Ralph Inman

Ralph Inman (1713–1788) was a merchant in 18th-century Boston, Massachusetts, with a residence in Cambridge. During the American Revolution he supported the British.[1]

Portrait of Ralph Inman by Robert Feke, 1748

Portraits of Inman were made by Robert Feke[2] and John Singleton Copley.[3]

See also

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. http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/Artists/copley/biography/index.html Retrieved 04-19-10

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.
  • Newspaper item, 1747. "To be sold by Ralph Inman, at his warehouse on Belcher's Wharf," Boston (Boston Evening-Post)
  • Newspaper item, Boston Post-Boy, 1750
  • Newspaper item, 1760
  • Newspaper item, 1764


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