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Philip Ferree was born in 1687 in Steinweiler, Germany. His Huguenot parents were Daniel Ferree and Marie (Mary) Warrembere.

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. An American Family History

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He was a son of Louis Du Bois and his wife Catharine, daughter of Mathew Blanshon and his wife Madeleen Jorisse, who fled from France to Germany in 1650, where they remained until April 27, 1660, when they sailed for America in the ship "Gelded Otter," arriving here December 7, 1660. They settled at Esopus. Philip Ferree, after his marriage, moved to the Pequea settlement and commenced improving land on the north side of Pequea creek, that had previously been taken up by his mother and family. Some of their first labors were to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land having been cleared on the part allotted them. \par \par From Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I - III by Frank William\uc0\u8232 Shriver - Philip Ferree, the second son, married Leah DuBois, daughter of Abraham DuBois,\u8232 before mentioned, and received, as her portion of her father's estate, two thousand acres in the\u8232 Pequea Valley, on the Conestoga in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on which Philip and his \par family settled. Philip and Leah (Dubois) Ferree had eight children: Abraham, of whom\uc0\u8232 presently; Isaac; Jacob; Philip; Joel; Lena, married William Buffington, or Bavington; Leah,\u8232 married Peter Baker; Elizabeth, married her cousin, Isaac Ferree.\u8232 \par ***** \par \uc0\u8232 From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\u8232 History of Lancaster County by Dr. Frederick Klein, 1924 - Philip Ferree ( 1687-1753), the\u8232 third son of the Madame, was married during their sojourn at Esopus to Leah DuBois, the\u8232 daughter of Abraham DuBois, whose father Louis was the founder of New Platz in 1660. Soon\u8232 after his marriage, which was about 1711, he came to Pequea and settled on a part of the\u8232 Ferree grant. Upon his arrival he constructed a temporary habitation of forked poles, bark roof,\u8232 etc. In this queer house their first child was born. Philip and Leah Ferree had eight children as\u8232 follows: Abraham (died 1775 ), Isaac (died 1782), Jacob, Philip, Joel, and daughters Lena,\u8232 married to William Buffington, Leah, married to Peter Baker, and Elisabeth, married to Isaac\u8232 Ferree, her cousin. Abraham, the eldest son of Philip Ferree, the emigrant, was married about\u8232 1736 to a Miss Eltinge, of Esopus, New York Their children were Cornelius, who settled in\u8232 Virginia, Israel, and a daughter Rebecca, who married David Shriver and removed to Frederick\u8232 county, Maryland.\u8232 ***** \par \'a0From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\uc0\u8232 History of Lancaster County, to Which is prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of\u8232 Pennsylvania. By I. Daniel Rupp. Publishing date 1844 - Chapter II, pages 90-115\u8232 Philip, one of the sons, was not about twenty-one years of age, and had a desire to earn\u8232 something for himself; and having formed an acquaintance with several families at Esopus, he\u8232 made for that place, where he hired for one year with a respectable farmer, by the name of\u8232 Abraham Dubois, whose daughter Leah he married at the expiration of year, and brought her\u8232 to his people in Pequea settlement, where he commenced improving a tract of land on the\u8232 north side of Pequea creek, (on part of which Joel Lightner, Esq., resides at present) which\u8232 land had been previously allotted to him by his mother. * From a communication to us, dated\u8232 December 21,1842, by Isaac F. Lightner, it appears Abraham Dubois patented one thousand\u8232 acres of land, in Lancaster county, which he gave to his daughter Mary, ( mm thought it was\u8232 Leah maybe her name was Leah Mary) who had married Philip Ferree, The patent was granted\u8232 May 7, 1717.\u8232 Some of their first labor was to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land\u8232 being cleared on that part. For a shelter, house and barn, they placed timbers, forked at the\u8232 top, into ground, laid poles across them, built their hay upon the frame, which served as a roof\u8232 to their house, under which they lived several months; during their "sub stack stay" in this rude\u8232 shelter, their son Abraham was born.\u8232 They raised eight children, five sons and three daughters: the names of the sons were\u8232 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Philp, Joel. The daughters names were Lena who intermarried with\u8232 William Buffington, Leah was married to Peter Baker, Elizabeth to Isaac FerreeOn March 2, 1743, Daniel Fiere and Anna Maria, his wife, and Isaac Lefever and Catharine,his wife (as Kathrina), conveyed unto Philip Fiere 383 2 -3 acres of this tract; on April 4,\u8232 1743, Daniel Fiere conveyed to Isaac Lefever all his interest In 383 1-3 acres of the tract, and\u8232 Isaac Lefever, on the same day, made a conveyance to Daniel Fiere, seemingly for a tract of\u8232 larger size; and on June 9, 1747, these parties conveyed to John Fiere two tracts of 191 5-6\u8232 acres each, or 383 2-3. When the above conveyances had all been made, the result was about\u8232 as follows: Daniel had about 532 acres and 24 perches, Isaac Lefever had 383 1-3 acres, Philip\u8232 had about 575 acres, and John had about 809 acres and 83 2-3 perches. There is probably some\u8232 variation in the number of acres held by Daniel, Philip and John, by reason of the issuing of\u8232 the new patent and the division of the extra 800 acres granted thereby. It may be interesting for\u8232 you to know the exact location of this land, for, though you are now almost in the center of it,\u8232 you cannot know the outside lines. I wish to make reference to them in a general way. In the\u8232 deed from Daniel Fiere and Isaac Lefever to Philip Fiere, it is shown that that tract began in\u8232 Leacock Township, at a marked white oak, and covered the northwestern portion of the large\u8232 tract. This, therefore, fixes the northwest corner with definiteness. From thence it extended\u8232 south by east, crossing Pequea Creek, 289 1-3 perches to a post, and thence along Isaac\u8232 Lefever's land east 229 perches to a post, thence north by west by other land of Philip Fiere\u8232 (Faulkner land) and land of John Fiere 289 1-3 perches to a post, and west along the north line\u8232 of the whole tract 229 perches to the place of beginning. By a similar marking of the courses\u8232 and distances, and, taking into account the various boundaries, it will be found that John Fiere\u8232 held 191 5 -6 acres on the northeast corner and the same number of acres on the south east\u8232 corner, and, in addition, held the 334 acres of the Jane Davis tract on the southwest corner.