Jeffere Ferris was an original founder of Greenwich, Connecticut.
In an article about the 300th Anniversary of Greenwich CT, states that Greenwich was named after the English hometown of Jeffere Ferris. (Indicating that he was one of the founding fathers of Stamford) He is on the list of those who paid for the survey, and received ten acres at the first assignment of land (in the Stamford records. Cite
He was born in 1610 in Leicestershire, England, and he died in Greenwich, 31 May 1666. Family history reports that the family was descended from the Norman-French de Feriers, who were first granted land in Leicestershire by William the Conqueror.
The information on this man on the internet contains multiple errors and inaccuracies.
- There is no documentation that the name was originally Ferrers.
- There is no documentation that he was the son of a Richard Ferris/Ferrers or of a William De Ferrers or the son/grandson of a Gwalchelme Ferriers/De Ferriers.
- There is no documentation as to the name of his mother, whether Anne/Ann St. John, Mary Anne Howard, Isabella Maltby, or anything else.
- He was not married to a wife named Anne Milton or Mary Anne Milton or to a wife named Anne/Ann Howard or Mary Anne/Ann Howard, much less "Anne Howard Milton," or Anne/Ann Freeman.
- It is unlikely that he had a wife named Susannah Sension. The wife listed as "Susannah Lockwood" was Susannah (Norman) Lockwood, his second wife.
- He did not have a wife named Judith Burns (which may be a misinterpretation of his third wife, Judith Feake Palmer who later married a man named Bowers).
For the clearest information, see the following web sites:
http://home.att.net/~jg245/fns.htm#338 The Ferris Family Tree
http://www.ferristree.com/jeffrey.htm bombs and bones A Ferris family tree March 2005 James G. Ferris
The above contains detailed information on all three of his wives: Mary ....ne, Susannah (Norman) Lockwood, and Judith (Feake) Palmer Ferris Bowers.
There is also a book:
Stephen C. Emery, Descendants of Jeffrey Ferris
There was much inaccurate information regarding Ferris' English origins published by eugenicists in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century.