Samuel Ingram

DAR Ancestor # A060259

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The following is taken verbatum from the ancestral files of "Terry Erb".I have only made typographical corrections in the form of placing spaces where they should have been but were not. I appreciate having this information available to me. Thank you so much, TERRY ERB!

"Samuel & Anne apparently attempted to settle in the northwestern reaches of the Virginia colony but by as early as 1761, they had moved south to what was to become Montgomery County, Va. Samuel and Anne were inHampshire Co. Va by 1766 when they sold 260 acres on Hughes Run in Hampshire Co., Va (Now W VA). This land was obtained in 1762 from Henry Oldacre and his wife Elinor. Samuel was Yeoman of Hampshire when he received the land.

According to a book written by Mary B. Kegley, Samuel Ingram, Sr. first appeared on the waters of the New River in 1767 when he settled on a tract of 300 acres of land on Bullock Pen Branch near the present town ofNewbern. In 1769 he purchased the John Miller-John Strupe tract of landon Peak Creek, and in addition had a tract of 209 acres on Sinking Spring"by ye Great road" surveyed by William Preston for the Loyal Company.This tract was held jointly with Adam Waggoner. Two days later, on March18, 1769. a survey was made for Ingram alone for a tract of 210 acres onPeak Creek, adjoining James Walker. The grant for 300 acres was received in 1785. Beginning with this 300 acres Ingram built up his plantation by adding three additional tracts, finalizing the total in an inclusive survey of 634 acres in the year 1796. The grant was received the next year (Botetourt County DeedBook 1, p. 16; Commissioner's Certificatesp34)

In 1770 Samuel Ingram was granted permission to build his mill and a jury was appointed to adjudge damages and report. His mill was one of the earliest in the area. In 1771 Ingram acted as a surveyor of a road from Ingles' to Peak Creek, and in 1776 was overseer of the road from Sinking Spring to Peak Creek. In 1774 the Montgomery County Court ordered that it be certified to the Governor of Virginia that Samuel Ingram had produced1,600 pounds of "neat winter rotted hemp".

In 1774 Samuel had been compensated for "sundries" supplied to the countymilitia about the same time (July 1774) when he was one of the few families not to flee in panic during the Indian incursions of LordDunmore's War. Samuel and William Ingram served in the Revolutionary War as Privates in the Cherokee Expedition under Colonel William Christian inAugust, 1776. While a soldier fighting against the Indians, in an ambush,Samuel received a wound in his breast, whereby he was rendered incapableof getting a livelihood by labor and hath incurred considerable expense for a doctor's attendance, He stated "he ought to be allowed the sum of30 pounds for his present relief, together with hold pay as a soldier for the term of 4 years and also the sum of 40 pounds to reimburse him the expense of a doctor". Samuel was appointed Overseer of Roads in FincastleCo. Va. on 3 Sept 1776. Samuel's appointment reads "Samuel Ingram is appt'd overseer of the rd. from the Sinking Spring to Peck Creek & that he with the usual hands keep the same in repair according to law".

A newspaper announced in 1775 that Thomas Welsh, a 21-year-old Irish servant, had run away from Samuel Ingram and Joseph Mears about nine miles from "English" (Ingles) Ferry on the New River in Fincastle County.In 1775 Samuel produced in court an account of his expense to taking up his servant man, Thomas Walsh, when he ran away, and for the 26 days absent time. The court decided that Walsh was to serve his master one year and five months for his expenses, and fifty-two days for thetwenty-six absent days, after his present time of indenture otherwise expired.

Samuel and William Ingram are recorded as privates in an expeditioncarried out against the Cherokees under Colonel William Christian inAugust 1776. In 1784, Samuel and his wife Anne, both of MontgomeryCounty, deeded 60 acres of forest on the New River to Robert Currin for £300.3.

For the purpose of evidence in a lawsuit, Samuel Ingram, Sr. vs. JamesMcCorkle and Daniel Trigg, David Crouch filed a deposition of interest on May 30, 1789. He stated that in 1779 he was at the house of Samuel Ingram, Sr., when Ingram asked him to go to his smoke house and "drink adram;" once there Ingram lifted up "something like a bee gum and took out a large bundle of counterfeit paper money" and asked Crouch what hethought of it. When asked what he intended to do with it, Ingram stated he planned to take a cart with some skins and furs and go "towards the Northward and try to traffic it off for something or other." Crouch advised him not to do that or he would be hanged and bring his family to scandal, but Ingram replied "it was as good as any, for it was all good for nothing." Crouch stated that the money was made on Ingram's plantation and there appeared to be several more bundles of the same kind shown to him. Crouch heard that Ingram had passed some of the money to James Miller and when Sheriff Bell came, the money was returned. The money Ingram received in payment for land he sold to Captain JamesMcCorkle, he offered to pass to Colonel William Ingles who disputed taking it but finally accepted it as payment for the round glade tract of land that Colonel Ingles at Crockett's blacksmith shop.

