. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. nnouncing Mrs. Fergusons death, added, in the quaintdiction of the age, In every station of life she was anexample of those virtues which render the female sex trulyamiable. The following interesting allusion is preserved ina letter written in 1778 by her father to his eldest grand-son, whom he had just conveyed to college in Edinburgh:Twixt Laurencekirk and Stonehaven on this side of Drum-lithie I made the driver stop to let me see Glenbervie, as FEEGUSONS IN ABEEDEENSHIRE 271 my grandmother Heneret Douglas was a daughter of D
. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. nnouncing Mrs. Fergusons death, added, in the quaintdiction of the age, In every station of life she was anexample of those virtues which render the female sex trulyamiable. The following interesting allusion is preserved ina letter written in 1778 by her father to his eldest grand-son, whom he had just conveyed to college in Edinburgh:Twixt Laurencekirk and Stonehaven on this side of Drum-lithie I made the driver stop to let me see Glenbervie, as FEEGUSONS IN ABEEDEENSHIRE 271 my grandmother Heneret Douglas was a daughter of Douglasof Glenbervie, and the house lies in a Glen. The house ofGlenbervie were the descendants of that gallant son of oldArchibald Bell the Cat, whose brave effort to win the bridgeover the Till and cover the Scottish retreat from Floddenfield with the two hundred men he had held together, drewfrom the Earl of Surrey the quick inquiry, What banner isthat ? That is the Douglas banner, was the reply. Then,said the English general, the victory is not ours till that. JAMES FERGUSON, YR. OF KINMUNDY, C. 1745. banner too is taken; and he despatched an overwhelmingforce against the little band, who fought so well, that of thetwo hundred, only sixteen left the fatal field, and among thosewho lay dead was their leader. Sir AVilliam Douglas, thefirst of Glenbervie.] y. James [known as the lame laird, born 12th November1759, died 20th November 1816] succeeded his father in theestate of Kinmundy, and married [in 1787] Isabella Brown[daughter of the Rev. WilHam Brown of Craigdam], by 272 CLAN FERGUSSON whom he had five sons, James, Wilham, Thomas, John,and Alexander, and one daughter ahve, Isabella. [She diedimmarried. Mr. Ferguson, whose family had adhered to the SecessionChurch, though living a retired life in the country, took adeep interest in the controversy on the question of thenational recognition of religion, which led to its Disruptionin the early years of the nineteenth century.
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