\u8232 Isaac Lefever's land ran straight through the middle of the large tract and it extended from east\u8232 to west 458 perches and from north to south 144 perches and 11 feet. Daniel Fiere owned the\u8232 land on the south between the Jane Davis tract and the last-mentioned one of John Fiere, and\u8232 the remaining place (the Faulkner tract conveyed to Philip Fiere), which lay on the northeast\u8232 between Isaac Lefever and John Fiere's northeast tract made up the full number of acres\u8232 embraced within the new patent. I think, from same of the descriptions, that the division of the\u8232 land was a little different under the original patent, and that, by agreement, it was afterwards\u8232 apportioned as I have set it forth in the draft. The turnpike in front of us runs from East to\u8232 West through the Isaac Lefever and Philip Fiere tracts. I have stated that Daniel Fiere's tract\u8232 lay on the south end of the patent. On December 28, 1745, he gave a deed for this land and\u8232 also for some land obtained under another patent to his son, Daniel. This Daniel (the son) died\u8232 in his father's lifetime, having made a will, dated August 10, 1750, which was proven\u8232 September 4, 1750, whereby he gave this land to his son, Daniel, who was Daniel the third.\u8232 The words of the devise are: "All that plantation, where on I now dwell, containing about 500\u8232 acres of land, which said tract and plantation was granted to me by my father, Daniel Ferree."\u8232 Daniel, the second, had, besides his son, two daughters, who were named Salome and Mary.\u8232 Daniel, the third, and his sister, Salome, died during their minority, and, as a consequence, all\u8232 that land descended to their sister, Mary. Mary married John Carpenter, and she died in 1764,\u8232 leaving to survive her, her husband and three children, namely, one son, Abraham, and two\u8232 daughters, Mary, who afterwards married John Smith, and Susan, who married Frederick\u8232 Yeiser. But, before her death, on August 24, 1764, she and her husband deeded all her land to\u8232 Dr. Henry Carpenter, her father-in-law, and Dr. Henry Carpenter, on August 31, 1764, made a\u8232 deed for the same to John Carpenter, his son. On July 31, 1786, John Carpenter deeded the one\u8232 undivided half of this land to his son, Abraham Carpenter. I refer to these conveyances with\u8232 some particularity because I shall take occasion to dwell upon the ownership of the land at this\u8232 period later on.\fs24 \par \fs26 Philip Ferree, son of John and Mary Le Fiere (Ferree), was born, 1687, at Steyn-Wiel, in the Palatinate and was about 21 years old when they came to this country. Having formed the acquaintance of several families in Esopus, N. Y., he went to that place and lived one year with Abramam Du Bois, one of the twelve patentees of New Pfaltz. While in the family of Abraham Du Bois, Philip Ferree formed an attachment for his daughter Leah, whom he married, May 10, 1712, the ceremony being performed by Dominie Petrus Vas. She was born Oct. 16, 1687. Abraham Du Bois, who was born 1657, at Manheim, Germany, married, March 6, 1681, Margaret, daughter of Christian Deys at Esopus, and died Oct. 7, 1731. He was a son of Louis Du Bois and his wife Catharine, daughter of Mathew Blanshon and his wife Madeleen Jorisse, who fled from France to Germany in 1650, where they remained until April 27, 1660, when they sailed for America in the ship "Gelded Otter," arriving here December 7, 1660. They settled at Esopus. Philip Ferree, after his marriage, moved to the Pequea settlement and commenced improving land on the north side of Pequea creek, that had previously been taken up by his mother and family. Some of their first labors were to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land having been cleared on the part allotted them. \par \par From Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I - III by Frank William\uc0\u8232 Shriver - Philip Ferree, the second son, married Leah DuBois, daughter of Abraham DuBois,\u8232 before mentioned, and received, as her portion of her father's estate, two thousand acres in the\u8232 Pequea Valley, on the Conestoga in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on which Philip and his \par family settled. Philip and Leah (Dubois) Ferree had eight children: Abraham, of whom\uc0\u8232 presently; Isaac; Jacob; Philip; Joel; Lena, married William Buffington, or Bavington; Leah,\u8232 married Peter Baker; Elizabeth, married her cousin, Isaac Ferree.\u8232 \par ***** \par \uc0\u8232 From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\u8232 History of Lancaster County by Dr. Frederick Klein, 1924 - Philip Ferree ( 1687-1753), the\u8232 third son of the Madame, was married during their sojourn at Esopus to Leah DuBois, the\u8232 daughter of Abraham DuBois, whose father Louis was the founder of New Platz in 1660. Soon\u8232 after his marriage, which was about 1711, he came to Pequea and settled on a part of the\u8232 Ferree grant. Upon his arrival he constructed a temporary habitation of forked poles, bark roof,\u8232 etc. In this queer house their first child was born. Philip and Leah Ferree had eight children as\u8232 follows: Abraham (died 1775 ), Isaac (died 1782), Jacob, Philip, Joel, and daughters Lena,\u8232 married to William Buffington, Leah, married to Peter Baker, and Elisabeth, married to Isaac\u8232 Ferree, her cousin. Abraham, the eldest son of Philip Ferree, the emigrant, was married about\u8232 1736 to a Miss Eltinge, of Esopus, New York Their children were Cornelius, who settled in\u8232 Virginia, Israel, and a daughter Rebecca, who married David Shriver and removed to Frederick\u8232 county, Maryland.\u8232 ***** \par \'a0From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\uc0\u8232 History of Lancaster County, to Which is prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of\u8232 Pennsylvania. By I. Daniel Rupp. Publishing date 1844 - Chapter II, pages 90-115\u8232 Philip, one of the sons, was not about twenty-one years of age, and had a desire to earn\u8232 something for himself; and having formed an acquaintance with several families at Esopus, he\u8232 made for that place, where he hired for one year with a respectable farmer, by the name of\u8232 Abraham Dubois, whose daughter Leah he married at the expiration of year, and brought her\u8232 to his people in Pequea settlement, where he commenced improving a tract of land on the\u8232 north side of Pequea creek, (on part of which Joel Lightner, Esq., resides at present) which\u8232 land had been previously allotted to him by his mother. * From a communication to us, dated\u8232 December 21,1842, by Isaac F. Lightner, it appears Abraham Dubois patented one thousand\u8232 acres of land, in Lancaster county, which he gave to his daughter Mary, ( mm thought it was\u8232 Leah maybe her name was Leah Mary) who had married Philip Ferree, The patent was granted\u8232 May 7, 1717.\u8232 Some of their first labor was to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land\u8232 being cleared on that part. For a shelter, house and barn, they placed timbers, forked at the\u8232 top, into ground, laid poles across them, built their hay upon the frame, which served as a roof\u8232 to their house, under which they lived several months; during their "sub stack stay" in this rude\u8232 shelter, their son Abraham was born.