Ancestry of
Joseph Ferris

(c1638–c1699)

Joseph Ferris

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Jeffrey Ferris 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 20 Jun 1638 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 9 Jun 1699 to 24 Jul 1699 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Notes: 

  • Joseph Ferris's birth year may have been 1635, 1638 or 1639 according to James Ferris's published genealogy.

• Marriages for Joseph Ferris

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  • Spouse:
  • Ruth Knapp
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1657
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut

• Sources for Joseph Ferris

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 5, p. 141.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 520.
  • ³ Child, Christopher C., "Find Out How Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are Distantly Related", Vita Brevis, https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/find-out-how-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-are-distantly-related, (accessed 02/03/2024).
  • ⁴ Ferris, James S., A Ferris Genealogy, Volume 2, Coronado, California: n. p. (1980), Profile 12.
  • ⁵ Mead, Spencer Percival, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1911), 538-541.
  • ⁶ Prindle, Paul W., Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke), New Orleans, Louisiana: Polyanthos, Inc. (1976), 127.