Samuel Dimmick

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• Alternate birth: 1 Mar 1770
• Alternate death: 14 Dec 1826

Samuel married Asenath Greenslit on 16 Nov 1797. Asenath (daughter of Joel Greenslit and Hannah Kingsbury) died on 17 Apr 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lucinda Asenath Dimmick was born on 6 Jun 1799 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut; died on 14 Oct 1857 in Bath, Steuben, New York; was buried in Grove Cemetery, Bath, Steuben, New York.

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• Alternate death: 10 Feb 1837, Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut

Deacon married Sarah Gurley on 27 Apr 1764 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Samuel Gurley and Hannah Baker) was born on 27 Aug 1744 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut; died on 22 Jul 1790 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 27 Dec 1785, Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut

Timothy married Ann Bradford on 15 Aug 1723 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut. Ann (daughter of Joseph Bradford and Anna Fitch) was born on 26 Jul 1699 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; died on 18 Oct 1788 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 9 Oct 1788, Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut

Samuel married Hannah Baker on 16 Jun 1742. Hannah (daughter of Daniel Baker) was born about 1717; died on 19 Apr 1756. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Lumbert on 16 Nov 1689 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Lumbert and Elizabeth Derby) was born in Sep 1668 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Anna Fitch on 5 Oct 1698 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of Rev. James Fitch and Priscilla Mason) was born on 6 Apr 1675 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 7 Oct 1715 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Experience Rust about 1712. Experience (daughter of Nathaniel Rust and Mary Atchison) was born in Nov 1693; died on 10 Jul 1768; was buried in Gurley Burying Ground, North Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptised: 16 Sep 1644, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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Deacon Shubael Dimmock (1644-1732) = Joanna Bursley (1643-1727)
Thankful Dimmock (1682-1757) = Edward Waldo (1684-1767)
Zacheus Waldo (1725-1810) = Talitha Kingsbury (1726-1789)
Zacheus Waldo (1756-1834) = Esther Stevens (1758-1825)
Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861) = Deliverance Catherine Mapes (1797-1865)
Howard Waldo (1832-1922) = Isabelle Hoe (1838-1894)
Howart Lovett Waldo (1860-1914) = Clara Waldo Sullivan (1852-1920)
Edward Molineaux Waldo (1884-1964) = Christine Hamilton Dicker (1897-1962)
Theodore Hamilton Waldo (Theodore Sturgeon) (1918-1985)

Deacon Shubael Dimmock (1644-1732) = Joanna Bursley (1643-1727)
Thankful Dimmock (1682-1757) = Edward Waldo (1684-1767)
Zacheus Waldo (1725-1810) = Talitha Kingsbury (1726-1789)
Zacheus Waldo (1756-1834) = Esther Stevens (1758-1825)
Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861) = Deliverance Catherine Mapes (1797-1865)
Clara Waldo (1829-1861) = Charles Sullivan (1823-1902)
Clara Waldo Sullivan (1852-1920) = Howart Lovett Waldo (1860-1914)
Edward Molineaux Waldo (1884-1964) = Christine Hamilton Dicker (1897-1962)
Theodore Hamilton Waldo (Theodore Sturgeon) (1918-1985)

Deacon married Joanna Bursley in Apr 1663. Joanna (daughter of John Bursley and Joanna Hull) was born before 1 Mar 1646; was christened on 1 Mar 1646 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 8 May 1727 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Thomas Lombard.

Thomas married Elizabeth Derby on 23 Dec 1665 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John Derby and Alice) was born about 1646 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Moriarty (citation details below) calls her "probably a daughter of John Derby."

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From Wikipedia:

He held the rank of major in the militia and was the commander of the military forces of Plymouth Colony during the King Philip's War. He commanded the Plymouth Regiment at the Great Swamp Fight on 19 December 1675. During the battle his eye was wounded.

He later served as the deputy governor of Plymouth Colony under Governor Thomas Hinckley from 1682 to 1686 and from 1689 to 1692 when the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Bradford was suspended from office during the governorship of Sir Edmund Andros from 1686 to 1689.

William married (Unknown second wife of William Bradford) about 1673. (Unknown died before 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Long held to be a "widow Wiswall," she almost certainly was not. David Jay Webber (citation details below) has assembled strong but not clinching evidence that she was Sarah, the window of Francis² Griswold.

