Richard Ingersoll

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RICHARD INGERSOLL (bp. 1587–1644)

AGNES LANGLYE (d. aft. 1670)

English Family of Richard Ingersoll [1]

George Ingersoll (Inkerstall) was possibly born about 1565 in Bedfordshire He had the following children, baptized in Edworth, Bedfordshire:

i. Richard Ingersoll was baptized on 10 March 1587.
ii. William Ingersoll was baptized on 31 October 1590. He was buried on 17 November 1590.
iii. Joan Ingersoll (probably twin of William) was baptized on 30 November 1590.
iv. Elizabeth Ingersoll was baptized on 25 October 1597.
v. William Ingersoll was baptized on 8 March 1600.

Richard, the son of George "Inkerstall," was baptized on 10 March 1587 in Sandy, Bedfordshire. [1][2] He died between 21 July and 4 October 1644. [3] He married Agnes Langlye on 10 October 1611 in Sandy. [2]

Agnes Langlye died after 5 May 1670, when her second husband made his will. [2] She married second John Knight, Sr. of Newbury. [2][3][4]

Matthew Craddock wrote from London to Captain John Endicott, Esq., Governor at Naumkeag (Salem), on 28 May 1629 and added on 3 June that "one Richard Haward and Richard Inkersall, both Bedfordshire men, hyred for the Company, with their famylies, who wee pray you may be well accomodated, not doubting but they will well & orderly demean themselves." [1]

Richard arrived in New England in 1629 and settled in Salem. [2]

Richard was a ferryman; he was allowed a penny for every person transported over the north river on 16 January 1636/7. [2]

Richard Ingersoll of Salem made his will on 21 July 1644; it was proved on 2 January 1644/5. He left his estate to his wife Ann, with the following exceptions. He left his son George six acres in the great meadow. He left his youngest son Nathaniel a parcel of ground with a little frame on it. But, if Nathaniel died without issue, then it was to be shared between his son John Ingersoll and his son-in-laws Richard Pettingill and William Haines. He left his youngest daughter Bathsheba two cows, and his daughter Alice Walcott his house at town with ten acres of upland and meadow after his wife's decease. Inventory was taken on 4 October 1644. [3] It totaled £213-19-00. [2]

On 10 April 1668, with the consent of her husband John Knight, Ann Knight deeded 80 acres left to her by her husband Richard "Ingerson" to her sons John and Nathaniel Ingerson. [2]

Children of Richard Ingersoll and Agnes Langlye:

i. Alice Ingersoll was baptized on 21 December 1612 in Sandy. [1][2] She married William Walcott by about 1634 in Salem. [1, by about 1630][2]

William was troublesome. In 1639 Reverend Hugh Peter wrote to a colleague in Dorchester that William had refused "to bring his children to the ordinance [baptism], willfully neglecting family duties." [1] In 1641/2 he was sentenced to be whipped for idleness and abuse of his friends and to be kept in prison until further orders. [1] William appears to have become incompetent because on 27 December 1643 his wife, children and estate were entrusted to his father-in-law and William was to be Richard's servant. [1][2] He was probably one of those banished as an Anabaptist in 1644. [1]

ii. John Ingersoll was baptized on 1 October 1615 in Edworth, Bedfordshire. [1][2] He was buried there on 17 November 1615. [2]

iii. George Ingersoll was baptized on 2 July 1618 in Sutton, Bedfordshire. [1][2] He died in 1694. [3] He married Elizabeth ___. [2]

George was a selectman and keeper of an ordinary in Gloucester. [1][3] He moved to Falmouth, Maine as early as 1658, where he was a representative. [3] He later returned to Salem. [3]

iv. John Ingersoll was baptized on 11 March 1620/1 in Sutton. [1][2] He died in 1683. [1] He married Judith Felton by 1644. [1][2] Judith was the daughter of the widow Eleanor Felton, an early settler of Salem. [1]

John was a mariner. [3]

v. Joanna Ingersoll was baptized on 3 March 1624[/5?] in Sutton. She died about 1697/8. She married Richard Pettingill.

vi. Sarah Ingersoll was baptized on 1 July 1627 in Sutton. [1][2] She married first William Haines of Salem by 1644. [1][2][3] She married second Joseph Holton on 13 November 1651 in Newbury. [1][2]

vii. Bathsheba Ingersoll was born say 1629 in Salem. [2] She died on 24 October 1705. [1] She married John Knight, Jr. of Newbury in 1647. [1, about 1646][2, by 1648][3] John was her mother's stepson. [1]

viii. Deacon Nathaniel Ingersoll was born about 1633 in Salem. [2] He died in 1719. [1] He married Hannah Collins of Lynn by 1669 in Salem. [1][2]

Nathaniel was deacon of the Salem Village church and was one of the accusers in at least seven of the witchcraft cases. [1]

Endnotes:

1. Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts (Portlandm ME: Anthoensen, 1963): 63–68.

2. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1060–3.

3. Joshua Coffin, "Hills and Ingersoll," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9 (1855): 157.

4. John Mason Pettingell, Charles Henry Pope and Charles I. Pettingell, A Pettingell Genealogy (Boston: Fort Hill Press, 1906).

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