I was searching the net for family names in my family tree and came to your records while searching  the name Ira Ingerson. E Gertrude Ingerson was my great grandmother. Her husband was Frank Brattin, not Britton, and their daughter Ruth Brattin was my grandmother who married Addison DeMott, so I appear to have an extensive branch of the family in addition to yours. How
are you related to Ira Ingerson? I have put my tree together from family records,
which were extensive and i'm not familiar with GEDCOM  other than the name.
I also have a written account of the ingerson trip from Vermont to Marshall michigan via Canal and Wagon, that was dictated by Steven Ingerson when he was an old man. I have no information past Ira I. so am curious about the name Ingersol, of Joseph, Thomas and his father Nathanial. I would be interested in hearing what you have.
Denis DeMott
dcdemott@aol.com

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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:35:20 EDT
 
To:
Melissa Ward

I got your e-mail with the decendants od Ira Ingerson . My records, at first glance seem to be very close in content. So far I have found some differences in names, mostly where my records, being from family, refered to the common use names( generally the middle name) and not the given first  name. I did not have any information farther back than Ira. Most of the information I have
is of the decendants of Stephen Ingerson and Francis Lee. I am not sure how much of that would interest you so you will need to let me know. Also some of the information I have was given with the caveat that it be kept private, so I would need to edit some portions before releasing .  I am adding my transcription of an original document in my possession regarding Stephen Ingersons dictation of the trip from Vermont to Michigan. I think you will enjoy it. Also, what computer program do you use? I use Family Tree For Windows. I an also having trouble copying reports into clipboard for
pasting into e-mail, so I will need to resolve that problem before I can send certain reports. Have you had the same problem?

The following is a partial record of the Ingerson family written by my father
S. S. Ingerson age 77 yrs, 6 MO. Mar.3 1913.

Following was transcribed from the above noted document..Some spelling and grammer have been corrected by me, Denis DeMott, for ease of reading. The originals are on file, and a copy is kept in my computer files.

Ira Ingerson was born in what was then called Little Line Pardners Dutchess Co.New York, on May 25th 1783. His father died when he was 5 years odl. His mother and three children moved to Vermont, near Vergennes. The mother soon married again, a Mr. Place. There was a sister younger, and a boy baby. Mr Place would only take the two younger children so our father [Ira]
[transcribers note] was bound out and left with strangers who were to send him to school 3 months each year until he was 21 when he was to have a new suit of clothes and $100 in money. But the family was so cruel to him, did not send him to school a day, so when he was 13 years old he ran away and cared for himself working on farms summers and when 18 years old learned the
shoemakers trade and winters ever after worked at it .May 10 1805 he was married to
sally Rounds. To them 3 sons were born, Harry, Darius, and William. Her death occurred June 6, 1813. Having thee three children to care for, our father soon married our mother Sarah Bidwwell, who was born Jan. 4 1795. They were married Oct. 10 1813. From this union 9 children were born, 8 living for many years, one dying in infancy named Martha. Being poor, they moved quite a number of times where they could rent land to work. When I, the youngest was 5 years old, they moved from Huntington Vermont, to my uncle Cyrus Bidwells farm in Monkton Vermont, March 18, 1841, where we lived 4 years, keeping cows and made cheese and butter in which our mother was an expert. Many of the years we milked 13 cows and they made surplus money for to buy a home which were very anxious to have so as not to have to move so often. In the fall of 1844
uncle Huron Ross came back from Monterey, Allegen Co. Michigan to Vermont and told such glowing accounts of the country that father and mother felt anxious to come and see if we could find homes and not have to go into the mountains to get even a small amount of land. Brother Alonzo came that fall to Michigan with uncle Ross and he made a good report and it was planned to move to Michigan in the spring. Not being able to sell what stock and tools they had for cash, they traded them toward the price of 160 acres of land with Jarvis Hoag, a neighbor who owned land in Woodland, Barry Co. Michigan. The people were we lived said we were very foolish to come to Michigan, as there was nothing here but Indians, swamps, and mosquitos, but we kept on getting
ready to start, and the morning of May 25, 1845,we said goodby to the home. Father,
mother Durkee and myself with horses and wagon started westward. One week later, our householdgoods and seymour, Matilda and Amanda left Vergennes on a canal boat, via the Erie canal, for Buffalo, where we met, and with team and goods came by steamer up lake Erie to Detroit, then shipping the goods over the Michigan Central Railroad to Marshall, it being as far as the road was built at that time.Then 7 of us started for Woodland, 6 of us walking, and 1 of us to guide the team, changing drivers when one tired, and each one taking their turn. We were 7 days
making the journey from Detroit to Woodland, which we reached June 18 1845. We found
a vacant house the same day, it being 1 1/2 miles from the land that was to be our home. Brother Durkee and myself slept in the wagon every night from Monkton to Woodland. We cleand a place on the floor of the log house and slept there. There were three families within one half mile of the house they were to occupy and they kindly offered us a place at their homes and table until
we could get our goods from Marshall 45 miles away. The year 1844 was a very poor crop year, and little of the grain ripened so that flour was not to be bought in the central part of the state. When father got home fron Marshall, with a load of goods on Saturday at 2:00 o'clock the neighbors, [7 of them] came to borrow some flour. Before 6:00 PM mother had loand 140 # of our flour out
of the barrel. Some of them told her they had not had a loaf of bread in their home for 3 weeks, only had a little corn meal. They had plenty of venison, fish, green peas ect. The next week father and Seymour went to Hastings, Gull Prarie, Kalamazoo, otsego and home via Middleville and in all the trip could not find a cow he could by. Soon after he returned home he found a 2 yr.old
cow for $15 and we had a small amount of milk. Father and the older boys began to cut down the timber on our farm so that by winter they had several acres cut over. In November, we moved 1/2 mile east of Woodland Center, so as tobe nearer their work. The next spring they had the logs for a home cut and hewed ready to raise it soon, when father got seriously hurt at a raising of a log
house. His shoulder was broken, ribs cracked, head and face skinned and bruised, so he done no work for 5 months. In that time mother had the quinsy, bilious fever, and pleursey. Seymour, Matilda, and Amanda all had the Ague for many weeks. I had had the Ague the first fall after we came. Durkee worked outdoors, and I did the best I could waiting on the sick ones and keeping
house under instructions when some of them were able to sit up. In the spring of 1847 the house was raised, floors laid and we moved into the place and felt at last we were into our own home and began to clear off the logs so as to plant some corn, beans, ect..  After that first 2 months in 1845 we had an abundance of everything to eat. Durkee and Seymour went for themselves to make
homes, Matilda and Amanda married in 1847, and 1849, so I was left with father and mother, going to district school winters, and helping on the farm summers, until Jan. 27, 1853, when father, while on the way to the sawmill with a log, was accidentally killed by the oxen turning off the road near a bridge. He fell under the log and sled. Mother and I lived together 4 years, when her health was so poor I decided to get married. I was married to Francis Elizabeth Lee Dec. 7 1856 and we kept house for over 54 years, when Ma died Aug. 15 1910, age 80 years and 3 months. This was written by request of Agnes Ingerson Iler.

*Births and marriages and deaths recorded in this document were not copied in these notes, as the information is in other parts of the family records.