Edmund Ingalls (1586 - 1648)

My eighth great-grandfather (also seventh great-grandfather to Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie!)

Born: 26 June 1586 In Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England
Died:  16 September 1648 at Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America

Father:  Robert A. Ingalls, of Skirbeck
Mother:  Elizabeth ?

Siblings:
   Rose Ingalls, 1580  
   Agnes Ingalls, 1582
   Margaret Ingalls, 1583
   Edith Ingalls, 1592
   Francis Ingalls, 1595
   Robert Ingalls, 1600

Married: Annis Telbe on 7 June 1618 at Church of St. Nicholas, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England

Children:
   Elizabeth Ingalls, 1619 (or 1622)
   Robert Ingalls, 1620 (or 1621)
   Faith Ingalls, 1622 (or 1623)
   John Ingalls, 1624 (or 1625)
   Sarah Ingalls, 1626
   Henry Ingalls, 1627
   Samuel Ingalls, 1632 (or 1634)
   Mary Ingalls, 1642 (or 1635)
   Joseph Ingalls, 1638 (only lived one year)


Annis Telbe  (1599 - 1678)

Born: 17 August 1599 (christened) at All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died:  possibly 1678

Father:  John Tealbye (c.1560)

This is all I can find about Annis, but even this is not certain. Somewhere, someone got the idea that Annis was married to a John Tripp, apparently before she married Edmund. A lot of people seem to have accepted that without doing further research. There was a John Tripp around at the time; he may even have traveled to America on the same ship, but he was married to Isabell Moses, not Annis. This is the reason for the doubt of the birth dates of the kids - too many sources.

By the way, we descended from youngest daughter Mary and Laura Ingalls Wilder was from older brother Henry.

The Ingalls family was one of the earliest in the country, coming only eight years after the pilgrims at Plymouth, and have as a whole, maintained an honorable place in the history of the country.  It is believed that they settle in what became Saugus as early as June 1, 1629. If that is true, they must have immigrated as part of the 40 immigrants aboard the Abigail in 1628, because there were no further ships before June 1629. Unfortunately, there is no passenger list.

The first few ships with immigrants:
1620 Mayflower - Plymouth, Massachusetts
1621 Fortune - Plymouth, Massacusetts
1623 Zouche Phenix - Cape Ann, Massachusetts
1628 Abigail - Naum Kieg, Massachusetts
1629 Lyon - Salem, Massachusetts
1623 Anne - Plymouth, Massachusetts

Edmund Ingalls came with his wife and children and his brother Francis Ingalls, plus four other people.  They founded the settlement of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1629. His name is often found in the town records. He was a prominent citizen. Eventually, Lynn grew and other towns branched off: Reading, Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant.

Edmund's brother Francis started the first tannery in the area (maybe in all the colonies?) and Colonial Lynn became a major part of the tannery and shoe-making industries that began in 1635.  The boots worn by the Continental Army soldiers during the Revolutionary War were made in Lynn.

Because Edmund was so prominent, there is lots of information about him. See:

Wikipedia here.

Also, it's kind of fun to read his will to understand just what they considered well-off in those days, but I can't seem to make the links come up properly. You might try to Google: "Estate of Edward Ingalls of Lynn"