Rachel Ferguson

DNA

Daniel Ferguson was the only Ferguson census finds anywhere near Trumbull County Ohio in 1850. A probable daughter, born in 1808 in Pennsylvania, married there just a few years before 1850, and yet Daniel married himself in Trumbull County in April of 1818. So, very clearly, he had to have emigrated from Morris County, New Jersey, to Trumbull County Ohio in the company of a first wife. But, we don't know who she was.

DNA, however, gives us a strong clue, since a descendant of Daniel's first wife has a DNA match with a descendant of the family of Jonathan Daniels. A daughter of Jonathan Daniels, Johanna Wood, emigrated from Staten Island to Bedford County, PA, where her daughter Amelia apparently married Theorodus Mellott. It is my guess that Daniel Ferguson's wife was Rachel Mellott, her daughter.