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THE

INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE

A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILY FROM

THEIR SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA,

IN THE LINE OF

JOHN INGERSOLL,

Of Westfield, Massachusetts.

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LIEUTENANT

CHARLES STEDMAN RIPLEY,

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No. 24 Frakklin Street.

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WILLIAM EDWARD INGERSOLL,

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WHO HAS GIVEN ME MUCH ENCOURAGKMENT

DURING THE TEARS THAT I HAVE

BEEN ENGAGED IN COLLECTING

THE DATA POR THIS

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TO MY INGER80LL ANCESTORS, THIS BOOK
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PREFACE.

This work has been compiled with great care and after
much study. I do not claim to have collected all that it
may be possible to know of this branch of the Ingersoll
family, but I unhesitatingly do say that in these pages
will be found all that it has been possible for me to ob-
tain. All records and papers relative to the subject that
could be found among the various living members of the
family have been placed in my possession. I have per-
sonally searched the records of various cities and towns,
and the archives of the New England and other histor-
ical and genealogical societies. As a result of several
years' work, I now place in the possession of my relatives
and others who may be interested, a true genealogical his-
tory ; and the facts herein stated may be relied upon as
correct. It is possible, however, that unintentional errors
may have crept into the work, and if such exist I would be
much pleased to have them pointed out, that they may
be corrected in some future edition. I am also desirous of
gaining additional information relative to this branch of the
family, and request that such, if it exists, be forwarded
to me.

It is the custom generally, in compiling genealogical his-
tories, to dwell and expatiate upon the virtues of the good,
and to remain silent upon those ancestors who were not so
perfect. In this work, however, nothing which has come to
my notice has been suppressed. The good and the bad
have been given an equal chance. Fortunately the good
predominates, and, of the deeds of our Ingersoll ancestors,

VI PREFACE.

as early Puritan settlers, as loyal British subjects in colonial
times, and afterwards as honest American citizens, we have
reason to be proud.

INKEKSALL — INGEKSOLL.

The surname Ingersoll was originally and properly writ-
ten in England Inkersall, and became corrupted into Inger-
soll, either just before or about the time of the settlement
of the family in America.

Ann Ingersoll, of Westfield, Massachusetts, embroidered
in 1758 what she believed to be the Ingersoll coat of arms.
This same coat of arms for many years hung in the hall of
Major Edward Ingersoll's house in Springfield, and is yet
in possession of the family. Now it is quite evident that
the lady who worked these arms inherited the designs from
her immediate ancestors, otherwise she must have manu-
factured them to suit her taste. She had no other way of
obtaining them. The last hypothesis is improbable, as she
belonged to one of the most pious and aristocratic of the
colonial families of New England.

I now find, from the English records, that the emblazonry
on the old arms of Inkersall of Hertfordshire and Middle-
sex, England, is identical with that on the arms embroidered
by Ann Ingersoll in 1758. This seems almost conclusive
evidence that the Ingersoll arms were not invented, but
that they were inherited through generations, and that
Inkersall was the original surname of the family.

THE AEMS OF IKKEES ALL —INGERSOLL.

The arms were recorded (original manuscript C. 28) at
the College of Arms in the beginning of the seventeenth
century. They were then borne by Robert Inkersall, ot

PREFACE. VU

Weston, who inherited them from his father in the latter
part of the sixteenth century.
The record is as follows : —

" Gu. a fesse, dancettfie, erm, betw. six trefoils, slipped, or Crest :
A griffin's head gu. gorged with a fesse, dancettfie, erm, betw. two wings,
displayed, or."

The visor of the helmet is closed and faced to the right
(looking at the arms, it faces to the left), showing that the
person who was originally given the right to bear the arms
was an esquire or gentleman, and that he was horn in
wedlock.

In a pamphlet issued by Mr. O. K. and Mr. O. W.
Ingersoll, in 1884, the statement is made that " the trans-
lation of the Latin motto on the coat of arms is ' Virtue lives
hut fame dies.' " I can find no authority for this. There is
no motto on record with the arms in England, and there it
should be if it exists. There is no motto on the arms
embroidered by Ann Ingersoll in 1758, but in the scroll
where the motto would be found are the words "Bi/ the
name of Ingersoll."

HAMPSHIKE.

Our branch of the Ingersoll family may appropriately be
called " The Ingersolls of Hampshire," for within the original
limits of Hampshire County they have mostly resided. John
Ingersoll with others were the first settlers in this county,
and from their settlement, which is the earliest record of the
county, to the present day, — a period of two hundred and
fifty years, — the name of Ingersoll appears most promi-
nently. As, in the following pages, Hampshire County
and those other counties which were subsequently set off
from Hampshire are often mentioned, these facts will be of
interest.

Tin PREFACE.

Hampshire County was incorporated May 7, 1662, taking
the name from a county in the south of England. It was
the first county in the western part of the State, and the
largest of all. In 1761 a portion was set off to form Berk-
shire Count}^ another portion in 1811 to form Franklin, and
a third portion in 1812 to form Hampden.

THE QUESTION" OF DATES.
The "Old Style" and the "New Style."

Many readers are puzzled when historians give in January,
February, and March (up to the 25th), in the years prior to
1753, the year thus, 1748-9, 174-| or 17489. When the
date for a certain occurrence is so given, the first date, 1748,
means the English date, the year beginning on the twenty-
fifth day of March, and the second date, 1749, means the
Gregorian date, the year beginning on the first day of
January preceding. The former is called " old style " and
the latter " new style."

A few words will explain this confusion in the calendar.
The first Julian year commenced with the first day of Jan-
uary of the 46th year before the birth of Christ, at which
the equinox fell on the twenty-fifth day of March. In 1582
the equinox had retrograded to the eleventh day of March,
and Pope Gregory XIII. corrected the calendar by directing
that ten days be suppressed. The true solar year consists
of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, which
reduced are 365.2422 days. Thus we see that 365^ days is
too long for one year. The Gregorian year is 365.2425 days.

A Catholic havins: ordered a change because science had
proven the incorrectness of the measure which had been
used in the computation, Protestant England protested
against the change, and continued to protest for 170 years.

In England, from the seventh to the twelfth century,

PREFACE. IX

Christmas was reckoned as the beginning of the year, and
after the twelfth century the beginning of the year was
transferred to the twenty-fifth day of March for the double
reason that this day was the date of the conception and had
been the true vernal equinox at the inception of the Julian
calendar.

In 1751 the Gregorian calendar was adopted by England,
and it was declared that after the last day of December,
1751, the twenty-fifth day of March should no longer be
accounted the beginning of the year, but that the year 1752
should begin on the first day of January, and so in each
succeeding year, and that eleven days should be omitted.
There was neither September 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
nor 13 in the year 1752 in any part of the world under the
jurisdiction of England.

Thus, February 10, 1741 (old style), would be February
21, 1742 (new style).

In the following pages the dates are set down as they were
originally written or as they appear on the records. All
dates preceding the adoption of the Gregorian calendar by
England are therefore " old style," and those following
"new style." This must be borne in mind, otherwise cer-
tain events will seem to have occurred at an earlier date than
could be possible. For instance, the will of Richard Inger-
soll is dated "July 21, 1644," and "proved in Court upon
oath, 2 Jan., 1644." At first this would seem impossible,
but, remembering that the English year did not begin until
the twenty-fifth day of March, it may be easily seen that,
for the same year, January is the sixth month after July.
These two dates, corrected for the Gregorian calendar, are
August 1, 1644, and January 13, 1645, respectively.

CHARLES STEDMAN RIPLEY.

Boston, Massachusetts, January 1, 1893.

THE TNGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

THE PURITAN SETTLERS.

In the year 1629, in the reign of Charles I., Kichakd
Ingersoll and his brother John came from Bedfordshire.
England, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. Richard,
the elder brother, brought with him to the new continent his
wife AniFaud a family of two sons and four daughters. A
third son was born in Salem about 1632.

Richard Ingersoll died in Salem in 1644, probably very

soon after making his will, of which the following is a

copy : —

Will of Richard Ingersoll.
July 21, 1644.

I, Eichard Ingersoll of Salem in the County of Essex in New England,
being weake in bocldy, but through God's mercy in perfect memorye doe
make this my last will and testament as f olloweth, viz.

I give to Ann my wife all my estate of land, goods, & chattells whatso-
ever except as followeth, viz.

I give to George Ingersoll my son six acres lying in the great meadow.

I give to Nathaniel Ingersoll my youngest son a parcell of ground with

a little frame thereon, which I bought of John P , but if the said

Nathaniel dy without issue of his boddy lawfully begotten, then the land
aforesaid 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 daughter Alice Walcott my house at town with 10 acres of
upland and meadow after my wife's decease.

his
R X I

Witness mark

TowNSEND Bishop.

I read this will to Richard Ingersoll & he acknowledged it to be his
will.

JO. ENDICOTT.
Inventory taken 4 Oct. 1644.

Proved in Court upon oath 2 Jan, 1644-5.

12 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Ann, the widow of Richard Ingersoll, married for a
second husband John Knight of Newbur3^ He was the
father of John Knight, Jr., who married Richard's youngest
daughter Bathsheba. Ann was his second or third wife.

CHILDREN OF RICHARD INGERSOLL.

I. Lieutenant George Ingersoll, Richard's eldest son,
was born in England in 1618, and consequently was eleven
years of age when he arrived in America. He is first heard
of as one of the selectmen of Gloucester. Afterwards he
removed to Falmouth, Maine (now known as Portland), and
in 1658 was a representative from that town. His military
talents and tastes procured for him the command of the
military company raised in Falmouth for the defence of the
colonists against the Indians. With this company he fought
through the first Indian war and won much renown in his
skirmishes and combats with the Indians. In 1683 and 85 he
was a representative to the General Assembly. Before the
second Indian war he returned to Salem where he died in
1694, leaving two sons, George and Samuel.

Letter Written by Lieutenant George Ingersoll while engaged

IN THE Indian "War.
Leif : Augur, —

Yesterday morning, beiug the 9th of September, was heard three Guns,
and was seen a great smoke up in the Kiver above Mr. Mackworth's :
Whereupon I caused an alarme, but could not get the Souldiers together,
by reason of which I was" uncapable for that day to know the cause
thereof, and what the issue might be ; but this day, being the 10th of the
said month, having strengthened myselfe, I went up with two fils, and
when I came to the place, I found one house burnt dowue, and six persons
killed, and three of the same family could not be found. An old man and
woman were halfe in, and halfe out of the house neer halfe burnt. Their
owne son was shot through the body, and also his head dashed in pieces.
This young man's wife was dead, her head skined, she was bigg with child,
two children having their heads dashed in pieces, and lay by another with
their bellys to the ground, and an oake planke laid upon their backs. While
we were upon this discovery we saw a smoke, and heard two Guns about
one mile or more above, in the same quarter. We judge there be a company
of Indians, but how many we know not : therefore I would entreat Major

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 13

Pendleton and yourselfe to send me, each of you, a dowzen men. I shall
then goe to see whether it be according as we thinke or noe. Pray post
this away to Major Walden. Thus taking my leave, I subscribe myselfe,

Your loving friend,

LEIF: GEOEGE INGERSOLL.
Sept. 10, 1675.

II. John Ingersoll, Eichard's second son, was born in
England in 1623. He was a mariner, and was admitted a
freeman at Salem, April 29, 1668. He married Judith
Felton, and died in 1716.

Eichard's four daughters, all of whom were born in Eng-
land, were : —

HI. Alice, who married Josiah Walcott.

IV. Joanna, who married Eichard Pettingell in 1643.
V. Sarah, who married William Haines of Salem in
1644, and for a second husband, Joseph Houlton of Danvers.

VI. Bathsheba, who married John Knight, Jr., of New-
bury in 1647.

VII. Deacon Nathaniel Ingersoll, Eichard's youngest
child, born in Salem in about 1632, was admitted a freeman
at Salem, March 22, 1689. He married Hannah Collins.

The following is from the Danvers church records : —

" 24 November, 1689, Sab : day.

Brother Nathaniel Ingersoll chosen by a generall vote of the Berethren
to officiate in the place of a Deacon for a time."

Deacon Nathaniel Ingersoll died in 1719t.

John Ingersoll, Eichard's younger brother, was born in
England in 1615, and, therefore, was about fourteen years
of age when he left England to come to America with his
brother's family. For a time John lived with his brother
Eichard, at Salem, under whose protection he seems to have
been. We next hear of him in Hartford, Connecticut, in
which place he settled after his brother's death. In 1651
he married Dorothy Lord, daughter of Thomas Lord, one of
the first settlers of Hartford. At the time of his raarriasfe

14: THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE,

he was thirty-six years old, and his wife Dorothy, about
twenty-two.

The first two children by this marriage were born in Hart-
ford.

I. Hannah, born in 1652.
II. Dorothy, born in 1654.

In 1655 John and his family removed to Northampton,
Massachusetts, in which place another daughter was soon
born .

III. Margery, born in January, 1656. {Northampton Becords.)

In giving birth to Margery Mrs. John Ingersoll died,
leaving three daughters, the eldest of whom was but four
years of age. Mrs. Ingersoll was but twenty-six years old
at the time of her death.

On December 12, 1657, about one year after the death of
Dorothy, John married again. The second wife was Abigail
Bascom, daughter of Thomas Bascom, one of the first settlers
of Windsor, Connecticut, but who afterwards removed to
Northampton.

The children by this marriage, four daughters, were all
born in Northampton. {Northampton Records.)

IV. Abigail, born January 11, 1658.
V. Sarah, born October 30, 1660.

VI. Abiah, born August 24, 1663.
VII. Hester, born September 9, 1665.

In 1666 John removed with his family to Woronoco,
which was the Indian name by which Westfield, Massachu-
setts, was then known. In April of the same year, and soon
after his arrival at Woronoco, his wife Abigail died, leaving
four more daughters for John to care for.

During the following year, 1667, he married a third wife.
She was Mary Hunt, a daughter of John Hunt*, and a sister

* An extract from " Smith's General! Historie " shows that a member
of the Hunt family, possibly an ancestor of John Hunt, had visited New

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 15

of Jonathan Hunt of Northampton. The name of Mary-
Hunt's mother previous to her marriage was Mary Webster.
She was a daughter of John Webster, one of the first
settlers of Hartford, and the fifth governor of the Colony of
Connecticut, chosen in 1656. He was from County Warwick,
England, and settled in Hartford with his wife Agnes and
several children in 1636. Noah Webster, LL. D., author
of Webster's Dictionary, was born in Hartford, and was a
descendant of Mary Hunt's grandfather.

It is recorded in the town book of Westfield that in the
year 1666 land was granted to John Ingersoll and others,
and that he settled there in that year. In 1679 he was one
of the " Seven Pillars," or "Foundation Men," who united
to form the church at Westfield.

By his wife Mary there were born in Westfield eight
children, seven sons and one daughter, and their names and
dates of birth may be found in the Town Records of
Westfield.

VIII. Thomas, born March 28, 1668.

IX. John, born October 20, 1669.

X. Abel, born November 11, 1671.

XI. Ubenezer, born October 15, 1673.

XII. Joseph, born October 16, 1675.

XIII. Mary, born November 17, 1677.

XIV. Benjamin, born November 15, 1679.
XV. Jonathan, born May 10, 1681.

John Ingersoll died in Westfield, September 3, 1684
( Westfield Records), in the seventieth year of his age, and
his grave may be found in the old Westfield cemetery. He

England previous to the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Thomas
Hunt was in company with Captain John Smith in his voyage to New
England, in 1614, and was master of the ship that " stayed to fit herself
for Spain with the dry fish." After Smith had gone, Hunt " betrayed four
and twenty of those poor savages, and most dishonestly and inhumanly
carried them to Malaga, and there for a little private gain sold those silly
savages for rials of eight."

16 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

was the father of fifteen children. His widow, Mary, died
in Westfield, August 18, 1690 ( WestfieU Records),

The land granted to John Ingersoll in Westfield, and on
which he built his house, has always remained in possession
of the Ingersoll family, and has always been known to the
inhabitants of Westfield as " Ingersoll Place."

Note. — Throughout the work it will be observed that each succeeding
generation includes only those children whose names appear in italics
when their dates of birth are mentioned in the preceding generation.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 17

II.

SECOND GENERATION.

CHILDREN OF JOHN INGERSOLL BY HIS FIRST WIFE,
DOROTHY LORD INGERSOLL,

I. Hannah Ingersoll, born in Hartford, Conn., in 1652
married Stephen Kelsey of Hartford, November 15, 1672.
He was a son of William Kelsey, one of the first settlers of
Hartford, and was born in 1647, and baptized November 7
of the same year. He died November 30, 1710, aged
sixty-three.

Children by this marriage were : —

I. Hannah, born ]675.

II. Stephen, born September 20, 1677.

III. John, born January 20, 1680.

IV. Daniel, born September 14, 1682.
V. William, born February 19, 1685.

VI. James, born August 1, 1687.

VII. Charles, born June 15, 1692. Died in Hartford July t,
1777, aged eighty-five.

II. Dorothy Ingersoll, born in Hartford, Conn., in
1654, married Jacob Phelps of Westfield, Mass., May 2,
1672. He was born February 7, 1649, and died in Westfield
October 6, 1689. He was a son of George Phelps of
Windsor, Conn., afterwards of Westfield, Mass., and of
Frances, his second wife, widow of Thomas Dewey.

Children by this marriage were all born in Westfield.

I. Dorothy, born December 18, 1673. Died February 2, 1674.
II. Dorothy, born May 10, 1676. Married Edward Kibbe of
Enfield, Coun., November 13, 1693,

III. Hannah, born November 26, 1677. Married John Kibbe of

Enfield, Conn., August 18, 1698.

IV. Israel, born April 3, 1681.

V. Benjamin, born January 8, 1683.
VI. Joseph, born August 5, 1686.
VII. Jedediah, born December 7, 1688.

18 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

After the death of Jacob Phelps, Dorothy married a Mr.
Root. There were no children by the second marriage.

III. Margery Ingersoll, born in Northampton, Mass.,
in January, 1656, married Jacob Goife of Wethersfield,
Conn., December 5, 1679. He died October 21, 1697, in
the forty-ninth year of his age.

Children by this marriage were : —

I. Jacob, born November 5, 1680. Died December 14, same

year.
II. Moses, born March 10, 1682. Died before 1708, when his
father's estate was distributed, as he is not mentioned in
the order of distribution.

III. Mabel, born October 31, 1690. Married Daniel Andrus of

Wethersfield, Conn., October 30, 1707. They had seven
children.

IV. Mary, born November 15, 1693. Married John Andrus of

Wethersfield, Conn., June 26, 1712. He died June 16,
1740. They had two children.

After the death of Jacob Goffe, Margery married Jonathan
Buck of Westfield, Mass. There were no children by the
second marriage.

children of JOHN INGERSOLL BY HIS SECOND WIFE,
ABIGAIL BASCOM INGERSOLL.

IV. Abigail Ingersoll, born in Northampton, Mass.,
January 11, 1658, married Thomas Rix of Wethersfield,
Conn. He died May 21, 1690. About 1696 she married
Lieut. Joshua Wills of Windsor, Conn. She was his third
wife. Lieut. Wills died January 6, 1721, in the seventy-fifth
year of his age, and his gravestone may be found in the old
burying ground in East Windsor.

Abigail, the only child by the first marriage, married John Burt, Jr., of
Springfield, Mass., in October, 1710. They had six children. Mrs. Burt
died in childbirth, February 17, 1727. Mr. Burt married Mary Sikes,
December 22, 1727. There were no children by the second marriage.

V. Sarah Ingersoll was born in Northampton, Mass.,
October 30, 1660.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 19

VI. Abiah Ingersoll, born in Northampton, Mass.,
August 24, 1663, marriedJerlediah Strong, Jr., of Northamp-
ton, January 1, 1688. Jedediah Strong resided in North-
hampton until about 1695 when he removed to Lebanon,
Conn., and there continued to reside until his death, October
12, 1709. His widow, Abiah, died November 2, 1732, in the
seventieth year of her age.

Seven children were born, the first three in Northampton
and the four last in Lebanon.

I. Azariah, born October 7, 1689, and died October 30,

same year.
II. Stephen, born November 24, 1690. Died in Lebanon, Feb-
ruary 2, 1785. His -widow died October 24, 1788, in her
eighty-seventli year.

III. David, born June 19, 1693, and died May 21, 1712.

IV. Supply, born October 10, 1697.
V. Jedediah, born January 15, 1700.

VI. Ezra, born March 2, 1702. Married Abigail Caverly, Jan-
uary 12, 1731. Six children are recorded.
VII. Freedom, born May 16, 1704. Married John Buel of
Lebanon, May 19, 1726. Eight children are recorded.

VII. Hester Ingersoll, born in Northampton, Mass.,
September 9, 1665. Married William Gurley * of North-
ampton, in 1684. He died May 1, 1687.

There was one child by this marriage.

Samuel, born in Northampton May 6, 1686, settled in Coventry, Conn.,
but subsequently removed to Mansfield, Conn. Married Experience Rust,
about 1712. Died February 23, 1760. " He was distinguished for his
piety, and was eminently useful in the cause of religion and humanity."

* " William Gurley, the first of the name, was brought into New Eng-
land from Scotland; as he said, — probably from Edinburgh. He was
born in the year 1665, but left no record by which we are able to satisfy
ourselves concerning his parents or relations. He was brought up in the
family of the Rev. Mr. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton. He died at
the age of twenty-two years, having been accidentally drowned in the
Connecticut River (May 1, 1687), leaving an only child, a son, about one
year old. He is reputed to have been truly pious, and a sincere follower
of Jesus Christ." {Manuscript relating to the Gurley Family.)

20 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

The widow of William Gurley married, for a second hus-
band, Benoni Jones, of Northampton, January 23, 1689,
and soon afterwards went to live at Pascommuck, north end
of Mount Tom, Northampton.

Four sous were born : —

I. Jonathan, born January 4, 1(595. Died in childhood.
II. Benjamin, born 1696. Settled in Coventry, Conn. Nine
children are recorded on the Coventry records.

III. Ebenezer, born November 12, 1698, Killed May 13, 1704.

IV. Jonathan, born March 3, 1703. Killed May 13, 1704.

On May 13, 1704, the French and Indians made a descent
upon Pascommuck and killed Benoni Jones and his two
youngest children. One was five years old, and the other a
babe of fourteen months. Hester was captured and was
taken to Canada as a prisoner. She was obliged, by her
captors, to make the whole journey on foot, and suffered
many hardships and was treated with much cruelty. She
eventually died in Canada after enduring many tortures by
the French priests in their vain endeavors to convert her
from the Puritan faith to the Roman Catholic religion.

CHILDREN OF JOHN INGERSOLL BY HIS THIRD WIFE,
MARY HUNT INGERSOLL.

VIII. Thomas Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
March 28, 1668. On the old town records of Westfield is
the following entry : —

" Thomas Ingersoll and Sarah Ashley was joined in marriage July 22d
1692."

