Ancestors

Edmund Ingalls

Edmund Ingalls came to Salem in Governor Endicott's company in 1628, and the next year he and his brother Francis and four other men began the settlement of Lynn. He was born at Skirbeck in Lincolnshire about 1598.

The court record that survives him best is a small one. On 20 June 1646 he was fined for bringing home sticks in both his arms on the Sabbath day from Mr. Holyoke's rails, on the evidence of three of the Floods.

In March 1648 he was riding to Boston and the bridge over the Saugus River gave way under him and he was drowned. His heirs recovered damages from the town for it. His will was probated on 16 September 1648 and the estate appraised at a hundred and thirty five pounds.

The will makes his wife Ann sole executor and leaves her the house, the houselot, the stock of cattle and the corn. It gives Robert his son and heir four pounds and, after his mother's decease, the house. It gives John the house and ground that was Jeremy Fitts's by the meeting house, and three acres of land he had in England to possess and enjoy. It gives Henry the house bought of Goodman West with six acres by it and three acres of marsh at Rumley Marsh. It gives Sarah two ewes, Faith two yearling calves, and Elizabeth twenty shillings, to be paid by her mother in a heifer calf within two years. The last bequest leaves Mary the heifer calf she already enjoyed, and leaves Mary herself to her mother for future dowry.

The will closes: "Finally, I appoint Francis Ingalls, my brother & Francis Dane, my sonne in law, overseers of my will." He signed with a mark.

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Cite: Heirology, "Edmund Ingalls (1598-1648)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/edmund-ingalls-1598-1648-da3938.