Note: Fincastle Co was formed in 1772 from Botetourt Co, VA, but extinguished in 1777, dissolving into Kentucky, Washington, and Montgomery Counties. Apparently the Ingrams were in that part ofMontgomery Co. that was to become Pulaski Co (1839) neighboring Wythe Co (1790) for in 1802, a road proposed between New Dublin (Dublin inpresent Pulaski Co) and Fortchiswell (Fort Chiswell in Wythe Co) passed through the lands of Aaron and William Ingram, who were compensated$1,358.75; The New River (mentioned subsequently) runs right throughPulaski Co.

Note: Several sources give his birthdate as 1740, but the earlier date isprovided by Betty Anne Lively Erickson and supported by James BarryBingham in his book "Descendants of Jonas Ingram and Melinda Butler".

Note: Samuel signed and dated his last will and testament on 10 January1799, but he was still alive in February to consent to his daughter's marriage. Nonetheless, he died before Aug 1801, when his will wasprobated in Montgomery Co., Va. In his will, Samuel specifies 6 sons and 4 daughters, but did not name them all individually. His widow was Anne.He devised to his sons Aaron and William all his lands, and Aaron was topay his brother Samuel $100 and William was to support his mother Ann,and he was to have the dwelling house. In addition William was to pay his mother $100. When his estate was appraised in August, Josiah Bailor (orBaker), Joseph (or John) Russell, and Guy S. Trigg valued it at$1,736.53, which included one "negro man Jim"($300), one "negro boy Tom"($300), one "negro boy Kned" ($120), another "negro boy Joe" ($100), one"female negro child Elly & her mother Jude" ($283.33), and one "negro boy Frank, a cripple of no value". Additionally, there were fivethree-year-old steers valued at $12 each, nine other steers, three heifers, a bull, six cows (with five calves), four horses (a gelding, a sorrel, a bay, and a grey), nine hogs, thirteen sheep, and a wagon and gear for four horses. Executers were John, Aaron and William Ingram." (Again, many, many, thanks to "TERRY ERB" and his online family tree,from which this information was extracted.)
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BIOGRAPHY: 1. Samuel Ingram
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Death Date:1799/1801 Death Place:Montgomery Co., Virginia

BIOGRAPHY: Early Adventurers On The Western Water, Vol. II (1745-1800) byMary B. Kegley

BIOGRAPHY: p. 305; Samuel Ingram, Sr. first appeared on the waters o fthe New River in 1767 when he settled on a tract of 300 acres of land on Bullock Pen Branch near the present town of Newbern. In 1769 he purchased the John Miller-John Strupw tract of land on Peak Creek, and in addition had a tract of 209 acres on Sinking Spring "by ye Great road"surveyed by William Preston for the Loyal Company. This tract was heldjointly with Adam Waggoner. Two days later, on March 18, 1769. a surveywas made for Ingram alone for a tract of 210 acres on Peak Creek, adjoining James Walker. The grant for 300 acres was received in 1785.Beginning with this 300 acres Ingram built up his plantation by adding three additional tract, finalizing the total in an inclusive survey of 634 acres in the year 1796. The grant was received the next year(Botetourt County Deed Book 1, p. 16; Commissioner's Certificates, p.34; Montgomery County Survey Book E, p.228; Preston Family Papers,Library of Congress, 581; Land Grant Books O, p. 182; 36, p.414). In 1770 Samuel Ingram was granted permission to build his mill and a jury wasappointed to adjudge damages and report. His mill was one of the earliset in the area. In 1771 Ingram acted as a surveyor of a road fromIngles' to Peak Creek, and in 1776 was overseer of the road from SinkingSpring to Peak Creek. In 1774 the Montgomery County Court ordered that itbe certified to the Governor of Virginia that Samuel Ingram had produced1,600 pounds of "neat winter rotted hemp"

BIOGRAPHY: Summers, Annals, pp. 74, 123, 621, 648). In the summer of 1774 when there was so much trouble with the Indians, the Ingrams were among the families who chose to remain at home while other neighbors went to a nearby fort. In 1775 Samuel produced in courtan account of his expense to taking up his servant man, Thomas Walsh,when he ran away, and for the 26 days absent time. The court decided that Walsh was to serve his master one year and five months for his expenses, and fifty-two days for the twenty-six absent days, after his present time of indenture otherwise expired.

BIOGRAPHY: (Preston Papers, Draper Mss., 3 QQ 54; Summers, Annals, p.643). In 1775 Ingram purchased 80 acres formerly belonging to Frederick Shore.In 1780 he served on a jury and he was one of the appraisers of the estate of Eloner Snodgrass in 1793. Ingram sold tracts of land to Rober t Currin in 1784, to Adam Hance 1787, and to Jonathan Ingram in 1796(Summers, Annals, pp. 646, 743, 835, 915, 919, 928; Montgomery County Deed Books A, pp. 329, 476; B, p. 257). In 1780 Samuel Ingram and his sons Jonathan and James were tried for being Loyalists. Samuel was found guilty and was ordered to the Augusta jail for further trail, but the two sons volunteered to enlist in the American army until December31, 1781.