Robert Ashley, the settler, established himself, with his
wife Mary, in Springfield, Mass., in 1639. David Ashley,
the son of Robert and Mary, first resided in Springfield, but
about 1673 removed to Westfield. His daughter Sarah was
born in Westfield, September 19, 1673.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 21

Five children were born in Westfield to Thomas Ingersoll
by his wife Sarah ( Westfield Records) : —

I. Thomas, born November 27, 1692.

II. Moses, born February 10, 1694.

III. Meriam, born June 4, 1697.

IV. David, born September 30, 1699.
V. Eleayior, born March 12, 1704.

After the birth of Eleanor, his wife Sarah died, and for a
second wife he married the widow of Hezikiah Dickinson, of
Springfield. She was the daughter of Samuel Blakeman, of
Stratford, Conn., and grand-daughter of the Rev. Adam
Blakeman, the first minister of that town. There were no
children by this marriage.

"Dec. 6tli, 1707, Mr. Thomas Ingersoll of Westfield enters his inten-
tion of marriage with Abigail Dickinson of Springfield and ye publish-
ment was posted the same day.

Thomas Ingersoll and Abigail Dickinson both of aforesaid were mar-
ried January 21st, 170J." {Springfield Becords.)

"Abigail Ingersoll ye wife of Thomas Ingersoll was sick and died
March ye 30th 1719." {Springfield Becords.)

For a third wife he married Ruth Child of Watertown,
Conn. No children were born.

" April 30th, 1720, Thomas Ingersoll of Springfield hath entered his
intentions of marriage with Ruth Child of Watertown and ye publishment.

Thomas Ingersoll of Springfield and Ruth Child of Watertown were
married May 17th, 1720." {Springfield Becords.)

Thomas Ingersoll died in Westfield, November 14, 1732,
in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and his widow, Ruth, died
January 10, 1746^. {Westfield Recoi-ds.)

IX. John Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
October 20, 1669.

This entry may be found in the Westfield Records : —

"John Ingersoll and Isabell Brown was joined in marriage April 12th
1699."

One child, Isabell, was born March 18, 1701. She married Samuel
Merrick of Springfield, November 23, 1725.

22 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

John Ingersoll died May 18, 1750 {Westfield Records)^
in the eightj^-first year of his age, and his widow, Isabell,
died January 26, 1772 (^Westjield Records), in the ninety-
sixth year of her age. Her gravestone may be found in
West Springfield, Mass.

X. Abel Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
November 11, 1671, settled in Northampton, and there con-
tinued to reside until he died, June 18, 1745 {Northampton
Records), in the seventj^-fourth year of his age. He was
never married.

XI. Ebenezer Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
October 15, 1673, and died in Westfield, March 4, 1681.
( Westfield Records. )

XII. Joseph Ingersoll, born in Westfield, Mass., Octo-
ber 16, 1675, was killed in battle February 29, 1704, at Deer-
field, Mass., during Queen Anne's War. He was unmarried.

The following is an extract from the record found in the

town book of Hatfield : —

" An account of the Desolation of Deerfleld, the last day of February,

1704. Four hundred of French and Indians, as is thought, assaulted

the fort, took it, and killed and captured 162 of the inhabitants, and con-
sumed most of their estates into flames."

Among those who were killed in defending the fort was
Joseph Ingersoll, and such fact is noted on the town record.

XIII. Mary Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
November 17, 1677, and died in Westfield, September 1,
1690, in the thirteenth year of her age. ( Westfield Records.)

XIV. Benjamin Ingersoll was born in Westfield,
Mass., November 15, 1679, and was either killed in battle
or died in service about 1704, during Queen Anne's War.
He was not married.

XV. Jonathan Ingersoll, born in Westfield, Mass.,
May 10, 1681 ; settled in Milford, Conn., where he continued
to reside until his death.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 23

His wife, Sarah, died February 14, 1748, in the sixty-
second year of her age {gravestone) .

Mr. Jonathan Ingersoll died November 28, 1760, in the
eightieth year of his age (gravestone) .

By his wife Sarah, six children were born to him in

Milford : —

I. Jonathan, born in 1713. Graduated at Yale College, 1736.
Was the n.inister of Ridgefleld, Conn. Married Dorcas
Moss, daughter of Rev. Joseph Moss of Derby, Conn.,
November 10, 1740. Died October 2, 1778. Mrs. Dorcas
Ingersoll died September 29, 1811. Ten children are
recorded.
II. Sarah, born June 16, 1716. Died in childhood.

III. Mary, born December 14, 1718. Died in early life.

IV. David, born September 4, 1720. Married Mehitable Bryan^

daughter of Richard Bryan, Jr., of Milford, Conn., and of
Mehitable, his first wife, daughter of Samuel Clark, of
the same town, about March 1740. She was born August
15, 1721. Mr. David Ingersoll died February 14, 1742, in
the twenty-third year of his age (gravestone.) His
widow, Mrs. Mehitable Ingersoll, died June 7, 1798, in
the seventy-seventh year of her age {gravestone). An
only child, David, was born December 11, 1740. Mr. and
Mrs. David Ingersoll resided at Milford, Conn.
V. Jared, born June 3, 1722, married Hannah Whiting of New
Haven, daughter of the Hon. Colonel Joseph Whiting of
New Haven, August 1, 1743. She was born February 21,
1712. Colonel Whiting was a son of Rev. John Whit-
ing, fourth minister of Hartford, Conn., and of Phebe,
his wife, daughter of Thomas Gregson of New Haven,
and grandson of the Hon. William Whiting, one of the
first settlers of Hartford. Two children are recorded, —
James and Jared.*

Mr. Ingersoll was graduated at Yale College in 1742,
and settled in New Haven as a lawyer. In 1757 he was
appointed the agent for the Colony, in England, but, ac-

* Jared, the younger son, born October 21, 1749, graduated at Yale
College in 1766, LL. D., and attained a high rank as a lawyer in Philadel-
phia. He was a member of Congress and of the convention which framed
the Constitution of the United Sta'es. In 1812, he was the Federal candi-
date for the office of Vice-President of the United States. The office of
Attorney-General of Pennsylvania he resigned in 1816. He died October
31, 1822, aged seventy-three. At the time of his death he was Judge of
the United States District Court of Pennsylvania.

24 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

ceptiug the ofRce of Distributor of Stamps in Connec-
ticut, under the " Stamp Act," he lost his popularity. On
August 24, 1765, the people of New Haven compelled him
to resign. Not deeming this resignation explicit, a large
company from the eastern part of Connecticut set out on
a journey to New Haven. They met Mr. lugersoU at
"Wethersfleld, when they compelled him to again resign
and cry out three times, " Liberty and Property." The
next day 500 men escorted him to Hartford. About the
year 1770 he was appointed Admiralty- Judge for the
Middle District, and removed to Philadelphia, but, in con-
sequence of the Revolution, he returned to New Haven,
where he died, August 25, 1781.
VI. Sarah, born in 1729, married John Whiting of New Haven,
November 7, 1751. He was a brother of the wife of her
brother Jared. She died July 24, 1769. Six children are
recorded.

An Account of the Manner in which a Stamp Officer was
obliged to resign.

" Last Wednesday afternoon a large company of able-bodied men came
to town (on horse-back) from the eastern part of this government, and in-
formed those who were willing to join them, that they were on their way
to New Haven to demand the stamp officer of the colony to resign his
office ; that a number of their associates had gone on the lower roads, and
that they had all agreed to rendezvous at Brandford the next day (,Thurs-
day) , and that they should tarry in town that night : they then dispersed to
different parts of the town for lodging. In the evening advice was re-
ceived that Mr. IngersoU was on the road to this place, — that he would be
in town next day, and that he intended to apply to the assembly for their
protection; and it being conjectured that he might come to town in the
night to shun the mob, (who he heard were on their way to pay him a visit) ,
it was agreed that a watch should patrol the streets all night, to prevent
his coming in unnoticed, but they made no discoveries. On Thursday
morning, the whole body (including a considerable number from this
town,) set off on the intended expedition, and in about an hour, met Mr.
IngersoU at the lower end of Wethersfleld, and let him know their business.
He at first refused to comply ; but it was insisted upon that he should
resign his office of stamp master, so disagreeable to his countrymen.
After many proposals he delivered the resignation mentioned below, which
he read himself in the hearing of the whole company. He was then
desired to pronounce the words, Liberty and Property, three times, which
he having done, the whole body gave three cheers. Mr. IngersoU then
went to a tavern, and dined with several of the company. After dinner,
the company told Mr. IngersoU, as he was bound to Hartford, they would
escort him there, which they did to the number of 500 persons, on horse-

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 25

back. After they arrived in town, Mr. Ingersoll again read his resigna-
tion in public, when three liuzzas were given, and the whole company im-
mediately dispersed, without making the least disturbance." {The Con-
necticut Courant, September 23, 1765, publishedin Hartford, Conn.)

The following is a copy of Mr. IngersoU's resignation : —

Wethersfield, Sept. 19th, 1765.

I do hereby promise that I never will receive any stampt papers
which may arrive from Europe, in consequence of any Act passed in the
Parliament of Great Britain, nor officiate in any manner as Stamp Master,
or distributor of stamps within the Colony of Connecticut, directly or
indirectly. And I do hereby notify all the inhabitants of his majesty's
Colony of Connecticut, (notwithstanding the said office or trust has been
committed to me,) not to apply to me ever hereafter for any stampt
papers, hereby declaring that I do decline said office, and execute these
presents of my own free will and accord, without any equivocation, or
mental reservation.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

J. INGERSOLL.

26 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

III.

THIRD GENERATION.

CHILDREN OF THOMAS INGERSOLL BY HIS WIFE,
SARAH ASHLEY INGERSOLL.

I. Esquire Thomas Ingersoll was born in Westfield,
Mass., November 27, 1692, and tliere resided during the
whole of his life. His residence, "Ingersoll Place," he
inherited from his father. He was commissioned a mag-
istrate for Hampshire by George I., was elected twelve
times one of the selectmen for the town of Westfield, and
was a representative for that district at the General Court
at Boston.

The house of Esquire Thomas was very large. A portion
of it was built by John Ingersoll the settler, but it was
reconstructed and enlarged in 1700. It was so arranged
that it could be used as a fort, or stronghold, against Indian
attacks, and was so used many times during the early Indian
wars. The property has always remained in possession of
his descendants.

Greylock, that famous Indian chief and warrior, so noted
for his savage cunning, his cruelty, and the great number of
murders which he perpetrated, was killed by Esquire
Thomas on the lands belonging to this estate. When shot
he was endeavoring to surprise and scalp Mrs. Thomas
Ingersoll as an act of retaliation against the esquire, who
had been the means of thwarting him in some of his designs.

Thomas Ingersoll was married but once. His wife was
Sarah Dewey of Westfield.

By his wife Sarah eight children were born to him. All
were born at Ingersoll Place, and their names and dates of
birth may be found on the Eecords of Westfield.

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 27

I. Jonathan, born January 24, 1715.

II. Daniel, born May 26, 1718.

III. Sarah, born January 27, 1720.

IV. Miriam, born iSTovember 4, 1723.
V. 3Iargaret, born February 1, 1727^.

VI. John, born February 26, 1731.
VII. Mary, born November 16, 1733.
VIII. Ann, born June 21, 1737.

Esquire Thomas Ingersoll died in Westfield, October 10,
1748 ( Westfield Records), in the fifty-sixth year of his age.

The value of his estate, from the inventor}'^ taken October
28, 1748, amounted to £9,662 6s, which was a very large
fortune in those days.

The following lines are cut on his gravestone, which
stands in the old cemetery at Westfield : —

" This stone stands but to tell
Where his dust lies.
Not what he was.
When Saints shall rise,
That day will show
The part they acted here below."

II. Moses Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
February 10, 1694. He resided for a time in Springfield,
Mass., but removed to Great Barrington, Mass., about 1727.
He was the proprietor of two and one-half rights, and owned
the land on the west side of the highway, from the north
end of Edward Manville's premises to the Sheldon land, a
distance of ninety-four roods, and on the east side of the
main street, from John Brewer's, northerly to the Miss
Nancy Kellogg place, including Mount Peter and the meadow
north of it. Mr. Ingersoll's residence was, apparently,
where the brick house built by his son. Captain Peter
Ingersoll, in 1766, and now owned by the Pope family,
stands ; but he afterwards had a dwelling on the east side of
the street. He was the "inn-keeper" in this part of the
town, a large land-holder, in comfortable circumstances, a
prominent man among the settlers, and held the office of

28 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Parish Treasurer. Mr. Ingersoll died in 1751. The distri-
bution of his estate is dated /July 31, 1751. His wife,
Catharine, survived him, and died March 9, 1772.
There were three sons and five daughters.

I. Thomas, bora June 7, 1720. Died November 6, 1742.
II. Eleanor, born November 11, 1722. Married Capt. Stephen,
Gunn in 1751. Died in 1772.

III. Joanna, born February 1, 1725. Married Rev. Samuel Hop-

kins in 1748. Died August 31, 1793.

IV. Lydia, born October 1, 1727. Married William Ingersoll in

1746, the son of her uncle David. She died June 2, 1804.
V. Elizabeth, born October 9, 1729. Married Rev. Noah Wad-
hams, of New Preston, Conn., in 1758.
VI. Peter, born May 11, 1733. Died in 1785.
VII. David, born March 1, 1736. Died in early youth.
VIII. Bathsheba. Married Rev. Daniel Sanford in 1757.

III. Meriam Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
June 4, 1697.

IV. Captain David Ingersoll was born in Westfield,
Mass., September 30, 1699. The first mention we find of
David Ingersoll is as a trader at Springfield, at which place
he remained until about 1732, when he removed to Brook-
field. In about 1735 he removed to Great Barrington. In
that year his house, on the road to Stockbridge, is mentioned
in the records of the Upper Propriety, but it is not certain
that he was then living: there. He was one of the most
enterprising men of Great Barrington, and, perhaps, exer-
cised a wider influence than any of its inhabitants. His first
appearance as a prominent man in the settlement is in 1739 ;
and from that time on, for a period of fifteen years, his name
is connected with most of its business interests. He became

Note. — Much information relative to Moses and David Ingersoll was
obtained from Taylor's History of Great Barrington.

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 29

the owner of five rights in the Upper, as well as a large
landholder in the Lower Township.

With an eye to business, Mr. Ingersoll, early in 1739,
under a title of extremely doubtful validity, obtained pos-
session of the water power, which of recent years has been
occupied by the Berkshire Woolen Company, where he
built a dam, erected a saw mill and grist mill, and also a
forge and trip-hammer for the manufacture of bar iron.
These works, which were on the east bank of the river,
below the bridge, were soon completed, and in 1740, he
made iron at his forge from ore obtained from the bed east
of Lubben M. Pixley's. He had also a store and small
stock of goods near by, and was, for the time, quite exten-
sively engaged in business.

Mr. Ingersoll built his house in 1739, on the west side of
the way in Water Street. This house, a low one and one-
half story building, with a porch in front formed by a long
sloping roof, stood directly in front of the site of the dwelling-
house next north of the old Gorham Tavern, and partly within
the present highway. It was taken down about 1828 by the
late Charles W. Hopkins, Esq., who built the present house,
standing nearly upon the site of the old one. Here Mr.
Ingersoll resided for ten years, until 1749, when he sold the
house to Deacon Timothy Hopkins, and removed to another
part of the town.

Mr. Ingersoll was the first clerk of the Upper Propriety,
chosen in 1741 ; one of the committee for building the meet-
ing-house, and for providing a minister, and is reputed as
having donated the land on which the meeting-house was
erected. He was the first magistrate residing within the
bounds of the parish, having been commissioned a Justice of
the Peace September 8, 1749, — an office, at that time, of
honor and trust, which conferred dignity and importance
upon its incumbent, and entitled him to consideration and
respect. He was the captain of the militia, and also a
selectman of the town of Shefiield.

30 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

In his individual as well as bis official capacity he became
enofao-ed in the interest of some of the tenants of Livinsrston's
Manor — who were then presumed to live within the limits
of Massachusetts — in their quarrels with their landlord, and
in incurring the displeasure of Mr. Livingston who, in a
letter to Lieutenant-Governor Delancey, denounced him
as " that wicked varlet David Engersoll."

Mr. IngersoU was not permanently successful in his busi-
ness enterprises, and in 1755, his mills and other property
were taken on execution to satisfy the demands of creditors.
At about the same time, August 15, 1755, in consequence
of some irregularities in his transactions with the govern-
ment, in his official capacity as selectman of Sheffield, tradi-
tion says in a matter of bounties on wolf scalps, David
IngersoU was, by order of the General Court, removed from
the offices of Justice of the Peace and Captain of Militia, and
thereafter disqualified from holding any office of honor or
profit under the government. From this time his influence
waned, and his name seldom appears in parish or town his-
tory. He afterwards, for a time, resided upon the farm,
lately David Leavitt's, south of the village, which he owned
in connection with a large tract of land to the southward ; the
whole, embracing some five hundred acres, was commonly
known as " Ino-ersoll's Great Farm."

David IngersoU was married twice. His first wife was
Lydia Child, of Springfield, whom he married in Springfield,
March 13, 1720-1. She is supposed to have died before
his removal to Great Barrington. His second wife was
Submit Horton, daughter of Thomas Horton, of Springfield,
whom he married in Springfield, July 9, 1739. She died
November 23, 1770. David IngersoU died March 23, 1773,
in the seventy-fourth year of his age.

By the first marriage, there was one son, William, born in Springfield)
April 1, 1724, and who became a prominent man of Great Barrington, and
after 1769, an influential citizen of Lee, Mass. He married his cousin,
Lydia IngersoU, in 1746, and by her had seven sons and four daughters.
He died August 10, 1815.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 31

Inscription on gravestone in Lee : —

" Sacred to the memory of Wm. Ingersoll, Esq., who was one of the
first settlers of this town, and one of the few who, in 1780, were formed
into a church in this place. Satisfied with living, and rejoicing in hope
and glory, he died Aug. 10, 1815, aged 91 years and 4 months, leaving
behind him in this dying world, 149 descendants."

His seven sons died in the order in which they were born. They had
forty-four sons.

By the second marriage, there were born to David
Ingersoll, by his wife Subnait, six sons and two daughters : —

I. Thomas Horton, born June 30, 1740.

II. David, born September 26, 1742. Graduated from Yale
College in 1761. Was a lawyer and magistrate of Great
Barrington. In 1775 he was proscribed and banished as
a Tory. He removed to England and married Frances R.
Ryley, of England, in 1783.

III. Deodat, born April 18, 1744.

IV. Stephen, born September 17, 1745, and died July 1, 1755.
V. Sarah, born January 24, 1747. Married Dr. Barnard, of

Deerfield, Mass.
VI. Louisa, born October 14, 1751. Married William Schemers-
horn.
VII. Oliver, born December 10, 1752. Resided in Seekonk.
VIII. Stephen, born July 24, 1756.

V. Eleanor Ingersoll was born in Westfield, March
12, 1704.

Note. — " Pompey, a Negro boy belonging to David Ingersoll, of
Westfield, died November 6"^ day, 1737." (Westfield Becords.)

32 THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

IV.

FOURTH GENERATION.

CHILDREN or ESQUIRE THOMAS INGERSOLL BY HIS WIFEj
SARAH DEWEY INGERSOLL.

I. Captain Jonathan Ingersoll was born in "VYestfield,
Mass., January 24, 1715. He was a captain in the " Hamp-
shire Eegiment," Colonial Troops. This regiment was
raised in Hampshire County, to accompany the expedition of
1755 against Crown Point, commanded by Sir William
Johnson. The command of the "Hampshire Regiment"
was given to Colonel Ephraim Williams, the hero of Fort
Massachusetts.

Captain Jonathan Ingersoll was killed at Lake George,
September 8, 1755, in an engagement with the French and
Indians, commanded by the Baron Dieskau. In this engage-
ment the English loss was two hundred and sixteen killed and
ninety-six wounded. The " Hampshire Regiment " sufi'ered
most severely of all, forty-six being killed and twenty-four
wounded. The colonel and nine of his officers were among
the killed. At the time of his death Captain Ingersoll was
acting as major of the regiment, and, without doubt, would
have received his commission as such had he lived. There
are several regimental camp orders in existence which were
issued previous to the engagement, and which are signed by
Jonathan Ingersoll as major of the regiment.

In the old Town Records of Westfield may be found the
following : —

' ' Jonathan Ingersoll and Eunice Moseley had their names entered with
their Intentions of Marriage and publication thereof set up as the law
directs October 28"' day 1738."

"Jonathan Ingersoll and Eunice Moseley was joined in Marriage by
John Ashley, Estf Nov. 15"' 1738."

" Captain Jonathan Ingersoll died in Battle September S"' 1755 at Lake
George."

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 33

InvScription on tombstone in the old cemetery at West-
field : —

" Capt. Jona. Ingersoll, who, being in the service of Ms country, was
killed at Lake George, Sept. 8, 1755, in the 41st year of his age."

There were eight children by his wife, Eunice Moseley : —

I. Oliver, born January 15, 1738^, and died March 7, of same

year.
II. A son (unnamed), born December 7, 1739, and died same
day.

III. Oliver, born March 19, 1740^. Married Abigail Marshall.

Resided in Westfleld and there died in 1787, in the forty-
sixth year of his age. Ten children are recorded.

IV. Thomas, born July 8, 1743. Died in infancy.

V. Jared, born October 29, 1745. Was a captain of militia-.
Married Mrs. Col. Brown. Resided at Pittsfield, Mass.,
where he died at ninety -four years of age. Four children
are recorded.
VI. Sarah, born February 22, 1747^. Married Major Taylor.
VII. Thomas, born March 24, 1750. Emigrated to Canada
before the Revolutionary War. Settled the town of
Ingersoll. Served as a major in the Colonial troops«
Married three times : (1) Elizabeth Dewey, 1775 ; (2)
Mrs. Mercy Smith, 1785 ; (3) Mrs. Sarah Backus, 1789-
One child is recorded of the first marriage, and six of the
third. His eldest son. Major Charles Ingersoll, was an
officer in the British army during the War of 1812, and
afterwards was a member of the Canadian Parliament.
VIII. Jonathan, born November 7, 1754. Was a deacon in the
church at Stockbridge, Mass. Married Eunice Pixley in
1780. Died December 28, 1840. Nine children are
recorded.

11. Daniel Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
May 26, 1718, and died in 1754 while serving with the
Colonial troops at the beginning of the French and Indian
War. He was unmarried.

in. Sarah Ingersoll, born in Westfield, Mass., Jan-
uary 27, 1720, married Moses Eoot, May 31, 1741. She
was married in Westfield by John Ashley, Esq. ( Westfield
Records.)

No children are recorded by this marriage.

34 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAIilPSHIRE.

Moses Root died in Westfield, October 7, 1744. ( West-
field Records.)

Mrs. Sarah Root married Benjamin Agur, of Shrewsbury,
November 15, 1748, and settled in that town. (^Westfield
Records. )

IV. Meriam Ingersoll, born in Westfield, Mass.,
November 4, 1723, married Charles Dixson, of Colchester,
Conn., April 29, 1747. She was married in Westfield by
the Rev. John Ballentine. ( Westfield Records.)

A daughter, Eunice, was born August 30, 1747. {Westfield Becords.')

V. Margaret Ingersoll, born in Westfield, Mass. , Feb-
ruary 1, 1727^ married Ezra Clap, October 13, 1743. She
was married in Westfield by the Rev. John Ballentine.
(^Westfield Records.)

Captain Clap died October 25, 1768, and his widow, Mrs.
Margaret Clap, died September 15, 1782. ( Westfield
Records.)

Six children are recorded on the Westfield Records.

