Image: Departure of a Puritan family for New England, 1856 by Charles Cope
Land grants, homes and gravestones of the settlers of Ipswich
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Ipswich Genealogy Resources
- Vital Records to 1850
- Vital records of Essex, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849
- Hathi Trust
- 1814 Parish Census
- 1910 Ipswich Census
- Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Vol. I, Appendix A: A summary of the Names of the first settlers from 1633 to 1649 with the year when the name occurs for the first time in the town records.
- Ipswich Deeds: Volumes 1 and 2 by George Freeman Sanborn Jr.
- 1678 Commonage Rights (list of settlers)
- Nutfield Genealogy
- American Ancestors
- Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts by Cutter, William Richard
- Life sketches of leading citizens of Essex County, 1898
- The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 1-50
- The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 28
- The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volumes 37-52
- The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 59
- The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts; with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton
- Old Ipswich : a magazine of local genealogy and history
- The Pioneers of Massachusetts
- Lancour, Harold, 1908: Passenger lists of ships coming to North America, 1607-1825
- Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918, The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents
- Savage, James, 1784-1873; Genealogical register of the first settlers of New England
- David Grayson Allen: In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferal of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay, 1600-1690, Volume 2
- Allan Greer, Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America
- Waters, Henry Fritz-Gilbert, Genealogical gleanings in England; New England Historic Genealogical Society; New England Historic Genealogical Society.
- Essex County Historical and Genealogical Register 1894 by M.V.B. Perley
- Essex county probate records at Family Search
- Probate Index: 1882-1917 ;
- Probate Docket books: 1638-1916;
- Probate Record books (Old Series): 1671-1916
- Probate Record books (New Series): 1816-1885
- Probate File papers: 1638-1881
Settlers and early inhabitants of Ipswich
Partial list, arranged alphabetically
- Arthur Abbot, of Ipswich
- George Abbot, of Rowley
- George Abbot, of Andover
- Nehemiah Abbot Rowley
- William Adams of Ipswich, Mass.
- William Adams, 1594-
- Mary Warner Adams
- Robert & William Addams
- Edward Allin and Sarah Kimball
- John Anderson
- The Descendants of John Andrews by Betty Andrews Storey
- Andrews family. A genealogy of Robert Andrews, and his descendants, 1635 to 1890
- Robert Andrews
- John Annable
- William Ayers
- John Ayers
- Isaac Appleton
- Samuel Appleton (Hammatt)
- Samuel Appleton
- Appleton Family
- Ancestry Of Mary Isaac, C 1549-1613, Wife Of Thomas Appleton Of Little Waldingfield, Co. Suffolk & Mother Of Samuel Appleton Of Ipswich, Ma
- Archer, Henry
- Thomas Attwood
- William and Abigail Averell
- The Averell-Averill-Avery family : a record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.
- Henry Bachelder
- John Baker and Kathryn Perkins
- Priscilla Baker
- Priscilla Baker : who lived 1674-1731, and was wife of Isaac Appleton, of Ipswich
- John and Hannah Barry
- William Bartholomew
- Joseph and Elizabeth Batcheller
- Henry Batcheller
- Martha Bradstreet Beale
- Jeremy Belcher
- Henry Bennett
- Richard Betts
- Christopher Bidlake
- Joseph Bigsby
- Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts,
- Richard Bisgood
- Thomas and Margaret Bishop
- Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701
- Joanna Blessing
- Rebecca Bradstreet Bonfield
- Thomas Borman
- Daniel Bosworth
- Christopher/Joseph Bowles
- Boynton, William and John, Rowley
- Richard Brabook
- Rev. Thomas Bracy
- Simon Bradstreet
- The Bradstreets
- Rebecca Bradstreet Bonfield
- Bridget Bradstreet
- Humphrey Bradstreet
- John Bradstreet
- Captain Moses Bradstreet
- Edmund Bragg
- Thomas Brewer
- Crispus and Mary Brewer
- Susannah Warner Brewer
- John Bridgham
- Edmund Bridges
- A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Brown of Ipswich
