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Stephen married Hannah Holton on 6 Nov 1714 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Henry Holton and Abigail Flint) was born on 13 Jul 1695 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died about 1744 in Middleton, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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• Civil: Apr 1690, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; was made a Freeman

John married Elizabeth. was born in 1660 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1729 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Henry married Abigail Flint on 4 Mar 1689 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Thomas Flint and Hannah Moulton) was born on 27 Jun 1668 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 28 Feb 1758 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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• Arrival: Abt 1640, Massachusetts Colony; from Wales, England

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Thomas Flint, the emigrant ancestor, came to America, as tradition reports, from Wales, in Great Britain. The first mention made of him in the town records of Salem is in 1650; but there is reason to believe that he came to this country much earlier; and there is also some evidence to show that he had a mother here as early as 1642. He was among the first settlers of Salem Village, now South Danvers. The spot in the wilderness which h~ selected for his home is situated on the Salem and North Reading road, about six miles from the present Court House in Salem, and five miles from the town of North Reading, and near Phelps’s mill and brook. He acquired his land by purchase. The first deed to him on record, “ containing one hundred and fifty acres of meadow and pasture land, and lying within the bounds of Salem,” he bought Sept. 18, 1664, of John Pickering. The price paid for this land is not mentioned; but quite a good opinion can be formed of its value, from the fact that John Pickering, three years before, gave Mr. John Higginson thirteen pounds for the same land. The second lot recorded, containing fifty acres, he purchased 1st January, 1662, of Robert Goodall, for which he paid twenty pounds sterling. It is described· as situated in Salem, and as being “near upon a square,” and bounded southerly by land of Henry Phelps, westerly by Phelps’s Brook, and northerly and easterly by land of said Goodall.1 This farm of the old patriarch has always remained in the possession of his descendants. It is now occupied by the heirs of Elijah Flint, and may truly be called the old homestead, it having been in the family more than two hundred years. He died April 15, 1663. His wife’s name was Ann. They had Six children. - A Genealogical Register of the Decendants of Thomas Flint of Salem
"Thomas Flint, the immigrant ancestor, was born about 1602-14, probably in En-gland, and died 15 April 1663 in Salem Village, now South Danvers, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The first mention made of Thomas Flint is in the town records of Salem. Under the date March __, 1637-8, the colonial records of Salem give a list of the names of persons who had signified their desire to become freemen, and the name of Thomas Flint is on this list.
Thomas had a mother here as early as 1642. She lived with his brother, William, and it would seem she was a very strong force in William's life, either through her strong religious faith and moral force, or through control of the family purse-strings. She cared for William's motherless children after their arrival in America, at least until his second marriage to Alice Williams. In February 1642-3, Goodman William Flint was presented to court for not living with his wife. He answered that his mother was not willing to let his wife come to America with him, The court then acquitted him of this charge. Thomas Flint was among the first settlers of Salem Village. The area was then a wildreness and the spot which he selected for his home was situated on the Salem and North Reading road about six miles from the site of the Salem courthouse (where it was located in 1860).... This farm remained in the family until about 1860 when it was sold to Mr. Carten by the heirs of Elijah Flint, one of the descendants of Thomas.... "The 1860 genealogy stated that the old cemetery on the Flint farm lies on a pine-shaded knoll about a mile east of the present house,and that it was poorly enclosed by a stone wall. The original house burned after 1860. The graves were badly over-grown with brush and new growth. William L. Flint in his By the Name of Flint tells the story of an old Irishman who used to care for the graves for free when there were no Flints in the neighborhood to mourn the dead. When asked why he did this, he said, 'They are men's graves and someone should care for them.' Somewhere in that forgotten spot lie the bones of Thomas and his wife Ann.
"Thoman Flint was a Puritan and kept their stern code. He testified against Hannah Phelps, a Quaker, and his evidence helped convicther in a charge of heresy. His brother William paid her fine to keep her fron being publicly flogged (a fate which William's wife had suffered for the crime of fornication before marriage with said William Flint). "Thomas married a lady named Ann, but to date no one has found a record of her last name or of her parents. He married Ann sometime before 1645 and she died in the summer of 1668. After the death of Thomas in 1663 she married John Southwick in Salem Village. She had no children by John Southwick." - The Family Histories of Charles Edwin Flint, Jr. and Bessie Hazel Lee, Rosalie V. M. Flint & Kathleen A. B. Hedrick, Flint, 1981
Estate of Thomas Flint of Salem - Essex Probate Docket # None Dated April 1, 1663. This present writing doth declare that I, Thomas Flint being on my sick bed, do leave this as my Last will and Testament. To my wife I give fifty acres of emproved land and my meadow and housing. To my son Thomas I give thirty acres of upland on my farm next to Mr. Gardner's as he sees fit, not entrenching on his mother's meadow or broken land and also ten pounds of corn or cattle all which he is to enjoy at age: And also after my wive's decease to enjoy two thirds of my farms I bought of which was Mr. Higginson's & Goodman Goodall and in case his mother doth marry then that he shall enjoy the one half of the improved lands and meadow and housing. To my sons George and John, I give all my land I bought beyond the river, to enjoy equally divided to them when they are at age or at their mother's decease if she die before, it is my will that if George dies without seed, then my son John to enjoy his part and if John die without seed then my son George to enjoy his part. To my son Joseph I give the other third part of my land which was Mr. Higginson's and Goodman Goodalls. It is provided that my son Joseph enjoy it at his mother's decease and if my son Thomas died without seed unmarried dthen his part to fall to my son Joseph and contrarywise if my son Joseph dies without seed then his part to fall to Thomas and so to pass from one to another if he that enjoys it die without issue. To my daughter Elizabeth I give thirty pounds at marriage in corn and cattle and I do appoint my son Thomas when he enjoys his two thirds as abovesaid then to pay to my daughter Elizabaeth and in case the farm falls into Joseph's hand before he is of age or he is to pay her the said ten pounds. I do appoint my wife whole executor, I entreate my two friends Mr. William Browne Sr. and Goodman Moulton to be my overseers, to see this my will and testament performed, and this I leave at my last will and testament. In witness whereof I set my hand: T.F. Witness: Robert Moulton Joseph Pores, marke Job Swinerton, Jr.

