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Glenn Close

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    Joseph Ferris

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    • 8th Great-grandfather of Glenn Close — 11th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1034 
    • Mother:
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 20 Jun 1638 
    • Birth Location:
    • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • from 9 Jun 1699 to 24 Jul 1699 
    • Death Location:
    • prob. Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 20 Nov 1657 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
    • Children:

    • John Ferris

      Peter Ferris

      James Ferris

      Moses Ferris

      Joshua Ferris

      Benjamin Ferris

      Lydia Ferris

      Hannah Ferris

      Ruth Ferris (Ahnentafel No:517 )

      Caleb Ferris

      Joseph Ferris

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

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  • Sources for Joseph Ferris

    • 1 Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 5, p. 141.
    • 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.

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