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Jacob Ferree
b.8 Aug 1750 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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m. Abt 1749
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m. 8 Aug 1770
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m. 1 Jul 1783
Facts and Events
Heisterkamp's Annotated Landis Ferree Tree (as of 30 April 2004) Jacob was the son of Isaac Ferree. Jacob was killed in the War of 1812. According to comments from Ruth R. Jarvis, Jacob had only one sister and no brothers.
A transcript of the marriage license of Jacob Ferree and Alice Powell This is to Certify, That Jacob Ferree and Alice Powell, he of Lancaster she of Chester County were lawfully joined in Matrimony the first Day of July in the Year of our LORD One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty three per me. Witness my Hand, Henry Muhlenberg, V.D.M. (V.D.M. means Very Divine Minister)
Jacob Ferree is listed on the tax assessment list in Strasburg Township in 1783. About 1783 Jacob sold his land consisting of 500 acres, lying on both sides of the North Fork of Deep Creek in the County of Surry. In 1784 Jacob and Alice removed to Mifflin Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and settled on a tract of land on Peter's Creek, patented to Joel Ferree, first father-in-law of Jacob. This land was later bequeathed by Joel to the children of Jacob by his first wife Rachael Ferree. Joel Ferree, was shot and scalped by the Indians on a hill near Jacob's house while hunting a deer in 1801. Jacob set up a gun shop on Peter's Creek where he made rifles and gunpowder. Peter's Creek was located about 24 miles up the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. Their rifles found a ready market in Doddridge, Virginia, and in Kentucky and North Carolina. Jacob's second wife, Alice Powell, was considered a fine shot with the rifle. She tested her husband's guns and gunpowder.
The oath of allegiance reads, Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County. BE IT KNOWN that on the 14th day of November, 1794, before me, Wm. McClure, esquire, one of the Commonwealth Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Allegheny, came Joseph Ferree, of Mifflin Township and said county who took and subscribed the oath of Allegiance as prescribed by an address of his Excellency General Henry Lee, to the inhabitants of the four western Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, dated the 8th day of November, 1794. Witness my hand and seal. Wm. McClure (L.S.) (I note that the oath reads "Joseph" and not "Jacob" Ferree!)
March 28, 1797. Jacob Ferree's best rifle powder is offered for sale by Henry Wolfe, gunsmith, in Pittsburgh. September 14, 1799. Powder: The subscriber has for sale the best rifle powder. He can supply merchants and others at reasonable prices at his powder mill on Peter's Creek. Jacob Ferree, Allegheny County, Mifflintown. Tuesday, September 8, 1807. At his farm on Saturday last in Montiers Bottoms, Mr. Jacob Ferree in the 57th year of age. His remains were buried the day following attended by a number of friends, relatives and acquaintances. As a man, Mr. Ferree was greatly respected, his strict integrity and obliging manner endeared him to all acquaintances. He was pious and devout Christian and died in the full belief that through the merits of his blessed Redeemer he should enjoy a happy eternity. August 23, 1809. LAND FOR SALE: The subscriber proposes to sell the following tract of land on Peter's Creek, two and one-half miles from the mouth, in Mifflin Township, Allegheny County, two miles from Elizabethtown and twelve miles from Pittsburgh. The tract contains 300 acres and the usual allowance, the land is of the first quality; upward of 100 acres, cleared, and under good fence, of which about 20 acres are meadow. On the tract are an orchard of upward of 200 bearing apple trees, a grist mill, saw mill, powder mill and other necessary buildings to accommodate three or four families. The land will divide into two farms. From eight hundred to one thousand weight of sugar is made annually. For terms apply to the subscribers living on the premises. Joel Ferree (Probably Colonel Joel Ferree, the son of Jacob) Two of Jacob's sons, Joel and Isaac, were evidently in business with him until his death. Jacob is buried in the Ferree Cemetery in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. A grave marker put there by the D.A.R. and states his date of death as September 5, 1807.
From History of Allegheny County, Warner, II, p. 477-478 - He moved to Mifflin Township in 1784 and built a gunpowder mill on Peter's Creek on land patented by Joel Ferree. In 1804 Jacob and Alice obtained 331 acres of land of their own by warrant in Allegheny County. Owned a gun powder manufacturing business. Source: Major Ferree reported that Jacob's family were suspected of being sympathetic of or at least sympathetic to the Whiskey Rebellion. Consequently, they were ordered to sign an oath of allegiance to the federal government. Jacob Ferree's gunpowder was well known by virtue of the many advertisements run in the Pittsburgh newspapers, both by himself and by local gunsmiths who sold his product. Henry Wolf of Pittsburgh advertised that he sold the powder in the Pittsburgh Gazette of 28 March 1797. The Gazette of September 7, 1807 carried a notice which read, "(Died) at his farm on Saturday last in Montiers Bottom, Mr. Jacob Ferree, in the 57th year of his age. His remains were buried the day following, attended by a number of friends, relatives and acquaintances. He was a pious and devout Christian and died in the full belief that through the merits of his Blessed Redeemer he should enjoy a happy eternity."
Jacob married Rachel at St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Jacob was a gun maker and owned a gun powder mill in Mifflin township. About 1784 he moved to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Some sources say he moved to Allegheny County about 1800. He settled at the mouth of Peter's Creek and purchased 330 acres of land where Coraopolis now stands. It is said that he was the first to make gun powder west of the Alleghenies. He is buried at the Ferree Family Cemetery near Coraopolis.
Feree (Ferree), Jacob: Feree was born 8 August 1750 and died 5 September 1807. Feree enlisted as a Private in Captain Jacob Klotz's Company, Colonel Matthias Slough's Battalion of the Flying Camp on 8 July 1776. He served as a Private in Captain Mathias Slaymaker's Company, 1st Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia in 1782. He was a French Huguenot, born in France, and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married his first wife Rachel in France, and after her death he married Alice Powell, an American. Jacob Feree removed from Lancaster County to live near the mouth of Peter's Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He later purchased 300 acres of land where Coraopolis now stands. Feree was a powder manufacturer and gunsmith and it is said that he was the first to make gun powder west of the Alleghenies. He is buried at the Ferree Family Cemetery in Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Comment (CAH, III) - Neither Jacob nor his wife, Rachel, were born in France. References
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