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

FERGUSONS IN ABERDEENSHIRE 265
officers, lie uses words which would have made a fitting
epitaph on his own tombstone : ' We have our good service
to plead for us, and that we have been honest and loyal
from the beginning, and will continue so to the end.'
For details of his career, see Memoir in Two Scottish
Soldiers, Aberdeen, D. Wyllie and Son, 1888. (For arms,
see ch. xiii.)]
III. James [1696-1777, known colloquially as 'old Boiny,'
from Balmakelly or Bomakellie, his first territorial designa-
tion] had the estate of Kinmundy purchased for him, [situated
in the same Aberdeenshire parish as Pitfour. ' The lands and
barony of Balmakelly, comprehending the lands of Kirkton-
hill, Marykirk, mill and mill-lands thereof, and the other
towns contained in Colonel Ferguson's charter under the
great seal,' were sold in April 1723, and in the same year
those of Kinmundy were bought from Gordon of Pitlurg.
A charter of the barony of Kinmundy then resigned for
new infeftment, dated 1728, confirmed to James Ferguson of
Kinmundy and his heirs All and Whole the lands and
barony of Kinmundy, comprehending the town and lands of
Over Kinmundie, with the dominical lands and manor place
of the same ; the town and lands of Deurie, and the lands of
Milnbreck, with the mill, mill-lands and astricted multures
of the same ; the town and lands of Milnhill, the town and
lands of Pettymarkhouse, the town and lands of Smallburn,
the town and lands of Kinknockie, comprehending the town
and lands of Oldtown of Kinknockie, Westertown, alias
Westerstrype, alias Pittendreachseat, and Backhill, alias
Barrackseat, with all houses, buildings, gardens, orchards,
mosses, moors, marshes, etc., pertaining thereto, lying in the
parish of Old Deer, incorporated and erected into one whole
and free barony called the barony of Kinmundy, and like-
wise all and whole those parts and portions of the lands and
barony of Old Deer, viz. the town and lands commonly
called the dominical lands of Aden, and the pendicle of
the same, commonly called Bridgehouse, with the pendicle
of land commonly called Clerkhill, together with the mill
of Aden, the mill-lands, astricted multures, sucken sequels,
and knaveships of the same, and also the town and lands of