Ansell Ferguson (1761 - 1814)

Born Jan 1761 in South Carolina or Virginia

Ancestors

Died 30 Jun 1814 at age 53 in Nassau, Bahamas

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Ansell Ferguson is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Anscel Ferguson was the oldest child of likely parents William Ferguson and Anna Henderson - he was born 8 January 1761 and resided with his family in the Fairfield District, South Carolina.

Anscel, like his brother Henderson, emigrated to the Bahama Islands as a young man. He had a plantation on Saint Salvador (Cat Island) and experimented with growing Sea Island cotton.

Anscel married Ann Cooke at Christ Church, Nassau, Bahamas 24 December 1795. The couple had no children. Ann Ferguson married, second, the Reverend John Rutledge, Wesleyan missionary.

Anscel Ferguson, planter, died in Nassau, Bahamas in 1814. He is buried in the Western Cemetery. The inscription on his gravestone: Beneath this stone/lie interred the remains of/Anscel Ferguson/of the Island of Saint Salvador Esquire/died June 30th 1814/And those of Rev. John Rutledge/Wesleyan Missionary/died September 4th 1826./Also those of Ann Rutledge/relict of the above/died July 17th 1848, aged 73 years. The stone is signed by the stone cutter, RI Brown, NY.

Anscel Ferguson left a will, in which he left his estate to his wife, Ann, his godson John (Ferguson) Cooke, and his nephew Anscel Ferguson, son of (his brother) James Ferguson.

Sources

Christ Church, Nassau, Bahamas Marriage Records.

Bahama Gazette, 3 July 1814.

Marriage, Birth and Death Notices from Newspapers of the Bahamas, compiled by Sharyn Thompson, page 177.

Bahamas National Archives, Wills Index, Anscel Ferguson, 1814.