![]() ![]() Together, these three sets of plots formed the vast Ingalls family homestead in Plato Township. Worthen owned land slightly to the north, in section 26: NWSE 26 41 N 07E 3. The lineage of Joseph and his relation to James and Worthen is not known. Another Ingalls, named Joseph, purchased the adjoining section SWNE 35 41N 07E 3. James’s son Jasper owned SENW 35 41N 07E 3, which adjoined James’s land just to the south. ![]() ![]() The majority of James Ingalls’s land remains untouched and in its natural state today, though it has been annexed by Elgin and is now owned by a developer. James’s land, NENW 35 07E 3 and NWNE 35 07E 3, lies on a section of beautiful rolling farmland west of the fox River and Randall Road where the Chicago suburbs end and the original farms of Kane County still remain. When James and Wothen chose their homesteads in Plato Township in the mid-1840s, they could not have made a better choice than the land where they staked their claim. The Land: Plato Township, Sections 35 and 26. ![]()
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