Variations of Ferree: Fara, Ferie, Ferree, Ferrez, Ferrie, Fiere, Firre, Fierre, Fuchre, Fuehre, LeFerre, and Verree.
Europeans who made the voyage to America faced a difficult journey of several months.
Andrew Ferree was born in 1701 and was baptised in Steinweler, Germany on September 28, 1701. His sponsors were Andrew and Margaret Leininger.
He married Mary Read (Reade, Reed) about 1721.
Their children included:
Joseph Ferree (1722, married Sarah de la Plane),
David Ferree (married Mary Lefevre),
Mary Jane Ferree (1730, married Jacob Brau), and
Lydia Ferree Lefevre (1731, married Samuel Lefevre).
Andrew died on December 20, 1735, when he was only 34 years old in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Steinweiler is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
It was in the Mayorality of Bittingheim.
Europeans began to settle in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania area about 1710. It was part of Chester County until May 10, 1729.