I. Molly, born July, 1745.

II. Margaret, born August 10, 1747.

III. Paul, born June 19, 1748, and died July 5, 1748.

IV. Lydia, born July 23, 1757.
V. Ezra, born May 24, 1760.

VI. Charlotte, born January 10, 1763.

VI. Esquire John Ingersoll was born in Westfield,
Mass., February 26, 1731. He was commissioned by
George III. as the Chief Magistrate of Westfield. He
served as one of the selectmen of the town a number of
times between the years 1758 and 1785 ; was a representa-
tive at the General Court at Boston, and was a member
of the body which framed the constitution of Massachusetts.

The following may be found on the records of Westfield : —

"John Ingersoll and Margaret Moseley had their names entered of
their Intention of Marriage and publication thereof posted up as the law
directs Aug. 22, 1762."

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 35

"John Ingersoll and Margaret Moseley was married by the Eey. Mr.
Ballentine Sept. 21, 1752."

John Moseley, the fouuder of the Moseley family in Massa-
chusetts, came from Lancashire, England, in the year 1630,
and settled at Dorchester, Mass., where he died. A grey
stone tablet, with brick foundation, still marks his last rest-
ing place in the old Dorchester grave-yard. His son, Joseph,
removed to Windsor, and in 1666 settled in Westfield.
Lieutenant Moseley, who served during King Philip's War,
was a son of the latter. His brother, Joseph, was the father
of Colonel David Moseley, who received from George H.,
in the year 1749, a commission as Magistrate for the County
of Hampshire. Margaret Moseley, the wife of John Inger-
soll, was a daughter of Colonel David Moseley. She was
born November 15, 1730.

Nine children were born to John Ingersoll by his wife
Margaret. All were born in Westfield, and their names and
dates of birth may be found on the records of the town.

I. Margaret, born April 14, 1753.

II. Molly, born Tebruary 23, 1755.

III. Lucretia, born August 21, 1757.

IV. Isabell, born January 17, 1761.
V. Electa, born February 13, 1765.

VI. Anna, born September 8, 1767.

VII. John, born August 12, 1769.

VIII. Charles, born February 29, 1772.

IX. Cynthia, born October 22, 1774.

At the breaking out of the Kevolutionary War, Esquire
Ingersoll found himself in a most embarrassing and trying
position. He was one of the king's officials and, as the
Chief Magistrate, held the highest position of honor, trust

Note. — The Arms of Moseley (originally Maudesley, then Mosley) of
Lancashire, England : —

" Sa. a chev. betw. three mill-picks ar. quartered
with or, a fesse, betw. three eagles, displayed sa.
Crest, an eagle displayed erm."

Motto : " Mos legem regit." Custom rules the laio.

86 THE INGERSOLLS OF HABIPSHIRE.

and dignity in the District of Westfield, and in accepting
his commission as such, he iiad given his oath of allegiance
to England and the king. The final result of the coming
struggle was then uncertain and, though his personal inter-
ests were with the colonies, considering his trust and oath of
oflSce, he hesitated as to what course to pursue. Though an
English official, he was American born and an American in
heart. Westfield was his home and the home of his ances-
tors. What property he had was in Westfield, and to West-
field he was bound by every possible tie of blood and
relationship. Loyalty meant that he should sever forever all
connections with his native associations and place himself
under British protection with doubtful prospects of gaining
a living for himself and family. This was almost impossible,
yet, bound by an oath which he respected, he could not take
sides against the king. He therefore chose a course which
seemed most in accord with his conscience and in keeping
with his secret sympathies, which were with the rebels. He
remained in Westfield, but he took no part either for or
against England. To his trust as an official he remained
loyal until the office which he held ceased to exist in conse-
quence of the progress of the Revolution. His inactivity,
however, led to suspicion, and he was denounced as a Tory.
On May 5, 1777, he was arrested by direction of the Com-
mittee of Safety and placed under a military guard. His
trial followed and, as no material evidence was produced
against him, he was, on general suspicion, due to his having
held an office under the Crown, sentenced to the trivial pun-
ishment of confinement to his own premises.

Vote of the "Committee op Correspondence, Inspection ant)
Safety for the Town of Westfield."

May IQth 1777.

Voted that John Ingersoll Esq"" be confined to his house
and home lot and the lot across the way; that he may not tra veil any
further in the highway than the width of his home lot, excepting on Sab-
bath days from his own house to the Meeting House and bacli again ; that

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 37

he may not converse with any persons called Tories at any time, an^ that

he must observe these directions until further orders of the Committee on

Penalty of Close Confinement.

DAVID MOSELEY, Chairman.

Notification of having been Drafted for Service in the Army.

Westfield, May 15"^ 1777.

To John Ingersoll, Esq^

Sir,

In obedience to orders of April
30th, I have mustered my Company, and the Alarm List, and am obliged
with the advice of the Selectmen and Committee of Correspondence to
draft you to serve as one in the Continental Army as the Act directs.

DAVID MOSELEY, Capt.

Keceipt for Eine Paid in Lieu of Services.

Westfield, May 17"' 1777.

Keceived of John Ingersoll Esq'' ten pounds

as his fine for not going into the Continental Army, being drafted for

that purpose on the fifteenth day of May, agreeable to an Act of the

General Court.

DAVID MOSELEY, Capt.
£10. 0. 0.

Whatever the trials and annoyances to which Mr. Inger-
soll was subjected during the period of the Eevolution by
his most patriotic and zealous townspeople, his honesty and
ability remained unassailed ; and after the war he regained
his popularity, as is evinced by his having been chosen a
member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.

John Ingersoll died in Westfield, March 1, 1792, and his
widow, Margaret, died May 27, 1799. ( Westfield Records).

Before the Revolutionary War, Esquire John Ingersoll
was one of the wealthiest citizens of Westfield. But the
heavy expenses to which he was subjected during the long
continuance of hostilities and the troublesome and embar-
rassing times which followed, taxed his resources to the
utmost, and finally completely impoverished him. At the
time of his death there was nothing for him to leave to his
children except his example and his reputation for the strict-
est integrity.

38 THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

The following is on the records of the Court of Probate
and Insolvency, at Northampton, Mass. : —

" Ou Oct. 2, 1792, Joseph Lyman and John IngersoU (son) were
appointed administrators of the estate of one, John IngersoU, Esq., of
Westfield, deceased. The estate of the said John IngersoU was declared
insolvent and commissioners were appointed to examine claims against
the estate and a dividend of four shillings and five pence was paid on the
pound."

Esquire Ingersoll's Account of His Arrest and Trial.

A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Military Officers ani>
THE Committee of Safety of the Town of Westfield with
John Ingersoll, Esq., and eleven other gentlemen, viz: Cap-
tain John Bancroft, Mr. John Banckoft, Jur., Mr. John
Atwater, Mr. John Lee, Mr. John Lee, Jur., Mr. Roland
Parks, Mr. Beldad Fowler, Mr. Beldad Fowler, Jur., Mr.
William Ashley, Mr. Zadok Martindale and Mr. Abel Eager.

May 5th, 1777. I being at the house of Mr. John Phelps in West-
field on a muster day about 6 of the clock in the afternoon, a sergeant
with an armed guard with bayonets fixed took me into custody by virtue
of a warrant signed by three captains, viz : David Moseley, John Kellogg
and Daniel Sacket. I was ordered by the sergeant to march in the centre
of his guard to Landlord Fowler's and was kept there under guard that
night. The sergeant and one assistant went to my house and overhauled
my papers without my consent. Nothing very material happened more
on this day.

May 6th, 1777. In the fore part of the day I was ordered before
the committee and examined, but still continued under guard. In the
evening I petitioned for the whole, and particularly for myself, for
leave to go home on parol, or under bond, or with a guard, but was
refused; and about 6 of the clock at night I was taken under guard to a
dirty school house and there kept, without any provision being made,
until next day.

May 7th, 1777. About 3 of the clock in the afternoon I was taken
back to Landlord Fowler's and there confined in a chamber with the other
gentlemen with a sentry at the door. The examination of the others
before the committee continued. I renewed my request to be allowed to
go home on parol, but was refused. On this night the guard was doubled.

May 8th, 1777. We continued under guard in the chamber at Land-
lord Fowler's. The committee sent for a Justice of the Peace and evi-
dence was taken against us. We were not allowed to hear this evidence.
May 9th, 1777. I was very unwell, and I requested leave to go home,
as before, on parol, bond or guard, and was refused. But I obtained
liberty to be removed, and was taken to Captain David Moseley's house

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 39

who was chairman of the committee. I was still under guard, but I
obtained leave for my wife to come and see me, and also the doctor.

May iOth, 1777. About 3 of the clock in the afternoon the guard was
taken away, and about 5 of the clock I had my sentence sent me, which
was to be confined to my home lot and not to speak to any persons called
Tories.

In this manner we were tryed, judged and sentenced without being
allowed to be heard or to hear the evidence given against us.

JOHN INGERSOLL.

YII. Mary Ingersoll was born at Westfield, Mass.,
November 16, 1733.

" Elisha Parks and Mary Ingersoll both of Westfield had their names
entered with their Intentions of Marriage and publication thereof set up
as the law directs on December 21^' 1750" {Westfield Records).

" Elisha Parks and Mary Ingersoll was married by the Rev. Mr. Bal-
lentine Jany 29th 1750 " ( Westfield Records).

Two sons are recorded on the records :

I. "Warham, born March 13, 1752.
II. Roland, born December 11, 1756.

"Upon the first alarm sounded at Lexington, Westfield sent out a
Company of seventy men commanded by Captain Warham Parks. Every
man in the Company was a citizen of Westfield " {History of the Connecti-
cut Valley).

Warham Parks became a Major in the Continental Army and after-
wards a General Officer.

Mrs. Mary Parks died in 1823, ninety years of age.

Vni. Ann Ingersoll, born in Westfield, Mass., June
21, 1737, married Colonel Sluman, of the British Army,
while on a visit away from her home. He was stationed at
Halifax, Nova Scotia,

It was this Ann Ingersoll who embroidered the " Inger-
soll Coat of Arms," which for so many years was in the pos-
session of Major Edward Ingersoll, of Springfield, and yet
is in possession of the family.

40 THE rNGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

FIFTH GENERATION.

CHILDREN OF JOHN INGERSOLL BY HIS WIFE,
MARGARET MOSELEY INGERSOLL.

I. Margaret Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
April 14, 1753.

II. Molly Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
February 23, 1755.

m. LucRETiA Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,

August 21, 1757.

rV. Isabell Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass..
January 17, 1761.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 41

V. Electa Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
February 13, 1765. She never married, and died in Spring-
field, Mass., February 18, 1839, seventy-four years of age
(Springfield Records). She was somewhat of an eccen-
tric character and is credited with having been an opium
eater, " but she was full of fun and as smart as a whip."*

VI. Anna Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
September 8, 1767.

* Quoted from the sayings of her nephew, Major Edward Ingersoll.

Note. — Of these six daughters I have been uuable to ascertain what
Tjecame of five of them. Family manuscripts, town records, old news-
papers and genealogies of other families have been searched in vain.
Their names and dates of birth appear in the old record book of West-
field, but never again are they mentioned. They were the aunts of my
grandfather, the late Major Edward Ingersoll, yet he could give no ac-
count of them. He was of the opinion that they died in infancy, or at
least before he was born. If any of them married, it was probably while
the Revolutionary War was in progress, or immediately after. During
this period all was in confusion in Westfield, and the records were very
poorly kept and at times^discontinued entirely. I am inclined to believe
that Margaret, the eldest daughter, married first a Mr. Granger and, after
his death, Mr. Zenas Noble of Washington. I base this supposition upon
the following certificate of marriage which was found among her father's
personal papers : —

" This may certify that the Intention of Marriage between Mr. Zenas
Noble, of Washington, and Mrs. Margaret Granger, of Westfield, hath
been published in the manner the Law directs ; and their names entered
with me fourteen Days previous to the Date.

Westfield, Oct. 24th, 179 L

Att'.

" P. WHITNEY, Toion-Clerk."

I can find no other Margaret (unaccounted for) on the Westfield
Records whose date of birth would be consistent with the above date of
marriage. c. s. r.

42 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

VII. John Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
August 12, 1769. He received his collegiate education at
Yale College, graduating in 1790. He began the study of
the law in Westfield, and subsequently continued it in the
office of the Hon. Caleb Strong, of Northampton, Mass.,
where he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court
in 1797.

" Hampshire, ss, Common wealth of Massachusetts:

At the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
begun and holden at Northampton within and for the County of Hamp-
shire on the fourth Tuesday of September, A. D. 1797 —

I certify that Mr. John Ingersoll was admitted an Attorney of the
Supreme Judicial Court at the above Term.
A true Extract from the Record.
Att*

JN. TUCKER, Clk. of Sup. Jud. Court."

He commenced practice in his native town of Westfield,
where, as early as the year 1800, he was successfully estab-
lished. He also held the commission of a Justice of the
Peace.

He married in Northampton, July 1, 1800, Miss Elizabeth
Martin, of English Harbor, Island of Antigua, West Indies.

On the Town Records of Northampton, in "A list of Marriages
returned by the Rev' Solomon Williams," appears the following : —

" John Ingersoll of Westfield and Elizabeth Martin, July 1, 1800."

Seven children were born by this marriage, the dates of
birth of the first six appearing on the Westfield Records, and
that of the seventh on the Springfield Records : —

I. Margaret, born May 16, 1801.

II. Elizabeth, born June 12, 1803.

III. Jane, born October 28, 1805.

IV. Mary, born April 2G, 1808.
V. John, born August 13, 1810.

VI. Edward, born December 18, 1812.
VII. Martha Ann, born March 15, 1815.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 43

Upon the organization of the County of Hampden, in
1812, John Ingersoll was appointed Clerk of the Courts for
the County, but continued to reside in Westfield until
November, 1814, when he removed with his family to
Springfield, and there continued to reside until his death,
which occurred December 26, 1840. {Springfield Records.^

He held the office to which he was appointed until his
decease, — a period of about twenty-nine years, — which is
ample evidence that he was a faithful and able official. He
was referred to generally by the townspeople, in a spirit of
kind familiarity, as " Honest John," an epithet which serves
to show for what qualities he was so highly esteemed.

Obituary Notice.

" John Ingersoll, Esq., died at his residence in this town, on Saturday
last, in the 72d year of his age. Since the organization of this County, a
peried of twenty-eight or nine years, he has held the office of Clerk of the
Courts for the County, the duties of which he has faithfully and promptly
discharged. He was universally respected by the members of the bar,
and his absence from the post which for so many years he has honorably
occupied, will be by them seriously felt. In his social and private rela-
tions he was, we believe, what a good citizen, a friend and father should
be, and by his virtues endeared himself to a large circle of friends by
whom his loss will be felt, his memory cherished." — Springfield Weekly
Bepublican.

Elizabeth Martin was born at English Harbor, Island
of Antigua, November 17, 1779, and was the only child of
John Martin, an Englishman, who held a civil office (Col-
lector of the Port) on the island under the British govern-
ment. Her mother was a Creole, whose maiden name was
Hester Stephens. Elizabeth was baptized in the church
belonging to the Parish of St. Paul, Antigua, and was edu-
cated in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her father was a man of
means, and belonged to an English family of distinction.
He was a younger son, and was a relative of a former gov-
ernor of the island, whose name also was Martin. Elizabeth,
previous to her visit to the United States, had made the trip
from Antigua to Enc^land and return several times. When
in England, she resided with her Aunt Mary Copeland (her

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father's sister) , and her education at Edinburgh was con-
ducted under the direction of this hidy. Francis Copeland
(her Aunt Mary's husband) was an official in the Stamp
Office in London. The Copelands resided on Bloomsbury
Square, Mary-le-Bone District, London.

When Elizabeth Martin arrived in New England, she was
attended by a maid (slave) who had accompanied her from
Antigua, and a man and his wife, whom her father had sent
along with her, sufficiently supplied with funds to defray
all expenses. These people proved unfaithful to their
trust, for they disappeared, carrying all the money and val-
uables with them, and were never heard of again. It was
in Hartford that Elizabeth was left without means, but friends
in Northampton invited her to visit them until she heard
from Antigua or England. In those days communication
between these places and the United States was much more
difficult than at present, and she remained in Northampton
some months. It was during this time that she met and
married John IngersoJl, — the promising young lawyer.
At the time of her marriage she was twenty years of age.

" Early in 1798, the ships ' Hope ' (Capt. E. Clark) and ' Sally' (Capt.
Jno. L. Boswell) were respectively fitted with an armament of 15 and 12
guns for the purpose of protecting themselves and others." {Becords of
3Iercliant Shipping ; Hist, of Norwich, Conn.)

These two vessels proceeded to the West India Islands and arrange-
ments were there made for them to convoy a fleet of merchantmen to the
United States.

" A fleet of thirty American vessels left the islands under convoy of
the ' Hope ' and ' Sally.' " {Records of Merchant Shipjnng of Norwich and
New London.)

" Thirty vessels under escort of the ' Hope,' 15 guns, and the ' Sally,'
12 guns, arrived October 17th, 1798." (Becords of Merchant Shipping of
Norwich and New London.)

Elizabeth Martin was a passenger from the Island of Antigua on board
one of these thirty vessels.

Captain John L. Boswell, of Norwich, commanded the " Sally." In
after years his daughter Sarah married John Ingersoll, Jr., the eldest son
of Elizabeth Martin.

Many passengers arrived on board the ships of this convoy. Yellow
fever was raging in the West India Islands, and all who could leave their

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 45

posts, and could afford it, embraced this opportunity and escaped to the
United States. John Martin, Elizabeth's father, was the port ofBcer at
English Harbor, Antigua, and was obliged to remain. His daughter,
however, he seat to the United States that she might escape the scourge.
It was the nearest place of refuge, and the sailing of the convoy offered
the opportunity. She was provided with sufficient means and was
entrusted to the care of persons believed to be honest and reliable. Her
mother was dead. Her father probably died soon after the sailing of the
vessel on which she was a passenger, as the fever almost depopulated the
island. A few cases of yellow fever appeared in New London at this
time, having been brought by the shipping.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ingersoll died in Springfield, Mass., Janu-
ary 31, 1868, in the eighty-ninth year of her age. (Spr'ing-
Jield Hecords.) At the time of her death she was residing
with her son, Edward, at his house on the armory grounds.

VIII. Captain Charles Ingersoll was born in West-
field, Mass., February 29, 1772. Captain Ingersoll followed
the sea from his early youth, and became a hipmaster in
the service of the merchant marine. He married Mrs.
Clarissa Ingersoll, August 27, 1798, and began housekeeping
at the residence of his brother, Mr. John Ingersoll, in West-
field, September 24, 1799. It was not until the following
year that Mr. John Ingersoll was married. Captain Charles
Ingersoll died in Westfield, Mass., May 29, 1808.

Mrs. Clarissa Ingersoll was the widow of Stephen Inger-
soll, who was a son of Oliver Ingersoll and grandson of
Captain Jonathan Ingersoll (killed at Lake George). She
was born December 8, 1772, and was a daughter of James
Taylor and granddaughter of the Rev. Edward Taylor,
who came from Lancashire, England, and settled in West-
field. She married for a third husband Timothy Holton in
1812, and died August 5, 1818.

Children of Captain Charles Ingersoll by his wife Cla-
rissa : —

I. Lucy, born March 28, 1799. Married, in 1817, Capt. Jede-
diah Perkins, of Norwich, Conn. Nine children were
born- (1) Clarissa Ingersoll, born November 30, 1818;
(2) John, born April 3, 1820; (3) Harriet, born August

46 THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

7, 1821; (4) Charlotte Whiting, born October 6, 1824;
(5) Edward Thomas, born December 27, 1826; (6) Lucy
Ingersoll, born February 6, 1829; (7) William Henry,
born January 28, 1832; (8) Mary Ann Dickinson, born
September 25, 1834; (9) Abby Elizabeth, born July 1,
1837. Mrs. Lucy Perkins died December 10, 1859.

II. Clarissa, born July 2, 1803. Died May 16, 1804.

III. Charles John James, born May 1, 1806. Married,

October 4, 1831, Elizabeth Hubbard Leavitt. Two
children were born : (1) Eliza Leavitt, born August 7,
1832; (2) Charles Thomas, born September 10, 1840.
Deacon Charles John James Ingersoll died October 10,
1863, and his widow May 30, 1867.

IV. Thomas, born July 26, 1807. Married Sarah Walker, Feb-

ruary 7, 1833. Resided in Westfield, N. Y., where six
children were born: (1) Lucy, born February 15, 1834;
(2) Julia AUis, born August 9, 1835; (3) Orton, born
December 13, 1836 ; (4) Chalmers, born October 29, 1838 ;
(5) Clementine, born March 29, 1840; (6) Walker, born
June 3, 1842. Mr. Thomas Ingersoll died April 20, 1851,
in the forty-fourth year of his age.

Deacon Ingersoll.

{From the Greenfield Gazette and Courier.)

"It is with feelings of sadness that we are called upon to announce
in to-day's paper the death of Deacon Charles J. J. Ingersoll, who died
20 minutes past 2 A. M., Saturday. He has been so long and intimately
connected with the press in this county that we deem a brief history of
his connection with it of especial interest to our readers and his numerous
friends. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to Hon. Ansel Phelps,
with whom he continued as an apprentice at the printing business five
years, in the office of the Greenfield Gazette. From about 1830 to 1834, he
was associated with Colonel Phelps as partner in publishing the paper.
In 1836 he purchased and published the Franklin 3Iercury, which he pub-
lished for a year or two, when it was united with the Gazette, and Mr.
Ingersoll again associated himself with Colonel Phelps as publisher of the
Gazette and Mercury, in which connection he continued until July, 1841,
when he removed to Westfield, New York, and established a paper there
called the Westfield Messenger. In 1847 he returned to Greenfield again,
and associated himself with Colonel Phelps in the publication of the
Gazette and Courier. In 1848 he dissolved his connection with Colonel
Phelps and established the American Bcpublic, which he published until
July, 1856. He was afterwards engaged for a few months in editing a
Republican paper at Rockville, Conn. In 1857 he was appointed Register
of Insolvency for this county (Franklin), and upon the union of the

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 47

Insolvency and Probate Courts, in 1858, was appointed Register of both,
a,nd at the subsequent election he was elected to the office by the people,
which he held up to the day of his death. For the past six years he has.
In addition to his other duties, assisted in editing the Gazette and Courier.
As an editor, his articles were always well written and pointed. There
was no mistaking his meaning. His views on public questions were
sound, and he had always in view the good of his country, his fellow-men
and sound morals. As a Register of Probate, he made one of the best
officers the county ever had, — faithful and punctual in the discharge of
the duties of his office, and kind and courteous to all with whom he came
in contact. As a citizen, the town has met with a loss not easily filled.
He was a consistent and active Christian, whose light shone so that all
could see it, and the church of which he has been an officer for twenty-two
years has met with an irreparable loss. He dies, lamented by all, and will
long be remembered for his many virtues."

{From the Westfield Bepuhlican, Westfleld, iV. Y.)

"We are pained to record the death of our former townsman, Deacon
Charles J. J. IngersoU, who died in Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 10, 1863, aged
flfty-seven.

