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Colonel Robert Ferguson (1701-1794)

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Family Tree

On Ancestry.com there are about 500 Public Member Trees that match the following query: Name:"Robert" "Ferguson"; Birth:"1699-1703", "Scotland"; Death:"Dec 1794". Documentation in the first two or three generations is difficult to find and differences exist in trees. The tree used here could rightly be called a "consensus tree" drawn from those sources. It connects families in the context of pedigrees as submitted to the project and provides a basis for analysis. That analysis suggests the greyed out line does not fit as depicted.
There are participants in other haplogroups-clades who suspect a linkage to the Colonel. While it is clear they are not genetic cousins to the participants in I-M284 that is not to say they are definitely unrelated to the Colonel. It could be that everyone in the tree below shares a common ancestor but with someone other than the Colonel. An analysis cannot be done in those other haplogroups-clades because at present there are no intersecting pedigrees to work with.
Geraldine Littleton at Searcy County Library is working to document and advance the genealogy of the library's founder James G. Ferguson, a descendant of Andrew Ferguson 1724-1810 as highlighted in the tree below. Most of the participants linked to the tree DNA tested to assist her research. In time the tree below may change so as to conform to the findings of her research.

Direct male lines of the project participants

Vital Records

Robert Ferguson and Mary Fitzpatrick

In the name of God Amen. I, Robert Ferguson of the state of North Carolina
and the County of Lincoln, sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and
memory, thanks be to God for the same and calling to mind the mortality of my
body, and that it is appoint-ed unto all men once to die, I do make and
publish this my last Will and Testament, recommending my soul to God who
gave it and my body to the earth to be buried with decent burial at the
discretion of my executors hereafter named, and for such worldly estate as
it hath pleased God to Bestow upon me, I give devise and bequeath the same
in the following manner:
First, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Sarah Ferguson one bay horse
called Dick, her saddle and bridle, her bed and bed clothes, and a chest,
the draper and furniture thereon, all the pots and pans and kitchen
utensils, also two cows and six sheep and her living on the place and in the
house we now live in with the use of the barn, stable, and cleared land
during her life, all for her own comfortable support as for the support,
sustance and bringing up and schooling of my small children; but if she
marries again she is from thence forth to have only the use of one half of the lease land.
Secondly, I give and bequeath unto my son John one cow and a year old heifer.
Third, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary, married to James Falls,
one two year old heifer.
Forthly, I give and bequeath unto my son Robert, a horse called Britian
and a black stallion colt; also my thick cloth coat and my green coat.
Sixthly, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah a note on Malion Henry
Eags; also a saddle and bridle; a bed and bed clothes; spinning wheel and one cow.
Seventhly, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth one black mare
called Kate's filly; a saddle and bridle; bed and bed clothes and spinning wheel and one cow.
Eightly, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Esther her choice of a bay
heifer or a bay mare three years old as she pleases, and the other to my
son Thomas; also to her I bequeath a saddle and bridle, bed and bed clothes,
a spinning wheel and one cow.
Ninthly, I give and bequeath to my two youngest sons Thomas and Andrew all
my lands to be equally divided between them according to quantity and
quality, to them their assigns for ever. Also I bequeath unto my son
Thomas my velvet tucker, and the residue of my estate not already
disposed of with all my books and plantation tools and household furniture
and the iron I have provided for to make cart tallow to be and remain on
the plantation for the use of my wife and sons Thomas and Andrew whilst
she live there. Trustees are Jordian Charles McLean and John Falls guardians.
Signed Sealed 29 Oct 1794 Robert Ferguson Seal

From the book compiled by Barbra Sedory and reported by Charles Dean Pruitt.

Andrew Ferguson and Mary

References

  1. The Ferguson Family Tree by George O. Ferguson [copy held by: The Melting Pot Genealogical Society
  2. RootsWeb World Connect:
    1. In Loving Memory of Goldie Belle Griffis and Raymond Ferguson, Linda Duncan
    2. Forman 1, Dennis Forman


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