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Peter Ferris

Male Abt 1629 - 1706  (~ 77 years)


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  • Name Peter Ferris  [1
    Birth Abt 1629  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth Abt 1634  [3
    Alternate birth 28 Sep 1636  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Alternate death 28 Sep 1706  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Death 28 Sep 1706  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 7
    Person ID I4523  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2024 

    Father Jeffrey Ferris,   b. Abt 1604   d. 31 May 1666, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 62 years) 
    Mother Mary   d. 31 Jul 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef 1629  [2
    Family ID F5449  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Reynolds,   b. Abt 1634, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1703, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Marriage 15 Jul 1654  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5, 8, 9
    Children 
    +1. Hannah Ferris,   b. 1666, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1724, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)
    Family ID F235  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Freeman of Stamford in 1662; representative to the general court, 1667.

      He was one of the grand jurors who, in September 1692, attempted to judicially murder Mercy (Nichols) (Holbridge) Disborough for the imaginary crime of "witchcraft." She was reprieved. Among those who argued her innocence was TSW ancestor (and TNH first cousin 12 times removed) the Rev. Gershom Bulkeley, who maintained, quite correctly, that she was simply a victim of her neighbors' malice.

  • Sources 
    1. [S664] Nicholas Knapp Genealogy by Alfred Averill Knapp. Winter Park, Florida: 1953.

    2. [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.

    3. [S7416] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 50:101; 50:145; 51:1, 2008.

    4. [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.

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

    6. [S666] Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families by the Rev. Elijah B. Huntington. Stamford, Connecticut: 6 Apr 1797.

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

    8. [S666] Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families by the Rev. Elijah B. Huntington. Stamford, Connecticut: 6 Apr 1797., says 5 July.

    9. [S7416] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 50:101; 50:145; 51:1, 2008., date only.