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The Ingalls Inquirer e-newsletter
Vol. 1-10
March, 1984-November, 1993
Published by Arlene Ingalls Schrader
ISSN 1933-7329

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Family history research newsletter for the purpose of sharing information on the surnames INGALLS, INGALL, INGELL, INGLES, INGLIS, INGLE, ENGEL and ALLIED lines published by Arlene Ingalls Schrader.

I wish to thank all of you who have contributed stories, legends, family charts, etc., and also those who have sent letters, cards and monetary donations with words of encouragement and support in developing the family newsletter ...it really helps to keep the adrenalin flowing to keep digging for our roots. Thank you! REMEMBER, send in your immediate family line backward from yourself as far as your records show .... these do not have to be complete (families have a way of growing). If you wish to add additional information to records that I may have on file, please do this at any time at your convenience. These are being compiled for a genealogy supplement to Burleigh's 1903 edition. CORRECTIONS to the Burleigh edition History of Ingalls Family in America will be incorporated in the supplement. Anytime a work of this type is undertaken, there is bound to be errors. Sometimes the source of information, at the time, was considered valid but further research may have proven it incorrect. We wish to correct these mistakes with your assistance.

CORRECTION to Burleigh's 1903 editions

P. 200  #4158  Abbie Ridgeway m. Andrew J. EASTON not Ingalls
          #4158B Mary Elizabeth SHYLOCK not Sherlock
Submitted by Dalene Trende

Copy of Book available: The Ingalls Family in America by Walter Renton Ingalls, pub 1930 by author, Maple Press Co., York, PA. Copy may be obtained from the Minnesota Historical Society Reference Library @ $.25 a page, 84 pp., contains 10 chapters, 17 illustrations. This is reported to be historical in nature rather than genealogical.

Higginson Genealogical Books, Derby Square, Salem, MA 01970 lists for sale: The Ingalls Family in England And America., in comm. of the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Lynn, MA., by E. and F. Ingalls. 84 p. Boxford, MA., 1930 @ $16.50

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GENEALOGY is the hobby of searching for kin,
Finding out who they are and where they're been.
You get a good start, and say, "Oh, This is fun."
But Ladies and Gentlemen you've just begun.
Some ancestors liked to roam far and wide,

While others were more content just to hide.
Don't be discouraged, just stay in the groove,
And keep on trying your ancestry to prove.
Soon each little item will fall into place,
Like a piece in a jig-saw that fits the right space.

(author unknown)

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As I look out my kitchen window today, the snow is swirling around the corner or the house, adding to the snow drifts that have built up on top of a layer of ice from our ice storm the first week of the new year. I thought perhaps it would be a bright note to add some of the prose written by ADDIS BOOM of Danby Township, Ionia County, MI. A local paper, the Portland Review, carried a weekly column in the 1930's under the heading of "My Daily Walk", contributed by Addie Boom. These were extracted from a local historical newsletter, The Sebewa Recollector prepared by Robert Gierman. Mr. Gierman, historian, has been very helpful and patient in my quest for Ingalls news from his area.

Addie (Brown) Boom is a descendant of Jonathon Ingalls (see July, 1984 page 11 issue) and her grave site is located adjacent to John R. Brown and Sarah (Ingalls) Brown, dau. of Jonathon, located in Ionia Co., MI.

On her daily walks, Addie saw more of the life around her than the most of the rest of us do even when we take the trouble to walk to enjoy nature.

MY DAILY WALK
by Addie Boom, The Portland Review June 17, 1930

On my walk today along an avenue of giant trees I decide in favor of the American Elm, most beautiful and graceful of our trees. The one just ahead looks like a huge green feather swaying in the breeze. On a low overhanging bough over the road I spy an oriole's nest rocking to and fro like a tiny basket. Mother bird sits in the nest while Daddy bird, clad in his brilliant coat of black and gold, sits above. Looking down at me he exclaims, "Great Peter." Farther on stands a monstrous sycamore waving its stiff limbs like a palsied old lady.

In a field close by, my neighbor has his tractor hopelessly stuck in the mud. Shoveling a while, he mounts the seat and tries again. The wheels only spin, burying it deeper. I imagine the farmer is consigning that tractor to the place where all good tractors go--the junk heap. At last he calls the other man working in the field to hitch on the team and help him. And while the tractor smokes and sputters, those horses calmly pull it out of the mud. I clap my hands and cheer the horses. True and faithful friends, we can't do without you.

