Peter Ferris

Abt 1629 - 1706  (~ 77 years)

• Name	Peter Ferris  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1629	England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1634  [3]
  Alternate birth	28 Sep 1636	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Alternate death	28 Sep 1706	Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut   [3]
  Death	28 Sep 1706	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut   [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 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Mary   d. 31 Jul 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Marriage	Bef 1629  [2]
  Family ID	F5449	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Reynolds,   b. Abt 1634, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1703, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	15 Jul 1654	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut   [2, 5, 8, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Ferris,   b. 1666, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 27 Sep 1724, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut (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

  [S664] Nicholas Knapp Genealogy by Alfred Averill Knapp. Winter Park, Florida: 1953. [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. [S7416] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 50:101; 50:145; 51:1, 2008. [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. [S4171] The History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds by Marion H. Reynolds. Brooklyn: The Reynolds Family Association, 1924., date only. [S666] Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families by the Rev. Elijah B. Huntington. Stamford, Connecticut: 6 Apr 1797. [S4171] The History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds by Marion H. Reynolds. Brooklyn: The Reynolds Family Association, 1924. [S666] Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families by the Rev. Elijah B. Huntington. Stamford, Connecticut: 6 Apr 1797., says 5 July. [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.