RICHARD INGERSOLL 1587-1644

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RICHARD INGERSOLL
ORIGIN: Sutton, Bedfordshire, England
MIGRATION: 1629
FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem

OCCUPATION: Ferryman. ("Ric[har]d Inkersoll" was allowed one penny for every person he ferried over the north river, 16 January 1636/7 [STR 1:31].)

EDUCATION: Signed his will with a mark. The will also has the annotation, made by John Endicott, that "I read this will to Richard Ingersoll and he acknowledged it to be his will."

OFFICES: On 7 July 1644, ordered to "walk forth in the time of God's worship, to take notice of such as either lie about the meeting house without attending to the word or ordinances, or that lie at home or in the fields..." (apparently on the sixth Sunday following, paired with Robert Moulton, Jr.) [STR 1:131].

ESTATE: In 1636 received eighty acres in Salem, but not in the freeman's land [STR 1:20]. Granted one acre of marsh in Salem on 25 December 1637, with a household of nine [STR 1:103].

He received two acres for a houselot 6 April 1635 and was reminded to allow room for a highway on his land [STR 1:9]. With Edward Giles and Pasco Foot, Ingersoll was considered for land by the "frost fish brook" next to Goodman Barney, 10 April 1637 [STR 1:44]. On 20 November 1639 Richard Ingersoll received ten acres of meadow in the great meadow at Salem, having already received twenty acres on 23 December 1638 [STR 1:92, 94].

In his will, dated 21 July 1644 and proved 2 January 1644/5, Richard Ingersoll of Salem gave all to "Ann my wife," except to "George Ingersoll my son six acres lying in the great meadow," to "Nathaniel Ingersoll my youngest son a parcel of ground with a little frame thereon" (unless Nathaniel dies without issue, in which case the land should be divided equally among "John Ingersoll my son and Richard Pettingell and William Haines my sons-in-law"), to "Bathsheba my youngest daughter two cows", and to "my daughter Alice Walcott my house at town with 10 acres of upland and meadow after my wife's decease"; witnessed by Townsend Bishop [NEHGR 9:157] (What appears to be a different version of this will refers to both Bathsheba and Alice as youngest daughter, which is clearly impossible [EPR 1:43; EQC 1:76]. Without examining the originals of these documents we cannot tell whether the error was made by the seventeenth-century or the nineteenth-century copyist.)

The inventory, taken 4 October 1644 by Townsend Bishop and Jeffrey Massey, totalled £213 19s., of which £47 10s. 10d. was real estate: a farm, 80 acres, meadow, 20 acres, £14 3s. 4d.; another farm, 75 acres, £7; and 26 acres, 2 houses, 2 acres [and] a quarter of salt marsh, £26 7s. 6d. [EPR 1:458; EQC 1:76].

On 10 April 1668 Anne Knight deeded eighty acres at Royalside, bequeathed to her by her late husband "Richard Ingerson," to their sons "John and Nathaniel Ingerson" with the consent of her now husband John Knight Sr. of Newbury [EQC 4:109].

BIRTH: Baptized 10 March 1587 at Sandy, Bedfordshire, son of George "Inkerstall" [Abel Lunt Anc 63].

DEATH: Salem between 24 July 1644 (date of will) and 4 October 1644 (date of inventory).

MARRIAGE: Sandy, Bedfordshire, 10 October 1611 Agnes Langlye [Abel Lunt Anc 63]. Anne Ingersoll is included in the list of those admitted to Salem church before the end of 1636, with the annotation "removed" [SChR 6]. She married (2) by 1652 John Knight of Newbury and was living at the time he made his will, 5 May 1670, in which he bequeathed to "my wife's grandchild Thomas Hains, £10 to be paid after his time is out" [EPR 2:191].

