The Ipswich Assessors give an approximate date of 1880 for the construction of this house. No house is shown at this location on the 1872 Ipswich map. A house is shown in this location in the 1884 Ipswich map, with the owner listed as “F. Dawson.”
Frederick Dawson was also the owner of the 1680 Howard House at 41 Turkey Shore Rd. On Nov. 11, 1884, members of the Dawson family ( Catherine Morley, Elizabeth Dawson, Sarah Chamberlain, Rebecca Thurston, Mary Dawson, and Daniel Lamson et. al.) sold Frederick Dawson their shares of the 41 Turkey Shore property (Book 1140: 23) for $910.
On July 20, 1891, the heirs of Frederick Dawson sold the property for $650 to Hardy Beck and his wife Julia (1316:280). Sgt. Hardy M. Beck (1840-1903) was a soldier in the Civil War and is buried at the Locust Grove Cemetery. He is listed as a farmhand in the 1888 Agawam Manual & Directory, “Living in the Old Dawson House” on Prospect Street opposite Green Street, which is the 1880 Howard House on Turkey Shore. In the 1896 Directory of the Town of Ipswich, he is running the Poor Farm on Town Farm Rd.
On March 23, 1894, Hardy & Julia Beck sold to Annie M. Bolles “a certain parcel of land with a dwelling house thereon, situated on Prospect Street”. (Turkey Shore was renamed Prospect Street for several years in the 19th century.) The price was $1050.00. The deed reserved the grantors’ right to occupy the premises until May 16, 1895. (1441:57). Annie M. Lord owned several properties and purchased a house being auctioned on Warren Street in the same year she purchased this one.
Annie M. Lord Bolles (1854-1922) was the daughter of Asa Lord II. She married Robert W. Bolles (1850-1936) in 1876. On June 5, 1922, Charles A. Bolles, the executor of the last will of Annie M. Bolles, sold the property to her husband, Robert W. Bolles for $1500. (2518:483). Their gravestone is at the Old North Burying Ground
