Daniel Ferree and Maria Warenbuer

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Husband Daniel Ferree ¹

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            AKA: John Ferree,2 Daniel Fiere,3 Daniel Fierre,4 Daniel Fuehre 5
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• Family History: I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844).
To read about the early generations of this family, click here.

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Wife Maria Warenbuer ⁶

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            AKA: Maria Warenbauer,7 Mary Warenbuer,8 Maria Warrenbuer,4 Mary Warrimbere,9 Mary Warrinbuer 10
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           Died: 1716 - Conestoga Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 8
         Buried:  - Carpenter Cemetery, Lancaster Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Daniel Ferree ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Anna Maria Leininger (      -      ) 11

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2 F Catherine Ferree ^{2 12}

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            AKA: [Unk] Ferrer, Catherine Fierre 4
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         Spouse: Isaac LeFevre (1669-      ) 1
           Marr: France

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3 F Mary Ferree ^{2 12}

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4 M Philip Ferree ^{2 7 13}

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           Born: 1687 7
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         Spouse: Leah DuBois (      -      ) 2 13

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5 F Jane Ferree ^{2 12}

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6 M John Ferree ^{2 8}

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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Ferree

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The family of Ferree is of French derivation, the progenitor of this family having fled his native land because of religious persecution, finding asylum in the Palatinate of Germany, where he died. He belonged to the class known in history as Huguenots. His widow, Mary, in 1705 came to America accompanied by her six children.

He was a silk weaver of Lindau, France, at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in the year 1685, fled to Germany, where he died near Strasburg. Owing to religious persecutions which still followed them into the Palatinate, his widow Maria (Warenbauer) Ferree, came to America in 1708 with her six children and a son-in-law, Isaac Le Fevre, who had married her daughter Catherine. They settled first in Ulster County, New York, later coming to Strasburg, Pennsylvania, where two thousand acres of land were laid out to the widow, November 7, 1712, and in which ground she was buried in 1716, said to have been the first person buried in the plot set aside for burial purposes. These two thousand acres were patented by the proprietors, William Penn and his brother, to Daniel Ferree (her son), and Isaac Le Fevre (her son-in-law), and they border on the borough of Strasburg.

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General Notes: Wife - Maria Warenbuer

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The first settler of Paradise township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was Mary Ferree (formerly called Ferrie), who came there in 1709 with six children. Mrs. Ferree came from the town of Landau, near the Rhine, in France. Her maiden name was Warrimbere, and she was married to John Ferrie, who, being a Huguenot, was among those who were slain during the insurrection in France. Mary Ferree was the possessor of two thousand three hundred acres of land, situated south of the Pequea Creek. She died in 1716, and was buried in Carpenter's Cemetery which was selected by her, and is located in about the centre of her former possessions. The tract of land taken up by Mary Ferree was in the central portion of what became Paradise township. The western part of the township was taken up by Hans Groff, and consisted of one thousand acres. This was bought by Louis Dubois, and bequeathed by him to his son-in-law, Philip Ferree, son of Mary, and adjoined her estate.
When Mary Ferree and her family arrived in the valley of Pequea, she was met by Beaver, chief of the tribe of Indians that inhabited that section of country at that time. Beaver, with the humanity that distinguished his tribe, gave up to the emigrants his wigwam. On the following day he introduced them to King Tanawa, who resided on the Great Flats. King Tanawa had known William Penn, and called him the "Indians' friend." Tanawa was a chief of the five nations, and always displayed a friendly feeling toward the whites. He sold his land to William Penn, and it was afterwards bought by the early settlers. [HLC 1883, 995]

1 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 91.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 370.

3 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 106.

4 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 373.

5 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 93.

6 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 107.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 193.

8 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 108.

9 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 995.

10 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 110.

11 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 95.

12 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 109.

13 I. Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Gilbert Hills, 1844), Pg 111.