwards, by the astounding confessions of 
 the accused, and the splendid acting of the "afflicted children;" yet 
 she was tried and condemned in Boston, and sentenced there on 
 "Lecture-day." The representatives of the people, in the House of 
 Deputies, cried out against her reprieve. She was saved by the 
 courage and wisdom of Governor Bradstreet, subsequently a resident 
 of Salem, where his ashes rest. . . . 
 
 Things continued in the condition just described, — Mrs. Morse in 
 jail under sentence of death; that sentence suspended by reprieves 
 from the Governor from time to time, until the next year, when her 
 husband, in her behalf and in her name, presented an earnest and touch- 
 ing petition "to the honored Governor, Deputy-governor, Magistrates, 
 and Deputies now assembled in Court, May the 18th, 1681," that her 
 
 * The passage printed in smaller type was omitted in the reading. 
 
24 EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLETS. 
 
 case might be concluded, one way or another. After referring to her 
 condemnation, and to her attestation of Innocence, she says, " By the 
 mercy of God, and the goodness of the honored Governor, I am 
 reprieved." Slie begs the Court to "hearlieu to lier cry. a poor prisoner." 
 She places herself at the foot of the tribunal of the General Court : " I 
 now stand humbly praying your justice in hearing my case, and to 
 determine therein as the Lord shall direct. I do not understand law, 
 nor do I know how to lay my case before you as I ought; for want 
 of which I humbly beg of your honors that my request may not be 
 rejected." The House of Deputies, on the 24th of May, voted to give 
 her a new trial. But the magistrates refused to concur in the vote ; 
 and so the matter stood, for how long a time there are, I believe, no 
 means of knowing. Finally, however, she was released from prison, 
 and allowed to return to her own house. . . . 
 
 The cases of Margaret Jones, Ann Hibbins, and Elizabeth Morse 
 illustrate strikingly and fully the history and condition of the public 
 mind in New England, and the world over, in reference to witchcraft 
 in the seventeenth century. . . . The only real oflence proved upon 
 Margaret Jones was that she was a successful practitioner of medicine, 
 using only simple remedies. Ann Hibbins was the victim of the 
 slanderous gossip of a prejudiced neighbor; all our actual knowledge 
 of her oeing her Will, which proves that she was a person of much 
 morethanordinary dignity of mind. . . . Elizabeth Morse appears to 
 have been one of the best of Christian women. 'J'he accusations 
 against them, as a whole, cover nearly the whole ground upon which 
 the subsequent prosecutions in Salem rested. John Winthrop passed 
 sentence upon Margaret Jones, John Endicott upon Ann Hibbins, 
 and Simon Bradstreet upon Elizabeth Morse. The last-named 
 governor performed the office as an unavoidable act of official duty, 
 and prevented the execution of the sentence by the courageous use of 
 his prerogative, in defiance of public clamor and the wrath of the 
 representatives of the whole people of the colony. 
 
 Dr. Palfrey, commenting on these events, endorses Upham's 
 view in these words: "He had steadfastly refused to order 
 the execution of a convicted witch some years before the Salem 
 traged}' ; he is not known to have done anything to countenance 
 the follies which had been rife in the last three months of his 
 administration ; and there is every probability that, had he 
 continued to be Chief Magistrate, the misery and shame which 
 inaugurated his successor's government would have been 
 spared." 
 
 Unless these phrases are misleading, here is a character 
 which will reward our study. Two centuries have been spent 
 in efforts to explain away and excuse away the abominations 
 of the witchcraft period, — to show that Boston led the way 
 for Salem to follow, and that other parts of the world, both 
 English speaking and of other tongues, were quite as culpable 
 as we, and that religion and philosophy were both at fault 
 rather than a lack of humanity. But if it is possible that we 
 have in Bradstreet a magistrate who would, if he could, have 
 put a period to the whole miserable business, that is something 
 
EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLETS. 25 
 
 much more to the point. If we can fairly claim for Bradstreet 
 that he saw the hideous abomination in its true light, that he 
 saw it at the time as we see it now, and as it was, and did what 
 one man could, at the risk of both personal comfort and 
 official prestige, to arrest the horror, and that he would gladly 
 have done more, then we shall have placed this venerable 
 public servant on a pedestal of his own, and shall have raised 
 him to the unique rank not only of the man who deserves best 
 of his own time, but of one whose insight and firmness and 
 independence of mind put him quite in advance of his day, and 
 entitle him to a good deal more than an equal share in the 
 enduring honors of the Chief Magistracy of Massachusetts. 
 
 Simon Bradstreet was born at Horbling, near Boston, in 
 Lincolnshire, in March, 1603. He was the son of a Non- 
 Conformist minister whose name he bore, and who was settled 
 at Horbling, who had been a Fellow of Immanuel College, 
 Cambridge, and who preached at different times both in England 
 and in Holland. His grandfather Bradstreet is described as "a 
 Suffolk gentleman of fine estate." When a lad, Bradstreet had 
 the advantage of good schooling until the age of fourteen, but 
 the death of his father threw him then upon his own resources. 
 Soon after, he became an inmate of the family of the Earl of 
 Lincoln, the best family, in Cotton Mather's judgment, in all 
 the peerage. How deeply enlisted in American colonization 
 was the interest of this family is patent from the fact that one 
 daughter, the Lady Arbella, had married Isaac Johnson of 
 Winthrop's party, that another daughter had married the son 
 of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and that a third was the wife of 
 John Humphrey, chosen first deputy-governor with Winthrop, 
 and yielding the place to Thomas Dudley, because he found 
 himself unable to sail with the Winthrop party. In this noble 
 family Bradstreet spent his next eight years under the tutelage 
 of Thomas Dudley, who was his elder by a generation, and 
 whose daughter he married just before the embarkation for 
 New England. Dudley was then steward of this great baronial 
 estate, which the young Earl of Lincoln had just inherited, but 
 much encumbered through the prodigality of his grandfather. 
 Bradstreet next acted as tutor to a son of the Earl of Warwick, 
 who was just entered at Immanuel College, and, after a year, 
 returned to the service of the Earl of Lincoln, where he 
 succeeded Dudley in the office of steward. This place he filled 
 to the lasting profit of the estate, later sustaining the same 
 office in the service of the aged Countess of Warwick, a family 
 also greatly interested in New England colonization. The 
 Earl of Warwick had, about 1623, one of the earliest patents 
 for Massachusetts Bay, but resigned it to the actual settlers of 
 
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 the tract a year or two later. And the venerable Countess, his 
 mother, was recognized in letters of acknowledgment from 
 the General Court, in 1634, as a benefactress of this plantation. 
 Hutchinson says that Lincolnshire contributed more valuable 
 colonists than any part of England, save possibly London. 
 While associated with this family Bradstreet married, in 1628, 
 Ann, the daughter of Thomas Dudley, and in 1629, having 
 connected himself with the Winthrop party, in which Dudley 
 had become deputy-Governor before leaving London, and he 
 had been chosen an assistant at Southampton, sailed, early 
 in 1630, for New England. Savage thinks he had studied law, 
 and this is not unlikely, for the responsible position of steward 
 of one of these vast estates might well demand it, a position of 
 more social importance than its designation would at once import. 
 Twenty odd years ago, I passed a summer near Warwick, 
 and the old mediaeval stronghold, small as its population was, 
 was then entitled, under the political system of England, to 
 two seats in the House of Commons. Its eleven thousand 
 people were so generally tenants of his Grace, the Earl of 
 Warwick, and its burgesses were so generally dependent on 
 the Earl for patronage and occupation, that the two seats in 
 Parliament were traditionally held to be at that nobleman's 
 disposal. Accordingly, one of his sons filled one of the seats 
 and his steward the other. 
 
 Bradstreet landed at Salem with Winthrop in June, 1630. 
 In company with the Governor, he pushed on at once in search 
 of a site for the new capital-town, which was to defeat the 
 designs of Oldham and Gorges on the Charles River Valley, 
 singularly enough reaching Charlestown on the now historic 
 seventeenth of June, and he was present at the first meeting 
 of the Court of Assistants, held at Charlestown, on the twenty 
 third of August, having taken the oath as Assistant, before the 
 Governor and others, March 23, on board the Arbella. From 
 this time on, through an unbroken period of sixty-two years, a 
 period without parallel in our history before or since, he was in 
 the continuous service, as a Magistrate, of the people of Mas- 
 sachusetts Bay. By repeated spontaneous popular elections, 
 and also by repeated honorable designations by appointment, 
 this remarkable man was put forward as the one citizen of 
 Massachusetts who, early and late, enjoyed the unqualified 
 respect and trust of all his neighbors. He saw three generations 
 of men for his contemporaries. While it was true that no other 
 magistrate approached him in length and variety of service, it 
 was impossible that in all these years he should not fall under 
 somebody's condemnation, but the criticisms upon him, as in the 
 later cases of Washington and Lincoln, never ventured beyond 
 
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 charges of slowness and indecision. No voice was raised to 
 question his integrity of purpose, and those who impugned 
 his judgment and were impatient of his caution were never 
 numerous enough or strong enough to compass his displacement. 
 This can only be attributed, in such a case, to the dominancy 
 of strong personal character. Had his administration been 
 colorless and feeble, he might have escaped active antagonisms, 
 but then, to hold his place, he must needs have been backed by 
 a strong sustaining agency from without. At no time could he 
 rely on such support. The source of Bradstreet's strength was 
 the unstinted confidence of his fellow colonists. 
 
