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Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (F)
Ferguson,
Daniel |
Daniel Ferguson fought in the Battle of Dunbar
in 1650 on the side of the Royalists against Cromwell. Daniel was
captured and sent to New England on the ship UNITY and settled in Kittery,
Maine around 1656. Starting with Daniel, five generations of
Fergusons lived in and around Kittery and Berwick, Maine. In my
family tree are the following:
Daniel Ferguson m. Mary -----
James Ferguson m. Elizabeth Hodsdon
James Ferguson, Jr. m. Patience Downing
Dennis Ferguson m. Elizabeth Weymouth
Timothy Ferguson m. Eliza Goodwin
Mary Jane Ferguson m. Josiah Bartlett Calef*
Mary Calef m. Ostinelli F. Page**
Ruth Page m. Herbert William Coe***
Margaret Coe m. Edwin Hoyt
Lockwood****
Thornton Calef Lockwood
m. Mary Lenora McGinn
We have two
children
* Descendant of Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declaration of
Independence; Robert Calef, who vigorously opposed Cotton Mather's support
of the Salem witchcraft trials: and Hannah Dustin, whose capture and
dramatic escape from the Indians stirred early New England
** Descendant of Robert Page, one of the first settlers of Hampton, NH.
Ostinelli was wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run in 1862 but
survived.
*** Descendant of Robert Coe, one of the first settlers of five towns:
Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Newtown and Jamaica
**** Descendant of Robert Lockwood who sailed with the Winthrop fleet in
1630 to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony; Isaac DeForest, one of the
first settlers of New Amsterdam; and Samuel Carter whose family was
devastated at the Deerfield massacre in 1704
Thornton
Lockwood
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