Bathsheba Ingersoll

Bathsheba Ingersoll (reported 1 July 1629–25 October 1705) was the daughter of Richard Ingersoll and Agnes Langlye. She married John Knight, apparently by 1648, and is identified as Barbara’s 10th great-grandmother.

Bathsheba Ingersoll, described as the ninth known child of Richard Ingersoll and Agnes (Langlye) Ingersoll, was born at Salem about 1629. Her life dates are reported as 1 July 1629 to 25 October 1705.

Bathsheba married John Knight at Newbury, apparently by 1648. This dating is based on the birth of their eldest known child, John Knight, at Newbury on 16 August 1648.

Her family later had an additional connection with the Knight family. On 20 October 1676, Bathsheba’s widowed mother, Agnes (Langlye) Ingersoll, married John Knight Sr., the widowed father of Bathsheba’s husband.

Historical context

The available material places Bathsheba’s birth in Salem and her marriage and early childbearing in Newbury, Massachusetts. Her mother’s 1676 marriage to her husband’s father joined the Ingersoll and Knight families in a second way.

Sources & research

Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633. Entry for Bathsheba Ingersoll, describing her as the ninth known child of Richard and Agnes (Langlye) Ingersoll, born at Salem about 1629, and married at Newbury to John Knight apparently by 1648.