 Soon after the settlement at Charlestown, June 17, 1630, and 
 the resulting settlement at Boston, Sept. 17, 1630, Bradstreet 
 seems to have had a hand, during the following spring, in the 
 planting of Newetowne, which was a year or two later to be 
 called Cambridge and was, in 1638, incorporated as Cambridge, 
 the college being then and there established. But, before 1636, 
 Bradstreet seems to have interested himself in the building 
 up of Ipswich, at a later date, according to Dr. Palfrey, second 
 only to Boston in size and impoi tance among the great towns 
 of the colony. This growth is anticipated in what Wood says 
 of Ipswich, before 1633, in his " New England's Prospect:" 
 
 " Agowamme is nine miles to the North from Salem, which 
 is one of the most spatious places for a plantation, being neare 
 the sea, it aboundeth with fish, and flesh of fowles and beasts, 
 great Meads and Marshes and plaiue plowing grounds, many 
 good rivers and harbours and no rattle snakes. In a word, it 
 is the best place but one, which is Merrimacke, lying 8 miles 
 beyond it, where is a river 20 leagues navigable, all along the 
 river side is fresh Marshes, in some places 3 miles broad. In 
 this river is Sturgeon, Sammon, and Basse, and divers other 
 kinds of fish. To conclude, the Countrie hath not that vphich 
 this place cannot yeeld. So that these two places may containe 
 twice as many people as are yet in new England : there being 
 as yet scarce any inhabitants in these two spacious places." 
 That Bradstreet made his residence at Ipswich, from the winter 
 of 1635-6 until 1642, appears from Felt's history of the town. 
 Savage, in his notes to Winthrop's Journal, places him there 
 in 1644. But he seems to have been established at Andover, 
 of which fine old town he is also the acknowledged founder, 
 before the close of that year. 
 
 During these years, Vane, Winthrop, Thomas Dudley, 
 Bellingham, and Endecott had shared the chief-magistracy at 
 different periods between them, and it is interesting to note 
 that Bradstreet's father-in-law, Dudley,was a resident of Ipswich 
 while he was Governor of the Colony and while his gifted 
 
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 daughter, the wife of Bradstreet, was living here as his near 
 neighbor. The Ipswich Appletous were also neighbors, and 
 Palfrey thinks it probable that the revered preacher, Nathaniel 
 Appleton, had sat on Bradstreet's knee. Bellingham, while 
 Governor in 1641, seems also to have resided in Ipswich, at 
 that time the centre of a rare group of remarkable men. 
 
 Ann Dudley, the first wife of Governor Bradstreet, was the 
 mother of his family. She died at Andover in September, 1672, 
 and Bradstreet left Andover soon after. He seems to have been 
 fortunate in his mate. She had married at sixteen, and while 
 she reared eight children, two of the four sons graduates of 
 Harvard fitted partl>' by her care, had time enough and gift 
 enough to write considerable volumes of prose and verse, — the 
 first woman in America to challenge attention to her scholarship 
 and the products of her pen. To her poetic fervor two of her 
 descendants, the poet Dana and the poet Holmes, may owe 
 theiri^fame. 
 
 I wish it were possible to give a passing word to this 
 pioneer among the unexplored possibilities of American letters. 
 Tributes of alfection for the honored Governor, her husband, 
 are among the finest lines she ever wrote. One of them 
 contains this outburst of womanly pride and ardor, in which 
 no happily-married woman will fail to catch the true ring : 
 
 " To my dear and loving Husband : 
 
 " If ever two were one, then surelj' we ; 
 If ever man were loved by wife, then thee ; 
 If ever wife were happy in a man, 
 Compare with me, ye women, if you can ! 
 I prize thy love more than whole Mines of Gold, 
 Or all the riches that the East doth hold. 
 My love is such that Rivers cannot quench. 
 Nor aught but love from thee give recompense." 
 
 From the Bradstreets the great Channing also and Wendell 
 Phillips, the matchless orator, both trace descent. 
 
 We need not lack acquaintance with Bradstreet's personal 
 appearance and habits. His portraits hang in the State House, 
 and at the Essex Institute, and there is an especially good one 
 in the City Hall at Salem, where Endecott bears him company, 
 — the first and the last of the Colonial Governors, and both at 
 times residents of Salem. His views of personal expenditure 
 were liberal. He iiad built a fine mansion at Andover which 
 was burned, with his books and papers, in 1666. His dress 
 and bearing towards the end of his career are thus described in 
 the language of a Jesuit Father, quoted in Winsor's Memorial 
 History of Boston : " An old man, quiet and grave, dressed in 
 
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 black silk, but not sumptuously." And Winsor adds his own 
 estimate of the man in these words : "He seemed to concentrate 
 in himself the dignity and wisdom of the first century of 
 Massachusetts." 
 
 Bradstreet is accredited with much activity in the building up 
 of Andover, almost a frontier settlement in those early decades, 
 where he remained, faithfully discharging, as often as called on, 
 sundry offices of the town, until 1672. There he owned much 
 land and promoted many enterprises. He built the first mill 
 on the Cochickewick, an Andover tributary of the Merrimack, 
 in 1644. In September, 1638, he had been the chief proprietor 
 in the founding of Salisbury; in 1656 he owned salt-works at 
 Nahant; and in 1674 owned the Rowley iron- works in a section 
 of the town now incorporated as Boxford. He also owned 
 estates in Topsfield, some of them, until recently, descending 
 in the name. He had lands and dwelling-houses at Watertown, 
 Cambridge and Boston. As early as 1639 he had a grant of 
 five hundred acres of land near Governor Endecott's farm, 
 now Danvers. 
 
 Time fails us to rehearse in more detail the value of Governor 
 Bradstreet's life-services to this community. But no lover of 
 the grand old Commonwealth, proud of her history, can be 
 indifferent to them. The length of his term of office is without 
 a parallel. It began with the beginning of the State. He was 
 chosen at the last meeting of the Court of Assistants in Eng- 
 land. It outlasted all those in conspicuous standing who came 
 with Winthrop. Near half a century an Assistant, ten years 
 Chief Magistrate, twenty-four years a Commissioner of the 
 Colonial Confederacy, he was thrown upon times when intense 
 suspicion and jealousy of the home government were the rule, 
 and periods of tranquillity and quiet prosperity were the excep- 
 tion ; when border warfare with the Indians and French and 
 Dutch gave way, from time to time, only to internal commotion 
 and revolutionary turmoil. Bradstreet had need, day by day, 
 for the sixty-two years of his official tenure, of a steadiness of 
 purpose, a power of resistance, a wholesome self-assertion, a 
 clear insight and perception, an unfailing judgment, which may 
 well excuse the lack of those more showy qualities his critics 
 grudge him. His epitaph, placed by the Province on the 
 monument in the old Salem graveyard, tells in stately Latin 
 how he poised in an equal balance the Authority of the King 
 and the Liberty of the People. That he did not lack energy 
 at the age of forty-one appears from Winthrop's naming him 
 with Ward and Symonds and Saltonstall of Ipswich, and with 
 Hathorne of Salem, in the dangerous young Essex Cabal of 
 1644. That he did not lack energy at the age of eighty-seven 
 appears from the success of his expedition for the capture of 
 
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 Port Royal and the annexation of Nova Scotia, on which he 
 sent a fleet while he was acting as Provisional Governor, with 
 what Bancroft calls his Council of Safety behind him, at a 
 time when every step talven was taken at his peril, and he 
 might pay for it with his head, whether success or failure 
 attended the upheaval. Jacob Leisler, the usurping Governor 
 of New York, was condemned to death and beheaded for his 
 part in a like transaction. 
 
 Bradstreet crowned his long career with a most extraordinary 
 triumph. When we consider his extreme age, the risks sur- 
 rounding the undertaking, and the readiness with which he 
 might have found an excuse, had he sought an excuse, in his 
 sixty years of unbroken and honorable service, — the picture of 
 the brave old man, riding up King Street to wrest the Colony, 
 its Magistracy and its Archives from the faithless hands of 
 Andros, and to commit him to the stronghold of his own 
 providing, is one well calculated to stir the blood of Ipswich 
 men who proudly claim Bradstreet for a former townsman. Let 
 me attempt to outline this historic picture. 
 
