Genealogy of the Descendents of John Ferguson: A Native of Scotland, who Emigrated to America Before the Revolutionary War |
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... give you my right . " Similarly , in 1765 Henry Ferguson , brother of the poet , wrote : " I am the son of the ancient , the royal Fergus . " This traditionary descent is always alluded to in the old songs on the gath- ering of the ...
... give you my right . " Similarly , in 1765 Henry Ferguson , brother of the poet , wrote : " I am the son of the ancient , the royal Fergus . " This traditionary descent is always alluded to in the old songs on the gath- ering of the ...
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... give a country , for my- self I only ask a grave . " It has always been on my heart to erect a monument there to his memory and that of my mother . But with my straitened means , I have had so much to do to fit my descendants for ...
... give a country , for my- self I only ask a grave . " It has always been on my heart to erect a monument there to his memory and that of my mother . But with my straitened means , I have had so much to do to fit my descendants for ...
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... give me up could be only an experiment . I studied two years reciting to Doctor Tenny , then Pastor of the 1st Congregational Church in Newport , and intending to enter Yale , two years in ad vance . It was an arduous undertaking and ...
... give me up could be only an experiment . I studied two years reciting to Doctor Tenny , then Pastor of the 1st Congregational Church in Newport , and intending to enter Yale , two years in ad vance . It was an arduous undertaking and ...
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... give up his college course and return to New Or- leans . With his New England energy and thrift , he was very successful in business , and at the age of twenty - one bought out his brother's interest . He was very prosperous in the ...
... give up his college course and return to New Or- leans . With his New England energy and thrift , he was very successful in business , and at the age of twenty - one bought out his brother's interest . He was very prosperous in the ...
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... give herself to many interests for which her responsibilities had heretofore given little leisure . She is deeply interested in the Mission work of the conti- nent , in which eighty of their young women are engaged in different parts of ...
... give herself to many interests for which her responsibilities had heretofore given little leisure . She is deeply interested in the Mission work of the conti- nent , in which eighty of their young women are engaged in different parts of ...
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Page 4 - Dunkeld, and the distinctive badge of which was the little sunflower. In the Roll of 1587, they are named as among the septs of Mar and Athole, where their proper seat as a clan originally lay, having chiefs and captains of their own.
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Page 1 - Had our throne been void, and our voices sought for the filling of Fergus's chair, we would have died ere any other had sitten down on that fatal marble but Charles...