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Emigrated in 1638, in advance of his mother and his other emigrant siblings.

James married Priscilla Mason in Oct 1664 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Priscilla (daughter of John Mason and Anne Peck) was born in Oct 1641 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Accidentally drowned in the Connecticut River.

William married Hester Ingersoll. Hester (daughter of John Ingersoll and Abigail Bascom) was born on 9 Sep 1665 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died after 13 May 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her second husband was Benoni Jones, by whom she had four children. According to Nathaniel Goodwin (citation details below), Benoni and the two youngest of their children were "slain by the enemy, at Poscummuck, north end of Mount Tom, Northampton, May 13, 1704" and she was "captured by the enemy, at the time her Jones husband and children were slain, and carried to Canada, and there died, after being tormented by the Catholic priests who were trying to convert her."

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• Alternate birth: of North Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut

Nathaniel married Mary Atchison on 17 May 1692. Mary (daughter of John Atchison and Deliverance) was born on 30 Oct 1673 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jan 1754. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Mercy Atchison.

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Emigrated in 1635 on the Hopewell out of Weymouth. First at Dorchester, then in Barnstable in 1639.

Thomas married Ann before 1635. Ann died between 1683 and Oct 1686. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Emigrated in 1623; first at Weymouth, then at Barnstable in 1639.

John married Joanna Hull about 28 Nov 1639 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Joanna (daughter of Rev. Joseph Hull and (Unknown first wife of the Rev. Joseph Hull)) was born about 1620. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Probably came to New England with his father in 1630. Freeman of the Bay Colony 1 Apr 1634; admitted to the church at Scituate 19 Apr 1635. Removed to Barnstable 1639. Ensign of militia 1652. He was called Mr.

Bernard married (Unknown wife of Bernard Lumbert). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her name is unknown, but with her husband, she was admitted to the church at Scituate 19 Apr 1635.

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At Plymouth in 1637; removed to Yarmouth about 1643.

John married Alice. Alice died after 7 Sep 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Governor of Plymouth Colony 1621-33, 1635, 1637, 1639-43, and 1645-56.

From Wikipedia:

William Bradford was an English Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657. His journal Of Plymouth Plantation covered the years from 1620 to 1657 in Plymouth. [...]

William Bradford's most well-known work by far is Of Plymouth Plantation. It is a detailed history in journal form about the founding of the Plymouth Colony and the lives of the colonists from 1621 to 1646. Bradford's journal is described as a retrospective account of his recollections and observations. The first work was written in 1630; the second was never finished, but "between 1646 and 1650, he brought the account of the colony's struggles and achievements through the year 1646." As Walter P. Wenska states, "Bradford writes most of his history out of his nostalgia, long after the decline of Pilgrim fervor and commitment had become apparent. Both the early annals which express his confidence in the Pilgrim mission and the later annals, some of which reveal his dismay and disappointment, were written at about the same time." In Of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford drew deep parallels between everyday life and the events of the Bible. As Philip Gould writes, "Bradford hoped to demonstrate the workings of divine providence for the edification of future generations."

In 1888, Charles F. Richardson referred to Bradford as a "forerunner of literature" and "a story-teller of considerable power." Moses Coit Tyler called him "the father of American history." Many American authors have cited his work in their writings; for example, Cotton Mather referred to it in Magnalia Christi Americana and Thomas Prince referred to it in A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals. Even today it is considered a valuable piece of American literature, included in anthologies and studied in literature and history classes. It has been called an American classic and the pre-eminent work of art in seventeenth-century New England.

The Of Plymouth Plantation manuscript disappeared by 1780, "presumably stolen by a British soldier during the British occupation of Boston"; it reappeared in Fulham, London, England. Philip Gould states, "In 1855, scholars intrigued by references to Bradford in two books on the history of the Episcopal Church in America (both located in England) located the manuscript in the bishop of London's library at Lambeth Palace." A long debate ensued as to the rightful home for the manuscript. Multiple attempts by United States Senator George Frisbie Hoar and others to have it returned proved futile at first. According to Francis B. Dedmond, "after a stay of well over a century at Fulham and years of effort to [e]ffect its release, the manuscript was returned to Massachusetts" on May 26, 1897.

