Re: Loyalist George Ferris
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Loyalist George Ferris
Gary Vail 12/28/05
Just as the Ferris family of Queens County, NB is difficult to sort out in the first few generations, it is equally difficult to sort out the Westchester group in the first few generations.The fact that two sons of Jeffrey had sons named Peter, both born in 1660, is just one data point that has caused serious confusion in the family line (though, apparently, someone has found specific day/month datapoints to keep them separate).
That said, the following names in Westchester are scattered throughout at least the first three generations:
John, Caleb, Joshua, Peter, Jonathan, Joseph and James.
Brothers naming their sons after their brothers and fathers, surely lends to great confusion!
The only certainty surrounding the early lines in Queens County is that one George Ferris (who is said to have been born @1707 POSSIBLY in Westchester) had at least one son (named William), who was progenitor of one male line in the area.He MAY have also had a son, John, though this son John apparently had no male issue, so his line stops with his daughters.
I am inclined to believe the several Ferris lines in NB are connected, and they likely all descend from the Westchester lines.Much still has to be done in the area of Loyalist unit roster research, land record extracts, etc, in order to determine WHICH sons of WHICH father were truly the Loyalist "bunch" that later arrived in NB!
As the 1707 George was a bit old during the Amer. Rev., I SUSPECT that John and William would have been Loyalists.Which units? Hard to say. West Chester Refugees? Purdy's group?New Jersey Volunteers?
Surely there is not only a Westchester connection, but earlier connections to Stamford, CT and later ones to Staten Island, and northern New Jersey.
Sorry not to offer any answers, just hoping to advise on proceeding with caution, given the numbers of male descendants sharing same names and some sharing same birth years or "approximate" birth years.
Cheers,
Jared Handspicker
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