Agnes Langley

Agnes Langley, also known as Ann or Agness Langley, was born in 1592. She married Richard Ingersoll, whose name also appears as Inkersall, Inkersoale, and Inkersole in the supplied material. The family notes give two differing marriage dates and places: 10 October 1611 at St. Swithin’s Church in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England, and 20 October 1616 at “Sands,” England.

Agnes and Richard had children whose baptisms were recorded in Bedfordshire: Alice, baptized 12 December 1612; John, baptized 1 October 1615; George, baptized 2 July 1618; John, baptized 11 May 1620; Johanna, baptized 3 March 1624; and Sara, baptized 1 July 1627. The notes identify Alice as the wife of Josiah Walcot, George as the husband of Elizabeth, John as the husband of Judith Felton, Johanna as the wife of Richard Pettingell, and Sara as the wife first of William Haines and later of Joseph Houlton.

According to the family material, Agnes and Richard sailed for New England with their children in 1629 in the company connected with the Rev. Francis Higginson. The notes emphasize that this vessel named Mayflower was not the Mayflower associated with the 1620 voyage to Plymouth. A passenger list transcribed in the supplied material includes Richard Ingersoll, “Mrs Anne Ingersoll,” and George, Joanna, John, Sarah, and Alice Ingersoll. A letter from Matthew Craddock to Mr. Endicott is said to have commended Richard Inkersall and Richard Haward, who came from Bedfordshire with their families.

The family settled at Salem, Massachusetts, where the supplied records concern Richard’s land, ferry work, farming, and court matters. Two further children are said to have been born at Salem: Bathsheba, about 1 July 1629, and Nathanial, about 1632. Bathsheba later married John Knight Jr.; Nathanial married Hannah Collins. In 1640, Richard’s household was credited with nine persons.

Richard Ingersoll made his will on 21 July 1644 and died later that year. In it, he left the bulk of his estate to “Ann my wife,” provided for sons George and Nathaniel, gave two cows to daughter Bathsheba, and left a house and land to daughter Alice Walcott after Agnes’s death. The will was proved on 2 January 1644–45, and the inventory was taken on 4 October 1644.

The supplied notes state that Ann Ingersoll later married John Knight, described as a merchant tailor of Newbury, and that he was the father of her son-in-law, John Knight Jr. However, the reported marriage date of 20 March 1642 conflicts with Richard Ingersoll’s 1644 will naming Ann as his wife and with the stated date of Richard’s death. The marriage date therefore requires further verification.

Agnes died on 30 July 1677.