CHILDREN (baptisms for i-vi from Abel Lunt Anc 65-67):

i ALICE, baptized Sandy, Bedfordshire, 21 December 1612; married by about 1634 William Walcott (in the Salem land grant of 25 December 1637 "Will[iam] Walcot" was credited with a household of four, which indicates a wife and perhaps two children by that date [STR 1:103]), who seems to have become incompetent within a decade. (In December 1643 "Willia[m] Walcott's wife, children and estate" were entrusted to "Richard Inkersell, his father-in-law, to be disposed of `according to God; and the said William Wolcott to be and remain as his servant'" [EQC 1:57]. This arrangement lasted less than a year, terminated at the death of Richard Ingersoll.)

ii JOHN, baptized Edworth, Bedfordshire, 1 October 1615 and buried there 17 November 1615.

iii GEORGE, baptized Sutton, Bedfordshire, 2 July 1618; married by 1646 Elizabeth _____ (eldest child born Gloucester 16 October 1646).

iv JOHN, baptized Sutton, 11 March 1620[/1?]; married by 1644 Judith Felton (eldest child born Salem 12 September 1644; in his will of 20 November 1683 John Ingersoll names as an overseer "brother-in-law Nathaniel Felton" [Abel Lunt Anc 67, citing EPR 302:57]).

v JOAN, baptized Sutton 3 March 1624[/5?]; married by 1644 Richard Pettingill.

vi SARAH, baptized Sutton 1 July 1627; married (1) by 1644 William Haynes; married (2) Newbury 13 November 1651 Joseph Holton.

vii BATHSHEBA, born Salem say 1629; married Newbury [--] 16[--] John Knight (apparently by 1648, as eldest known child, son John, was born Newbury 16 August 1648).

viii NATHANIEL, born Salem about 1633 (deposed aged 40 years 30 June 1674 [SJC #1503], deposed aged "45 years or thereabouts" 25 June 1678 [EQC 49:15], deposed aged 60 years 25 December 1694 [SJC #3212]); married Salem 25 March 16__ (which must be 1669 or earlier [TAG 27:130, citing ELR 7:57]) Hannah Collins.

COMMENTS: 28 May 1629 letter of instruction from Massachusetts Bay Company to John Endicott: "There is also one Richard Haward and Richard Inkersall, both Bedfordshire men, hired for the Company with their families, who we pray you may be well accommodated, not doubting but they will well and orderly demean themselves" [MBCR 1:401; SLR 1:xvi].

In the 1636 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll appears in that portion of the list which included "non-freemen," which in Salem tells us clearly that he was not a member of the church. In the 1637 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll is shown with a family of nine. Seven of his children were living at that date, but his eldest daughter Alice was already married to William Walcott and would have been included in her husband's household. Thus, there may have been an additional child otherwise unrecorded, but this child in turn must have died before 1644; alternatively there may have been a more distant relative or a servant living with the Ingersolls that year.

Ingersoll had the usual problems with fences and encroachment on land, but the land grant next to Jacob Barney was a problem. Ingersoll sued Jacob Barney at the September Term, 1639, probably regarding land [EQC 1:13]. Barney sued him back over feeding cattle in his marsh, September Term, 1640, and won a verdict of "[t]wo loads of hay at water side as convenient as his own was" [EQC 1:21]. Joshua Verrin sued Ingersoll at the same term over maintenance of a fence and was countersued immediately [EQC 1:22, 29].

For some of the larger and more expensive farm implements noted in Ingersoll's inventory, it is stated that he owned one third of each item. This would indicate that he shared ownership with one or two other husbandmen in the neighborhood, or, as seems more likely, with two of his sons. In depositions at the June 1678 Essex Quarterly Court, the brothers George, John and Nathaniel "Ingerson" gave evidence regarding events in the 1640s. George deposed that "living a partner with his father Richard Ingerson upon the farm that the said Rich[ar]d Ingerson hired of Mr. Chickering which the said Chickering had bought of Mr. Townsend Bishop," demonstrating that the Ingersolls were in a cooperative family enterprise and placing them on Mr. Chickering's farm.

Richard Ingersoll found the Salem miller lacking and in September 1640 took grandjuryman Lawrence Leech with him to the mill to prove that the grists were "much short of weight" [EQC 1:20]. His neighbors found his cattle and the cattle of a dozen other men offensive in the common cornfields and Ingersoll paid the court's fine [EQC 1:49, 56].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE:
There is an excellent treatment of Richard Ingersoll in "The Ancestry of Abel Lunt" ... by Walter Goodwin Davis (pp. 63-68), and details may be found there of the marriages and later lives of Richard's children.

Mrs. William C. Clark, "The Parents of Jonathan Haynes of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Some of Their Descendants" [TAG 27:129-34], provides extensive documentation on the fate of some of Richard Ingersoll's children and property.
John B. Threlfall also published an account of this family in 1993 [GMC26 141-48].


