A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Ferguson, Elizabeth Græme

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FERGUSON, ELIZABETH GRÆME,

Daughter of Dr. Thomas Graeme, who emigrated from Scotland to America, was born in Philadelphia, in 1739. She was very carefully educated, and shewed uncommon abilities. While still young, she translated Fenelon's Telemachus into English verse; she also wrote several smaller poems, which, together with her essays and some of her letters, have been published. She married Mr. Hugh Henry Ferguson; but on the breaking out of the Revolution, in 1775, as he adhered to the British government, and she was faithful to her country, they separated, and never lived together again. Mrs. Ferguson died in 1801.