The lot on which the house at 6 Northgate Rd. was constructed in 1836, according to the Ipswich Assessors’ site. The lot was originally owned by Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, then by his son Samuel Rogers, followed by James Burnham, and by Capt. John Kinsman. He sold a 3 1/2 acre pasture lot to his son, John Kinsman Jr. on July 24, 1759 (109: 56). John Jr. built a house and sold or mortgaged the house and lot to his brother, Samuel Kinsman on March 1, 1783 (140: 129). Samuel Kinsman re-conveyed the property to John Jr. in 1784 (142: 172), and John Jr. then sold to Moses Kinsman, May 7, 1784 (142: 173).
Moses Kinsman
Moses Kinsman Sr., a yeoman, was the son of Peletiah and Jane Kinsman, born in Ipswich, July 6, 1754. His grandfather, Quartermaster Robert Kinsman was one of the leaders of the Ipswich revolt against Governor Andros and taxation without representation, for which Ipswich is known as the “Birthplace of American Independence. Moses Kinsman Sr. was a private in the Ipswich minutemen, who marched upon the alarm of April 19th, 1775. Moses Kinsman married Lucy Cogswell, Sept. 28, 1780. She died Nov. 29, 1804, aged 46. He married, second, Susanna Cogswell, Dec. 21, 1809. Moses died March 24, 1836.
In 1837, Susanna Kinsman, quit-claimed her share of the property to the other heirs of Moses Kinsman, including Mary Smith, Beamsley Smith, Lucy Cogswell, Aaron Cogswell, Joseph Kinsman, Hannah Brown, Ephraim Brown Jr., and the children of Moses Brown. The description in the deed described the property as “the deceased’s homestead and farm consisting of a dwelling house, barn and other buildings with the land under and adjoining on the west side of the road, containing about three acres, with about fifty acres of tillage and pasture on the east side of the road.” (297:47) Susanna died January 10, 1841, at age 76.
Moses Kinsman was succeeded by his son Moses Kinsman Jr., who built the present dwelling at 6 Northgate Rd. in 1836. He died in 1862. Moses Kinsman Jr.’s widow, Jane Kinsman, sold to Alfred Smith on April 27, 1865 (683: 194). Alfred Smith sold to William S. Todd of Gloucester on Nov. 10, 1868 (759: 259), who conveyed to Gardiner A. Brown on April 5, 1877 (974: 173). The farm included the house lot and land on the east side of the Northgate Road.
In the 1910 map, this was the home of Charles Gardiner Brown (1853-1938), who married Susan M. Peatfield, the daughter of Joseph and Caroline Heard Peatsfield, on May 10, 1877. They had two children, Marion Gardiner Brown and Jesse Appleton Brown.
The house was purchased by Robert & Coleen Kidder in 1994 from John A. Macoviak. (12870:17). It was sold to the next owners in 2026.
Sources and further reading:
- Waters, Thomas Franklin,”Candlewood, the Story of An Ancient Neighborhood“
- Waters, Thomas Franklin, Map of Candlewood
- Zillow listing: 6 Northgate Rd.
- Ipswich Government Vision Solutions
- Salem Deeds
- 1832, 1856, 1872, 1884 and 1910 Ipswich maps.
- Descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich, a presentation by Thomas Franklin Waters to the Ipswich Historical Society, 1908
- The Kinsman family: Genealogical record of the descendants of Robert Kinsman, of Ipswich, Mass by Lucy W. Stickney
- A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Brown of Ipswich