BIOGRAPHY: (Preston Papers, Draper Mss., QQ 68-72, 72-79). James Ingram must have been some what of a prankster, for he and John Reins were summoned to appear for "raising a false rumour and puttingsome of the inhabitants of the County into fear." The information files with the summons indicated that Reins and Ingram had just returned fromduty on the frontier and in one place hung a blanket to a treetop and seta hat on it and remained by the roadside with guns ready to fire, and inone instance did fire their guns and hallooed like Indians in the night thus alarming the inhabitants. Captain Joseph Cloyed and Robert Evans were called as witnesses.

BIOGRAPHY: (Montgomery County Loos Papers, April 1779, Virginia Statelibrary, Archives). For the purpose of evidence in a lawsuit, Samuel Ingram, Sr. vs. JamesMcCorkle and Daniel Trigg, David Crouch filed a deposition of interest onMay 30, 1789. He stated that in 1779 he was at the house of SamuelIngram, Sr., when Ingram asked him to go to his smokedhouse and "drink adram;" once there Ingram lifted up "something like a bee gum and took outa large bundle of counterfeit paper money" and asked Crouch what he thought of it. When asked what he intended to do with it, Ingram statedhe planned to take a cart with some skins and furs and go "towards the Northward and try to traffic it off for something or other." Crouchadvised him not to do that or he would be hanged and bring his family toscandal, but Ingram replied "it was as good as any, for it was all goodfor nothing." Crouch stated that the money was made on Ingram's plantation and there appeared to be several more bundles of the same kind shown to him. Crouch heard that Ingram had passed some of the money toJames Millar and when Sheriff Bell came, the money was returned. The money Ingram received in payment for land he sold to Captain JamesMcCorkle, he offered to pass to Colonel William Ingles who disputed taking it but fimally accepted it as payment for the round glade tract of land that Colonel Ingles at Crockett's blacksmith shop.

BIOGRAPHY: Montgomery County Loose Papers, Virginia State Library,Archives). Samuel Ingram, Sr., wrote his will on January 17, 1799, and it wasrecorded in August 1801

BIOGRAPHY: (Montgomery County Will Book 1, p.114). He devised to his two sons Aaron and William all his lands, and Aaron was to pay his brotherSamuel L100. William was to support his mother, whose name was Ann, and he was to have the dwelling house. In addition to her support William was to pay his mother L100. Three sons, John, William and Aaron, were to act as executors. The appraisal of the estate was done on August 26,1801, the total appraised value being $1,736.53.

BIOGRAPHY: (Montgomery Co. Will Book 1, p. 118). Among the items listedin the will book were the following selected items: 22 cows, calves, and steers; one bull, 9 hogs, 13 sheep,4 horses, a wagon and gears for four horses, plowirons, crosscut saw,handsaw, augers, pitchforks, foot adze, drawing knife, clevis, scythes, quarrying sledge, falling axes, mattocks,hoes, a frying pan, steelyards, 4 beds, 2 flatirons, a "lanthorn," coffeemill, 2 coffeepots, 2 pint cups of tin, a stone "jugg," a pair of goldscales, a jackscrew, a chest, a check reel, a big wheel, 4 chairs,saddle, bridle and "sircingle" [girth], iron kettle, a washing tub, agrindstone, a loom, 3 Dutch ovens, 3 pair of pot hooks, a large skiller,2 pots, a pair "truckle" wheels, a set of harrow teeth, pewter, 2 tables,pot racks, 6 piggins, 2 coolers, a bread tray, and 7 Negroes ranging in value from $100 to $300. The Ingrams occupied the central uplands.

DEATH: Will recorded August 1801.

Father: John Ingram b: ABT 1696 in Orange Co.,VA > Brunswick Co.,VA Mother: Charity Beaumont

Marriage 1 Anne Stewart b: ABT 1740 in VA (Scottish Descent) Married: ABT 1758 in VA Children

Jonathan Ingram b: ABT 1759 in Montgomery Co.,VA

James Perkins Ingram b: 26 JUN 1761 in Hampshire Co.,VA (Now WV)

Nancy Ingram b: ABT 1762 in Hampshire Co.,VA (Now WV)

William Ingram b: ABT 1763 in Montgomery Co.,VA

Samuel Ingram b: ABT 1764 in Montgomery Co.,VA > GA > AL

Aaron Ingram b: ABT 1766 in Montgomery Co.,VA

John Robert Ingram b: ABT 1768 in Montgomery Co.,VA

Jemina Minerva Ingram b: ABT 1772 in Montgomery Co.,VA

Mary Ingram b: ABT 1774 in Montgomery Co.,VA

Rachel Ingram b: ABT 1776 in Montgomery Co.,VA