\u8232 They raised eight children, five sons and three daughters: the names of the sons were\u8232 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Philp, Joel. The daughters names were Lena who intermarried with\u8232 William Buffington, Leah was married to Peter Baker, Elizabeth to Isaac FerreeOn March 2, 1743, Daniel Fiere and Anna Maria, his wife, and Isaac Lefever and Catharine,his wife (as Kathrina), conveyed unto Philip Fiere 383 2 -3 acres of this tract; on April 4,\u8232 1743, Daniel Fiere conveyed to Isaac Lefever all his interest In 383 1-3 acres of the tract, and\u8232 Isaac Lefever, on the same day, made a conveyance to Daniel Fiere, seemingly for a tract of\u8232 larger size; and on June 9, 1747, these parties conveyed to John Fiere two tracts of 191 5-6\u8232 acres each, or 383 2-3. When the above conveyances had all been made, the result was about\u8232 as follows: Daniel had about 532 acres and 24 perches, Isaac Lefever had 383 1-3 acres, Philip\u8232 had about 575 acres, and John had about 809 acres and 83 2-3 perches. There is probably some\u8232 variation in the number of acres held by Daniel, Philip and John, by reason of the issuing of\u8232 the new patent and the division of the extra 800 acres granted thereby. It may be interesting for\u8232 you to know the exact location of this land, for, though you are now almost in the center of it,\u8232 you cannot know the outside lines. I wish to make reference to them in a general way. In the\u8232 deed from Daniel Fiere and Isaac Lefever to Philip Fiere, it is shown that that tract began in\u8232 Leacock Township, at a marked white oak, and covered the northwestern portion of the large\u8232 tract. This, therefore, fixes the northwest corner with definiteness. From thence it extended\u8232 south by east, crossing Pequea Creek, 289 1-3 perches to a post, and thence along Isaac\u8232 Lefever's land east 229 perches to a post, thence north by west by other land of Philip Fiere\u8232 (Faulkner land) and land of John Fiere 289 1-3 perches to a post, and west along the north line\u8232 of the whole tract 229 perches to the place of beginning. By a similar marking of the courses\u8232 and distances, and, taking into account the various boundaries, it will be found that John Fiere\u8232 held 191 5 -6 acres on the northeast corner and the same number of acres on the south east\u8232 corner, and, in addition, held the 334 acres of the Jane Davis tract on the southwest corner.\u8232 Isaac Lefever's land ran straight through the middle of the large tract and it extended from east\u8232 to west 458 perches and from north to south 144 perches and 11 feet. Daniel Fiere owned the\u8232 land on the south between the Jane Davis tract and the last-mentioned one of John Fiere, and\u8232 the remaining place (the Faulkner tract conveyed to Philip Fiere), which lay on the northeast\u8232 between Isaac Lefever and John Fiere's northeast tract made up the full number of acres\u8232 embraced within the new patent. I think, from same of the descriptions, that the division of the\u8232 land was a little different under the original patent, and that, by agreement, it was afterwards\u8232 apportioned as I have set it forth in the draft. The turnpike in front of us runs from East to\u8232 West through the Isaac Lefever and Philip Fiere tracts. I have stated that Daniel Fiere's tract\u8232 lay on the south end of the patent. On December 28, 1745, he gave a deed for this land and\u8232 also for some land obtained under another patent to his son, Daniel. This Daniel (the son) died\u8232 in his father's lifetime, having made a will, dated August 10, 1750, which was proven\u8232 September 4, 1750, whereby he gave this land to his son, Daniel, who was Daniel the third.\u8232 The words of the devise are: "All that plantation, where on I now dwell, containing about 500\u8232 acres of land, which said tract and plantation was granted to me by my father, Daniel Ferree."\u8232 Daniel, the second, had, besides his son, two daughters, who were named Salome and Mary.\u8232 Daniel, the third, and his sister, Salome, died during their minority, and, as a consequence, all\u8232 that land descended to their sister, Mary. Mary married John Carpenter, and she died in 1764,\u8232 leaving to survive her, her husband and three children, namely, one son, Abraham, and two\u8232 daughters, Mary, who afterwards married John Smith, and Susan, who married Frederick\u8232 Yeiser. But, before her death, on August 24, 1764, she and her husband deeded all her land to\u8232 Dr. Henry Carpenter, her father-in-law, and Dr. Henry Carpenter, on August 31, 1764, made a\u8232 deed for the same to John Carpenter, his son. On July 31, 1786, John Carpenter deeded the one\u8232 undivided half of this land to his son, Abraham Carpenter. I refer to these conveyances with\u8232 some particularity because I shall take occasion to dwell upon the ownership of the land at this\u8232 period later on.\fs24 \par \fs26 Philip Ferree, son of John and Mary Le Fiere (Ferree), was born, 1687, at Steyn-Wiel, in the Palatinate and was about 21 years old when they came to this country. Having formed the acquaintance of several families in Esopus, N. Y., he went to that place and lived one year with Abramam Du Bois, one of the twelve patentees of New Pfaltz. While in the family of Abraham Du Bois, Philip Ferree formed an attachment for his daughter Leah, whom he married, May 10, 1712, the ceremony being performed by Dominie Petrus Vas. She was born Oct. 16, 1687. Abraham Du Bois, who was born 1657, at Manheim, Germany, married, March 6, 1681, Margaret, daughter of Christian Deys at Esopus, and died Oct. 7, 1731. He was a son of Louis Du Bois and his wife Catharine, daughter of Mathew Blanshon and his wife Madeleen Jorisse, who fled from France to Germany in 1650, where they remained until April 27, 1660, when they sailed for America in the ship "Gelded Otter," arriving here December 7, 1660. They settled at Esopus. Philip Ferree, after his marriage, moved to the Pequea settlement and commenced improving land on the north side of Pequea creek, that had previously been taken up by his mother and family. Some of their first labors were to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land having been cleared on the part allotted them. \par \par From Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I - III by Frank William\uc0\u8232 Shriver - Philip Ferree, the second son, married Leah DuBois, daughter of Abraham DuBois,\u8232 before mentioned, and received, as her portion of her father's estate, two thousand acres in the\u8232 Pequea Valley, on the Conestoga in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on which Philip and his \par family settled. Philip and Leah (Dubois) Ferree had eight children: Abraham, of whom\uc0\u8232 presently; Isaac; Jacob; Philip; Joel; Lena, married William Buffington, or Bavington; Leah,\u8232 married Peter Baker; Elizabeth, married her cousin, Isaac Ferree.\u8232 \par ***** \par \uc0\u8232 From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\u8232 History of Lancaster County by Dr. Frederick Klein, 1924 - Philip Ferree ( 1687-1753), the\u8232 third son of the Madame, was married during their sojourn at Esopus to Leah DuBois, the\u8232 daughter of Abraham DuBois, whose father Louis was the founder of New Platz in 1660. Soon\u8232 after his marriage, which was about 1711, he came to Pequea and settled on a part of the\u8232 Ferree grant. Upon his arrival he constructed a temporary habitation of forked poles, bark roof,\u8232 etc. In this queer house their first child was born. Philip and Leah Ferree had eight children as\u8232 follows: Abraham (died 1775 ), Isaac (died 1782), Jacob, Philip, Joel, and daughters Lena,\u8232 married to William Buffington, Leah, married to Peter Baker, and Elisabeth, married to Isaac\u8232 Ferree, her cousin. Abraham, the eldest son of Philip Ferree, the emigrant, was married about\u8232 1736 to a Miss Eltinge, of Esopus, New York Their children were Cornelius, who settled in\u8232 Virginia, Israel, and a daughter Rebecca, who married David Shriver and removed to Frederick\u8232 county, Maryland.