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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Ingram
Given Name:
Joseph
Soundex Code:
I526
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1748
Nation:
England
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
by 1775
Place of Indenture
County:
Spotsylvania
Colony:
Virginia
Research Notes
Proof of Convict Status:
"Run away from the subscriber, in the upper end of Spotsylvania, the 20th of May last, Joseph Ingram, an English convict servant man, 27 years of age, about 5 feet 7 inches high, rather smaller built than the common size of men, with dark hair, his complexion rather pale, has a sly cast with his eyes, a round face, a peaked nose, wears whiskers, and a kind of a dimple, or something like it, on his chin; he has a scar on one of his arms below his elbow, talks something quick, and much of it when a little groggy, and can sing well..." (1)
Comments:
Alias: Joseph Wagpels. (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1988; New York, 1986), centerpiece, quoting The Virginia Gazette (Pinkney), September 14, 1775.