Samuel FERGUSON, *^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]}

1744 - 1825  (80 years)

• Name	Samuel FERGUSON
  Suffix	*
  Born	3 Mar 1744	, Ulster, Ire   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	12 Feb 1825	, Cabell, Va (Now Wayne, Wv)
  Person ID	I8165	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Adam B. FERGUSON, *,   b. 20 Jun 1718, Ligierait, Perthshire, SCT ,   d. 22 Feb 1816, Saint Andrew, Endinburgh, Mid Lothian  (Age 97 years)
  Mother	Catherine BURNETT,   b. 9 Nov 1717, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Scotland ,   d. Abt 1795, , , Scotland  (Age 77 years)
  Married	11 Oct 1736	, , Scotland   [9]
  Family ID	F1719	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary JAMESON, *,   b. 21 Mar 1746, Tinkling Springs, Augsta, VA ,   d. 21 Sep 1827, , Cabell, VA  (Age 81 years)
  Married	1765	, Ulster, Ire   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Isabel FERGUSON,   b. 21 Mar 1766, , Tazewell, VA ,   d. 1837, Rock, Mercer, WV  (Age 70 years)   2. Jane FERGUSON, *,   b. 1768, , Augusta, VA ,   d. 1817, , Cabell, VA  (Age 49 years)   3. Samuel FERGUSON, Jr.,   b. Abt 1773, , Augusta, VA ,   d. Sep 1833, , Cabell, Va (Now Wayne, Wv)  (Age ~ 60 years)   4. John FERGUSON,   b. 30 Nov 1775, , Tazewell, VA ,   d. 29 Aug 1855, , Wayne, WV  (Age 79 years)   5. James FERGUSON,   b. 30 Nov 1775,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. William Leonard FERGUSON,   b. 22 Sep 1777, Wytheville, Tazewell, VA ,   d. 28 Jul 1848, , Wayne, Wv (Was Cabell, Va)  (Age 70 years)   7. Sarah E. "Sally" FERGUSON,   b. Abt 1779, , Tazewell, VA ,   d. 1828  (Age ~ 49 years)   8. Thomas FERGUSON,   b. 15 Sep 1784, , Montgomery, VA ,   d. 28 Aug 1838, , Cabell, Va (Now Wayne, Wv)  (Age 53 years)   9. Elizabeth FERGUSON,   d. 11 Aug 1862, , Mercer, MO   10. Wayne FERGUSON
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F1794	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  Samuel Ferguson is in DNA Haplo group R1B. "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. He is not my ancestor via DNA. I have checked 14 of his descendant's DNA with my Mother's DNA and there NO matches amongst them. His likely daughter Jane was married to my ancestor, but his son William D. Clark, appears to be his grandson through Jane's husband and a slave.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2110] Clark, Jeannie, Ancestors of Jeannie Clark at www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/a/t/Jeannie--Watts/Gene2-0013.html. [S2096] French, Paula, Ancestors of Paula French at www.familytreemaker.com/users/v/a/u/Marnie-r-Vaughan/GENE5-0009.html (4/21/2000). [S1966] Kegley, Mary B., Militia of Montgomery Co, VA, 1777-1790. [S480] Ancestral File at www.familysearch.com. [S1857] Rider, Thomas, Email dated 2000 from zerider@earthlink.net. [S2048] Crandall, Charles Henry Crandall, Ancestors of Charles Henry Crandall on 3/26/2000. [S1960] Ferguson, Marcia, Ferguson Surname Message Board (c2000). [S1971] Virginia Land Office, Patents and Grants (Library of Virginia, http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?, c2003). [S2067] Legacy Family Search (http://www.familysearch.org).