Category: Ferris – Jeffrey

Opening the Ohio Country

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Ancestry Status

The mess with linking to Ancestry.com seems to be fixed. This link https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/115339067/recent goes to the Jeffrey Ferris lineage. Several other leafs that I could not link to the main tree have been removed. As I have the opportunity and energy Buy Cialis Professional UK buy antibiotics online , I will post links in the […]

The First Wife

One of the interesting things that I have noted while building these trees is the problem of the first wife. For many of the men in the tree Buy Kamagra UK , only the first name of their first wife is recorded. There are perhaps several dozen women known to history by just their first […]

The Ferris Connection to Hillsdale College

In the mid 1830s, Chauncey W Ferris and John P Cook traveled to the Michigan wilderness just north of the Ohio / Indiana border. Chauncey was the fifth great-grandson of Jeffrey Ferris through Joseph. Born in 1811 in Cato, New York, he was destined to have a role in the establishment of one of America’s […]

The Ferris name before America

Ray Riegel, an attorney and traveler, has put together a significant work involving the Ferris name. His site: Henri de Ferrières (1036-1088) Descendants to the Era of Jeffrey Ferris (c.1610-1666)

The Wethersfield massacre

From the 1630s onward, the newly arrived settlers of New England began a series of conflicts with the tribes of Native Americans living in the region. Those conflicts Compra Ampicillina Online , large and small, were fought nearly entirely by militiamen and not professional soldiers from the English or Dutch government. Few set piece battles […]