The 1832 map doesn’t show any houses on this part of Mineral Street. The 1856 map shows a house at this location, with the owner as “B. Newman.” In the 1872 map, the owner is shown as J. Lord.
On December 1, 1844, Benjamin Newman, a 27-year-old widowed painter (son of Benjamin and Abigail Newman), married 21-year-old Sarah L. Akerman, daughter of Daniel and Lucy Ackerman (Ipswich Vital Records). Their first child, Benjamin Jr., was born in 1846.
On Sept. 12, 1850, Benjamin Newman purchased the lot on Mineral Street from Nathaniel and Sarah Harris for $300. (433:203). No structures were listed in the deed. We can assume he constructed the existing house for his family the following year. His wife, Sarah Newman (1824-1870), died in 1870, and their son Benjamin Jr. died in 1872.
In 1873, the widowed Benjamin Newman, listed as “a single man,” sold James L. Ward the lot on Mineral Street (878:248) for $2800.00, described as “a certain piece of land with the buildings thereon, beginning at the southeasterly corner by land of the Railroad”.
There is a gravestone for Benjamin Newman (1818-1902) at the Old North Burying Ground.
Historic Ipswich 