Thomas married Ann about 1644 in Massachusetts. and died. [Group Sheet]

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Joseph married Sarah Ingersoll on 13 Nov 1651 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Richard Ingersoll and Agnes Ann Langley) was born before 1 Jul 1627 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England; died on 25 Oct 1719 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts,. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 1 Jul 1627, Sutton, Bedfordshire, England

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• Birth: Abt 1645, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Thomas married Hannah Moulton on 22 May 1666 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Robert Moulton and Abigail Goode) was born about 1646 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 20 Mar 1673 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 10 Mar 1588, Edworth, Bedfordshire, England
• Arrival: 1629

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From "GreatMigration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633", Vols. I-III, Page1060-1063
RICHARD INGERSOLL: ORIGIN: Sutton, Bedfordshire; MIGRATION: 1629; FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem; OCCUPATION: Ferryman. ("Ric[har]d Inkersoll" was allowed one penny for every person he ferried over the north river, 16 January 1636/7 [STR 1:31].); EDUCATION: Signed his will with a mark. The will also has the annotation, made by John Endicott, that "I read this will to Richard Ingersoll & he acknowledged it to be his will."; OFFICES: On 7 July 1644, ordered to "walk forth in the time of God's worship, to take notice of such as either lie about the meeting house without attending to the word or ordinances, or that lie at home or in the fields..." (apparently on the sixth Sunday following, paired with Robert Moulton, Jr.) [STR 1:131].; ESTATE: In 1636 received eighty acres in Salem, but not in the freeman's land [STR1:20]. Granted one acre of marsh in Salem on 25 December 1637, with a household of nine [STR 1:103].He received two acres for a houselot 6 April 1635 and was reminded to allow room for a highway on his land [STR 1:9]. With Edward Giles and Pasco Foot, Ingersoll was considered for land by the "frost fish brook" next to Goodman Barney, 10 April 1637 [STR1:44]. On 20 November 1639 Richard Ingersoll received ten acres of meadow in the great meadow at Salem, having already received twenty acres on 23 December 1638 [STR1:92, 94].
In his will, dated 21 July 1644 and proved 2 January 1644/5, Richard Ingersoll of Salem gave all to "Ann my wife," except to "George Ingersoll my son six acres lying in the great meadow," to "Nathaniel Ingersoll my youngest son a parcel of ground with a little frame thereon" (unless Nathaniel dies without issue, in which case the land should be divided equally among "John Ingersoll my son and Richard Pettingell and William Haines my sons-in-law"), to "Bathsheba my youngest daughter two cows", and to "my daughter Alice Walcott my house at town with 10 acres of upland & meadow after my wife's decease"; witnessed by Townsend Bishop [NEHGR 9:157] (What appears to be a different version of this will refers to both Bathsheba and Alice as youngest daughter, which is clearly impossible [EPR 1:43; EQC 1:76]. Without examining the originals of these documents we cannot tell whether the error was made by the seventeenth-century or the nineteenth-century copyist.)
The inventory, taken 4 October 1644 by Townsend Bishop and Jeffrey Massey, totalled £213 19s., of which £47 10s. 10d. was real estate: a farm, 80 acres, meadow, 20 acres, £14 3s. 4d.; another farm, 75 acres, £7; and 26 acres, 2 houses, 2 acres [and] a quarter of salt marsh, £26 7s. 6d. [EPR 1:458; EQC 1:76].
On 10 April 1668 Anne Knight deeded eighty acres at Royalside, bequeathed to her by her late husband "Richard Ingerson," to their sons "John and Nathaniel Ingerson" with the consent of her now husband John Knight Sr. of Newbury [EQC 4:109].
