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

FERGUSSONS IN AYESHIEE 361
regalitie of Corseraiguell, E. 15s. and 8d. in augmentation. —
(Eetours, Ayrshire, 496.)
Aug. 22 1668. Georgius Ferguson haeres masculus, Thomae
Fergusone de Thraiff fratris germdni, in the same lands. — (Betours,
Ayrshire, 557.)
FERGUSSONS OF LITTLETON (AUCHINSOUL, THREAVE, ETC.)
Note communicated by the Rev. William Fergusson, M.A.,for
upwards of forty years minister of the Free Church at
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, and now residing at Shannaburn,
Maryculter, Kincardineshire.
Although born in Aberdeenshire, in the parish of Peter-
culter, Mr. Fergusson is descended from an old Fergusson
family in Ayrshire — now, he believes, only represented by the
family of his father, Lieutenant James Hamilton Fergusson, of
the 57th Regiment of Foot, son of James Fergusson of Little-
ton, in the parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, whose father,
William Fergusson, left him in addition to Littleton, the
following properties : Auchensoul, 1 the two Threaves, 2 Slow-
bracken, and Basalloch, after having disposed of the lands of
Crossraguel, near Maybole, which he inherited from his father,
Francis Fergusson. The said William Fergusson studied
theology, became a licentiate of the Church of Scotland, but
never undertook a settled charge. He is said to have been
a man of remarkable personal piety ; held regularly family
worship three times every day — morning, noon, and night.
There was a current legend as to the hearing of strange
music at the window of the room, when and where he was
passing away full of peace and happiness. His son, the said
James Fergusson of Littleton, resided there till he sold it and
the other above-named properties possessed by him when he
removed to Maybole, where he died and was interred in the
old burying-ground there, which his grandson, Rev. William
Fergusson, Ellon, having occasion in 1858 to be in Ayrshire in
prosecution of a call to the Rev. Samuel Kennedy, Stewarton,
from the Free Church coneresfation of Cruclen, visited, and
1 See p. 358. 2 See p. 359.