Immigration of Richard Ingersoll
1629 RICHARD INGERSOLL - from England on the Mayflower - 11th generation (S1110)

RICHARD INGERSOLL was born March 10, 1587 in Edworth, Bedfordshire, England, the son of George Ingersoll.

Richard married Ann Langley October 10, 1611 at Sandy, County of Bedford, England. Ann was born about 1576, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Langley.

Richard and Ann were the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters. Probably all but one was born in England. Nathaniel was born in America but Bathsheba was born in 1629, the year they arrived in America.

The family came to America arriving at Plymouth, Massachusetts on May 15, 1629 on the ship "Mayflower". They brought with them letters of recommendation from William Craddock which were given to Governor Endicott. Subsequently, Richard was granted 80 acres of land on the east side of Wooleston River and a two-acre Salem Town lot. At the time Richard was 42 years old.

Richard died July 21, 1644 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts at the age of 57. His wife, Ann, then married John Knight, a merchant sailor of Newbury, Massachusetts. John died in 1670; Ann died at Salem July 30, 1677 about 101 years old.


Mayflower!
Richard INGERSOLLHUSBAND:
[F14978]. Richard INGERSOLL. (INKERSALL).

Born on 10 March 1587 at Edworth, Bedfordshire, England; son of George INKERSALL [F29956] and Alice HANKIN [F29957]. He was christened on 16 March 1587 at Edworth. He married (1) Ann LANGLEY [F14979] on 10 (20-s?) October 1611 at St. Swithin's Church, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England.

Robert, his wife Ann, and five children (including 1-year-old daughter Sarah) arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts on 15 May 1629 on board the ship Mayflower II. Two more children were born after their arrival in America. {S1}.

A letter of instruction from the Massachusetts Bay Company written to John Endicott in Salem on May 28, 1629 stated "There is also one Richard Haward and Richard Inkersall, both Bedfordshire men, hired for the Company with their families, who we pray you may be well accommodated, not doubting but they will well and orderly demean themselves." {S3}.

Richard Ingersoll brought letters of recommendation from William Craddock which were handed over to the Massachusetts Governor Endicott. Subsequently, Richard Ingersoll was granted 80 acres of land on the east side of the Wooleston River and a two acre Salem Town lot. At this town lot site he operated a ferry across the North River. He also leased the Townsend Bishop farm for a number of years and shortly before he died purchased jointly with his son-in-law, William Haynes, the Weston Grant in Salem Village. {S1}.

Various land grants to Richard are of non-freeman portions, so he was not a member of the church. He was the ferryman, and he and his sons cooperatively farmed. Various legal documents show they shared ownership of large equipment and rented land together. {S3}.

His will was written on 21 July 1644 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. In his will, William Haynes was designated as a son-in-law and bequeathed a portion of property to be divided equally among a son (John Ingersoll) and another son-in-law (Richard Pettingall) on the condition if Richard Ingersoll's youngest son (Nathaniel Ingersoll) should die without issue. This condition became important later, when in fact, Nathaniel Ingersoll, the youngest son died without natural heirs in 1719. {S1}.

The will, in part, included the words:
Item- I give to Nathaniel Ingersoll my youngest son a parcell of ground, which I bought of John P-, but if the said Nathaniel dy without issue of his body lawfully begotten, then the land aforesaid to be equally shared between John Ingersoll, my son, and Richard Pettingill and William Haines my sons in law. (Richard Ingersoll Will, Salem, Essex Co. New England, 21 Jul 1644) {S1}.
He died before January 1645, probably not long after the writing of his will. {S1}.

WIFE:
[F14979]. Ann LANGLEY. (Agnes).
Born about 1590 at Sandy, Bedfordshire, England; daughter of Thomas LANGLEY [F29958] and Ann [F29959]. She married (1) Richard INGERSOLL [F14978] on 10 October 1611 at St. Swithin's Church, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England. She married (2) John KNIGHT Sr., a merchant sailor of Newbury, after 1645 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. They are seen in records as living in Newbury. John Knight died in newbury in 1670. Ann died on 30 Jul 1677 at (Salem-S2)(Newbury-S1), Essex County, Massachusetts.

