This collection includes church, society and private corporation records; property appraisals and tax records; receipts for labor and materials relating to the building of the county jail; school attendance records, penmanship workbooks, essays, notices and reports of the Feoffees to the town; military roll calls; vital statistics; weather records; a scrapbook; and miscellaneous papers pertaining to the inhabitants of Ipswich.

The Reverend David T. Kimball papers contains material related to the reverend and his family. The majority is correspondence, to and from Kimball and his family, both personal and business related. The collection also includes Kimball's writings, journals, church papers, financial papers, and ephemera.