- Edward Brown
- Richard and Mary Bryer
- William Buckley
- Giles Burley
- Burnham, Foster, Andrews, Jewett
- John Burnham
- William and Sarah Butler
- Matthias Button
- John Caldwell and Sarah Dillingham Caldwell, his wife, Ipswich, Mass., 1654 : genealogical records of their descendants, eight generations, 1654-1900
- The Caldwell Records
- John and Sarah Caldwell (Hammatt)
- John and Sarah (Dillingham) Caldwell
- Joseph Calef, 1697
- Robert Calef and Some of His Descendants
- Phillip Call, 1662
- Edward Chapman
- Edward Chapman of Ipswich, Mass., 1642-1678, and his descendants
- John Catcham, 1647
- Edward Chapman, 1642-1678
- Edward Chapman (Hammatt)
- Ezekiel Cheever, schoolmasster
- Richard Clarke of Rowley, Massachusetts
- John Choate, 1648
- The Choates in America
- Lionel Chute, d. 1641
- Thomas Clark, 1641
- Jacob Clinton
- Rachel Clinton
- Rev. Thomas Cobbett
- John Cogswell, 1635
- The Cogswells in America
- Robert Coborne
- Robert Coles, 1634
- Joseph and Sarah Collins
- Matthias Corwin
- Giles and Agnes Cowes
- Cox
- Robert Crosse and Martha Treadwell, 1641
- Abigail Estey Cumming
- The Cummings Family
- Isaac Cummings, 1601-1677 of Ipswich in 1638 and some of his descendants
- Isaac Cummings, 1601-1677
- John Dane (Dean) 1641
- John Dane
- John Dane 1612
- Amos Davis
- Elizabeth Batcheller Davis
- John Davis, 1641
- George Davison, 1647
- Robert Day, 1641
- Edmund and Elizabeth Dear, 1650
- Daniel Denison, 1635
- Thomas and Grace Dennis
- Andrew Diamond, 1673
- John Dillingham, 1639
- William Dirkey, 1664
- Ralph Dix, 1641
- Samuel and Mary Dodge, 1668
- Dodge
- Thomas Dorman, 1634
- Thomas and Susana Dow, 1697
- Thomas and Dorothy Dudley, 1639
- Richard Dummer, 1659
- William and Mary Dunton, 1695
- Robert Dutch, 1648
- Mary Kimball Dutch
- Michael and Mary Dwinnell
- Stephen Dwinnell
- Elizabeth Fiske Dwinell
- Nicholas Easton, 1634
- John Edwards and Mary Sams, 1664
- Ellsworth Family of Ipswich, MA Descendants
- Emerson, 1636-1900
- A genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Emerson of Ipswich, Mass.
- Thomas Emerson, 1631
- Capt. Daniel Epes, 1644
- Estey Family
- Benjamin Estey
- Isaac Estey, Jr
- John Estey
- Richard Estey
- Ruth Fiske Estey
- Joseph and Mary Eveleth, 1676
- Walter and Sarah Fairfield, 1695
- Michael Farley, 1675
- George Farrow, 1636
- John Fawn, 1634
- William Israel Fellows
- Robert Filbrick, 1639
- Giles Firmin, 1633
- Thomas Firmin, 1641
- Fiske and Warner Families
- Benjamin Fiske
- Joseph Fiske and Susannah Warner
- Mark Fiske
- Theophilus Fiske
- Ruth Fiske
- Susannah Warner Fiske
- Joseph and Susanna Fisk, 1698
- Robert Fitt, 1664
- Reginald Foster
- Col. Joseph Foster of Ipswich and Gloucester, Mass.
- Reginald Foster, 1641
- William Story and Sarah Foster
- Elizabeth Fiske Foster
- Sarah Dwinell Foster
- Descendants of Philip and Mary Fowler
- Phillip and Mary Fowler
- Phillip and Mary Fowler, 1635 (Hammatt)
- William Franklin, 1634
- Thomas French, 1639
- William Fuller, 1635
- Some descendants of John Gage of Ipswich, Mass.
- John Gage
- John Gage, 1633
- John Gaines, 1644
- Descendants of John Gamage of Ipswich, Mass.
- John Gamage, 1675
- Bartholomay Gedney, 1640
- George Giddings
- George Giddings, 1641 (Hammatt)
- Giddings
- Humphrey Gilbert
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Edward Gilman, 1648
- History and genealogy of the Goodhue family : in England and America to the year 1890
- William Goodhue, 1636
- Samuel Graves, 1658
- Humphrey Griffin, 1639
- Henry Gould and Sarah Baker
- John Grove and Hannah Lord, 1664
- John Grow of Ipswich : John Groo (Grow) of Oxford
- John Grow
- George Hadley
- Richard Haffield, 1635
- Samuel Hall, 1638
- Thomas Hardye, 1633
- Thomas Harris in Ipswich, Mass, in 1636, and some of his descendents, through seven generations, to 1883
- Elizabeth Harris
- The Harris Family in Ipswich
- Thomas Harris, 1636
- John Harris
- Bridget Harris
- Thomas Hart, 1641
- John Hassell, 1635
- Elizabeth Warner Heard
- Andrew Hidden, of Rowley,
- William Hodgkins, 1654
- Hannah Bradstreet Rolfe Holt
- Daniel Hovey
- The Hovey book, Descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts
- Mary Dunnell Hovey
- Abraham Howe and some of his Descendants (by Sidney Perley)
- James How, 1641
- Elizabeth Howe case study
- Jacob How(e) of Rowley, Mass.
