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Isaac Ferguson

Isaac Ferguson

Male Abt 1755 - 1815  (60 years)


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  • Name Isaac Ferguson 
    Birth Abt 1755  Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • DAR and SAR have Augusta County, Virginia. At the time of Isaac's birth, Augusta County was a huge territory with an indefinite western border encompassing most of modern West Virginia, much of southwestern Pennsylvania, and all of Kentucky. Isaac was most likely born in modern Fayette or Washington counties in Pennsylvania.
    • The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio has Brownsville, Pennsylvania, no date. [1]
    Gender Male 
    DAR/SAR Number DAR: A116962, SAR: P-157482 
    Military Service From 1778 to 1783  Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Revolutionary War

    Recorded on effective supply tax list in Nottingham Township, Washington County, suffered depredations, 1781 [PA Arch., 3rd ser., v. 22, p. 751]

    Private, 6th Class of Capt. John Wall's Company, Washington County Militia, 19 Jun 1782 [PA Arch., 6th ser., v. 2, p. 56]

    Private, 6th Class of Capt. William Barr's Company, 2nd Battalion, Washington County Militia, ordered to rendezvous 15 Sep 1782 [PA Arch., 6th ser., v. 2, p. 67]

    Listed as a ranger on the frontier for Washington County, 1778-1783 [PA Arch, 3rd ser., v. 23, p. 217]
    "Isaac Ferguson ... served throughout the Revolutionary war in the Continental patriot army, and part of the time as a trusted scout to watch the movements of the red-coats." [History of Clermont County (1880), p. 395, col. 1]

    Isaac Ferguson, private, Washington County Militia, on list of soldiers who received depreciation pay [PA Arch, 5th ser., v. 4, p. 399]

    Isaac Ferguson, private, Washington County, on list of soldiers of the Revolution who received pay for their services [PA Arch, 5th ser., v. 4, p. 708]
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    History of Clermont County (1880) (p. 177, col. 1) states "In the Revolutionary war Isaac Ferguson served under Washington in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and fought gallantly at Brandywine, Princeton, Germantown, and other hotly-contested battles for independence." This general claim is nearly impossible to prove. While Pennsylvanians fought in all of those battles, there are no complete lists of the soldiers who fought. 
    Residence 1781  Nottingham Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Tax list. 
    Residence From 1784 to 1794  Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 8] 
    "In 1784, Isaac, with his wife (a Miss Elizabeth Leedom, of Revolutionary memory), his three sons, Zachariah, Isaiah, and Hugh, and his daughters ... together with his horses, farming-tools, hand-mill (cut from the conglomerate rock of Laurel Hill, in West Virginia), etc., not omitting his 'pack-saddles,' all on board a covered bateau, called a 'family boat,' launched forth on the rapid Monongahela, descended the Ohio, and landed at Limestone (now Maysville), and thence went to Bryant's Station, where he was the companion of Boone, Kenton, Morgan, Bryan, and other early Indian fighters and scouts." [S68] p. 395. 
    Event 1791 OR 1792  Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Part of a posse of thirty-six men sent to pursue horse thieves, all "noted marksmen and familiar with pioneer hardships." 
    Residence From 1794 to 1796  Campbell County, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 10] 
    "In 1794, Isaac with his family moved to Campbell Co., Ky., some fifteen miles above Cincinnati, and in that and the following years fifteen acres of choice bottomground were cleared, a cabin built, and peach and apple orchards planted on the east bank of the Ohio River ..." 
    Residence From 1796  Ohio Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 11] 
    "And in the spring of 1796 he crossed the Ohio and located in Clermont, some eighteen miles above Cincinnati, and two or three below the present city of New Richmond, where he died in 1818 [sic], leaving his wife and ten children,—seven sons—Isaiah, Zachariah, Hugh, Isaac, Francis, James, and Thomas—and three daughters."
    "Isaac Ferguson and his family were the first to make a permanent settlement in Ohio township ..." (p. 398, col. 1)
    "During the first year or two after the settlement at Ferguson's ferry all the meal that was used was ground on a hand-mill that was brought by Mr. Ferguson from Pittsburgh, the stones of which were carried over the Alleghany Mountains on a pack-horse." (p. 399, col. 2) 
    Event Feb 1801  Ohio Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13] 
    Appointed Overseer of Poor. 
    Residence 17 May 1802  Ohio Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Event 27 Dec 1803  Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 16] 
    Member of the first grand jury empaneled in Clermont County under the new state government of Ohio. 
    Event 9 Oct 1804  Ohio Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [17] 
    Voted in election. 
    Event 8 Oct 1805  Ohio Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    Voted in election. 
    Tax 1806  Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    Assessed $0.65 on 100 acres. 
    Tax 1807  Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    Assessed $0.65 on 100 acres. 
    Tax 1809  Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [21] 
    Assessed on 100 acres. 
    Tax 1811  Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [22] 
    Assessed $1.395 on land. 
    Event 2 Sep 1811  Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [23] 
    Member of grand jury. 
    Tax 1812  Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [24] 
    Assessed $1.395 on land. 
    Tax 1813  Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [25] 
    Assessed $1.045 on land. 
    Tax 1814  Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [26] 
    Assessed $1.50 on land. 
    Death Between 23 Jul 1815 and 29 Aug 1815  Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Will signed 23 Jul 1815 and presented in probate court 4 Dec 1815 (FSL DGS 5428868, images 217-219 of 551).
      Newspaper advertisement for estate sale dated 29 Aug 1815 published in Western American (Williamsburg, Ohio), 16 Sep 1815.
    Burial Between 23 Jul 1815 and Abt Sep 1815  Ferguson Family Cemetery, Pierce Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [27] 
    Person ID I263  Cook-Delmotte Family | Cook
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

