Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Jeffrey Ferris
Abt 1604 - 1666 (~ 62 years)-
Name Jeffrey Ferris Born Abt 1604 [1] Gender Male Alternate birth Abt 1610 [2] Alternate birth Abt 1611 [3] Alternate death 31 May 1666 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
[4] Died 31 May 1666 Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut [1, 3, 5] Buried Tomac Burying Ground, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut [2] Person ID I1153 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 30 Apr 2016
Family 1 (Unknown first wife of Jeffrey Ferris), d. 31 Jul 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Children + 1. Peter Ferris, b. Abt 1629, England , d. 28 Sep 1706, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age ~ 77 years)Last Modified 22 Oct 2018 Family ID F5449 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Judith Feake, b. Abt 1621, London, England Married Abt 1662 [5] Last Modified 22 Oct 2018 Family ID F3377 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Emigrated 1634. First in Watertown; Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Greenwich 1650, East Town 1655, Greenwich 1659. "On 18 July 1640, a group of men, believed to include Ferris, signed a deed that purchased the land now called 'old Greenwich' from the local Native Americans. The deed noted that one chief, called Keofferam, had already sold his interests to "Jeffre Ferris." The present city dates its existence to that date." [Wikipedia]
Appears briefly in Anya Seton's 1958 historical novel The Winthrop Woman, about TNH ancestor Elizabeth Fones, where he is described as "a lean taciturn farmer of thirty, with a crest of auburn hair" and a man who "never spoke idly".
Ferris is portrayed in a stained-glass window in the First Congregational Church of Greenwich, Connecticut, along with the dates "1610 1666". Below him, another window depicts Tomac Cemetery, including a stone reading "Ferris". However, no record or stone has been found of his burial there.
GX4-grandfather of George Washington Gale Ferris (1859-1896), inventor of the Ferris wheel.
- Emigrated 1634. First in Watertown; Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Greenwich 1650, East Town 1655, Greenwich 1659. "On 18 July 1640, a group of men, believed to include Ferris, signed a deed that purchased the land now called 'old Greenwich' from the local Native Americans. The deed noted that one chief, called Keofferam, had already sold his interests to "Jeffre Ferris." The present city dates its existence to that date." [Wikipedia]
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Sources - [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S665] Stained-glass windows of the First Congregational Church of Greenwich, Connecticut.
- [S160] Wikipedia.
- [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen, by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952.
- [S1272] George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 86:132, 86:209 (1955), 87:28, 87:104 (1956), 92:229 (1961), 94:243 (1963), 136:303 (2005).
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.