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

278 CLAN FERGUSSON
GEORGE FERGUSON AND HIS DESCENDANTS.
II. George, the fourth son. He lived and died in Old Mel-
drum, a village distant about four miles from Inverurie, and
seventeen and a half from Aberdeen. [He and a friend are
recorded as having in the famine of 1696 undertaken to
purchase 1000 or 1200 bolls of bear to sell to the people in
the north at a price to be fixed by the authorities, they
' having no desire of profit, but allenarly the keeping of the
poor in the said shire from starving.' They applied to the
Privy Council for protection for their cargo from French
privateers.] He was married first to Jane Forbes, by whom
he had four sons — Robert, John, William, and George, and
five daughters, Jean, Janet, Mary, Christian, and Magdalene.
III. Robert, John, and George all died unmarried. The
two eldest entered into the army, and after having attained
to good stations, died.
[Among the officers of Brigadier Ferguson of Balmakelly's
regiment — the Cameronians — in 1699-1700, were a Lieutenant
John Ferguson, Adjutant, and John and Robert Ferguson,
Ensigns. A Lieutenant John Ferguson was present, and
Lieutenant Robert Ferguson was wounded at Blenheim, and,
in a state of the regiment, made up ' after the two actions
in Germanie, 1704,' the roll of the Brigadier's own com-
pany was signed by Robert Ferguson, who must have been
his subaltern, and was probably his nephew. 1
III. William, the third son, lived at Mill of Insch, and,
being a man of sound judgment and quick penetration, went
commonly by the name of ' the Judge.' He was married to
Mary Panton, and had two sons, George and John, and two
daughters, Elizabeth and Mary.
IV. George lived at Kilmory, and was married to Margaret
Tulloch, a daughter of one of the Tullochs of Tannachy, a
very ancient family in the county of Moray, by whom he had
one son,
[V.] William, a merchant in London, and one daughter,
1 Kinmundy Papers.