Passing the pond, I spy a wild duck and her family swimming about, chattering to themselves. On a gate post a quail sits calling, "More wet" and I presume he will get it.

Near home I find a pair of tiny wrens battling with a half dozen sparrows and how those little birds can fight: They have a houseful of babies and who wouldn't defend his home against marauding aliens? Much disheveled, the Englishmen soon retreat and peace and quiet reign again in the wren family. End

July 15, 1930 MY DAILY WALK

Today I wander around an old abandoned mill whose giant waterwheel is rusted and still, where a bird's nest cuddles under the eaves and from the gable a large wasp's nest is suspended.

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The old dam is rotted and broken, the millpond is drained and overgrown with weeds and swamp flowers. Water roars over the crumbling dam and among the scattered rocks of its foundation, then goes singing and murmuring among the timbers of the old mill, passes on between overhanging trees and under an iron bridge and hastens away to join the river over yonder.

I take some rare pictures of the deserted mill, remembering a little sadly the quaint old miller who cheerfully greeted his patrons in rain or shine, ground their grists and chatted about the simple everyday happenings of country life. His voice, like the busy hum of the old mill, is silent.

I walk along an elevated path leading to the dam, enclosed by grand old elm, locust and balm of Gilead trees. A mysterious almost solemn hush reigns in this secluded spot, broken only the songs of many birds, gurgling of the water and the hum of myriad insects.

Working my way down to the water's edge, I decide to take a picture of the ruined dam. As I cannot reach it from here, I remove shoes and stockings and wade into the creek. Midway I find a tiny island where some animal holds his nocturnal hostile eye at me. Beautiful butterflies dash here and there in the golden sunshine. Some are of deep midnight blue, spotted with azure; others of amber bordered with brown.

The surface of the stream is dappled with sunshine and shadow to the scene, lovely beyond compare. One becomes fascinated and enthralled by the beauty and romance of this sheltered haven; but the hours pass and I must move on. I wish I could persuade all who are sick in soul and body to become Nature's patient and consume great doses of her cleansing, healing remedies. They need not travel far to find these secluded retreats and look into the face of the tiniest flower and find their happiness there. End

September 23, 1930 MY DAILY WALK

The sky is overcast with great clouds as I whistle to my dog and we are off for a walk. I pass by a field of beans that are pulled and bunched; also a field of corn, part of which is shocked, the binder in the field.

Ancient trees line the road, their ripened leaves rustling in the gentle breeze. By the roadside are alder bushes laden glistening black berries; also wild apple trees bearing fruit of fair size and excellent flavor. The sumac is turning a gorgeous flame crowned by tassels of deep garnet. Further on I pass an old log house used as a shelter for implements and hay. The chimney is fallen, the doors and windows gone but the old house stands, still and sedate, mid trees and clinging vines like an aged spinster wearing her old fashioned garments with grace and dignity.... End

Addie Boom lived in the area where her ancestors settled, coming from Vermont in the 1830's, so her footsteps were following their early paths and the old mill and log house were representative of the early industry and home of Ingalls family members settling in the area

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The following article was submitted by Paula Talbot.

The Coming of the Ingalls Family to Illinois in 1834

by Mrs. Mary F. C. Dixon, J.I.S.H.S, Vol. XVIII, No. 2

In the year 1628, Edmund and Francis Ingalls landed at Salem, MA, from Lincolnshire, England, with Governor Endicott. They were tanners in England. They crossed the Saugus River in 1629 and established a tannery at a place they called Lynn, because of the name of their home in Lincolnshire, England.

Francis left no male descendants, his daughter, Mary, married Roger Belknap.

Edmund fell through a defective bridge over the Saugus River in 1648 and was drowned.

Henry, son of Edmund, moved to Andover, MA, sometime after 1646. His son, James, married Hannah Abbott. They had a son, James, born in 1695, who married Mary Stevens. After the death of James, Sr., his widow, Hannah Abbott Ingalls, with her son James and his wife went with the Pomfret Colony to Abington, Connecticut. They there established their home almost directly across the street from the Colony Church. They there raised a family of seven children. Their son, Ephraim, m. Mary Sharpe, whose great-grandfather was Resolved White, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620.