"But few men have died leaving a better record of life and as many
genuine friends as Mr. IngersoU. He was born in Westfield, Mass., May
1, 1806. His father died when he was but two years old, and his mother
died some six years after. He was left penniless, yet by industry and
strict integrity of character, he battled his way alone and rose to honor
and usefulness in life. Wherever he lived, by his kindness and gentle-
manly Christian conduct, he gained the respect of all.

" For about six years he was the editor and publisher of the Westfleld
Messenger (Westfield, N. Y.), and did credit to himself as an editor and
printer. He was also an elder in the Presbyterian Church in this place,
and superintendent of the Sabbath school, and his counsels and instruc-
tions were much respected. He was a good scholar and possessed a well-
disciplined mind.

" Mr. IngersoU was naturally social and companionable in his relations
with men, and ever ready, without obtrusion, to make himself useful. His
numerous friends in this place and in the county will mourn his death,
but they can truly say, a good man and a Christian has fallen."

Mks. Elizabeth Hubbard Ingersoll.

(From the Greenfield Gazette and Courier.)

" Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbard IngersoU, whose death we announced last
week, deserves a fuller notice than we were able to give in our last paper.
She was the youngest daughter of the late Judge Jonathan Le:ivitt. Her
mother was Amelia Stiles, daughter of a former president of Yale College.
She was born March 7, 1807, and dedicated to God by baptism in early
infancy. Her parents were among the founders of the Congregational

48 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Church of this village. They are remembered by the aged here as devoted
Christians, and trained up their children vpith strict Christian fidelity. At
the age of ten years, Mrs. Ingersoll, under parental instruction, enter-
tained a hope in Christ and expressed a strong anxiety to unite with the
Church, but from her youth her parents deemed it prudent for her to
defer making & public profession, but she continued to manifest her strong
desire to unite with the Church and publicly to own Christ before men
and enjoy the privilege of commemorating his dying love, and at the age
of twelve, in 1819, she united with the Church. Her subsequent life
has demonstrated to all who knew her, the now generally conceded fact
that children may be soundly converted to God. She was married to
Charles J. J. Ingersoll, printer of Greenfield, a member of the Congrega-
tional Church in this village, Oct. 4, 1831. Mr. Ingersoll was subse-
quently elected a Deacon of the Church, August, 1835. Their two chil-
dren, Mrs. Eliza Stone of this village, and Dr. Charles T. Ingersoll, of
Waterloo, Iowa, survive the parents. Deacon Ingersoll removed to West-
field, N. Y., about 1842, where he established and published the Westfield
Messenger, and where he was elected an Elder of the Presbyterian Church
of that village. Deacon Ingersoll and wife were there esteemed among
the most devoted and useful members of that church, and are most afi"ec-
tionately remembered at Westfield. In 1847, Deacon Ingersoll sold his
printing office and paper in Westfield, N. Y., and returned to this village
and resumed the publication of the Gazette and Courier. Deacon Ingersoll
died here Oct. 10, 1863, aged fifty-seven. She died May 30, 1867, aged
sixty, in the house where she was born. At this time probably there are
not over six members of the Congregational Church of this village senior
to Mrs. Ingersoll in date of membership. Her life and triumphant death
are known in this community*"

IX. Cynthia Ingersoll, the youngest child of John
and Margaret Moseley Ingersoll, was born in Westfield,
Mass., October 22, 1774, and died June 24, 1776, in her
second year. ( Westfield Records.)

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 49

VI.

SIXTH GENERATION.

CHILDREN OF JOHN INGERSOLL BY HIS WIFE,
ELIZABETH MARTIN INGERSOLL.

I. Margaret Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
May 16, 1801, and died in Springfield, Mass., May 11,
1819, within five days of her eighteenth birthday. She was
unmarried.

II. Elizabeth Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
June 12, 1803, and married William Dwight Eipley*, of
Norwich, Conn. He was born September 2, 1799. The
following is from the records of the city of Springfield : —

"The intention of marriage between W" D. Eipley, of Norwich, Conn.,
and Miss Elizabeth Ingersoll of this town are entered this 8th day of April,
1822, notification posted Hth inst."

" W" D. Ripley and Elizabeth Ingersoll were married May 16, 1822.
Rev. Dr. Samuel Osgood."

When Mr. Ripley came to Springfield to claim his bride
and to conduct her to the home in Norwich over which she
was to preside, he came with a coach and four, and, symbolic
of the occasion, the horses were all of the purest white. This
bridal equipage, with its luxurious fittings and accompany-
ing servants, eclipsed anything of like character ever before
seen in the town, and its remembrance has been preserved
to the generation now living. It will be remembered that
at the date of this marriage railroads were not in existence.
Six children were born by this marriage.

I. John Ingersoll, born September 14, 1823, and died August

27, 1826.
II. William Colt, born April 27, 1825, and died January 9, 1827.
III. John Ingersoll, born March 8, 1828, and died in Jackson-
ville, Fla., January 27, 1856. He was unmarried.

* Mr. "William Dwight Ripley was a brother of James Leonard Ripley,
of Norwich, Conn., and consequently the uncle of Mr. C. P. H. Ripley,
who married Harriet Jencks Ingersoll, a niece of Elizabeth Ingersoll.
See Seventh Generation.

50 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

IV. William Coit, born Julj^ 14, 1830, and died August 1, 1831.
V. Mary Dickinson, born July 23, 1833. Married, July 1, 1863,
James Humphrey, of Peoria, 111. Children: (1) Maria
Antoinette, born July 11, 1864; (2) Elizabeth Kipley,
born May 8, 1867; (3) James, born June 18, 1871.

VI. Elizabeth Parks, born April 26, 1838.

(From the Norioicli Advocate and Examiner.)
"Died, Jan. 27, at Jacksonville, Florida, in the 28th year of his age,
John IngersoU Ripley, formerly of this city.

" The following is from an intimate friend of the deceased : —

" Savannah, Jan. 29, 1856.

Dear Examiner, — Doubtless the painful and startling intelligence of
the sudden and unexpected demise of John IngersoU Eipley at Jackson-
ville, Florida, on Sabbath morning last has, ere this, reached you and cast
a gloom over the many who knew him.

"He left us about three weeks since, that he might more rapidly regain
his health which had been somewhat enfeebled by a slight sickness; but
God's ways not being as our ways, he, instead of being returned unto us,
has been translated to the skies, where sickness, sorrow and death are
swallowed up, 'mid the ineffable glory of God.

" As you, together with many of your readers, well knew, he was a
devotedly pious young man of an exemplary Christian character, — a
Christ-like humility, —a heavenly sincerity, and, indeed, rich in all the
priceless virtues which alone make man an ornament to the religion of
Christ.

" Possessing such a character, living such a life, who was better fitted
to tlie the death of the righteous ; who could say with a better assurance
than he said, when conscious that the bridegroom had come, ' If the Lord
desires me I am ready to go '? Where then, I would ask, oh ! death, is thy
sting, and oh ! grave, is thy victory, to the man who lives and dies in
Christ? Such was his last state, — for just as the morning sun was
spreading its golden sheet o'er the sable garb of night, he wrapped himself
up in the shining folds of a Saviour's love, and, without a fear, without a
shudder, wended his way through the dark valley and shadow of death,
rendered brilliant by the translucent brightness of the Son of Righteous-
ness. What a befitting time to die, —the holy day, the glorious morn,
the matchless hour, — the chosen moment that Christ himself sundered the
bonds of the tomb and unpinioned his plumes, rose in sublime, triumphant
splendor to the bosom of his Father, did our brother shake ofl" the
shackles of clay, and mounting on the broad wings of a Saviour's love,
then hovering around his dying couch, he mounted and soared until over-
whelmed 'mid the inefi"able glories of Heaven. J. f. c."

Mrs. William D wight Ripley died in Norwich, Conn.,
April 28, 1856, about three months after the death of her son.

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 51

Obituart.

" KiPLEY. — At Norwich, Conn., Mrs. Elizabeth Ripley, aged 52, a lady
whose character presented the most symmetrical union of the moral
and mental elements.

"In all the vicissitudes of her pilgrimage, whether prosperous or ad-
verse, she has with unfaltering faith and constancyladoroed her profession.
Her piety was not of the spasmodic type, but a gentle light which cheered
the circle in which she moved, and shone brighter and brighter till it has
culminated in perfect day. Forgetful of herself, even when under the
pressure of personal adversities and trials, it was her assiduous endeavor
to contribute to the comfort of those around her. The afflicted, especially,
were sure to find in her an angel of sympathetic ministrations. Many a
cup of bitterness and sorrow her Heavenly Father saw fit to put in her
hand, which she ever received with unrepining trust. For a long time
she has been, in a quiet, gentle manner, setting her house in order for the
anticipated coming of death. And when the crisis was announced, she
met it with a calm and comforting assurance of her Saviour's presence."

For a second wife, William Dwight Ripley married Emily
Bullock, of RoyalstoD, Mass., December 14, 1859.

III. Jane Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass., Oc-
tober 28, 1805, and died in Springfield, Mass., February 19,
1876, in the seventy-first year of her age. She never mar-
ried, and during the latter portion of her life resided with
her brother, Major Edward Ingersoll, who was stationed at
the National Armory at Springfield.

Miss Ingersoll was a woman of great literary ability, and
was well versed in the sciences. As a teacher, she was most
successful, and in following that occupation the greater por-
tion of her life was passed. She taught successively in
young ladies' schools at Gorham, N. H., Courtland, N. Y.,
and Belmont, Va. In the latter school, of which Margaret
Mercer was the principal and proprietress, the daughters of
many of the most distinguished families of the South were
educated. Later in life she became the principal of a young
ladies' boarding school in Norwich, Conn., and afterwards of
one in Springfield, Mass. Her last services as a teacher
were rendered to Charles Stedman Ripley, the eldest grand-
son of her brother. Major Edward Ingersoll. She was then

52 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

in her seventieth year, but in full possession of her mental
powers, and it was mainly due to her exertions and instruc-
tions that her grand-nephew was enabled to pass a most
severe examination and enter the United States Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis.

At her death, the following resolutions were passed by the
"Women's Christian Association," of which she was an
active member : —

Besolved, That in the death of our sister, Miss Jane Ingersoll, the
" Women's Christian Association" have sustained a loss we deeply feel.

Her cheerful presence at our weekly meetings, the labor of her hands,
and the prayers pledged and so earnestly offered for success in our work,
will ever be remembered and gratefully appreciated.

When her "race" was run, and the victory almost gained, the deep
solicitude expressed revealed to us the absorbing interest she felt in our
work.

Besolved, That in view of the work before us, self-denying or pleasur-
able as it may be, and the brief time allotted us to obey the command of
our Saviour, we will double our diligence and go forward cheerfully,
trusting now for promised grace and for support and resignation when
labor must be exchanged for suffering and farewells.

Besolved, That to the brother and relatives we extend our sincere sym-
pathy and most earnest prayer that God would sanctify to them this
bereavement, and fully prepare them, when done with life's duties on
earth, to join her in the abode of the blessed.

ly. Mary Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Mass.,
April 26, 1808. She married Worthington Hooker, M. D.,
of Norwich, Conn., September 29, 1830. Married by the
Rev. Dr. Samuel Osgood at Springfield, Mass. Four
children were born : —

John Worthington, born in 1832. Graduated from the Yale Medical
School. Never married. Died in New Haven, Conn., January 25, 1863. .

There was a daughter, Elizabeth, who died in childhood, and two other
children who died in infancy.

Mrs. Hooker died in Norwich, Conn., January 11, 1853,
in the forty-fifth year of her age. Shortly before her death

Note. — The records at Norwich and New Haven have been searched
in vain. Further information relative to the Hooker family I have been
unable to obtain. C. S. R.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 53

Dr. and Mrs. Hooker had removed to New Haven, where
Dr. Hooker had entered upon his duties as Professor of the
Theory and Practice of Medicine, in Yale College. At the
time of her decease she was in Norwich upon a visit to her
friends. Dr. Hooker and his family resided in Norwich
previous to his appointment to the Professorship at Yale
College. Dr. Hooker was the author of a number of scien-
tific text-books, which, at the time of publication were
extensively adopted by schools and colleges.

Worthington Hooker, M. D., died in New Haven, Conn.,
November 6, 1867.

Obituary.

{From the Norwich Courier of January 13, 1853.)

" Under the usual obituary head, in to-day's paper, is recorded the sud-
den death of Mrs. Mary Hooker, wife of "Worthington Hooker, M. D.,
recently of this city.

"Amidst the deep sorrow which this announcement will spread over
her large circle of friends and acquaintances, there is to us a melancholy
satisfaction in the thought that, notwithstanding her recent removal, this
estimable lady was permitted to return here to die in the bosom of a
community where she was so truly beloved.

"Mrs. Hooker was the daughter of John Ingersoll, of Springfield, Mass.,
and though for many years a resident of this city, there are those in her
native place who hold in remembrance the loveliness of her unblamable
youth, and can trace back her maturer excellences to their germ, in the
quiet discharge of the duties of daughter, sister and friend.

" There are those, too, who remember her as the exemplary and diligent
pupil of Miss Beecher's Seminary, of Hartford; and it is not too much to
say of her, what it would not be safe to say of many, that in no relation
of life was she ever found deficient, nor did she ever fail to gather about
her the thorough respect and warm aflTections of those who surrounded
her.

" Of the estimation in which she was held in this community, where her
worth has been fully tested, we hardly dare trust ourselves to speak.
Occupying the arduous post of a physician's wife, she used to the full the
opportunity it afroi-ded of ministering to the suffering and the destitute.
Her ready sympathy and active aid were ever at the service of the sick;
her home was the abode of a hospitality as sincere as it was unstinted.
That cheerful and well-ordered home will long be held in grateful remem-
brance, not only by a large circle of friends and relatives, but by many a
weary invalid and wayfarer, who there found rest, sympathy, and aid.

54 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

" And yet many would have found, in the successive bereavements vphicb
darljened her home, an excuse for want of cheerful alacrity in serving'
others. The use she made of them was, to learn a truer sympathy and a
more ready adaptation to the wants of other fellovv-sufterers.

"Notwithstanding the many and varied demands of her home, she ever
lent her cheerful aid in every enterprise for doing good in the community
and church to which she belonged. Superior to petty jealousies, her
judicious counsels, her prompt activity, her self-sacrificing efforts, will be
long in finding their parallel. In a day when attempts to do good on a
large scale are more commended than the filling up of the thousand lesser
claims of social and domestic life, it is profitable to contemplate a charac-
ter like that of the deceased. In her were conspicuous ' that goodness,
gentleness, and charity against which there is no law.' She possessed,
in an eminent degree, that rare combination of qualities known as good
sense. She was a practical woman. Naturally retiring, she never sought
to shine in any department of life, but quietly followed on in the unob-
trusive path of usefulness which Providence opened, ' doing with her
might what her hj^nds found to do.'

" Her death, while here on a visit, has been a great and sudden shock,
but it was an end

'. . . fitting her uniform piety serene.'

"The same calmness and self-possession which marked her life charac-
terized her in death. To her pastor, called at midnight to break to her
the intelligence that she was dying, she immediately replied that it was
an unexpected summons, but, ' if it were the Lord's will, she had no
desire to live another hour,' and calmly said farewell to a life which she
said ' looked desirable to her, for the sake of her friends.' She expressed
a deep sense of her uuworthiness, but a firm trust in her Almighty Saviour.

" When her pastor repeated the verse, ' I know in whom I have believed,
she instantly added, ' I know in whom I have believed, and that he is
able to keep that which I have committed unto him.'

" Amidst her sufferings, she could remember soothing words for her
aged mother, and manifested a touching care for the exposure to which
her pastor had been subjected on her account.

" Self -forgetful to the last, the welfare of others ceased to interest her
only when her heart of love ceased to beat. She has entered into that
rest which here on earth she never allowed herself ; or, may we not rather
believe that her wonted ministrations of mercy are not discontinued, but
to be carried forward hereafter, without weariness and without end ! "

y. John Ingerroll was born in Westfielcl, Mass.,
August 13, 1810. He married in Norwich, Conn., July 17,
1833, Sarah Coit Boswell, a daughter of Captain John
Lovett Boswell and Mehitable Coit Boswell. Mr. IngersoU
died in Springfield, Mass., May 14, 1857, in the forty-seventh

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 55

year of his age. Seven children were born to him by his
wife Sarah.

I. Julia West, born ia Savannah. Ga., September 26, 1836.

II. Elizabeth Coit, born in Savannah, Ga., Eebruary 15, 1839.

III. George Huntington, born in Savannah, Ga., February 3, 1841 .

IV. Harriet Bosioell, born in Savannah, Ga., September 20, 1843.
V. Susan Copeland, born in Woodstock, Fla., November 23,

1846.
VI. Sarah Boswell, born in Springfield, Mass., June 23, 1848.
VII. Worthington Hooker, born in Springfield, Mass., October 31,
1852.

( Written by his son, Worthington Hooigsr Ingersoll.)

The advent of John Ingersoll, Jr., was hailed with joy.
Four daughters had been born to John Ingersoll (his father)
by his wife, Elizabeth, and now a son, who would bear down
to posterity the time-honored name of "John Ingersoll," was
a great satisfaction to all. He was born in Westfield, the
town which his ancestors had settled and in which they had
resided for generations. His educational advantages were
limited mostly to the public schools. Filial and obedient at
home, thorough and conscientious in his work at school, he
laid well the foundations of a noble character. In his boy-
hood days he made many friends, yet his appreciation of
sterling qualities and his tastes were such that he chose for
his warm personal friends those boys only whose characters
were moulded upon sound principles, and, as a proof of his
early discernment, we have as evidence the fact that all of
his intimate boyhood companions became prominent and in-
fluential men in after life. At the same time there was in
him enough dash and daring to make him fully the equal of
his associates, if not their leader. He was very fond of all
sports, but particularly of skating. Once, when on the
Connecticut Eiver, the ice gave way and he nearly lost his
life, but he was rescued hy Henry Brewer of Springfield.
At the time, it was very cold and he was chilled through,
but, instead of going home, he dried his clothing at school,

56 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

and it was not until after his marriage that his mother knew
of this adventure.

In 1823, when thirteen years old, he was sent to Norwich,
Conn., and began his mercantile life in the store of William
D wight Ripley, Esq. It was in Norwich that he met Miss
Sarah Boswell, and formed an acquaintance that in time
ripened into attachment and finally resulted in marriage.
He remained in Norwich until 1830, about seven years, and
then went South to engage in a business enterprise at St.
Mary's, Fla. The firm was Ripley, Clark & Co. (Inger-
soll), and the business consisted in shipping pine lumber
North, and furnishing planters and others with supplies and
materials. The business prospered and was extensively de-
veloped, and the members of the firm received substantial
profits. In the summer of 1833 Mr. Ingersoll returned to
Norwich and there married Miss Boswell, the choice of his
early youth, and who, throughout his entire life, proved so
substantial a helpmeet. In 1830, and previous to his depart-
ure for the South, he united, as did also Miss Boswell, with
the old church of Norwich City (Congregational), which
was then under the pastoral care of the Rev. Alfred Mitchell,
the father of Donald Mitchell.

After his marriage, Mr. Ingersoll returned to his post in
the South accompanied by his wife ; but he had hardly been
there a year, when news of the failure of William Dwight
Ripley, of Norwich, reached him. This necessitated the
closing up of the business at St. Mary's. After the affairs
of the firm were settled, Mr. Ingersoll removed to Savannah,
Ga., and engaged in the dry-goods business with his brother
Edward, who came on from Springfield, Mass., to join in
the new enterprise. Their store was on the square, facing
what is now the "Pulaski House." The building is still
standing and the old sign, "J. & E. Ingersoll," shows
through the thin paint above the door. From the first the
firm prospered. John remained in Savannah and managed
the store, and Edward lived most of the time in New York,

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 57

purchasing and forwarding goods. Three clerks were em-
ployed the first year, two of whom were James Carew and
James Child. All three were said to be handsome and
polished. The business continued to prosper, and during
the second year the brothers raised the mortgage which was
on their father's Elm Street house in Springfield. They
also took stock in the satinet factory of William Dwight
Ripley.

The great panic of 1837 came. Exchange between New
York and the South became enormous, resulting in a general
depression of business throughout the land, but especially in
the South. The planters, with whom the brothers had their
large trade and extended accounts, could not convert their
€otton into cash. The satinet factory belonging to Mr.
Eipley failed. An opposition store also started to do busi-
ness at this time. These things combined caused the
failure of the Savannah enterprise. The firm of "J. & E.
IngersoU" went down, as did thousands of others during
these times.

Mr. Edward IngersoU returned North, but Mr. John
IngersoU remained in Savannah and opened another store.
He was assisted financially by Dr. Richardson. Business
interests throughout the country seemed to be brightening,
but it proved to be only a gleam of light through a heavily
■clouded horizon, and Mr. IngersoU was soon obliged to close
his store.

In 1840, Mr. John IngersoU, Sr., died in Springfield, and
as Captain Boswell's health was then very poor, Mrs. John
IngersoU, Jr. (Sarah Boswell), came North. For a time
she boarded with her mother-in-law on Elm Street, in Spring-
field, then went to Norwich in order to be near her father,
taking with her Julia, Lizzie, and George who was then the
baby. While in Norwich she passed through a severe attack
of sickness. Recovering, she returned to Springfield, and
again took up her residence with Mother IngersoU. The
next spring the house in Elm Street Avas sold, and Mrs.

58 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Ingersoll, Jr., returned to Norwich. Her father, Captain
Boswell, died in June, 1842, and in the fall of the same
year Mrs. Ingersoll returned to the South and joined her
husband who, during her absence, had been conducting a
commission business.

About this time a teller was wanted in the bank at
Savannah. Mr. Ingersoll applied and secured the position,
with a salary of $1,800 per year, which for those times
was a large amount. He was obliged to give bonds for
$20,000, and Dr. Richardson, Edward Pynchon (originally
from Springfield), and a third gentleman became his bonds-
men. At the end of two years his health had so broken
down that he was obliged to stop work. The bank officers,
however, continued to pay his salary through the winter,
but he was never able to return to his post.

While on a trip to St. Mary's, Fla., he met a Mr.
Alberty who offered him a fair salary and many perquisites
if he would remain and manage his business in Woodstock,
a small town about twenty-three miles from St. Mary's, and
on the St. Mary's Elver. Mr. Alberty was the owner of
extensive plantations, saw-mills, timber lands, stores, etc.
Mr. Ingersoll accepted, and Mr. Alberty built a house for
him to live in. But his health gave out and he was obliged
to come North and recuperate. In his absence, Mr. Doolit-
tle, of Savannah, took charge of the business. He returned
during the next winter, but early in June of 1848 he was
obliged to give up the business entirely, much to Mr.
Alberty's regret, and remove to a colder climate. He came
to Springfield and for a year resided with his brother
Edward, who was then living at the National Armory.
While at his brother's he was attacked by typhoid fever
and barely escaped death.

For several years he remained in Springfield establishing
the Massasoit Flour Mills which, in the spring of 1853,
were removed to Fall River. But the New England climate
he found was too severe for him and he removed to Tennes-

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 59

see, where he established a large commission trade, forward-
ing wheat to New York and to Europe. During the first
year his profits amounted to $30,000. The wheat was for-
warded to Liverpool through Nason & Collins, of New
York. This firm failed for a very large amount, and at
the time of their failure there were three cargoes of wheat
en route, consigned to them. Mr. Ingersoll was then
residing in Savannah and the news of their failure reached
him late on a Saturday evening. Because of his religious
principles he refused to start for New York on the following
day — the Sabbath — and stop the cargoes. He proceeded
Monday, and two of the cargoes were stopped — and saved.