BIRTH: Baptized 10 March 1587 at Sandy, Bedfordshire, son of George "Inkerstall" [Abel Lunt Anc 63]. DEATH: Salem between 24 July 1644 (date of will) and 4 October 1644 (date of inventory). MARRIAGE: Sandy, Bedfordshire, 10 October 1611 Agnes Langlye [Abel Lunt Anc 63]. Anne Ingersoll is included in the list of those admitted to Salem church before the end of 1636, with the annotation "removed" [SChR 6]. She married (2) by 1652 John Knight of Newbury and was living at the time he made his will, 5 May 1670, in which he bequeathed to "my wife's grandchild Thomas Hains, £10 to be paid after his time is out" [EPR 2:191].
COMMENTS: 28 May 1629 letter of instruction from Massachusetts Bay Company to John Endicott: "There is also one Richard Haward and Richard Inkersall, both Bedfordshire men, hired for the Company with their families, who we pray you may be well accommodated, not doubting but they will well and orderly demean themselves" [MBCR1:401; SLR 1:xvi].
In the 1636 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll appears in that portion of the list which included "non-freemen," which in Salem tells us clearly that he was not a member of the church. In the 1637 Salem land grant, Richard Ingersoll is shown with a family of nine. Seven of his children were living at that date, but his eldest daughter Alice was already married to William Walcott and would have been included in her husband's household. Thus, there may have been an additional child otherwise unrecorded, but this child in turn must have died before 1644; alternatively there may have been a more distant relative or a servant living with the Ingersolls that year.
Ingersoll had the usual problems with fences and encroachment on land, but the land grant next to Jacob Barney was a problem. Ingersoll sued Jacob Barney at the September Term, 1639, probably regarding land [EQC 1:13]. Barney sued him back over feeding cattle in his marsh, September Term, 1640, and won a verdict of "[t]wo loads of hay at water side as convenient as his own was" [EQC 1:21]. Joshua Verrin sued Ingersoll at the same term over maintenance of a fence and was countersued immediately [EQC 1:22, 29].
For some of the larger and more expensive farm implements noted in Ingersoll's inventory, it is stated that he owned one third of each item. This would indicate that he shared ownership with one or two other husbandmen in the neighborhood, or, as seems more likely, with two of his sons. In depositions at the June 1678 Essex Quarterly Court, the brothers George, John and Nathaniel "Ingerson" gave evidence regarding events in the 1640s. George deposed that "living apartner with his father Richard Ingerson upon the farm that the said Rich[ar]d Ingerson hired of Mr. Chickering which the said Chickering had bought of Mr. Townsend Bishop," demonstrating that the Ingersolls were in a cooperative family enterprise and placing them on Mr. Chickering's farm.
Richard Ingersoll found the Salem miller lacking and in September 1640 took grandjuryman Lawrence Leech with him to the mill to prove that the grists were "much short of weight" [EQC 1:20]. His neighbors found his cattle and the cattle of a dozen other men offensive in the common cornfields and Ingersoll paid the court's fine [EQC 1:49, 56].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: There is an excellent treatment of Richard Ingersoll in The Ancestry of Abel Lunt ... by Walter Goodwin Davis (pp. 63-68), and details may be found there of the marriages and later lives of Richard's children. Mrs. William C. Clark, "The Parents of Jonathan Haynes of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Some of Their Descendants" [TAG 27:129-34], provides extensive documentation on the fate of some of Richard Ingersoll's children and property. John B. Threlfall also published an account of this family in 1993 [GMC26 141-48].