William married Alice Carpenter on 14 Aug 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Alice (daughter of Alexander Carpenter and (Unknown wife of Alexander Carpenter)) was born about 1590; was christened on 3 Aug 1590 in Wrington, Somerset, England; died on 26 Mar 1670 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; was buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 3 Aug 1590, Wrington, Somerset, England
• Alternate death: 27 Mar 1670, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
• Alternate death: 26 Mar 1671, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

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She was the widow of Edward Southworth, and is thus referred to in many sources as "Alice Southworth." She arrived in New England on the Anne on 14 Aug 1623.

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• Alternate birth: 1590

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He was a clothier.

Thomas married Anne Reeve on 8 Aug 1611 in St. Mary's, Bocking, Essex, England. Anne (daughter of John Reeve and Mary Brock) died after 21 Oct 1669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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After the death of her husband, she emigrated to New England about 1650 with her sons Thomas, Samuel, and Joseph. She was living in Hartford with her son Joseph on 21 Oct 1669, but her date of death is unknown.

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From Wikipedia (lightly edited):

John Mason [...] enlisted in the military in 1624 and went to the Netherlands to serve in the sectarian Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), where he gained significant tactical military experience, first seeing action in the Breda campaign. By 1629 he was a lieutenant in the Brabant Campaign and participated in the Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch, literally "The Duke's Forest" in English, and known in French as Bois-le-Duc. He served with Thomas Fairfax under General Horace Vere in the army of Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Orange.

In 1632, he joined the great Puritan exodus and sailed from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, settling in Dorchester where he was promptly appointed captain of the local militia. In 1633, he commanded the first American naval task force and pursued the pirate Dixie Bull, routing him from New England waters. He and Roger Ludlow planned and supervised the construction of the first fortifications on Castle Island (later known as Fort Independence) in Boston Harbor. In 1634, he was elected to represent Dorchester in the Massachusetts General Court, where permission was granted for him to remove to the fertile Connecticut River valley. In 1635, he settled in Windsor, Connecticut at the confluence of the Farmington and Connecticut rivers; he lived there for the next twelve years and served as a civil magistrate and military leader of the nascent Connecticut Colony. In 1640, he married Anne Peck, from a prominent Puritan family; they had eight children.

The most prominent episode in Mason's lifelong career of public service was his overall command as captain of the colonial forces in the Pequot War of 1637. This was the first sustained conflict in Southern New England, a complex and risky campaign. The large and powerful Pequot tribe had subjugated other local tribes, killed numerous Colonial settlers and destroyed vital corn crops. The Massachusetts Bay Colony eventually declared war with them, and the infant Connecticut Colony was quickly drawn into the conflict.

The Pequots greatly outnumbered the colonial forces, but the English had superior weapons and tactics. They also had the guidance and support of numerous Indian allies who were tributaries to the Pequots, especially Mohegan Sachem Uncas, who formed lasting bond with Mason and also Wequash Cooke. [...] Following the colonists' victory, Mason was promoted to major and received numerous land grants as a reward for his services. Mason's Island at the mouth of the Mystic River remained in his family for over 250 years.

In 1647, Mason assumed command of Saybrook Fort which controlled the main trade and supply route to the upper river valley. The fort mysteriously burned to the ground but another improved fort was quickly built nearby. He spent the next twelve years there and served as Commissioner of the United Colonies, as the chief military officer, magistrate, and peacekeeper. He was continually called upon to negotiate the purchase of Indian lands, write treaties, or arbitrate some Indian quarrel, many of which were instigated by his friend Uncas. His leadership abilities were unrivaled, which prompted the New Haven Colony to offer him a lucrative position as manager of their enterprise in relocating to the Delaware River area. However, he declined the offer and remained in Connecticut.

In 1659, Major Mason moved from the mouth of the Connecticut River to the head of the Thames River, together with his son-in-law Rev. James Fitch and most of the Saybrook residents, and founded the town of Norwich, Connecticut. The land "nine miles square" was purchased from Mohegan Sachem Uncas, who also signed over to Mason all the territory in his tribe's domain as a protector and administrator. Questions regarding title to these thousands of acres created legal disputes which lasted for seventy years; the Mohegan Land Case actually consisted of several cases and appeals making their way through various courts in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and even back in London, England before the Lords Commissioners. Several of the Major's Mason descendants, in their legal role as tribal overseers, went bankrupt in the process of defending the Mohegan land rights.