CHILDREN of Richard INGERSOLL [F14978] and Ann LANGLEY [F14979]

Alice INGERSOLL. Christened on 21 December 1612 at St. Swithin's Church, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England. She married William WALCOTT about 1630 in Salem, Essex County. Massachusetts. She died after 1644 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.

John INGERSOLL. Born (or christened) on 1 October 1615 at Edworth, Bedfordshire, England. He died on 17 November 1615 in Edworth, Bedfordshire, England.

(Lt) George INGERSOLL Sr. Christened on 2 July 1618 at Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. He married Elizabeth LUNT about 1642 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died after 22 June 1694 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts; and was buried in Salem.

John INGERSOLL. Christened on 11 March 1620 at Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. He married Judith FELTON about 1643 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died after 20 November 1683 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts; and was buried before 27 December 1683 in Salem.

Joanna INGERSOLL. Christened on 3 March 1624 at Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. She married Richard PETTINGELL in 1643 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died in 1693 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. [F7489].

Sarah INGERSOLL. Born about 1627 in Bedfordshire, England. She was christened on 1 July 1627 at Sutton, Bedfordshire, England. She married (1) WILLIAM HAYES [F7488]. She married (2) Joseph HOULTON on 13 November 1651 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. They resided in Newbury. She died in 1719 in Houlton, Massachusetts.

Bathsheba INGERSOLL. Christened on 1 July 1629 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. She married John KNIGHT Jr. in 1647 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 25 October 1705 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel INGERSOLL. Born about 1632 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. He married Hannah COLLINS on 25 March 1657 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 27 Jan 1719 at Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts.

SOURCES:
[S1]. JONATHAN HAYNES of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts. Haynes Family Genealogy. compiled and written by Paulette Haynes. 1984 and revised 2002. http://members.aol.com/chrishayne/jonathan.htm. and http://members.aol.com/CHRISHAYNE/salem.htm.
[S2]. Bill Wescott research. http://homepage.mac.com/billwesco/WC14/WC14_082.HTML
[S3]. The Earliest Haynes in North America. http://home.fuse.net/flund/firstsettlersL.htm


Biography Of Richard Ingersoll/Inkersoll
about 1630, Salem, Massachusetts
RICHARD INGERSOLL
ORIGIN: Sutton, Bedfordshire
MIGRATION: 1629
FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem
OCCUPATION: Ferryman. ("Ric[har]d Inkersoll" was allowed one penny for every person he ferried over the north river, 16 January 1636/7 [ STR 1:31].)
EDUCATION: Signed his will with a mark. The will also has the annotation, made by John Endicott, that "I read this will to Richard Ingersoll and he acknowledged it to be his will."
OFFICES: On 7 July 1644, ordered to "walk forth in the time of God's worship, to take notice of such as either lie about the meeting house without attending to the word or ordinances, or that lie at home or in the fields..." (apparently on the sixth Sunday following, paired with Robert Moulton, Jr.) [STR 1:131].
ESTATE: In 1636 received eighty acres in Salem, but not in the freeman's land [STR 1:20]. Granted one acre of marsh in Salem on 25 December 1637, with a household of nine [STR 1:103].

He received two acres for a houselot 6 April 1635 and was reminded to allow room for a highway on his land [STR 1:9]. With Edward Giles and Pasco Foot, Ingersoll was considered for land by the "frost fish brook" next to Goodman Barney, 10 April 1637 [STR 1:44]. On 20 November 1639 Richard Ingersoll received ten acres of meadow in the great meadow at Salem, having already received twenty acres on 23 December 1638 [STR 1:92, 94].

In his will, dated 21 July 1644 and proved 2 January 1644/5, Richard Ingersoll of Salem gave all to "Ann my wife," except to "George Ingersoll my son six acres lying in the great meadow," to "Nathaniel Ingersoll my youngest son a parcel of ground with a little frame thereon" (unless Nathaniel dies without issue, in which case the land should be divided equally among "John Ingersoll my son and Richard Pettingell and William Haines my sons-in-law"), to "Bathsheba my youngest daughter two cows", and to "my daughter Alice Walcott my house at town with 10 acres of upland and meadow after my wife's decease"; witnessed by Townsend Bishop [ NEHGR 9:157] (What appears to be a different version of this will refers to both Bathsheba and Alice as youngest daughter, which is clearly impossible [ EPR 1:43; EQC 1:76]. Without examining the originals of these documents we cannot tell whether the error was made by the seventeenth-century or the nineteenth-century copyist.)