 William of Orange, later William the Third of England, — the 
 second invader of the name to enter England, — had landed at 
 Torbay, November 5, 1688, in execution of an attempt upon 
 the British crown. News travelled slowly then and, beyond 
 vague rumors by the way of Holland, nothing was known here 
 of this startling fact until it reached us, in the April following, 
 through the West India Islands, then in as close relations as 
 was New England with Great Britain. Attempts like this are 
 far from certain of success, — witness two such made by 
 Napoleon III before he succeeded in climbing to the throne of 
 France, — and there were several periods during this enterprise 
 Avhen it seemed doomed to failure. In fact no measure of success 
 could be predicated of it before February, 1689, and at the 
 time the dispatches which reached Boston announcing the 
 Revolution had left England, the issue of it hung doubtful in 
 the balance. But so thorough was the estrangement of the 
 Colonies from the Mother Country, and so complete the 
 readiness to profit by every possible event, that the slightest 
 spark was enough to fire the magazine of public indignation. 
 The people of Massachusetts Bay did not hesitate to take all 
 chances, and to link their fate irrevocabl}'^, — sink or swim, — 
 with the Revolt in England. Andros had been Governor here 
 for three years, since he deposed Bradstreet and the Charter in 
 1686, and he was known to be unscrupulous and grasping. 
 He was just returning from an unsuccessful movement against 
 the Indians of Maine. He seems to have known no more than 
 the people of Massachusetts knew about the rising storm in 
 England. On April 18, a fortnight after the first tidings of 
 
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 revolt reached Boston, upon secret preparation, the Town was 
 early abroad. Thursday, weekly lecture day, — this brought 
 many from the suiroundiug towns to Boston, — was the day 
 selected on which to try the issue. It was also Council day. In 
 the morning, a patriot party seized the Captain of the "Rose" 
 Frigate who ventured on shore at Long Wharf to report to the 
 Governor, and held him prisoner. Wild rumors of movements 
 of the Royal Regiments stirred the town. At nine, the drums 
 beat an alarm. A signal was displayed on Beacon Hill. 
 Presently, marching up King Sti'eet, now State Street, straight 
 for the Town House at its head, came the veteran who had 
 never failed them, — Bradstreet, — the last of the Old Charter 
 Governors, — with Danforth, the last deputj^-governor, and the 
 rest, proceeding under military escort to the Council Chamber, 
 where they possessed themselves of the persons of the Royal 
 Officers who had been summoned there, happily including 
 among them the Castle jailer. All these they placed under 
 lock and key. At high noon a proclamation was read to the 
 people from the Eastern balcony looking down the street, 
 declaring the objects and designs of the uprising. Proceed- 
 ings like these sound more like Paris than like sober Boston. 
 The proclamation detailed grievances, — it singled out and 
 named the oppressors of the people, — it referred with jubilation 
 to the hopeful movement of the Prince of Orange, — it professed 
 lo\^alty to the British Crown and Parliament, — and it appealed 
 to Heaven and to the common sense of justice in mankind. By 
 two o'clock, twenty companies of militia were under arms in 
 Boston and several more were waiting at Charlestown to cross 
 the feny. A summons for immediate surrender was presented 
 to Andros, as he was tardily attempting an escape on board 
 the Frigate lying at Long Wharf. Her ports were open, her 
 colors all displayed, her guns trained upon the Town House 
 and her decks cleared for action. The gig sent ashore for 
 Andros was promptly captured by the party bearing the 
 summons. But Andros made good his escape and reached the 
 stronghold he had erected on Fort Hill. Vigorous preparations 
 were then made to storm the palisado-fortress at the end of 
 the Battery March, and to take the Governor in his retreat. 
 Andros demanded a parley and this was refused. He then 
 surrendered and was taken under close guard to the Town 
 House. Nothing remained but to disable the Castle in the 
 harbor and the Frigate at the wharf. It was now four o'clock. 
 The final act in the drama was deferred until the morrow, 
 when all this was promptly effected, bringing the successful 
 issue of the struggle on the since historic 19th day of April, 
 and Bradstreet was able to report to the Revolutionary party 
 in England that it was "effected without bloodshed and without 
 
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 pluuder." It must be remembered that the actors in this high- 
 handed movement had absolutely no authority from anybody. 
 The only warrant they had was derived from the knowledge 
 that the people put confidence in their wisdom and in the 
 integrity of their purposes. For a period of forty days after 
 this, the British officers in Boston claimed to have no trust- 
 worthy confirmation of the success of the Prince of Orange, 
 and it was only on the 29th day of the following month that 
 William III was proclaimed King of England at Boston. 
 
 In the narrative of this pivotal event I have followed pretty 
 closely the authority of Dr. Palfrey, who is never disposed 
 to over-praise the Nestor Governor at any period of his career. 
 Bancroft paints the picture on the same lines but his colors are 
 more ornate. The records of the British State Paper OflSce, 
 now in print, are accessible in our larger libraries, and the 
 Boston Public Library has a choice, unique and most interesting 
 and valuable collection of proclamations and broadsides issued 
 during this exciting crisis. 
 
 During his second term in the Chief Magistracy, lasting three 
 years and ending in his ninetieth year, Bi'adstreet filled that 
 honorable place to general acceptance. There may have been 
 more picturesque figures in the life of that day, and there may 
 have been more aggressive forces, — there were many younger 
 and more ambitious aspirants in the political life of the Colony. 
 But it is fair to say that, at each recurring period of popular 
 election, no other man was seriously thought of for that trying 
 post while the Nestor Governor could be retained. He was not 
 inactive. Nova Scotia was conquered and annexed, and Canada 
 was attacked, and his policy seems to have been to be able, 
 if possible, to offer to the home government a confederacy 
 stretching from the St. Lawrence to the Hudson, in considera- 
 tion of the broader Charter rights to which the Province, now- 
 loyal to the new but not too friendly dynasty, believed herself 
 entitled. New England grew in her general resources if not 
 in her financial capacity, she grew in her population, she 
 broadened in her political philosophy, and in her demands on 
 the reigning dynasty in England. At last, in 1692, Bradstreet 
 was able, as he had long been ready, to surrender his high oflSce 
 to a new and younger governor, under a new and in some 
 respects a better Charter, and to retire from a position of stress 
 and peril to the five years of rest which he had earned so well, 
 and which he passed at Salem, having married there, in 1676, a 
 niece of Governor Winthrop. On his death, March 27, 1697, 
 says Palfrey, he was the last survivor of those founders w'ho had 
 been chosen to the Magistracy before they came from England. 
 " When he emigrated he was twenty-eight years old ; he lived 
 to complete his ninety-fifth year. The General Court voted to 
 
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 contribute a hundred pounds towards the expenses of his burial, 
 in consideration of his long and extraordinary service." He 
 was buried at Salem with a good deal of ceremony, and the 
 diary of Chief Justice Sewall, one of his pall-bearers, details 
 the unusual honors paid his memory. '■ He had been Secretary 
 of the Colony," Palfrey adds, " an Assistant forty-six years, 
 a Commissioner of the Confederacy twenty- four times. Agent to 
 England, Deputy Governor and Governor. Not often has a 
 human memory been laden with experiences more diversified. 
 A youth passed amidst the refinements of old civilization, — 
 then the destitution of a wilderness and conflicts with savage 
 men, — the growth of a virtuous and vigorous Commonwealth, — 
 its subversion, resurrection and reorganization under restricted 
 but permanent conditions, — such was the outline of nearly a 
 century's events traced by the recollections of a leading actor 
 in them." 
 
 New England must be rich indeed in the great characters of 
 history if she can afford to forget so sound, so safe, so broad- 
 minded, so sturdy a magistrate amongst her honored list as 
 Simon Bradstreet ! 
 
 Following Mr. Rantoul, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell 
 Holmes, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, spoke 
 briefly, as follows : — 
 
 We are told by scholars that the Greeks and Romans built 
 up their cities and their civilization on the worship of their 
 ancestors and care for the shadowy needs of the dead. That 
 ancient religion has vanished, but the reverence for venerable 
 traditions remains. I feel it to my finger tips, but with just the 
 change from personal and family story to the larger, vaguer, but 
 not less inspiring belief that we tread a sacred soil. I have 
 been too busy trying to account for myself to stop to account 
 for my ancestors. I have the poems of Ann Bradstreet, that 
 pale passion flower of our first spring, but I do not read them 
 often, and I cannot say much more of Governor Dudley than 
 that what I once wrongly thought his portrait, in modest form, 
 hangs in my house. But I love every brick and shingle of the 
 old Massachusetts towns where once they woi'ked and prayed, 
 and I think it a noble and pious thing to do whatever we may 
 by written word and moulded bronze and sculptured stone to 
 keep our memories, our reverence and our love alive and to 
 hand them on to new generations all too ready to forget. 
 
 It may be that we are to be replaced by other races that 
 come here with other traditions and to whom at first the great 
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 past of Massachusetts seems, as they sometimes proclaim it, but 
 the doings in a corner of a little band of provincial heretics. 
 But I am bold to hope that the mighty leaven that swelled the 
 hearts of the founders of this Commonwealth still works and 
 will work even under altered forms, — that their successors will 
 keep the state what the founders made it, a hearthstone for 
 sacred fire. 
 
