10/10/2026
Saturday, October 17 from 1 pm to 4 pm at America's Stonehenge105 Haverhill Road Salem, NH
SHS Life Member & Presenter Peter Wiggin will offer a whole new perspective on a very old, very controversial document "The Wheelwright Deed of 1629". Years of independent research and mapping have resulted in a whole new perspective on what this document might actually describe. Its role in history, what it actually pertained to and meant will be examined which offers an alternative narrative to the accepted norm and may go far in explaining why this document has been so little understood for so long. Topics discussed will be the founding of, and early records of the Towns of Newbury, Ipswich and Haverhill. There will be a closer look at the Merrimack River during the time period (1629-1643) couching all these areas of particular interest within the geographic bounds of Ol' Norfolk County (1643-1679).
Image of a copy of the Wheelwright Deed of 1629. Photography from the Hampstead Historical Society.
