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Subject: [GM-L] Ingalls family of Lynn, Massachusetts ~ History of Lynn
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:16:39 EDT

Subject: Ingalls
Source: History of Lynn, Mass. by Alonzo Lewis & James R. Newhall. Boston
1865.

p.111

The first white men known to have been inhabitants of Lynn were Edmund
Ingalls and his
brother Francis Ingalls. A record preserved in the family of Edmund Ingalls
says, "Mr.
Edmund Ingalls came from Lincolnshire, in England to Lynn in 1629."

He was a farmer and settled in the eastern part of the town near a small pond
on Fayette
Street. The place where his house stood is still pointed out by his
descendants. He had
a malt house near the margin of the pond. When the lands were divided in
1638 there were
apportioned "to Edmund and Francis Ingalls, upland and meadow, 120 acres."

He was accidentally drowned in March, 1648, by falling with his horse through
the old
Saugus River bridge on Boston Street; for which the General Court paid one
hundred pounds
($444) to his children. His estate was valued at £135. 8s. 10d., including
"house and
lands £50."

The name of his wife was Ann and he had nine children, six of whom were born
in England.

1. Robert who inherited his father's "house and houselot.", 2. Elizabeth. 3.
Faith, who
married Andrew Allen. 4. John to whom his father gave "the house and ground
that was Jeremy
ffits (Fitch) lying by the meeting-house and that three acres land he hath in
England."
5. Sarah who married William Bitner. 6. Henry, who was born in 1627 and
removed to Andover,
where he died in 1719 aged 92 years. A descendant of his, Capt. Henry
Ingalls died in 1803
aged 84 years. About a year before his death he added the following note to
the family gen-
ealogy: "Mr. Henry Ingals from whom all these spring, was born in the year
1627, and he died
in the year 1719, who lived ninety-two years. Two months after his death I,
Henry Ingals was
born who have lived eighty three years, so that we two Henry Ingals hath
lived on this Earth
one hundred and seventy-five years." 7. Samuel. 8. Mary. 9. Joseph.

The descendants of Mr. Edmund Ingalls in this and other towns, are numerous
and respectable
and several of them eminent in the learned professions. (One or two
interesting particulars
appear in the petition of the children of Mr. Ingalls for redress on the loss
of their
father. The paper reads as follows: "The humble petition of Robert Ingalls
with the rest of
his brethren and sisters, being eight in number, humbly sheweth that whereas
your poor peti-
tioners father hath been deprived of life by the insufficiency of Lynne
Bridge, so called,
to the great impoverishinge of your poore petitioners mother and themselves,
and there be-
ing a Court order that any person soe dyinge through such insufficiency of
any bridge in the
countrye that there shold be an hundred pounds forfeit to the next heire, may
it therefore
please this honorable Court to take your poore petitioners case into
consideration."

Francis INGALLS, brother of Edmund, was born in Englandin 1601. He was a
tanner, and lived
at Swampscot. He built a tannery on Humfrey's brook, where it is crossed by
a stone bridge
in Burrill Street. I saw the vats before they were taken up in 1825. This
was the first
tannery in New England. And perhaps its establishment gave the first
direction to the great
business of the place - shoemaking. When the leather was made, it was
natural enough to
turn attention to means for directly applying it to the common necessities of
life.

p.171

Lands given to the inhabitants of the town of Lynn, Anno Domini 1638.

Edmund and Francis Ingalls, upland and meadow, 120 acres.

p.191

1640

Andrew Allen married Faith, a daughter of Edmund Ingalls. He removed to
Andover and there
died in 1690.

p.200

Mr. Humfrey appears to have owned nearly all the lands from Sagamore Hill to
Forest River.
Robert Ingalls bought nine acres of the farm at Swampscott for two hundred
and eighty pounds,
in 1681 from his daughter Ann.

p.331

In 1758, a company of soldiers from Lynn marched on Canada on the 23 of May.
Edmund Ingalls
and Samuel Mudge were killed.

p.361

1786

In April 1786, Benjamin Ingalls, in throwing an anchor from a boat in the
harbor was drawn
overboard and drowned.

p.425

1850.

On the afternoon of Thursday, June 20, 1850 during a thunder shower, the
lightning struck
the clothing store of Roland G. Usher on Market Street. James W. Ingalls,
who was standing
in the doorway was knocked down. The lightning passed through his legs,
tearing one of his
boots and burning his person somewhat.

Interesting note for 1850 - The physicians of Lynn by mutual agreement,
commenced charging
seventy-five cents for each professional visit, June 15, 1850. The most
common fee
previous to that was 50 cents. It was a time of great prosperity and wages
in almost every
craft and profession took an upward course.

p.450

1857

On the evening of May 26, 1857, the shoe manufactory of Albert B. Ingalls on
Union Street
was burned with a considerable amount of stock.

p.465

1861 - Lynn in the Civil War

Two companies of Lynn's Light Infantry and Lynn City Guards formed a part of
the Eighth
Regiment of Massachusetts troops which became so celebrated in the early part
of the war
for discipline, promptness and heroism. These troops were called for three
months' service.
The names of such of the regimental officers as belonged to Lynn are given:

Ephraim A. Ingalls, Quartermaster.

p.465

Privates - Company F - Lynn City Guards

Abner Ingalls.

Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
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