 We all, the most unbelieving of us, walk by faith. We 
 do our work and live our lives not merely to vent and realize our 
 inner force, but with a blind and trembling hope that somehow 
 the world will be a little better for our striving. Our faith 
 must not be limited to our personal task, to the present, or 
 even to the future. It must include the past and bring all, 
 past, present and future, into the unity of a single continuous 
 life. We consecrate these memorials of what has been with 
 the intent and expectation that centuries from now those who 
 read the simple words will find their lives richer, their purposes 
 stronger, against the background of that different past. 
 
 From early days there have been built in the ports of Essex 
 County, or drawn to them from neighboring towns, boats that 
 were to seek from them new harbors across the barren sea. So, 
 in altered guise, long may it be with us. Long may it be true, 
 as it still is, that not only we, descendants of the stern old 
 builders, but many others from afar who come here to launch 
 their craft may send to all the havens of the world new 
 thoughts and tlie impulses of great deeds. To the accomplish- 
 ment of that prayer it is no slight help to feel that we have a 
 past, to remember that many generations of men have stored 
 the earth — yes, this very spot — with electric example. Modest 
 as they are, the monuments now unveiled seem to me trumpets 
 which two hundred years from now may blow the great battle 
 calls of life, as two hundred years ago those whom they com- 
 memorate heard them in their hearts. And to many a gallant 
 spirit, two hundred years from now as two hundred years ago, 
 the white sands of Ipswich, terrible as engulfing graves, lovely 
 as the opal flash of fairy walls, will gleam in the horizon, the 
 image of man's mysterious goal. 
 
 Augustine Jones, A.M., of Providence, Principal of 
 the Friends School, was the next speaker. 
 
 THOMAS DUDLEY. 
 
 It is now a year since I visited in England and Holland the 
 homes and haunts of the New England Puritans and Pilgrims. 
 
 I am sure no places can be more sacred or interesting than 
 the humble dwellings and their neighborhood, where these heroic 
 
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 souls were nurtured : — the homes of Isaac aud Arbella John- 
 son, of Dudley, Bradstreet, Bradford and Brewster. We 
 wander over the same permanent highways, familiar to them. 
 
 Nothing perhaps affects us so much as the little village 
 churches, some of them five hundred years old, where these 
 memorable fathers and founders were christened, and married, 
 and where they learned to worship the living God. Thither 
 their feet in childhood were turned, here they caught early 
 thoughts of righteousness, which they built into the founda- 
 tions of their work in the new world. Here is St. Botolphs, in 
 Boston, Eng., with its perpendicular tower 300 feet high, the 
 finest church in its day, which Rev. John Cotton left, to minister 
 in a desolate cabin, with a straw thatched roof, in Boston, Mass. , 
 furnishing forever an illustrious example of devotion to duty, 
 and obedience to conviction. 
 
 We are assembled today upon one of the spots made notable 
 by these same historic personages. My friends, it is good for 
 us to be here. It is a noble work to cherish every spot made 
 bright by the presence of the founders of Massachusetts. 
 Edward Everett said, "I reverence, this side of idolatry, the 
 wisdom and fortitude of the revolutionary and constitutional 
 leaders, but I believe we ought to go back beyond them all, for 
 the real framers of the commonwealth." 
 
 Governor Thomas Dudley, a Puritan second only to Gov- 
 ernor John Winthrop in founding the Colony of Massachusetts, 
 and in its history from 1630 until 1653, was born at North- 
 ampton, England, in the year 1576. He was without doubt, 
 descended from John Sutton, the first Baron Dudley of Dudley 
 Castle. He was therefore connected by blood with the Duke 
 of Northumberland, Lord Guilford Dudley and Sir Philip 
 Sidney. We are not, however, unmindful that the greatness of 
 Governor Dudley arose not from his distinguished ancestry but 
 from his life work. Far above "The boast of heraldry, the 
 pomp of power," is the imperishable renown, of being one of 
 the foremost among the founders of this great state, dedicated 
 to liberty, to the freedom of human thought, to the worth and 
 excellence of individual character. 
 
 His youth was spent in the midst of wealth, luxury and 
 splendor. The Comptons were not Puritans, they intensely 
 enjoyed the good things of life. Here, in all the excess of 
 fashion and joviality, Dudley in robust youth and even to vig- 
 orous manhood took his leading share. When, in later years, 
 he was Governor of Massachusetts, a Puritan of Puritans, with 
 grave responsit)ilities, in peril from enemies at home and abroad, 
 and above all with a burning zeal for the welfare of Zion, when 
 "All his serious thoughts had rest in heaven," how often he 
 
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 must have recalled those frivolous days at Compton-Winyates 
 and Ashby Castle ! He survives in the memory of men, because 
 he had served mankind, while the gay throng who joined him in 
 the dance are forgotten. Here is an answer to those persons, 
 who allege that he was not well bred. 
 
 He resided for nearly fourteen years, from 1616, at, or near, 
 ancient Sempringham, in Lincolnshire. He was very success- 
 ful in the management of the estates of the Earl of Lincoln. 
 He discharged great debts, to the amount of one hundred 
 thousand dollars, and left the estate prosperous. Perhaps 
 one of the most marvelous features in it, after all, was that he 
 acquired such an ascendency over the Earl, that he allowed him 
 to restrain his expenditures. He was entrusted even with the 
 delicate service of procuring a match between the daughter of 
 Lord Say and the Earl. Dudley conferred enduring immortality 
 upon this ladj^ by writing to her a letter from his desolate home 
 in Boston, Mass., which will be thoughtfully and gratefully read 
 by citizens of the United States forever, while the brilliant 
 women, who were her companions in society, will be forgotten. 
 
 The time had arrived in 1630 when he was to make his pil- 
 grimage to America, never to return. He had no need to 
 make a business adventure over the ocean, he was now retired 
 from business, and was one of the most affluent men in the 
 Colony in America. If the indispensable things of life did not 
 draw him from the comfort and luxury of Old England, what 
 were the motives? Certainly nothing less than the desire for 
 civil and religious liberty, for himself and his posterity. So 
 soon as he was assured that the Massachusetts charter would 
 go to America with them, and that the possibilities of a pure 
 church and noble state lay before them, he consulted not with 
 flesh and blood, but joined in the adventure. Mather says 
 "The times began to look black and cloudy upon the Non-con- 
 formists, of which Mr. Dudley was one to the full." The king 
 was glad to get rid of them ; freedom to worship God was 
 before them. " The Puritans," says Lowell, "were the most 
 perfect incarnation of an idea that the world has seen." 
 
 Dudley had twenty-three years before him ; they were a 
 glorious remnant of life, full of self saciificing privations, upon 
 which he entered "with firmness in the right, as God gave liim 
 to see the right." The most important emigration to America, 
 which was ever made (it saved the Pilgrims at Plymouth) and 
 it is sometimes said, which has ever been made in the history 
 of the world, was about to be undertaken, and Dudley was to 
 have a leading part in it. 
 
 They sailed from Southampton March 22, 1630, in the ship 
 Arbella. Dudley had been elected Deputy Governor, an office 
 
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 which he held subsequently thirteen different years. He was 
 Governor four years, and President of the Commissioners of 
 the United Colonies three years. They issued upon their de- 
 parture a letter to the Church of England, full of loyalty to 
 her, which some persons have thought to have been insincere, 
 but they were destined to meet soon with many instructive les- 
 sons, which would rapidly lead them to independency. They 
 took with them the Charter of Massachusetts, which act of 
 transfer has been criticised, but it has recently been ascertained 
 that before their departure, the clause confining the govern- 
 ment to England had been removed from it by agreement, and 
 their action thoroughly justified. 
 
 They arrived in America in June, 1630. They were not sat- 
 isfied with Salem as a permanent home, because of the loss 
 there of eighty emigrants before their arrival. They dwelt in 
 Charlestown for a short time, but some of them, including 
 Winthrop and Dudley, spent their first winter in Boston. They 
 entered on the 13th day of July into the Covenant of the 
 First Church of Boston, and chose Rev. Mr. Wilson as their 
 teacher. Their mode of church institution was not in accord 
 with the Church of England. It was like the method of the 
 Separatists in the Plymouth Colony. The earlier church at 
 Salem was possessed with the same independency. 
 
 " Hail to the spirit wMch dared 
 Trust its own thoughts before yet 
 Echoed him back by the crowd !" 
 
 It has been asserted also, that their government was a Theoc- 
 racy, that is to say a government, or organized system of 
 priests like the Hebrews. This was never true of the govern- 
 ment of Massachusetts. Ministers were not allowed positions 
 in the civil government. They were consulted, as the Supreme 
 Court now is, by the executive, as to the meaning of law. They 
 were a body most learned as to the meaning of Scripture ; and 
 the Bible was their statute book. It might as well be claimed 
 that the judiciary and not the executive rules the state. That 
 none but church members possessed the franchise has been re- 
 garded as important and as establishing a Theocracy, but every 
 government is arbitrary and guided by policy in extending the 
 franchise to citizens. It is declared not to be a constitutional 
 right guaranteed to anybody even at the present time. The 
 Christian religion always has been fundamental in the govern- 
 ment, the whole common law rests upon it, as a foundation, 
 but that is no reason why the government should be denomi- 
 nated a Theocracy. 
 
