John Ingersoll of Huntington, Long Island
From Lillian D. Avery's book"In 1652 the Puritan Colony which had been established at Sandwich,Mass.,detached eleven fami lies from their number and dispached themthrough theConnecticut Valley to Huntington, Long I sland, under theleadership ofthe pastor, Rev. William Liverich. Among these colonistswer e JohnSkidmore and Daniel Whitehead who were grantees and proprietorsof thetown of Huntingto n, Long Island, destined to be and afterwardsincludedin the state of Connecticut.
Mentioned as owning Meadow Farms, mentioned as having been warned bythecommittemen for viola tion of the Innkeepers law, which at thattimeprohibited anyone but an innkeeper from enterta ining guests. Inthisinstance John entertained a man, wife and two children.
From various grants from 1680 to 1689 the bounds of John Ingersollslandare as follows: Fron t 85 rods line runs N.N.W. and W.S.W. south side100rods rear (probably E. side) 62 rods , li ne running S. and E. and N.byW. North side by Sound, West by Samuel Kecham, South by highway ,alsoland on south to Great Creek.
In 1690 he sold the house and five acres he had bought in 1681 toBenjaminJones. The next ye ar 1692, he purchased of James Valentine,houses, barsand farm at the lowest part of Crab Mea dow.
The will of John Ingersoll of Huntington, dated 1694 (he died in1695)bequeathed to his child ren John, Simon, Daniel and Jane, some sixhundredpounds in money and large land holdings i n the town ofHuntington, healso bequeathed the house and home farm to his wife Jane(Early L ongIsland Wills- Pelletrem)."
I (Bob Ingersoll) have not proven nor disproven any of this. Another ofthe Ingersollclan, a cousin of min e did the research twenty odd yearsago and gave meher research before she passed away.
I woud like my information verified also, but all research to datehasagreed with this.
Bob a 13th generation American Ingersoll (my mothers maiden name).
She was first married to Daniel Whitehead of NY.
Gena has a write-up by James W Clayton dated March 28, 1960 referencing.
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Dear NYLongIsland-Listers,Descendants of colonial Long Island Whiteheads and students of Long Island
history and genealogy in general will want to be certain to read thearticle
in the October 2000 issue of the New York Genealogical & BiographicalRecord
entitled "The Family of Daniel Whitehead: A Century and a Half of Fact and
Fiction," by Harry Macy, Jr., FGBS, FASG.This article not only builds upon the recently rediscovered Daniel^1 will
and previously misapprehended primary evidences, neatly brought togetherand
re-examined to establish that there were two spouses and children byeach,*
but offers as well significant insights on when and how some of thebiggest
names in Long Island and New England genealogy were led astray in their
respective analyses of the family.An excerpt:
"Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family...presented Daniel^1
with quite a different family structure than that given by Curtis. Cornell
correctly named Daniel^1 as the father of both the children listed byRiker
and those in Adam's estate settlement. However, he also made 'Jeanne
Skidmore' the mother of all these children.... .
...Other early 20th century genealogists did notice that there was a
problem with Cornell's version of the family. Like Curtis, they concluded
that Jane and her children were a separate Whitehead family, and theylooked
for a Whitehead other than Daniel^1 who could have been her husband."This is followed by a discussion of versions proposed by Jacobus, Colket,
Wardell and Seversmith, each laboring without the benefit of the lost will
but apparently overlooking resources that might have better directed their
decisions. Also included is the 1985-published decision by Warren Skidmore
that Whitehead had not married a daughter of Thomas Skidmore--now provenand
underscored by Mr. Macy's research.That is, from among these 12 pages of astute and well-documented Macy
analysis, we learn that Jeanne Skidmore was not a wife of Daniel^1
Whitehead. Rather his widow, and the mother of his four youngest children,
was Jane Ireland, daughter of Thomas^1 Ireland, and subsequently the wifeof
John Ingersoll.Richard
*With a note that there might have been a first wife espoused by Daniel^1
before he married the daughter of Thomas Armitage.(Cross-posted from LIGenExchange, with minor re-wording by the
correspondent)
This is is an extract of our book "Thomas Scudamore/Skidmore"
Placed on the internet by Frank Skidmore, The original book by WarrenSkidmoreOn 15 December 1702 he petitioned for and was granted the administrationon the estate of his cousin Simon Ingersoll who had died in Huntington on8 January 1702. He was a son of Jane Ireland who was previously the widowof both Daniel Whitehead and his father John Ingersoll. Simon was also ayounger half brother of Jemima Whitehead, wife of Jonathan Lewis.
The fact that Thomas Skidmore 3rd took an interest in both SimonIngersoll and his Ingersoll's half sister Jemima suggests that theSkidmores were related to both families through their mother Jane(Ireland) Whitehead Ingersoll. Perhaps some proof may yet be found ofthis.Found at : http://genforum.genealogy.com/skidmore/messages/30.html