Early Settlers of Ipswich, Massachusetts

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Ipswich is located in central Essex County and is 11 miles (18 km) south of Newburyport, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Gloucester, 13 miles (21 km) north of Salem, 20 miles (32 km) east of Lawrence, and 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Boston. It is bordered by Rowley to the north, Boxford to the west, and Topsfield, Hamilton, Essex and Gloucester to the south. (The border with Gloucester lies across Essex Bay, and as such there is no land connection between the two.)

Background

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Ipswich, Massachusetts was founded in 1634 in an area the Native Americans called “Agawam,” The historic neighborhoods of Meeting House Green, High Street, the East End, and the South Green offer well-preserved streetscapes of 17th to 19th-century residences. Resistance by the citizens of Ipswich to a tax imposed by the Crown in 1687 is commemorated in the town’s seal, which bears the motto, “The Birthplace of American Independence 1687.”

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Ipswich was founded by John Winthrop the Younger, son of John Winthrop, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and its first governor, elected in England in 1629. Several hundred colonists sailed from England in 1630 in a fleet of 11 ships, including Winthrop's flagship, the Arbella. Investigating the region of Salem and Cape Ann, they entertained aboard the Arbella for a day, June 12, 1630, a native chief of the lands to the north, Chief Masconomet.[2] The event was recorded in Winthrop's journal on the 13th, but Winthrop did not say how they overcame the language barrier. The name they heard from Masconomet concerning the country over which he ruled has been reconstructed as Wonnesquamsauke, which the English promptly rendered into the anglicized "Agawam". The colonists, however, sailed to the south where some buildings had already been prepared for them at a place newly named Charlestown.

John the Younger and 12 men aboard a shallop sailed into Ipswich harbor and took up residence there. Two men continued up the river (now River Road) to a large meadow, which they called New Meadows, now Topsfield. Agawam was incorporated on August 5, 1634,[3] as Ipswich, after Ipswich in the county of Suffolk, England. The name "Ipswich" was taken "in acknowledgment of the great honor and kindness done to our people which took shipping there."[4] Nathaniel Ward, an assistant pastor in town from 1634 to 1636, wrote the first code of laws for Massachusetts and later published the religious/political work, The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America[5] in England.

Pioneers would become farmers, fishermen, shipbuilders or traders. The tidal Ipswich River provided water power for mills, and salt marshes supplied hay for livestock. A cottage industry in lace-making developed. Ipswich Lace is a unique style, and the only known hand-made bobbin lace to be produced commercially in America. But in 1687, Ipswich residents, led by the Reverend John Wise, protested a tax imposed by the governor, Sir Edmund Andros. As Englishmen, they argued, taxation without representation was unacceptable. Citizens were jailed, but then Andros was recalled to England in 1689, and the new British sovereigns, William III and Mary II, issued colonists another charter. The rebellion is the reason the town calls itself the "Birthplace of American Independence".[6]

Settlers and early inhabitants of Ipswich

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Partial list, arranged alphabetically