 One of the first diflaculties these people had to encounter was 
 
38 EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLETS. 
 
 Roger Williams, who is generally said to have beeu banished to 
 Rhode Island, but no act of banishment was ever enforced upon 
 him. He was to have been sent to England ; but, to avoid this, 
 he went voluntarily to Rhode Island. The teachings of Williams 
 were then believed, in Massachusetts, to be subversive of law 
 and order. He was at the head of his own government in 
 Rhode Island only a little over two years, and that period was 
 long after Dudley and Winthi'op were gone. A careful exami- 
 nation will lead one to sympathize with the executive of Mas- 
 sachusetts and with its efforts to save its holy experiment of 
 government. 
 
 The career of Thomas Dudley in England, before he came to 
 America at the age of lifty-four, was highly creditable, and 
 was fully sustained by his life and subsequent character here. 
 He belonged to that immediate age, after the Bible came to 
 the English common people. He delighted in the preaching 
 of the greatest and most learned Puritan divines, both in Eng- 
 land and America. The government of Massachusetts w^as 
 substantially organized, as we at present know it, while Dudley 
 and Winthrop were still living, so that we may well regard it, 
 as the work of these early founders, and their associates. 
 Mr. Dudley was a Puritan of the Cromwell, Pym and Hampden 
 school of men. They were indeed associated personally in 
 several matters ; they were all God-fearing, honest, reliable and 
 trustworthy. No other family had such a hold on the govern- 
 ment and the high places of power before or since, as the 
 Dudleys held in Massachusetts in its first century. 
 
 It has been said, that these men had no conception of the 
 magnitude of the foundations they were laying, that they were 
 building better than they knew. Jt is not that the greatness of 
 the superstructure was revealed to them. But the generic quality 
 of the government came from their hands completely outlined, 
 and their descendants have only wrought out in detail the con- 
 ception and ideal of the fathers. 
 
 We may reasonably cherish the thought, that so long as 
 government by the people interests mankind, that so long as 
 men study and search for immemorial freedom in democratic 
 Athens, or in the mountains of Switzerland, or along the dykes 
 of Holland, the Puritans of England and Massachusetts will 
 be regaided as the crowning glory of all whicli went before 
 them. Royalty overwhelmed them in Europe ; it was only in 
 New England that they survived and advanced to ultimate 
 achievement. 
 
 It is a question whether, if Rev. Thomas Hooker and Gov- 
 ernor Haynes and other Cambridge people had not emigrated 
 to Connecticut in 1635, Governor Dudley and his family and 
 
EXERCISES AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLETS. 39 
 
 friends would have removed to Ipswich. Dudley went soon 
 after his first term as Governor. Hooker and Cotton were 
 antagonistic and so were Wiuthrop and Haynes. Dr. John Eliot 
 says, " had Hooker been called to tlie Church in Boston, and 
 Mr. Haynes had no rival in Winthrop, it is most probable they 
 would have continued with their people in Massachusetts," and 
 the emigration which interests us today would not have taken 
 place. These dispersions were all of the greatest importance 
 in the settlements. Dr. George E. Ellis says that the Antino- 
 mian troubles in Massachusetts were the cause. Cotton Mather 
 says that the country soon found need of Dudley's wisdom and 
 joyously welcomed his return to Rosbury near to Boston, a 
 little before his second election as Governor. 
 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
 
 The Annual Meeting of the Ip&wich Historical Society 
 was held on Monday evening Dec. 1, 1902, at the House 
 of the Society. The following officers were elected for 
 the year ensuing : 
 
 Pi^esident. — T. Frank Waters. 
 Vice Presidents. — John B. Brown, 
 
 Francis R. Appleton. 
 Clerk. — John W. Goodhue. 
 Directors. — Charles A. Say ward, 
 John H. Cogswell, 
 John W. Nourse. 
 Correspondt7ig Secretary. — John H. Cogswell. 
 Treasurer. — T. Frank Waters. 
 Librarian. — John J. Sullivan. 
 
 The following Committees were chosen : 
 
 On Historical Tablets. 
 
 Charles A. Say ward, 
 John H. Cogswell, 
 John B. Brown, 
 T. Frank Waters. 
 
 Social Coivimittee. 
 
 Ralph W. Burnham, 
 Chester P. Woodbury, 
 Edward Constant, 
 Mrs. Charles A. Say ward, 
 Mrs. John J. Sullivan, 
 Miss Susan C. Whipple, 
 Miss Bertha Dobson, 
 Mrs. Cordelia Damon, 
 Miss Anna W. Ross. 
 
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ANNUAL REPORT. 41 
 
 Ox Membership. 
 
 John W. Nourse, 
 Ralph W. Burnham, 
 Robert S. Khnball, 
 Mrs. Harriet E. Noyes, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brown. 
 
 The Reports of the Treasurer, Curator and President 
 were read and ordered to be printed. 
 
 It was voted that a Life Membership be established and 
 that the admittance fee be fifty dollars. 
 
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE IPSWICH 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 The most interesting event in the history of the past 
 year is the purchase of the remainder of the lot of land, 
 including the old barn, which has been an unsightly and a 
 somewhat dangerous neighbor. The removal of this 
 building will enhance the appearance of our house and 
 grounds very materially, and ample room is provided for 
 the erection at some future date, and an early one, we 
 hope, of a Memorial Building. Such a building is needed 
 already to allow room for the expanding collections, and 
 to provide proper accommodations for meetings and social 
 occasions. 
 
 The price paid for this land was large, and we regret 
 that the mortgage debt of the Society is increased to 
 $3,500. But the wisdom of the purchase will not be 
 questioned, since the acquisition of this land is of vital 
 importance. Although the sum needed for payment of 
 interest is increased to $140 per year, this is a very 
 reasonable rental for a property that is so finely situated 
 and so admirably adapted to our use. The Treasurer's 
 report assures us as well, that no heavy burden will be 
 entailed by this investment. The revenue from member- 
 ship fees and incidental gifts during the past year has 
 been $48G.53, and the income from the House, from door 
 fees and the sale of pictures, etc., has added $162.11, 
 making the total receipts $648.64. The House receipts 
 were only six dollars smaller than last year, and the 
 number of visitors exceeded by nearly a hundred the 
 recorded list of the previous year. There seems no 
 reason to believe that the number of visitors will not re- 
 main as large at least in the future. The income from 
 yearly dues is larger each year. Notwithstanding some 
 
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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 43 
 
 unusual expense for painting, papering, varnishing of 
 floors and the like, a balance of two hundred and thirteen 
 dollars remains in the treasury. 
 
 Apart from the financial strength that accrues from a 
 large membership, it is gratifying to our pride that our 
 Society has attained a position in the community that 
 renders membership desirable. It numbers noAv about 
 two hundred and fifteen active members, each of whom 
 pays an annual due, and forty-six honorary members. 
 Many are non-residents w^ho are interested in the Town 
 as the home of their ancestors, and many more are resi- 
 dent for the summer only. One of our number, Dr. E. 
 S. Goodhue, is the Government Ph3^sician in "Wailuku, 
 in the island of Maui, in the Hawaiian group ; another, 
 Mr. Joseph K. Farley, resides in Lihue, Kauai, in the 
 same group, and some are found upon the Pacific coast. 
 
 Our House is always a source of enthusiastic delight to 
 visitors, who appreciate its architectural value. Cultured 
 people from many towns and cities in our Commonwealth 
 and from twenty-eight other States, have visited the House 
 during the past year, and their verdict is always the same : 
 that the House is the most remarkable specimen of the 
 earliest architecture they have ever seen. So eminent an 
 authority as the Hon. George Sheldon of Deerfield, who 
 has been a life-long student of the antique and has 
 gathered an unrivalled collection of old-time treasures, 
 after a minute inspection, gave the House unstinted praise 
 as the finest of ancient buildings of our colony, and com- 
 plimented the Society on the excellence of its exhibit. 
 
 To promote acquaintance with the House and its con- 
 tents an occasional free day has been advertised. It was 
 opened in this w^ay on the twenty-second of February, and 
 also on July thirty-first. Notwithstanding the opportunity 
 thus afforded to those who are not members, or who 
 might be deterred by the usual admittance fee, only two 
 hundred and fifty-one residents of Ipswich were recorded 
 during the year. As familiarity always breeds contempt, 
 we presume that this neglect is likely to continue. But 
 any scheme that would tend to popularize it with our 
 townspeople, would be for the advantage of the Society. 
 Those who come always express surprise, and confess to 
 new interest. 
 
