5. Isabel2 born July 2, 1782 in Duns, Scotland, died Dec. 20, 1782 in Duns, Scotland.

6. Mary2 born May 11, 1784 in Duns, Scotland, died Sept. 26, 1790 in Duns, Scotland.

7. Elizabeth' born Aug. 18, 1787 in Duns, Scotland, died Aug. 16, 1855 in Brattleboro, Vt.

8. John born Dec. 9, 1788 in Duns, Scotland, died Nov. 11, 1858, in Whately, Mass.

9. Peter2 born Sept. 3, 1790, in Duns, Scotland, died Jan, 28, 1845, in New Orleans, La.

10. Adam2 born Dec. 6, 1793 in Duns, Scotland, died Nov. 23, 1796, in Duns, Scotland.

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Margaret Ferguson,' born May 6, 1781, in Berwick, Scotland; died Apr. 18, 1814 in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; married Nov. 14, 1813 in Newport, R. I., George Reid of Scotland.

The child of George and Margaret (Ferguson) Reid

was:

11. WILLIAM REID3, born April 5, 1814; died May 9, 1849 off New Orleans, La.

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John Ferguson, born Dec. 9, 1788, in Duns, Scotland; died Nov. 11, 1858 in Whately, Mass.; married June 7, 1813 in Newport, R. I., Mary P. Hammett. She died June 30th, 1818. Married (second) Apr. 28, 1819 in Providence, R. I., Margaret Snow Eddy. She was born Nov. 12, 1794 in Providence, R. I., and died May 6, 1871, in New Haven, Conn.

A sketch of the life of John Ferguson is best given in a letter which he wrote to W. S. Tyler, D. D., Professor of Greek in Amherst College, who preached his funeral

sermon.

Whately, Oct. 18, 1858. Rev. Prof. Tyler, D. D.-Dear Brother; You have requested of me such reminiscences of my life and family, as may assist you in preparing to preach the sermon at my funeral. I mentioned to you that, so far as my father's family are concerned, I am the last of my race, and, so far as regards my own family, I may be regarded as its founder in America. Probably my decendants, for generations to come, will trace back their ancestry to myself as the first of their race. For this reason I shall dwell for a few moments on this view of my family descent, not as affording matter for a sermon, but as an appendix in which my children will feel a personal interest. My father was over fifty when I was born. I was his oldest son and, having long been disappointed of an heir male, was, from my childhood, indulged and allowed my own way, greatly to my own injury. My grandfather was from the north of Scotland and was one of the Duke of Marlborough's army, in the Scots' Grays, through all Queen Anne's wars. When discharged from the army, he married and settled in the south-east of Scotland, in Duns, Berwickshire, where I was born on the 9th December 1788. My grandfather died when my father was three years old, leaving a large dependent family to be cared for by a poor widow, without property, without connexions and without friends. From the circumstance of my grandfather's being from the Highlands and dying in the Lowlands, while his family were so young and so dependent, they were cut off from all connexion with their father's family, until in after life, when my father and his brother were settled in Newport, Rhode Island, where they found a Captain Robert Ferguson, formerly commander of an English East Indiaman, a brother of Dr.