Samuel Appleton

On April 18th, the town rose, jailed Andros, and restored the old magistrates.

Samuel Appleton, out of jail by then, helped escort Andros to his prison on Castle Island.

Ipswich paid Wise's fine and sent him to the convention that reorganized the government.

The charter Massachusetts received in 1691 gave it a royal governor with a veto, a lower house elected by the towns, and a vote defined by property in place of church membership.

On December 19, 1675, colonial forces attacked the Narragansett in their winter fort in the Great Swamp in what is now South Kingston, Rhode Island, and burned it.

Estimates of the Narragansett dead, many of whom were women and children and old people, run from several hundred to several thousand.

The Massachusetts troops in that campaign were commanded by Major Samuel Appleton of Ipswich.

He's the same Samuel Appleton who 12 years later sat in the Boston jail through the winter rather than apologize for his town's refusal to be taxed without an assembly it had chosen.