1. Arthur Abbot, of Ipswich
2. George Abbot, of Rowley
3. George Abbot, of Andover
4. Nehemiah Abbot Rowley
5. William Adams of Ipswich, Mass.
6. William Adams, 1594-
7. Mary Warner Adams
8. Robert & William Addams
9. Edward Allin and Sarah Kimball
10. John Anderson
11. The Descendants of John Andrews by Betty Andrews Storey
12. Andrews family. A genealogy of Robert Andrews, and his descendants, 1635 to 1890
13. Robert Andrews
14. John Annable
15. William Ayers
16. John Ayers
17. Isaac Appleton
18. Samuel Appleton (Hammatt)
19. Samuel Appleton
20. Appleton Family
21. Ancestry Of Mary Isaac, C 1549-1613, Wife Of Thomas Appleton Of Little Waldingfield, Co. Suffolk & Mother Of Samuel Appleton Of Ipswich, Ma
22. Archer, Henry
23. Thomas Attwood
24. William and Abigail Averell
25. The Averell-Averill-Avery family : a record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.
26. Henry Bachelder
27. John Baker and Kathryn Perkins
28. Priscilla Baker
29. Priscilla Baker : who lived 1674-1731, and was wife of Isaac Appleton, of Ipswich
30. John and Hannah Barry
31. William Bartholomew
32. Joseph and Elizabeth Batcheller
33. Henry Batcheller
34. Martha Bradstreet Beale
35. Jeremy Belcher
36. Henry Bennett
37. Richard Betts
38. Christopher Bidlake
39. Joseph Bigsby
40. Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts,
41. Richard Bisgood
42. Thomas and Margaret Bishop
43. Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701
44. Joanna Blessing
45. Rebecca Bradstreet Bonfield
46. Thomas Borman
47. Daniel Bosworth
48. Christopher/Joseph Bowles
49. Boynton, William and John, Rowley
50. Richard Brabook
51. Rev. Thomas Bracy
52. Simon Bradstreet
53. The Bradstreets
54. Rebecca Bradstreet Bonfield
55. Bridget Bradstreet
56. Humphrey Bradstreet
57. John Bradstreet
58. Captain Moses Bradstreet
59. Edmund Bragg
60. Thomas Brewer
61. Crispus and Mary Brewer
62. Susannah Warner Brewer
63. John Bridgham
64. Edmund Bridges
65. A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Brown of Ipswich
66. Edward Brown
67. Richard and Mary Bryer
68. William Buckley
69. Giles Burley
70. Burnham, Foster, Andrews, Jewett
71. John Burnham
72. William and Sarah Butler
73. Matthias Button
74. John Caldwell and Sarah Dillingham Caldwell, his wife, Ipswich, Mass., 1654 : genealogical records of their descendants, eight generations, 1654-1900
75. The Caldwell Records
76. John and Sarah Caldwell (Hammatt)
77. John and Sarah (Dillingham) Caldwell
78. Joseph Calef, 1697
79. Robert Calef and Some of His Descendants
80. Phillip Call, 1662
81. Edward Chapman
82. Edward Chapman of Ipswich, Mass., 1642-1678, and his descendants
83. John Catcham, 1647
84. Edward Chapman, 1642-1678
85. Edward Chapman (Hammatt)
86. Ezekiel Cheever, schoolmasster
87. Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts
88. John Choate, 1648
89. The Choates in America
90. Lionel Chute, d. 1641
91. Thomas Clark, 1641
92. Jacob Clinton
93. Rachel Clinton
94. Rev. Thomas Cobbett
95. John Cogswell, 1635
96. Robert Coborne
97. Robert Coles, 1634
98. Joseph and Sarah Collins
99. Matthias Corwin
100. Giles and Agnes Cowes
101. Cox
102. Robert Crosse and Martha Treadwell, 1641
103. Abigail Estey Cumming
104. The Cummings Family
105. Isaac Cummings, 1601-1677 of Ipswich in 1638 and some of his descendants
106. Rev. Dr. John Dane, Jr., 1641
107. Amos Davis
108. Elizabeth Batcheller Davis
109. John Davis, 1641
110. George Davison, 1647
111. Robert Day of Ipswich, 1641
112. Edmund and Elizabeth Dear, 1650
113. Daniel Denison, 1635
114. Thomas and Grace Dennis
115. Andrew Diamond, 1673
116. John Dillingham, 1639
117. William Dirkey, 1664
118. Ralph Dix, 1641
119. Samuel and Mary Dodge, 1668
120. Dodge
121. Thomas Dorman, 1634
122. Thomas and Susana Dow, 1697
123. Thomas and Dorothy Dudley, 1639
124. Richard Dummer, 1659
125. William and Mary Dunton, 1695
126. Robert Dutch, 1648
127. Mary Kimball Dutch
128. Michael and Mary Dwinnell
129. Stephen Dwinnell
130. Elizabeth Fiske Dwinell
131. Nicholas Easton, 1634
132. John Edwards and Mary Sams, 1664
133. Ellsworth Family of Ipswich, MA Descendants
