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1. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 51, no. 1 (Aug 2008), " Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut (Continued), by Frederick C. Hart, Jr., CG, FASG, pp. 2-6:
"...JEFFREY1 FERRIS was born in England say about 1610...
Children of Jeffrey Ferris and his (still unknown) first wife:[24]
i. PETER2 FERRIS, b. say 1633, m. (1) ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, m. (2) MRS. RUTH (___) WEED.
ii. JOSEPH FERRIS, b. say about 1635, d. between 9 Jun and 24 Jul 1699, m. at Stamford 20 Nov 1657 RUTH KNAPP,[25] b. 6 Jan 1640/41 at Watertown, MA, dau. of Nicholas and Eleanor Knapp.[26]
iii. MARY FERRIS, b. abt. 1638, d. bef 31 Jan 1707/08 at Greenwich, m. by 6 Jan 1634(/35?) [author's typo for 1664/5?] (1) LT. JONATHAN LOCKWOOD, b. 10 Sep 1634 at Watertown[27] and d. 12 May 1688 at Greenwich, son of Robert Lockwood and Susanna Norman,1281 m. (2) 1696 SGT. THOMAS MERRITT of Rye, Westchester County, NY, having a prenuptial agreement dated 3 June 1696.[29]
iv. JOHN FERRIS, b. abt. 1640, d. betw. 9 May 1715 and 25 Feb 1716,[30] m. (1) MARY JACKSON, dau. of Robert Jackson, m. (2) the widow GRACE (___) PAWLING,[31] who d. 31 Dec 1716 at Flushing, Long Island, NY. Not mentioned in his father's will but proved by his receipt in the Greenwich Land Records referring to his deceased father Jeffrey Ferris of Greenwich and naming, his brothers Peter, Joseph and James Ferris and Jonathan Lockwood.[32]
v. JAMES FERRIS, b. abt. 1642, d. possibly abt. 1706,[33] married and had children including James3 who m. Mary ___.[34]
Footnotes:
24. All information from Gillespie Ancestry (note 1), 127-9 unless otherwise noted.
25. Stamford Town Records, 1: 74.
26. "Watertown Records Comprising The First and Second Books of Town Proceedings..." (Watertown: The Historical Society, 1894), 8. Some references give this date as 5 Jan 1641.
27. Anderson, "Robert Lockwood" (note 11), 129
28. His mother was therefore later to become Mary Ferris' stepmother. For another reliable treatment of the Lockwood family see Harriet Woodbury Hodge, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York: Philip V. Lockwood, 1978), 6.
29. Gillespie Ancestry (note 1), 128.
30. Based on the dates of making his will and its proving. The Ferris Genealogy gives an exact date of 5 Feb 1716 at Flushing, NY.
31. Her surname was given by Capt. Jim Ferris, but not by Paul Prindle, who left it blank. Jim Ferris also states that she had been his (John's) housekeeper. This probably indicates that Prindle was unaware of Jim Ferris' work, which was probably in progress when Gillespie Ancestry was written in 1976, but was not generally available (in typescript form) until 1980.
32. Gillespie Ancestry (note 1), 128, citing Greenwich Land Records, 1: 173. The receipt was dated 16 July 1705.
33. A date of death of 6 Nov 1726 is often given for this James Ferris, including by Prindle. But Capt. Jim Ferris pointed out, based on original research by Harriet Scofield, that this date most likely applies to the death of another James Ferris, namely this James' son. See Harriet Scofield, "James Ferris of Greenwich, Conn.," "The American Genealogist," 26: 230-2.
34. This information also comes from the same TAG article about James Ferris, just cited (note 33). Here again, Prindle was misled into thinking that Mary was the wife of James` Ferris, and appears to have been unaware of the earlier work by Ms. Scofield."
SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), page 160. She also references "The Ferris Genealogy," by Capt. James Ferris and "Harriet Scofield" notes.
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