June 11,1915 
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NORTH SHORE IN COLONIAL DAYS 
(Continued from page 8) 
Perkins, then in charge of the light, was building a new 
house of only one story with two rooms on a floor, cellar 
and garret, the side facing the light house being left with- 
out windows that the mariners might not become con- 
fused. Captain Perkins in addition to his government 
work, mowed his fields, weeded his garden and tended 
his cows, pigs and sheep to great advantage to himself. 
In February, 1855, Jones’ Fog Bell was erected on 
the northeastern extremity of the island by the officers of 
the cutter “Captain Caleb Cushing,’ it weighed 1500 
pounds and was cast at Henry Hooper’s foundry. The 
machinery which made the hammers strike the outer rim 
was constructed by the Lowell machine shop. After a 
short while it was found that the full advantage of the 
bell was not realized because it had been placed at the 
water’s edge instead of on high ground, and ships going 
through Eagle Island Channel could not hear the sound 
of the bell, which a few years ago gave way to a gasoline- 
run fog horn plainly heard for miles in all directions. 
In 1820 Congress was petitioned to grant $7000 for 
a new lighthouse and on the following Fourth of July 
Captain H. A. S. Dearborn, superintendent of light houses 
in Massachusetts, sent out notices for proposals for the 
building of a new stone lighthouse. In December of that 
year the new stone lighthouse was lighted, making the 
two that are now on the island. The base of both are 
forty-five feet from.the sea level, one being 25 feet in 
height and the other 5614 feet high, visible for 6% or 7 
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leagues away. 
The next most important thing to happen at Baker’s 
Island was the starting of the North Shore Babies Hos- 
pital at the old Morse cottages on the top of the island 
in 1905. For three seasons the babies were cared for 
and a day camp was an especial feature. Continuous 
successful tag days and private subscriptions have made 
possible a larger and more permanent building, however, 
and the camp moved at the end of three years to North 
Salem, where it is now located. 
BAKER’S ISLAND—SOME INTERESTING FACTS 
(Continued from page 9) 
North Shore towns, most of which were established for 
material profit, whereas there was a quite different rea- 
son for the colonization of this pleasant, fertile place. 
Twelve years after the occupation of Plymouth, four and 
a half years after Governor Endicott’s coming to Salem 
and three years after the establishment of the Massachu- 
setts Bay colony by Governor John Winthrop, a rumor 
became current in Boston that the Jesuits were about to 
establish a misson, probably at Ipswich... This, the gov- 
ernment must prevent at all costs; accordingly in March, 
1633, a band of thirteen men under the leadership of 
John Winthrop was organized to settle Ipswich. Besides 
Winthrop there were John Thorndyke, William Clark, 
John Biggs, Robert Cole, John Gage,» Thomas Hardy, 
Thomas Howlett, William Perkins, William Sargeant and 
three others whose names have become lost in the shuffle 
of the years. The colony prospered and has become one 
of the most beautiful of the farming sections in this part 
of the state. 
Ipswich has had many names applied to it, or rather 
many variations of one name. It was generally called 
Agawam, from a tribe of Indians, the Agawames, who 
resided there, according to some authorities, and from 
the original Indian word signifying a place where fish of 
passage resort, according to others. The spelling varies 
greatly. In 1614 Captain John Smith referred to it as 
Agawam; in 1620 the company settled at Plymouth 
“urged greatly the going to Auguam, or Augoun;” and 
in 1633, before the settlement of the place by John Win- 
throp’s band, it was called Agawamme. One year after 
the thirteen had organized a cummunity there, the Gen- 
eral Court of Salem ordered that “Aggawam shall be 
called Ipswitch” from old Ipswich, near Wenham in Suf- 
folk, England, where some of the Thorndykes, Gages, 
Coles and Howletts had lived. 
The North Shore has a wealth of poetry and tradi- 
tion, barely touched upon in these two articles. Poets 
and artists have made their homes upon these shores, 
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