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lived in a house near the Church of St. Mary-le-Tower. Sir Edward Coke resided in a village not far off, and in 1597 the M.P. for Ipswich was no other than the great Lord Bacon, who by birth and breeding was emphatically a Suffolk man. From Windham’s diary, it appears that at Ipswich that distinguished statesman experienced a new sensation. In 1789 he writes: ‘Left Ipswich not till near twelve.
"No, indeed! Master Thomas has gone off to Ipswich and little Ann is at Salem town." "I could not borrow a horse, then, of them, you think?" "No, indeed, sir. There is only one left in the stable; and Mistress Putnam means to use that to go to the trial this afternoon." "Oh, well, I do not care much;" and his master walked off to the house, while Simon Peter went to his work.
She was commanded by "Robert Calef;" and, in the Boston Evening Post, of the second of May, 1774, "Dr. Calef of Ipswich" is mentioned among the passengers just arrived in her.
At Ipswich, the people came out to meet him, drew him a mile into the town, and three miles out.
Fortunately, however, for Dulcibel, the interest of all these was now centered upon the trials that were in progress, the contumacious obstinacy of Giles Corey, the host of new accusations at Ipswich and other neighboring places, and the preparations for the execution of those already condemned to death.
"You're quite welcome," said the mate. "Why didn't you tell me?" said the girl indignantly. "I wouldn't have worn them for anything if I had known it." "Well, they won't poison you," said the mate resentfully. "Your father left his at Ipswich to have 'em cobbled up a bit." The girl passed them up on the deck, and, closing the companion with a bang, disappeared.
Manasseh Cutler of Ipswich, Massachusetts, published a description of the Ohio country, which left little to the liveliest imagination.
Could she, who had no money, build "a seminary which should be so moderate in its expenses as to be open to the daughters of farmers and artisans, and to teachers who might be mainly dependent for their support on their own exertions"? In vain she tried to have the school at Ipswich established permanently by buildings and endowments.
Emerson at the sixth remove were thirty-two in number, unless the list was shortened by intermarriage of relatives. One of these, from whom the name descended, was Thomas Emerson of Ipswich, who furnished the staff of life to the people of that wonderfully interesting old town and its neighborhood.
The ninth and twelfth stand as historical landmarks in Quincy, on the old Plymouth Road, and bear the dates 1720 and 1727. In Wenham another mile-stone near the graveyard bears the date 1710, shows the distance to Ipswich and Boston, and gives these words of timely warning: "I know that Thou wilt Bring me to Death and to the house appointed for all Living."
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