Jeffrey Ferris (b.c.1604-1610) Timeline in America (Revised)
c.1634-35 - Migration to New England. Not on any ship list. [fn.1 below]
c.1634-35 - Son Peter born (Anderson postulates c.1629 in England [fn. 1])
1635 May 6 - Made a Freeman in Boston. No record of Jeffrey in Watertown before the 1635 List of Freemen. [fn.2]
1635 - Moved to Wethersfield, CT (established 1634 by John Oldfield, et al). [fn.1 & fn.3]
c.1635-36 - Son Joseph born (Anderson postulates c.1632 in England [fn. 1])
c.1636-37 - Daughter Mary born [fn. 1]
1640 July 18 - Party to original Greenwich purchase from the indians with Daniel Patrick & Robert Feake. [fn.4]
1640 - A Wethersfield religious dispute led to a split in the church. John Davenport of the New Haven Colony purchased Stamford (Rippowam) from the indians and sold it to disaffected Wethersfield residents in November 1640. [fn.3]
c.1640 - Son John born [fn. 1]
1641, spring - Rev. Denton and 29 men and their families, probably including Jeffrey Ferris, arrived in Stamford from Wethersfield. [fn.1 & fn.3]
1642 April 9 - Daniel Patrick and Elizabeth Feake acknowledged the Dutch claim to Greenwich. Jeffrey apparently was unwilling to live under Dutch rule. [fn.4]
c.1642 - Son James born [fn. 1]
1644 - Rev. Denton and 17 families (but not Jeffrey Ferris) left Stamford for Hempstead, Long Island. [fn.3]
1644-1650 - Jeffrey may have lived in Fairfield, Stamford or East Hartford (aka East Town). [fn.1 & fn.4]
1650 Nov 25 - Jeffrey Ferris bought William Hallet house and land in Greenwich. [fn.1]
1654 July 15 - Son Peter married Elizabeth Reynolds [fn.1]
1655 - Jeffrey resided at East Hartford (aka East Town), CT. [fn.1]
1656 - Jeffrey returned to Greenwich (from Fairfield according to Mead). Anderson says he returned to Greenwich "by about 1659." [fn.1 & fn.4]
1657-58 Jeffrey in Eastown evidenced by a declaration and lawsuit [fn.1]
1657 Nov. 20 - Son Joseph married Ruth Knapp [fn.1]
c.1658-1659 - Married Susanna Norman. [fn.1]
c.1661 - Married Judith Feake. [fn.1]
1666 May 31 - Died in Greenwich, CT. [fn.1]
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Footnotes:
fn.1 Robert C. Anderson, The Great Migration immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, (New England Historic Genealogy, 2011), pp. 517-520
fn.2 "Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Miscellaneous Papers," Boston (Mass.) Registry Dept (1900), p. 140
https://books.google.com/books?id=UJPJiDOvpXsC&pg=PA136&......
fn.3 Stamford Historical Society, Stamford’s Colonial Period 1641-1783 http://www.stamfordhistory.org/dav_colonial.htm
fn.4 Greenwich Purchase. The original purchase of Greenwich, Connecticut is often described as having been made by Robert Feake and Daniel Patrick in July 1640. While they are named as the primary grantees, Jeffrey Ferris's name is included as a grantee after the main grant as follows: "Keofferam hath sould all his right in ye above sd to Jeffere Ferris." "A History of the Town of Greenwich," Daniel Mead (1857), p. 21 et seq.
https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofg00mea/page/n8
On April 9, 1642, Daniel Patrick and Elizabeth Feake (Robert's wife), decided to acknowledge the Dutch claim to Greenwich to obtain Dutch protection from the local indians. (Ibid. p. 28.) Apparently, Jeffrey Ferris was not prepared to pledge loyalty to the Dutch, so he moved to Fairfield and did not return to Greenwich until 1656. (Ibid. p. 60)
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Wethersfield's Original 1634 Settlers
In his "The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut," Sherman Adams lists at pages 24-28 the ten original 1634 settlers of Wethersfield after describing the permission granted to them by the General Court of Massachusetts. They were: John Oldham, Abraham Finch, Sergeant Robert Seeley, Nathaniel Foote, Sergeant John Strickland, John Clarke, Andrew Ward, Robert Rose, Leonard Chester and William Swayne. Not included in the list was Jeffrey Ferris.
https://archive.org/details/historyofancient11adam/page/52
After listing the original settlers, Adams lists additional settlers prior to 1641. (Ibid p. 29) The list including Jeffrey Ferris is prefaced by the statement that:
"The following are the names of additional settlers, nearly all from places other than Watertown; some directly from England; most of them came between 1636 and 1640."