\u8232 ***** \par \'a0From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\uc0\u8232 History of Lancaster County, to Which is prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of\u8232 Pennsylvania. By I. Daniel Rupp. Publishing date 1844 - Chapter II, pages 90-115\u8232 Philip, one of the sons, was not about twenty-one years of age, and had a desire to earn\u8232 something for himself; and having formed an acquaintance with several families at Esopus, he\u8232 made for that place, where he hired for one year with a respectable farmer, by the name of\u8232 Abraham Dubois, whose daughter Leah he married at the expiration of year, and brought her\u8232 to his people in Pequea settlement, where he commenced improving a tract of land on the\u8232 north side of Pequea creek, (on part of which Joel Lightner, Esq., resides at present) which\u8232 land had been previously allotted to him by his mother. * From a communication to us, dated\u8232 December 21,1842, by Isaac F. Lightner, it appears Abraham Dubois patented one thousand\u8232 acres of land, in Lancaster county, which he gave to his daughter Mary, ( mm thought it was\u8232 Leah maybe her name was Leah Mary) who had married Philip Ferree, The patent was granted\u8232 May 7, 1717.\u8232 Some of their first labor was to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land\u8232 being cleared on that part. For a shelter, house and barn, they placed timbers, forked at the\u8232 top, into ground, laid poles across them, built their hay upon the frame, which served as a roof\u8232 to their house, under which they lived several months; during their "sub stack stay" in this rude\u8232 shelter, their son Abraham was born.\u8232 They raised eight children, five sons and three daughters: the names of the sons were\u8232 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Philp, Joel. The daughters names were Lena who intermarried with\u8232 William Buffington, Leah was married to Peter Baker, Elizabeth to Isaac FerreeOn March 2, 1743, Daniel Fiere and Anna Maria, his wife, and Isaac Lefever and Catharine,his wife (as Kathrina), conveyed unto Philip Fiere 383 2 -3 acres of this tract; on April 4,\u8232 1743, Daniel Fiere conveyed to Isaac Lefever all his interest In 383 1-3 acres of the tract, and\u8232 Isaac Lefever, on the same day, made a conveyance to Daniel Fiere, seemingly for a tract of\u8232 larger size; and on June 9, 1747, these parties conveyed to John Fiere two tracts of 191 5-6\u8232 acres each, or 383 2-3. When the above conveyances had all been made, the result was about\u8232 as follows: Daniel had about 532 acres and 24 perches, Isaac Lefever had 383 1-3 acres, Philip\u8232 had about 575 acres, and John had about 809 acres and 83 2-3 perches. There is probably some\u8232 variation in the number of acres held by Daniel, Philip and John, by reason of the issuing of\u8232 the new patent and the division of the extra 800 acres granted thereby. It may be interesting for\u8232 you to know the exact location of this land, for, though you are now almost in the center of it,\u8232 you cannot know the outside lines. I wish to make reference to them in a general way. In the\u8232 deed from Daniel Fiere and Isaac Lefever to Philip Fiere, it is shown that that tract began in\u8232 Leacock Township, at a marked white oak, and covered the northwestern portion of the large\u8232 tract. This, therefore, fixes the northwest corner with definiteness. From thence it extended\u8232 south by east, crossing Pequea Creek, 289 1-3 perches to a post, and thence along Isaac\u8232 Lefever's land east 229 perches to a post, thence north by west by other land of Philip Fiere\u8232 (Faulkner land) and land of John Fiere 289 1-3 perches to a post, and west along the north line\u8232 of the whole tract 229 perches to the place of beginning. By a similar marking of the courses\u8232 and distances, and, taking into account the various boundaries, it will be found that John Fiere\u8232 held 191 5 -6 acres on the northeast corner and the same number of acres on the south east\u8232 corner, and, in addition, held the 334 acres of the Jane Davis tract on the southwest corner.\u8232 Isaac Lefever's land ran straight through the middle of the large tract and it extended from east\u8232 to west 458 perches and from north to south 144 perches and 11 feet. Daniel Fiere owned the\u8232 land on the south between the Jane Davis tract and the last-mentioned one of John Fiere, and\u8232 the remaining place (the Faulkner tract conveyed to Philip Fiere), which lay on the northeast\u8232 between Isaac Lefever and John Fiere's northeast tract made up the full number of acres\u8232 embraced within the new patent. I think, from same of the descriptions, that the division of the\u8232 land was a little different under the original patent, and that, by agreement, it was afterwards\u8232 apportioned as I have set it forth in the draft. The turnpike in front of us runs from East to\u8232 West through the Isaac Lefever and Philip Fiere tracts. I have stated that Daniel Fiere's tract\u8232 lay on the south end of the patent. On December 28, 1745, he gave a deed for this land and\u8232 also for some land obtained under another patent to his son, Daniel. This Daniel (the son) died\u8232 in his father's lifetime, having made a will, dated August 10, 1750, which was proven\u8232 September 4, 1750, whereby he gave this land to his son, Daniel, who was Daniel the third.\u8232 The words of the devise are: "All that plantation, where on I now dwell, containing about 500\u8232 acres of land, which said tract and plantation was granted to me by my father, Daniel Ferree."\u8232 Daniel, the second, had, besides his son, two daughters, who were named Salome and Mary.\u8232 Daniel, the third, and his sister, Salome, died during their minority, and, as a consequence, all\u8232 that land descended to their sister, Mary. Mary married John Carpenter, and she died in 1764,\u8232 leaving to survive her, her husband and three children, namely, one son, Abraham, and two\u8232 daughters, Mary, who afterwards married John Smith, and Susan, who married Frederick\u8232 Yeiser. But, before her death, on August 24, 1764, she and her husband deeded all her land to\u8232 Dr. Henry Carpenter, her father-in-law, and Dr. Henry Carpenter, on August 31, 1764, made a\u8232 deed for the same to John Carpenter, his son. On July 31, 1786, John Carpenter deeded the one\u8232 undivided half of this land to his son, Abraham Carpenter. I refer to these conveyances with\u8232 some particularity because I shall take occasion to dwell upon the ownership of the land at this\u8232 period later on.