Notes for Murdoch FERGUSON

Murdoch FERGUSON/Mary MCDONALD

The Descendants of Murdoch Ferguson

Notes for Murdoch FERGUSON

The following sources were listed on the Family Group Record for Murdoch
Ferguson and his wife Mary McDonald that was sent to this researcher by
Annie Belle Johnson Stone:
1. Parker, "A Guide to Moore County Cemeteries," Cemetery #200, McDonald
family cemetery.
2. "McIver Family of North Carolina"
3. 1850 Census records
4. "History of Union Church"
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Ferguson, Murdo
Born in Scotland (?) during 1756. Emigrated to America in 1803. A
farmer in Moore County, NC, with a wife and eight children in 1812.
Source: British Aliens in U.S. During War of 1812 (Baltimore, 1979)
[David Dobson, Scots in the Carolinas - 1680-1830, Baltimore, MD:
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986)
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Murdoch Ferguson and his wife, Mary McDonald, married in Scotland and
emigrated about 1802. They settled about two miles south of the present
town of Cameron in Moore County, North Carolina, on the Carlton Matthews
homeplace. The McDonald cemetery where they are buried is between
Cameron and Vass. [Douglas F. Kelly with Caroline Switzer Kelly,
Carolina Scots, (1739 Publications, Dillon, SC, 1998), 235]
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"A second Ferguson family which settled in Moore County was that of John
Ferguson. Whether or how he was related to Murdoch Ferguson, we do not
know at present, although according to Janet Neuville (in MacDonald
Family History, privately printed before 1993), these two families may
have emigrated together. Both had land grants joining John MacDonald on
Crain's Creek. John (son of Norman McDonald) is said to have been
related to Murdoch Ferguson's wife, Mary MacDonald Ferguson (affording to
Neuville). [Douglas F. Kelly with Caroline Switzer Kelly, Carolina
Scots, (1739 Publications, Dillon, SC, 1998), 237]
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Burial Site: McDonald Cemetery, Cameron, Bladen Co., NC

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