Jonathan Ingersoll (abt. 1751 - 1840)

Born about 9 Aug 1751 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Hodges) Ingersoll — married 25 May 1775 (to 1791) in Seabrook, New Hampshire [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 9 Jul 1840 at about age 88 in Windsor, Windsor, Vermont

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Biography

Second Lieutenant Jonathan Ingersoll served with Essex County, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Jonathan Ingersoll is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A060095.

"Lieut Jonathan Ingersoll born Aug 9, 1751 at Salem, Mass, died July 9, 1840 at Windsor Vt. m. 1st May 24, 1775, Mary Hodges, born Dec. 2, 1755; died Jan. 27, 1796 [?], daughter of Gamaliel and Priscilla (Webb) Hodges of Salem; m. 2d. Feb. 12, 1793, Polly Pool, sister of Ward and Fitch; m. 3d. Feb. 15, 1808, Sarah Blythe, widow of Samuel whose maiden name was Sarah Purbeck. She died March 17, 1842." Page 42

Jonathan was a private in Captain Benjamin Ward's Company under Colonel Timothy Pickering starting in November 1776. Page 42

On August 6, 1777, he was appointed Second Lieutenant of a company commanded by Captain Daniel Hawthorn with the responsibility of recruiting soldiers for the Continental Army. Page 43

"Immediately succeeding the close of the war, he lived in Salem about twelve years, then about twenty-one years in Danvers, and for nearly seventeen years in Windsor, Vt...." Children of first wife:

1. Nathaniel, bapt. June 21, 1778, Salem, Mass.
2. George Hodges, bapt. Jan 23, 1780, Salem, Mass.
3. Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1781; d. Apr. 17, 1834, Sherburne, Mass.; m. as second wife Oct. 28, 1800, her cousin, Nathaniel Bowditch, "the celebrated mathematician." ^[1]

Death and Burial

Old South Church Cemetery, Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont; ^[2]

Research Notes

This Jonathan Ingersoll -- one of several in New England at approximately the same time -- should not be confused with the Capt. Jonathan Ingersoll who died, age 70, at Ipswich in 1817 (see, by subscription, the NEHGS database entry at https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7725/594/141505256).

Note that if the Ingersoll genealogy's "immediately succeeding the close of the war" is taken literally to mean in, or about, 1783, the sum of years following does not stand up to scrutiny. If however the phrase is more loosely taken to refer to the establishment of the United States via the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the chronology offered closely matches the schedule of known events.

Pursuant to an exchange with NEHGS staff (28-29 July 2020), the location of Jonathan's marriage has been changed, in the NEHGS database, from Salem, NH, to Salem, MA; however, as it seems unlikely that the Rev. Samuel Perley ranged widely to perform the large number of marriages at which he officiated, it is more probable that the couple traveled the 30 miles north from Salem to his coastal parish at Seabrook, NH, and Seabrook has been cited as the (uncertain) location of the union.

The Hodges genealogy dates the marriage to 24 May, but this may be an intentions date -- the transcribed record of Rev. Perley shows 25 May.

The death of third wife Sarah/Sally of consumption on 17 March 1842, age 83, is recorded at Salem: Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7795/353/140944984 (by subscription)

Sources

1. ↑ A genealogy of the Ingersoll family in America, 1629-1925 : comprising descendants of Richard Ingersoll of Salem, Massachusetts, p. 43; no ebook available; The Generations Network, Inc.; Provo, UT; 2005; Digital Image, Ancestry.com: http://ancstry.me/1elFkgh
2. ↑ FindaGrave Memorial: 21673409; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21673409

• Birth (christening, at Salem): "INGERSOLE... Jonathan, s. Nathanael, bp. Aug. 11, 1751. C.R. 11." – Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 for Jonathon Ingersole, Salem; https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61401/images/dvm_primsrc000162-00463?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=QPt820&_phstart=successSource&pId=1919165 (by subscription). Ancestry free sharing link: https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/1093706?mark=bf61f6ce8ff136280e37afd6ab071a279860853644b2966d96ba52e0b3b0bc7d.

• Marriage 25 May 1775 to Mary Hodges of Salem, probably at Seabrook, NH -- the parish of the officiant, Rev. Samuel Perley (NEHGS; image of transcribed minister's record): "Marriages By Rev. Samuel Perley At Hampton, N.H., and Other Places" -- NEHGR Vol. 51, p. 466; Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21115/466/426715645 (by subscription)

• Death 9 July 1840 at Windsor, VT (NEHGS; image of 1921 "true copy" of original record, showing age 89): "Deaths I-J-K to 1871", Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008. (From microfilmed records. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013.); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB500/i/14144/228/258866895 (by subscription)