Jacob LeFevre Ferree (1750 - 1807)

Born 8 Aug 1750 in Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Powell) Ferree — married 1783 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 5 Sep 1807 at age 57 in Coraopolis, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Descendant of Huguenot refugee immigrant to Lancaster county, PA

Name

Name: Jacob Ferree Source: #S00077 Page: p 10

Name: Jacob Ferree^[1][2]

Birth

Birth Date: 08 AUG 1750

Place: , , Pennsylvania. ^[3][4]

Birth Date: 1760. Source: #S00077 Page: p 10

Marriage

Husband: Isaac Ferree

Child: Jacob Ferree

Marriage Date: AFT 1735

Source: #S00077 Page: Daniel Ferree section

Military

Private Jacob Ferree served with Lancaster County Militia, Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution.

Jacob Ferree is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A039550.

Jacob served as a Private with Captain Robert McCurdy, Lancaster County Militia ^[5]

Death

Date: 05 SEP 1807

Place: Montours, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA^[6][7]

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Jacob Ferree, son of Isaac Ferree, married Rachel, his first cousin, daughter of Joel Ferree, and had children: Jacob, of whom further, Joel, Jane, Rebecca, Elizabeth.

Jacob (2) Ferree, son of Jacob (1) and Rachel (Ferree) Ferree, was a farmer on Peters Creek in the southern part of Allegheny county, whither he had moved from Chester county, later becoming the owner of land on the present site of Coraopolis, securing more than three hundred acres of government land. This extended from what is now Montour street along the southern bank of the Ohio river to the eastern boundary of Coraopolis. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. He married (second) in Chester county, Pennsylvania, Alice Powell, both being buried on the George Ferree farm in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Children of first marriage: Joel, born October 6, 1771, a gunsmith; Leah, January 26, 1774; Rebecca, December 30, 1775; Jane, September 19, 1778; Elizabeth, January 19, 1781. Children of second marriage: Rachel, born May 29. 1784, died in girlhood; Isaac, January 9, 1786; Olaf, January 10, 1788; Mary, May 6, 1790, married Samuel Marks, and lived at Chester, West Virginia; Anna, May 31, 1792, died in girlhood; Lida, July 2. 1793, died young; Jacob, July 17, 1795, held the military rank of colonel, being stationed at Fort Meigs ; William Powell, of whom further ; Lavina. June 6, 1803, married Benjamin Jackson, and lived in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

He (Andrew) married Rebecca Ferree, who died in 1879. daughter of Joel and Christina (Kuykenthal) Ferree, of Jefferson township, Allegheny county. Pennsylvania, and granddaughter of Jacob Ferree, a French Huguenot, who settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and had by his first wife sons: Joel, a colonel in the War of 1812; Benjamin and Jacob. By a second wife, Alice (Powell) Ferree. he had also sons and daughters. After the Revolution he moved to Western Pennsylvania. settling in Allegheny county, and in the year 1800 settled on a farm of three hundred and thirty acres, on which the town of Coraopolis now stands. In the fall of that year he and his sons built a house upon the farm and in the following spring moved there. He had a brother, Joel, who visited him there about that time and during his visit was murdered by Indians. Jacob Ferree was a gunsmith and it is said made powder in Lancaster county.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Christian Kemp
2. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elizabeth Ferree
3. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Christian Kemp
4. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elizabeth Ferree
5. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 14 Feb 2024), "Record of Jacob Ferree", Ancestor # A039550.
6. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Christian Kemp
7. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elizabeth Ferree

• Source S00077 Author: Ferree, Joseph A.; George B. Ferree; and Ivan Ferree, Title: Ferree Family History
• Source: S3 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol 1, p. 369-372; Vol. 3, p. 1153-1155)
• Cushing, Thomas. History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889, Part 2, p. 477-478)
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34971448/jacob_lefevre-ferree: accessed March 19, 2024), memorial page for Jacob LeFevre Ferree (8 Aug 1750–5 Sep 1807), Find A Grave: Memorial #34971448, citing Ferree Cemetery, Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Genealogy Love (contributor 46811161).

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Elise Free_2011-04-22.ged on 23 April 2011.
• Thank you to Robert Warner for creating WikiTree profile Ferree-108 through the import of Robert Warner Family Tree.ged on Aug 9, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.