During his twelve years in Norwich, John Mason served for nine years as Deputy Governor (1660 to 1669), and he helped to write the Connecticut Charter. He served as acting Governor from 1661 to 1663 while Governor John Winthrop Jr. went to England to obtain approval of the Charter from King Charles II. In 1669, pleading old age and infirmities, he retired to an advisory position, but he suffered painfully in the last years of his life from cancer, which was then referred to as the "strangury".

John married Anne Peck in Jul 1639 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Anne (daughter of Rev. Robert Peck and Anne Lawrence) was born before 18 Nov 1619; was christened on 18 Nov 1619 in Hingham, Norfolk, England; died before Jun 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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At her funeral, her son-in-law, the Rev. James Fitch, preached a sermon that was later published (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1672) as Peace the End of the Perfect and Upright Demonstrated and Usefully Improved in a Sermon Preached upon the Occasion of the Death and Decease of the Piously Affected and Truely Religious Woman, Mrs. Anne Mason, Sometime Wife to Major John Mason, Who Not Long After Finished His Course and Is Now at Rest.

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His first appearance in New England records is on 28 Nov 1654, when he was fined 10s by the Connecticut Particular Court "for the breach of the law against lyinge." First at Hartford, then Northampton about 1655, then Westfield about 1665.

From David L. Greene, "The English Origin (and Spiritual Turmoil) of John¹ Ingersoll of Westfield, Massachusetts" (citation details below):

A requirement for church membership in Massachusetts Bay Colony after 1636 was a public relation of religious experience. [...] In 1679, John Ingersoll became one of the "seven pillars" who founded the Westfield Church; his extraordinary public relation follows (emphasis added):

I being brought by Godly Parents, who tooke great pains & Care to bring me out of a State of Nature into a State of Grace in watching over me, in keeping me from Sin, & Sabbothbreaking, in bringing me to attend the word preached, read, & in Cathechising I'd little regard itt, but onely for fear of them.

