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

SECTION XIV
FERGUSONS IN
THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA
As might be expected, the name has many representatives
in the United States. In tracing the fortunes of various
families in Britain some of their members have been noticed
as having died or settled in America. Thus Lt.-Colonel
Patrick Ferguson, of the Aberdeenshire family of Pitfour,
was killed at King's Mountain, in South Carolina, in 1780
at the head of a force mainly, if not wholly, composed of
American Loyalists {Records, pp. 258-260). James Fergus-
son, third son of General Archibald Fergusson of Dun-
fallandy, is said to have emigrated to America (p. 16).
David Fergusson, brother of John Fergusson of Brettenham
Manor, Norfolk, was a colonel in the U.S. army, served in
the War of Secession, and was in command of the Depart-
ment of Arizona (p. 107), and Conway Grimshaw Ferguson,
a descendant of the Irish family of Fourmileburn, to which
Sir Samuel Ferguson belonged, is resident in New York
{Records, p. 465). In 1898 a brother of Mr. Munro Ferguson
of Raith served as a volunteer in the American Army in
Cuba. A James Ferguson, whose brother, born in 1735, was
great-grandfather of M. Jan Helenus Ferguson, in 1887 Dutch
Minister at Pekin, went from Kelso to America in last century
and his son became Mayor of Philadelphia {Records, p. 481).
A John Ferguson was Mayor of New York in 1815. Mr. James
R. Ferguson, son of Mr. Malcolm Ferguson, Callander {Records,
p. 230, and supra, p. 53) is settled at Washington.
On 28th April 1774, a memorial was addressed to Lord
Dartmouth, then Secretary for the Colonies, by 'James
Ferguson, Ranger of the Woods and Forests, and Marshal
of the Court of Admiralty in West Florida.'