Ancestry of
Bill Belichick

NFL Head Coach

Japhet Ferris

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Bill Belichick — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 448 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Ferris 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Lockwood   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 May 1731 
  • Birth Location:
  • Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Peck
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  Israel Ferris

  Jesse Ferris

  Henry Ferris (Ahnentafel No:224 )

  Hannah Ferris

  Timothy Ferris

  Abram Ferris

  Benjamin Ferris

  Enoch Ferris

  Sarah Ferris

  • Notes: 

  • Japhet Ferris's given name is also seen as Japeth and Japhat.

• Sources for Japhet Ferris

  • ¹ Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County: Connecticut, Containing Biographical Sketches of . . ., Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1899), 515.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1955, Vol. 31, p. 218.
  • ³ U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, Record for Jophat Ferris.
  • ⁴ Bergen, Tunis Garret, Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in . . ., Long Island Edition, Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1915), 195.
  • ⁵ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1985, Vol. 18, p. 303.
  • ⁶ Mead, Spencer Percival, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1911), 543.
  • ⁷ Noyes, LaVerne W., Descendants of Reverend William Noyes, Born, England, 1568, In Direct Line to LaVerne W. Noyes and . . ., Chicago: Press of C. J. Burroughs (1900), 94.
  • ⁸ Peck, Darius, A Genealogical Account of the Descendants in the Male Line of William Peck, One of the Founders in 1638 of the . . ., Hudson: Bryan and Goeltz, Steam Book Printers (1877), 20.