\fs24 \par \fs26 Philip Ferree, son of John and Mary Le Fiere (Ferree), was born, 1687, at Steyn-Wiel, in the Palatinate and was about 21 years old when they came to this country. Having formed the acquaintance of several families in Esopus, N. Y., he went to that place and lived one year with Abramam Du Bois, one of the twelve patentees of New Pfaltz. While in the family of Abraham Du Bois, Philip Ferree formed an attachment for his daughter Leah, whom he married, May 10, 1712, the ceremony being performed by Dominie Petrus Vas. She was born Oct. 16, 1687. Abraham Du Bois, who was born 1657, at Manheim, Germany, married, March 6, 1681, Margaret, daughter of Christian Deys at Esopus, and died Oct. 7, 1731. He was a son of Louis Du Bois and his wife Catharine, daughter of Mathew Blanshon and his wife Madeleen Jorisse, who fled from France to Germany in 1650, where they remained until April 27, 1660, when they sailed for America in the ship "Gelded Otter," arriving here December 7, 1660. They settled at Esopus. Philip Ferree, after his marriage, moved to the Pequea settlement and commenced improving land on the north side of Pequea creek, that had previously been taken up by his mother and family. Some of their first labors were to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land having been cleared on the part allotted them. \par \par From Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I - III by Frank William\uc0\u8232 Shriver - Philip Ferree, the second son, married Leah DuBois, daughter of Abraham DuBois,\u8232 before mentioned, and received, as her portion of her father's estate, two thousand acres in the\u8232 Pequea Valley, on the Conestoga in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on which Philip and his \par family settled. Philip and Leah (Dubois) Ferree had eight children: Abraham, of whom\uc0\u8232 presently; Isaac; Jacob; Philip; Joel; Lena, married William Buffington, or Bavington; Leah,\u8232 married Peter Baker; Elizabeth, married her cousin, Isaac Ferree.\u8232 \par ***** \par \uc0\u8232 From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\u8232 History of Lancaster County by Dr. Frederick Klein, 1924 - Philip Ferree ( 1687-1753), the\u8232 third son of the Madame, was married during their sojourn at Esopus to Leah DuBois, the\u8232 daughter of Abraham DuBois, whose father Louis was the founder of New Platz in 1660. Soon\u8232 after his marriage, which was about 1711, he came to Pequea and settled on a part of the\u8232 Ferree grant. Upon his arrival he constructed a temporary habitation of forked poles, bark roof,\u8232 etc. In this queer house their first child was born. Philip and Leah Ferree had eight children as\u8232 follows: Abraham (died 1775 ), Isaac (died 1782), Jacob, Philip, Joel, and daughters Lena,\u8232 married to William Buffington, Leah, married to Peter Baker, and Elisabeth, married to Isaac\u8232 Ferree, her cousin. Abraham, the eldest son of Philip Ferree, the emigrant, was married about\u8232 1736 to a Miss Eltinge, of Esopus, New York Their children were Cornelius, who settled in\u8232 Virginia, Israel, and a daughter Rebecca, who married David Shriver and removed to Frederick\u8232 county, Maryland.\u8232 ***** \par \'a0From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\uc0\u8232 History of Lancaster County, to Which is prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of\u8232 Pennsylvania. By I. Daniel Rupp. Publishing date 1844 - Chapter II, pages 90-115\u8232 Philip, one of the sons, was not about twenty-one years of age, and had a desire to earn\u8232 something for himself; and having formed an acquaintance with several families at Esopus, he\u8232 made for that place, where he hired for one year with a respectable farmer, by the name of\u8232 Abraham Dubois, whose daughter Leah he married at the expiration of year, and brought her\u8232 to his people in Pequea settlement, where he commenced improving a tract of land on the\u8232 north side of Pequea creek, (on part of which Joel Lightner, Esq., resides at present) which\u8232 land had been previously allotted to him by his mother. * From a communication to us, dated\u8232 December 21,1842, by Isaac F. Lightner, it appears Abraham Dubois patented one thousand\u8232 acres of land, in Lancaster county, which he gave to his daughter Mary, ( mm thought it was\u8232 Leah maybe her name was Leah Mary) who had married Philip Ferree, The patent was granted\u8232 May 7, 1717.\u8232 Some of their first labor was to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land\u8232 being cleared on that part. For a shelter, house and barn, they placed timbers, forked at the\u8232 top, into ground, laid poles across them, built their hay upon the frame, which served as a roof\u8232 to their house, under which they lived several months; during their "sub stack stay" in this rude\u8232 shelter, their son Abraham was born.\u8232 They raised eight children, five sons and three daughters: the names of the sons were\u8232 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Philp, Joel. The daughters names were Lena who intermarried with\u8232 William Buffington, Leah was married to Peter Baker, Elizabeth to Isaac FerreeOn March 2, 1743, Daniel Fiere and Anna Maria, his wife, and Isaac Lefever and Catharine,his wife (as Kathrina), conveyed unto Philip Fiere 383 2 -3 acres of this tract; on April 4,\u8232 1743, Daniel Fiere conveyed to Isaac Lefever all his interest In 383 1-3 acres of the tract, and\u8232 Isaac Lefever, on the same day, made a conveyance to Daniel Fiere, seemingly for a tract of\u8232 larger size; and on June 9, 1747, these parties conveyed to John Fiere two tracts of 191 5-6\u8232 acres each, or 383 2-3. When the above conveyances had all been made, the result was about\u8232 as follows: Daniel had about 532 acres and 24 perches, Isaac Lefever had 383 1-3 acres, Philip\u8232 had about 575 acres, and John had about 809 acres and 83 2-3 perches. There is probably some\u8232 variation in the number of acres held by Daniel, Philip and John, by reason of the issuing of\u8232 the new patent and the division of the extra 800 acres granted thereby. It may be interesting for\u8232 you to know the exact location of this land, for, though you are now almost in the center of it,\u8232 you cannot know the outside lines. I wish to make reference to them in a general way. In the\u8232 deed from Daniel Fiere and Isaac Lefever to Philip Fiere, it is shown that that tract began in\u8232 Leacock Township, at a marked white oak, and covered the northwestern portion of the large\u8232 tract. This, therefore, fixes the northwest corner with definiteness. From thence it extended\u8232 south by east, crossing Pequea Creek, 289 1-3 perches to a post, and thence along Isaac\u8232 Lefever's land east 229 perches to a post, thence north by west by other land of Philip Fiere\u8232 (Faulkner land) and land of John Fiere 289 1-3 perches to a post, and west along the north line\u8232 of the whole tract 229 perches to the place of beginning. By a similar marking of the courses\u8232 and distances, and, taking into account the various boundaries, it will be found that John Fiere\u8232 held 191 5 -6 acres on the northeast corner and the same number of acres on the south east\u8232 corner, and, in addition, held the 334 acres of the Jane Davis tract on the southwest corner.