- Elizabeth Kilham Hutton
- Sarah Estey Gill Ireland
- Nicholas Jackson of Rowley, Massachusetts, and his descendants, 1635-1976
- Descendants of Richard Jacob of Ipswich
- Jewetts of America Vol. 1
- Jewetts of America Vol. 2
- John Johnson, 1635-
- Nathaniel and Rachel (Bradford) Jones
- Susanna Fiske Kilburn
- History of the Kimball family in America, from 1634 to 1897
- Richard Kimball, 1634 to 1897
- Richard Kimball and Ursulla Scott
- Abigail Kimbal
- Benjamin Kimball
- Cornet Benjamin Kimball
- Caleb Kimball
- John Kimball
- John Kimball and Mary Bradstreet
- John Kimball, Jr
- Mary Bradstreet Kimball
- Mary Jordan Kimball
- Corporal Richard Kimball
- Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott
- Ursula Scott Kimball
- The genealogy of the descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass.
- Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich Massachusetts.
- Robert Kinsman
- Knowlton Family
- Mary Kimball Knowlton
- Ladd family
- William Lamson of Ipswich, Mass. 1634-1917
- William Lamson
- William Lamson at Stories from Ipswich.
- Family history of William Lamson
- John Leigh of Agawam [Ipswich] Massachusetts, 1634-1671
- Thomas and Elizabeth Lull
- Robert Kinsman
- Robert Lord of Ipswich MA, online source by Bruce Lord
- Rebecca Kimball Lull
- Edward Lumus of Ipswich MA and Some of His Descendants
- Manning family of Salem and Ipswich, Massachusetts
- Manning Families Of New England
- Martin family of Ipswich, Massachusetts; four generations of descendants of George Martin of Salisbury through his son George
- McMahon (County Kerry)
- The Moulton Family
- Ezekiel Northend of Rowley
- Mary Oliver, 1640-1698 wife of Samuel Appleton
- Mary Osgood
- Ipswich-Paine family gathered together by one of the ninth for the tenth, eleventh and twelfth generations
- Paine genealogy, Ipswich branch
- John Parish of Chebacco Parish (Ipswich) and Groton (read New England Parish Families)
- John and Dorcus Pearson of Rowley, Massachusetts in 1643
- Peatfield – Ellsworth Family of Ipswich, MA Descendants
- The family of John Perkins of Ipswich
- The Perkins Family
- John Perkins
- Mary Estey Perkins
- Allan Perley
- Moses Pengry, of Ipswich, Mass
- Moses Pengry
- Nathaniel Piper of Ipswich, Massachusetts 1653-
- Hannah Fiske Platts
- Estey Poole
- Sarah Kimball Potter
- Roger Preston of Ipswich and Salem village
- Preston family
- Prime of Rowley, Mass.; with notes on the families of Platts, Jewetts, and Hammond
- Rogers family
- John Ross
- Rust family
- Thomas Safford of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants
- William Sargent of Ipswich, Newbury, Hampton, Salisbury and Amesbury, New England, U.S., with his descendants and their intermarriages, and other Sargent branches
- William Sargent
- Martha Whatlock Scott
- Abigail Kimball Severens
- Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Newbury and Rowley
- Historical and Genealogical Shatswells of Ipswich by Augustine Caldwell
- Joseph Smith [1783-1881] Ipswich, Mass.; from the Ipswich chronicle, May 28, 1881
- John Sparks
- John Spofford, and Elizabeth his wife, who settled at Rowley
- Jonathan Stanhope, Jr
- Susannah Ayre Stanhope
- Robert Starkweather, Rowley, 1864-
- Robert Stiles of Rowley, Mass. 1659-1891.