The inventory, taken 4 October 1644 by Townsend Bishop and Jeffrey Massey, totalled £213 19s., of which £47 10s. 10d. was real estate: a farm, 80 acres, meadow, 20 acres, £14 3s. 4d.; another farm, 75 acres, £7; and 26 acres, 2 houses, 2 acres [and] a quarter of salt marsh, £26 7s. 6d. [EPR 1:458; EQC 1:76].

On 10 April 1668 Anne Knight deeded eighty acres at Royalside, bequeathed to her by her late husband "Richard Ingerson," to their sons "John and Nathaniel Ingerson" with the consent of her now husband John Knight Sr. of Newbury [EQC 4:109].

BIRTH: Baptized 10 March 1587 at Sandy, Bedfordshire, son of George "Inkerstall" [ Abel Lunt Anc 63].

DEATH: Salem between 24 July 1644 (date of will) and 4 October 1644 (date of inventory).

MARRIAGE: Sandy, Bedfordshire, 10 October 1611 Agnes Langlye [Abel Lunt Anc 63]. Anne Ingersoll is included in the list of those admitted to Salem church before the end of 1636, with the annotation "removed" [ SChR 6]. She married (2) by 1652 John Knight of Newbury and was living at the time he made his will, 5 May 1670, in which he bequeathed to "my wife's grandchild Thomas Hains, £10 to be paid after his time is out" [EPR 2:191].

CHILDREN (baptisms for i-vi from Abel Lunt Anc 65-67):
i ALICE, baptized Sandy, Bedfordshire, 21 December 1612; married by about 1634 William Walcott (in the Salem land grant of 25 December 1637 "Will[iam] Walcot" was credited with a household of four, which indicates a wife and perhaps two children by that date [STR 1:103]), who seems to have become incompetent within a decade. (In December 1643 "Willia[m] Walcott's wife, children and estate" were entrusted to "Richard Inkersell, his father-in-law, to be disposed of `according to God; and the said William Wolcott to be and remain as his servant'" [EQC 1:57]. This arrangement lasted less than a year, terminated at the death of Richard Ingersoll.)

ii JOHN, baptized Edworth, Bedfordshire, 1 October 1615 and buried there 17 November 1615.

iii GEORGE, baptized Sutton, Bedfordshire, 2 July 1618; married by 1646 Elizabeth _____ (eldest child born Gloucester 16 October 1646).

iv JOHN, baptized Sutton, 11 March 1620[/1?]; married by 1644 Judith Felton (eldest child born Salem 12 September 1644; in his will of 20 November 1683 John Ingersoll names as an overseer "brother-in-law Nathaniel Felton" [Abel Lunt Anc 67, citing EPR 302:57]).

v JOAN, baptized Sutton 3 March 1624[/5?]; married by 1644 Richard Pettingill.

vi SARAH, baptized Sutton 1 July 1627; married (1) by 1644 William Haynes; married (2) Newbury 13 November 1651 Joseph Holton.

vii BATHSHEBA, born Salem say 1629; married Newbury [--] 16[--] John Knight (apparently by 1648, as eldest known child, son John, was born Newbury 16 August 1648).

viii NATHANIEL, born Salem about 1633 (deposed aged 40 years 30 June 1674 [ SJC #1503], deposed aged "45 years or thereabouts" 25 June 1678 [EQC 49:15], deposed aged 60 years 25 December 1694 [SJC #3212]); married Salem 25 March 16__ (which must be 1669 or earlier [ TAG 27:130, citing ELR 7:57]) Hannah Collins.

COMMENTS: 28 May 1629 letter of instruction from Massachusetts Bay Company to John Endicott: "There is also one Richard Haward and Richard Inkersall, both Bedfordshire men, hired for the Company with their families, who we pray you may be well accommodated, not doubting but they will well and orderly demean themselves" [ MBCR 1:401; SLR 1:xvi].
In the 1636 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll appears in that portion of the list which included "non-freemen," which in Salem tells us clearly that he was not a member of the church. In the 1637 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll is shown with a family of nine. Seven of his children were living at that date, but his eldest daughter Alice was already married to William Walcott and would have been included in her husband's household. Thus, there may have been an additional child otherwise unrecorded, but this child in turn must have died before 1644; alternatively there may have been a more distant relative or a servant living with the Ingersolls that year.