\u8232 Isaac Lefever's land ran straight through the middle of the large tract and it extended from east\u8232 to west 458 perches and from north to south 144 perches and 11 feet. Daniel Fiere owned the\u8232 land on the south between the Jane Davis tract and the last-mentioned one of John Fiere, and\u8232 the remaining place (the Faulkner tract conveyed to Philip Fiere), which lay on the northeast\u8232 between Isaac Lefever and John Fiere's northeast tract made up the full number of acres\u8232 embraced within the new patent. I think, from same of the descriptions, that the division of the\u8232 land was a little different under the original patent, and that, by agreement, it was afterwards\u8232 apportioned as I have set it forth in the draft. The turnpike in front of us runs from East to\u8232 West through the Isaac Lefever and Philip Fiere tracts. I have stated that Daniel Fiere's tract\u8232 lay on the south end of the patent. On December 28, 1745, he gave a deed for this land and\u8232 also for some land obtained under another patent to his son, Daniel. This Daniel (the son) died\u8232 in his father's lifetime, having made a will, dated August 10, 1750, which was proven\u8232 September 4, 1750, whereby he gave this land to his son, Daniel, who was Daniel the third.\u8232 The words of the devise are: "All that plantation, where on I now dwell, containing about 500\u8232 acres of land, which said tract and plantation was granted to me by my father, Daniel Ferree."\u8232 Daniel, the second, had, besides his son, two daughters, who were named Salome and Mary.\u8232 Daniel, the third, and his sister, Salome, died during their minority, and, as a consequence, all\u8232 that land descended to their sister, Mary. Mary married John Carpenter, and she died in 1764,\u8232 leaving to survive her, her husband and three children, namely, one son, Abraham, and two\u8232 daughters, Mary, who afterwards married John Smith, and Susan, who married Frederick\u8232 Yeiser. But, before her death, on August 24, 1764, she and her husband deeded all her land to\u8232 Dr. Henry Carpenter, her father-in-law, and Dr. Henry Carpenter, on August 31, 1764, made a\u8232 deed for the same to John Carpenter, his son. On July 31, 1786, John Carpenter deeded the one\u8232 undivided half of this land to his son, Abraham Carpenter. I refer to these conveyances with\u8232 some particularity because I shall take occasion to dwell upon the ownership of the land at this\u8232 period later on.\fs24 \par \fs26 Philip Ferree, son of John and Mary Le Fiere (Ferree), was born, 1687, at Steyn-Wiel, in the Palatinate and was about 21 years old when they came to this country. Having formed the acquaintance of several families in Esopus, N. Y., he went to that place and lived one year with Abramam Du Bois, one of the twelve patentees of New Pfaltz. While in the family of Abraham Du Bois, Philip Ferree formed an attachment for his daughter Leah, whom he married, May 10, 1712, the ceremony being performed by Dominie Petrus Vas. She was born Oct. 16, 1687. Abraham Du Bois, who was born 1657, at Manheim, Germany, married, March 6, 1681, Margaret, daughter of Christian Deys at Esopus, and died Oct. 7, 1731. He was a son of Louis Du Bois and his wife Catharine, daughter of Mathew Blanshon and his wife Madeleen Jorisse, who fled from France to Germany in 1650, where they remained until April 27, 1660, when they sailed for America in the ship "Gelded Otter," arriving here December 7, 1660. They settled at Esopus. Philip Ferree, after his marriage, moved to the Pequea settlement and commenced improving land on the north side of Pequea creek, that had previously been taken up by his mother and family. Some of their first labors were to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land having been cleared on the part allotted them. \par \par From Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I - III by Frank William\uc0\u8232 Shriver - Philip Ferree, the second son, married Leah DuBois, daughter of Abraham DuBois,\u8232 before mentioned, and received, as her portion of her father's estate, two thousand acres in the\u8232 Pequea Valley, on the Conestoga in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on which Philip and his \par family settled. Philip and Leah (Dubois) Ferree had eight children: Abraham, of whom\uc0\u8232 presently; Isaac; Jacob; Philip; Joel; Lena, married William Buffington, or Bavington; Leah,\u8232 married Peter Baker; Elizabeth, married her cousin, Isaac Ferree.\u8232 \par ***** \par \uc0\u8232 From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\u8232 History of Lancaster County by Dr. Frederick Klein, 1924 - Philip Ferree ( 1687-1753), the\u8232 third son of the Madame, was married during their sojourn at Esopus to Leah DuBois, the\u8232 daughter of Abraham DuBois, whose father Louis was the founder of New Platz in 1660. Soon\u8232 after his marriage, which was about 1711, he came to Pequea and settled on a part of the\u8232 Ferree grant. Upon his arrival he constructed a temporary habitation of forked poles, bark roof,\u8232 etc. In this queer house their first child was born. Philip and Leah Ferree had eight children as\u8232 follows: Abraham (died 1775 ), Isaac (died 1782), Jacob, Philip, Joel, and daughters Lena,\u8232 married to William Buffington, Leah, married to Peter Baker, and Elisabeth, married to Isaac\u8232 Ferree, her cousin. Abraham, the eldest son of Philip Ferree, the emigrant, was married about\u8232 1736 to a Miss Eltinge, of Esopus, New York Their children were Cornelius, who settled in\u8232 Virginia, Israel, and a daughter Rebecca, who married David Shriver and removed to Frederick\u8232 county, Maryland.\u8232 ***** \par \'a0From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\uc0\u8232 History of Lancaster County, to Which is prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of\u8232 Pennsylvania. By I. Daniel Rupp. Publishing date 1844 - Chapter II, pages 90-115\u8232 Philip, one of the sons, was not about twenty-one years of age, and had a desire to earn\u8232 something for himself; and having formed an acquaintance with several families at Esopus, he\u8232 made for that place, where he hired for one year with a respectable farmer, by the name of\u8232 Abraham Dubois, whose daughter Leah he married at the expiration of year, and brought her\u8232 to his people in Pequea settlement, where he commenced improving a tract of land on the\u8232 north side of Pequea creek, (on part of which Joel Lightner, Esq., resides at present) which\u8232 land had been previously allotted to him by his mother. * From a communication to us, dated\u8232 December 21,1842, by Isaac F. Lightner, it appears Abraham Dubois patented one thousand\u8232 acres of land, in Lancaster county, which he gave to his daughter Mary, ( mm thought it was\u8232 Leah maybe her name was Leah Mary) who had married Philip Ferree, The patent was granted\u8232 May 7, 1717.\u8232 Some of their first labor was to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land\u8232 being cleared on that part. For a shelter, house and barn, they placed timbers, forked at the\u8232 top, into ground, laid poles across them, built their hay upon the frame, which served as a roof\u8232 to their house, under which they lived several months; during their "sub stack stay" in this rude\u8232 shelter, their son Abraham was born.