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where it is crossed by the road that is now Boston Street. He was probably then about 53 years of age. His eldest son, Robert, who was then 27 years of age petitioned the
General Court for damages in the amount of £100 in accordance with a law just previously enacted in the Colony. This may have been
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company in 1628. It is believed that he and his family came with
Endicott and a party of about 100 in the "Abigail," which sailed from Weymouth and arrived at Salem, Sept. 6, 1628, after a voyage of 11 weeks. The belief that Edmund and his brother, Francis Ingalls, with their families, came on the
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Ingalls was fined for bringing home sticks in both his arms on the Sabbath day from Mr. Holyokes rails, witnesses Joseph Mood, Obadaya Mood, Jane Mood". This is an example of Puritan
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Ingalls pond, and so appeared on early maps, but is now called Goldfish pond. The site of the house that Edmund Ingalls built was between Nos. 33 and 43 of Bloomfield street in Lynn.
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181:"THE INGALLS FAMILY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA" - By WALTER RENTON INGALLS, B.S.; D. ENG., In Commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Lynn, Mass., by Edmund and Francis Ingalls (1930)
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