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.
This Comes by Jonathan Ingham Esqr. the father of the Unfortunate young Man thou Mentioned to me, Who has for some time past been Out of his Head. What Ever Assistance thou Affords the father I Shall Esteem as Done to My Self, & shd. he Want any Money lett him have it On My acct. Shd. thou have Recd. my Quto
P.S. As to David Stoops he is not Worth a Single groat & to Sue him would be Sending good Money After Bad, & shd. he be put in Goal he'l Come out by an Act of Insolvency, his Wife & Child Both Happly Releived per Death,