Ralph Inman Explained

Ralph Inman (1713 - 1788) was an American merchant active in Boston with a residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the American Revolution he was a Loyalist.^[1] Portraits of Inman were made by Robert Feke^[2] and John Singleton Copley.^[3]

See also

• Inman Square

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.

Notes and References

1. Lorenzo Sabine. Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American Revolution: with an historical essay, Volume 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1864; p.566.
2. Early American paintings: catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917; p.v.
3. Web site: Early American Paintings . www.worcesterart.org . 2010-04-19.