Ingersoll had the usual problems with fences and encroachment on land, but the land grant next to Jacob Barney was a problem. Ingersoll sued Jacob Barney at the September Term, 1639, probably regarding land [EQC 1:13]. Barney sued him back over feeding cattle in his marsh, September Term, 1640, and won a verdict of "[t]wo loads of hay at water side as convenient as his own was" [EQC 1:21]. Joshua Verrin sued Ingersoll at the same term over maintenance of a fence and was countersued immediately [EQC 1:22, 29].

For some of the larger and more expensive farm implements noted in Ingersoll's inventory, it is stated that he owned one third of each item. This would indicate that he shared ownership with one or two other husbandmen in the neighborhood, or, as seems more likely, with two of his sons. In depositions at the June 1678 Essex Quarterly Court, the brothers George, John and Nathaniel "Ingerson" gave evidence regarding events in the 1640s. George deposed that "living apartner with his father Richard Ingerson upon the farm that the said Rich[ar]d Ingerson hired of Mr. Chickering which the said Chickering had bought of Mr. Townsend Bishop," demonstrating that the Ingersolls were in a cooperative family enterprise and placing them on Mr. Chickering's farm.

Richard Ingersoll found the Salem miller lacking and in September 1640 took grandjuryman Lawrence Leech with him to the mill to prove that the grists were "much short of weight" [EQC 1:20]. His neighbors found his cattle and the cattle of a dozen other men offensive in the common cornfields and Ingersoll paid the court's fine [EQC 1:49, 56].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE:

There is an excellent treatment of Richard Ingersoll in The Ancestry of Abel Lunt ... by Walter Goodwin Davis (pp. 63-68), and details may be found there of the marriages and later lives of Richard's children. Mrs. William C. Clark, "The Parents of Jonathan Haynes of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Some of Their Descendants" [TAG 27:129-34], provides extensive documentation on the fate of some of Richard Ingersoll's children and property. John B. Threlfall also published an account of this family in 1993 [ GMC26 141-48].

Notes on Richard Ingersoll (1587-1644)
1600s, Salem

Richard Ingersoll: In his will of 21 July 1644, proved 2 January 1645, he mentions: wife Anne (Langely); sons George, John, and Nathaniel, the youngest; son-in-law Richard Pettingell, who married his daughter Joanna, and William Haines, who married his daughter Sarah, (she had 2nd husband Joseph Houlton); daughters Alice (wife of Josiah Walcot), and Bathsheba, the youngest, (who later married John Knight, Jr., and before 1652, his father John Knight, Sr. married her mother Anne, wh. died 1677.) In his inv. a pair of oxen is set down as of the value of £14, and his farm of fifty acres £7.

The following abstract is taken verbatim fr a copy made by Joshua Coffin when researching the Salem Quarterly Court Records: "I give to Ann my wife all my estate of land, goods and chattels whatsoever except as followeth, viz. 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 of John P[ease?] but if the said Nathaniel dy without issue of his body lawfully begotten then the land aforesaid to be equally shared between John Ingersoll my son, and Richard Pettingel and 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 and meadow after my wife's decease. R (his mark) I." I read this will to Richard Ingersoll and he acknowledged it to be his wll. Jo. Endecott." Wit: Townsend Bishop.

Inventory taken 4 October 1644. As illustrating the relative value of land and stock, I give some items of the appraisement of the estate. 7 cows œ34, 2 young steers œ4, bull œ7, pair of oxen œ14, 2 horses and mare and a young colt œ25, a farm of 80 acres œ7. Among other items was a moose Skin Suit. (E. I. Hist. Coll. 1:12.)

He was a Ferryman.7681 He was also known as Richard Inkersall.9766 He came to New England with his family on the 2nd Mayflower in 1629. The Master of this Mayflower was the famous Capt William Pierce. The ship left Gravesend, London, England March 1629 and arrived at Plymouth, May 15, 1629. There were approximately 35 passengers including Richard Ingersall, his wife Anne and their children: George, Joanna, John, Sarah and Alice. He kept the ferry at North River.