Their son, Ephraim Ingalls, m. Lucy Goodell, and they too, resided in the ancestral home, rearing a family of nine children: Mary S., Henry L., Lucy, Lydia, Deborah, Edmund, Chas. Francis, George A. and Ephraim. Lucy, the mother, d. in 1829 and the father, Ephraim, in 1831.

Their oldest son, Henry Laurens Ingalls, m. Lavinia Childs. Her sister, Priscilla Childs, m. Dr. Chandler, the founder of Chandlerville, ILL. Henry had made a visit to the ILL country and found it to his liking. When he returned to Pomfret, at the time of his father’s death, they wanted him to buy out the other heirs and keep the old place, on which a fine new home had recently been erected. His response was, "What, work all my life, and when I am through, leave nothing but a little farm on the Quinebaug River in Connecticut? No, we can do vastly better for ourselves in the Illinois country."

So the old place was sold to a neighbor, Stephen Smith. Mary S. Ingalls had m. Addison Fletcher of Cavendish, VT. Lucy was the wife of Grosvenor Storrs and resided in Pomfret. The two younger children, George Addison and Ephraim were left with these two older sisters. Henry, Edmund, and C. Francis, with their sisters, Lydia and Deborah started for Illinois on April 21, 1834.

Preparatory to starting, Lydia purchased a blank book. which was used for a diary of the journey. This book is now in the possession of Mary F. Colby Dixon, of Petersburg, Illinois, the oldest daughter of Lydia Ingalls and her husband Jonathan Colby.

On the cover of this book we find, "L. and D. Ingalls Book in Co." On the first page inside, "Lydia Ingalls account book."

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The Diary Kept by Chas. Francis Ingalls in His Sister Lydia’s
Account Book

April 21, 1834: Left Abington for Illinois. Called at Mr. Chandler's. Passed through Eastford, Ashford, and Mansfield over a smooth but very hilly road and spent the night at Dimick's in Coventry, 16 miles from Abington.

April 22: Left at half past five and took  breakfast at Daggett's in Bolton and spent the night in Merrill's, New Hartford, after passing Manchester, Hartford and Aver. Day's journey 41 miles. Found the road very muddy 20 miles west of Hartford.

April 23: Proceeded on the Farmington River Road and took breakfast at Healy's, passing on, called at Barkhamsted during a shower. After crossing the Farmington River four times, we continued our journey, and being overtaken by darkness and rain, were obliged to put up at Mr. Sheldon's. Day's travel 23 miles.

April 24: Left Sheldon's and took breakfast at Catlin's in New Marlborough; passed through Great Barrington, MA, Cannan, CT, and staid all night at Chatham, NY. Very cold and a high wind all day. Day's travel 33 miles.

April 25: Traveled five miles to Walker's and took breakfast. Passed on through Nassau, Schodack, and Greenbush to Albany. Distance traveled this day 20 miles, making the whole distance from Abington 133 miles. Likewise took a passage from Albany to Buffalo in the "Privateer," a 50 ton boat, paying one cent per mile passage, and 75¢ per hundred for baggage. Passed through the first from the basin and weighed in a lock prepared for that purpose.

April 26: Passed on to Schenectady, crossing the Mohawk thirteen miles from Albany. The distance from Albany to Schenectady is 30 miles. Crossed the Mohawk again, but to the South, the first time we crossed to the North. Good land generally and settled by the Dutch.

April 27: Sunday. Very snowy and cold; depth of the snow is 9 to 12 inches. Passed quite a number of lake boats, and found the canal business proceedings as usual. Henry was taken sick at his stomach which caused vomiting. The boat was hindered about 30 minutes by running aground. Crossed Schoharrie Creek, a dangerous passage in stormy weather on account of the dam below.

May 2: We reached Buffalo about 9 p.m.

May 5: Went on board the steamboat "Michigan" at 9 o'clock bound for Detroit. This is a boat of 500 tons and the largest, finest boat upon the Lake. Overtook and passed the "Peacock" about 11 o'clock. Passed Dunkirk which is 45 miles from Buffalo. We landed at a small Isle a short distance from Erie, from which passengers are taken to Erie by a small steamboat.

May 6: Landed at Fairport, PA at 7 o'clock a.m. to take on wood, etc., at which place we saw immense numbers of pigeons. At 12 m., we landed at Cleveland (190 miles from Buffalo and 110 miles from Detroit) and left at 2 p.m. We landed at the Huron dock and left passengers. Passed a short distance up the Detroit River and anchored.

