Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus. Supplement

FEEGUSSONS IN ATHOLE 11
the Birth and Babtism (sic) of a son of the Earle's probably
the first son.
' Strathardle was in three parts (it included Glenshee). One-
third belonged to Maxwell of Tealing and Newwark, another
to Weemyss, a family of which there are now no remains,
and the 3rd Third to Baron Fergusson.
' Spalding of Ashintully acquired first Weemyss's, and some
generations after Tealine's Third : the third formerly Baron
Fergusson's is still in the family of Atholl.
' The family character of said Fergussons, by what I have
heard and from observation, seems to be irascible, ardent,
bold and impetuous, warm in their Friendships and Attach-
ments, their Antipathies and Enmities rather violent than
lasting:,
' I have not learned whether the said Adam was the first
proprietor of Derculich : they may have possessed it with or
without property some generations before.
' Tradition represents the remote progenitors of the family
(the said Adam in particular) to have been men of violence,
Rapine and Bloodshed; and uniformly affirms that he
acquired Dumfallandie by killing Stewart the proprietor,
and all his twelve sons, whose daughter he married before
or after the slaughter.
' Colonel Campbell of Fonab, father to the Fonab that now
is, who resided often upon his Paternall Estate in this neigh-
bourhood, observed and insisted upon it that the Fergussons
of Atholl were more Ancient and Respectable in this part of
Atholl than either Stewarts or Robertsons; from this con-
sideration That Baron Fergusson had for his Buriall-place
the one half of the Quire of the Kirk of Mouline, which he
insisted, and all antiquaries I believe agree, is the post of
honour. The Cunnisons, formerly proprietors of the Barony
of Edradour, of whom there are now hardly any remains in
the country, had the other half.
' From the stemm said Adam Fergusson sprung, besides his
eldest son and Heir, Fergusson of Ballyoukan and another
Branch the progenitor of Professor Adam Fergusson and of a
great number of others. Tradition does not say positively
whether one or both these Branches were the sons of said
Adam or of the after line. Fergusson of Ballechandie is said