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John Wise House

Essex County · dedicated 1930 · Route 121, Northern Avenue, Essex · location approximate

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Erected in 1701 by John Wise, pastor of the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, now Essex. Son of a laborer, Harvard graduate, army chaplain, protestant against taxation without representation and against the witchcraft delusion, defender of democracy in the church, and a brilliant prose writer.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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