MARK OF THAUVET BESLEY, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1740

Charles Inglis was born in County Donegal, Ireland in 1734, the youngest of three sons of the Reverend Archibald Inglis. After becoming rector of Killybegs, Donegal, Inglis sailed to America where he lived and worked in Delaware, before marrying Mary Vining in 1764 and moving to New York in 1765 where he became curate of Trinity Church, and eventually rector in 1777. A Loyalist, Inglis and his family evacuated New York in 1783 and returned to England. Four years later, though, King George III created the Diocese of Nova Scotia, Canada, and Inglis was named its first Bishop. Inglis and his family remained in Halifax, Nova Scotia until his death in 1816, and the present tankard was then passed down through his family.
Thauvet Besley (1691-1757) was the son of Huguenots who had fled France and lived briefly in England before emigrating to America. Besley himself was born in New York, but trained in London and worked in Amsterdam for roughly twelve years before returning to New York in 1727.