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New Ipswich was granted in 1735 to 60 inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, from whence the name is derived, by Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher and the General Court ( Assembly ) of Massachusetts.
In 1762, Governor Benning Wentworth incorporated the town as " Ipswich ", and then in 1766 as " New Ipswich ".
New Ipswich Academy, later renamed Appleton Academy after benefactor Samuel Appleton, was chartered in 1789, the second oldest in New Hampshire after Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter.
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