Hannah BELL

Hannah married Samuel BUXTON on 23 Feb 1726/7 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Samuel (son of Clement BUXTON and Judith PRENCE) was born on 15 Jul 1699 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in 1762 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Deborah BUXTON was born on 30 May 1729 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 29 Mar 1804 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
2. Samuel BUXTON, Jr. was born on 27 Nov 1731 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in 1812 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
3. Hannah BUXTON was born on 01 Nov 1737 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died after 1762.
4. Elizabeth BUXTON was born on 27 Apr 1740 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died after 1777.
5. John BUXTON was born on 01 Oct 1742 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 18 Feb 1781 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
6. James BUXTON was born in 1744 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 19 May 1812 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Bef 1 Oct 1745, Date of Will

Jonathan married Deborah FERRIS on 14 Jan 1701/2 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Deborah (daughter of James FERRIS and Mary ?) died on 03 Jul 1724 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Mercy CRANE on 22 Oct 1662 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Mercy (daughter of Jasper CRANE and Alice ?) was born on 01 Mar 1644/5 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Oct 1671 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Mary ? about 1665. Mary was born about 1645. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Rebecca ?. Rebecca died on 17 May 1684 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Jasper Crane was one of the original settlers of the New Haven Colony, June 4, 1639, and signed the first agreement at a general meeting of all the free planters held in Mr. Newman's barn. He took the oath of fidelity at the organization of the government, with Campfield, Pennington, gov. Eaton and others. In 1644 he was "freed from watching and trayning in his own person because of his weakness, but to find one for his turn." Was a member (with Treat) of the general Court, and many years a magistrate. Was interested in a bog-ore furnace at East Haven in 1651. He removed to Branford in 1652. He was elected a magistrate in 1658, and held the office of deputy for some years previous to that date.

In a note-book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641, we find the following: "Samuel Searle of Quinapeage Planter in behalfe of Jasper Crane of the same Agent or Attorney for Mr. Roe Citizen of London Demiseth unto Henry Dawson and John Search of the Same one house and house lott and three acres of land lying in Boston wherein William Herricks now dwelleth from 29 Sept. next for five years four pounds ten shillgs rent half yearly, to fence to the value four pounds ten shillings, to repaire 21-6-1640."

the transaction, showing his connection with a gentlemen of London, England, would lead one to think that he certainly was known there, and might have lived there. Whether or not the above record furnished the foundation for the tradition that he came from London to America, we do not know. but such a tradition has been cherished by some of his descendants. Extensive research among the record offices in London has thus far failed however of finding any trace of him there. It is also said that he came over from England with Winthrop in the ship "Arbella".

But the date of Jasper Crane's birth, or the place in which he was born, have not been fixed. Whether he came fro parents occupying high or middle stations in life can as yet only be determined by the records revealed to us. He assuredly was one of the staunch and active men among the first settlers of the New Haven Colony as well as one of the fathers of the new settlement in New Jersey. He, with Capt. Robert Treat, seemed to have a large share of the weight of responsibility of that young colony upon their shoulders, and its success at heart. Mr. Crane did not go, it is said, with the first company to "milford," as the first settlement at Newark, New Jersey, was called, but signed, with twenty-two others, the first contract in 1665. Jan. 20, 1667, he headed the list of signers and church members of the first Church at Newark, and became one of the most influential and active men of the new colony. Jasper Crane and Robert Treat were the first magistrates in Newark. It is said that Mr. Crane was dissatisfied at the New Haven Colony becoming united with the Connecticut Colony; he preferred to have the New Haven Colony remain separate.

He was a surveyor and merchant, as well as a magistrate, and with Mr. Myles laid out the most of the New Haven town plot, located grants, established division lines, and settled disputed titles. It is said that he was steward of Rev. John Davenport's property in 1639. In March, 1641, he received a grant of 100 acres of and in the East Meadow. he was one of the New Haven Company concerned in the settlement on the Delaware River in 1642, who were so roughly handled by the Dutch. In 1643 his estate was voted at L480, with three persons in his family, - self, wife and son John. In 1644-45 he received a grant of 16 acres of upland, situated in East Haven upon which he built a house, in which his son Joseph was born. While residing at this place he was in trade as a merchant, but not being satisfied with the location he sold this place Sept. 7, 1652, and became one of the first planters of Branford, Conn., a new settlement then just being instituted by families from Wethersfield, Conn., under the leadership of Mr. Swayne, and a few from Southampton, Long Island.....