Returning from New York, he proceeded to the " up
country " of Georgia, where he began negotiations for certain
water-power rights, a house, etc. But his health soon began
to fail very rapidly. All enterprises were given up, and he
started North. At times it was thouoht that he would
hardly survive the journey. But he reached Springfield,
though in a very feeble condition. On Thursday, May 13,
1857, about a week after his arrival, he died at his brother's
house on the armory grounds.

Dr. Thurston's subject at the funeral service was aptly
chosen: "John, the beloved disciple." He was ever a
meek, faithful follower of the Lord. As a Christian worker
he was never found wanting. Zealous, and with a keen
sense of responsibility for the full use of what talents he
had, he entered into church work heartily in whatever city
or town he resided. He was an oflace bearer in the church,
either deacon or elder, for many years. It was never need-
ful for him to lament, "I have offended reputation," for he
ever walked worthy the high vocation to which he was
called, and left to his children an exemplification of the
truth, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great
riches." His Christian course, his loving counsels, and his
worthy name are and will always remain inspirations to his
children.

60 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

(From a Manuscript loritten hij Charles P. H. Ripley.)

" John Ingersoll, of Westfleld, Springfield, Savannah, and New York —
He, like his famous relatives, has passed away. Good things are seldom
lasting. In him were represented the finest features of the New England
gentleman — culture, refinement, ceremonious courtesy, religious devo-
tion and consistent goodness. All harmonized in his spiritual and social
nature. His conversation, the echoes of a soul, which answered but the
truth — he left good evidence of his interest in a better Avorld.

" She, who to this day as his widow survives him, is one of the very last
of those ladies of the old school, of whom her friend, Mrs. Sigouruey, has
said, ' They would grace any foreign court.' She was a Miss Boswell, of
Norwich, a name that brings up the pleasing memories of my youth. Her
ancestral home stood on the crest of a great hill that bore her father's
name. Boswell's Hill ! The story of the winter sports on, over and
down Boswell's Hill has been given in the same interesting book that
relates to us how, twenty years before Norwich was settled, Sir William
Boswell wrote over to the military captains of the two Colonies of what
is now Connecticut, ' Crowd out the Dutch.' "

THE BOSWELL ANCESTRY.*

I. Robert Boswell was born in Scotland and was of
Scotch descent. He came to America with his wife, Hannah,
who was English, and settled in Canterbury, Conn., where
he bought 120 acres of land. Four children were born :
Thomas, Sarah, Hannah, and Moses. In 1727, Robert
Boswell deeded 62 acres of land to his son Thomas.

II. Moses Boswell, his youngest son, was born in Can-
terbury, November 8, 1708. He married, January 30,
1732^, Mehitable Baker, and a son, Lemuel, was born.

HI. Dr. Lemuel Boswell successfully established a
large practice in Norwich, Conn., but "he was too generous
and easy in collecting his accounts, and, consequently, never
amassed much of a fortune."

*NoTE. — Balmoota Castle, near Edinburgh, Scotland, the ancient home
of the Boswells, was built during the twelfth century, and is yet in pos-
session of the Boswells of Scotland.

The Arms of Boswell: " Ar. on a fesse sa. three cinque-foils of the
field, within a bordure gu."

THE mGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 61

"Dr. Lemuel Boswell, a contemporary of Dr. Marvin, possessed an
extensive practice at tlie landing." — Early Physicians of Norwich, Norwich
Jubilee.

" Lemuel Boswell bought pew No. 24 at the time of Rev. Mr. Judson's
ordination." — " October 3, 1771." — Caullcin's History of Norwich.

Dr. Boswell married Annie Lovett in about 1771.

IV. His son, Captain John Lovett Boswell, born Sep-
tember 23, 1776, married, in December, 1809, Mehitable
Coit, daughter of Wheeler Coit, a merchant of Grriswold,
Conn.

Captain Boswell followed the sea from his early youth,
and when but nineteen years of age was master of his own
brig. He became a sea commander of great prominence,
and his voyages and adventures are recorded in numerous
historical works. Norwich was then a port of considerable
commercial importance, and the trade with the West Indies
was in a most flourishing condition. Between Norwich and
the various islands of the West Indies, Captain Boswell
made many voyages. "The largest sum, over $12,000.00,
ever paid in the port of Norwich for custom dues on one
cargo, was paid on one which he brought in." {History of
Norwich.)

Captain Boswell was one of the first seamen to arm his
vessel so that he might protect himself against the British
privateers, and also against the pirates, which were then
becoming quite numerous on the high seas.

" The ' Sally,' Capt. Boswell, bound to Jeremie, with nearly ninety head
of stock on board, was taken by the armed brig, ' P;indure,'of 14 guns, the
privateer firing a broadside before hailing. She tooli out 21 men, nearly
the whole crew, and putting eleven Frenchmen in their place, ordered the
vessel to a French port. Eight days afterwards she was taken by an
English brig, carried into a neutral port, and there given up to Capt.
Boswell, half of the cargo being retained for salvage." (History of
Norioich.)

Early in 1809, Caj)tain Boswell, having gathered a com-
fortable fortune, retired from the sea, and, in December of
the same year, married Miss " Hetty " Coit. The home

62 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

which was established in Norwich, on Church Street, became
noted far and wide for its liberal appointments and its great
hospitality, and many are the stories which have been passed
down to younger generations of the " grand good times " at
Captain Boswell's house.

Five children, two sons and three daughters, were born
at the Norwich home, and these were reared amid most
happy surroundings. Abundant provision was made for
their every requirement and for the best development of
their physical, mental, and spiritual natures. The captain
was very fond of children, and, as his investments were
within easy distance and required little attention, he had
ample leisure to enjoy their companionship, and plan for
their progress and welfare.

Captain Boswell died June 11, 1842.

CHILDREN OF CAPTAIN BOSWELL BY HIS WIFE, MEHITABLE COIT BOSWELL.

I. Sarah Coit, born in 1810.
II. John Wheeler, born in 1812, and died in 1857.

III. Harriet Ann, born in 1814, married Jesse Mies, Esq., and

died in 1853.

IV. George Lemuel, born in 1817, married Susan Copeland, and

died in 1872.
V. Elizabeth Coit, born in 1820, married Rev. A. H. Hand.

V. Sarah Coit Boswell, the eldest child, was born
October 20, 1810. Through her grandfather, Wheeler
Coit, she was a descendant in the seventh generation of
John Coit, who came from England betM'^een 1630 and 1638,
and settled in Salem, Mass. He afterwards removed to
Gloucester, Mass., but receiving a grant of land in New
London, Conn., in 1650, he removed there during the year
following. Through her grandmother, Sybel Tracy Coit,
she was a descendant in the seventh generation of Lieutenant
Thomas Tracy, a son of Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewksbury,
England. He was born in Tewksbury about 1610, and
came to Salem, Mass., in April, 1636. He went to Weth-
ersfield. Conn., soon afterwards, where he married, in 1641,

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the widow of Edward Mason. He then removed to Say-
brook, where his wife died about 1659. They had seven
children. He subsequently married two other wives, but
had no issue by either. In 1645 he and Thomas LefBng-
well, with others, relieved Uncas, the sachem of Mohegan,
with provisions, when he was besieged at Shattuck's Point
by Pessachus, sachem of the Narragansetts. This led to
the subsequent grant of the town of Norwich, in 1659. He
removed to Norwich with his family in 1660, of which town
he was one of the proprietors, and he represented the town
in the General Court at Hartford for about twenty years.
He died November 7, 1685. He was a descendant in the
twentieth generation of Henry de Tracy, feudal lord of
Barnstaple, in Devonshire, and therefore was a direct
descendant of the " Sire de Tracy " named in Wace's account
of the battle of Hastings (fought at Senlac, near Hastings,
October 4, 1066).

Lieutenant Thomas Tracy was also a descendant of the
Princess Goda, a daughter of Ethelred H. of England. Con-
sequently, Mrs. Sarah Coit Boswell Ingersoll is a descendant
of Alfred the Great and other Saxon kings ; also of the Em-
peror Charlemagne and Cerdic, the first king of the West
Saxons.

Cerdic died in 534, after having reigned about thirty-three
years. Flountius, a monk of Worcester, writing in the first
quarter of the twelfth century, shows that Cerdic descended
from Woden in the tenth generation.

Woden, who some antiquarians claim to have descended
from the eldest son of the patriarch Noah, made himself
master of a considerable part of the north of Europe in the
third century, and died in what is now Sweden.

Note. — Arms of Tracy of Gloucestershire, Stanway, and Barnstaple:
" Or, belw. two bendlets gu. an escallop, in the dexter chief point, sa.
Crest, on a chapeau gu. turned up erra. an escallop sa. betw. two wings,
expanded, or."

64 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Mrs. Sarah Coit Boswell Ingersoll.
(Writteii by her son, "Worthington Hooker Ingersoll.)

There are those who shine amid any surroundings, whose
vivacity and wit give zest and cheer to life, whose noble
souls are reflected and announced in their attractive counte-
nances and bearing, whose qualities of mind make them at
once wise counsellors and delightful companions. My mother
is such a person. Although in her eighty-third year, she is
alert and fully possessed of her faculties. Her memory is
remarkably clear and exact, and as it ranges over experi-
ences of almost eighty years, it brings forth much that is
interesting.

She was born in that historic town of Norwich, which is
the pride and joy of so many noble men and women who
claim it as the place of their nativity. Her ancestors — the
Boswells, Tracys, Adgates, Coits, Lathrops, Lovetts, and
Spauldings — took important parts in the life and progress
of the town from its earliest days. These names are well
known in and about Norwich, and the deeds of many mem-
bers of these families have been recorded and preserved in
history.

During my mother's childhood, her companion and escort
was her brother John, who was two years her junior. They
attended the same school, and in their play and sports were
always together. She often refers to the great attachment
which they had for each other, and the manliness and devo-
tion of her brother.

When old enough, she was placed in a boarding school at
Wethersfield, Conn., where, when she became accustomed
to her new surroundings, she found herself most pleasantly
situated. In the course of time her school-days ended and
she returned to her home in Norwich, where she continued
to reside until her marriage.

For a number of years she resided in the South during the
winters. She has made over thirty trips between New York
and Savannah. Many of these journeys were made by sea,

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 65

and in sailing vessels, before the days of steamers, when
it took more time to make this coasting voyage than it now
does to cross the Atlantic.

Of late years my mother has resided in Hamburg, N. J.,
where she now has lived longer than at any one place since
her marriage.

My mother, like my father, has ever striven to honor the
" Master," and to our spiritual interests she has been faith-
ful. She has taught and led us wisely, and we delight to
honor her, "for her price is far above rubies."

The children of Mrs. Sarah Coit Boswell Ingersoll are of the eighth
generation from the Rev. John Lathrop. the first pastor of the first Puri-
tan Church in London. When he came to this country in September,
1634, he brought with him a Bishop's Bible, bearing the impriut of the
year 1605, in old English text. Charles Lathrop, of the fifth generation
from John, in the year 1839, delivered it into the custody of the American
Bible Society, On the passage to this country, the original proprietor
dropped on one of its pages a spark from the candle with which he was
reading at his evening devotions. Unaware of the accident, he partially
closed the book in his berth, but the result was that a piece about the
size of a shilling was burned through several of the sacred pages. It is
recorded of him that before the voyage was ended he had, from memory,
filled in the missing words and letters on each page, aud in the form of
the type in which they were printed. At the two hundredth anniversary
of Norwich (1859) the thirty-second chapter of Deuteronomy was read
from this same Bible.

VI. Major Edward Ingersoll, United States Army,
was born in Westfield, Mass., December 18, 1812. Two
years later the family removed to Springfield, and in Spring-
field he passed his youth and grew to manhood, and there
continued to reside almost uninterruptedly until his decease.
His education was obtained in the public schools of Spring-
field. Early in life he evinced a desire to become a merchant,
and his father placed him with the firm of Reynolds &
Morris, with whom he served his apprenticeship. Their
store was then the largest in Springfield, and was located
near the corner of Main and State Streets. When eighteen
years of age he accompanied the junior partner, Edward A.

66 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Morris, to Michigan, which was then a Territory. While at
the trading post in Detroit the Black Hawk War broke out,
and young Ingersoll was drafted for military service. Soon
after the troops had been assembled, the cholera appeared,
and attacked both white man and Indian. Panic ensued, and
the settlers and traders scattered. The troops were dis-
banded and young Ingersoll returned East. Upon his return,
he was employed by Kalph Snow in his dry-goods store at
Northampton, but subsequently entered the employ of the
Hon. William Child, of Springfield.

FROM THE RECORDS OF SPRINGFIELD.

" Edward Ingersoll enters his intentions of marriage with Harriet J.
Child, both of this town, Oct. 3d, 1834.

WM. BLISS, Town Clerk."

"Married, Oct. 29th, 1834, Edward Ingersoll and Harriet J. Child, by
Kev. Dr. Samuel Osgood of the 1st Church of Springfield."

Six children were born to Major Ingersoll by his wife,
Harriet.

I. Harriet Jencks, born in Springfield, Mass., October 1, 1835.
II. Caroline Phelps, born in Savannah, Ga., February 1, 1838.

III. William Edward, born in Springfield, Mass., September 22,

1842.

IV. John Martin, born in Springfield, Mass., January 26, 1845.
V. James Child,hoYU in Springfield, Mass., September 27, 1848.

VI. Isabella, born in Springfield, Mass., September 12, 1850.

In about 1835, Mr. Ingersoll removed to Savannah, Ga.,
and formed a partnership with his brother John, who had
there established a mercantile business. His next residence
was in New York, where he remained most of the time pur-
chasing and forwarding goods to his brother in Savannah.
At first the enterprise was a great success, but the prosperity
of the firm did not long continue. The great financial panic
of 1837 came and suddenly put an end to the business.
After the foilure of the firm, Mr. Edward Ingersoll returned
to Springfield.

In connection with the Savannah enterprise, Mr. Ingersoll

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 67

was obliged to make several trips between the North and the
South. In those early days the best route was the sea, and
sailing vessels were the only means of transportation.
Several voyages were made in the " Millegeville," and his
anecdotes of what occurred on board " the good ship Millege-
ville," were always most interesting and amusing. Once,
in May, 1835, when en route from New York to Hartford,
Mr. IngersoU nearly lost his life. He was a passenger on
board the "Chief-Justice Marshall" when she was wrecked,
and was swept overboard, but was rescued by the captain.
In the disaster he was severely injured by a splinter or piece
of iron. The scar on his side always remained, and he often
would refer to it when relating the story of the wreck.

One journey from Springfield to Savannah was made
overland. Mr. IngersoU took his family with him, and, in
company with the family of his brother John, dvove, fow-in-
hand, the entire distance.

But the work in which Major IngersoU so greatly distin-
guished himself was in the service of the United States.
As the military storekeeper and disbursing officer of the
National Armory at Springfield, a position of great trust and
responsibility,. and which he held from May, 1841, until July,
1882, covering the period of the Civil War, he rendered
most efficient service to the government, and left a name on
the records of the War Department in Washington, which,
for loyalty and integrity, none can excel.

[copy of commission when first appointed.]

'^^e "^rcsibcnt of t^e ^xxitcb ^tatcs of Jlmertcct :

To all who shall see these Presents, Greeting:
Know Ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism,
fidelity and abilities of Edward Ingersoll, I have nominated and, by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint hiin a Military
Storekeeper in the service of the United States, from the twenty-fourth
day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-one : He is, therefore, carefully
and diligently to discharge the duties of Military Storekeeper by doing
and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And I do
strictly charge and require him to observe and follow such orders and

68 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future
President of the United States of America, or the General, or other
superior officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of
War. This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the
President of the United States for the time being.

Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this
thirtieth day of May, in the year of onr Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in the sixty-
eighth year of the Independence of the United States.
By the President, JOHN TYLER.

Wm. Wilkins,

Secretary of War.

Recorded Adjt. Genls. Office, Vol. 10, page 359.

R. Jones,,

Adjt. Oenl.

On July 28, 1866, as a recognition of services rendered
to the government during the War of the Rebellion, he was,
by a special Act of Congress, given the rank and emolu-
ments of a major in the Army of the United States.

Oil July 1, 1882, he was placed upon the retired list with
three fourths of the highest pay of his grade.

THE RETIREMENT OP MAJOR INGERSOLL.
[From the Springfield Daily Republican. '\
To the Editor of the Bepuhlican : By the operation of Section 1 of the Act
of Congress approved June 30, 1882, vyhich provides that all officers of the
United States Army, sixty-four or more years of age, shall be placed on the
retired list, there passes from active service one deserving of more than
casual mention, — Major Edward Ingersoll of the ordnance department.
Entering the service of the United States more than forty-two years ago,
■when the grounds of the armory, which is now an ornament to the city,
and in which it has a just pride, vpere little more than a sandy desert, he
devoted himself witti the approval of the then commanding officer. General
Ripley, to beautifying and improving them that they might be a credit to
the army and to the country, and that others in after years might enjoy
them. Roads were laid out, the grounds graded and sodded, and trees were
planted, the latter largely by Major IngersoU's own hands. To-day we see
the results of his labors in the velvet lawns, the shady walks, the beauti-
ful grove, and the later " Benton Park," to which ha applied himself with
an enthusiasm indicative of his devotion to his late chief. The record of
his services, covering as they do the active part of a longer life than
usually falls to the lot of man, would require too groat space to be tran-
scribed; much of it is ineffaceably stamped on the soil. As ordnance

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storekeeper and paymaster, he was responsible for a vast amount of public
property, and many millions of dollars passed through his hands. Faith-
ful and business-like in the performance of all duties connected with his
office, he yet, by his uniform courtesy and thoughtful consideration, en-
deared himself to all with whom he was brought in contact. Now, when
by reason of years, he gives up his work to younger hands, he does it with
the knowledge, and the pleasure arising from it, of having faithfully done
all and more than all required of him, of having deserved well of his
country. Respected and beloved by his associates for his pure character
and warm heart, he leaves them, cari'ying with him their best wishes for
his happiness and prosperity, and the hope that for many years he may live
to enjoy that rest to which he is now entitled in this most beautiful of
New England cities.

SpringfieU, July 11, 1882. X.*

Major Ingei'soU died January 28, 1891, at his home on
Maple Street, Springfield, in the seventy-ninth year of his
age.

The commanding officer of the National Armory, upon
receiving the news of Major Ingersoll's death, promptly
issued the following order : —

" The death, at his home in this city, at seven o'clock this morning, of
Major Edward IngersoU, so long paymaster and storekeeper of this
armory, is an event in which the armorers generally will take a deep
interest.

" While Major IngersoU has not been for a number of years officially
connected with the armory, its commanding officer deems it a duty to
endeavor to express in this official way his appreciation of the sterling
qualities of the deceased, and of his many and varied services to this
armory, which owes very much of its beauty to his wise forethought and
provision.

" As a mark of respect, the flag — under the shadow of which he lived
for so many years — will, on the day of his funeral, be placed at half-
staff from reveille until retreat."

INIajor IngersoU was always a conspicuous figure in
Springfield, and was always most prominently identified
with local afiiurs. From early manhood he was interested
in the growth of the city, and many movements were made
successful by his efforts. When the volunteer fire service
was a conspicuous thing in local affairs. Major IngersoU was

* Captain John E. Greer, U. S. Army,

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an active member; and when, in 1864, the big fair for the
benefit of wounded soldiers was held at the City Hall, he was
the leader in its promotion, and it was by his efforts that it
was so successful, clearing nearly $25,000 for this fund. He
had an ability of management that was remarkable, and that
was shown, not only in his work at the armory, when, during
his administration, work to the value of over $100,000,000
was turned out, but in many minor affairs. Years ago, when
the Moody and Sankey meetings were held in the City Hall
to such large audiences as had never before gathered in that
building, Major Ingersoll attended to the affiiirs, and even
looked after the minor details. His life covered the princi-
pal epochs in the city's history, and its progress and growth
were carefully watched and admired by him. Besides his
interest in public affairs. Major Ingersoll was prominent in
church matters. He early joined the First Church, but left
there and attended the South Church, where he remained
but a short time. He then connected himself with the Olivet
Church, where he remained, a most prominent member,
until the day of his death.

In all matters pertaining to religion in any way, Major
Ingersoll was a leader. No general religious assembly in
Springfield was complete without him, and his opinions and
views relating to religious subjects were always found to be
logical and correct.

[From the Springfield Daily Union, January 28, 1892.]

The death of Major Edward Ingersoll, at his home on Maple Street,
early this morning, removes one of Springfield's oldest and most highly
respected citizens. He had been in delicate health for several mouths and
had been gradually drifting away from his hold on life; but his death
comes as a sudden shoclv to the community, and was the result of a par-
alytic shock on Monday. No man in Springfield was more widely known
and no one would be more geuerallj^ missed or more sincerely mourned.
He leaves an untarnished record for integrity and fidelity to duty ; and
the remark, " Ah, but he was a good man and an honest man," overheard
this morning from a group of expressmen and laborers who stood oppo-
site Court Square, expresses the general verdict of the community upon
the record of his life here.

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The great work of Major Ingersoll was his connection with the United
States Armory of this city, wliich extended from May, 1841, to July,
1882, and covered the period of tlie Civil War, when the position which
he held called for the services of a cool and tireless brain. The major's
intense loyalty to the United States Government, his righteous indigna-
tion at all efforts to destroy or cripple Federal authority, and his personal
energy in distributing and forwarding the arms which were turned out by
a force of three thousand men, contributed to make him the right man in
the right place. Nor was his invaluable service during the war by any
means his only warrant for being held in grateful remembrance as an offi-
cer of the government, for he did a great deal to improve and beautify
the government grounds in this city.

But while always loyal and faithful to the interests of the government
which he served, Major Ingersoll thoroughly identified himself with the
local interests of Springfield, and gave himself no less untiringly and
devotedly to forwarding the best things connected with our citizenship
than he did to his duties at the armory. A generation ago he was the
leading spirit of the local musical society of the young city: — a society
which had organist Fitzhugh, of the Church of the Unity, as its leader,
and which did a great deal in its day for musical improvement and culti-
vation. In 1864, when the great soldiers' fair was held in our City Hall,
and realized nearly $25,000 for the Soldiers' Rest, of blessed and fragrant
memory, Major Ingersoll was the leading spirit; and to his splendid
organizing and executive ability was due no small measure of its wonder-
ful success. In the spring of 1878, when the Moody and Sankey meetings
were held in the City Hall, Major Ingersoll took charge of all the hall and
seating arrangements, and his large experience in handling large bodies
of people was invaluable in that connection. A very tangible monument
to Major Ingersoll is to be seen in Court Square, a living and abiding
monument, for he it was who raised the money for setting out the trees
which add so much to the beauty and comfort of that open space in the
heart of our busy city.

