. The New England magazine. hristian little maid, how she must havesuffered to find herself shunned andfeared by her own flesh and blood! Early in the century a Baptistchurch was founded in New Ipswich,and Methodism, Unitarianism andUniversalism have all contributedtheir chapters to the ecclesiastical his-tory of the town. A hundred yearsago there were a number of Shakersin the south part of the town, but mostof them removed after a little while toHarvard, Massachusetts. The Millerdelusion found its adherents here, asin so many other New England towns,,and at one time five thousand
. The New England magazine. hristian little maid, how she must havesuffered to find herself shunned andfeared by her own flesh and blood! Early in the century a Baptistchurch was founded in New Ipswich,and Methodism, Unitarianism andUniversalism have all contributedtheir chapters to the ecclesiastical his-tory of the town. A hundred yearsago there were a number of Shakersin the south part of the town, but mostof them removed after a little while toHarvard, Massachusetts. The Millerdelusion found its adherents here, asin so many other New England towns,,and at one time five thousand personsgathered at the meetings. In fact,there have been few religious, social orpolitical movements which have notsomehow found their representativesin this old town. It is most interest-ing to read about them all in the his-tory of New Ipswich which one findsin the library, a history published nowalmost half a century ago. In the in-troduction to this history, which hasbeen of so great service to the writer,we read that:. THE GIRLS SITTING ROOM IN THE HOMESTEAD INN. NEW IPSWICH. loo In the summer of 1849 one of theauthors (Frederic Kidder) visited his na-tive town, to repair the tombstones of hisancestors and collect such materials as hemight towards a family history. In wan-dering over the old burying-ground hewas struck with the number of the greatand good resting there, whose names anddeeds were likely soon to be looking over the town records of theperiod of the Revolution he could not butadmire the firm and bold resolves of thecitizens, their clear views of republicanprinciples and constitutional liberty, andtheir self-sacrificing patriotism. He de-sired that some one should chronicle thehistory of the town, before the loss of rec-ords or the death of the remaining few passage describing- the things whichimmediately followed the Concordfight: By preconcerted arrangements theCommittees of Safety in the various townsspread the news in all directions; and sorap
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