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IPSWICH , a township of See also:Essex See also:county, Massachu-etts, U.S.A., on both sides of the Ipswich See also:river, about 27 M. N.N.E. of See also:Boston. Pop. 1910 (Federal See also:census), 5777. It is served by the Boston & See also:Maine railroad. The See also:surface is diversified by drumlins, vales, meadows, See also:sand-See also:dunes and tidal marshes. Ipswich has several manufacturing See also:industries, including See also:hosiery. The public library was the See also:gift of See also:Augustine Heard. Among the residences are several built in the 17th and 18th centuries. The See also:oldest of these, the See also:John Whipple See also:House, is the See also:home of the Ipswich See also:Historical Society (1890), which has gathered here a collection of antiques and issues publications oI antiquarian See also:interest. In the Ipswich See also:Female See also:Seminary, which no longer exists, See also:Mary See also:Lyon taught from 1828 to 1834 and here planned See also:Mount See also:Holyoke Seminary; See also:Professor J. P. Cowles and his wife conducted a famous school for girls in the See also:building for many years. Facing the See also:South See also:Common were the homes of Rev. Nathaniel See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward (1578—1652), See also:principal author of the See also:Massachusetts " See also:Body of Liberties " (1641), the first See also:code of See also:laws in New See also:England, and author of The See also:Simple Cobler of Aggawam in See also:America, Willing to help mend his Native See also:Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-See also:Leather and the See also:Sole (1647), published under the See also:pseudonym, " See also:Theodore de la Guard." one of the most curious and interesting books of the colonial See also:period; of See also:Richard Saltonstall (1610-1694), who wrote against the See also:life See also:tenure of magistrates, and although himself an Assistant espoused the more liberal principles of the Deputies; and of See also:Ezekiel Cheever (1614—1708), a famous school-See also:master, who had See also:charge of the See also:grammar school in 1650-166o. In the vicinity was the house of the Rev. See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Hubbard (162,—1704), author of a Narrative of the Troubles with the See also:Indians in New England (Boston, 1697) and a See also:general See also:History of New England, published by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815.
The See also:town was founded under the name of Aggawam in 1633 by John See also:Winthrop, jun., and twelve others, with a view to preventing the See also:French from occupying the N. See also:part of Massachusetts, and in the next See also:year it was incorporated under its See also:present name. In See also:wealth and See also:influence during the See also:early colonial period it was little inferior to Boston, whose policies it not infrequently opposed. When See also:Governor See also:Andros and his See also:Council in 1687 issued an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order for levying a tax, a See also:special town See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of Ipswich promptly voted " that the s'd See also:act doth infringe their See also:Liberty as See also:Free See also:borne See also:English subjects of His Majestie by interfearing with ye statutory Laws of the See also:Land, By which it is enacted that no taxes shall be levied on ye Subjects without consent of an See also:assembly chosen by ye Freeholders for assessing the same," and refused to assess the tax. For this offence six leaders, headed by the Rev. John See also:Wise, See also:minister of the Chebacco See also:Parish (now Essex), were prosecuted, found guilty, imprisoned for three See also:weeks to await See also:sentence and then disqualified for See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office; they were also fined from £15 to £5o each, and were required to give See also:security for their See also:good behaviour. In Ipswich were originally
(18rg).
See T. F. See also:Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts See also:Bay See also:Colony 1633–1700 (Ipswich, 1905), and the publications of the Ipswich Historical Society.
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