INGERSOLL Nathanial[1]

Male Abt 1633 - 1718  (~ 85 years)


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  • Name INGERSOLL Nathanial 
    Birth Abt 1633  Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Deposed aged 40 years 30 June 1674; deposed "aged 45 years or thereabouts" 25 June 1678; deposed aged 60 years 25 December 1694.
    Gender Male 
    _UID A0610D38EB9ED5118A0644455354000075A9 
    Death 27 Jan 1717/8  Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • After his father died, went to live on the "Orchard Farm of Gov. Endicott, that he might the better learn to carry on the farm left him by his father." At an early age he married Hannah Collins of Lynn, and built on a spot a little to the north of the present church and immediately west of the parsonage at the Centre.

      At his house or mansion, as it was called, were held the parish and church meetings, and he was allowed in 1673 to sell "bear and syder by the quart for the tyme whyle the farmers are building of their meeting house and on Lord's days afterwards." As only men in good standing were given such a license, this privilege alone vouches for his position in the community.

      On the 22d of March, 1689, he was admitted a freeman and on the 24th of the following November the church records declare "that Brother Nathaniel Ingersoll was chosen by a general vote of the Brethren to officiate in the place of a Deacon for a time."

      Near by the home of Nathaniel Ingersoll stood the block house, where a watch was kept in the years when Indian raids were feared. We find him one of Nicholas Paige's men on the campaign made in 1675, against the Narragansetts, and that he bore the title of Lieut. shows again his ability as a leader. He seems to have been equally valiant at the time of the witchcraft delusion fighting an unseen foe.

      It was at his tavern that the first hearings in the witch trials were held, March 1, 1692, and he seems to have been an accuser in at least seven cases.

      Deacon Ingersoll died in 1719, leaving the bulk of his property, after his wife's decease, to his adopted son Benjamin Hutchinson, subject to payment of several legacies, one of them being a gift to the church of fifty shillings, to purchase some silver cups "for the more adorning of the Lord's table." He had given land to the church, and also a tract to the inhabitants of Salem village in 1694, as "A Training Place forever," and the town of Danvers in the summer of 1894 set a huge boulder on the green and dedicated it, June 30th, with a suitable inscription, and with public ceremonies, to the memory of the patriotic donor, and the valiant men who, during two hundred years had "gone hence to protect their homes and to serve their country."
    Person ID I1581  Old North Yarmouth, Maine
    Last Modified 5 Oct 2005 

    Father INGERSOLL Richard,   b. Bef 10 Mar 1587, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 21 Jul 1644 and 4 Oct 1644, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 57 years) 
    Mother LANGLEY Agnes,   b. 1590, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jul 1677, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage 10 Oct 1611  Sandy, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6
    • (St. Swithin's Church)
    Family ID F549  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family COLLINS Hannah   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Y  [1
    Family ID F6609  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S203] Book-Ingersoll-A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in Americ, p.5, R929.2 I47.1.

    2. [S163] Book-The Great Migration Begins, Vol. II 1620-33, p.1062.

    3. [S127] Parish register, St. Swithin's. Aidan_Langley@classic.msn.com.

    4. [S163] Book-The Great Migration Begins, Vol. II 1620-33, p.1061.

    5. [S185] Book-Seven Hundred Ancestors, p.51, CS71.L58.

    6. [S203] Book-Ingersoll-A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in Americ, p.2, R929.2 I47.1.