44 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 The courtesies of the House were also extended to the 
 Ipswich Woman's Club, the North Bridge Chapter of the 
 Daughters of the Revohition from Salem, the Historical 
 Class of the Crombie Street Church, Salem, and the Con- 
 vention of Epworth Leagues. 
 
 The Social Committee gave an antique supper which 
 proved an admirable social occasion and may have intro- 
 duced many to the House for the first time. Miss E. 
 Agnes Constant is entitled to the sincere thanks of the 
 Society for the delightful benefit concert given on Thanks- 
 giving evening in the Town Hall, which netted twenty 
 dollars for our treasury. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. 
 Burnham, who have done so much for the House, removed 
 to Philadelphia early in September, but we hope for their 
 return for the summer of 1903. Miss Abbie M. Fellows 
 very kindly served as resident curator for a few weeks, 
 and Mrs. Colman Tyler began her work as curator pro 
 tern., in October. Each and all have kept the House with 
 the nice painstaking care which is a theme of constant 
 praise, and a cordial welcome has been given to all visi- 
 tors, though they may have come at inconvenient hours. 
 
 By the liberality of the Town, funds were provided for 
 the erection of bronze tablets, this year. One is bolted 
 to the ledge on Meeting House Hill, and tells briefly the 
 date of the settlement, and the points of interest that 
 centre there. Another marks the site of Simon and Ann 
 Bradstreet's dwelling, and a third, the site of Governor 
 Dudley's residence. The exercises of dedication were 
 held on July 31st, when Hon. Robert S. Rantoul of 
 Salem, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Augus- 
 tine Jones, Esq., Principal of the Friends' School, 
 Providence, R. I., delivered appropriate and eloquent 
 addresses. Other localities deserve similar honor, and a 
 continuance of the work should be made. 
 
 Now that the heavy expense of repairing and restoring 
 the House has been fully met, we may face with courage 
 and high ambition the task, not merely of extinguishing 
 the debt but of securing funds for the erection of the 
 Memorial Building to which allusion has been made. 
 Many people of wealth and refinement have sprung from 
 Ipswich ancestry. It is so much in fashion in these days 
 to give generously for libraries and memorials in the old 
 
EEPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 45 
 
 family home, that no apology is needed to explain any 
 appeal that may be made for this purpose. 
 
 The great names of Winthrop and Dudley and Salton- 
 stall, of the famous ministers, of the soldiers Denison and 
 Samuel Appleton, of the patriots of 1687, John Wise 
 and his associates, and the grand deed they accomplished 
 in the Ipswich Town Meeting, the names of soldiers in 
 many wars, and of citizens who won honor for themselves in 
 the quiet affairs of civil life, — all need to be grouped har- 
 moniously and chiselled in stone or bronze, as an eternal 
 memorial of their fair fame, and an illuminating and in- 
 spiring appeal to high living in each succeeding generation. 
 Such a Hall of Fame would be an educational factor of 
 great value, and a constant source of pride in our town 
 and its history. The expansion of our work that would 
 follow easily and naturally from it would raise our Society 
 to unique and broad distinction. Before another twelve 
 months have passed, shall we not witness a substantial 
 beginning of this great and honorable enterprise? 
 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR 
 
 OF THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 
 ENDING DEC. 1, 1902. 
 
 The total number of names of visitors entered in the 
 Visitors' Book was 1097. 
 
 The total number of residents of Ipswich recorded was 
 251 and the number of residents in the state of Massa- 
 chusetts, not including residents of Ipswich was 533. 
 The total of Massachusetts visitors was 784. 
 
 The remainder were residents of nearl}' every state in 
 the Union, as will appear from the following tabulation, 
 covering four years. 
 
 1899 1900 1901 1902 
 
 Alabama, 2 
 
 Arkansas, . . . - - I 
 
 California, 4 6 2 4 
 
 Colorado, 3 116 
 
 Connecticut, 9 17 3 5 
 
 Dist. of Columbia, - - - - 4 6 13 23 
 
 Florida, 2 1 1 2 
 
 Georgia, 1 1 2 
 
 Illinois, 12 38 32 33 
 
 Indiana, 4 2 2 
 
 Iowa, 1 1 7 4 
 
 Kansas, 3 
 
 Kentucky, 3 4 1 
 
 Louisiana, ..... 2 3 11 1 
 
 Maine, 12 19 13 10 
 
 Maryland, 6 4 8 9 
 
 Massachusetts, ----- 918 1200 708 784 
 
 Michigan, 9 8 4 2 
 
 Minnesota, 6 16 12 4 
 
 Missouri, 5 9 6 8 
 
 Montana, 1 
 
 Nebraska, 1 1 3 
 
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REPORT OF THE CURATOR. 47 
 
 1899 1900 1901 1902 
 
 New Hampshire, 21 
 
 New Jersey, 14 
 
 New York, 42 
 
 North Carolina, - . . . o 
 
 North Dakota, 
 
 Ohio, 5 
 
 Oregon, 
 
 Pennsylvania, ----- 33 
 
 Rhode Island, 4 
 
 South Dakota, . - - - 
 
 Tennessee, 
 
 Texas, 2 
 
 Vermont, 6 
 
 Virginia, 5 
 
 West Virginia, 
 
 Wisconsin, 3 
 
 Washington, 
 
 Germany, 
 
 New Brunswick, 1 
 
 Nova Scotia, 2 
 
 1,134 1,513 1,008 1052 
 
 On February 22, the House was opened to the public 
 and 31 names of visitors were recorded. 
 
 On February 28, an old-fashioned supper was served 
 and about 175 were present. No names were recorded 
 on this occasion. 
 
 The Ipswich Woman's Club held a Reception to officers 
 of other Clubs on April 14, and 64 names were recorded. 
 The North Bridge Chapter of the Daughters of the 
 Revolution from Salem were entertained on June 5. 
 Thirteen members were present. Twenty members of 
 the Historical Class of the Crombie Street Church, Salem, 
 were entertained on July 23. 
 
 On July 31, the day of the Dedication of the bronze 
 Tablets, 62 visitors recorded their names, and on Sept. 1, 
 48 delegates to the Convention of Epworth Leagues 
 visited the House. 
 
 Ralph W. Burnham, Cumtor. 
 
 16 
 
 10 
 
 17 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 79 
 
 70 
 
 59 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 7 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 38 
 
 19 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE IPSWICH 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 
 
 ENDING NOV. 29, 1902. 
 
 T. Frank Waters in account loith Ipswich Hist. Society, 
 
 Dr. 
 
 To Balance from 1901, 
 
 To door fees, sale of books aud pictures, - 
 
 To annual fees, gifts, etc., 
 
 To receipt from Concert, Nov. 27th, - 
 
 Cr. 
 To House account, 
 
 Care of grounds, 23 05 
 
 Care of house, - 26 96 
 
 Fuel, ... 24 85 
 
 Furniture account, 59 80 
 
 Hardware, paint, etc., 2 years, - - - - 16 70 
 
 Repairs, 24 10 
 
 Water bUl, - 18 89 
 
 Interest on mortgage, '■ ()4 00 
 
 Fire-extinguisher, 12 00 
 
 Photographs, 1818 
 
 To Printing account 
 
 Printing, 115 80 
 
 Postage, stationery, etc., 23 57 
 
 Miscellaneous, --.-.--- 
 Cash on hand, 
 
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 $37 92 
 
 162 11 
 
 466 23 
 
 20 30 
 
 $686 56 
 
 288 03 
 
 139 37 
 
 45 63 
 
 213 53 
 
 $686 56 
 
DONATIONS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 
 DEC. 1, 1902. 
 
 Daniel Fuller Appleton. Life and Speeches of Rufus Choate in 
 2 vols. 
 
 Miss Georgianna Appleton. Boston. Harvard College Plate made by 
 Enocli Wood & Sons. 
 
 Albert D. Burnham. Indian pestle. 
 
 Mrs. Walter Chapman. List of names. 
 
 Benjamin H. Conant. Wenhara Town Report, 1901. Catalogue of 
 Wenham Public Library. 
 
 DouBLEDAY, Page & Co., New York. Miss Esther Singleton's " Fur- 
 niture of our Forefathers," Nos. 5 to 8. 
 
 Mrs. Josiah Dudley and Miss S. Louise Holmes. Ancient deeds. 
 Dr. Daniel Dana's sermon on death of Mr. Benjamin Moody, 1802. 
 
 Old Eliot. 1902. 
 
 Mrs. Robert Farley. China tea-pot. 
 
 Rev. J. Edward Flower, London, Eng. Photograph of Stocks on 
 the Village Green, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, 
 Drawing of the Stocks and Whipping Post, Portskewett, near 
 Chepston, Monmouthshire, England. Photograph of "Ye Ancient 
 Ducking Stool," Leominster Priory Church, England. 
 
 Miss Elizabeth W. G.\rdner, Salem. Two hand-woven towels An 
 Oration delivered at Ipswich, April 29, 1783: "On account of 
 the Happy Restoration of Peace," by Rev. Levi Erisbie. 
 
