A First Period house with a faux-Gothic entrance

Stories From Ipswich

30 East Street, the John Potter house

The lotatthe corner of East street and “Hog Lane,” nowknown as Spring St. was owned in 1648by Francis Jordan the town-whipper, whose gruesome business it was to lay the lashupon the backs of evil-doers at the public whipping-post. Ironically in1655,the owner wasJeffrey Snelling, a man of questionable character who had surelyfelt the sting of Jordan’s lashmore than once.John Potter purchased the lot in 1708 with all the buildings, in...