Edmund Ingalls, his wife Annis Tripp Tealby, and six of their children immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 with Governor Endicott’s company. Three more children were born to the family in the years after the Ingalls arrived in Massachusetts. Edmund and his brother Francis were the first settlers of Lynn. Edmund’s son Robert and daughter Sarah remained in Lynn during their adult lives while the rest of their siblings relocated to Andover (Elizabeth, Faith, Henry, and Mary), Rehoboth (John), and Ipswich (Samuel). This scattering of family members as they reached adulthood was typical. The purpose was to form new communities out of the wilderness, increasing the territory occupied by practitioners of the Puritan faith.
The objective in making the voyage from England to the Massachusetts Bay colony was to gain the freedom to practice their “pure” form of Christianity and, in doing so, become a shining light of the word of God. In a few decades, this lofty goal devolved into the jealousy, suspicion, and antagonism of “God’s elect” we witness in reading transcripts of the witch trials of 1692. We’ll examine later in this blog the tenets of this religious sect and explore the many factors leading to the contagion of accusation in 1692, a mere 63 years after the Ingalls arrived in Massachusetts and only 50 years following the settlement of Andover.
The siblings presented within blue circles on the above family tree were not involved in the witchcraft trials of 1692. The families in orange circles were directly involved (accused, accusers, defenders, petitioners) in the trials. Future posts on this blog will provide biographical sketches of each person as well as information about his/her family’s involvement in the trials.
We (Wallace Stephen Ingalls and Julia Mae Porter’s children) are directly descended from Edmund Ingalls and Annis Tealby through the line of their son Henry, Sr. Our lineage is thus: Edmund & Annis Tealby, Henry, Sr & Mary Osgood, Henry, Jr. & Mary Webster Emery, Henry & Hannah Martin, David & Priscilla Howe, Nathaniel & Elizabeth Mckeen, David & Elizabeth Richardson, David James & Louisa Hulda Rollins, Almont James & Charlotte Amelia Perry, Wallace Stephen & Julia Mae Porter.
- Ingalls, W. R. (1930). The Ingalls family in England and America.
- Burleigh, C. (1903). The genealogy and history of the Ingalls family in America, giving the descendants of Edmund Ingalls, who settled in Lynn, Mass., in 1629. Malden, Mass.: Geo. E. Dunbar.
- Ingalls Family Tree. (2019). Retrieved September 4, 2019, from Ancestry.ca website: https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/ingalls-family-tree.html
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