Genealogy of the Descendents of John Ferguson: A Native of Scotland, who Emigrated to America Before the Revolutionary War |
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... religious subjects attest that the gifts of the latter as an expository writer have de- scended to later divines of the name . In Robert Ferguson the clan produced a leading Scottish poet who stands only second to Burns as a singer in ...
... religious subjects attest that the gifts of the latter as an expository writer have de- scended to later divines of the name . In Robert Ferguson the clan produced a leading Scottish poet who stands only second to Burns as a singer in ...
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... educated by my parents , who were accounted among the rigid righteous by the lax religion- ists of their own country . Still , though kept from vice and of a correct deportment , I had no special 14 THE DESCENDANTS OF.
... educated by my parents , who were accounted among the rigid righteous by the lax religion- ists of their own country . Still , though kept from vice and of a correct deportment , I had no special 14 THE DESCENDANTS OF.
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... religious . It was afterwards com- mented upon by our good minister as an opportunity lost . But it struck the right cord in my case . The conviction was fastened upon my mind : a religion which promotes so much cheerfulness and good ...
... religious . It was afterwards com- mented upon by our good minister as an opportunity lost . But it struck the right cord in my case . The conviction was fastened upon my mind : a religion which promotes so much cheerfulness and good ...
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... religion , directed to the ministry . There was only one thing in the way . My father , as the head of a family , in a strange land , over seventy years of age , was too old to begin the world . I , as his oldest son , was his main de ...
... religion , directed to the ministry . There was only one thing in the way . My father , as the head of a family , in a strange land , over seventy years of age , was too old to begin the world . I , as his oldest son , was his main de ...
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... and whoever will carry forward the aggressive designs necessary to its success will find enemies to be subdued and conflicts to be sustained . The first general attention to religion , under my minis- JOHN FERGUSON . 17.
... and whoever will carry forward the aggressive designs necessary to its success will find enemies to be subdued and conflicts to be sustained . The first general attention to religion , under my minis- JOHN FERGUSON . 17.
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