- Descendants of William Story and Sarah Foster of Ipswich
- Story Family Genealogy
- Story genealogy online
- When This You See ,Remember Me When This You See, Remember Me A Genealogy Of the Descendants of Lt.Richard Sutton
- Thomas Tenney, of Rowley, Massachusetts, 1638-1890
- William Towne
- Treadwell
- William and Elizabeth Tuttle, 1635
- Martha Fiske Underwood
- Samuel Varnum who came to Ipswich about 1635
- The Wades of Ipswich
- The Ipswich Wades
- Col. John Wainwright
- Genealogy of the Waldo family : a record of the descendants of Cornelius Waldo, of Ipswich, Mass., from 1647 to 1900
Sarah Bradstreet Wallis - Cornelius Waldo 1647-
- John Warner
- John Warner and Hannah Batchelder
- The Posterity of William Warner
- William Warner, 1637-
- William Warner Family
- Captain William Warner
- Daniel Warner and Elizabeth Dane
- Daniel Warner
- Ensign Daniel Warner
- Faith Browne Warner
- Hannah Batchelder Warner
- John Warner
- John Warner
- John Warner and Hannah Batchelder
- Nathaniel Warner 1646
- Nathaniel Warner 1693
- John Webster of Ipswich, Mass. in 1635
- John Webster, 1635
- John Webster
- Abigail Warner Wells
- Genealogy of the Wells family
- Matthew Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, abt. 1590-1647: Vol. 1
- John Whipple
- Matthew Whipple, 1590-1647
- Willcomb family 1655-1902
- Whipple family
- Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Davis, Walter Goodwin,
- Willcomb Family of New England
- The Winthrop Society
- John Winthrop, the younger, founder of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1633 –
- Thomas Wood, Rowley, Mass
Historic Ipswich 
This is a fantastic resource. Many many thanks. I found a number of families that my ancestors married into on your list. However, I did notice one family missing from your list that I hope you will add — descendants of John Parish. Their book and genealogy is entitled ” New England Parish families ” by Roswell Parish. I am one of their direct descendants. . Thanks “Sam”
Thanks, I added links at https://historicipswich.org/early-inhabitants-of-ipswich-massachusetts/.
John Parish first appears at Braintree, MA in 1664 and soon afterwards is in Mendon, MA. In 1685 he married his second wife, Mary Wattell of Chelmsford, MA. They moved from Mendon to Chebacco Parish in Ipswich (now the town of Essex) after the Indian attacks of 1691-2. In Ipswich, four children were born to them: Sarah born 1692, William born 1694, Isaac born 1697 and Rachell born 1699. Prom Ipswich they removed to Connecticut, where, on 15 Nov. 1704, John Parish and Mary his wife were admitted to the first church of Preston by letter from the Ipswich church. Here he died in 1715.
What a wopnderful resource. Sadly I did not see a headstone here for any of the Safford family.
Hi Gordon, I LOVE and appreciate all of time and research you put into Historic Ipswich. I’m looking for info on Peter Lurvey “removed from Ipswich to Gloucester” apx. 1704.
links regarding Peter Lurvey:
http://www.ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/aBirthsL.shtml
https://archive.org/details/inheartofcapeann00mann/page/54
https://archive.org/stream/ipswichinmassach00water#page/220/mode/2up/search/lurvey
Thank you, Gordon! I had apx half of the info you sent along, but filled in a lot of gaps with the rest 🙂 Got any idea how we might learn where Peter came from to land in Ipswich, and when? We’re kind of stuck. Any help is appreciated.
I expected to see the families of Moses Cox and Humphrey Wise here.They are related to others here, like the Perkins family.
Who is Moses Cox? I have a Sarah Cox (m. Arthur Cary) who doesn’t have a documented father and she lived in Ipswich and Boxford.
Moses Cox married Alice Wise about 1636 in Ipswich, but they settled in Hampton. Her father Humphrey Wise died intestate in Ipswich in 1639. Samuel Greenfield married his widow and they also settled in Hampton. https://archive.org/details/newenglandcoxfa00coxj/page/n7/mode/2up
Looking for info on ChRistopher Bowles,Boulds,Boils died Ipswich 1731 Married Elizabeth Stanley of Topsfield 1682.One,daughter Ruth.Buried Old Cemetery Ipswich,High St.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155795284/elizabeth-bowles
https://books.google.com/books?id=l7CQM7FcNvwC&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186#v=onepage&q&f=false
I am looking for any information you might have on Danial Bradley who arrived on the Elizabeth in 1636? Greatly appreciate any help you can give me,
Hello I am looking for information on Peter Freeman b 1726 died between 1761-1778 married Jane Freeman May 11 1751 he was a slave in Ipswich there are a lot of Peter Freeman’s, he fought in the Revolutionary war his son was John Freeman who lived in Bath Maine b 1835-37 Peter would be my 6th great grandfather.I know there may not be much to add but if anyone has more information I’d love to know more Thanks Lisa