William
Slough
aka Slow
Born [date unknown] in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth (Prudden) Pritchard
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Hosediah (Slough) Denman
Died after
in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
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Biography
William Slough/Slow may have been a person qualified and available to lead the effort to lay out the town of Milford, CT
He is mentioned as one of the Planters in "History of the Colony of New Haven" - he was not a "Free" Planter as he did not belong to the Church. This book records a death date of 1681 for him.
After 8 Sept 1644, William Slough m. Elizabeth Prudden.[1]
13 Nov 1645, William Slow was granted a lot at Milford.[2]
26 March 1647/8 William Slow, was "excommunicated for horrible filthines for wch he was putt to death at New Haven."[3]
Children
- Hosediah Slow, d. William b. 20 Nov 1648, bpt 1648 by Rev. Peter Prudden[4]
- James Slough, s. William b. 28 Jan 1649; d. 10 Feb 1649. [5]
Sources
- ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines (contributor) "Milford Church Records", The American Genealogist, vol. 16, (1939) p. 31. Text states she joined the church. 8 Sept 1644, "since m. William Slow, d. 27 Apr. 68"
- ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines (extractor), "Milford Land Records" p. 8, The American Genealogist Vol 12 (1935) p. 172.
- ↑ Jacobus, "Milford Church Records" p. 32
- ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMC-PZ2J : Sun Mar 10 12:39:52 UTC 2024), Entry for Hosediah Slow and William, 20 November 1648.
- ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850", https://www.familysearch.org/search/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS56-XS8D-Z
- Lambert, Edward Rodolphus. History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut (Hitchcock & Stafford, New Haven, 1838) Page 90
- White, Almira Larkin. Ancestry of John Barber White and His Descendants (J.B. White, Kansas City Mo., 1913) Page 263
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Ed Poor
One of the first executions in New Haven County "for a "horrid offence"
posted 14 May 2013 by Ed Poor
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Death date recorded as 1681 in "History of the Colony of New Haven". also, Hasadiah was born in 1658 so he could not have died before 1647
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