Benjamin Wilcocks INGERSOLL

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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family" - Charles Jared received a liberal education; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. He then traveled in Europe and was attached to the U.S. Embassy in France.
He was afterward elected to Congress as a Democrat, serving from 1813 till 1815, when he became U.S. District Attorney, and held that office until he was removed by Gen. Jackson in 1829. Soon afterward he served in the legislature. He was a member of the Canal and International.......Convention there in 1825 and also of the Reform Convention there in 1837, and in Philadelphia in 1838. In 1837 he was appointed secretary of legation to Prussia. He served again in Congress from 1841 till 1847, as chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, and distinguished himself as a Democratic leader. In 1847 he was nominated by President Polk, U.S. Minister to France, but was rejected by the Senate.
He was authro of "Chimara," a poem published in the "Portfolio" (1800); "Edwy and Elgira," a tragedy (Philadelphia, 1801); "Inchiquin, the Jesuit's Letters on american Literature and Polities" (New York, 1810); "Julian," a dramatic poem (1831); and a Historical Sketch of the Second War between the U.S. and Great Britian (4 vols., Phils., 1845-52). Joseph Bonaparte furnished him much material for the work. He also published numerous anonymous contributions to the "Democratic Press" of Philadelphia and to the "National Intelligencer" of Washington, on the controversies with England before the War of 1812; several "speeches" concerning that war (1813-15); a discourse before the American philosophical society on the "Influence of America on the Mind", which was republished in england and France (1823); a translation of a French work on the Freedom of navigation in the "American Law Journal" of 1829, and many other literary and political discourses. (Life of Charles Jared Ingersoll, by Wm. Meigs, J.B. Lippincott & Co.)

Charles married Mary WILCOCKS on 18 Oct 1804. Mary (daughter of Alexander WILCOCKS and Mary CHEW) was born on 02 Jan 1784; died on 08 Aug 1862. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Alex. Wilcocks and Mary Chew.

Jared married Elizabeth PELLET on 06 Dec 1781. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Col. Charles Pellet of Philadelphia

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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family" - He studied law with his father and removed with the family to Philadelphia in 1771. He there continued his studies with Pres. Joseph Reed, and was admitted to practice on april 26, 1773. In 1774 he was sent to London to finish his legal education and was entered at the Middle Temple, where he migrated to Paris at the end of 1776. Late in 1778, he returned to America and found that his father had retreated, owing to troubles which had befallen him. to New Haven. Nevertheless, under encouragement given him by Pres. Reed, he settled in Philadelphia, where he admitted to practice in the Supreme Court in April 1779.
He served as Member of the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania in 1780-81, and as a delegate to the convention which formed the constitution of the U.S. in 1787; but, with these exceptions, devoted himself unremittingly to the business of his profession with signal success.
He was the first Attorney General of the State, from the adoption of the constitution of 1790 until 1799, and again from 1811 until his resignation in Dec. 1817.
He was also for a short time District Attorney of the U.S. for Pennsylvania and was offered the Chief Judgeship of the U.S. Circuit Court created for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania in 1801.
In polities he was conservative and in 1812 was selected in opposition or "anti-Madisonian" candidate for the office of Vice Pres. of the U.S. on the ticket with DeWitt Clinton. He received 86 electoral votes to 131 for Elbridge Gerry. After his sight had become impaired so that his work at the bar was impeded, he served from March 1821 until his death as Chief Judge of the District Court for the City and Court of Philadelphia.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the College of N.J. in 1821.
He died in Philadelphia Oct. 31, 1822 at the age of seventy-three years. He married Dec. 8, 1781, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Col. Charles Pellet of Philadelphia, who was also a niece of his friend, Pres. Reed, and who survived him......

Alexander married Mary CHEW on 18 May 1768. Mary was born on 10 Mar 1748; died on 22 Jul 1794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Benjamin Chew and Mary Galloway

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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family" - Jared Ingersoll was graduated from Yale in 1742, and in 1765 arrived in Boston from England charged with the commission of Stamp Master General for New England Colonies under George III, which Benjamin Franklin had advised him to accept. After the demonstrations against the obnoxious act in various parts of the colonies, Ingersoll, assured of the governor's protection, tried to reason the people of New Haven into forbearance. Surrounding his house, they demanded him to resign. "I know not if I have the power to resign," he replied. He promised, however, that he would re-ship any stamps that he received or leave the matter to their decision. He was finally compelled to offer his resignation, which was not satisfactory to the people of other sections, and, in order to save his house from an attack, he rode from New Haven, resolving to place himself under the protection of the legislature in Hartford. Several miles below Wethersfield he met a body of 500 men on horseback, preceded by three trumpeters and two militia officers. They received him and rode with him to Wethersfield, where they compelled him to resign his office. Entering a house for safety, he sent word of his situation to the governor and the assembly. After waiting for three hours the people entered the house. Ingersoll said: "The cause is not worth dying for," and made a written declaration that his resignation was his own free act, without any equivocation. "Swear to it," said the crowd; but this he refused. they then commanded him to shout "Liberty and property" three times, and throwing his hat into the air. He obeyed. He was then escorted by a large crowd to Hartford, where he read to the assembly the paper that he had just signed. About 1770 he was made admiralty judge of the middle district, and resided for several years in Philadelphia, after which he returned to New Haven. (Appleton's Cyclo. Am. Biob.)

Jared married Hannah WHITING on 01 Aug 1743. Hannah (daughter of Col. Joseph WHITING and Hannah TROWBRIDGE) was born on 21 Feb 1719/20; died on 03 Dec 1786. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 21 Feb 1712/3
• Death: 8 Oct 1779

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"A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family" - Hannah is the daughter of the Hon. Col. Joseph Whiting of New Haven. Col. Whiting was the son of the Rev. John Whiting, fourth minister of Hartford, Conn., and Phebe, his wife, daughter of Thomas Gregson of New Haven, and grandson of Hon. William Whiting, one of the first settlers.