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was also serving an Ensign, John Ferguson. A Lieutenant John
Ferguson was present at Blenheim.]
24th August. Loo. Leonard Ferguson to be Lieutenant to Captain
John Blackader.
1700. 3rd July. Hampton Court. James Ferguson to be Ensign to
the Colonel's company.
[James Ferguson of Kinmundy, only son of the Colonel. Aged four.
{Records, p. 267. See article on Child Commissions, Notes and Queries,
8th Series, vol. viii., Nov. 30th, 1895, reprinted in the Appendix to
Dalton's British Army Lists and Commission Registers, vol. iv.)]
[The abstract of 1700 (Kinmundy Papers) mentions the following officers :
Colonel and Captain James Ferguson.
Lieutenant John Ferguson.
Ensign John Ferguson.
Ensign Kobert Ferguson.
Ensign James Ferguson.
One of the John Fergusons was Adjutant.
The States made up after Blenheim in 1704 mention as present after the
battle, Colonel and Captain Brigadier Ferguson, and Lieutenant John
Ferguson, and as wounded Lieutenants Robert and Leonard Ferguson.]
Viscount Kenmure's Regiment of Foot.
1689. John Fergusson, Lieutenant-Colonel.
[Laird of Craigdarroch, killed at Killiecrankie. (Records, pp. 380-385,
and p. 402.)]
Colonel Skeffington's Londonderry Regiment of Foot. (The Antrim Volun-
teers.)
1689. Samuel Ferguson, Lieutenant.
Colonel George Lauder's Regiment of Foot. (Scots Brigade.)
1692. 1st September. Gramen. Bobert Ferguson to be Lieutenant to
Sir John Keith.
[Promoted Captain, 7th May 1694. Out of the regiment on its reduction
by three companies in 1697, before its transfer to the Dutch service.
Does not appear in the Dutch lists.]
Colonel John Buchan's Regiment of Foot. (Reduced 1697.)
1692. 31st December. Kensington. Ferguson to be Lieutenant
to Captain .
[Serving in Flanders in 1694.]
From the ' List of the Succession of tlie Colonels to all His Majesty's
Land Forces from their rise to 1742.'
xxvi. Cameronians. 1800 men raised and formed into this regiment in one
day in Scotland.
Jas. Ferguson, 25th August 1693. Died 24th October 1705 at the Bush
in Brabant. Major-General 25th August 1705, Brig. - General, 1st
January 1703-4, Colonel 25th August 1692.

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