Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham / Harriett Horry Laurens


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	Family Sheet HUSBAND Name: Duncan Nathaniel IngrahamMale Note Born: 2 Dec 18021802-12-2 at Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina Married: 26 May 18301830-5-26 at St. Philip s Episcopal, Charleston, South Carolinasouth Carolina Died: 16 Oct 18911891-10-16 at Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina Father: Nathaniel Ingraham Mother: Louisa Harriett Hall WIFE Name: Harriett Horry Laurens Note Born: 10 Jul 1813 at Charleston, South Carolina Died: 16 Nov 1888 at Charleston, South Carolina Father: Henry Laurens Mother: Elizabeth Rutledge CHILDREN Name: Elizabeth Rutledge Ingraham Born: 15 Sep 1832 at Charleston, South Carolina Died: 15 Jul 1904 Husband: Henry Buist Name: Louisa Ingraham Born: 8 May 1834 at Charleston, South Carolina Died: 2 Oct 1885 Husband: Jasper Hall Whiting General Name: Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham Born: 11 Feb 1836 Died: 29 Jun 1836 Name: Henry Laurens Ingraham Born: 14 May 1838 Died: 9 Jul 1878 Wife: Sarah Harleston Moultrie Name: Harriett Horry Ingraham Born: Abt 1839 Died: Husband: Wilburn Briggs Hall Name: John Hazelhurst Ingraham Born: 12 Apr 1841 Died: Name: Eleanor Laurens Ingraham Born: 16 Mar 1842 Died: 13 Apr 1919 Husband: Philip Gadsden Hasell Name: Charlotte Maryatt Ingraham Born: 24 Oct 1845 Died: Husband: Henry C. James Name: Frederick Laurens Ingraham Born: 22 Apr 1848 at Charleston, South Carolina Died: Wife: Mary Bell Thomas Name: Caroline Burney Ingraham Born: 17 May 1851 at Charleston, South Carolina Died: 25 May 1931 Husband: Henry Campbell King NOTES 1). Duncan Ingraham was born December 02, 1752 in Boston, Suff olk County, Massachusetts, USA. and died June 16, 1804 in G reenvale Farm. near Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. He marrie d Susanna Greenleaf July 26, 1774, daughter of William Gree nleaf and Mary Brown. Com. Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, who distinguished himse lf in rescuing Martin Koszta, the Hungarian refugee, at Smy ma, 4 April 1854, was a nephew of Capt. Duncan Ingraham, wh o was fifth generation from William Ingraham, who came to B oston, Massachusetts, in 1653. He was born at Charleston, S . C., on 2 Dec. 1802, and was the son of Nathaniel Ingraha m of the same place. He belonged to a family eminently nava l in its character. His father, when but twenty years of ag e, took part as a volunteer with his intimate friend John P aul Jones, in the engagement of the Bon Homme Richard wit h the Serapis, off the British coast. His uncle. Capt. J oseph Ingraham, United States Navy, was lost in the old shi p Pickering which foundered at sea in 1800, and was neve r heard of. His cousin, William Ingraham, a lieutenant in t he navy about 1784, was killed at the age of 24 by the Indi ans at Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouvers Island . The officers and entire crew, except Jewett and Thompson , of the ship Boston, from Boston and bound to Pacific Co ast, were massacred on Christmas Day, 1802. Having been inv ited on shore to a feast, they were betrayed and murdered. Duncan N. Ingraham was sent at an early age to Bosto n to be educated in the family of his grandfather, and ente red the navy as midshipman in 1812. He served continuousl y in the navy of his country from that time until the seces sion of his native State, South Carolina, in 1860. In 181 5 he was promoted to a lieutenancy. In 1838 he was promote d to commander, and served two years on the Brig Somers, blockading the Mexican ports. At the capture of Tampico , Captain Ingraham was sent ashore. and receiving the lette rs of capitulation himself, was sent by Commodore O Conno r with dispatches to Washington. In 1852 he was ordered to command the Sloop of War St . Louis, in the Mediterranean Squadron. While at Smyma h e with great promptness and decision rescued Martin Koszta , a Hungarian refugee, who had become a citizen of the Unit ed States, from the Austrians, threatening the Austrian ves sels. although greatly outnumbered by them in guns and men . For this brave action the United States Government presen ted him with a medal. The working classes in England in tok en of their admiration. presented him with a magnificent ch ronometer. The Citizens of New York. at a monster mass meet ing, presented him with a gold medal At the breaking out of the Civil War he returned to th e United States, and resigned his commission 1 Jan. 1861. H e entered the service of the Confederate States in March 18 61. and was in action several times in and around Charlesto n harbor. In 1863 he, with two Confederate ironclads, the Palmetto State and Chicora, broke the blockade of the ha rbor. In 1865, when the Confederates evacuated Charleston , Commodore Ingraham blew up his fleet and retired with Gen eral Johnston, who surrendered his command at Goldsboro, No rth Carolina. Commodore Ingraham married Harriott Horry Laurens, gr anddaughter on the paternal side of the patriot Henry Laure ns, President of the Continental Congress. The issue of thi s marriage was eleven children. Commodore Ingraham died i n Charleston 16 November, 1891. !BIRTH A Forgotten Chapter in Our Naval History, by Franc , A Forgotten Chapter in Our Naval History, by Francis B.C . Bradlee The Essex Institute, Salem Massachusetts, 1923. , 4 5. !DEATH Baltimore Sun, 23 June 1885, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jun e 1885 2). !DEATH Headstone, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Ca , Headstone, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. If you want me to let you know when I change the website, please signup here (no more then once a quarter!)

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