Robert Ingalls
Robert Ingalls was a yeoman of Skirbeck quarter of Skirbeck, a parish beside Boston in Lincolnshire. A yeoman was a farmer who held land of his own. He made his will on 12 July 1617, "being sick in body but of good & perfect memorie." He signed it with his mark.
He left his land to his wife Elizabeth for her life. "After her decease to Edmund my eldest Sonne who was lawfully begotten and for want of issue after Edmunds death to ffrancis my youngest Sonne and failing issue to the natural heirs of me Robert Ingalls forever." He gave his son Robert twenty pounds and Francis thirty, both a year after his death.
He remembered the household and the neighbors. His maid servant Anne Cleasbie was to have five pounds. Every child of Henry Cleasbie was to have a ewe lamb, and so was every child of "cousin Henry." His brother Henry was to have a black fleeced cow. The poor of Skirbeck were to have ten shillings at once. His wife and Edmund were his executors. William Shinfold and Robert Harrison were the supervisors, with two shillings and sixpence each for their pains.
His sons Edmund and Francis left Skirbeck for New England. Edmund had five children baptised at Skirbeck between 1617 and 1627. In 1628 he sailed for Salem in Governor Endicott's company, and the next year the two brothers were among the first settlers of Lynn.
The Ingalls family genealogy of 1903 makes Robert a son of Henry Ingalls of Skirbeck, whose will of 1 June 1555 names a wife Johan and six children. Walter Renton Ingalls, in 1930, calls Henry "probably the great-grandfather" of Edmund instead.
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Cite: Heirology, "Robert Ingalls", https://heirology.com/ancestors/robert-ingalls-e9b4cd.