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I am at present quite ill, being confined to my bed, with no prospect of being able to be out for some days yet.
While I deeply regret that I shall not be able to be present at your anniversary, I desire to thank you heartily for your courtesy in extending to me the invitation.
Very truly yours,
W. W. DUDLEY.
BOSTON, 91 Boylston Street, July 18, 1884. GEORGE E. FARLEY, Esq., Secretary, etc.
DEAR SIR, - I have received your kind invitation to be present as the guest of the town of Ipswich, on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its incorporation.
I beg to assure you of my sincere regret that I shall not be able to be present on that signal day.
Ipswich was an important centre for a long time after the Eng- lish plantation of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay was begun, and in it have originated, and from it have gone forth, many of our most respected and distinguished families. While they are widely scat- tered, and some of them are citizens of nearly every State in the Union, they all remember with an uplifting pride the home of their fathers. I feel myself honored in being able to trace back my line- age to an ancestor seven generations removed, who was among the planters of your ancient town as early as 1637.
The observance which you propose will, I am sure, awaken whole- some sympathies in thousands of hearts, evoke numberless interest- ing events all along the line of these two centuries and a half, and re-embalm them in more fixed and permanent form.
Trusting that your celebration may in every way meet your best anticipations,
I am very truly yours,
EDMUND F. SLAFTER.
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ASHLAND, MASS., July 28, 1884. MR. GEORGE E. FARLEY.
DEAR SIR, - I regret very much that we cannot accept the courteous invitation to attend the two hundred and fiftieth anni- versary of the settlement of Ipswich. Absence from the State at the time set for it will prevent what would otherwise have proved a great pleasure.
A pastorate of seven years over the First Church of Ipswich put me into familiar thought of the long line of Christian worthies who had preceded me in lay and pastoral connection with that church. Often, in imagination, I was visited by the energetic Parker, who came with his hundred parishioners to settle in the depthis of the wilderness ; by the witty "Simple Cobbler," who knew how to mend the laws of the body politic as well as his sermons ; by the saintly Norton ; by the four Rogerses and the learned William Hubbard, as well as by others of the sixteen able and godly ministers of Christ who had gone before me in that field of labor. The recollection of these men was to me a strong support, as well as a stimulus to cultivate with equal fidelity the vineyard which they had planted with so much care and zeal.
If the spirits of the blest are permitted to visit the scene of their earthly labors, I do not doubt that these ancestral forms will hover over their descendants of the two hundred and fiftieth year, as they review the events of the past, and join with them in fervent sup- plication that the blessings of pure religion and intellectual culture which have come down from the former generations may continue in the good old town of Ipswich as long as the world endures.
That the old Mother, green and vigorous after two centuries and a half, may for many more centuries pour forth her colonies and her progeny to bless mankind, is the hearty wish of
Yours very respectfully,
THOMAS MORONG.
NEWBURYPORT, Aug. 16, 1884.
MESSRS. SAYWARD, Chairman, and FARLEY, Secretary, of the Committee.
DEAR SIRS, - Had I anticipated your kind invitation to be present at the celebration in Ipswich, I should have hastened my
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journey hitherward a day, where I have arrived after the celebra- tion is over.
Next to Old Newbury, where I was born, and with a similar affection, I regard the ancient Agawam, where my ancestors since 1654 have lived and died, and in whose soil they are buried. It was by no choice of mine that the long line of succession in the ancient home of our family has been interrupted, and I am obliged to be merely a grandson of Ipswich. Here my father came in his boyhood to seek his fortune, and, in obedience to the same law of dispersion, his boys have scattered from their birthplace; and it is only the memory of the past, and of the good people who have gone before us, which draws us back to Newburyport and to Ipswich.
In other parts of the world I have always been glad to say that I, and my ancestors before me for almost two centuries and a half, hailed from this happy corner of Massachusetts between the Ipswich and the Merrimack, whose shore has charms beyond all shores besides. Here I hope to be brought for burial. Here a good Providence conducted our fathers to settle, and out from this old cradle goes good blood to mingle with new generations which are blessing the world. Never can the descendants who trace their lineage back to the humble folk who first settled under the shadow of the hills of Agawam (still so beautiful), and by the side of its gentle river, forget the old home of their race.
I must repeat my extreme regret that I have not been present with you to-day to enjoy all the happy memories and happy influ- ences which make such days delightful to such as cherish reverence for their ancestors, and see in the settlement of such towns as Ipswich the seeds of great and noble history. Well do I remember when Rufus Choate touched the strings of his marvellous eloquence at the commemoration fifty years ago, and often have I read his discourse as one of the most remarkable commemorative discourses of that time. I can only hope that some descendant of mine fifty years from now may find on your three hundredth anniversary a pleasure which I have missed to-day. With thanks to the Com- mittee for the courtesy of their invitation,
I am very truly yours,
S. L. CALDWELL.
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BOSTON, Aug. 13, 1884. C. A. SAYWARD, Esq., Chairman, etc.
SIR, - I trust my engagements may permit my attending the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Ipswich ; but there is some uncertainty. The incidents of your town life are more than interesting to those who can trace the blood of the early worthies in their veins ; and on such an occasion I may be permitted to recall, that, through the intermarriage of my ances- tors, I am one of the representatives of the early Ipswich families of Perkins and Rogers, and my sympathies are with you.
