Richard INGERSOLL

Father: George INKERSTALL
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Agnes/Ann LANGLEY

(1) New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins via Ancestry.com: Pages 1060-1063.

  1. Alice INGERSOLL
  2. John INGERSOLL
  3. George INGERSOLL
  4. John INGERSOLL
  5. Joan INGERSOLL
  6. Sarah INGERSOLL
  7. Bathsheba INGERSOLL
  8. Nathaniel INGERSOLL
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Notes

Updated September 26, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins via Ancestry.com: Pages 1060-1063.

- BIRTH: Baptized 10 March 1587 at Sandy, Bedfordshire, son of George "INKERSTALL" [Abel Lunt Anc 63]
- ORIGIN: Sutton, Bedfordshire
- MIGRATION: 1629
- FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem
- OCCUPATION: Ferryman
- MARRIAGE: Sandy, Bedfordshire, 10 October 1611 Agnes LANGLYE [Abel Lunt Anc 63]. Anne INGERSOLL is included in the list of those admitted to the Salem church before the end of 1636, with the annotation 'removed' [SChR 6].
- CHILDREN: Alice; John; George; John; Joan; Sarah; Bathsheba; Nathaniel.
- DEATH: Salem between 24 July 1644 (date of will) and 4 October 1644 (date of inventory)

(2) The ancestry of Abel Lunt via Ancestry.com: Section: IV; Ingersoll, of Salem

"INGERSOLL is a surname derived from a place, there being parishes called Inkersall in counties Derby and Nottingham. The name originally began with an H which was lost owing to dissimilation. The surname is a rare one and we are indeed fortunate that there is documentary evidence that the emigrant, Richard INGERSOLL, came from Bedfordshire, and doubly so that the majority of the parish registers of that county have been published. Edworth is a tiny parish which lies on the Hertfordshire border of the county... There in 1587 Richard INKERSTALL was baptized. To marry he went a few miles to the north to the parish of Sandy and most of his life in England before his emigration was passed in the neighboring parish of Sutton. Presumably he was of yeoman status. "

(3) Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. XLV (Richard Ingersoll and some of his descendants); Salem, Massachusetts, United States, Essex Institute Press, 1909. Page 185-187.

"Richard INGERSOLL is first mentioned in a letter, dated London, May 28, 1629, from the Governor of the New England Colony to the Governor at Salem, in which he writes: 'There is also one Richard HAWARD and Richard INKERSALL, both Bedfordshire men, who we pray you may be well accommodated, not doubting but they will well and orderly demean themselves.' The final record of his activities appears in the proceedings of the Salem town meeting, 7th day, 5th mo., 1644... Richard was well received and did his part as a member of the colony during the fifteen remaining years of his life. He was granted 2 acres for a house lot and 80 acres for a plantation (1636), portions of land on Frost Fish brook (1637), and 30 acres 'of meadow in the great meadow' (1639). On his own part he was active in making wood-roads, establishing a ferry across North River (1637), and in the development of his property. His appearance in several suits indicates his insistence upon not only his own rights but on those of the public weal, --as in preventing excessive tolls at the grist-mill. His own infraction was confined to allowing his cows, with those of eleven of his neighbors, to trespass on the common cornfields in 1642. Richard prospered, added to his land by purchase, and left a good estate, when he died in 1644... Richard INGERSOLL married in Sands, England, October 20, 1616, Agnes, or Ann, LANGLEY who is said to be a cousin of John SPENCER of Newbury. (N.E.H.+G.R., 53 : 343). Ann married, second, John KNIGHT Sr., in whose will of May 4, proved June 23, 1670, Ann was mentioned with her grandson, Thomas HAINES (Hoys : Old Families of Salisbury). Ann died July 30, 1677. Children: George... John... Sarah... Joanna... Alice... Bathsheba... Nathaniel..."

(4) Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records via Ancestry.com: Will of Richard INGERSOLL

"July 21, 1644. I Richard INGERSOLL of Salem in the County of Essex in New England being weak in body, but through God's mercy in perfect memory doe make this my last will + testament as followeth vis. I give to Ann my wife all my estate land, goods + chattels whatsoever except as followeth vis. I give to George INGERSOLL my son six acres of meadow lying in the great meadow. Item I give to Nathaniel INGERSOLL, my youngest son a parcell of ground with a little frame thereon, which I bought from John PEASE, but if the said Nathaniel dy without issue of his body lawfully begotten then the land afore said to be equally shared between John INGERSOLL my son, + Richard PETTINGELL + William HAINES my sons in law. I give to Bathsheba my youngest daughter two cowes. I give to my youngest daughter Alice WALCOTT my house at town with 10 acres of upland + meadow after my wife decease."