Jasper married Alice ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Connecticut Ancestry": Jeffrey Ferris was born in England say about 1610, and died at Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut probably about November 1666. Various reports circulate on the internet giving his birthplace in England in an assortment of places usually Leicestershire, and some of these give his father as one Richard Ferris, born in 1585. None of these reports has been confirmed or substantiated for this present compilation....

He was married (at least) three ties, but none of the marriages seem to have been recorded in Connecticut records. The death of his first (?) wife, probably the mother of all of his children, was recorded at Stamford, but her name has not yet been determined. She died at Greenwich on the 31st day, 5th month(July) 1658, during the time of the epidemic of what is thought to have been malaria that claimed so many Stamford lives in that time period. the Stamford record of her death is partially lost because the original page is deteriorated, but Donald L. Jacobus transcribed the entry in 1933 as "( )ne wife of Jeffrey Ferris." No further identification or explanation has been found.

The Rev. Elijah Baldwin Huntington, Stamford's first historian, while not naming Jeffrey's first wife, reported a tradition regarding her that may or may not eventually be confirmed by future researchers:
"Tradition invests the emigration of this (Jeffrey Ferris) family to this country with the hues of romantic adventure - the ancestress, high born, following her plebian lover out into this western world, to share with him here the fortunes which English aristocracy would not allow there."

Jeffrey married second, possibly in December 1658, Mrs. Susannah (Norman) Lockwood, born say 1615, the daughter of richard Norman of Salem, Massachusetts, and widow of Robert Lockwood who died in Fairfield before 11 September 1658 when his inventory was taken. Robert Lockwood was at Watertown during the period 1634-1646, and the couple must have been acquainted at that time and place. She had 11 children from her first marriage, 10 of whom were living in 1658, and many of them were young enough to move to Stamford with her when she married Ferris. Susannah (Norman) (Lockwood) Ferris died at Greenwich on 23 December 1660.

Jeffrey Ferris' third wife was Judith (Feake) Palmer, daughter of James Feake and widow of Lieutenant William Palmer. She had four young boys with her when she joined Jeffrey's household. His will set aside ten pounds apiece "to her four children that is to say this four boyes which I brought up and kept." After Jeffrey's death in 1666, she married as her third husband, John Bowers, and used his name in 1667 when receipting for her share in the settlement of Jeffrey's estate.

He was in America by 6 May 1635 when he was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, presumable a resident of Watertown at the time. he joined with other Watertown residents in their establishment of Wethersfield, Connecticut, probably later in that same year of 1635. He recorded his homestead in the Wethersfield land records on 26 April 1641, prior to selling a portion to William Comstock in that same year. he continued to hold land in Wethersfield until 1645, when he disposed of the remainder of his property there to John Deming. An early Glastonbury historian found by analyzing the Wethersfield Land Records that Jeffrey Ferris owned land in the eastern portion of Wethersfield at Naubuc Farms, on the east side of the Connecticut River at what is now Glastonbury.

In 1640-1641 he joined with those other members of the Watertown/Wethersfield party who went on to become the founders and settlers of Stamford, and his name appears on most of the surviving lists of the earliest Stamford residents. He then purchased land in greenwich from William Hallett and moved there about 1650. His connections with both Stamford and Greenwich constituted almost a dal citizenship, considering the different jurisdictions that controlled these two towns during their infancy.....

According to historian Jeanne Majdalany, Jeffrey Ferris was the operator of Stamford's town mill in the early years, and his sons were probably a great help in this endeavor.

Paul Prindle transcrived the will of Jeffrey Ferris in full for his book, "Gillespie Ancestors". The following excerpts provide us with information on his children and grandchildren that cannot be found anywhere else: "my sonn James Fferris...my sonn Jonothan Lockwood...my daughter Mary Lockwood...her husband Jonothan Lockwood...my son Peter Fferris his three children...my sonn Joseps two children...

Jeffrey married Mary ?. Mary was born about 1612; died on 31 Jul 1658 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]