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

86 CLAN FERGUSSON
to the erection of a new mill at Killievoulin. Among the
witnesses were Finlay Fergussone of Baled mund, and Alex-
ander Fergusson of Balyoukan.
On 17th December 1753 the Duke of Atholl granted a pre-
cept of dare constat for infefting Finlay Fergusson of Middle-
haugh as heir of his father, Robert Fergusson of Middlehaugh.
On 30th January 1755 sasine was given to the said Finlay
Fergusson in terms of the Duke of Atholl's precept of 1753,
James Fergusson in Middlehaugh acting as Baillie ; and on
the same day sasine was given in favour of Elspet M'Lagan,
spouse of the said Finlay Fergusson (second daughter of
William M'Lagan of Donavourd), in security of the provision
for her in their marriage contract, dated at Donavourd, 17th
December 1753, to which one of the witnesses was James
Fergusson in Middlehaugh, who now acted as her procurator,
while Finlay Fergusson was represented by David Fergusson
in Middlehaugh as his Baillie.
From an inventory of Middlehaugh papers, other than the
above, it appears from their contract of marriage, dated 8th
January 1748, that Janet Fergusson, second daughter of
Robert Fergusson of Middlehaugh, married John Douglas in
Drumain.
The father — James Fergusson — of the late Samuel R.
Fergusson of Middlehaugh, after returning from the West
Indies, built the present house about eighty years before the
property was sold after his son's death in 1892. He married
a Miss M'Diarmid of Kynachan, whose mother was a sister
of General Fergusson of Dunfallandy. Mr. Samuel R.
Fergusson married Janet, daughter of Hugh Watson of
Keillor, whose (Mrs. Fergusson's) great-grandmother on the
father's side, Janet Ferguson, was a sister of Professor
Adam Ferguson, and daughter of the minister of Logierait.
The tradition of the Middlehaugh family does not record
any other connection between their family and that of Dun-
fallandy, than that through the M'Diarmids, which would
rather point to the earlier and later Fergussons of Middle-
haugh being of different origin. 1
1 But see the Minister of Moulin's MS.