Arrival:
from England to Massachusetts Colony with the Higginson-Skelton fleet aboard the "Mayflower" (not the original 1620 ship)

Richard married Agnes Ann Langley on 10 Oct 1611 in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England. Agnes was born on 29 Jul 1590 in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England; died on 30 Jul 1677 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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• Arrival: Abt 1640, Massachusetts Colony; from Wales, England

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Thomas Flint, the emigrant ancestor, came to America, as tradition reports, from Wales, in Great Britain. The first mention made of him in the town records of Salem is in 1650; but there is reason to believe that he came to this country much earlier; and there is also some evidence to show that he had a mother here as early as 1642. He was among the first settlers of Salem Village, now South Danvers. The spot in the wilderness which h~ selected for his home is situated on the Salem and North Reading road, about six miles from the present Court House in Salem, and five miles from the town of North Reading, and near Phelps’s mill and brook. He acquired his land by purchase. The first deed to him on record, “ containing one hundred and fifty acres of meadow and pasture land, and lying within the bounds of Salem,” he bought Sept. 18, 1664, of John Pickering. The price paid for this land is not mentioned; but quite a good opinion can be formed of its value, from the fact that John Pickering, three years before, gave Mr. John Higginson thirteen pounds for the same land. The second lot recorded, containing fifty acres, he purchased 1st January, 1662, of Robert Goodall, for which he paid twenty pounds sterling. It is described· as situated in Salem, and as being “near upon a square,” and bounded southerly by land of Henry Phelps, westerly by Phelps’s Brook, and northerly and easterly by land of said Goodall.1 This farm of the old patriarch has always remained in the possession of his descendants. It is now occupied by the heirs of Elijah Flint, and may truly be called the old homestead, it having been in the family more than two hundred years. He died April 15, 1663. His wife’s name was Ann. They had Six children. - A Genealogical Register of the Decendants of Thomas Flint of Salem
"Thomas Flint, the immigrant ancestor, was born about 1602-14, probably in En-gland, and died 15 April 1663 in Salem Village, now South Danvers, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The first mention made of Thomas Flint is in the town records of Salem. Under the date March __, 1637-8, the colonial records of Salem give a list of the names of persons who had signified their desire to become freemen, and the name of Thomas Flint is on this list.
Thomas had a mother here as early as 1642. She lived with his brother, William, and it would seem she was a very strong force in William's life, either through her strong religious faith and moral force, or through control of the family purse-strings. She cared for William's motherless children after their arrival in America, at least until his second marriage to Alice Williams. In February 1642-3, Goodman William Flint was presented to court for not living with his wife. He answered that his mother was not willing to let his wife come to America with him, The court then acquitted him of this charge. Thomas Flint was among the first settlers of Salem Village. The area was then a wildreness and the spot which he selected for his home was situated on the Salem and North Reading road about six miles from the site of the Salem courthouse (where it was located in 1860).... This farm remained in the family until about 1860 when it was sold to Mr. Carten by the heirs of Elijah Flint, one of the descendants of Thomas.... "The 1860 genealogy stated that the old cemetery on the Flint farm lies on a pine-shaded knoll about a mile east of the present house,and that it was poorly enclosed by a stone wall. The original house burned after 1860. The graves were badly over-grown with brush and new growth. William L. Flint in his By the Name of Flint tells the story of an old Irishman who used to care for the graves for free when there were no Flints in the neighborhood to mourn the dead. When asked why he did this, he said, 'They are men's graves and someone should care for them.' Somewhere in that forgotten spot lie the bones of Thomas and his wife Ann.
