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An American Family History

Sarah Richards Ingalls

Children Sarah Collins
and Joseph Eliot
  • Mercy Eliot Alton
  • of Crispus Richards
    and Sarah Collins
  • Joseph Richards
  • Esther Richards Estey
  • John Richards
  • Mary Richards
  • Crispus Richards
  • Sarah Richards Ingalls
  • Hannah Richards Stocker
  • Richard Richards
  • Sarah Richards Ingalls was born in 1713 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Crispus Richards and Sarah Collins.

    She married her cousin, Henry Ingalls, on December 26, 1734. Henry was born on August 2. 1701. He was the son of Nathaniel Ingalls and Anne Collins.

    They had at least one son, Amos Ingalls, who was born in 1739 in Lynn.

    Henry died in 1796 and Sarah in 1808.

    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.

     

    Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, Volume 5 by William Richard Cutter

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

    (V) Amos Ingalls, son of Henry Ingalls, was born in 1739, at Lynn, and died there October 20, 1819. His will was made in 1811. He married, March 31, 1768, Mary Ingalls, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Tucker) Ingalls.

    Children, born in Lynn:
    1. Henry, mentioned below.
    2. Abigail, married John Watts.
    3. Mary, married August 23, 1789, James Bickford.

     

     

         

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