(1747-?), U E Loyalist. A native of Scotland, he emigrated to New York colony in 1773. In the revolutionary war he served in Capt. Samuel Anderson’s Light Company (10th Company) of the King's Royal Regiment of New York. Peter Ferguson received land in Canada in compensation for his losses as a Loyalist. He built the earliest portion of what is now the Bethune-Thompson House, at Williamstown, GC. In 1804 he sold the house to the Rev. John Bethune. The Rev. John Matheson was married to Peter Ferguson’s great-granddaughter. Also, Peter Ferguson’s descendants included Mrs Ross George Murison.
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