Founders of Ingersoll

Photo by Alan L Brown - August, 2004

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - October, 2010

Plaque Location

The County of Oxford
The Town of Ingersoll
On the east side of Thames Street North
at the south end of the Thames River bridge

Coordinates: N 43 02.463 W 80 53.139

Plaque Text

Born in Massachusetts, Major Thomas Ingersoll (1749-1812) came to the Niagara peninsula in 1793 and was promised some 32,000 ha of land in the present Oxford County for himself and a group of American associates. He brought a number of settlers into this area before the government revoked the agreement in 1797. Ingersoll moved to the Credit River in 1805. His son Charles (1791-1831) a veteran of the War of 1812 and a half-brother of Laura Secord, acquired the Oxford family homestead in 1817. He became a leading citizen of this pioneer community known at first as Oxford but later re-named Ingersoll.

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