\u8232 They raised eight children, five sons and three daughters: the names of the sons were\u8232 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Philp, Joel. The daughters names were Lena who intermarried with\u8232 William Buffington, Leah was married to Peter Baker, Elizabeth to Isaac FerreeOn March 2, 1743, Daniel Fiere and Anna Maria, his wife, and Isaac Lefever and Catharine,his wife (as Kathrina), conveyed unto Philip Fiere 383 2 -3 acres of this tract; on April 4,\u8232 1743, Daniel Fiere conveyed to Isaac Lefever all his interest In 383 1-3 acres of the tract, and\u8232 Isaac Lefever, on the same day, made a conveyance to Daniel Fiere, seemingly for a tract of\u8232 larger size; and on June 9, 1747, these parties conveyed to John Fiere two tracts of 191 5-6\u8232 acres each, or 383 2-3. When the above conveyances had all been made, the result was about\u8232 as follows: Daniel had about 532 acres and 24 perches, Isaac Lefever had 383 1-3 acres, Philip\u8232 had about 575 acres, and John had about 809 acres and 83 2-3 perches. There is probably some\u8232 variation in the number of acres held by Daniel, Philip and John, by reason of the issuing of\u8232 the new patent and the division of the extra 800 acres granted thereby. It may be interesting for\u8232 you to know the exact location of this land, for, though you are now almost in the center of it,\u8232 you cannot know the outside lines. I wish to make reference to them in a general way. In the\u8232 deed from Daniel Fiere and Isaac Lefever to Philip Fiere, it is shown that that tract began in\u8232 Leacock Township, at a marked white oak, and covered the northwestern portion of the large\u8232 tract. This, therefore, fixes the northwest corner with definiteness. From thence it extended\u8232 south by east, crossing Pequea Creek, 289 1-3 perches to a post, and thence along Isaac\u8232 Lefever's land east 229 perches to a post, thence north by west by other land of Philip Fiere\u8232 (Faulkner land) and land of John Fiere 289 1-3 perches to a post, and west along the north line\u8232 of the whole tract 229 perches to the place of beginning. By a similar marking of the courses\u8232 and distances, and, taking into account the various boundaries, it will be found that John Fiere\u8232 held 191 5 -6 acres on the northeast corner and the same number of acres on the south east\u8232 corner, and, in addition, held the 334 acres of the Jane Davis tract on the southwest corner.\u8232 Isaac Lefever's land ran straight through the middle of the large tract and it extended from east\u8232 to west 458 perches and from north to south 144 perches and 11 feet. Daniel Fiere owned the\u8232 land on the south between the Jane Davis tract and the last-mentioned one of John Fiere, and\u8232 the remaining place (the Faulkner tract conveyed to Philip Fiere), which lay on the northeast\u8232 between Isaac Lefever and John Fiere's northeast tract made up the full number of acres\u8232 embraced within the new patent. I think, from same of the descriptions, that the division of the\u8232 land was a little different under the original patent, and that, by agreement, it was afterwards\u8232 apportioned as I have set it forth in the draft. The turnpike in front of us runs from East to\u8232 West through the Isaac Lefever and Philip Fiere tracts. I have stated that Daniel Fiere's tract\u8232 lay on the south end of the patent. On December 28, 1745, he gave a deed for this land and\u8232 also for some land obtained under another patent to his son, Daniel. This Daniel (the son) died\u8232 in his father's lifetime, having made a will, dated August 10, 1750, which was proven\u8232 September 4, 1750, whereby he gave this land to his son, Daniel, who was Daniel the third.\u8232 The words of the devise are: "All that plantation, where on I now dwell, containing about 500\u8232 acres of land, which said tract and plantation was granted to me by my father, Daniel Ferree."\u8232 Daniel, the second, had, besides his son, two daughters, who were named Salome and Mary.\u8232 Daniel, the third, and his sister, Salome, died during their minority, and, as a consequence, all\u8232 that land descended to their sister, Mary. Mary married John Carpenter, and she died in 1764,\u8232 leaving to survive her, her husband and three children, namely, one son, Abraham, and two\u8232 daughters, Mary, who afterwards married John Smith, and Susan, who married Frederick\u8232 Yeiser. But, before her death, on August 24, 1764, she and her husband deeded all her land to\u8232 Dr. Henry Carpenter, her father-in-law, and Dr. Henry Carpenter, on August 31, 1764, made a\u8232 deed for the same to John Carpenter, his son. On July 31, 1786, John Carpenter deeded the one\u8232 undivided half of this land to his son, Abraham Carpenter. I refer to these conveyances with\u8232 some particularity because I shall take occasion to dwell upon the ownership of the land at this\u8232 period later on.\fs24 \par \fs26 Philip Ferree, son of John and Mary Le Fiere (Ferree), was born, 1687, at Steyn-Wiel, in the Palatinate and was about 21 years old when they came to this country. Having formed the acquaintance of several families in Esopus, N. Y., he went to that place and lived one year with Abramam Du Bois, one of the twelve patentees of New Pfaltz. While in the family of Abraham Du Bois, Philip Ferree formed an attachment for his daughter Leah, whom he married, May 10, 1712, the ceremony being performed by Dominie Petrus Vas. She was born Oct. 16, 1687. Abraham Du Bois, who was born 1657, at Manheim, Germany, married, March 6, 1681, Margaret, daughter of Christian Deys at Esopus, and died Oct. 7, 1731. He was a son of Louis Du Bois and his wife Catharine, daughter of Mathew Blanshon and his wife Madeleen Jorisse, who fled from France to Germany in 1650, where they remained until April 27, 1660, when they sailed for America in the ship "Gelded Otter," arriving here December 7, 1660. They settled at Esopus. Philip Ferree, after his marriage, moved to the Pequea settlement and commenced improving land on the north side of Pequea creek, that had previously been taken up by his mother and family. Some of their first labors were to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land having been cleared on the part allotted them. \par \par From Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I - III by Frank William\uc0\u8232 Shriver - Philip Ferree, the second son, married Leah DuBois, daughter of Abraham DuBois,\u8232 before mentioned, and received, as her portion of her father's estate, two thousand acres in the\u8232 Pequea Valley, on the Conestoga in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on which Philip and his \par family settled. Philip and Leah (Dubois) Ferree had eight children: Abraham, of whom\uc0\u8232 presently; Isaac; Jacob; Philip; Joel; Lena, married William Buffington, or Bavington; Leah,\u8232 married Peter Baker; Elizabeth, married her cousin, Isaac Ferree.