 Joshua B. Grant. Edward Everett's address at the erection of 
 a monument to John Harvard, Sept. 26, 1828. Mr. Eliot's sermon 
 at the Ordination of Mr. Joseph McKean, and other pamphlets. 
 
 Dr. Samuel A. Green, Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society. 
 Pamphlet. Two Narratives of the Expedition against Quebec, A.D. 
 1690, under Sir William Phips : one by Rev. John Wise of Ips- 
 wich, the other by an unknown author. 
 
 George F. Hovey. Two pamphlets. 
 
 Miss S. Louise Holmes. F"'ile of The New York Independent, Jan. 
 12, 1854 to Dec. 27, 1855. Five Commissions of Henry S. Holmes, 
 signed by Gov. Levi Lincoln. Loan, a white silk bridal bonnet. 
 
 Ipswich Public Library. Duplicates of Ipswich Seminary Cata- 
 logues. 
 
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50 DONATIONS TO THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 Miss Bethiah Kinsman. Straw hat woru in West Indies, pocket 
 
 books, etc., owned by her father, William Kinsman. 
 Clarence Newman. Temperance pledge with list of names. Small 
 trunk owned by William Cakes. Lock from old Ipswich Jail. 
 
 Estate op Benjamin Newman. Collection of minerals. One old 
 circular plane. A foot stove. 
 
 New York State Library. Calendar of Council Minutes, 1668-1783. 
 Public papers of George Clinton, first Governor of New York. 
 Vol. V. 
 
 Miss Hannah M. Peatfield. History of New England by Hannah 
 Adams, 1807. Biography of the principal American Military and 
 Naval Heroes, 2 vols. 1821. 
 
 Miss Margaret Peatfield. Three old books. 
 
 Records of the Court of Assistants of Massachusetts Bay, 
 Vol. I. 
 
 Charles H. Bicker. An old-fashioned door lock. A tinder box 
 A sand shaker. A roasting iron. 
 
 Timothy B. Ross. Piece of metallic fringe, used in decorating a 
 triumphal arch that spanned Choate Bridge, when Lafayette 
 visited Ipswich, June, 1824, preserved by Asa Andrews, Esq. 
 
 George A. Schofield. Manual General Court, 1902. 
 
 Col. Nath. Shatswell. Souvenir, First Regiment of Heavy Artil- 
 lery, Mass. Vol., dedication of monument. May 19, 1901. 
 
 Hon. Geo. Sheldon, Deerfleld. Vol. m. History and Proceedings 
 of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assoc. Pamphlets :" The 
 Little Brown House on the Albany Road " ; "Flint-lock or Match- 
 lock in King Philip's War" ; "The Flint-lock used in Philip's 
 War." 
 
 Edward A. Smith, Salem. Ancient Tapestry, wrought by Priscilla 
 Baker. 
 
 E. N. Spinney, Shelburne Falls. Ancient papers, Howe and Proctor 
 families. 
 
 Robert C. Wenthrop, Jr., Boston. Copies of papers in suit of 
 Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Antipas Newman, of Wenham, daughter 
 of John Winthrop, Jr., to recover Salt House property. Royal 
 side, Beverly, 1677. 
 
 Proceedings of State Historical Soctoty of Wisconsin, 1902. 
 
RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Dr. Charles E. Ames, 
 Daniel Fuller Appleton, 
 Mrs. Susan A. R. Appleton, 
 Francis R. Appleton, 
 Mrs. Frances L. Appleton, 
 James W. Appleton, 
 Randolph M Appleton, 
 Mrs. Helen Appleton, 
 Miss S. Isabel Arthur, 
 Dr. G. Guy Bailey, 
 Mrs. Grace F. Bailey, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth H. Baker, 
 Miss Katharine C. Baker, 
 Charles W. Bamtord, 
 Miss Mary 1) Bates, 
 John A. Blake, 
 Mrs. Caroline E. Bomer, 
 James W. Bond. 
 Warren Boynton, 
 Miss Annie Gertrude Brown, 
 Charles W. Brown, 
 Edward F. Brown, 
 Mrs. Carrie U. Brown, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brown, 
 Miss Isabelle G. Brown, 
 James W. Brown, 
 Mrs. Lavinia A. Brown, 
 Miss Alice G. Burnham, 
 Daniel S. Burnham, 
 Ralph W. Burnham, 
 Mrs. Nellie Mae Burnham, 
 Fred F. Byron, 
 Miss Joanna Caldwell, 
 Miss Lydia A. Caldwell, 
 Miss Sarah P. Caldwell, 
 Charles A. Campbell, 
 Mrs. Lavinia Campbell, 
 Edward W. Choate, 
 Philip E. Clarke, 
 Mrs. Mary E. Clarke, 
 Miss Lucy C. Coburn, 
 John H. Cogswell, 
 Theodore F. Cogswell, 
 Arthur VV. Conant, 
 Miss Harriet D. Condon, 
 
 Rev. Edward Constant, 
 Miss Roxie C. Cowles, 
 Charles S. Cummings, 
 Rev. Temple Cutler, 
 Arthur C. Damon, 
 Mrs. Carrie Damon, 
 Mrs. Cordelia Damon, 
 Everett G. Damon, 
 Harry K. Damon, 
 Mis.Abby Danforth, 
 Mrs. Grace Davis, 
 Mrs. Howard Dawson, 
 George G. Dexter, 
 Miss C. Bertha Dobson, 
 Harry K. Dodge, 
 Rev. .lohii M. Donovan, 
 Mrs. Sarah B. Dudley, 
 Mrs. Charles G. Dyer, 
 George Fall, 
 Miss Emeliiie C. Farley, 
 Mrs. Emma Farley, 
 Miss Lucy \i. Farley, 
 Miss Abbie M. Fellows, 
 Benjamin Fewkes, 
 James E. Gallagher, 
 John S. Glover, 
 Frank T. Goodhue, 
 John W. Goodhue, 
 John J. Gould, 
 Miss Harriet F. Gove, 
 James Gi'aflFum, 
 Mrs. Eliza H. Green, 
 Mrs. Lois Hardy, 
 Mrs. Kate L. Haskell, 
 George H. W. Hayes, 
 Mrs Alice L. Heard, 
 Miss Alice Heard, 
 John Heard, 
 
 Mrs. Louise S. Hodgkins, 
 Miss S. Louise Holmes, 
 Charles G. Hull, 
 Miss Lucy S. Jewett, 
 John A. Johnson, 
 Miss Ellen M. Jordan, 
 Albert Jovce, 
 Charles M. Kelly, 
 
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 NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Fred A. Kimball, 
 
 Robert S. Kimball, 
 
 Miss Bethiah I). Kinsman, 
 
 Miss Mary E. Kinsman, 
 
 Mrs Snsan K. Kinsman, 
 
 Dr. Frank W. Kyes, 
 
 Mrs. Georgia C Kyes, 
 
 Curtis E. Lakemaii, 
 
 J. Howard Lakeman, 
 
 G. Frank Langdon, 
 
 Mrs. G F. Langdon, 
 
 Austin L. Lord, 
 
 George A. Lord, 
 
 Miss Lucy Slade Lord, 
 
 Thomas H. Lord, 
 
 Mrs. Lucre tia S. Lord, 
 
 Walter E. Lord, 
 
 Dr. George E. Mac Arthur. 
 
 Mrs. Isabelle G. Mac Arthur, 
 
 James F. Maun, 
 
 John P. Marston, 
 
 Everard H. Martin, 
 
 Mrs. Marietta K. Martin, 
 
 Miss Abby L. Newman, 
 
 Mrs. Amanda Nichols, 
 
 William J. Norwood, 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth B Norwood, 
 
 John W. Nourse, 
 
 Charles H. Noyes. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet E. Noyes, 
 
 Ke\ . Reginald Pearce, 
 
 L E B. Perkins, 
 
 Miss Carrie S Pt-rley, 
 
 Augusiine H. Plouff, 
 
 James H. Proctor, 
 
 James S. Robinson, .Jr. 
 
