The celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Ipswich . EXERCISES AT THE TENT. I HE exercises at the tent began with music by?*- the Germaxia Baxd, after which the Presi-dent of the Day made the following introductoryaddress: — ADDRESS OF HON. GEORGE HASKELL, PRESIDENT OF THE DAY. Ladies and Gentlemen, — Two hundred and fifty yearsago tliis day, the Court of Assistants, which at that time con-stituted the government of the Massachusetts Colony, passedan order that Agawam shall be called Ipswitch ; and fromthat date and event we reckon our exist
The celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Ipswich . EXERCISES AT THE TENT. I HE exercises at the tent began with music by?*- the Germaxia Baxd, after which the Presi-dent of the Day made the following introductoryaddress: — ADDRESS OF HON. GEORGE HASKELL, PRESIDENT OF THE DAY. Ladies and Gentlemen, — Two hundred and fifty yearsago tliis day, the Court of Assistants, which at that time con-stituted the government of the Massachusetts Colony, passedan order that Agawam shall be called Ipswitch ; and fromthat date and event we reckon our existence as a town. Wehave met to-day, in commemoration of that event, to refreshand strengthen the memory of the circumstances and theevents attending the settlement of the town, and of thecharacter and work of the men engaged in that beauty of this location and the fertility of the soilallured settlers here several years before the act of incorpo-ration, and before any grant of the land was made or author-ized ; for we find in the colonial records, as early as 1630,— on the 7th
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