Person:Ann Ferree (2)

Heisterkamp's Annotated Landis Ferree Tree (as of 30 April 2004)

From Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I - III by Frank William Shriver -

Rebecca (Ferree) Shriver, wife of David Shriver, was of French Huguenot descent. The name originally LaFierere has been spelled by the American descendants as Veree, Ferree. Hugh LaFierere, was of the company of French Huguenots known as "Walloons" who emigrated to New York about 1660, and settled near Kingston, Ulster county, New York. He was likewise one of the "Twelve Patentees" under the leadership of Louis DuBois, who organized the settlement at New Paltz, on the Hudson opposite Poughkeepsie, 1663. Louis DuBois, the great-great-grandfather of Rebecca (Ferree) Shriver, was born near Lyons, France, in 1630, married there Catharine Blancon, Having become a convert to Protestantism, he was forced to flee with his family from France, and in 1658, with his wife and eldest son Abraham, he located at Mannheim, then the capital of the Electorate Palatinate, where he resided for two years, and where another son, Isaac, was born. In 1660 he joined with a number of Huguenots and they emigrated to New York and settled at Kingston as before stated. Louis DuBois was the first elder of New Paltz Church, and also its clerk, the earlier records of the church being entirely in his handwriting. He, however, returned to Kingston in 1686, and died there in 1696.

Abridged Compendium, page 1431.

She was a descendant of Jan Eltinge, who came from Holland to New Amsterdam about 1660. He was an associate judge of the Court of Sessions, Kingston, New York.

Excerpted from History of the Shriver Family, Wytheville, D.A., St. Clair, Printer, 1869 -

The character of Rebecca Shriver, mother of Andrew Shriver was almost entirely domestic. At an early period, her mind became imbued with piety; and the duties of religion were at no time neglected or disregarded by her. On the contrary, she delighted in devotion; she habitually spoke of the hour of her dissolution with complacency, and while yet a far off, prepared to meet it as a matter rather to be desired than avoided. Death, indeed, had no terror for her. In her religion, there was nothing however of gloom or austerity. She freely took part in the rational enjoyments of life, and was highly sociable and benevolent; ever happy to receive all who called upon her, whether relative, friend or stranger. The best refreshments of her table were always presented to them by her own hands, and their wants liberally supplied.

But it was in the character of mother, she was truly affectionate, ever sympathizing in the afflictions and ministering to the welfare of her children, with a tenderness that could not be surpassed. Her husband, having occasion to be much from home, the management of the family, which was large, devolved mainly upon her, which she met without a murmur, and discharged with the utmost propriety. She was the oldest of the family and had two brothers, Isaac and Cornelius; and three sisters, Rachel, Elizabeth, and Mary. It may here be observed, it being omitted elsewhere, that Abraham Ferree, the father of Rebecca Shriver, was of a kind and benevolent disposition and confessedly upright and exemplary in all his dealings and concerns.

Rebecca Shriver died 24 November, 1812, aged 70 years, 10 months and 3 days. She was interred in the family burial ground, where repose also the remains of her husband.

1. ↑ Jessie A. Landis nee Witmer. Ferree - du Bois Family Tree. (1913).
2. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books
   Vol 74, page 66.

   Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books, Vol 74, page 66. - adds "Ann"

3. ↑ kamp3genealogy@@netscape.net. Heisterkamp, Charles, III, M.D..

   1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, PA, 17601, ckamp3@@netscape,net, 717-392-0562

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 George Norbury Mackenzie, ed. Colonial Families of the United States of America. (New York. 1907).
5. ↑ Smoke, Michael Alan. Smoke Genealogy - Family Tree Maker Web Site -01. (updated September 5, 2000).
6. ↑ WorldConnect Project. (RootsWeb)
   Bill Miles - 10 February 2001.

   RootsWeb, WorldConnect Project, "Electronic," Bill Miles - 10 February 2001. - states 1737

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Ferree, Roberta North & Barbara, Data Records. (unpublished).
8. ↑ Notes. (See Notes Section for this information).
9. ↑ Union Mills Homestead Internet Site
   The Narrative of Judge Abraham Shriver, 1826.
10.   F. Edward Wright, Editor. Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills - 1732-1785. (Willow Bend Books, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland 2003)
    page 70.
11. ↑ Lancaster County Historical Society
    Ferree Folder.

    Lancaster County Historical Society, Ferree Folder. - states "24 November 1810"

12.   George Norbury Mackenzie, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, (New York. 1907). states November 23, 1812
13.   "Ferree, Roberta North & Barbara, Data Records," unpublished. adds Place.