Jacob Ferree and Unknown

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Husband Jacob Ferree ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1750 - France
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           Died: 1807 - Allegheny Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Coraopolis, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: Jacob Ferree (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Rachel Ferree (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage:  - France

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   Other Spouse: Alice Powell (      -      ) 4 - Chester Co, PA

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Wife Unknown

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Children

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1 M Col. Joel Ferree ^{4 5}

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           Born: 6 Oct 1771 4
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         Spouse: Christina Kuykenthal (      -      ) 6

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2 F Leah Ferree ⁴

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           Born: 26 Jan 1774 4
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3 F Rebecca Ferree ⁴

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           Born: 30 Dec 1775 4
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4 F Jane Ferree ⁴

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           Born: 19 Sep 1778 4
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5 F Elizabeth Ferree ⁴

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           Born: 19 Jan 1781 4
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6 M Benjamin Ferree ¹

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7 M Jacob Ferree ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Ferree

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A Huguenot, born in France, he came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was twice married, and by his first wife, whom he married in France, he had three sons: Joel, a colonel in the war of 1812; Benjamin and Jacob; and two daughters, who died young. After the death of his first wife he married Alice Powell, by whom he had four sons and three daughters.
Jacob Ferree, Sr., moved from Lancaster County to the mouth of Peters creek, Allegheny County, and in 1800 purchased 330 acres of land where Coraopolis now stands. In the autumn of that year he, with his sons, built a house, and the following spring his family moved there. On the day after their arrival Joel Ferree, a brother of Jacob, Sr., went up on the hill back of the house, and soon called to his brother to bring up a horse, saying that he had killed a deer. On arriving with the horse, a few moments later, Jacob found the dead body of his brother, who had in the meantime been killed and scalped by the Indians.
He was a powder-manufacturer and gunsmith, and it is said was the first to manufacture powder east [sic] of the Alleghenies. [HAC 1889, 477]

He was a farmer on Peters Creek in the southern part of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, whither he had moved from Chester County, later becoming the owner of property on the present site of Coraopolis, securing more than three hundred acres of government land. This extended from what was later Montour street along the southern bank of the Ohio river to the eastern boundary of Coraopolis. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. [GPHWP, 371]

Note that different sources give very different lists of his children.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 477.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 371, 1153.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 478.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 371.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 393.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1153.