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Title: James Ferguson, Sr. and wife Marion McNeill

Chart No: jf1

Sources:
1. 1792 Robeson County will of Turquill McNeill, North Carolina Department of Archives and History (NCDAH);
2. Dorothy P. Edgerton papers, McKay-Edgerton Collection
3. 1800 Census of Robeson County, NC, (NCDAH)
4. Catherine Ferguson 1868 estate settlement, Robeson Co., NC, (NCDAH)
5. 1790 census of Robeson Co. ,NC, (NCDAH)
6. Jonathan Butcher, Genealogist
7. 1820 Robeson County will of James Ferguson, Sr., (NCDAH)
8. 1826 will of John Ferguson of Big Marsh, Robeson Co., (NCDAH)
9. Robeson County Marriage Bonds, (NCDAH)
10. 1784 Robeson County census, (NCDAH)
11.
1771 Land Grant of James Ferguson, (NCDAH)
12. Robeson County Deeds
13 Cumberland County, NC Marriage Bonds

HUSBAND

James Ferguson, Sr.

Note: I am not certain whether James Ferguson Sr. or James Jr. married Marion McNeill. Marion's father, Turquill McNeill, was an Argyll Colonist and was about 40 or 50 years of age by the time Marion was born in the 1760s. the earliest date I have so far for James Sr. is 1771; that is the date of James's land grant near Beaverdam Creek in old north Robeson, now Hoke County, NC. It is possible James Sr. may have come from Cumberland County.
Birth

Place

Scotland?

Chr

Place

Death

will written 1820, recorded in 1838

Place

probably Robeson County, NC

Burial

Place

Robeson, now Hoke, Co., NC

Father

Mother

Marriage

Place

probably Robeson County, NC

#2 spouse

info
WIFE

Marion McNeill

Notes: In a Robeson County, NC deed Turquill McNeill gives to "my daughter Marion Ferguson, wife of James Ferguson" a slave.
Birth
c. 1760s
Place
probably Bladen County, NC, now Hoke County.
Chr
Place
Death
alive 1800
Place
probably Robeson Co., NC
Burial
Place
probably Robeson Co., NC
Father
Turquill McNeill, Sr.
Mother
Mary Bethune?
#2 spouse
info

CHILDREN
Birth
Death
Spouse
Chart #
1. Neill Ferguson
1766-1774
?
Nancy McNeill from Cumberland County?
jf1a
2. Daniel (?) Ferguson
1766-1774
?
Marey Munroe
jf1b
3. John Ferguson
1766-1774
1826
Nancy __?__
jf1c
4. James Ferguson, Jr.
1776-1774
?
In militia during War of 1812?
jf1d
5. Mary Ferguson
1784-1790
?
Archibald McGill (had land on Burnt Swamp in 1793); had issue.
jf1e
6. Margaret Ferguson
1790-1800
left Robeson
Richard Chason, 14 Sept 1825; had issue.
jf1f
7. Catherine Ferguson
1790-1800
March 1868
never married
jf1g
8. Sarah Ferguson
1790-1800
1825-26
declared incompetent
jf1h