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Ralph Inman (1713–1788) was a merchant in 18th-century
Image:1747 Ralph Inman BostonEveingPost April6.png, Newspaper item, 1747. "To be sold by Ralph Inman, at his warehouse on Belcher's Wharf," Boston ('' Boston Evening-Post'')
Image:1750 Ralph Inman BostonPostBoy Oct1.png, Newspaper item, '' Boston Post-Boy'', 1750
Image:1760 Ralph Inman BostonEveningPost Sept22.png, Newspaper item, 1760
Image:1764 Ralph Inman BostonNewsLetter April19.png, Newspaper item, 1764
1713 births
1788 deaths
People from Boston
18th century in Boston
American Loyalists from Massachusetts
Inman Square
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Ralph Inman (1713–1788) was a merchant in 18th-century Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...
, with a residence in Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
. During the American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...
he supported the British.
Portraits of Inman were made by Robert Feke
Robert Feke ( 1705 or 1707 1752) was an American portrait painter born in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. According to art historian Richard Saunders, "Feke’s impact on the development of Colonial painting was substantial, and his pictures ...
and John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. Afte ...
.
See also
*Inman Square
Inman Square is a neighborhood and historic district in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It lies north of Central Square, at the junction of Cambridge, Hampshire, and Inman Streets near the Cambridge– Somerville border.
Location
Like many squar ...
References
Further reading
* Rules of incorporation for the Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor. Boston: 1754. * The constitution of a Christian church illustrated in a sermon at the opening of Christ-Church in Cambridge on Thursday 15 October, MDCCLXI. By East Apthorp, M.A. late Fellow of Jesus College in the University of Cambridge. 1761. * A state of the importations from Great-Britain into the port of Boston, from the beginning of Jan. 1769, to Aug. 17th 1769. With the advertisements of a set of men who assumed to themselves the title of "All the well disposed merchants," who entered into a solemn agreement, (as they called it) not to import goods from Britain, and who undertook to give a "true account" of what should be imported by other persons. The whole taken from the Boston chronicle, in which the following papers were first published. Boston: 1769. * An Address of the gentlemen and principal inhabitants of the town of Boston, to His Excellency Governor Gage. Boston: 1775.Image gallery