Daniel Ingersoll

(April 17, 1751 – October 17, 1829) 

Daniel Ingersoll was a carpenter and housewright who was very active in the American Revolution following his involvement in the Boston Tea Party.

Ingersol enlisted on May 19, 1775, as a Second Lieutenant in Captain Samuel Gridley’s company under the command of Colonel Richard Gridley’s regiment. Col. Gridley also happened to be the father-in-law of Daniel, who married his daughter Polly the year before. He served in Gridley’s company for two months until July 12, 1775, and was reportedly at the Battle of Bunker Hill a few days later.  

Daniel Ingersol was also prominent in the civic life of the town of Boston. At a town meeting held on October 30, 1776, he was appointed as a representative of Ward 10 as part of the committee to assess the fiscal damage suffered to the town due to the Boston Port Bill of 1774. Fellow Boston Tea Party participant Thomas Crafts Jr. was also on the committee. The British Parliament enacted the Port Bill, which closed the harbor in retaliation for the destruction of East India Company tea on December 16, 1773. 

Later, Ingersol served as a Second Lieutenant in the Continental Army with Colonel Thomas Crafts’ artillery regiment from March 8, 1777, to October 1, 1777. Army payroll accounts show that he was on the roster through November 2, 1778. As the conflict continued, he advanced to the rank of Lieutenant as of June 7, 1780, and served with Captain John Ingersol as a matross at Fort Hill in Boston, Massachusetts.  

In 1782, Daniel Ingersol became a member of the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew. Three years later, he was recorded as part of the surviving participants at the laying of the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 17, 1825.  

He moved with his family to Keene, New Hampshire, where he lived the remainder of his life until his death in Keene, New Hampshire, on October 17, 1829.