Capt David James Ingersoll was born on 30 September 1699, in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Ingersoll Sr, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Ashley, was 26. He married Lydia Child on 13 March 1720, in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 23 March 1773, in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 73.
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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America", by Lillian D. Avery, page 511.
Capt. David Ingersoll was an extremely colorful character. I find it interesting to note that the authors of the two published Ingersoll genealogies (The Ingersolls of New Hampshire, 1904, Lt. Chas S. Ripley and A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family, 1926, Lillian Drake Avery) state that David Ingersoll in 1755 "was by order of the General Court removed from his offices of Justice of the Peace and Capt. of the Militia and thereafter disqualified from holding any office of honor or profit under the Government".
This datum was taken from the History of Great Barrington, 1882, Charles J. Taylor. The first part of it is confirmed by original court records. But good old David was at that time only beginning his career as a land-grabber. The largest deals took place long after his first set-back. By the time he was 63 he had become so affluent that he joined the Church of England, and deeded land for the "elegant" church which was build in Great Barrington. One of the human-interest angles which I found surprising in this picture is the fact that the son William (only child of wife Lydia) married a cousin, Lydia Ingersoll, and became extremely prosperous indeed. Yet, when David died, the court appointed as administrator, 22 April 1773, David Jr., described as a prominent Tory lawyer. As the storm clouds of the Revolution rolled onward, this son David Jr. became very unpopular with the rebels, and finally fled the town, but was captured and put in jail at Litchfield, CT. Eventually he sailed for England never to return. His younger brothers Deodat and Oliver also ran afoul of the Patriots and had a rough time, though they did not leave the country and eventually were able to live in peace. But David's estate was in limbo until 1782, and not finally settled until 1794 when William, son of Lydia and the richest of the lot, who had remained in Lee as Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, and leader of the revolutionists, took over and sold at auction his father's remaining properties.
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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America", by Lillian D. Avery, page 511.
Capt. David Ingersoll was an extremely colorful character. I find it interesting to note that the authors of the two published Ingersoll genealogies (The Ingersolls of New Hampshire, 1904, Lt. Chas S. Ripley and A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family, 1926, Lillian Drake Avery) state that David Ingersoll in 1755 "was by order of the General Court removed from his offices of Justice of the Peace and Capt. of the Militia and thereafter disqualified from holding any office of honor or profit under the Government".
This datum was taken from the History of Great Barrington, 1882, Charles J. Taylor. The first part of it is confirmed by original court records. But good old David was at that time only beginning his career as a land-grabber. The largest deals took place long after his first set-back. By the time he was 63 he had become so affluent that he joined the Church of England, and deeded land for the "elegant" church which was build in Great Barrington. One of the human-interest angles which I found surprising in this picture is the fact that the son William (only child of wife Lydia) married a cousin, Lydia Ingersoll, and became extremely prosperous indeed. Yet, when David died, the court appointed as administrator, 22 April 1773, David Jr., described as a prominent Tory lawyer. As the storm clouds of the Revolution rolled onward, this son David Jr. became very unpopular with the rebels, and finally fled the town, but was captured and put in jail at Litchfield, CT. Eventually he sailed for England never to return. His younger brothers Deodat and Oliver also ran afoul of the Patriots and had a rough time, though they did not leave the country and eventually were able to live in peace. But David's estate was in limbo until 1782, and not finally settled until 1794 when William, son of Lydia and the richest of the lot, who had remained in Lee as Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, and leader of the revolutionists, took over and sold at auction his father's remaining properties.
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Capt David James Ingersoll was born on 30 September 1699, in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Ingersoll Sr, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Ashley, was 26. He married Lydia Child on 13 March 1720, in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 23 March 1773, in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 73.
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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America", by Lillian D. Avery, page 511.
Capt. David Ingersoll was an extremely colorful character. I find it interesting to note that the authors of the two published Ingersoll genealogies (The Ingersolls of New Hampshire, 1904, Lt. Chas S. Ripley and A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family, 1926, Lillian Drake Avery) state that David Ingersoll in 1755 "was by order of the General Court removed from his offices of Justice of the Peace and Capt. of the Militia and thereafter disqualified from holding any office of honor or profit under the Government".
This datum was taken from the History of Great Barrington, 1882, Charles J. Taylor. The first part of it is confirmed by original court records. But good old David was at that time only beginning his career as a land-grabber. The largest deals took place long after his first set-back. By the time he was 63 he had become so affluent that he joined the Church of England, and deeded land for the "elegant" church which was build in Great Barrington. One of the human-interest angles which I found surprising in this picture is the fact that the son William (only child of wife Lydia) married a cousin, Lydia Ingersoll, and became extremely prosperous indeed. Yet, when David died, the court appointed as administrator, 22 April 1773, David Jr., described as a prominent Tory lawyer. As the storm clouds of the Revolution rolled onward, this son David Jr. became very unpopular with the rebels, and finally fled the town, but was captured and put in jail at Litchfield, CT. Eventually he sailed for England never to return. His younger brothers Deodat and Oliver also ran afoul of the Patriots and had a rough time, though they did not leave the country and eventually were able to live in peace. But David's estate was in limbo until 1782, and not finally settled until 1794 when William, son of Lydia and the richest of the lot, who had remained in Lee as Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, and leader of the revolutionists, took over and sold at auction his father's remaining properties.
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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America", by Lillian D. Avery, page 511.
Capt. David Ingersoll was an extremely colorful character. I find it interesting to note that the authors of the two published Ingersoll genealogies (The Ingersolls of New Hampshire, 1904, Lt. Chas S. Ripley and A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family, 1926, Lillian Drake Avery) state that David Ingersoll in 1755 "was by order of the General Court removed from his offices of Justice of the Peace and Capt. of the Militia and thereafter disqualified from holding any office of honor or profit under the Government".
This datum was taken from the History of Great Barrington, 1882, Charles J. Taylor. The first part of it is confirmed by original court records. But good old David was at that time only beginning his career as a land-grabber. The largest deals took place long after his first set-back. By the time he was 63 he had become so affluent that he joined the Church of England, and deeded land for the "elegant" church which was build in Great Barrington. One of the human-interest angles which I found surprising in this picture is the fact that the son William (only child of wife Lydia) married a cousin, Lydia Ingersoll, and became extremely prosperous indeed. Yet, when David died, the court appointed as administrator, 22 April 1773, David Jr., described as a prominent Tory lawyer. As the storm clouds of the Revolution rolled onward, this son David Jr. became very unpopular with the rebels, and finally fled the town, but was captured and put in jail at Litchfield, CT. Eventually he sailed for England never to return. His younger brothers Deodat and Oliver also ran afoul of the Patriots and had a rough time, though they did not leave the country and eventually were able to live in peace. But David's estate was in limbo until 1782, and not finally settled until 1794 when William, son of Lydia and the richest of the lot, who had remained in Lee as Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, and leader of the revolutionists, took over and sold at auction his father's remaining properties.
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