Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
Timo. Fales of Taunton Esqr. makes Compt. that on Tuesday night Last past he had his Stable broke open and a large bay mair Stolen and that he Greatly Suspects one John Ingham1a Vagrant fellow to have Committed Said fact. Prays your worship to Grant him a warrt. of Search for the Said mare and for apprehending sd. John. And your Compt. as in Duty bound &c.
John Ingham, a clothier from Solesbury, Bucks Co., Penna., had settled in Taunton the previous year. He wrote on "speculative theology," heretical doctrines which his father used as proofs of a disordered mind to have him confined to an asylum (William Armstrong Ingham, Samuel Delucenna Ingham [n.p., 1910], 3–4).