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An American Family History

Ann Collins Ingalls

Settlers from Salem purchased land in an area known as Saugus from the Indians. This land originally included the towns of Swampscott, Nahant, Saugus and Lynnfield. In 1630 the land was incorporated as the Town of Saugus. The settlers changed the name to Lynn in 1637 in honor of their first official minister, Samuel Whiting, from King’s Lynn, England.

Ann Collins Ingalls was born on February 13, 1673/74 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. Her parents were Joseph and Sarah Collins.

She married farmer Nathaniel Ingalls. Nathaniel Ingalls (Ingols, Ingulls) was born about 1660. He was the son of Robert Ingalls and Sarah Harker. 

Ann and Nathaniel's children were Nathaniel Ingalls (1692 , Sarah Ingalls (1693), Ruth Ingalls Berry (1695), Tabitha Ingalls Williams (1700), Maria Ingalls Berry (1702), Joseph Ingalls (1705), William Ingalls (1708), Henry Ingalls (1712), Hannah Ingalls Hitchings (1715), and Jacob Ingalls (1717). 

The first three were born in Lynn and the others in Burleigh.  Henry Ingalls married his cousin Sarah Richards, the daughter of Crispus and Sarah Richards. Joseph Ingalls married Rebecca Collins who was the daughter of Eleazer Collins son of Henry Collins and Mary Tolman. Nathaniel married married Tabitha Lewis daughter of Elizabeth Brewer and John Lewis.

Ann died on June 19, 1754.

Lady Day Before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year, not the beginning.
Children of Joseph
and Sarah Collins
  • Sarah Collins
  • Joseph Collins
  • Henry Collins
  • Ann Collins Ingalls
  • Dorothy Collins Gray
  • Sarah Collins Eliot Richards
  • Esther Collins
  • and Maria Smith
  • Ruth Collins Graves
  • Mary Collins
  • William Collins
  • Elizabeth Collins Graves
  • Joseph Collins
  • Ezekiel Collins
  • Martha Collins Odell
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    Genealogical and Personal Memoir, Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter

    Nathaniel Ingalls son of Robert Ingalls, was born at Lynn, about 1660. He resided at Lynn, and was a farmer. He married Anne. His will was dated July 12, 1735, and proved January 9, 1737.

    Children
    1.Nathaniel, born December 25, 16922[ married Tabitha Lewis daughter of Elizabeth Brewer Ingalls];
    2. Sarah, born April 14, 1693; married Samuel Ingalls.
    3. Ruth, born June 29, 1695: married, 1711, John Berry.
    4. Joseph, married Rebecca Collins.
    5. William, married Zeruiah Norwood.
    6. Henry, mentioned below.
    7. Maria, married Samuel Berry, of Salem.
    8. Tabitha, married, 1723, John Williams.
    9. Hannah, married, 1735, Daniel Hitchings.
    10. Jacob, married Mary Tucker.

    Henry Ingalls, son of Nathaniel Ingalls, was born at Lynn, and died there. He married, December 26, 1734, Sarah Richards.

     

     

         

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