The first time, to my rememberance, that God met with me was by a Sermon I heard at Darby in old England upon Ps. 15.1,2, ["Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart"] when I was about 18 years old, whereby I was Convinct that as yet I was none that should inherit the holy Hill of Zion, but I thought I would labour to be one that Should. But this Conviction was soon over & I went on in my Sin & vanity still. & tho' I met with many Conviction that my State was bad, & was in many dangers both at sea, & land; & I saw I must Repent, & become a new Creature if ever I ment to be Saved, yet I put repentance off till afterwards. But being under Mr. Stones Ministry I was convincd that the time was come that I must not put Repentance off any longer, for the Lord had granted me the thing wherein my excuses lay & therefore I set upon Duties, & reformed in many things, & having a book of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs I read much in it, about Faith, & Hope, & was much incouraged, till I met with an Expression thus, that if my Hopes were not such as would stand with every line of the word of God at the day of Judgment they would availe me nothing. Then being troubled I threw the book a side for a while thinking that altho' he was a good man he was too Strict, & mistaken therein. & that I did believe, & that he that did believe should be saved & therefore my State was good. But coming to Northampton I heard Mr. Mather the first time upon that, that in the world ye shall have trouble, but in Christ you may & shall have peace, which incouraged me for a while. But afterwards his preaching did not please me but I thot I would keep my hopes. And the Lord visiting me with sickness that I was neer death, yet I thot I was well enough prepared for death & was not willing to hear to the Contrary: But the Lord in great mercy was pleased not to take me away in that Condition. But remaining still Confident of my good Estat, I, as I was on atime into the meadow to work, thot nothing should dash my hopes thereof. But presently the thoughts of [blank] who murdered himselfe Coming into my mind, I for a while much wondered at it. But my thots soon runing thus, What if God should leave me? then I should do so. & the temptation came so hard upon me that God would leave me, & I should certainly dy such a death; be guilty of mine own Blood, & be damned irreconcilably, that I was not able to go on to my business; but returning home, the temptation prevaild more, & more upon me, & I was filled with horrour of Conscience, the Lord did so manifest his wrath & Displeasure against me: & my Sins were like mountains ready to sink me down into Hell every moment. & not being able in the night to sleep, was forced to rise up at midnight, & Call up my Father in Law, who hearing how it was with me, & that I feared I had sinned the unpardonable Sin; & that there were no Hopes of mercy, gave me good Counsell, & prayed with me. & after having some abatement I returned home, & remain'd in that Condition: But the Lord after awile was pleased to abate the temptation, & his wrath a little. & I fell to reading & praying in Secret; being incouraged to look to Jesus Christ for mercy. But Mr. Mathers Ministry was like daggers in my heart. For when I was labouring to lay hold on Christ, as I thot, by Faith, it did so rip up my State in such a way as dashed my hopes, whereby, me thot, I was one that went about to Establish mine own Righteousness, & to have something of mine own to Carry me to Christ. Wherefore I Studied upon what terms Christ was to be had, I prayed, Searched the Scriptures, & attended all duties; but could find no way to get a pardon, of Sin, & peace with God, but by Repentance of all Sin, & a Closing with Jesus Christ by Faith. I thot I was willing to part with all Sin, & would gladly be delivered from it, as seing what a Condition it had brought me into. As for the world, I accounted it not worth regarding, so I could but get an Intrest in Christ Jesus. But how to believe I knew not. I heard many Descriptions of Faith, yet could not tell what it was, nor how to gett it. Mr. Mather being upon the work of Humiliation said be humble enough, & good enough; I thot it was the Pride of my heart, that I was so impatient; & could not wait Gods time. I saw there was hopes of mercy for me in Jesus Christ. He came into the world to save his people from their Sins: With him the Fatherless finde Mercy; He gives gifts to Rebellious ones; the Chiefe of Sinners. He Is able to Save all to the uttmost, & will by no means cast off any that come to him. & tho' I could not come to him of myselfe, yet he is able to bring me to, & keep me with, himselfe, then reading that Isa. thou has brought me no Sweet Cane - but hast made me to serve with thy Sins; yet I am he that blotteth out all thy Sins for my names sake. Whereupon I found myself willing, & was inabled to Cast myselfe upon the Lord Jesus Christ, to give up myselfe & all unto him; to leave my Sins, & Corruptions to him to do as he pleased. & So to leave myselfe with him, let him do, what he would with me. & if I did perish at last, yet it should be in his way, remembring Peters words, Lord to whom should we go thou hast the words of Eternall Life.

This relation begins conventionally enough: all Puritans who commented on the fact had "Godly Parents." The "Mr. Stone" whose ministry persuaded Ingersoll to make one of several attempts at repentance was the Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford, and Ingersoll's statement that "the Lord had granted me the thing wherein my excuses lay" is probably a reference to his first marriage. The annotators of the relation identify the work that made Ingersoll consider the English Puritan divine Jeremiah Burroughs "a good man" but "too Strict" as Gospel-Revelation in Three Treatises (London, 1660).

In Northampton, however, we move beyond the conventional, and we gain sharp insight into the personality of John Ingersoll, for it was there that he entered into intense spiritual and psychological agony, for such it certainly was. The Northampton minister, the Rev. Eleazer Mather, first displeased Ingersoll, probably because Ingersoll was already satisfied with his spiritual condition. Even a severe illness did not change his mind. But one day, while working in the meadow, he thought about an unnamed individual who had committed suicide, and he was so strongly tempted to do so himself that he could not sleep that night and awoke his father-in-law to share his agony. Thomas Bascom prayed with him until the suicidal temptation had abated. The rest of the relation becomes conventional again as Ingersoll describes his acceptance of the Puritan view of salvation.

Ingersoll's morbid desire to destroy himself would today be called clinical depression. But giving it another name does not change the agony and despair that he experienced. In describing it in such gripping terms, John Ingersoll gives us greater insight than we could ever expect into the sufferings of an ordinary individual now dead for over three hundred years.

John married Abigail Bascom on 12 Dec 1657 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Thomas Bascom and Avis) was born before 7 Jun 1640; was christened on 7 Jun 1640 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died in Apr 1666 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1667

Israel married Rebecca Clark on 9 Dec 1669 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Rebecca (daughter of Lt. William Clark and Sarah) was born in Feb 1649 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 8 Feb 1733 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Slain by native Americans.

John married Deliverance. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]