George INGERSOLL

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                   Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family - Pg. 6 #9 John Ingersoll born at Salem in 1645; died in Kittery, 1716.  In his will of 27 September 1714, proved 4 April 1716, he names his wife and all his children except a daughter, deceased, who had married a Brown.  He b\\prospered at Falmouth, Maine, where he bought 1 May 1675, from George Munjoy a large tract of land.  Driven from Falmouth by Indians in 1675, he sought refuge, with his father and brother, in Salem, where 11 November 1675, the town "admitted (them) as inhabitants during the time of the Indian wards being driven from their habitations."  He moved to Kittery in 1676, where his wife lived, but in 1680 was again in Falmouth, where he received a house-lot and 60 acres of land at Ft. Loyal on 23 September 1676.  The Massachusetts grant of land and mill privileges, confirmed 13 Oct 1680, was perfected in 1682, and from 1684 was worked by a company.  John's occupancy of hs farm at the Stroudwater (now Westbrook) was interrupted by the second Indian War, when he sought refuge at Kittery, where he was a carpenter.  He also owned land in Kittery, Berwick and Scarboro.

He married Deborah Gunnison, daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth Gunnison, of Boston, 1634, and Kittery, 1651,from which latter town Hugh was chosen Deputy of the General Court in 1653, 1654, and 1657.  Deborah was baptized at Boston "about 7 days old," 25 July 1642; she died after 8 July 1728.  8 July 1726, aged 83, she deposed that she lived at Falmouth fifty years since, on a farm lyin up old Casco River.

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                   Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family - Pg. 7 #10 Joseph Ingersoll born at Gloucester, 4 October 1646, and died there 12 March 1718.  Moving to Falmouth, Maine as a boy with his father, Joseph (should be George), at the time of the King Philip War, settled at Charlestown, where he was received as an inhabitant 6 March 1676.  He removed in 1690 to Gloucester, where he was a carpenter.  He married Sarah Coe, daughter of Matthew Coe and Elizabeth Wakley, of Falmouth, originally of Gloucester.  Sarah died 29 Jan, 1714.
                  

                   IGI Elizabeth Ingersoll - born 1 Feb 1648 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts - died 9 Mar 1649 Salem,Essex, Massachusetts - married John Skillings. (not possible to be married - only 1 year old)
                  

                   Genealogy of Ingersoll Family - Pg. 7 #11 Samuel Ingersoll was born about 1654 at Falmouth Maine and died after 133 at Gloucester, Massachusetts.  Driven from Falmouth by the Indian hostilities, he went to Charlestown where Mr. Savage informs us his wife Judith brought to baptism the first five of their children 10 Jun 1694.  He 12 July 1696, aged near fifty, was baptized.  He came to Gloucester soon after 1700 and was an active shipwright, having his place of business at Easter Point near that where Capt. Robinson built his first schooner.  The date of his death is not known, but he certainly lived to extreme old age.  His wife, Judith died 1 May 1720, between 50 and 60 years old.

Samuel Ingersoll was oe of the five Gloucester men composed partly of the company to hold in 1733 the township of Amherst, New Hampshire, then called Narragansett No. 3 which was granted for services rendered by themselves or their ancestors in 1675.  He conveyed the right to his son Joel in 1734 saying in the deed that he was a soldier in the Narragansett war called Phillips' War.