No mention of Major Ingersoll would be in any sense complete which
failed to recognize his religious life. He was a young man nearina: his
Bineteenth birthday when, with a long line of young people, he stood up
in the First Church and made public confession of his faith in Christ as
the Saviour of men, and from that time to the hour when unconsciousness
veiled activity from him he was " fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
He had been connected with the First, the South, and the Olivet Churches,
during his residence in this city; but for many 5'ears had been a member
of the Olivet Church and a tower of strength iu all its religious activities
and work. As long os he could go out at all, he attended the Suuday and
mid-week services, and he was never too busy nor too weary to say a word
upon the value of religious faith. His very presence in a religious gather-
ing was a benediction, aud his words came straight from the heart.
Major Ingersoll never lost his interest in young men, and the Young
Men's Christian Association and its efforts in behalf of young men had no

72 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

more devoted and sympathetic friend tlian he. One of our best known
business men said to-day : "The Christian life of a man lilve Major Inger-
soU is to me one of the strongest possible evidences of the reality and
vitality of Christianity. Even were it possible to brush away all the
miracles, it would be impossible to set aside that power which brought
the young man of nineteen into the Christian Church and kept him a liv-
ing epistle, known and read of all men, for sixty years." Among those
who united with the First Church at the same time with Major Ingersoll,
all of them in the very flush of active youth, were the late Rev. Dr. Sim-
eon H. Calhoun, the well-known missionary to Syria, and the late William
Hyde of Ware. Those three men filled large places in life, and it is
worthy of mention that, on the same day when they, with scores of other
young people, united with the First Church on confession of faith, the
late Deacon George Merriam, of fragrant memory for his long and useful
Christian life, together with his wife, was admitted to membership by
letter from West Brookfield.

The death of a man like Major Ingersoll always comes too soon, and
as a sad surprise. But there is much to be grateful for in his long and
beneficent life which had almost reached fourscore.

[From the Springfield Daily Bepuhlican, January 29, 1891.]

Major Edward Ingersoll, for forty-two years identified with the admin-
istration of our National Armory as storekeeper and paymaster, died
yesterday morning at his home, 69 Maple Street. He had been in failing
health some time, and Sunday afternoon he took his usual nap, but never
awoke to full consciousness. Death was due to a spinal trouble which
had afiected Major Ingersoll's limbs for some time, although he was quite
recently able to drive out. The family gathering, Christmas day, at the house
of Mr. James C. Ingersoll, was the last time Major Ingersoll was called
away from home, but he rallied on that occasion and seemed in unusually
bright spirits. The death of Major Ingersoll removes one of the most
conspicuous of Springfield's older citizens, a man of sterling principles
and conscientious devotion to duty, whose nature was warmed by a sunny
and hopeful disposition. In the ordnance department he proved an indus-
trious and painstaking officer, conscientious in work that involved patient
dealing with details. Some idea of the responsibility involved can be
gained by the fact that he disbursed over $100,000,000 during his long
service. Strong religious principles governed his life, and he sought
opportunities for infiuencing others through the church and other organiza-
tions, and by personal eff"ort. A love for nature led him into landscape
gardening, and the beautiful elms on Court Square, as well as the trees
that line the avenues on the armory grounds, will stand in his memory.
The dell in " Ingersoll Grove " was the object of his special care, however,
and there his fancy wrought out winding paths, and he planted trees,
which sometime he hoped would shade the home where he would pass
his leisure days, an ambition that was never gratified. Personally, Major

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Ingersoll was a picturesque figure. Tall and slender, he had finely cut
features, an expressive mouth, and penetrating blue eyes that were shaded
by heavy white brows when he was serious, and twinkled as he laughed,
his face blushing to the ears in fits of merriment. He enjoyed a joke, and
would thrust home a retort with his long tapering fingers, or pointing at
his listener with a cane. Carefully brushed out side whiskers, high on the
cheek, added to the striking individuality of the face. While most strict
in his adherence to Puritan principles, Major Ingersoll was always a
Christian gentleman. He was an ardent prohibitionist, and one of his
last talks with his old friend, Homer Foot, illustrated this quality as well
as his ready replies. Colonel Foot remarked that he had lived to be still
older than Major Ingersoll, and was in just as good health, but had not
been a total abstainer. "That's all right," replied Major Ingersoll,
"there 's a man up at the armory who was shot through the body, and is
yet able to be about ; you would not advise everybody to be shot because
one escaped, would you? "

In about 1835 Major Ingersoll formed a partnership with his brother
John, and removed to Savannah, Ga. The business in Savannah did not
continue to prosper, and, in consequence, Major Ingersoll returned to
Springfield.

Soon after his return, Congress had decided to restore the armory here
to military rule ; and as Major Ingersoll had a wide military acquaintance,
he saw the opportunity for nppointment with the new force soon to be
selected. Colonel Ripley had then been selected as commanding ofiicer at
the armory, and Major Ingersoll started for Washington backed with
abundant credentials. It was in April, 1841, and he reached the capital
just after the death of President Harrison. The department buildings
were closed and there was general confusion, so that Major Ingersoll
walked about the streets discouraged. He finally decided to leave his
papers, and hunted up a clerk in the department. Major Ingersoll had
arranged his papers carefully, indexed the references, and had his petition
so systematically prepared that the ch rk seemed to be pleased, and asked
Secretary Bell for an interview, which was granted. "This looks busi-
ness-like," was Mr. Bell's remark, as he glanced over the documents, and
Major Ingersoll returned much encouraged. Colonel Ripley received his
commission in April, and in May following came Major lugersoll's
appointment as militai'y storekeeper.

Few, living now, can realize the circumstances under which Major
Ingersoll entered upon his duties. There was the bitterest opposition to
the military rule, which was denounced as a secret society in the '• Masonic
mysteries initiated at West Point." Colonel Ripley was hanged in efligy,
and finally a committee of armorers went to Congress with a protest
against his administration. Under the lax civilian rule, armorers had been
able to take profitable jobs, work a part of the year, and lock up their
tools and gun parts for long vacations. The straightening out of these
abuses resulted in the most hostile demonstration; nnd Colonel Ripley was
tried by a board of officers on charges preferred by the citizens, but he

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was acquitted aud carried out his reforms. An instance of the unpopu-
lar! tj^ of the new regime was shown in the " Stearns riot," when Charles
Stearns, who cliampioned the cause of the civilan rule, attempted to liold
Prospect Street against government invasion, and was finally ordered off
with his men by Major Ingersoll. The bitterness wore away, however,
and Major Ingersoll did his part in the reconstruction. The armory
grounds were then a sandy waste, covered with blackberry bushes and
other shrubbery. Beside the officers' quarters, the principal buildings
were those which have since been reconstructed into the structure at the
east end of the old grounds. Major Ingersoll saw the possibility of im-
provement, and with his own hand guided the ox team which plouglied up
the rough land, which was succeeded by terraces, artistic driveways, and
rows of beautiful trees. He was an early riser, and was accustomed to
stroll over the grounds before work hours, planning improvements, which
lie was able to carry out in liis long service there. An ornamental iron
fence was wanted, and when the department objected to the expense, Major
Ingersoll suggested that the old iron cannon, which were being replaced
by brass Napoleons, and other condemned ordnance be collected and cast
over into a fence. The plan was carried out economically, and the
grounds were soon securely fenced in. Most of the trees on the grounds
were planted by Major IngeisoU's own hands, and the beauties of the
reconstructed spot will always remain a memorial to his artistic taste and
tireless energy.

When the Civil War broke out, the office of storekeeper became one
of the most important at the local post. Not only were the buildings
enlarged, and the force increased so as to work night and dny, but the
old muzzle-loaders had to be replaced with modern breech-loading rifles.
The study was to send out arms as rapidly as possible, and on this
arsenal fell the bulk of the burden. Major Ingersoll then had at least a
dozen assistants and clerks, and all were kept busy accounting for the
government property going to the front and coming in as regiments
disbanded. There were over three thousand workmen employed then
and $200,000 was disbursed through Major lugersoll's office on the
monthly pay-day. General James S. Whitney, who followed closely on
Colonel Ripley's retirement as commanding officer, in 1854, was relieved
when the war broke out by Major A. B. Dyer, who served until October,
1864, when Colonel Laidley was appointed, and carried the institution
through until the close of the war. Early in 186fi Colonel Benton
assumed command, and it was during his administration that an effort was
made to secure recognition for the important service Major Ingersoll per-
formed. A bill was introduced in Congress conferring on the storekeeper
at the Springfield Armory the rank and emoluments of a major of cavalry,
and, although opposed by many army officers, it wns championed by
Ex-Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, and became a law July 28,
18G6. It was urged that the storekeeper here had to provide f50,000
bonds, and that his duties were much greater than those of other
officials holding similar positions. Other storekeepers received the rank

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-of captain by the same act, however. The only direct hostility to Major
IngersoU, after the feeling over the military regime died out, was over
his course in protecting armorers from pledging their wages to saloon-
keepers. His strong temperance principles did much toward his decis-
ion to break up this custom, and he refused to recognize assignments of
wages to liquor dealers. This raised a storm, and eflforts were made to
secure his removal to another post. Major IngersoU made a trip to
Washington, and was wont to recall with no little pleasure his interview
with Secretary Marcy. Mr. Marcy faced him sternly and asked him if
the charges against him were true ; and when Major IngersoU, with some
misgivings about his official head, admitted that they were, the Secretary
of War grimly said, " Go back to your work, you are just the man I want
in that place." The Act of 1882, requiring retirement of army officers at
sixty-four, relieved Major IngersoU of active duty July 1 of that year,
with three-fourths pay, and he had since lived in the Barnes house, on
Maple Street.

Few among the older residents carried such a fund of reminiscences ;
and Major IngersoU's memory was freely called upon by writers of arti-
cles touching the history of Springfield. His recollections were not only
accurate, but they were accompanied with anecdotes that gave them rare
flavor. He was one of the few men who carried out the resolution to
keep a diary, and the volumes he left, with incidents jotted down each
day, will prove a treasure if they are given into the custody of such an
organization as the Connecticut Valley Historical Society. His recollec-
tions began with very early life, and he often told how he watched the
parade when President Monroe addressed the company, standing under
the old elm on the southeast corner of Court Square, which then threw
shadows over the old tavern behind. The trees in the city were his
pride, and he knew the history of each conspicuous elm. He early had
a taste for landscape gardening, and when a lad sixteen years old he
circulated a paper for subscriptions with which to buy the elms that
now grace Court Square. In the planting of all these, with the excep-
tion of the two older ones on the noi'th and southeast corners. Major
IngersoU was concerned, and he watched their growth with no little anxi-
•ety and interest. One of his war-time stories was concerning the visit of
Blaine to secure rifles for a regiment. Mr. Blaine started to look over
the armory grounds before breakfast, and found Major IngersoU busied
with his favorite occupation of planting trees. Mr. Blaine made known
his errand, and urged the greatest haste. He wanted one thousand rifles,
and must have them in two weeks if possible. "What time are you
going back ? " asked Major IngersoU ; and Mr. Blaine told him the hour of
•an evening train. "We can make the guns to-day, and ship them
to-night," said Major IngersoU, much to the amazement of Maine's rising
politician, who had little idea of the armory's capacity. One of Major
IngersoU's interesting recollections was that of seeing the hand-press
on which the Weeldy Republican was first printed, in 1824, drawn ui) Elm

76 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Street from the river on an ox- sled. The press was transported from
Hartford by boat on the river.

The home life of Major Ingersoll has been a most happy one. Many
older residents remember the hospitalities enjoyed with him in the house
that used to stand just south of the west arsenal building, where the
fountain now plays. The golden wedding anniversary of Major and
Mrs. Ingersoll was celebrated at the Maple Street residence October 29,
1884, and was a notable occasion. Among the guests were Thomas
Bond and Daniel Ripley, of New York City, who were the groomsmen at
the ceremony fifty years before. A congratulatory cable message came
from William E. Ingersoll, of Paris, the European manager of the New
York Life Insurance Company. All the other children were present, —
James C. Ingersoll, who has been emploj^ed at the armory nearly twenty
years; Caroline P., wife of Richard S. Ely, of New York City; Isabella,
wife of George E. Wilder, of Boston ; John M., who died at Haddami
Conn., a year after, and Harriet J., the wife of Charles P. H. Ripley, of
New York City, but who has lived at the Ingersoll Homestead for some
years, and relieved her aged mother of many cares and responsibilities.
Her son, Lieutenant Charles S. Ripley, then an ensign in the navy, had
returned from a long cruise just in time to enjoy the festivities. Major
Ingersoll wore his army uniform, a costume reserved for state occasions,
and received warm congratulations from many friends.

In his religious life. Major Ingersoll's influence left its impress on the
community. His activity began early in life, when with the late Simeon
H. Calhoun, the revered missionary of Mt. Lebanon, he joined the First
Church. The bond of sympathy between these two men continued
through life, and their relationship was of the warmest and most sympa-
thetic nature. When the South Church was set off, in 1842, Major Inger-
soll was one of the charter members, but he soon transferred his mem-
bership to the Olivet Church, where he was a pillar the rest of his life. He
was Superintendent of the Sunday school for many years, and, until com-
pelled to retire by failing health, he taught a large Bible class. His inter-
est was by no means confined to the Olivet Church, for he was active in the
promotion of new parishes, and was a frequent speaker at union meetings.
When the Moody revival set vices were held in the City Hall, he was chairman
of the committee of arrangements, and his executive ability was recog-
nized in the successful conduct of the gathei'ings. When the Olivet Church
was remodelled, he was a member of the building committee, and it was
his idea that the vestry should be conspicuous from the street. " Let the
people see what we are doing," he said; "the saloons attract from the
street, why should not the prayer meeting ? " He was interested in the
Young Men's Christian Association movements, and especially active in
the Railroad Association, where he was a director. He often worked
personally with people over their spiritual welfare, but used tact in pre-
senting the subject, and at least won the respect of the man he was inter-
ested in. His work in public enterprises was chiefly confined to the
soldiers' fairs, but he was president of the famous fair of 18G4, and.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 77

later, of the loan exhibition for the Grand Army, in 1879. On both occa-
sions he displayed remarkable energy, which resulted in success. When
a difficult problem was presented he was accustomed to think it over, and
if the course was desirable, he would quietly say, " We can do it some-
how, if we want to."

HEADQUARTERS

E. K. WILCOX POST 16,

G. A. E.

Department of Massachusetts.

Major Edward Ingersoll, U. S. Army:

At a regular meeting held June 11, 1879, Wilcox Post 16, G. A. R.,
appointed the undersigned a committee to convey to you their sincere and
hearty thanks for the untiring efforts and zeal displayed by you as Presi-
dent of the Loan ExMhition held in this city, April, 1879, and, by which,
said exhibition was rendered a complete success, and the Post enabled
thereby to add largely to their relief fund, now held sacred for the benefit
of the destitute and deserving comrades and their widows and orphans.

The members of the Post will ever treasure the recollection of your
noble work.

Springfield, Massachusetts,

July 23, 1879.

[signed] C. C. BURDETT.
E. D. CAPRON.
J. L. KNIGHT.

Harriet Jencks Child, daughter of the Hono);able
William Child, of Springfield, Mass., was born in Spring-
field, July 29, 1815.

Mrs. Harriet Ingersoll survives her husband and resides
in Springfield, where she has always lived, and is, by her
cheerful and patient Christian character, a constant benedic-
tion to her children and her grandchildren.

In consequence of an unsuccessful operation which was
performed in February, 1883, for the removal of cataracts,
Mrs. Ingersoll has since been totally blind.

She is a descendant of Jeremiah Child in the seventh
generation, who was of the same family as Sir Francis Child,
the Lord Mayor of London in 1699, and Sir Josiah Child,
who, when President of the Court of Governors of the

78 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Honorable East India Company, founded the cities of Cal-
cutta and Bombay, and formed the nucleus of the present
British Indian Empire.

On the records of the College of Arms, in England, may
be found eleven Coats of Arms, which at various times have
been granted to members of this family.

The origin of the surname of Child is said to have been Hildr, of Norse
Mythology and Sagas ; in the latter it is frequently found embodied in
names, as Kreim/n7cZ, Bryn/w'M, of the Nibelungen Lied, and mention of
Childe is first used as a title for a king when Ildica married Gishelder, the
King of Burgundy.

" This done, with gentle gesture, the damsel meek and mild,
By the hand yet trembling, took Gishelder, the Childe."

The Goths carried the title to Spain as Hild£a.ns, which southern influ-
ence turned into Alfonso. From being a kingly title, Childe became the
cognomen of the heirs of kings and the eldest of noble families, and
finally a surname, and a noun denoting offspring of either sex.

THE CHILD ANCESTRY.

I. Jeremiah Child, born in 1645, became a resident of
Swansea, Mass., and was a man of considerable prominence
in the colony. By his wife, Martha, three children were born.

II. John Child, his eldest son, was born in Swansea,
Mass., in 1672, and married Margery Howard about 1692.
By his wife, Margery, eleven children were born in Swansea.
He died January 16, 1739, leaving an estate of considerable
value to his heirs.

III. James Child, his second son, was born September
5, 1708, and married, June 3, 1729, Sarah Haile, a daughter
of Bernard and Abigail Haile. He removed to Warren,
R. I., and there began housekeeping February 10, 1730.
He died February 10, 1738, aged 30. By his wife, Sarah,
six children were born in Warren, R. I.

IV. James Child, his 3'oungest son, was born "on Sab-
bath morning, the sun one hour high," September 3, 1738.
He married Hannah Kelley, about 1760, and removed to

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Higo-anum, Conn., about 1765, where he continued to reside
until his death, which occurred March 2, 1817. His wife,
Hannah, died the same day. There were twelve children.

V. James Kelley Child, his eldest son, was born in
Warren, R. I., August 30, 1763. He resided in Higganum,
and was married three times. His wives were Prudence
Brainard, Jane Brainard, and Amelia Crane. By his first
wife. Prudence, eleven children were born.

VI. Honorable William Child, his eldest son, was born
in Higganum, January 7, 1788, and married Ann Clarke, of
Utica, N. y. He resided in Springfield, Mass., and was a
member of the Legislature from that place. He died in
Springfield, June 27, 1847, aged 59. His wife, Ann, died
in Springfield, April 20, 1846, aged 58. Four children were
born, the eldest in Windsor, Conn., and the three youngest
in Springfield, Mass.

I. Cynthia Ann, born November 12, 1813. Married, June 6,

1838, Henry Brewer, of Springfield, Mass.
II, Harriet Jencks, born July 29, 1815. Married, October 29,
1834, Edward IngersoU, of Springfield, Mass.

III. James Kelly, born April 19, 1817. Married, September 16,

1856, Laura E. Dewey, of Palmer, Mass.

IV. William Clark, born April 13, 1820. Married, September 8,

1815, Martha Emily Dewey, of Palmer, Mass.

VII. Martha Ann Ingersoll was born in Springfield,
Mass., March 15, 1815, and married Joseph Washburn, of
Savannah, Ga., September 30, 1841. Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Washburn resided in Savannah, and three children
were there born : —

I. IngersoU, born September 24, 1842. Married, March 9,
1871, Anne Clay, of Savannah, Ga. Children: (1)
Ingersoll, born March 26, 1872 ; (2) Emma Habersham,
born July 18, 1874 ; (3) Willis McAlister, born January
16, 1876, and died in infancy; (4) Edward Emory, born
August 31, 1877; (5) Evelyn, born January 18, 1884, and
died in infancy; (6) Matilda, born February 18, 1888.

^0 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

II. Frederica, born August 31, 1844, Married, March 15,
1«64, Robert M. Wade. Children : (1) Peyton Lisby, born
January 9, 1865; (2) Eugene Washburn, borii November
1, 1867; (3) Edward lugersoll, born September 24, 1869;
(4) Rosalie, born November 23, 1871 ; (5) Robert Maner,
November 17, 1876; (6) Frederick Habersham, born
November 5, 1879; (7) Georgiana, born October 17, 1884.
III. Edward Davis, born January 13, 1848. Presbyterian min-
ister. Married, October 26, 1881, in Martinsburg, W.
Va., Jane Cary Harrison, of same place. Children : (1)
Edward Davis, born December 29, .1884; (2) Peyton
Randolph Harrison, born Januai*y 10, 1887; (3) Edmund
Emory, born June 21, 1889; (4) Sarah Hunter, born
October 19, 1891, and died July 30, 1892.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Washburn both died in Savannah •
Mrs. Washburn, February 21, 1853, and Mr. Washburn,
February 24, 1862, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.

^From the Norwich Courier of March 12, 1853.'\

Died, in Savannah, Ga., on Monday, February 21, Martha, wife of
Mr. Joseph Washburn, of that city, and youngest daughter of the late
John Ingersoll, Esq., of Springfield, Mass.

As the eye of friend after friend glances over this short record of the
passing away from earth of one loved and cherished in many hearts,
memory will busily recall all those graces of person and those more
endearing attractions of character that marked the departed.

To some, she will bring the recollection of the fair child, cherished as
the youngest and choicest treasure of an harmonious family circle; to
others, the beautiful maiden, admired and beloved; to others will come
recollections of the happy and active wife and mother, the intelligent and
sympathizing friend; and still again, there are those in whose hearts £^11
fond remembrances will be absorbed in the thought of the dying Christian.

In every relation of life, she was faithful. Naturally reserved and
timid, so quietly and calmly did she perform each day her daily duties,
that few even of her best friends knew how strong were the affections of
her heart, how deep her interest in those slae loved, or how resolute her
purposes of life. Self-distrusting, conscientious, and truthful, fearing
lest she might mistake the natural impulses of an amiable heart for the
graces of God's spirit, she often doubted her right to the Christian's hopes,
but never, for an hour, did she waver in her Christian walk or doubt God's
right to her services, her heart, her life. In her youth, she consecrated
that life to Him, and when called to resign health and activity, she mur-
mured not; the sorrowful farewell to friends, even the pangs of dissolu-
tion brought no questioning of God's goodness. Meek, humble obedience

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 81

to His will had been the rule of her life ; so in the hour of her death, if
His hand led her, she could cheerfully, calmly walk through the dark
valley, and though sufl'fering, could say with her last breath, "^e makes
death easy to me."

Thus has she fallen asleep in Jesus, bearing testimony to the truth of
God's promise, " As thy day is so shall thy strength be."

82 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

VII.

SEVENTH GENERATION.

CHILDREN OF JOHN INGERSOLL BY HIS WIFE,
SARAH COIT BOSWELL INGERSOLL.

I. Julia West Ingersoll was born in Savannah, Ga.,
September 26, 1836. At the age of two years she began
attending a little private school where the scholars were all
so very young that their nurses were obliged to accompany
them to and from the school. When six years old she
entered the "Academy," on Broad Street, — the Eev. Mr.
White was then the principal. When eight years old the
family removed to Woodstock, Fla., and there she was
placed under the tuition of her uncle, the Rev. A. H. Hand.
Her parents, not feeling satisfied with the limited educational
advantages which that section of the country afforded,
decided to send her North to attend school. In May, 1846,
at the age of ten years, she arrived in Norwich, Conn., and
entered the " Norwich Academy," then under the charge of
Dr. and Mrs. Webster. While in Norwich she resided with
her Aunt Mary Hooker* In 1848, her parents removed to
Springfield, Mass., and there she attended a private school
for a time. A year later, her aunt, Miss Jane Ingersoll,
opened her young ladies' boarding-school in Norwich, and
Miss Julia became one of her scholars. In the fall of 1852,
she returned to Springfield, and in the following spring re-
moved with the family to Fall River, Mass., and there united,
upon confession, with the Central Congregational Church, of
which the Rev. Eli Thurston was the pastor.