There was historic incident in Ipswich before the settlement under the Bay Charter. As an integral part of " Mariana," it was included in the grant by " the President & Councel of New Eng- land " to Captain John Mason "inhabitant of the City of London," March 9, 1622-23, and also had some particular description in the recital, "together with the Great Isle or Island henceforth to be called Isle Mason, lying near or before the Bay harbor or ye river of Aggawam," etc. ;
In the swamp here, in 1623, was the fight related by Phineas Pratt, in which the Piscataqua and Mr. Weston's men attacked the Abordees, and avenged their ill conduct at Wessagusicus, and in plundering Mr. Weston near the Merrimack. Here was one of the habitations of Masconomah, chief of the tribe located in these parts, and here he planned and sought the alliance of the Cape Ann settlers, and after their removal, with the pioneers at Nahumkeag, for defence against the predatory incursions of the Taranteens. The Bay Company when organized became the successor of " the old planters " to these alliances, and continued the humane and kindly protection its predecessors had given to this broken tribe, whose original power and numbers had been wasted and shrunk before the cruel pestilence which in 1618 had ravished the coast from Saco to Plymouth. Your shores were attractive to European settlement both for the superb winter fishery, the river schooling fish, and the flights of sea and marsh fowl in their season. The liberal fertility of its broad meadows and marshes gave security for the wintering of cattle, and one naturally inquires why was it not settled earlier. Surely its advantages were known ; but the Spanish and French wars had been detrimental to private enter- prise, and Parliament had by no means been up to the importance
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of occupying these shores. Had the lamented Charles W. Tuttle lived to have completed his life of Captain Mason, for which he had so laboriously prepared, or when the Prince Society shall col- late and publish the material which he left, it is probable we shall know more concerning this history of Mariana, prior to the Bay Charter.
Your town was organized at a time when the Bay Company had shaped the skeleton of what we still call the township substan- tially to its present form, carrying self-government, elective offi- cials, property in the soil free from landlordism, to its chartered inhabitants, and making each township independent in its sphere, and self-reliant for its prosperity. The men thus organized in Ipswich were marked by energy, industry, enterprise, and practical forethought. Their manliness gave tone to their church and to their high moral principles. The reserve of prudence, the simple habits and self-abnegation which characterized them, were necessary to success in planting a settlement on the frontier of an ocean-bound continent alive with a brave and jealous hostile race. ; It was what these early generations of our race sowed here in the loneliness of frontier life, enduring toil, privation, poverty, danger, and the heart- separation of emigration, that in this century bears its rich fruits in character, civilization, culture, liberty, and prosperity, and has given us a land abounding in population and national wealth.
For one, I am profoundly grateful to these your ancestors who made good their footing on this continent, and I respect and esteem their spinning-wheels, their hoes, their axes, their whale-boats and fishing-gear, their log-cabins, their homespun clothes, their shot- guns, and their pious confidence that the God of Israel would not forsake them in their hour of need, as the emblems of that nobility of labor, merit, and character, which has made this continent to-day the home of fifty-five millions of the Gothic race they sprang from.
I am very respectfully your obedient servant,
CHAS. LEVI WOODBURY.
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THE CHOIR
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DESCRIPTION OF HELIOTYPES.
THE HOWARD HOUSE.
PAGE 67.
THE original house was probably built by Thomas Emerson, before 1648. William Howard purchased the premises about 1679, and built an addition to the house about 1709.
MEETING-HOUSES.
PAGE 80.
THE first meeting-house of the First Parish and of the town was probably built in 1634. It stood until 1645, when the second house of worship was erected, and used until Jan. 16, 1701, when the last sermon was preached in it. The third meeting-house was built during the years 1699 and 1700. The first sermon was preached in it Jan. 29, 1701. This building stood until 1749, when the fourth house was built, a picture of which appears here. This was taken down in 1846, and the present meeting-house was erected that year.
The first house of worship of the South Parish was erected in 1747, and was in use till 1838, when the present meeting-house was erected.
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REV. THOMAS COBBETT'S HOUSE.
PAGE 118.
THIS house, on East Street, was built by Thomas Firman in 1634, who sold it in 1638 to Rev. John Norton. Mr. Norton sold it to Mr. Cobbett, who was in Ipswich as early as 1656. Mr. Norton's will, dated Jan. 14, 1661, gives "his brother William Norton the hundred pounds due unto him for his house in Ipswich, which Mr. Cobbett now dwelleth in, and the land he bought of Mathew Whipple, deceased, now in the occupation of Goodman Annable."
Mr. Cobbett, in his will, gives to his wife Elizabeth "my dwell- ing-house in Ipswich, confirmed lately to be my own by Mr. Wil- liam Norton, impowered thereto by his brother, Mr. John Norton, his will."
TIIE DODGE HOUSE.
PAGE 118.
THIS house, which stands on the corner of North Main and Sum- mer Streets, was probably built by Thomas Firman about 1640.
CHOATE BRIDGE, BUILT 1764.
PAGE 148.
LINES composed by Mr. Clark, a blind man (of Rowley) in 1764, and recited by him on the bridge, in the presence of Colonel Choate and several other persons, before the ground walls were done, although the bridge was so far finished as to be passable. Among the spectators was Nathaniel Dutch, then a lad, who heard the verses recited, and repeated them from memory, December,
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1831, previous to which time it is not known that they were ever penned or printed.
Behold this bridge of lime and stone ! The like before was never known For beauty and magnificence, Considering the small expense.
How it excels what was expected, Upon the day it was projected ! When faithful men are put in trust, They'll not let all the money rust.
But some advance for public good Is by this fabric understood ; And after this it will be wrote In honor of brave Colonel Choate.
It was his wisdom built the same, And added lustre to his fame, That filled this county with renown, And did with honor Ipswich crown.
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