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May 7: Passed up the Detroit River to Detroit and landed at 6 o’clock a.m. Put up at Dr. Petty’s Inn, called the City Hotel, formerly called the "Yankee's Cheap Boarding House^- nor 50 cents each per day.

May 8: Bought a gray horse for $56.50, as we concluded to come by land to Chicago, a distance of 300 miles. We likewise packed our loose goods with some that we purchased in Detroit in another box, and selected such things as we thought fit to carry by land.

May 9: We shipped our goods on board steamer "Napoleon" for Chicago and ourselves started in our one-horse wagon for Chicago, about 9 o'clock a.m. We travelled 21 miles and put up at Campbell's, our road being dangerous, as it was pitted by very deep ruts.

May 17: Left and travelled upon the beach 18 miles to the first house, where we put up, on account of our horse tiring out, at Mr. Lewis'.

May 18: Staid at Lewis'.

May 19: Henry and myself (Chas. F. Ingalls) continued our journey on foot, leaving the girls and Edmund to wait and recruit the horse. We traveled33 miles, being 4 miles from Chicago, and put up.

May 20: We went into Chicago and put up at Hale's Inn, kept by Ingersoll, upon the Chicago River, one mile below Fort Dearborn. This by water is 700 miles from Detroit and 280 by land.

May 21: I started in the p.m. and travelled 12 miles to Laughton's upon the Des Plaines river and put up.

May 22: I travelled 18 miles and being overtaken about 9 o’clock by Henry in the stage, I likewise took a seat and, proceeding, dined at Walker's Grove, 40 miles from Ottawa and we put up at Holderman's Grove, 15 miles from Ottawa.

May 23, 24: Put up at Clark's in Ottawa, which is situated at the junction of the Fox and Illinois rivers.

May 25: Sunday: At 8 o'clock went aboard the ferry ship with other passengers and went down to Hennipen35 miles to meet the steamboat "Exchange." The steamboat passed in the night and went up to Starved Rock, ten miles above Hennipen and returned.

May 26: Went aboard the "Exchange" at 3 p.m. and landed at Peoria at one o'clock at night, 50 miles from Hennipen.

May 27: Landed at Pekin, 3 miles from Peoria to repair machinery. Passed the boat "Peoria" at one o'clock p.m. Landed at Ross Ferry (Havana) at the mouth of Spoon River 40 miles from Beardstown. We landed at Beardstown at 9 o'clock p.m. Staid at Smith's Inn.

May 28 Came up the bottom on foot and I returned and got the trunk, it being Wednesday.

Tuesday follow, it being June 3, the girls and Edmund arrived after making one week's visit upon the sand beach.

--- CHARLES F. INGALLS

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Abington, CT is the name of the township where the Ingalls home was located. Pomfret was their town some 2 miles away . . . I haven't the diary at hand -- just my copy of it, but I left out several days record twice that had little of interest in it when I copied.

Deborah Ingalls went to Lee County to keep house for her brother, C. Francis, and later became the wife of Dr. Richard Adams of MA. Henry and Edmund settled on land near Chandlerville, where Edmund d. of inflammatory rheumatism, the first winter after his arrival.

Henry made two trips to CA as a gold seeker, brought home some gold, sold his home in Chandlerville and went to Muskoatink, Chisago Co., MN where he died.

C. Francis settled near Sublette, Lee County, ILL and m. Miss Sarah Hawkins. His children were, Charles H., E. Fletcher, Sarah, wife of John H. Pierce, Ara, wife of Will H. Morgan, and Mary, who m. Charley Jacobs. E. Fletcher Ingalls became a prominent throat and lung specialist in Chicago and was for many years Dean of Rush Medical College.

Lydia m. Jonathan Colby, who in 1834 came from Hopkinton, NH to New Salem and became one of the substantial citizens of Menard County, ILL.

George Addison and Ephraim in 1837 followed their brothers and sisters to the West. For a time they taught Subscription Schools, taking in payment money, colts, calves, etc., as the early settlers were able to spare. Later they became citizens of Chicago, marrying the only daughters of Thomas Church (one of the pioneer merchants of Chicago).

Addison m. Mary Eloise Church and lived in Oak Park on Lake St., where his home once the finest house in Oak Park still stands.* He was a law partner of L.C.P. Freer.

Ephraim m. Melissa Church and was for many years a professor at Rush Medical College, being Professor Emeritus at the time of his death.

