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Tag: 1623

Jeffreys’ Neck Road

January 14, 2021 Gordon Harris1 Comment
Jeffreys Neck Ipswich ma map and aerial view

This history of Jeffreys Neck is from the Agawam Manual and Directory by M.V.B. Perley, published in 1888. The business of fur-trading and fishing along the New England coast received a new impetus about the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1604 Agawam was the center of Arcadia, so-called in the French patent of November… Continue reading Jeffreys’ Neck Road →

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