Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
I Reced. thine 13th. Ultimo a few Days, and Note the Contents, I have taken some Pains to find out the father of John Ingham the Unfortunate Young Man Who has for some time
P.S. Yesterday we had an Acct. from Jamaca that John Wormley is Dead there.
John Adams noted in his diary, Aug. 30, 1774, while in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress: "Towards the Evening, Mr. Thomas Smith, . . . and Dr. Shippen and his Brother and Mr. Reed, went with Us to the Hospital. We saw, in the lower Rooms under Ground, the Cells of the Lunaticks, a Number of them, some furious, some merry, some Melancholly, and among the rest John Ingham, whom I once saved at Taunton Court from being whipped and sold for Horse stealing" (Adams, Diary, 2:116). RTP noted more briefly in his diary that day: "PM Conducted by Dr.