This carriers’ address is printed in two columns with stanzas of varying widths. The address wishes the readers best wishes and a happy life on earth and a happier life “prepared above, / In mansions of eternal love” before asking its audience “T’ increase, this new year’s day, the joys / Of your poor humble printer’s boys.” The second column then explains the intrinsic journalistic value of the Ipswich Journal: Religion, morals, crimes, “Who’s drowned, / Who’s burned to death” and all the boats, sloops and ships which ply the port of Ipswich. The narrator’s tone is clearly jocular and the address is a bit lighter on its feet than some of its brethren we have catalogued. According to OCLC 31391862 Ipswich Journal was a shortly-lived weekly that survived from 1827 to 1828, established by John H. Harris, Jr. It is thinly held by only three institutions: Peabody Essex Museum, University of Illinois, and the Mass. Newspaper Project. This is likely the one and only carriers address the Ipswich Journal could have ever issued.