Mary F. Colby Dixon wrote the addendum to the Ingalls diary Feb.9, 1923, when she was nearly83 years old. It was found in her desk after her death in1924.

*Was torn down soon after this was written,1923.

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Search of Kane County, ILL Public Domain Sales, Land Tract Record, submitted by Paula Talbot.

Name of Purchaser:

James Ingalls      Sec. 35, 40 A  9 Nov. 1844
James Ingalls      Sec. 35, 40 A  9 Dec. 1843
Jasper     "          Sec. 35, 40 A  3 June 1845
Joseph     "         Sec. 35, 40 A  7 Jan  1845
Worthen    "       Sec. 26, 40 A  19 Dec 1844

All above Plato township.

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Submitted by Louise Ingalls—extracted from:

The American Genealogist.

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SOME ENGLISH MATERIAL PERTAINING TO EDMUND
AND FRANCIS INGALLS OF LYNN, MASS.

By John Brooks THRELFALL

The English origin, of Edmund and Francis Ingalls of Lynn, Mass., is fairly well covered in Charles Burleigh's

Genealogy and History of the Ingalls Family in America (1903) and also in Mary Levering Holman's Pillsbury Ancestry. Mrs. Holman apparently did no English research but she did note that apparently no one had looked for the Bishop's Transcripts of Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, whence these Ingalls brothers came. The parish registers of Skirbeck start in 1661, so they are of little value for these Puritan settlers. Recently, I obtained Xerox copy of the Bishop's Transcripts through 1635, such as they exist, and from these found a number of Ingalls records which add somewhat to the meager knowledge of this family. Also, the wills of Robert and Henry Ingalls were obtained, to wit (1561-3, 1565-6, 1575-7, 1585-98, 1600-06, 1608-28, 1630-35 are the years in which the Bishop's Transcripts are extant for Skirbeck):

1590, 1591, 1601 Robert Ingalls was church warden these years

1592 July 29 Edeth Ingolles baptized

1604 July --se, the daughter of Robert Engall, buried

1611 Oct. 13 Edward, son of Henry Ingolls, baptized

1612 Sep. 25 Edward Engols was buried

1612 Nov. 15 William Ingols was baptized

1614 Jan. 6 Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Ingals, baptized (1613/14)

1614 Dec. 10 Thomas Stevens & Rose Ingals, married

1615 Oct. 29 Thomas Stevens buried

1618 Mar. 22 Rob. Iengals buried [1617/18]

1618 June 1 Edmund Inoilgs & Annis Telbe, married

1619 Feb. 28 Elizabeth Inoilgs, daughter of Edmund Inoilgs, baptized (1618/19)

1620 July 13 Robert, son to Edmon Engelles baptized

1622 July 14 Faith Inalgs, daughter of Edmond inalgs, baptized

1624 May 9 John Inalgs, son of Edmond Inalgs, baptized

1626 July 16 Sara Ingalls, daughter of Edmond Ingalls, baptized

1628 Jan. 20 Samuel Ingalls, son of Edmond Ingolls, baptized [1627/8)

1631 Apr, 22 Widow Ingalls was buried

1632 Apr. 22 Samuel, son of Edmond Engalls, baptized

1634 July 1 Robert Watkinson b Elizabeth Ingalls, married

Boston, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers:

1621 Nov. 27 Francis Ingalls & Bridget Vaughan, married

1623 Dec. 25 Marie, daughter of Francis Ingolds, baptized

1622 Sep.  8 Sarah, daughter of Francis Ingolds, baptized

1624 Sep. 24 Sarah, daughter of Francis Ingolds, buried

1625 Nov. 24 Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Ingolds, baptized

1625 Dec.  7 Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Ingolds, buried

1625 Dec. 20 Bridgett, wife of Francis Ingolds, buried

1607 Nov. 30 Henry Ingoll & Rose Gellibrand, married

1612 May 19 Ambrose Stenytt & Eden Ingols, married

1613 July 1l Robert Ingolls & Alice Snape, married

1637 June 20 Wm Ingolds of Skirbeck & Elizabeth Clayton, married

Lincoln Marriage Licenses give:

1621 Nov. 4 Francis Ingolls of Boston, yeoman, aet. 26 & Bridget Vaughan of same Spraet. 24, to be married in Boston or Screilsby 1 June 1555 The will of Henry Ingalls of Skirbeck, Lincolnshire ... bequests to Wife Johan ... youngest children. to each have 10 which was left to them; if any die under age, their share to be divided amongst the rest ... to the high altar 12d ... residue to be divided amongst my six children ... wife Johan to be executrix ... mentions son James and his brother-in-law Thomas Wytton. (This will is given in the Ingalls Genealogy.. It does not appear among the Lincoln wills as indexed nor can any clue he found which might suggest where it is filed.)