    Father James Ferguson,   b. ?, ? Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 2 Aug 1787 and 20 Nov 1787, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Marget (Margaret?) Stot 
    Notes 
    • PRELIMINARY 9 Jun 2025
    Family ID F588  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Leedom,   b. 1755, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 29 Aug 1815, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 60 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1774  Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Eldest child Isaiah born 24 Sep 1775 in Pennsylvania.
    Children 
    +1. Isaiah Ferguson,   b. 24 Sep 1775, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Oct 1851, Ohio Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F136  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2025 

  • Documents
    Probate Record of Isaac Ferguson (1815-1816)    		Probate Record of Isaac Ferguson (1815-1816)
    Clermont County, Ohio, Wills, v. A (1810-1816), p. 390-394 (FSL DGS 5428868, images 217-219 of 551).
    Clermont County, Ohio, Wills, v. B (1816-1821), p. 15-20 (FSL DGS 5428868, images 299-302 of 551).
    Clermont County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas, Minutes, v. B (1812-1816), p. 559-560, 563-565 (FSL DGS 7856965, images 718-721 of 1195).
    Advertisement for Isaac Ferguson Estate Sale (1815)    		Advertisement for Isaac Ferguson Estate Sale (1815)
    Dated 19 Aug 1815, published in Western American (Williamsburg, Ohio), 16 Sep 1815, p. [3].

    Histories
    History of Clermont County - Ferguson    		History of Clermont County - Ferguson
    Has Isaac Ferguson's death in 1818 in error and Isaiah Ferguson's death in 1852 in error.

  • Sources 
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    2. [OHREV] Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, ([Columbus: Adjutant General ; Daughters of the American Revolution of Ohio, 1929]), p. 136, https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/7064.

    3. [S28] Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, ed., Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, Vol. 2, Muster Rolls Relating to the Associators and Militia of the County of Washington, (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer, 1906), p. 56, 67, https://archive.org/details/6thpennsylvaniaarch02harruoft.

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    6. [S68] History of Clermont County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1880), p. 395, col. 1, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002054234126.

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    27. [S1] Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22107960/isaac-ferguson.


 

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