134. Emerson, 1636-1900
135. A genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Emerson of Ipswich, Mass.
136. Thomas Emerson, 1631
137. Capt. Daniel Epes, 1644
138. Estey Family
139. Benjamin Estey
140. Isaac Estey, Jr
141. John Estey
142. Richard Estey
143. Ruth Fiske Estey
144. Joseph and Mary Eveleth, 1676
145. Walter and Sarah Fairfield, 1695
146. Michael Farley, 1675
147. George Farrow, 1636
148. John Fawn, 1634
149. William Israel Fellows
150. Robert Filbrick, 1639
151. Giles Firmin, 1633
152. Thomas Firmin, 1641
153. Fiske and Warner Families
154. Benjamin Fiske
155. Joseph Fiske and Susannah Warner
156. Mark Fiske
157. Theophilus Fiske
158. Ruth Fiske
159. Susannah Warner Fiske
160. Joseph and Susanna Fisk, 1698
161. Robert Fitt, 1664
162. Reginald Foster
163. Col. Joseph Foster of Ipswich and Gloucester, Mass.
164. Reginald Foster, 1641
165. William Story and Sarah Foster
166. Elizabeth Fiske Foster
167. Sarah Dwinell Foster
168. Descendants of Philip and Mary Fowler
169. Phillip and Mary Fowler
170. Phillip and Mary Fowler, 1635 (Hammatt)
171. William Franklin, 1634
172. Thomas French, 1639
173. William Fuller, 1635
174. Some descendants of John Gage of Ipswich, Mass.
175. John Gage
176. John Gage, 1633
177. John Gaines, 1644
178. Descendants of John Gamage of Ipswich, Mass.
179. John Gamage, 1675
180. Bartholomay Gedney, 1640
181. George Giddings
182. George Giddings, 1641 (Hammatt)
183. Giddings
184. Humphrey Gilbert
185. Elizabeth Gilbert
186. Edward Gilman, 1648
187. History and genealogy of the Goodhue family : in England and America to the year 1890
188. William Goodhue, 1636
189. Samuel Graves, 1658
190. Humphrey Griffin, 1639
191. Henry Gould and Sarah Baker
192. John Grove and Hannah Lord, 1664
193. John Grow of Ipswich : John Groo (Grow) of Oxford
194. John Grow
195. George Hadley
196. Richard Haffield, 1635
197. Samuel Hall, 1638
198. Thomas Hardye, 1633
199. Thomas Harris in Ipswich, Mass, in 1636, and some of his descendents, through seven generations, to 1883
200. Elizabeth Harris
201. The Harris Family in Ipswich
202. Thomas Harris, 1636
203. John Harris
204. Bridget Harris
205. Thomas Hart, 1641
206. John Hassell, 1635
207. Elizabeth Warner Heard
208. Andrew Hidden, of Rowley,
209. William Hodgkins, 1654
210. Hannah Bradstreet Rolfe Holt
211. Daniel Hovey
212. The Hovey book, Descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts
213. Mary Dunnell Hovey
214. Abraham Howe and some of his Descendants (by Sidney Perley)
215. James How, 1641
216. Elizabeth Howe case study
217. Jacob How(e) of Rowley, Mass.
218. Elizabeth Kilham Hutton
219. Sarah Estey Gill Ireland
220. Nicholas Jackson of Rowley, Massachusetts, and his descendants, 1635-1976
221. Descendants of Richard Jacob of Ipswich
222. Jewetts of America Vol. 1
223. Jewetts of America Vol. 2
224. John Johnson, 1635-
225. Nathaniel and Rachel (Bradford) Jones
226. Susanna Fiske Kilburn
227. History of the Kimball family in America, from 1634 to 1897
228. Richard Kimball, 1634 to 1897
229. Richard Kimball and Ursulla Scott
230. Abigail Kimbal
231. Benjamin Kimball
232. Cornet Benjamin Kimball
233. Caleb Kimball
234. John Kimball
235. John Kimball and Mary Bradstreet
236. John Kimball, Jr
237. Mary Bradstreet Kimball
238. Mary Jordan Kimball
239. Corporal Richard Kimball
240. Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott
241. Ursula Scott Kimball
242. The genealogy of the descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass.
243. Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich Massachusetts.
244. Robert Kinsman
245. Knowlton Family
246. Mary Kimball Knowlton
247. Ladd family
248. William Lamson of Ipswich, Mass. 1634-1917
249. William Lamson
250. William Lamson at Stories from Ipswich.
251. Family history of William Lamson
252. John Leigh of Agawam [Ipswich] Massachusetts, 1634-1671
253. Thomas and Elizabeth Lull
254. Robert Kinsman
255. Robert Lord of Ipswich MA, online source by Bruce Lord
256. Rebecca Kimball Lull
257. Edward Lumus of Ipswich MA and Some of His Descendants
258. Manning family of Salem and Ipswich, Massachusetts