"Thoman Flint was a Puritan and kept their stern code. He testified against Hannah Phelps, a Quaker, and his evidence helped convicther in a charge of heresy. His brother William paid her fine to keep her fron being publicly flogged (a fate which William's wife had suffered for the crime of fornication before marriage with said William Flint). "Thomas married a lady named Ann, but to date no one has found a record of her last name or of her parents. He married Ann sometime before 1645 and she died in the summer of 1668. After the death of Thomas in 1663 she married John Southwick in Salem Village. She had no children by John Southwick." - The Family Histories of Charles Edwin Flint, Jr. and Bessie Hazel Lee, Rosalie V. M. Flint & Kathleen A. B. Hedrick, Flint, 1981
Estate of Thomas Flint of Salem - Essex Probate Docket # None Dated April 1, 1663. This present writing doth declare that I, Thomas Flint being on my sick bed, do leave this as my Last will and Testament. To my wife I give fifty acres of emproved land and my meadow and housing. To my son Thomas I give thirty acres of upland on my farm next to Mr. Gardner's as he sees fit, not entrenching on his mother's meadow or broken land and also ten pounds of corn or cattle all which he is to enjoy at age: And also after my wive's decease to enjoy two thirds of my farms I bought of which was Mr. Higginson's & Goodman Goodall and in case his mother doth marry then that he shall enjoy the one half of the improved lands and meadow and housing. To my sons George and John, I give all my land I bought beyond the river, to enjoy equally divided to them when they are at age or at their mother's decease if she die before, it is my will that if George dies without seed, then my son John to enjoy his part and if John die without seed then my son George to enjoy his part. To my son Joseph I give the other third part of my land which was Mr. Higginson's and Goodman Goodalls. It is provided that my son Joseph enjoy it at his mother's decease and if my son Thomas died without seed unmarried dthen his part to fall to my son Joseph and contrarywise if my son Joseph dies without seed then his part to fall to Thomas and so to pass from one to another if he that enjoys it die without issue. To my daughter Elizabeth I give thirty pounds at marriage in corn and cattle and I do appoint my son Thomas when he enjoys his two thirds as abovesaid then to pay to my daughter Elizabaeth and in case the farm falls into Joseph's hand before he is of age or he is to pay her the said ten pounds. I do appoint my wife whole executor, I entreate my two friends Mr. William Browne Sr. and Goodman Moulton to be my overseers, to see this my will and testament performed, and this I leave at my last will and testament. In witness whereof I set my hand: T.F. Witness: Robert Moulton Joseph Pores, marke Job Swinerton, Jr.

Thomas married Ann about 1644 in Massachusetts. and died. [Group Sheet]

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Robert married Abigail Goode. Abigail (daughter of John Goode and Abigail Downing) was born on 19 Sep 1619 in London, Middlesex, England; died on 27 Mar 1666 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Lucy Downing, writing from Salem, to Margaret Winthrop, reported that "my maid Abigail is suddenly to be married to Robert Moulton of this town." "My maid Abigail" is identified in a letter of the same date from Emmanuel Downing to John Winthrop as "my niece Nab Goade," daughter of John and Abigail (Downing) Goad. - Source: Anderson's Great Migration Begins.