As a boy in New Ipswich I was clueless about the town's history. I learned a lot of American history (more than today's generation are exposed to) but did not connect it to New Ipswich. It would have been good to have been exposed to what I am reading now in my 80s. I learned more about New Ipswich in the past decade than I have in all the previous ones. In 1961 while in college I worked in new hospital devoted to researching chronic diseases, mainly cancer. It was named the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital after the man that started the first public health dept in the US. Harvard, BU, and Tufts had ongoing clinical trials there. Patients apply for admission and if they met the criteria and agreed to new treatment the maximum costs for their hospital stay would be $40/day. Did I know that Lemuel Shattuck spent his boyhood summers in New Ipswich with relatives? no.
John Shattuck
Born 7 Jul 1757 in Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of John Shattuck and Elizabeth Shattuck
Brother of Elizabeth (Shattuck) Blanchard [half], Sarah (Shattuck) Ball, Sybil (Shattuck) Sartell, Nathaniel Shattuck and Eunice (Shattuck) Jewett
[spouse(s) unknown]
Father of Lemuel Shattuck
Died 26 Apr 1816 at age 58 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States
Thank you for history
As a boy in New Ipswich I was clueless about the town's history. I learned a lot of American history (more than today's generation are exposed to) but did not connect it to New Ipswich. It would have been good to have been exposed to what I am reading now in my 80s. I learned more about New Ipswich in the past decade than I have in all the previous ones. In 1961 while in college I worked in new hospital devoted to researching chronic diseases, mainly cancer. It was named the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital after the man that started the first public health dept in the US. Harvard, BU, and Tufts had ongoing clinical trials there. Patients apply for admission and if they met the criteria and agreed to new treatment the maximum costs for their hospital stay would be $40/day. Did I know that Lemuel Shattuck spent his boyhood summers in New Ipswich with relatives? no.