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, 6]
  Buried	Tomac Burying Ground, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut   [2]
  Person ID	I1153	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	22 May 2020

  
  

  Family 1	(Unknown first wife of Jeffrey Ferris),   d. 31 Jul 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Married	Bef 1629  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Peter Ferris,   b. Abt 1629, England ,   d. 28 Sep 1706, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age ~ 77 years)   2. Joseph Ferris,   b. Abt 1632,   d. Jul 1699, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age ~ 67 years)
  Last Modified	22 May 2020
  Family ID	F5449	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Susanna Norman,   b. Abt 1615,   d. 23 Dec 1660, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age ~ 45 years)
  Married	Abt 1659  [1]
  Last Modified	22 May 2020
  Family ID	F17047	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Judith Feake,   b. Abt 1621, London, England
  Married	Abt 1662  [1, 5]
  Last Modified	22 May 2020
  Family ID	F3377	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Jeffrey Ferris Stained-glass window, First Congregational Church of Greenwich, Connecticut.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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). [S4171] The History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds by Marion H. Reynolds. Brooklyn: The Reynolds Family Association, 1924.