John Slater (abt. 1750 - 1815)

Born about 1750 in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut Colony

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Descendants

Died 14 Feb 1815 at about age 65 in Guilford, Windham, Vermont

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Biography

john was born to Joseph and Hannah Covell Slater in Killingly in about 1750. ^{[1] [2]}

John married Lois Carpenter, perhaps in Killingly, about 1771.

John and Lois had:^[1]

• Joseph, b. July 26, 1772, m. Hannah Spaulding
• Hannah, b. Sept. 4, 1774, m. Ezra Gleason Ayers
• Rhoda, b. May 23, 1778, m. Alanson Hayes
• Hulda, b. Nov. 1, 1780, d. Jan. 24, 1860
• Prudence, b. Feb. 5, 1783, m. John Hammond, d. May 30, 1852
• John, b. Aug. 27, 1786, m. Sarah Gove, d. Dec. 16, 1853
• Lois, b. April 10, 1788, m. Leverett Mallory, d. Oct. 5, 1860
• Ira, b. Nov. 15, 1790, m. Sally Liscom
• Fanny, b. Feb. 21, 1796, m. Luther Fuller, d. Sept. 1, 1868

John made the big move from the Connecticut-Rhode Island border area to Guilford, Vermont, possibly in 1770 in company with his father-in-law Benjamin Carpenter (q.v.)

"John Slater, on hearing the news that peace was restored, was so excited with joy that he dropped dead on his way home from Elder Allen's where he heard the news." ^[3]

His gravestone is inscribed: "John Slater - Died Feb. 14, 1815 in the 65th year of his age" (implying birth in 1750, not 1756). and on the stone:^[4]

The Grave once past the Just arise

to last days of cloudless skies

Research Notes

https://archive.org/details/memorialofjohnsl00slaf/page/86/mode/2up?q=John+Slater does this refer to this John Slater?

The FAG memorial is for this John Slater and mentions his family however the details on the gravestone are unclear and do not match the data in documents. The data in the profile is supported by documentation held by PM

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} [1] Slafter, Edmund S., Memorial of John Slafter : with a genealogical account of his descendants, including eight generations.] (Boston, 1869, H W Dutton & Son), p. 55
2. ↑ Date by calculation from the inscription on his gravestone. While his birth is listed as 1756 in the Slafter Memorial, that seems incompatible with the gravestone and with the 1772 birth of his first son Joseph.
3. ↑ Carpenter, Amos B. 'Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America', Amherst, 1898. page 242
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #43072771, including photo of stone

• Personal recollections of Margaret Bullen Stephens [Bullen-515]