1692 On 27 November, Thomas Ingersoll was born in Westfield, Massachusetts. [1] [2]
1742 On 9 October, Thomas Ingersoll died. [3]
Thomas Ingersoll (Thomas,2 John1), born at Westfield, Mass., Nov. 27, 1692, and there resided during the whole of his life. His residence, "Ingersoll Place," he inherited from his father. He was commissioned a magistrate 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. [4]
Greylock, that famous 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. [5]
Thomas Ingersoll married Sarah, daughter of Abijah Dewey, and their tombstone reads:
"In Memory of Thomas Ingersoll, Esq., who was born Nov. 27, 1692, and died Oct. 9, 1748, in the 56th year of his age.
Also Mrs. Sarah, his wife, was born March 17, 1696, and died April 30, 1778; aged 82 years.
This stone stands, but to tell
Where their dust lies, Not what was:
When saints shall rise that day will show
The parts they acted here below." [6]
The value of his estate from the inventory taken Oct. 28, 1748, amounted to 9662 l., 6s., which was a very large fortune in those days. Children all born at Westfield and recorded there.
Children:
Jonathan, born Jan. 24, 1715.
Daniel, born May 26, 1718; died 1754, while serving in the Colonial troops at the beginning of the French and Indian War; unmarried.
Sarah, born Jan. 27, 1720; m. 1st, May 31, 1741 (1739, Root Gen.), Moses Root, m. 2d, Nov. 15, 1748, Benj. Agur of Shrewsbury and lived there.
Miriam, born Nov. 4, 1723.
Margaret, born Feb. 1, 1727-8.
John, born Feb. 26, 1731.
Mary, born Nov. 16, 1733.
Ann, born June 21, 1737; m. Col. Sluman of the British Army. [7]
Research Notes:
Charles Stedman Ripley provides an account of the descendants of Thomas and Sarah (Dewey) Ingersoll. [8]
[1] Charles Stedman Ripley, The Ingersolls of Hampshire (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, 1893), 26, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Lillian Drake Avery, A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1926), 132, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[3] Lillian Drake Avery, A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1926), 132, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[4] Lillian Drake Avery, A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1926), 132, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[5] Lillian Drake Avery, A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1926), 132, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[6] Lillian Drake Avery, A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1926), 132, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[7] Lillian Drake Avery, A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1926), 132, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[8] Charles Stedman Ripley, The Ingersolls of Hampshire (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, 1893), 32, 32-39, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].