"Ancestrees"

Ensign Samuel FERGUSON ^{2 3 4 5 6 7}

  General Notes:

"Samuel Ferguson was born on 3/03/1744 in Ulster, Ireland. He was an officer in the British army, then switched his loyalties to the American side and served with Bowen's company of militia from Tazewell,Virginia. His father was Adam Ferguson born 1718, a lawyer from Ulster, Ireland. In 1765 in Ulster,Ireland, he married Mary Jameson born 3/27/1746 in Augusta County, Virginia. She was the daughter of John Jameson and Jean Erwin." (Mary Vesneske at mvesneske@hotmail.com) His death place has been listed as Cabell Co., VA (no Wayne Co., WV) or Tazewell Co., VA. (CL-517)

He is listed at the rank of Ensign in one family history and as at the rank of Major in another. I've chosen Ensign at this point in time because that lineage of Paula French was sourced with appropriate military info. Samuel was in the Battle of the Alamance. He is listed with no rank under James Robertson's command in 1777 in Montgomery Co., VA. He fought in the "Battle of King's Mountain" in 1780. He is listed as Ensign when he was under James Moore's company in Montgomery Co., VA. This would have been before 1789 as Captain James Moore died between 1786 and 1789.

Samuel Ferguson is a witness to the following transaction in "The Scotch Irish in VA, V. 3". CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800 DEED BOOK NO. 16. ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. page 493 Page 156.--6th November, 1769. William Jameson and Margaret to John Jameson, £55, on Christian's Creek, whereon William now lives, conveyed to William by William Martin, 19th March, 1765, 310 acres; corner William Palmer; corner George Robinson, now Samuel Black's land, plot surveyed for Mr. William Russell now Alexander Thompson's land. Teste: William Palmer, Jean ( ) Palmer, William ( ) Calin. Delivered: Samuel Ferguson, 17th August, 1772.

In 1772, he resided on the Upper Bluestone River. He is likely the Samuel Ferguson who made some if not all of the following purchases in Virginia: 540 acres in the North Little Fork of Rappahannock River, beginning on the side of Pasture Mountain on Dec. 3, 1778 in what was called the Northern Neck grants in Culpepper Co., VA; 196 acres on the head of Bluestone on 12 December 1793 in Wythe County, VA; 66 acres beginning &c on the south side of the South Fork of the Gourd Vine River on 6 May 1801 in Culpeper County; and 150 acres on the right hand fork of Twelve Poles Creek on 10 February 1819 in Cabell County, VA. This last grant we definitely believe belongs to him as there is other evidence that he still lived in Cabell Co., Va on Feb 1, 1825 where he died shortly thereafter. (CL-522, 550)

He and his wife might also have had a son named Wayne. (CL-522, 550)

I consider it likely that Samuel's unknown mother's name was Isabel as the source of his first daughter, Isabel's, name is unknown, and the second daughter was named after Samuel's wife's mother.

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  Noted events in his life were:

• birth2 (conflicting), 3/8/1744, Ulster, Tyrone, IRE. ⁹

Samuel married Mary JAMESON, daughter of John JAMESON and Jean "Jane" ERWIN, in 1765 in , Ulster, IRE.^{1 2} (Mary JAMESON was born on 3/21/1746 in Tinkling Springs, Augsta, VA ^{1 2} and died on 9/21/1827 in , Cabell, VA ¹.)