Person:Richard Ingersoll (5)

Richard came from Bedfordshire under contract with the Massachusetts Bay Company, as one of a group of planters, where he arrived in Salem, MA on June 29, 1629. In 1638 he was given 2 acres also 80 acres on Cape Ann side. Later he was given 30 acres of meadow in the great meadow. He maintained a ferry at Salem in 1636 and received a penny for every person he ferried across the North River.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Avery, Lillian Drake. A Genealogy of the Ingersoll family in America, 1629-1925: Comprising Descendants of Richard Ingersoll of Salem, Massachusetts, John Ingersoll of Westfield, Mass., and John Ingersoll of Huntington, Long Island. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1926)
   page 1.
2. ↑ Richard Ingersoll entry, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   MIGRATION: 1629 FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem
   BIRTH: Baptized 10 March 1587 at Sandy, Bedfordshire, son of George "Inkerstall" [ Abel Lunt Anc 63].
   DEATH: Salem between 24 July 1644 (date of will) and 4 October 1644 (date of inventory).

3.   Richard Ingersoll , in Threlfall, John B. (Brooks). Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1993)
   141+.

   Richard Ingersoll of Salem made his will on 24 July
   1644 as follows and died within a few weeks, for the inventory
   of his estate was made on 4 October following.
   
   
   July 21, 1644.1 Richard Ingersoll of Salem in the County of Essex
   in New England being weak in body but through God's mercy in
   perfect memory, doe make this my last will and testament as
   followeth viz. I give to Ann my wife all my estate of land, goods
   & chattels whatsoever except as followeth viz. I give to George
   Ingersoll my son six acres of meadow lying in the great meadow.
   Item I give to Nathaniel Ingersoll, my youngest son a parcell of
   ground with a little frame thereon which I bought of John Pease
   but if the said Nathaniel dy without issue of his body lawfully
   begotten then the land aforesaid to be shared equally 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 eldest daughter Alice Walcott my house at
   town with 10 acres of upland & meadow after my wife's decease.
   I read this will to Richard Ingersoll & he his
   acknowledged it to be his will. J°: Endecott mark
   Witness: Townsend Bishop Proved 2 January 1644/5
   Inventory of the Estate of Richard Ingerson of Salem taken by
   Townsend Bishop and Jeffery Massy 4 October 1644
   
   
   Since son Nathaniel died without children, the land
   left to him went to the descendants of John Ingersoll,
   Richard Pettingill and William Haines, resulting in a
   series of deeds which help greatly in sorting out the
   family relationships.