Ancestry of
Glenn Close

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Ruth Ferris

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Glenn Close — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 517 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Ferris 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Knapp   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1662 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Sep 1745 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Tomac Burying Ground, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Peck
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Nov 1688 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Jeremiah Peck

  Theophilus Peck (Ahnentafel No:258 )

  • Notes: 

  • Ruth is mentioned as one of two daughters in the 1699 will of her father Joseph Ferris. Published sources that give her uncle Peter as her father are incorrect.

• Sources for Ruth Ferris

  • ¹ Biographical History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. 2, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1899), 854, incorrectly gives Ruth's father as Peter.
  • ² Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 5, p. 141.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/29/2020).
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1931, Vol. 85, p. 227.
  • ⁵ Mead, Spencer Percival, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1911), 541.
  • ⁶ Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, Genealogical Record, Volume 2, Unknown: Printed by order of the Society (1916), 39, incorrectly gives Ruth's father as Peter.

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