Smoke Ferree CD - November 2004
----- Original Message ----- From: sayre <sayre@@gte.net> To: <FERREE-L@@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 4:20 AM Subject: Ferree/Slaymaker/Bowman
Something of interest to Ferree researchers -- from the book "History of the Slaymaker Family", by H. Slaymaker, published by Lancaster Press, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, revised 1969, page 149:
Susannah Slaymaker, widow of Mathias Slaymaker (merchant) late of the City of Philadelphia, renounced, released, and quit claimed, all her rights and titles to her two brothers-in-law, Isaac Ferree and William Slaymaker, both of Strasburg Township, dated 11th November 1797. Our research uncovered this Ferree family in the Orphan's Court records of Lancaster County, 1786 and 1787. Isaac Ferree of Strasburg Township, died intestate; widow, Susanna Ferree, and 13 children; Isaac (eldest son), Thomas, Joel, Elisha, John, and Ephraim; single daughters, Lydia, Catharine, Sarah, and Rebecca; and married daughters, Elizabeth married to Benjamin Bowman, Mary married to Isaac Ferree, and Susanna married to Mathias Slaymaker. Elisha Ferree was married to the sister of Mathias, as records of the Ferree and/ or Carpenter cemetery shows;
Elisha, son of Isaac Ferree, died 1832, aged 64 years
Margaret Slaymaker, wife of Elisha Ferree, died 1847, aged 79 years"