259. Manning Families Of New England
260. Martin family of Ipswich, Massachusetts; four generations of descendants of George Martin of Salisbury through his son George
261. McMahon (County Kerry)
262. The Moulton Family
263. Ezekiel Northend of Rowley
264. Mary Oliver, 1640-1698 wife of Samuel Appleton
265. Mary Osgood
266. Ipswich-Paine family gathered together by one of the ninth for the tenth, eleventh and twelfth generations
267. Paine genealogy, Ipswich branch
268. John Parish of Chebacco Parish (Ipswich) and Groton (read New England Parish Families)
269. John and Dorcus Pearson of Rowley, Massachusetts in 1643
270. Peatfield – Ellsworth Family of Ipswich, MA Descendants
271. The family of John Perkins of Ipswich
272. The Perkins Family
273. John Perkins
274. Mary Estey Perkins
275. Allan Perley
276. Moses Pengry, of Ipswich, Mass
277. Moses Pengry
278. Nathaniel Piper of Ipswich, Massachusetts 1653-
279. Hannah Fiske Platts
280. Estey Poole
281. Sarah Kimball Potter
282. Roger Preston of Ipswich and Salem village
283. Preston family
284. Prime of Rowley, Mass.; with notes on the families of Platts, Jewetts, and Hammond
285. Rogers family
286. John Ross
287. Rust family
288. Thomas Safford of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants
289. William Sargent of Ipswich, Newbury, Hampton, Salisbury and Amesbury, New England, U.S., with his descendants and their intermarriages, and other Sargent branches
290. William Sargent
291. Martha Whatlock Scott
292. Abigail Kimball Severens
293. Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Newbury and Rowley
294. Historical and Genealogical Shatswells of Ipswich by Augustine Caldwell
295. Joseph Smith [1783-1881] Ipswich, Mass.; from the Ipswich chronicle, May 28, 1881
296. John Sparks
297. John Spofford, and Elizabeth his wife, who settled at Rowley
298. Jonathan Stanhope, Jr
299. Susannah Ayre Stanhope
300. Robert Starkweather, Rowley, 1864-
301. Robert Stiles of Rowley, Mass. 1659-1891.
302. Descendants of William Story and Sarah Foster of Ipswich
303. Story Family Genealogy
304. Story genealogy online
305. When This You See ,Remember Me When This You See, Remember Me A Genealogy Of the Descendants of Lt.Richard Sutton
306. Thomas Tenney, of Rowley, Massachusetts, 1638-1890
307. William Towne
308. Treadwell
309. William and Elizabeth Tuttle, 1635
310. Martha Fiske Underwood
311. Samuel Varnum who came to Ipswich about 1635
312. The Wades of Ipswich
313. The Ipswich Wades
314. Col. John Wainwright
315. Genealogy of the Waldo family : a record of the descendants of Cornelius Waldo, of Ipswich, Mass., from 1647 to 1900
316. Sarah Bradstreet Wallis
317. Cornelius Waldo 1647-
318. John Warner
319. John Warner and Hannah Batchelder
320. William Warner, 1637-
321. William Warner Family
322. Captain William Warner
323. Daniel Warner and Elizabeth Dane
324. Daniel Warner
325. Ensign Daniel Warner
326. Faith Browne Warner
327. Hannah Batchelder Warner
328. John Warner
329. John Warner
330. John Warner and Hannah Batchelder
331. Nathaniel Warner 1646
332. Nathaniel Warner 1693
333. John Webster of Ipswich, Mass. in 1635
334. John Webster, 1635
335. John Webster
336. Abigail Warner Wells
337. Genealogy of the Wells family
338. Matthew Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, abt. 1590-1647: Vol. 1
339. John Whipple
340. Matthew Whipple, 1590-1647
341. Willcomb family 1655-1902
342. Whipple family
343. Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Davis, Walter Goodwin,
344. Willcomb Family of New England
345. John Winthrop, the younger, founder of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1633 –
346. Thomas Wood, Rowley, Mass

References

• “ Settlers and early inhabitants of Ipswich”
• https://historicmassachusetts.org/2020/12/04/shatswell-house/
• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/
• https://historicipswich.org/ipswich-old-north-burying-ground/
• https://www.ipswichma.gov/493/History
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich,_Massachusetts
• “ John Winthrop’s journal of the ship Arbella’s voyage to America, March 29 – July 8, 1630”