12 July 1617 I Robert Ingots of Skirbeck Quarter in the parish of Skirbeck, county of Lincoln, yeoman, being sick in body ... unto Elizabeth my wife my house and lands

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one ewe lamb ... to each of my cousin Henry Ingols' children one ewe lamb... to my brother Henry Ingols my black fflect cows ... to the poor people of Skirbeck Quarter 10s ... unto Robe Stennytt the son of Ambrose Stennytt one ewe & one lamb ... half remainder to Elizabeth my wife for life, then to Edmond my son who is to have the other half. Wife Elizabeth and Edmond to be executors, William Chinfield and Robt Harrison supervisors; witnesses: Alexander Pates & Thomas Rose. Proved 27 Sept. 1618, Probate Court, Lincoln Cathedral.

12 Feb. 1611/14 I Henry Ingals of Skirbeck Quarter in the parish of Skirbeck in the pts of Hollande in the County of Lincoln, husbandman, sick in body ... unto my son William 10 at age 21 ... unto Elizabeth Ingals my daughter £ 10 at age 21 or day of marriage ... if they both die before, £30 to wife, other £10 to my brethren and sisters ... unto my father Ingals l0s ... to the church of Skirbeck 5s ... remainder to Rose my wife, she to be executrix. John Droster my neighbor and Edward Ingals my cossen to be supervisors ... Robert Ingals was one of three witnesses. Debts I owe: to my sister Mary Pickering 50s. Proved 6 May 1614, Probate Court, Lincoln Cathedral.

From this material the following family genealogy can be arranged. HENRY⁸ INGALLS married Joan, perhaps the sister of Thomas Wytton. Henry made his will 1 June 1555 and was survived by his wife and six children among whom was James. One of these six children, possibly one named Edmund, was almost certainly the father of Robert who named his eldest son Edmund. It is possible, however, that Henry was the father of Robert, rather than the grandfather, in which case Robert would have been but a small child in 1555 and thus would have been well into his thirties when he married.

ROBERT INGALLS was probably a grandson of Henry and perhaps born about 1560-1565 in or near Skirbeck. He probably married about 1587 Elizabeth ------ Robert made his will 12 July 1617, lived on for eight more months, was buried at Skirbeck 22 March 1617/18. His widow was buried there 22 April 1631. Their children were:

+Edmund, b. probably about 1588

 Robert, b. probably about 1590; s. at Boston, 11 July 1613, Alice Snap*; living 1617

Edith, probably his daughter, bapt. 29 July 1592; m. at Boston 19 May 1612 Ambrose Stynytt. They had a son Robert and she d. before 1617.

Francis, b. probably 1595, deposed as aged about 60 in 1662 (an error of transcription?) but his age was recorded as 26 in marriage license of 1621; m. at Boston, England, 27 Nov. 1621, Bridget Vaughan who was bur. 20 Dec. 1625, three children. He m. (2) Mary -----, and he d. about 1672 at Boston, Mass., where he made his will 1 Nov. 1672. In it he mentioned wife Mary, son-in-law Joseph Belknap; balance of estate to Elizabeth Farnum of Andover after wife's decease

(---)se, daughter of Robert Engall, bur. July 1604. [The name was short; left part stained and illegible, perhaps Rose.]

EDMUND¹ INGALLS, son of the aforesaid Robert and grandson, or perhaps great-grandson, of Henry, was born probably about 1588 at Skirbeck, Lincolnshire. On 7 June 1618 at the Church of St. Nicholas, Skirbeck, Edmund Ingalls and Annis Telbe were married. Annis is an equivalent form of Ann (also sometimes of Agnes and even Hannah) and Telbe would apparently be a variant of Tealby, the name of a village in  Lincolnshire. A search of all Tealby probate records of that period in Lincolnshire reveals no clue to her origins nor are any other Tealbys noted in the Skirbeck records. 

