Gordon Harris, articles on early Ipswich families, Historic Ipswich (historicipswich.net)

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Gordon Harris, articles on early Ipswich families, Historic Ipswich (historicipswich.net)
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2025-2026
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https://historicipswich.net/john-proctor-of-ipswich/
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Local-history articles by Gordon Harris on the Historic Ipswich website. Compiled from town, court and land records and from earlier genealogies, mostly without citations. Used:

  • "John Proctor of Ipswich" (2025, the link above). In 1647 John Procter Sr. bought a 100-acre farm on Island Road from Thomas Firman. It also says "His first wife, Martha, had died on June 13, 1659. He remarried and left a widow, Martha," a reading the Low research does not share.
  • "Robert and Hannah Pengry Day of Ipswich, and Some of Their Descendants" (4 July 2025): https://historicipswich.net/2025/07/04/descendants-of-robert-and-hannah-day-of-ipswich/ Lists Hannah (Day) Lord, who married Robert Lord Jr. about 1657, among the children of Robert Day and Hannah (Pengry) Day, and among her children "James Lord (1676 - 1734) married Mary (Haskell) Lord," with no source for the Haskell name.
  • "The Labor in Vain Farm of Thomas & Elisabeth Emerson of Bishop's Stortford, England, and Ipswich, Massachusetts" (22 June 2026): https://historicipswich.net/2026/06/22/thomas-elisabeth-emerson/ Calls Thomas Emerson "a baker by trade"; in 1638 Samuel Greenfield sold him "a farm of one hundred and twenty acres previously owned by Humphrey Wise," running from Turkey Shore to Labor in Vain Creek; and he had six acres at Turkey Shore from Henry Wilkinson. Gives the family tradition of a crossing on the Elizabeth and Ann in
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  2. title: "Gordon Harris, articles on early Ipswich families, Historic Ipswich (historicipswich.net)"
  3. type: article
  4. date: 2025-2026
  5. url: "https://historicipswich.net/john-proctor-of-ipswich/"
  6. seen: original
  7. access: public
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  10. Local-history articles by Gordon Harris on the Historic Ipswich website. Compiled from
  11. town, court and land records and from earlier genealogies, mostly without citations.
  12. Used:
  14. - "John Proctor of Ipswich" (2025, the link above). In 1647 John Procter Sr. bought a
  15. 100-acre farm on Island Road from Thomas Firman. It also says "His first wife, Martha,
  16. had died on June 13, 1659. He remarried and left a widow, Martha," a reading the Low
  17. research does not share.
  18. - "Robert and Hannah Pengry Day of Ipswich, and Some of Their Descendants" (4 July 2025):
  19. https://historicipswich.net/2025/07/04/descendants-of-robert-and-hannah-day-of-ipswich/
  20. Lists Hannah (Day) Lord, who married Robert Lord Jr. about 1657, among the children of
  21. Robert Day and Hannah (Pengry) Day, and among her children "James Lord (1676 - 1734)
  22. married Mary (Haskell) Lord," with no source for the Haskell name.
  23. - "The Labor in Vain Farm of Thomas & Elisabeth Emerson of Bishop's Stortford, England,
  24. and Ipswich, Massachusetts" (22 June 2026):
  25. https://historicipswich.net/2026/06/22/thomas-elisabeth-emerson/
  26. Calls Thomas Emerson "a baker by trade"; in 1638 Samuel Greenfield sold him "a farm of
  27. one hundred and twenty acres previously owned by Humphrey Wise," running from Turkey
  28. Shore to Labor in Vain Creek; and he had six acres at Turkey Shore from Henry
  29. Wilkinson. Gives the family tradition of a crossing on the *Elizabeth and Ann* in
  30. 1635.
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