(REF: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, Comments on Richard Ingersoll) In the 1636 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll appears in that portion of the list which included "non-freemen," which in Salem tells us clearly that he was not a member of the church. In the 1637 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll is shown with a family of nine. Seven of his children living at that date, but his eldest daughter Alice was already married to William Walcott and would have been included in her husband's household. Thus, there may have been an additional child otherwise unrecorded, but this child in turn must have died before 1644; alternatively there may have been a more distant relative or a servant living with the Ingersolls that year.

An inventory of the property taken on October 4, 1644. Some of the items listed were as follows: 7 cows, 34 lbs; two young steers, 4 lbs.; bull, 7 lbs.; pair of oxen, 14 lbs.; two horses and mare and young colt, 25 lbs.; a farm of 80 acres, 7 lbs. A moose skin suit was another item.

Among Richard Ingersoll's papers was found this recipe: "A metson to make a man's hear groe when he is bald: Take some fier flies and some Redd worms and sum black snayles and sum hune bees and drie them and pound them to powder and mixt them in milk or water."

It is claimed that a certain house in Salem was built by Richard Ingersoll and was the original house of the romance novel by Nathanial Hawthorne-House of the Seven Gables.

Several years after, the widow, Anne, married John Knight, Sr. of Newbury and litigation arose over the farm her husband had willed her. In the trial, her son-in-law gave the following testimony: "I Richard Pettingell, aged about 45 years doe testify that this farm of land that is now in contriversy was reserved by the widow Inkersoll to herself before her marriage to John Knight, Sr. and she verbally gave this land to John Inkersoll, her son. I, Richard Pettingell doe farder testify that about the year 52 the said John Knight came home to Newbury and tould his wife that hee had promised Mr. Pain sum timber at frost fish river; she was then troubled at it and said what have you to doe to sell my timber wher upon the said John Knight promised her twenty shillings, and the said John Knight, Sr. did then own that he had no right in that land". (Essex Court Files XIV 28-32) John Knight then joined with his wife in conveying the farm to her sons John and Nathaniel "Ingerson".

Allowed one penny per person

OCCUPATION: Ferryman. ("Ric[har]d Inkersoll" was allowed one penny for every person he ferried over the north river, 16 January 1636/7 [STR 1:31].)

He received two acres for a houselot 6 April 1635 and was reminded to allow room for a highway on his land [STR 1:9]. With Edward Giles and Pasco Foot, Ingersoll was considered for land by the "frost fish brook" next to Goodman Barney, 10 April 1637 [STR 1:44]. On 20 November 1639 Richard Ingersoll received ten acres of meadow in the great meadow at Salem, having already received twenty acres on 23 December 1638 [STR 1:92, 94].

In his will, dated 21 July 1644 and proved 2 January 1644/5, Richard Ingersoll of Salem gave all to "Ann my wife," except to "George Ingersoll my son six acres lying in the great meadow," to "Nathaniel Ingersoll my youngest son a parcel of ground with a little frame thereon" (unless Nathaniel dies without issue, in which case the land should be divided equally among "John Ingersoll my son and Richard Pettingell and William Haines my sons-in-law"), to "Bathsheba my youngest daughter two cows", and to "my daughter Alice Walcott my house at town with 10 acres of upland and meadow after my wife's decease"; witnessed by Townsend Bishop [NEHGR 9:157] (What appears to be a different version of this will refers to both Bathsheba and Alice as youngest daughter, which is clearly impossible [EPR 1:43; EQC 1:76]. Without examining the originals of these documents we cannot tell whether the error was made by the seventeenth-century or the nineteenth-century copyist.)

The inventory, taken 4 October 1644 by Townsend Bishop and Jeffrey Massey, totalled £213 19s., of which £47 10s. 10d. was real estate: a farm, 80 acres, meadow, 20 acres, £14 3s. 4d.; another farm, 75 acres, £7; and 26 acres, 2 houses, 2 acres [and] a quarter of salt marsh, £26 7s. 6d. [EPR 1:458; EQC 1:76].

On 10 April 1668 Anne Knight deeded eighty acres at Royalside, bequeathed to her by her late husband "Richard Ingerson," to their sons "John and Nathaniel Ingerson" with the consent of her now husband John Knight Sr. of Newbury [EQC 4:109].
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