Fergus(s)on DNA Project Virginia: Robert FERGUSON and Martha BAUGH

People have been researching this line for years and there must several hundred trees or pieces thereof in the public domain. Documentation in the first two or three generations is a bit circumstantial and as a result different interpretations exist. The tree used here could rightly be called a "consensus tree" drawn from those sources. It connects three families in the context of pedigrees as submitted to the project:

1. Robert FERGUSON and Martha BAUGH
2. John FERGUSON and Mary GILL
3. Moses FERGUSON and. Elizabeth LIVELY

The genealogical relationships depicted in the consensus tree and the associated DNA results are consistent with one another. That is not to say the genealogy has been proved beyond reasonable doubt but rather it has been put to a test and passed.

DNA

• These Ferguson fall within Haplogroup R-L21, Clade: Scotland to Virginia.
• Descendants of John Ferguson and Mary Rudd have DYS448=19 and DYS385b=11 except:
  • descendants of their son John Ferguson and Mary Gill have DYS448=19 and DYS385b=12
• Analysis
  • Mutations
  • TMRCA

Family Tree

direct male lines of the project participants

• Robert FERGUSON b.~ 1661, Scotland m. Martha BAUGH
  • John FERGUSON b.~ 1682, VA m. Mary RUDD
    • Moses FERGUSON b.~ 1707 Henrico Co., VA and Martha WOMACK
      • John FERGUSON b.~ 1726, Henrico Co., VA m. Mary GILL
        • Capt. John FERGUSON d. 1836
          • Archibald FERGUSON b.~ 1787 Bedford Co., VA and Francis HIX
            • >>> Roger George FERGUSON
        • Jeremiah FERGUSON b. 1760 to 1765, d. 1829; m. Jemima PHELPS
          • John P. FERGUSON b.~1805; d.~1893; m. Sophia Ann HEPTINSTALL
            • >>> John D. FERGUSON
        • Isham FERGUSON b.~ 1756 Franklin County, VA; married Sarah.
          • Isham Mitchell FERGUSON b. Aug 31, 1788, Franklin County, VA; d. Sep 3, 1864, Howard County, MO; m. Julia A. KINNEY in 1825, KY; six children
            • >>> John Martin FERGUSON
      • Daniel FERGUSON b.~1730 Henrico Co., VA; m. Sarah GRAVES
        • Moses FERGUSON b. bef. 1750, Chesterfield Co. VA; m. Elizabeth LIVELY
          • Daniel Montgomery FERGUSON b.~ 1774, SC
            • Ransom Peake FERGUSON b.~1792 SC; d. 1860 Bayou Chicot, St. Landry, LA
              m. 1st Sarah Emily MONTGOMERY 8 Jan 1823, Saint Landry Parish, LA
              • Ransom Montgomery FERGUSON b. 5 Oct 1840, Bayou Chicot, LA
                • >> John Murray FERGUSON, Jr.
              m. 2nd Charlotte INSALL 11 Feb 1850
              • Henry Thornton FERGUSON b. 1852 Bayou Chicot, St. Landry, LA
                • >>Franklin George FERGUSON
          • Aaron FERGUSON b.~ 1785, SC
            • Telfair M Ferguson b. 25 Jan 1811 MS; m. Sarah SMITH
              • Henry Marion FERGUSON b. 27 Jun 1868 Magnolia, Montgomery, TX
                • Wilburn W. FERGUSON b. 13 Apr 1844; m. Martha Abigail LEWIS
                  • Ira FERGUSON b. 19 Jul 1904 Magnolia, Montgomery, TX
                    • >>> Anonymous SMGF
    • James FERGUSON b.~1709, Henrico Co., VA; m. Martha COX; d. ~1757, Chesterfield Co., VA
      • James FERGUSON b. 1740,Chesterfield Co., VA; m. Judith ELDRIDGE; d. Jan 1806 Chesterfield Co., VA
        • Robert FERGUSSON b. 1764, Chesterfield Co., VA; m. Elizabeth HUBBARD; d. 1845, Chesterfield Co., VA
          • George FERGUSSON b.~ 1790, Chesterfield Co., VA; m. Ursula Ann RICHARDSON
            • George Washington FERGUSSON b. 1829; m. Mary Elizabeth MONROE; d. 1881
              • Arthur Berkley FERGUSSON b. 1858
                • >>Donald Cameron FERGUSSON

Vital Records

Robert Ferguson and Martha Baugh

• 1661 Baptism [this might be the Robert Ferguson who married Martha Baugh]
  • Jan 29 1661 Robert Fergusone had a sonne baptized named Robert, witness James Crow, John Greenfield.
• Summary of research by Wadyne Lindberg
  • Ferguson Family Genealogy Forum: Update of Robert and Janet, Re: Moses Ferguson > John Ferguson > Isham, posted by AAnderson, Sep 2004

Moses Ferguson and Martha

• 1750: Will Book 1, page 6, Chesterfield Co.VA, USGenWeb Archives
  • Will of Moses Fargusson: Beneficiaries
    • Wife
    • Sons John Fargusson, Daniel Fargusson, Aaron Fargusson, Joshua Fargusson
    • Daughters Jean and Elizabeth
    • Grand Child Winny

John Ferguson and Mary Gill

Daniel Ferguson and Sarah Graves

• 1748 Will [Baugh Family Branches]
  • Will of James Fargeson of Dale Parish, Chesterfield County, VA Lend to my mother Sarah Fargeson all of my estate for life and at her death, divided between my brother Daniel Fargeson and my two sisters, Mary Baugh and Sarah Newby. Executors: James Baugh, Levy Newby. Dated 15 April 1784. Witnesses: King Graves, Jessie Newby, T. Clay.
  • Comment: It is generally believe that James and the siblings he names in this will are children of Daniel Ferguson and Sarah Graves. Given the will was written in 1784, then Jame's sisters were married by that date. Many public family trees show a Sarah Ferguson b.~1758 as having married Levy Newby and a Mary b.~1754 Ferguson who marries James Baugh, e.g. Wiesner Family Tree 1873
• Descendants

Baugh Genealogy

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