\u8232 \par ***** \par \uc0\u8232 From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\u8232 History of Lancaster County by Dr. Frederick Klein, 1924 - Philip Ferree ( 1687-1753), the\u8232 third son of the Madame, was married during their sojourn at Esopus to Leah DuBois, the\u8232 daughter of Abraham DuBois, whose father Louis was the founder of New Platz in 1660. Soon\u8232 after his marriage, which was about 1711, he came to Pequea and settled on a part of the\u8232 Ferree grant. Upon his arrival he constructed a temporary habitation of forked poles, bark roof,\u8232 etc. In this queer house their first child was born. Philip and Leah Ferree had eight children as\u8232 follows: Abraham (died 1775 ), Isaac (died 1782), Jacob, Philip, Joel, and daughters Lena,\u8232 married to William Buffington, Leah, married to Peter Baker, and Elisabeth, married to Isaac\u8232 Ferree, her cousin. Abraham, the eldest son of Philip Ferree, the emigrant, was married about\u8232 1736 to a Miss Eltinge, of Esopus, New York Their children were Cornelius, who settled in\u8232 Virginia, Israel, and a daughter Rebecca, who married David Shriver and removed to Frederick\u8232 county, Maryland.\u8232 ***** \par \'a0From Janet Green Ariciu family - WorldConnect Project - 5 January 2005 -\uc0\u8232 History of Lancaster County, to Which is prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of\u8232 Pennsylvania. By I. Daniel Rupp. Publishing date 1844 - Chapter II, pages 90-115\u8232 Philip, one of the sons, was not about twenty-one years of age, and had a desire to earn\u8232 something for himself; and having formed an acquaintance with several families at Esopus, he\u8232 made for that place, where he hired for one year with a respectable farmer, by the name of\u8232 Abraham Dubois, whose daughter Leah he married at the expiration of year, and brought her\u8232 to his people in Pequea settlement, where he commenced improving a tract of land on the\u8232 north side of Pequea creek, (on part of which Joel Lightner, Esq., resides at present) which\u8232 land had been previously allotted to him by his mother. * From a communication to us, dated\u8232 December 21,1842, by Isaac F. Lightner, it appears Abraham Dubois patented one thousand\u8232 acres of land, in Lancaster county, which he gave to his daughter Mary, ( mm thought it was\u8232 Leah maybe her name was Leah Mary) who had married Philip Ferree, The patent was granted\u8232 May 7, 1717.\u8232 Some of their first labor was to cut grass in the woods for the purpose of making hay, no land\u8232 being cleared on that part. For a shelter, house and barn, they placed timbers, forked at the\u8232 top, into ground, laid poles across them, built their hay upon the frame, which served as a roof\u8232 to their house, under which they lived several months; during their "sub stack stay" in this rude\u8232 shelter, their son Abraham was born.\u8232 They raised eight children, five sons and three daughters: the names of the sons were\u8232 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Philp, Joel. The daughters names were Lena who intermarried with\u8232 William Buffington, Leah was married to Peter Baker, Elizabeth to Isaac FerreeOn March 2, 1743, Daniel Fiere and Anna Maria, his wife, and Isaac Lefever and Catharine,his wife (as Kathrina), conveyed unto Philip Fiere 383 2 -3 acres of this tract; on April 4,\u8232 1743, Daniel Fiere conveyed to Isaac Lefever all his interest In 383 1-3 acres of the tract, and\u8232 Isaac Lefever, on the same day, made a conveyance to Daniel Fiere, seemingly for a tract of\u8232 larger size; and on June 9, 1747, these parties conveyed to John Fiere two tracts of 191 5-6\u8232 acres each, or 383 2-3. When the above conveyances had all been made, the result was about\u8232 as follows: Daniel had about 532 acres and 24 perches, Isaac Lefever had 383 1-3 acres, Philip\u8232 had about 575 acres, and John had about 809 acres and 83 2-3 perches. There is probably some\u8232 variation in the number of acres held by Daniel, Philip and John, by reason of the issuing of\u8232 the new patent and the division of the extra 800 acres granted thereby. It may be interesting for\u8232 you to know the exact location of this land, for, though you are now almost in the center of it,\u8232 you cannot know the outside lines. I wish to make reference to them in a general way. In the\u8232 deed from Daniel Fiere and Isaac Lefever to Philip Fiere, it is shown that that tract began in\u8232 Leacock Township, at a marked white oak, and covered the northwestern portion of the large\u8232 tract. This, therefore, fixes the northwest corner with definiteness. From thence it extended\u8232 south by east, crossing Pequea Creek, 289 1-3 perches to a post, and thence along Isaac\u8232 Lefever's land east 229 perches to a post, thence north by west by other land of Philip Fiere\u8232 (Faulkner land) and land of John Fiere 289 1-3 perches to a post, and west along the north line\u8232 of the whole tract 229 perches to the place of beginning. By a similar marking of the courses\u8232 and distances, and, taking into account the various boundaries, it will be found that John Fiere\u8232 held 191 5 -6 acres on the northeast corner and the same number of acres on the south east\u8232 corner, and, in addition, held the 334 acres of the Jane Davis tract on the southwest corner.\u8232 Isaac Lefever's land ran straight through the middle of the large tract and it extended from east\u8232 to west 458 perches and from north to south 144 perches and 11 feet. Daniel Fiere owned the\u8232 land on the south between the Jane Davis tract and the last-mentioned one of John Fiere, and\u8232 the remaining place (the Faulkner tract conveyed to Philip Fiere), which lay on the northeast\u8232 between Isaac Lefever and John Fiere's northeast tract made up the full number of acres\u8232 embraced within the new patent. I think, from same of the descriptions, that the division of the\u8232 land was a little different under the original patent, and that, by agreement, it was afterwards\u8232 apportioned as I have set it forth in the draft. The turnpike in front of us runs from East to\u8232 West through the Isaac Lefever and Philip Fiere tracts. I have stated that Daniel Fiere's tract\u8232 lay on the south end of the patent. On December 28, 1745, he gave a deed for this land and\u8232 also for some land obtained under another patent to his son, Daniel. This Daniel (the son) died\u8232 in his father's lifetime, having made a will, dated August 10, 1750, which was proven\u8232 September 4, 1750, whereby he gave this land to his son, Daniel, who was Daniel the third.\u8232 The words of the devise are: "All that plantation, where on I now dwell, containing about 500\u8232 acres of land, which said tract and plantation was granted to me by my father, Daniel Ferree."\u8232 Daniel, the second, had, besides his son, two daughters, who were named Salome and Mary.\u8232 Daniel, the third, and his sister, Salome, died during their minority, and, as a consequence, all\u8232 that land descended to their sister, Mary. Mary married John Carpenter, and she died in 1764,\u8232 leaving to survive her, her husband and three children, namely, one son, Abraham, and two\u8232 daughters, Mary, who afterwards married John Smith, and Susan, who married Frederick\u8232 Yeiser. But, before her death, on August 24, 1764, she and her husband deeded all her land to\u8232 Dr. Henry Carpenter, her father-in-law, and Dr. Henry Carpenter, on August 31, 1764, made a\u8232 deed for the same to John Carpenter, his son. On July 31, 1786, John Carpenter deeded the one\u8232 undivided half of this land to his son, Abraham Carpenter. I refer to these conveyances with\u8232 some particularity because I shall take occasion to dwell upon the ownership of the land at this\u8232 period later on.}