John Fergusson

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Biography

Almost certainly the 'John Fergusson, Esq., merchant in Glasgow, formerly of the Island of Jamaica' who died in 1796. His company continued to appear down to 1811.

Sources

Edinburgh Advertiser April 5, 1796

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic?

Associated Estates (5)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1795 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Owner

Caledonia [2] [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]

Shown, although not consistently as John Fergusson & Co., and probably mortgagees-in-possession. John Fergusson appears as owner for Lennox Castle and Hart Hill, other estates linked also to Robert Dunmore & Co., suggesting this is the same man.

1795 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Owner

Hart Hill Estate [ Jamaica | St George ]

John Fergusson & Co. of Glasgow

1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known

Lennox Castle [ Jamaica | St George ]

Registered to John Fergusson & Co.

1784 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Attorney

Lennox Castle [ Jamaica | St George ]

1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known

Spring Valley [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Only tentatively associated with the John Fergusson of Glasgow (who died in 1796.)