When Josiah Ingersoll was born on 10 September 1744, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Josiah Ingersoll, was 26 and his mother, Rebecca Rundle, was 26. He married Judith about 1766, in Dutchess, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died after 1790, in New York, United States.
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New York is the 11th state.
English: habitational name from Inkersall in Staveley (Derbyshire). The placename may derive from an Old English personal name Hynkere (genitive Hynkeres) ‘limper’ + Old English hyll ‘hill’. Compare Ingerson 2.
History: The Ingersoll name in America dates back to John Ingersoll, who emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. His descendants include lawyers, public officials, and politicians in CT and PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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