She was married in Fall River, November 14, 1854, to
William Thomas Coggeshall, son of William Coggeshall,
cashier of the Fall River Union Bank. The Rev. Eli Thurs-
ton performed the ceremony assisted by the Rev. Thatcher

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 83

Thayer, of Newport, a former tutor to Mr. Coggeshall. At
the time of this marriage. Miss Ingersoll was but eighteen
years of age.

Twelve children have been born : —

I. Mary Ingersoll, born in Fall Eiver, Mass., December 24,

1855.
II. John Ingersoll, born in Fall Elver, Mass., October 9, 1857
Married in Lowell, Mass., September 7, 1881, Mary E.
Lavelle. A daughter, Edith, was born in Lowell, Novem-
ber 4, 1882.

III. Marianna Wardwell, born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., August

15, 1859, and died in Washington, D. C, August 28, 1865.

IV. Julia Ingersoll, born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., August 28,

1861, and died in Springfield, Mass., March 25, 1866.

V. Elizabeth Coit, born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 1, 1863.

Married, November 4, 1890, Frederick Colton Shepard.

A son, Lawrence Ingersoll, was born September 1, 1891.

VI. William, born in Washington, D. C, March 12, 1865, and

died in July of same year.
VII. William, born in Franklin Furnace, N. J., September 7,
1866. Married in Auburndale, Mass., June 12, 1891, Grace
Helena, only daughter of Judge H. H. Mather.
VIII. Ralph Fales, born in Franklin Furnace, N. J., December
23, 1867.
IX. George Ingersoll, born in Hamburg, N. J., July 28, 1869,

and died in August of same year.
X. Susan Almy, born in Hamburg, N. J., October 6, 1871.
XI. Evelyn Church, born in Hamburg, N. J., March 8, 1873.
XII. Hooker Ingersoll, born in Auburndale, Mass., September 6,
1875.

In the spring of 1858, Mr. Coggeshall and family removed
from Fall River to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where they resided
until 1863, when they removed to Beltsville, Prince George
County, Maryland. In 1864, when General Early raided
Maryland, the attack upon the railroad train was made from
the " Beltsville Farm," the Coggeshall home. Communica-
tion was cut off entirely between Washington and Baltimore,
and for three days the raiders had possession. Warnings
were sent to the family " to leave their house," as the raiders
had threatened "to burn or destroy the home of every
Yankee." During this "reign of terror" the family were

84 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

protected by a " Secesh " neighbor, in wliose house they
found refuge.

In 1865, the faruily returned to Massachusetts, and in the
following year removed to New Jersey. In 1872, after the
death of Mr. Coggeshali's mother, they returned to Massa-
chusetts, and in this State have since continued to reside.

THE COGGESHALL ANCESTRY.

I. John Coggeshall, born in England in 1581, came to this
country in the ship " Lyon," in 1632, and settled in Salem,
but soon moved to Boston, and was a representative to
the General Court for several years. He afterwards
removed to Rhode Island, and was the first president of
that colony. He died in 1649.
II. John Coggeshall, his son, was born in England, in 1618,
and died in Newport, R. I., in 1708.

III. John Coggeshall, his son, was born in Portsmouth, R. I.,

February 12, 1649, and died November 7, 1701.

IV. William Coggeshall, his son. was born in Portsmouth, R. j.,

September 7, 1677, and died in Bristol, R. I., November
2, 1752.
V. Newby Coggeshall, his son, was born in Bristol, R. I.,

August 26, 1719, and died in 1814.
VI. William Coggeshall, his son, was born in Bristol, R. I., in
1758, and died in 1823. He was one of the largest land
holders in Rhode Island.
VII. William Coggeshall, his sou, was born in Bristol, R. I., in
1797, married Mary Ann Wardwell, and died in Fall
River, Mass., in 1860.
VIII. William Thomas Coggeshall, his son, was born in Bristol,
R. I., June 7, 1826.

THE WARDWELLS AND THE HOWLANDS.
{Written by Hon. W. T. C. Wardwell, of Bristol, B. I.)

The Wardwells have always been leading people of the town (Bristol)
and State (R. I.) since 1680, the first settlement of the place. Uzel Ward-
well first came to Bristol, or was here at its settlement, in 1680. He came
from Massachusetts. The Wardwells intermarried with the Howlands,
whose ancestors came over in the "Mayflower," and the present Ward-
wells are descended from this union of the two families.

John Wardwell married Phoebe Howland in 1741. William Wardwell
married Mary Howland in 1742. Stephen Wardwell married Mehitable
Howland in 1746, and John Howland married Martha Wardwell in 1736.
These Howland children were the daughters and son of Jabez Howland who

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 85

was born in 1662 and died in 1732, as Ms gravestone shows. He was a
grandson of the Howland who came over in the "Mayflower." William
Thomas Coggeshall's grandmother Wardwell was a Church, a descend-
ant of the Captain Cliurch of "King Philip" fame, and who also was
one of the pioneers of our town in 1680.

II. Elizabeth Coit Ingersoll was born in Savannah,
Oa., February 15, 1839. At eight years of age she was
sent to Norwich, Conn., to attend Miss Coit's school, and
resided with her aunt, Mrs. Dr. Hooker, under whose care
she was placed. She afterwards attended school in Spring-
field, Mass., for a number of years. Her teachers were
Eev. A. H. Hand, Mr. Chester Chaffee, Miss Bliss, and
Mr. Strong. For a short time she was a scholar in a young
ladies' school in New Haven, Conn., conducted by the Rev.
Mr. Hutchings. Her education was completed at Mrs.
Lee's school in Pittsfield, Mass. Soon after leavinof school
she had a very narrow escape from drowning by the capsizr
ing of a sail boat in Narragansett Bay.

On November 14, 1861, she was married to John Rigby
Gill, in Springfield, Mass. The officiating clergyman was
the Rev. W. W. Woodworth, of the Olivet Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Gill settled on a farm four miles south from
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In the following year Mrs. Gill united
with the First Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie.

Five daughters were born to them : —

I. Sarah, born March 14, 1863, and died May 2, same year.
II. Susie Maria, born December 5, 1864. Married September
24, 1891, Charles Van Winkle. A daughter, Charlotte,
was born July 3, 1892.

III. Wilhemina^Rigby, born February 9, 1867. Married August

1, 1888, Theodore A. Rose.

IV. Georgianna Boswell, born Januarj^ 9, 1869.
V. Elizabeth Ingersoll, born March 23, 1871.

Note. — Mrs. Gill is in possession of a pair of plates which she care-
fully preserves as an heirloom. They were presented to her on the day of
her marriage by her grandmother, Elizabeth Martin Ingersoll. These
same plates had belonged to her great-grandmother, Margaret Moseley
Ingersoll, over a century ago.

86 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Mr. Gill died in Poughkeepsie, March 23, 1872, and after
his death, Mrs. Gill removed to South Framinghara, Mass.,
where she intended to educate her four little girls. From
there she removed to Hamburg, N. J., and in 1880, to
Hackensack, N. J., on account of the better educational
institutions. In the latter place she continued to reside until
her youngest daughter graduated and her second daughter
married. She then removed to Garfield, N. J., and there
resided three years. In Garfield, her eldest daughter was
married, wearing, upon the occasion, a dress which on a
similar occasion was worn by her fother's grandmother, one
hundred and nine years before. After this marriage (1891),
Mrs. Gill removed to High wood, N. J., where she has con-
tinued to reside. For a number of years she has been con-
nected with the Catholic Apostolic Church of New York,
N. Y.

THE GILL HOMESTEAD.

(^Written by M-RS. Elizabeth Coit Ingersoli. Gill.)

The old house on the Hudson, at Milton Ferry, four miles south from
Poughkeepsie, in which my husband was born and in which he lived up to
the time of his marriage, has been in possession of the family for over
one hundred years. During the Revolutionary War, when the British
landed to burn the mill and other buildings, this house was saved through
the intercession of one of the servants — Old Mamm Dinah. This faith-
ful old soul could not be persuaded to leave the premises, and upon the
arrival of the British set before them her Saturday's baking, and begged
the officer in charge not to burn the house. The house was spared, but
not until after much arguing and pleading. As the ships sailed away,
however, a few musket shots were fired, and the bullet holes may still be
seen in some of the barns.

ANCESTRY OP JOHN RIGBY GILL.

I. Peter Willemse Eoome, married November 26, 1684, Hester

Van Gilder. Ten children.
II. Hester, the eighth child, born February 9, 1701, married
Mr. Elsworth, and after his death, Nicholas Anthony,,
March 16, 1733. Five children.
III. Theophilus Anthony, the second child, born August 26^
1735, married June 28, 1759, Williraintje Vrcdenburg.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 87

IV. Willielmina, their only child, born April 15, 1761, married
April 2, 1783, Kobert Gill, an Englishman residing at
Milton Ferry. Six children.
V. Thomas, the eldest child, born November 30, 1785, married
Maria Cronkright, in 1810. Seven children.

VI. John Rigby, the third child, was born June 25, 1815.

III. George Huntington Ingersoll was born in Savan-
nah, Ga., February 3, 1841. He was a scholar of great
ability and promise and, in his studies, was always in advance
of others of his age. When but seventeen years old, his
father died, and he was obliged to leave school and seek a
remunerative position. He entered the employ of the Spring-
field Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and there remained
until May 7, 1862, about five years, when he resigned in order
to accept a government position at the National Armory.
In September of the same year he was transferred to the
War Department in Washington. In the civil service his
promotion was rapid. On April 3, 1863, he passed the
examination and was appointed as a clerk of " Class Two "
in the Ordnance Department. On October 10, 1863, he
was promoted to "Class Three," and on December 15, of
same year, to " Class Four," and a few days after was ap-
pointed the Chief Clerk of the Property Return Division.
He was then in his twenty-third year. At this time there
were employed in this division, nearly two thousand clerks.
On May 3, 1864, he was relieved from duty as Chief Clerk
of the Property Return Division and appointed for special
duty in the Executive Division.

{Extract from Department Orders of May 3, 1864.)
"In relieving Mr. Ingersoll from this duty, the Department desires to
express its appreciation of the ability which he has shown in carrying out
the system of accountability introduced into this Division of the Ordnance
Office, and of the faithful manner in which the duties of his office have
been discharged."

The following, from the "Quarterly Report of Returns,
Letters and Reports received. Letters written, Returns ex-
amined, etc., in the Property Return Division, Ordnance

88 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

Office, for the Quarter ending March 31, 1.864," will serve
to show the mao-uitude of Mr. Ino-ersoll's work : —

Reports, Returns and Letters received .... 47,862

Letters sent out 43,516

Returns examined 18,138

Letters and Reports endorsed 44,503

Returns endorsed 23,125

Letters, Reports and Returns registered by name . . 41,661

Returns registered by Co., Reg't, Corps or Post . . 50,593

Miscellaneous 2,810

In consequence of this continuous and most arduous work,
Mr. IngersoH's health gave out, and lie was obliged to resign.
His resignation was accepted by the Secretary of War,
August 9, 1864.

Letters from Chief of Ordnance and his Principal Assis-
tant : —

Ordnance Office.

War Department,

Washington, August 9, 1864.
Mr. G. H. Ingersoll,

Ordnance Office :
Sir, — I have to inform you tliat the Secretary of War has accepted
your resignation of the Clerkship of Class Four, held by you in this office,
to take effect this day.

You have been entrusted with important duties since you have been
in this office, vphich, so far as they have come under my notice, you have
discharged with ability, and I can but hope that your change of avocation
may soon restore you to health.
Very respectfully.

Your Obt. Servt.,

GEO. D. RAMSEY,

Brig. Gen. Chief Ord.

Ordnance Office.

War Department,

Washington, August 9, 1864.
Mr. G. H. Ingeksoll :

Dear Sir, — It is with much regret that I learn to-day of your resig-
nation of your position as a Fourth-Class Clerk in this office.

During the whole course of your employment in this Bureau, a period
of nearly two years, the manner in which you have discliarged the multifa-
rious and ofttimes very difficult duties assigned you, has met with my
entire approval, and I should do you injustice if I did not acknowledge the

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 89

careful and yet energetic manner in which you have carried out the official
instructions given you from time to lime, and the order, method and in-
dustry you have uniformly introduced in every division of the office in
which you have been on duty.

In the labor of reorganizing the business of this office I owe much to
your hearty co-operation and business talent, and I do not hesitate to say,
that but for your efforts and the manner in which you seconded my aim in
the arrangement of the duties of the Property Return Division, it would
have been impossible to have attained the beneficial results growing out
•of that reorganization in anything like the time in which it was accom-
plished.

Hoping that you will soon find a suitable field for your energy, business
talent and capacity, and commending you for the integrity and faithful
performance of duty which has characterized your course here,
I remain,

Truly your friend,

GEO. T. BALCH,

Captain of Ordnance.

In January of 1865, Mr. Ingersoll was appointed a recruit-
ins: ao-ent for tiie State of Connecticut. Tlie followina; is a
<3opy of his appointment : —

WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief nsr and over the State of
Connecticut.

To George H. Ingersoll, Esquire, of Washington, D. C,
Greeting :
Reposing special trust and confidence in your skill and integrity, I do,
by virtue of the statute and regulations of the War Department, me there-
unto enabling, appoint you a Recruiting Agent, for the State of
Connecticut, to procure enlistments in the Department of North East
Virginia for the credit of Connecticut, with full authority to exercise the
powers and perform the duties incident to said office, until this appoint-
ment shall be revoked. You will in all your actions be governed by the
laws of the United States, and the regulations of the War Department, and
obey all orders you shall receive from this Department or by direction of
the same.

In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand,
and seal of the Executive Department, at Norwich, in
said State, on this the twelfth day of January in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five,
and of the Independence of the United States of America
the eighty-ninth.
By his Excellency's Command, WM. A. BUCKINGHAM.

H. J. MORSE, Adjutant- General.

90 THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

After the war, Mr. Ingersoll became connected with the
Atlantic and Great Western Railway, and established his
headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. While residing in that city
he married, in 1866, Miss Sallie May Beechler, of same city.
After his marriage he removed to Kansas City, and in 1868
came East with his wife. For a time he resided in Hamburg,
N. J., but, becoming interested in the management of the
Coleman House, on Broadway, New York city, and in that of
the West End Hotel at Long Branch, N. J., he finally settled
in New York city. In 1872, upon the organization of the
Twenty-Third Street Railway Company, he was chosen its sec-
retary. The construction of the road had been going on for
some time without office organization, and the accounts were
in D-reat confusion. Mr. Ino-ersoll soon introduced order and
discipline, and subsequently the management of the road de-
volved very much upon him. The road constantly increased its
mileage by construction and by the absorption of other
roads. This increase caused continued enlargement of all
arrangements. On one such occasion, when changes were
being made in his private office, and during a severe storm
when the temperature was suddenly lowered, he was seized
with a chill, which was the beginning of pneumonia. In
August of 1882, he was carried to Hamburg in a very criti-
cal condition, a special Pullman car having been secured to
enable him to make the journey. He never fully recovered
his strength, and after a struggle of eight and a half months,
he died, January 30, 1883. His body was buried in the
cemetery of Warwick, N. Y., a place of his own selection.

Mr. Ingersoll was a man of great ability, and inherited
the courteous disposition and conscientious character of his
father. As an organizer, he was most successful, and he
left a reputation which, for integrity, none can excel.
Thorough and exact in his w^ork, a beautiful penman, and
scrupulously neat, he set an example to those who came
under his control which instilled in them a desire to render
faithful service and to try to emulate him. He was a very

THE INGERSOLLS OE HAMPSHIRE. 91

early riser, and for a Dumber of years it had been his habit
to be at his office at six o'clock in the morning. His work
■was usually concluded by one o'clock, and the remainder of
the day he devoted to pleasure. He was somewhat of a
sportsman, was fond of gunning, and was an expert in "cast-
ing the fly." He was also very fond of horses, and owned
several very valuable ones.

Kesolutions op the Board of Directors of the Twenty-Third
Street Railway Company.

At a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Twenty-Third
Street Railway Company, held at their office February 13, 1883, the follow-
ing resolutions were unanimously adopted : —

Whereas, The President and Board of Directors of this Company have
met to record on their minutes their sense of loss at the decease of their
late Secretary, George H. lugersoll, who, from the original organization
of the Company, had been an earnest and unfaltering promoter of its
interests, faithful to the trusts reposed in him ;

Besolved, That the Board tender their sympathy to the family of the
deceased in their great affliction and bereavement, and that the Secretary
be instructed to convey to them a copy of this resolution.

[signed] JACOB SHARPS, President.
THOMAS H. McLean, Secretary.

lY. Harriet Boswell Ingersoll was born in Savan-
nah, Ga., September 20, 1843, and died October 15, 1847,
four years of age.

V. Susan Copeland Ingersoll was born in Wood-
stock, Fla., November 23, 1846. She was eighteen months
old when her parents removed to Springfield, Mass., and
six years of age when she was removed to Fall River, Mass.,
"where she remained until her thirteenth year, passing the
winters of 1855 and 1856 in Savannah, Ga. From her thir-
teenth year until the date of her marriage she resided almost
continually in Springfield. She attended school in Fall
River, Savannah, and Springfield. Her teachers were Miss
Lovell, Miss Seabury, Mr. Gordon, Mrs. Lee, and Mr.
Barrows. Her education was being completed at the
Springfield High School, when she was obliged to relinquish

92 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

her work on account of poor health. For a year or more
previous to her marriage she resided in Maryhmd, which
was then in a ver}'' unsettled condition on account of the
Civil War. She was in the hands of the rebel raiders at
Beltsville, when they cut communication between Washing-
ton and the North, and at another time she fell mto the
hands of a party of the enemy's cavalry, but was released
after a brief colloquy. She saw Burnside's entire corps on a
march from Annapolis to Washington and, with two other
young ladies, held an American flag as the troops passed,
and as each regiment filed by, the men loudly cheered the
"stars and stripes " and the three "Yankee girls."

In 1870 she united with the North Hardyston Church, in
Hamburg, and by letter with church in Wyckoff, in 1879,
church in Jersey City, in 1885, and church in Boonton, in
1888.

She married John Lovell Brown, in Springfield, Mass.,
November 14, 1865. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Buckingham
performed the ceremony.

Thirteen children have been born to them : —

I. Julia Ingersoll, born in Franklin Furnace, N. J., September
28, 1866. Married Samuel Davis, in Boonton, N. J.,
September 10, 1891.
II. John Hancock, born in Franklin Furnace, N. J., December
31, 1867. Married Elizabeth Hanan in Jersey City, N.
J., December 31, 1888. Children: (1) George IngersoU,
born in Jersey City, December 13, 1889, and died in
Boonton, N. J., July 15, 1890; (2) John Harold, born in
Norfolk, Neb., September 10, 1892.

III. William Eustis, born in Franklin Furnace, N. J., September

19, 1869, and died in same place, July 31, 1870.

IV. Emily Louise, born in Franklin Furnace, N. J., January 11,

1871.
V. Sarah IngersoU, born in Hamburg, N. J., July 1, 1873.
VI. Lucy Lovell, born in Hamburg, N. J., August 12, 1875.
VII. Lizzie GilL born in Hamburg, N. J., March 10, 1877.
VIII. Laura Lovell, born in Wortendyke, N. J., November 3,
1878, and died in Jersey City, N. J., October 26, 1887.
IX. Lucius Lovell, born in Wortendyke, N. J., September 7,
1880.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 93

X. George Huntington, born in Wortendyke, N. J., February

1, 1882. and died in Jersey City, N. J., October 22, 1887.
XI. Edward Ingersoll, born in "Wortendyke, N. J., September

13, 1883.
XII. McCarter, born in Wortendyke, N. J., December 26, 1884.
XIII. William Eustis, born in Jersey City, N. J., August 27, 1887.

THE BROAVN ANCESTRY.

I. John Brown, born September 29, 1780, married Lucy Cor-
bin, January 1, 1829. She was a daughter of Samuel
Corbin and Lucy Learned Corbin, and was born April 1,
1785, and died August 20, 1835. Her mother, Lucy
Learned, was a descendant, in the sixth generation, of
William Learned who died March 1, 1646.
II. John Hancock Brown, a son of John and Lucy Brown, was
born November 8, 1813, and married Lucy Berthia Lovell
March 29, 1842. He died May 19, 1881. His wife, Lucy,
born May 18, 1824, was a descendant, in the third gener-
ation, of Shubael Lovell, who was born in 1770. She
died September 20, 1878.
III. John Lovell Brown, their son, was born May 22, 1843.

VI. Sarah Boswell Ingersoll was born in Spring-
field, Mass., June 23, 1848. She attended select schools
in Fall River, the family having removed there when she
was young. In 1866 she removed with her mother and
family to New Jersey. She was married to Hugh Taylor
Lawrence, son of Hon. Thomas Lawrence, of Hamburg,
N. J., November 14, 1870. The marriage ceremony was
performed by the Rev. A. A. Haines, in the Presbyterian
church of Hamburg. This marriage was the first to take
place in this church, which had but shortly before been
dedicated. In 1871 she united with the Presbyterian church
on profession of faith. In a most quiet and unostentatious
way she has ever been ready to aid the sick and suffering
and to lighten every burden for others.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence continued to reside in Hamburg,
and there five children were born to them : —

I. Hattie May, born October 22, 1871, and died in Poughkeep-
sie, N. Y., July 12, 1872.
II. George Ingersoll, born June 13, 1874.

III. Catherine Morris, boi-n February 1 1 , 1876.

IV. Thomas, born August 28, 1879.

V. Hugh Taylor, Jr., born August 27, 1881.

94 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

"The Lawrence family are of English extraction. Thomas Lawrence,
the fifth of his name, having, in 1780, removed to Hamburg from Phila-
delphia, his birthplace, and settled upon an extensive estate, to the care
of which he devoted himself. He was also the first postmaster of Ham-
burg (1795). Thomas Lawrence, his son, the sixth of the name, was born
in Hamburg, in 1789, and spent his life on the ancestral property. He
died in 1851. The seventh of the family bearing the name of Thomas is
now the occupant of the homestead where he was born in 1814. He has
devoted himself to the improvement of his land, but has also engaged to
a limited extent in the labors incident to public life, having been since
1861 a Trustee of the State Normal School, and in 1870, a member of the
State Board of Education. He is, at the present time (1881), a member
of the State Senate from Sussex County." * — History of Sussex and War-
ren Counties, Nero Jersey.

yil. WoRTHiNGTON HooKER Ingersoll wqs bom in
Springfield, Mass., October 31, 1852. He married Harriet
Baker in Scranton, Pa., September 26, 1883. The clergy-
man performing the ceremony was the Rev. T. R. Beeber.

Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll reside in Hamburg, Sussex Co.,
N. J., where Mr. Ingersoll is engaged in business. He is
the proprietor of the Wallkill Roller Flour Mills, the
Hamburg Plaster Works, and a lumber and coal yard. For
many years he has served as chairman of the Township
Board of Registry and Elections, and for five years has been
chairman of the Town Committee and a member of the
School Board. Mr. Ingersoll is a Republican, and has
served several years as a delegate to the State Convention.
In the campaign of 1888 he was a member of the State
Executive Committee of the Republican League.

Two children have been born to them in Hamburg : —

I. Bessie Latham, born March 15, 1889.
II. Margaret Moseley, born December 1, 1892.

{Written by his sister, Mus. Julia West Coggeshall.)

