from "Belfast Newsletter" 1781, page 303, Linen Hall Library, Belfast: ------------- Friday, Janry 5, to Tuesday 9, 1781 Belfast: Died: on 26th abt., at Springfield, near Ballynahinch, Wm. FERGIE, Esq., Capt. of the Kilmore Volunteer Company, aged 50 years. He weighted 42 stone 3 lb, and his coffin measured a yard + 2 inches across and 22 inches in depth ----------- I have a copy of this transcription if anyone wishes a photocopy. Cynthia Russell