 Mrs. Anna C. C. Robinson, 
 
 Rev. WiUiam H. Rogers, 
 
 Miss .Anna W. Ross, 
 
 Fred. G. Ross, 
 
 Mrs. Mary F. Rosa, 
 
 Jost'ph Ross, 
 
 Mrs. Joan Ross, 
 
 Joseph F. Ross, 
 
 Mrs. Helene Ross, 
 
 Dr. William H. Russell, 
 
 William S. Russell, 
 
 William W. Russell, 
 
 Daniel Saflbrd, 
 
 Emma Safford, 
 
 Angus Savory, 
 
 Charles A. Sayward, 
 
 Mrs. Henrietta W. Sayward 
 
 George A. Scho field, 
 
 Amos E. Scotton, 
 
 Dexter M. Smith, 
 
 Mrs. Olive P. Smith, 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth K. Spaulding, 
 
 George W. Starkey, 
 
 Dr. Frank H. Stock well, 
 
 Mrs. Sadie B. Stockwell, 
 
 Edward M. Sullivan, 
 
 John J. Sullivan, 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Sullivan, 
 
 Arthur L. Sweetser, 
 
 John E. Tenney, 
 
 Mrs. Annie T. Tenney, 
 
 Samuel H. Thurston, 
 
 Miss Ellen R. Trask, 
 
 Francis H. Wade, 
 
 Miss Nellie F. Wade, 
 
 Miss Emma E. Wait, 
 
 Luther Wait, 
 
 Rev. T. Frank Waters, 
 
 Mrs. Adeline M. Waters, 
 
 Miss Susan C. Whipple, 
 
 Fred G. Whittier, 
 
 Mrs Marianna Whittier, 
 
 Miss Eva Adams Willcomb, 
 
 Chester P. Woodbury, 
 
 NON-RKSIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Frederick J. Alley 
 
 Mrs. .Vlary G. Alley 
 
 Henry Brown* 
 
 John B Brown* 
 
 Mrs. Lucy T. Brown* 
 
 Frank T. Burnham 
 
 Rev. Augustine Caldwell 
 
 El>en Caldwell 
 
 Miss Florence F. Caldwell 
 
 Rufns Choate 
 
 E. Harry Clegg 
 
 Dr. Richard H. Derby 
 
 Flarailton, Mass. 
 
 Melrose, Mass. 
 . Chicago, HI. 
 
 So. Framinghain, Mass. 
 
 Eliot, Me. 
 
 Elizabeth, N. J. 
 
 . Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Essex, Mass. 
 
 Gloucester, Mass. 
 
 . New York, N. Y. 
 
 ♦Sunnner lionie In Ipswich. 
 
HONORAKY MKMHKR8. 
 
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 Joseph 1). Dodge 
 Mrs. Editli S. Dole . 
 Arthur W. Dow* 
 Joseph K. Farley 
 Sylvanus C. Farley . 
 ])r. E. S. Goodhue . 
 Samuel V. Goodhue 
 Miss Mary A. Hodgdou 
 Key. Horace C Hovey 
 Miss Huth A. Hovey 
 Gerald L. Hoyt* 
 Mrs. May Hoyt* 
 Miss Julia Hoyt* 
 Lydig Ho>t* 
 Edward Kavanagh 
 Arthur S Kimball . 
 Rev. John C. Kimball 
 Rev. Frederic J Kiusman 
 Mrs. Caroline E. Le Baron 
 Mrs. Mary B. Main . 
 Miss Heloise Meyer 
 Mis. Anna Osgood* . 
 Rev. Robert B. Parker* 
 Moritz B. Phillpp* . 
 Benjamin W. Pierson 
 Fred. H. Plouff, 
 A. David.son Remick 
 James E. Richardson 
 Mrs. Lucv C. Roberts 
 Mrs. E. M. H. Slade . 
 Edward A. Smith 
 Miss Elizabeth P. Smith 
 Mrs. Harriette A. Smith* 
 Henrv P- Smith 
 Rev. "r. Cotton Smith* 
 Mrs. Alice L. Story 
 Rev. William H. Thayer* 
 Bayard Tuckerman* 
 Charles S. Tuckta-man* 
 Charles H. Tweed 
 Miss Laura B. Uuderhill* 
 Miss Martha E. Wade 
 Miss Annie L. Warner 
 Mrs. Caroline L Warner 
 Henrv C. Warner 
 Wallace P. Willett . 
 Mrs. Elizal)eth Willett 
 Robert D. Winthrop 
 Chalmers Wood* 
 
 Lynn, Mass. 
 Newbury, Mass. 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 Lihue, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. 
 Alton, ni. 
 Wailuku, Maui, Hawaiian Islands. 
 Salem, Mass. 
 Forest Grove, Ore. 
 Newburyport, Mass. 
 Lake Mohonk, N. Y. 
 New York. N. Y. 
 
 Essex, Mass. 
 
 Oberlin, O. 
 
 Sharon, Mass. 
 
 Middiebury, Conn. 
 
 Chardon, O. 
 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 
 Hamilton, Mass. 
 
 Orange, N. J. 
 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
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 Salem, Mass. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Salem, Mass. 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Salem, Mass. 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Essex, Mass. 
 
 Southboro, Mass. 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 New York, N, Y. 
 
 Somerville, Mass. 
 Swampscott, Mass. 
 
 East Orange, N. J. 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 John Albree. Jr. 
 William Sumner Appleton 
 Miss Lucy Hammatt Brown 
 Mrs. Edward Cordis 
 
 Swampscott, Mass. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
 
 * Summer home in Ipswich. 
 
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 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Charles W. Darling 
 Miss Caroline Farley 
 Frank C. Farley 
 Mrs. Katherine S. Farley 
 Mrs. Eunice W. Kelton 
 Jesse Fewkes . 
 Reginald Foster 
 Augustus P. Gardner 
 Charles L. Goodhne 
 Mrs. Elizabeth K. Gray, 
 Miss Emily R. Gray 
 Arthur W.' Hale 
 Albeit Farley Heard, 2d 
 Otis Kimball 
 Mrs. Otis Kimball 
 Miss Sarah S. Kimball 
 Frederick J. Kingsbury 
 Miss Caroline T. Leeds 
 Miss Katherine P. Loring 
 Mrs. Susan M. Loiing 
 Mrs. Elizai)eth R. Lyman 
 Josiah H. Mann 
 Miss Adeline E. Manning 
 Henry S. Manning 
 Mrs. Mary W. Manning 
 George von L. Meyer 
 Miss Esther Parmenter 
 Mrs. Mary S. C. Peahody, 
 Frederic H. Ringe 
 Richard M. Saltoiistall 
 Denison R. Slade 
 Joseph Spiller 
 Miss Ellen A. Stone 
 Miss Ann H Treadwell 
 Harry W. Tyler 
 Albert Wade 
 Edward P. Wade 
 George Willcomb 
 Robert C. Winthrop, Jr. 
 
 Utica 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 Cambridge, 
 So. Manchester, 
 
 Mass 
 Conn 
 
 Cambridge, 
 Newton, 
 
 Mass 
 Mass 
 
 Boston, 
 
 Mass 
 
 Hamilton, 
 
 Mass 
 
 SpringHeld, 
 Ipswicli, 
 
 Mass 
 
 Mass 
 
 Sauqiioit 
 Winchester, 
 
 N. Y 
 
 Mass 
 
 Boston, 
 
 Mass 
 
 Salem, Mass. 
 
 Water bury, Conn. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 . Brookline, Mass. 
 
 Ipswich, Mass. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 . New York, N. Y. 
 
 Home, Italy. 
 
 Rowley, Mass. 
 
 Ipswich, Mass. 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Center Harbor, N. H. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 East Lexinaton, Mass. 
 
 Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Alton, 111. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
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PUBLICATIONS 
 
 IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 I. The Oration by Rev. Washington Choate and the Poem by Rev. 
 
 Edgar F. Davis, on the 200th Anniversary of the Resistance to 
 tbe Andros Tax, 1887. Price 25 cents. 
 
 II. The President's Address and other Proceedings at the Dedica- 
 
 tion of their new room, Feb. 3, 1896. Price 10 cents. 
 
 III. Unveiling of the Memorial Tablets at the South Common and 
 
 IV. Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, Dec. 7, 1896. Price 25 
 cents. 
 
 V. The Early Homes of the Puritans and Some Old Ipswich Houses, 
 
 v?ith Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, 1897. Price 60 cents. 
 (Out of print.) 
 
 VI. Exercises at the Dedication of the Ancient House with a History 
 
 of the House, and Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, 1898. 
 Out of print, but the History of the House is reprinted in Num- 
 ber X. 
 
 VII. A Sketch of the Life of John Winthrop the Younger, with 
 
 portrait and valuable reproductions of ancient documents 
 
 and auto c-"'^^ "^ '\v T. Frank Waters. Price .$2.50. Postage 
 13 cents. 
 
 VIII. "The Development of our Town Government" and "Com- 
 
 mon Lands and Commonage," with the Proceedings at the 
 Annual Meeting, 1899. Price 25 cents. 
 
 IX. A History of the Old Argilla Road in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 
 
 by T. Frank Waters. Price 25 cents. 
 
 X. •■ The Hotel Cluny of a New England Village," by Sylvester Bax- 
 
 ter, and the History of the Ancient House, with Proceedings 
 at the Annual Meeting, 1900. Price 25 cents. 
 
 he Meeting House Green and a Study of Houses and Lands in 
 that vicinity, with Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, Dec. 2, 
 1901. Price, 26 cents. 
 
 XII. 'J'hoiiias Dudley and Simon and Ann Bradstreet. A Study of 
 House-Lots to Determine the Location of Their Homes, and 
 the Exercises at the Dedication of Tablets, July 31, 1902, 
 
 -.villi Pi-nrppflii-iirs ^i tlip Aiinnnl Meeting, Dec. 1, 1902. 
 
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