Edmund Ingalls was church warden for Skirbeck for 1632. He probably left for New England the next year. Edmund's brother Francis may have left earlier. Alonzo Lewis, History of Lynn, Mass., wrote that the brothers settled in Saugus (Lynn) as early as June 1629, which may be correct for Francis but is certainly not so for Edmund. Edmund is said to have built his home next to a pond, the site being between 33 and 43 Bloomfield Street, Lynn.

On 20 June 1646 Edmund Ingalls was fined "for bringing home sticks in both arms on the Sabath day from toward Mr. Holyokes rails." Witnesses were Joseph, Obadiah and Jane Flood, his neighbors (Essex Quarterly Court Files 1:99).

About March 1648 when crossing the bridge over Saugus River, sup-

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posedly on horseback, he fell through and was critically injured. On the 23rd the Court of Assistants allowed the Town of Lynn £20 toward repairs--Edmund lingered on with his injuries and then, apparently realizing that he was not going to recover, wrote his will and died a few days later. The will was proved 14 Sept. 1648 and the inventory came to £135/8/10. Soon after his death:

The humble petition of Robert Ingalls, with the test of his brethren and sisters, being eight in number, humbly showeth that whereas your poor petitioner's father hath been deprived of life by the insufficiency of Lynne Bridge, so called, to the great impoverishment of your poor petitioner's mother and themselves and there being a court order that any person so dyeing through such insufficiency of any bridge in the countrye, there should be an hundred pounds forfeit to the next heirs, May it therefore please this honorable Court to take your poore petitioner's case into consideration.

The petition was considered 18 Oct. 1648 and the damages were allowed.

On 27 March 1649 Ann Ingalls sued William Flint and Anthony Needham for taking her hay

(ibid. 1:162).

There are no known deeds for Edmund and no further record of his widow.

Children: baptized at Skirbeck, Lincolnshire

i. Elizabeth, bapt.28 Feb.1618/19; d. 9 June1676; a. as 1st of three wives, the Rev. Francis Dane who d. 17 Feb.1696/7; 9 children.

ii. Robert, bapt. 13 July1620; bur. at Lynn, 3 Jan.1697/8; m. Sarah Harker, d. 8 April1696, daughter of William & Elizabeth Hacker of Lynn;9 children.

iii. Faith, bapt. 14 July1622, living1682, probably d. by1692; m. Andrew Allen of Lynn, living1682, probably d. by 1692. They were among the first settlers of Andover. A daughter was hanged as a witch in1692, another was killed by Indians, and both sons d. of smallpox in 1690.

iv. John, bapt.9 May1624, d. testate at Rehoboth, Mass.,31 Dec.1721; m. 26 May1667 Elizabeth Barrett of Salem, d. 5 March1717/18; 5 children. He was of Ipswich in1648, of Lynn in1649 (per deed), then of Andover; later of Tiverton, R.I., and in 1687 to Bristol.

v. Sarah, bapt.16 July1626; m. William Bitner; no further record for either.

vi. Samuel, bapt.20 Jan.1627/8; probably d.1629-30 for which period Bishop's Transcripts are lacking.

vii. Henry, probably b.1629/30; d. at Andover,8 Feb.1718/19 aet. 90; m. (1) 6 July1653, Mary Osgood. d. 16 Dec.1686, daughter of John b Sarah Osgood, 12 children; (2)1 Aug.1649, Sarah (Farnum) Abbott.

viii. Samuel, bapt.22 April1632, d. 1716/17; m., 9 Dec.1656 Ruth Eaton, daughter of John & Anne Eaton; 9 children.

ix. Mary, b. probably about1634, perhaps at Lynn; living1646 in her father's will.

x. Joseph, according to a doubtful legend related by Lewis, but if so, he d. before the1648 will.

QUERY

Mrs. Josephine Reed: REED-WILKINSON: Ancestry of Amos Starr Reed Jr., born 10 Jan.1817, in 8elmont Co., Ohio, died3 April1907, and ancestry of his wife, Drusilla Wilkinson.

AMERICAN BURIED IN DAVENTRY, NORTHANTS

Francis Leeson, F.G.S., Co-editor of Genealogists' Magazine (London)

reports finding in the Bishop's Transcripts the following:

1717 Aug 5 Willm HEWITT Born in Virginia Dyed of The Smallpox buried.

The American Genealogist.

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BIBLE RECORDS – Submitted by Lola M. Flack: From the Family Bible of LANSFORD WHITING INGALLS, now in possession of Sharon Whipple.

