John Wise House

1630 - 1930

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.

Marker is on John Wise Avenue (Massachusetts Route 133), on the right when traveling north.