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

FERGUSSONS IN ATHOLE 29
Other lists also mention the following as engaged in the
rising :
James Ferguson in Piteastle, in England and the South.
Capt. Thomas Ferguson of Balyoukan.
Robert Ferguson in Middlehaugh, a young man, in England and
South.
Adam Ferguson in Edradour, in England and South.
James Ferguson, son to John Ferguson in Dumfalandy, killed at
Culloden.
Hugh Ferguson, Stanley, servant to Lord Nairne.
Fergus Ferguson, Glenelbert, Fisher.
James Ferguson of Dumfallandie.
Thomas Ferguson, yr. of Balyoukan.
In a letter written in 1780 by the Rev. Adam Fergusson of
Moulin to John Home of Kilduff he says :
' At Culloden the Athollmen had the right wing commanded by
Lord George Murray, and the greatest bloodshed among the
King's troops was in the lines opposite to them . . . The left
wing of the Rebels was the Macdonalds, but they attacked so
faintly that Major (afterwards Colonel) Foster, who in the Royals
was opposite to them, told me that they had no more to do almost
than they would upon a Review day. One of the Rebels came out
of his Rank to the line of the King's troops brandishing his broad-
sword. Thomas Fergusson, adjutant in the old Buffs (an uncle's
son of Professor Fergusson's) stepped out of the Ranks to receive
him, and at one stroke severed his head from his Body. Fergusson
the Adjutant some years after, when asking him of the Fact, showed
me the Highlander's Broadsword.'
1777.
Among the officers of the 77th Athol Hrs. raised in 1777
was:
Lieut. Robert Ferguson, yr. of Stronvar, 7 Jan. 1778.
1842.
At the Eglinton Tournament in 1842, there were present with a
party of the Athole Highlanders :
Muir Fergusson of Middlehaugh.
Samuel R. Fergusson of Middlehaugh.
Among the list of properties acquired by the Atholl family is —
1615. W. Kindrogan, Strathardle, James 2nd (Innermeath) Earl
of Athol, from John Ferguson.