The first known owner of a house at this location was William Hodgkins III, who in 1668 secured permission from the town to cut oaks to build a house. Hodgkins was the grandson of William Hodgkins, who settled in Ipswich in 1640. The house was sold in 1718 to Archelaus Lakeman, and his wife Rebekah Rindge, and was during this time that the house was enlarged and acquired its present form. Architectural features in the front left side indicate that it is the original section to be constructed.
The house stayed in the Lakeman family for 200 years. Archelaus Lakeman and his brother Tobias (whose house is also still standing) were sons of William Lakeman, who was born in 1650 in Rye and was a fisherman at Smuttynose Island in the Isles of Shoals before moving to Ipswich in 1697. Read more at the Historic Ipswich site.
Historic Ipswich 