Nathaniel Sewell, a child taken from England, was with continual rigor and unmerciful correction, exposed in the winter season with diverse acts of hardship.
William Franklin of Newbury, Hanged for the Death of an Indentured Child in 1644
Category: Tragedies
Unrequited Love and a Murder-Suicide
The 1941 Ipswich Town Report included a tribute to the late Water and Light Commissioner Walter G. Brown without mentioning that he murdered his former girlfriend Phyllis Chisholm and committed suicide.
Pemberton Mill in Lawrence Collapses and Burns, Killing Workers; January 10, 1860
The collapse of the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence is the worst industrial accident in Massachusetts history. On Tuesday afternoon January 10, 1860, hundreds of men, women, and children were buried alive in the ruins.
Historic Ipswich 