The search for my ancestors began in the spring of 1971 when I was given my grandmother's photo albums at a family funeral. In one of these albums was a picture of an old lady and beneath the photo, was the word " Ingersoll". Even more enticing were the words on the back of the photo - "1759-1760--our Great Grand Mother Ingersoll". If my grandfather wrote those words, then she was my great-great-great grandmother. And I set out to find out who this lady was. To make a long story short, after searching for several years I discovered that her name was Rebecca Meigs, born in 1789 or 1790 in New Hampshire, that she was brought to Grand Manan by her father, Dr. Abner Meigs, in 1802 and she married Samuel Ingersoll, son of the first Ingersoll on Grand Manan. The photo was taken in 1865, the only year the photographer printed on the back, was open.


         I began searching for my Ingersoll ancestors , and in doing so, discovered many other interesting ancestors as well. From 1980 to 1990 we had a very active Genealogical Society on Grand Manan and published a quarterly newsletter with genealogies of families, ( I published the Benson, Meigs and Wooster families), cemetery lists, census, baptism, marriage and death records.

        On this site I have written a brief background of the Grand Manan Ingersoll family, mostly taken from A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America, by Lillian Drake Avery, 1926. If anyone had corrctions or additions to make, please e-mail me and I will make the necessary changes. I have done the first eight generations. The ninth generation is so huge that it wouldbe a tremendous task to add it and, the eighth generation would take anyone up to the near present when records are available.

INGERSOLL GENEALOGY

        Our Ingersoll family in North America began with Richard, who came to Salem, Massachusetts on June 29, 1629. He had sailed from Gravesend, London, England on the "Mayflower" in March of that year and landed in Plymouth May 15th. He was accompanied by his wife, Anne and children George, Joanna, John, Sarah and Alice.
        Richard was the son of George and Alicia (Hankin) Inkersall of England.

FIRST GENERATION

RICHARD INGERSOLL b. 10 March 1587 Edworth, Bedfordshire, England, d. 21 June, 1644 Salem, Mass, m. 10 oct. 1611 (20 Oct. 1616, Agnes (Ann) Langely, d/o Thomas & Ann Langely, at St. Swithin's Church, Sands, Bedford, England. She later married John Knight.

ISSUE:
2 George b. 1618 England
John b. 1623
Alice
Joanna m. 1643 Richard Pettengill. It is interesting to note that Joanna is an encestor of the Grand Manan Wooster family.
Sarah m. 1644 Wm. Hayes
Bathsheba m. 1647 John Knight, Jr.
Nathaniel b. 1632 Salem, Mass.

SECOND GENERATION

2GEORGE INGERSOLL (Richard 1)
b. 1618 England d. after 22 June 1694, m. ca. 1642 Elizabeth________, who died before him. George moved to Gloucester in 1646. In 1652 he was a selectman and had a house in the harbour. He later moved to Casco Bay where he settled at Back Cove as early as June 25, 1657. He became prominent and was a petitioner to the general court in 1660. In 1668 he was commissioned lieutenant and placed in command of the militia at Falmouth (now Portland, Me.) He was very active during the Indian troubles and one of his sons was killed in Oct. 1675 at the opening of the King Philip War in Maine. His plantation was attacked and his house and property were destroyed. In Dec. he returned to Salem with the families of himself and his sons.

In 1680 he returned to Falmouth and was chosen deputy to the Provincial Assembly in Maine from Falmouth in 1683 and 1685. At the age of seventy he returned to Falmouth.

ISSUE:
Son, killed by Indians Oct. 1675, Falmouth
George b. May 1643
John b. 1646 Salem Elizabeth b. 1 Feb. 1648 Gloucester, d. 9 March 1649
Elizabeth b. 19 March 1651
3SAMUEL b. 1654
Mary b. 12 Aug. 1657 Gloucester

THIRD GENERATION

3SAMUEL INGERSOLL (George2, Richard1)
b. ca. 1654 Falmouth, Me., d. after 1733 Gloucester, Mass., m. Judith b. ca. 1660-1670, d. 1 May 1720.
Driven from Falmouth by Indian hostilities, he went to Charlestown, then moved to Gloucester after 1700. He was an active shipwright, having his place of business at astern Point. Samuel was one of five Gloucester men composed partly of the company to hold in 1733 the township of Amherst, NH, then called Narrangansett No.3, which was granted for service rendered by themselves or their ancestors in 1675. He conveyed the right to his son Joel in 1734, saying in thedeed that he was a soldier in the Narragansett War, called phillip's War.

ISSUE:

Samuel b. ca. 1684
Josiah b. ca. 1687
Rebecca b. 1691
Jonathon b. 6 Aug., 1693
Joseph
Dorcas bapt. 16 June 1694, d. 11 Nov. 1743, m. 12 dec. 1718 Samuel Rowe
David bapt. 1 Sept. 1695
Solomon b. 1699
Nehemiah b. 15 Sept. 1705
4 Joel b. 29 June 1709

FOURTH GENERATION

4 JOEL INGERSOLL (Samuel3, George2, Richard1)
b. 27 June 1709 at Gloucester, m. 19 Dec. 1734 Mary Averill, who m. 2 Jan. 1744 Philip Bailey.
The homestead of Samuel Ingersoll containing five acres beside the Narrangansett land, had been deeded to Joel in 1734. Jonathon and Benjamin gave their mother, Mary, power of attorney to sell the land at Eastern Point 1769.

ISSUE:

Benjamin b. 11 dec. 1735
Joel b. 27 Sept. 1737. On Sept. 18, 1758 Benjamin was administrator of his estate.
Samuel b. 22 May, 1740
Sarah bapt. 10 May 1741
5 Jonathon b. 29 June 1742

FIFTH GENERATION