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State of Service: CT
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 1735 Stanwich / Fairfield / CT Death: Jul 1819 Columbia / Hamilton / OH
Qualifying Service Description:
He suffered a loss in the British raids
Additional References:
Judd, SylvsterConnecticut Archives: Rev War Selected Papers, Series 1, Volume 36, Connecticut. Hartford. FHL Roll #3569, pg 19B
Craig, Robert D., Revolutionary Soldiers in Hamilton County, Ohio, Utah. Salt Lake City: private, 1965
Ford, Henry A. and Kate B. Ford, compilersHistory of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Ohio. Cleveland: L.A. Williams and Company, 1881. Reprint, Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1974
Reuter, Robert Francis and Joan Irene HughesFirst Families of Hamilton County, Ohio-Official Roster. Volume 1. Members accepted 1988 through August 1992, Ohio. Cincinnati: Hamilton County Genealogical Society-OGS, 1992
The churchyard happened to be in the pathway of destruction for Interstate 71 and today there are no remains of the cemetery. According to the Cincinnati Public Library, Interstate 71 opened in December 1966
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
The cemetery was located at Columbia Township, Duck Creek and Edwards Roads, Hamilton County, Ohio, and is # 3647 (Old Duck Creek Baptist Cemetery) in “Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003,” compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.
Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn
Isaac Ferris, Jr., was born in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut about 1765. He provided Patriotic Service in the Revolutionary War and suffered losses when the British raided his father’s lands. He married 1st to Mary (_-1812), and 2nd to Elty Thornell (1777-1855) at Indian Hill in 1794. His children included:
Mary was born in 1794.
Ebenezer was born in 1799.
Clarinda was born in 1801.
Rache
Catherine
Ezra
Sarah was born in 1812.
Isaac Clinton was born in 1819.
The Patriot died on 20 November 1843 and was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery [Geocode: 39.2011162 -84.3779311].
Sources:
Cincinnati, Ohio: Hamilton County Genealogical Society-OGS, 1992.
Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, 4 Vols. Dallas, Texas: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987.
Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol. 2. Serial: 11912.
Find-a-Grave Memorial #-6561577.
Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn
FERRIS, ISAAC (Hamilton County) [39.153136 -84.443799]
Born in 1735 at Stanwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, a son of John Ferris (1696-1766) and Sarah (1703-1778). His patriotic service for Connecticut was having suffered losses as a victim of British raids. He married Mary Sherwood (1742-1825); children: Isaac, Mary, Sarah, Abigail, John, Susana, Ezra and Abram. He was one of the members of the first colony that arrived at Columbia, Hamilton County, Ohio, November 18, 1788. He was appointed Deacon of the Duck Creek Baptist Church (Formerly Columbia Baptist Church). The church was named the Duck Creek Baptist Church after Duck Creek, which flows at the base of the hill on which it is built, and where the members were baptized on their admission into the church. (The church is now called Hyde Park Baptist Church.) He died July 11, 1819 and was buried at Duck Creek-Linwood Cemetery, Madisonville, Hamilton County, Ohio. References: 56th-77th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC. SAR Ancestor # P-157678. Gravesite unknown. Cemetery number #- 2203620. Find-a-Grave Memorial #-18805604.
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