Landsford Whiting Ingalls b 1812 was son of Samuel and Margaret Delano. Samuel descends thus: Jonathon, Timothy, Samuel, Samuel, Henry, Edmund.

Lansford Ingals was b November 12, 1812
Laura Ingalls was b November 5, 1810
Peter Riley Ingalls was b October 28, 1833
Our Babe was b February 18, 1835. He d February 23, 1835
Charles Philip Ingalls was b January 10, 1836
Lydia Louisa Ingalls was b April 12, 1838
Polly Melona Ingalls was b October 14, 1840
Lansford James Ingalls was b March 14, 1843
Laura Ladocia Ingalls was b July 8, 1845 in Washington, Kane Co, ILL
Hiram Lemuel Ingalls was b April 27, 1848 in the town of Fairfield, Kane Co, ILL
George Whiting Ingalls was b July 15, 1851 in the town of Concord, Jefferson Co, WIS
Ruby Celestia Ingalls was b May 23, 1855 in Concord, Jefferson Co WIS
Isaiah Clough was b January 29, 1857 in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co, WIS
Isaiah LaFayette Clough was killed February 4 by the limb of a tree in the town of Rockelm, Pierce Co, WIS AD 1893 aged 36 y 6 days
Mother Ingalls d May 6, 1837 aged 64 years
Father Ingalls d February 15, 1841 aged 70 years
Father Colby d May 22, 1857 aged 75 years
Mother Colby d March 15, 1862 aged 80 years
Ruby Celestia Card d December 1, 1881 aged 25 years 6 m 7 da in the town of Inman, Holt Co, NEB
Laura Ingalls d October 18, 1883 aged 72 y 7 m 13 da.

-All above in Lansford's handwriting

Lansford W. Ingalls d May 21, 1896 aged 83 y 5 m 8 days.

Mother Ingalls was Margaret Delano b in 1773 Tolland, CT Died May 6, 1837. Buried North Cuba, NY

Father Ingalls was Samuel, b 1771 Sandown, NH Died February 15, 1841. Buried Bolivar, NY

Mother Colby was Eunice Blood b January 2, 1782 West Fairlee, VT Died March 15, 1862. Buried North Cuba, NY

Father Colby was Nathan b 1782 Corinth, VT Died March 22, 1857. Buried North Cuba, NY

(e-editor: See correction to the above bible record in Vol 2-2, p. 62.)

Legend has it that MARGARET DELANO INGALLS was a spy in the War of 1812. Does anyone have any further information on this? In V 1-l, page 6, there is a story of a legend about SAMUEL AND MARGARET INGALLS living in Canada at the outbreak of the war, coming across Lake Champlain on the ice at night and he enlisted in the American army along with two brothers...Any information you may wish to share would be appreciated -- send to Lola Flack or Arlene Schrader.

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FROM THE 1880 SOUNDEX, MINNESOTA (Federal Census Schedule)

name and present residence  race   sex age where born
               relation       

Ingalls, John B. W  M  46  High Forest, Switzerland
Olmsted County                
Catharine    wife  W   F  41 Switzerland
Annie        dau   W   F  14 Minnesota
Christine    dau   W   F  14 Minnesota
Dora E.      dau   W   F  11 Minnesota
Peter E.     son   W   M   9 Minnesota
Andrew       son   W   M   7 Minnesota
Albert       son   W   M   4 Minnesota
Tilda        dau   W   F   8/12 Minnesota

Ingalls, John V.   W   M   48  High Forest, Switzerland
Olmsted County  
Mary         wife  W  F  31
Elizabeth    dau   W   F  9  Minnesota
Martha       dau   W   F  7  Minnesota
John B.      son   W   F  5  Minnesota
George M.    son   W   11 3  Minnesota
Martha       dau   W   F  1  Minnesota

Ingols, Louis     W    M 35  Barnerd, Scotland
Crow Wing County                
Julia      wife  W    F  28  Poland
Harvy      son   W   M  5 1/12  Illinois
Louis      son   W   M  2 10/12 Missouri

COMPUTERS AND GENEALOGY - As more personal computers are being used in our homes, and some of you have experience in compiling genealogy via these machines, kindly share your experiences, brand of computer, programs utilized and what success you have in recalling information. This can be a new column in the newsletter. Bob Ingalls of VA gives us news of his endeavor in the next two pages.