INGRAHAM
I hesitated about putting my Ingraham lineage up on a
Surname Saturday post because I am very confused about the original immigrant
ancestor, Richard Ingraham. But then, I
rethought this and I’m hoping for a cousin connection to someone out there who
can help me with the facts. I have
several very old sources that are contradictory on Richard Ingraham, and the
newest information I know about him was published in the NEHGS NEXUS Volume
XIV. I foolishly tossed all my old
volumes of the NEXUS and American Ancestors thinking they were now available on
line. However, only the first few
volumes of NEXUS are in the online database.
Live and learn.
There are records for a Richard Ingraham living in both
Rehoboth and Northampton, Massachusetts at this time period. He
became a freeman in Massachusetts on 18 May 1831. He was a surveyor of highways in Rehoboth in
1655. In 1668 he signed a petition. He donated two shillings to Harvard in
1673. The American Genealogist, Volume
19, page 77, says “Richard Ingraham, who died in Northampton, Massachusetts in
Aug 1683, the common progenitor and father of William and Henry of Boston, Jarret
of Rehoboth, and John of Hadley”.
There are several women who are supposed to be wives of
Richard Ingraham, but I have not seen any proof of any marriage records or
names. There is a sketch of Richard
Ingraham in the genealogy columns of the Boston
Transcript 8 February 1944 which claims he was the son of Arthur Ingram of
England and had a royal lineage. Anyone
who has worked with these Boston Transcript
columns knows that they are good clues, but since they are unsourced advice
sent in by readers they are not great sources of genealogy information.
I’ve had better luck finding information Richard’s children,
including the two siblings from whom I descend, William and Abigail. William Ingraham appears in the Boston
records as marrying Mary Bairstow. There
is a deed dated 29 June 1706 in which William conveyed land to “my Nefew Obadiah
Ingraham son to Jarratt Ingraham my brother”.
An earlier deed dated 17 May 1693 shows Wiliam purchasing land from his
father Richard Ingraham. These documents
show that both William and Jared were sons of Richard Ingraham. The Richard Ingraham of Northampton only
mentions in his 1683 will his wife, Joan, and “son-in-law” Calleb Pumry.
William’s sister, Abigail, is also my ancestor. She married Samuel Chesebrough in Rehoboth in
1655. Both Abigail and William settled
in Connecticut. The Chesebrough line is
well documented. Abigail’s daughter,
Elizabeth, married her cousin, William Ingraham (son of William and Mary above).
A good source of information on both William Ingraham and
his sister Abigail is the book Genealogy of the Descendants of William
Chesebrough, Founder of Stonington, Connecticut, by Anna Chesebrough
Widley, 1903. There are good vital
records for this family in the Connecticut records known as the Barbour
Collection. Connecticut research is new for me, but I’ve found the Barbour
collection on microfilm at many good genealogy libraries such as NEHGS, any
Family History Library, the American Canadian Genealogical Society and
other. The Barbour Collection can also
be found online.
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My INGRAHAM lineage:
Generation 1: Richard Ingraham, born about 1600, According to the LDS Batch No. c028262, a
Richard Ingram was baptized on 18 March 1600 in Fishtoft, Lincolnshire, son of
John Ingram. Seven children, and I am
descended of two:
1. Elizabeth, born 21 March 1628, m. Richard
Bullock
2. Joanna, born about 1629, m. George Robinson
3. William, see below
4. Jared, born about 1631, m. Rebecca Searle
5. Abigail, see below
6. John, born about 1637, m. Elizabeth Gardner
7. Henry, born about 1639, m1. Lydia Dowse, m2.
Elizabeth Underwood
Line A.
Generation 2: William Ingraham, born 1629 in England, died 4
May 1721 in Stonington, Connecticut; married on 14 May 1656 in Rehoboth,
Massachusetts to Mary Bairstow, daughter of William Bairstow and Anna
Hubbard. She was born 28 December 1641
in Dedham, Massachusetts and died 16 November 1708 in Scituate, Massachusetts.
Two children. He married again to Esther
Unknown.
Generation 3: William Ingraham, born 27 January 1658 in
Boston, died 16 January 1708 in Stonington, Connecticut; married in 1689 to
Elizabeth Chesebrough, daughter of Samuel Chesebrough and Abigail
Ingraham. She was born 6 January 1669 in
Stonington, died after 1708 probably in Stonington. Seven children.
Generation 4: Patience Ingraham, born 2 April 1706 in
Stonington, died Oct 1770 in Groton, Connecticut; married on 8 September 1726
in Lebanon, Connecticut to Ebenezer Bill.
He was born 14 December 1695 in Groton, died 23 May 1788 in Cornwallis,
Nova Scotia. Ten children.
Generation 5: Asahel Bill, born 7 April 1748 in Lebanon,
died 10 November 1814 in Billtown, Nova Scotia; married 18 June 1778 in
Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia to Mary Rand, daughter of Caleb Rand and Mary
Mayhew. She was born in 1758 and died on
19 February 1845. Eleven children.
Generation 6: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella
Lyons
Generation 7: Professor Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret
Bollman
Generation 8: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson
Generation 9: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise
Roberts (my grandparents)
Line B.
Generation 2: (There
is no proof that Abigail Ingraham is the daughter of Richard Ingraham, since
the records only list the sons of Richard Ingraham) Abigail Ingraham, died 18
April 1700 in Stonington, married on 3 November 1665 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
to Samuel Chesebrough, son of William Chesebrough and Ann Stevenson. He was born about 1627 in Boston,
Lincolnshire, England, and died 31 July 1673 in Stonington. Seven children.
Generation 3: Elizabeth Chesebrough m. William Ingraham (see
above)
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