James was a son of William Ingerson. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and moved with his father to northern New Hampshire sometime after 1796 to marry Lucy Hamblet (born 1780) at Lancaster on 26 April 1797.[1] He subsequently served as a United States Marine aboard USS Portsmouth from 1799 to 1800.[2] After his first wife died, James married her sister Sarah Hamblet (1776-1836). James' children by the Hamblet sisters include:
The 1820 census records them living in Morgan, Vermont.[3] By 1830 they had moved back to Jefferson, New Hampshire, where he lived until his death, spending his final years as a pauper living with his brother William and William's daughter Elizabeth Perkins.[4] He died at Jefferson on 8 December 1858.[5]
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