Mary (Jackson) Ferris (abt. 1643 - abt. 1704)

Born about 1643 in New Netherland

Wife of John Ferris — married 1663 (to 1704) in Westchester, New York

Descendants

Died about 1 Jul 1704 at about age 61 in Throgmorton, Westchester, New York

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Biography

Mary was born, probably about 1643 in New Netherland (later Hempstead, Queens County, New York),^[1] perhaps the oldest of six known children and three daughters of Robert and Unknown Unknown Jackson.

Alternative birth information: 1 July 1643, [New Netherland, later] Hempstead, Queens Co., New York^[2][3]

Alternative, unsourced, birth information: Mary Jackson, born say 1642, probably in England.

Family of birth

Mary's father,Robert Jackson, had three wives. The name of his first wife is not known. .Robert Jackson had about four children with his first wife including Mary; two daughters with his second wife - ____Washburn; and then married the widow Agnes Puddington about 1660.

Mary was not named in her father's will, but is named in a deed from him to his son John, and the latter's two sons, John and James, under date 5 May, 1653, conveying 'all his lands in Hempstead, etc., excepting that which I have already given my daughter, Mary Ferris, of Westchester Co.' (See Vol. 7, p. 32 of Deeds, Secy. of State Office, Albany, N.Y.)

Marriage and family

About 1661 or 1662 in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, she married John Ferris^[4] and they had about ten known children, five sons and five daughters:

1. John Ferris b: 1662 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
2. Mary Ferris b: 22 Feb 1662/1663 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
3. Phebe (Phoebe) Ferris b: c1667 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
4. Samuel Ferris b: c1670 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
5. James Ferris b: c1673 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
6. Hannah (Hanna) Ferris b: 3d 5m (Jul) 1679 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
7. Peter Ferris b: c1670 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
8. Jonathan Ferris b: c1682 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
9. Martha Ferris b: c1683 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)
10. Sarah Ferris b: c1688 in New Netherland (later Westchester Co., New York)^[5]

Death

Mary died of unknown causes, in Throgmorton (now Throg's Neck), Westchester County, New York, possibly about 1 July 1704 when she would most likely have been in her sixties.^[6][7]

John Ferris, of Westchester Co., NY, in ca. 1661. He was born ca. 1639. She died in 1704, and he remarried to Grace (___).[ He died testate in 1715 in Westchester County, New York, his will dated 9 May 1715.

Citations

1. ↑ John H. Jones, The Jones Family of Long Island (1907), page 352
2. ↑ http://www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pafg02.htm#2321
3. ↑ http://www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pafg01.htm#554
4. ↑ Kimble, Jane, comp, “John Ferris,” b c1640, Jacksons plus Relatives and Neighbors. Updated: 2017-10-30. URL: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hempstead&id=I2846. Accessed 6 Nov 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin, citing Descendants of Jeffrey Ferris URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/stamford/ferris_data.htm and Harry Macy, Jr., Robert Jackson's Wives and Children (The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol 131 Number 1, January 2000, pgs 6, 7, 10.
5. ↑ Jane Kimble, comp, “John Ferris,” b c1640, Jacksons plus Relatives and Neighbors. Updated: 2017-10-30. URL: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hempstead&id=I2846. Accessed 6 Nov 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.
6. ↑ http://www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pafg02.htm#2321
7. ↑ http://www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pafg01.htm#554

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87823365/mary-ferris

Acknowledgments

• Gedcom DeCoursey imported the data for Mary (Jackson) Ferris from 124-DeCoursey.ged on 14 Sep 2010.

Sources

• Kmble, Jane, comp. Jackson Family Genealogy.

http://www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pafg01.htm#554

http://www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pafg02.htm#2321

(This site has been superseded by Jerry Gross, comp., Quilted Family Trees and Kimble's other site, below. Prickett-120, 6 November 2017.

• Jones, John H. The Jones Family of Long Island (1907).

• Hinshaw. Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy, Vol 3 (New York)

• Kimble, Jane, comp, “John Ferris,” b c1640, Jacksons plus Relatives and Neighbors. Updated: 2017-10-30. URL: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hempstead&id=I2846. citing Descendants of Jeffrey Ferris URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/stamford/ferris_data.htm and Harry Macy, Jr., Robert Jackson's Wives and Children (The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol 131 Number 1, January 2000, pgs 6, 7, 10. Accessed 6 Nov 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin