Rowley, Massachusetts
Population: 5,500
Located in Essex County
The town was settled in the spring of 1639 during the session of the General Court in Boston. It was named "Mr. Ezechi Roger's Plantation Shalbee Called Rowley, Mass." Rowley was laid out so that nearly all of the early houses bordered on the "Town Brook" or one of its tributaries. Originally the Town of Rowley extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Merrimac River and embraced the towns of Boxford ( Rowley Village), Bradford (Merrimac Lands), Georgetown (New Rowley), Groveland, and a part of Middleton, and the present area of Rowley. Rowley has played an important part in this countries growth. In 1642, 40 armed men were sent out from Rowley, Ipswich and Newbury to disarm Passaconaway, "the great Sachem of all the tribes that dwelt in the Valley of Merrimac." Rowley has supplied the area with finished wool through the first fulling mill, lumber from it mills, small vessel during the 1700's, famous Ipswich clams and seafood, as well as scholars who founded new universities and an accused witch hung during the height of the witch trials.
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