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Variations of Ferree: Fara, Ferie, Ferree, Ferrez, Ferrie, Fiere, Firre, Fierre, Fuchre, Fuehre, LeFerre, and Verree.
Europeans who made the voyage to America faced a difficult journey of several months.
The Huguenots were 16th and 17th century French protestants. About 500,000 Huguenots fled France because of religious persecution. They relocated to Protestant nations.
When he was a boy, in 1685, the family fled to Strasburg. They later fled on into Bavaria, Germany. From there they sailed to New York.
He married Leah Dubois about 1711 at Esopus, New York. Leah was the daughter of Abraham Dubois, whose father Louis was the founder of New Platz.
Soon after their marriage they continued on to the Pequea Valley with the rest of the Ferree family
When they arrived he built a temporary home out of of forked poles with a bark roof.
Philip and Leah had eight children: Abraham Ferree (d. 1775),
Isaac Ferree (d. 1782),
Jacob Ferree,
Philip Ferree, Joel Ferree (1833),
Magdalena, Ferree (married William Buffington, son of Thomas Buffington),
Leah Ferree, (married Peter Baker),
Elisabeth Ferree (married her cousin, Isaac Ferree).
Philip died on May 19, 1753, Paradise Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Steinweiler is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
It was in the Mayorality of Bittingheim.
The area of present day Ulster County, New York was called Esopus by Dutch settlers and was part of the New Netherland Colony. The village of New Paltz was founded in 1678 by French Huguenots. In 1683, the Duke of York created Ulster County.
Europeans began to settle in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania area about 1710. It was part of Chester County until May 10, 1729.