Worthington Hooker Ingersoll was born in Springfield,
Mass., October 31, 1852. His sainted father died when he

* His grandson, the fourth child of Hugh Taylor Lawrence, is the
ninth bearing the family name of Thomas.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 95

•was but three years old, leaving to him the precious legacy of
his blessing and his benediction — a boon he has always
valued. From 1860 to 1866 he was a scholar in the public
schools of Springfield, and he always appreciated and made
the most of the opportunities offered. In May, 1866, he
removed, with his mother and sisters, to Franklin Furnace,
N. J., where he entered, as clerk, the general store of the
Boston Franklinite Company; later, in September, 1867,
be became a student at the Newton Collegiate Institute,
Newton, N. J., and afterwards entered the Linnwood Insti-
tute at Coytesville, N. J. In September, 1868, he went
to Wawayanda, Sussex County, N. J., to remain a year as
clerk in the store of Mr. George Hunt. In September,
1869, he returned to Franklin Furnace and was employed
as agent for the Sussex Railroad, then just completed, and as
assistant bookkeeper in the office of the Franklin Iron Co.,
and while connected with the latter company he had charge
of their lumber and coal yards. In October, 1871, he went
to Hamburg, three miles from Franklin Furnace, and entered
the employ of Beardslee & Brown. In 1872 he built his
present home, living there with his mother and youngest
married sister. In July, 1873, he formed a partnership
with John L. Brown and A. W. Cross, the firm being J. L.
Brown & Co. ; the business was general milling. In 1874
he sold out his interest in the firm and accepted a position
with James B. Davenport as bookkeeper and superintendent
of the Hamburg Paper Mills. In March, 1876, the mills
were closed and he went into the employ of the Wallkill
Cement and Lime Co., of Hamburg. In July, 1877, this
company failed, and he then began business for himself,
commencing in a small way. In time, he leased the mills
and other property of the company which had failed. By
this time he had a very general business experience in store
and office work, in flour milling and saw milling, in handling
coal and lumber, in manufacturing paper, plaster, lime and
cement, and he also had some knowledge of the railroad

96 THE ESTGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

business. In April, 1881, be closed up his business affairs
intending to take a year's vacation. He remained a few
months in Philadelphia and then travelled about, east and
west, looking over business openings. In the fall of the
same year he concluded to buy what was called "the Stone
Mill property," and settle in Hamburg. In April, 1882, he
took possession. On September 26, 1883, having success-
fully established himself in business, he married Miss Harriet
Baker, of Scranton, Pa. In 1871, he united with the North
Hardyston Presbyterian Church, and of which he has always
been a hard working member. He has always favored and
practised total abstinence. In 1878 he was elected to the
office of elder, and has been, since 1877, almost continuously
the superintendent of the Sunday school. He is also one of
the managers of the Sussex County Bible Society, which
organization last year celebrated its seventy-fifth anniver-
sary. God's promise " to be a father to the fatherless " has
been fulfilled to him.

Mrs. Harriet Baker Ingersoll is a daughter of John
Gillespie Baker, of Weare, N. H., and was born January
15, 1857. Through her mother she is a descendant of
William Latham, who came over in the " Mayflower," of
John Winslow, brother of Governor Edward Winslow, who
came over in the " Mayflower," and of Mary Chilton, the
first female who landed on Plymouth Mock.

THE LATHAM LINE.

I. Robert Latham, son of William Latham, married, in 1649,
Susanna Winslow, daughter of John Winsloio and Mary
Chilton Winslow.
II. Captain Chilton Latham, their son, bora in 1671, married
Susanna Kingman in 1699. Died in 1751.

III. Arthur Latham, their son, born in 1705, married Alice

Allen in 1733. Died in 1736.

IV. Nehemiah Latham, their son, born in 1735, married Lucy

Harris in 1757. Died in 1807.
V. Arthur Latham, their son, born February 16, 1758, married
Mary Post, May 21, 1782. Died November 25, 1843.

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIKE. 97

VI. William Harris Latham, their son, born June 13, 1788, mar-
ried Azuba Jenks, October 18, 1809.
VII. Mary Ann Latham, their daughter, born March 27, 1823,
married John Gillespie Baker, May 18, 1852.
VIII. Harriet Baker, their daughter, was born January 15, 1857.

CHILDEEN OF MAJOR EDWARD INGERSOLL, BY HIS WIFE,
HARRIET JENCKS CHILD INGERSOLL.

I. Harriet Jencks Ingersoll was born in Springfield,
Mass., October 1, 1835. For several years she attended
Miss Campbell's school in Springfield, and when about thir-
teen years of age entered the " Academy " at Norwich, Conn.,
which was then in charge of Dr. and Mrs. Webster. While
attending the " Academy," she resided with and was under
the care of her aunt, Mrs. Dr. Hooker. In the following
year. Miss Jane Ingersoll opened her " Young Ladies' Sem-
inary," in Norwich, and she became one of her scholars, and
there continued her studies until the spring of 1853. In the
fall following she entered the famous " Hartford Female
Seminary," at Hartford, Conn., and there completed her
education, having taken a special course of study. The
seminary was then in charge of Miss Catharine Esther
Beecher, that most distinguished of New England teachers.
She was married August 13, 1856, to Charles Phelps Hun-
tington Ripley, of New York (formerly of Norwich, Conn.),
The marriage ceremony was performed in the Olivet
Church, at Springfield, by the Rev. George De Forest
Folsom.

Mr. Ripley, through his mother, Ruth LeflSngwell Hunt-
ington, is a descendant of Major-General Jabez Huntington,
who was given the command of the troops of Connecticut,
at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, and who in
so many ways materially aided the cause of Independence,
and through General Huntington's wife, Elizabeth Backus,
he is a descendant of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, of Nor-

98 THE INGEESOLLS OF- HAMPSHIRE.

wich.* He was born in Norwich, Conn., November 26,
1832, and is the eldest son of James Leonard Ripley, who
was a great-great-grandson of Hannah Bradford, daughter
of William Bradford, Jr., Deputy Governor of Plymouth
Colony, and granddaughter of Governor William Bradford,
who came over in the "Maj'^flower."
Five children have been born : —

I. Charles Stedman, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 20, 1857.
Lieutenant, United States Navy. Married, April 15,
1886, Katharina Margaretta von Hausse, daughter of
Johann von Hausse, of Speyer-on-the-RMne.
II. Edward Ingersoll, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 16,
1858.

III. A female child (unnamed), twin to Edward Ingersoll.

Died fourteen hours after birth.

IV. James Huntington, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 3,

1859. Married, February 2, 1886, Jennie Tannatt Day,
daughter of Alfred D. Day, of Springfield, Mass. A
daughter, Mary Day, was born in Springfield, Febru-
ary 23, 1892.
V. Henry Brewer, born in New York, N. Y., May 22, 1863, and
died in Springfield, Mass., September 10, 1864.

* See Boswell Ancestry, pages 62 and 63.

Note. — The Ripleys are of Saxon origin and come from Yorkshire,
England, in which shire the town of Ripley is situated. In former times
there was a feudal castle attached to the town, and was in possession of
the " Ripleys of Ripley." Some portions of the ancient structure are yet
standing. The Ingleby family came into possession of the castle and
estates towards the close of the fourteenth century. The main structure,
as it now stands, was built by Sir William Ingleby in the reign of William
and Mary, but the great tower is far more ancient, having belonged to the
former structure, supposed to have been erected by the Ripleys. The
castle is known in England as " Ripley Castle."

Note. — Mr. Ripley's paternal ancestor, William Ripley, came from
England and settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1638. He came to America in
the ship " Diligent," of Ipswich, commanded by John Martin, and brought
with him his wife and four children.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. , 99

II. Caroline Phelps Ingersoll was born in Savannah,
Ga., February 1, 1838. She first attended school in Spring-
£eld, in the "old barracks'* on the armory grounds, and
later, Mr. Bang's school in the same city, and afterwards
Mrs. Mary Lee's school in Pittsfield, Mass., and when Mrs.
Lee removed her school to Springfield, she continued her
studies with her there.

Towards the close of the Civil War, Miss Ingersoll's
patriotic zeal prevailed over all personal considerations, and
in November of 1864 she proceeded South as one of that
noble band of Northern ladies who, following in the wake of
the conquering armies, braved the perils and endured the
hardships that they might aid in the " cause of freedom " and
humanity by befriending and instructing the many emanci-
pated negroes who, in their ignorance, were incompetent
to become free men and free women.

Miss Ingersoll took the federal oath of allegiance, and at
her post on Ladies' Island, near Beaufort, S. C, she labored
assiduously for many months. Her school was in a cotton-
house on the Bythewood Plantation.

Miss Ingersoll's experiences while in the South were most
exciting, and a detailed account of them would fill many
pages. She was in Beaufort and saw Sherman's troops when
they entered, on their famous march to the sea. She was in
Savannah a week after Sherman took possession (December
21, 1864), and also was in Charleston a few days after the
city was abandoned by its garrison (February 17, 1865).
She was shown many attentions and greatly aided in her
work by the general oflicers and their aids. By special invi-
tation she was present and witnessed the re-raising of the
"stars and stripes" over Fort Sumter, making the trip from
Beaufort in that famous little steamer, the "Planter," com-
manded by Eobert Small. At the conclusion of the cere-
monies, a federal ensign, which had been raised over the
platform where brave old General Anderson sat, was pre-
sented to Miss Ingersoll ; and this same flag is now in the

100 THE INGERSOLL8 OF HAMPSHIRE.

possession of the Historical Society of Providence, R. I.
She was also at Fairfax Court House and saw the army,
seventy thousand strong, when it was reviewed by General
McClellan and the Duke de Chartres and Count de Paris,
who were then attached to his staff.

Upon the conclusion of her labors Miss IngersoU returned
to her home in Springfield.

She was married in Springfield, April 18, 1872, to Richard
Sheldon Ely, of New York City, a son of William Ely, of
Hartford, and Clarissa May Davis Ely, daughter of Major
Robert Davis,* of Boston. The marriage ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. George De Forest Folsom, assisted by Rev.
Dr. Samuel Buckingham, of Springfield. Mr. Ely was born
in Hartford, Conn., May 25, 1818. He was a merchant and
banker in Liverpool, England, for six years, and during that
time (1853-59) was elected president of the "American
Chamber of Commerce " in that city. He first visited Europe
in 1839 ; and that winter, while residing in Paris, was pre-
sented by the American Minister to the King (Louis Philippe)

* " Eobert Davis was a major of artillery during the Eevolutionary
War. He was an active member of the ' Boston Tea Party,' and was in
service throughout the ' siege of Boston.' When the troops follovired the
retreating British to the outlet of the harbor, he sent to his wile, by spe-
cial messenger, the earliest news of their final departure, written on part of
a barrel head, the only stationery at hand. His resemblance to Washing-
ton was so striking that he was often mistaken for him. His brothers
were the Hon. Caleb Davis, Speaker of the House of Representatives of
Massachusetts in 1780, and delegate from Boston to the Massachusetts
Constitutional Convention in 1787, and Brigadier-General Amasa Davis.
All the brothers resided in Boston, and were members of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts."

Note. — The name of Ely, as a surname, was derived from tlie well-
known Isle of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, which has been known as a relig-
ious seat from the earlier periods of Christian history. But there is
authority that the place, Ely, owes its name to a personage who bore the
name, as his distinguishing cognomen, Helie, and who was no less than
the last of thirty-three old British kings, or dukes, who ruled the south-
ern portion of the '■'Anglian Isle" from one to three centuries before the
Christian Era.

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 101

and the members of the royal family. The court dress, which
etiquette required him to wear upon the occasion, is still in
his possession.

Mr. and Mrs. Ely, when not travelling in Europe, reside
at their home in New^ York City, except during the summer
months. Their two children were both born in New York.

I. Richard Fenwick, born March 4, 1874. Student at Yale

University, class of 1896.
II. Maud Ingersoll, born Februai-y 29, 1876.

III. William Edw^aed Ingersoll was born in Spring-
field, Mass., September 22, 1842, and was educated in the
public schools of that city.

His first employment was in the office of his father, the
disbursing ofiicer of the National Armory. Upon several
occasions, during the continuance of the Civil War, he
served as a special ordnance messenger, charged with the
care and delivery of arms forwarded from the armory to
points south.

In February of 1867, Mr. Ingersoll started for San Fran-
cisco on a trip of pleasure and instruction, with the idea of
ultimately going around the world. As there were then
no railways connecting our Atlantic and Pacific coasts, he
proceeded by way of Aspinwall, crossing the Isthmus of
Panama. The French were then invading Mexico, and Mr.
Ingersoll, on his way up the Pacific coast, arrived in Aca-
pulco the day after the French troops had taken possession
of the city. Arriving in California, he was so enchanted
with the climate and the cosmopolitan life that existed
there at that time, that he remained for nearly three years.
During these years, however, he never gave up the idea of
ultimately continuing on his journey around the world. But
in 1870 circumstances occurred which put an end to the trip
around the world, and brought Mr. Ingersoll back to the
New England States. Upon his return he settled in Had-
dam. Conn., and there resided for two years, during which
time he was engaged in working a stone quarry. While in

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this business he married, May 16, 1872, Annie Gardner
Hart, of Springfield, and, with his bride, started house-
keeping in Haddam.

In May of 1874 Mr. Ingersoll gave up his business in
Haddam in order to accept a position in the New York Life
Insurance Company. The company's headquarters for
Europe were then in London, and it was there that Mr.
Ingersoll entered the company's service as an office employee.
In September of the same year the office was removed from
London to Paris, and about this time Mr. Ingersoll was
advanced from book-keeper to cashier, and soon afterwards
from cashier to sub-manager. In January of 1889 Mr.
Ingersoll was appointed the general manager for Europe,
and since has held that position.

During the Paris Exposition (1889), Mr. Ingersoll was
nominated by the Commissioner General of the United
States Department, as one of the United States Jury. In
connection with the Exposition he rendered certain services
to Denmark, relative to the Danish exhibit, which the king
of that country recognized by bestowing upon him the
Danish Order of Dannebrog, one of the oldest orders in
Europe and most difficult to obtain. In August of 1892, he
was made a member, by right of inheritance, of the MiUtarT/
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

IV. John Martin Ingersoll was born in Springfield^
Mass., January 26, 1845, and received his education in the
public schools of the same city. During the War of the
Rebellion he served an enlistment in the 8th Massachusetts
Volunteers. He was but nineteen years of age at the time
of his enlistment, but, notwithstanding his youth, was
appointed a corporal in Company " A " as soon as the regi-
ment was mustered. This company consisted entirely of
men from Springfield. He was honorably discharged when
the regiment was mustered out of service on the 10th of
November, 1864. In the January following, as a special

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 103

messenger of the government, he was sent South from the
National Armory at Springfield in charge of ordnance stores,
and while eii route, on board the steamer " Georgianna,"
narrowly escaped drowning. The following accounts of the
disaster were published at the time : —

Collision in the Chesapeake.

Fortress Monroe, Jan. 10, 1865.
The Mail Steamer " Georgianna," whicli left Baltimore Monday evening,
bound to Old Point, collided with the schooner "John Walker," bound up
the bay, at about two o'clock this morning, between Smith's Point Light
and the Wolf Trap. The night was dark and stormy, with a thick fog, so
that the schooner, under sail, was not discovered until it was too late to
avoid the disaster. The bowsprit struck the steamer near the forward
gangway, completely wrecking the light-work and staterooms as far aft
as the port wheel-house. Three hands and the stewardess belonging to
the steamer are missing. Several of the passengers were slightly injured,
and one or two are thought to be lost. The schooner sustained little

The weather still continues unsettled and stormy. — Neio York -Herald.

A Narrow Escape.
John M. IngersoU, of this city, son of Major Edward Ingersoll, had a
very narrow escape from drowning in Chesapeake Bay on Tuesday morn-
ing last, while on board the steamer " Georgianna," bound from Baltimore
to Fortress Monroe, as a special messenger in charge of ordnance stores.
In dense fog and rain, about two o'clock, and while the passengers
were asleep in their staterooms on deck, the steamer came in collision
with a schooner which swept off nine staterooms with contents at once
into the sea. Young Ingersoll managed to get hold of a plank and, though
severely bruised on the head and shoulders, was picked up after being in
the water half an hour, though he lost everything save the shirt and
trousers in which he lay asleep. Seven lives were lost and two persons
are yet missing. One man, a passenger from Baltimore, was caught
between two timbers and held by the head, injuring him so that he died
soon after. The steamer was not otherwise damaged and returned to Bal-
timore for repairs. The schooner was uninjured save the loss of her
bowsprit and, after the collision, assisted in saving those swept overboard
as far as possible. Major General Meade was ou board. Mr. Ingersoll
reached home this morning, and for his safe return his many friends are
truly grateful. — Spritiyfiekl Daily Bepublican.

In the spring of 1870, Mr. Ingersoll became interested in
the quarrying of stone at Haddam, Conn., and entered the

104 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

employ of Isaac Arnold who was then the proprietor of the
quarries. In time, he hecame Mr. Arnold's business mana-
ger, and was permanently settled in Haddam. He married
Sabra Anna Arnold, the only daughter of his employer. He
was married in Haddam, November 12, 1872,* by the Rev.
E. E. Lewis, pastor of the Congregational Church of Had-
dam. His wife, Sabra Anna, was born December 24, 1845.
Two children were born in Haddam : —

I. Harriet Arnold, born August 15, 1876.
II. Charles Martin, born August 9, 1878.

Mr. Ingersoll died in Haddam, March 4, 1885. His death
was caused by pneumonia, the termination of a severe cold
contracted while fish i no; throuo;h the ice on the Connecticut
River.

[copy of corporal's warrant.]

The CojvoiANDiNG Officer of the Eighth Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteer Militia.

To all vjho shall see these Presents, Greeting :

Know Ye : That reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism,
valor, fidelity, and abilities of John M. Ingersoll, I do duly appoint him
Corporal in Company A of the 8th Regiment of Massachusetts Vol-
unteers now in the service of the United States, to rank as such from
the 13th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. He is
therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Corporal by
doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And I
do strictly charge and require all Nan- Commissioned Officers and Soldiers
under his command to be obedient to his orders as Corporal. And he is
to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as he
shall receive from me, or the future Commanding Ofiicer of the Regiment,
or other Superior Ofllcers and Non-Coramissioned Officers set over him,
according to the rules and discipline of War.

* "The wedding, at Haddam, Conn., of Mr. John M. Ingersoll, formerly
of this city, to Miss Arnold, a sister of Capt. Isaac Arnold, U. S. Army
recently stationed at the Spriugflekl Armory, was a notable and pleasant
occasion. The epizootia, however, broke in upon the proposed arrange-
ments somewhat, and as there was not a well horse in the place the bridal
train to the railway station, after the wedding ceremony, consisted of two
ox teams which were, in honor of the occasion, most gaily decorated."

THE INGEESOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 105

This Warrant to continue in force during the pleasure of the Com-
manding Officer of the Regiment for the time being.

Given under my hand at the Head Quarters of the Regiment at
Baltimore, Md., this second day of August in the Year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

By the Commanding Officer,

BENJAMIN F, PEACH, Jr.,

Commanding the Begiment.
Lieut. Chauncy Hickox,

Act. Adjt. of the Begiment.

V. James Child Ingersoll was born in Springfield,
Mass., September 27, 1848. He received his education in
the public schools of Springfield. In 1863 he obtained a
position at the National Armory in his father's office, and,
with the exception of two years, during which time he
resided in New York, he has continued in the service of the
government at the National Armory.

He married in Springfield, June 4, 1873, Ellen Persis
Newell, daughter of Horace Sessions Newell, of Springfield.
She was born January 30, 1852.

Three children were born in Springfield : —

I. Bobert Newell, born January 29, 1875. Graduated from
the State Military Institute of Florida, in May, 1892. At
time of graduation he was the senior captain, and the
adjutant of the Corps of Cadets.
II. Elizabeth Mai tin, born August 1, 1877.
III. Baymond, born September 6, 1880.

Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll were members of the choir of the
South Church (Springfield) for five years, and for thirteen
years have been members of the choir of the First Congre-
gational Church (Springfield). Mr. Ingersoll is a member
and officer of the Orpheus Club of Springfield.

Note. — Robert Sessions, one of Mrs. Ingersoll's ancestors, resided in
Boston previous to the Revolutionary War, and was in the employ of
Major Robert Davis. He was one of the party who, in company with
Major Davis, boarded the British ships and threw the tea overboard.

106 THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE.

VI. Isabella Ingersoll was born in Springfield, Mass.,
September 12, 1850. Her education was obtained at Miss
Howard's school in Springfield. She was married June 4,
1872, to George Endicott Wilder, of Boston. The follow-
ing account of the wedding was published in the Springfield
Daily Republican: —

The Grand "Wedding.

More unpropitious weather than that of last night could scarcely
have befallen a wedding party; yet an exceptionally brilliant and nicely
dressed assemblage honored such an occasion at the house of Major
Ingersoll, on Armory Square. The marriage took place at the Olivet
Church, where the guests, while waiting for the appointed hour, listened
to selections from "Martha," " L'Eclair," "Faust," " Tannhauser,"
performed on the organ, which was also played softly during the entire
ceremony. The officiating cleiigyraen were Eev. G. De Forest Folsom, a
former, and Kev. L. H. Cone, the present, pastor of the Olivet Church.
The bridal party left the church to the music of Mendelssohn's Wedding
March, and drove to the family mansion on Armory Square, where the
bride and groom received the congratulations of their friends under an
exquisite floral design, representing a marriage bell. A covered passage-
way had been built from the house to the arsenal, and a portion of the
latter transformed by the decorator's art into as beautiful a dancing hall as
heart could wish. As befitted the place, the national colors, in flags and
streamers, were everywhere to be seen, while Springfleld muskets, sabres,
and swords, in handsome groupings, glistened on all sides, and even a
field-piece stood in an alcove, as if ready to add its word of congratulation
in honor of the occasion. In this place, illumined by gas jets iu fanciful
shapes, and echoing to the bewitching music of the Germanias, no wonder
the guests quickly forgot the storm outside in the delights of the festivi-
ties within. The bride, a belle in fact as well as in name, looked and was
charming, and the occasion of her taking-off will be remembered as a real
and delightful event in our fashionable society.

Mr. Wilder was born in Lancaster, Mass., October 7,
1841, and is a son of Captain Daniel Kelsey Wilder and
Mary Morse Andrews Wilder, both of Lancaster. Captain
Wilder was the master of the brig " Highlander," of Thomas-
ton, Me., when she was wrecked in 1847 on one of the
Bahama Islands. He and his crew were taken oft' by
wreckers and carried into Nassau. There Captain Wilder
died, and his body was buried on the island.

THE INGERSOLLS OF HAMPSHIRE. 107

The records of the town of Lancaster show that the im-
mediate ancestors of Captain Wilder took active parts in the
early Colonial Wars and the French and Indian War.
During the Ke volution, however, they were Tories as were
many others in that vicinity.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilder have resided almost continually in
Boston, except during the summer months, which they usually
pass at their country residence at Chestnut Hill, Mass. They
have made several pleasure trips through Europe. Mr. Wilder
has been for many years a member of the Boston Stock
Exchange, and is one of the Board of Governors of that
institution.

fiJ

MAR 1 e 1929

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

3 9999

03290 157 9

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