"David Jeffries (1658-1742) (David Jeffries II) was a Boston merchant. A native of Rhoad, Wiltshire, England, he settled in Boston in 1677 and married Elizabeth Usher, the daughter of John Usher (1648-1726). Their children were: Jane Jeffries (b. 1687); John Jeffries (b. 1689); David Jeffries (1690-1716); Elizabeth Jeffries (b. 1692), who married (1st) Charles Shepreeve in 1709 and (2nd) Benjamin Eliot in 1723; Rebecca Jeffries (b. 1693), who married Ebenezer Wentworth in 1711; Sarah Jeffries (b. 1695), who married George Jaffrey in 1711; Francis Jeffries (1696-1715); and Peter Jeffries (1697-1698)."
