GABRIEL SLAUGHTER, 1767-1830 G•OVERNOR OF KENTUCKY ...

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FOOTNOTES
a John Slaughter Carpenter, "Slaughter Family," The Vir&inia Magazina of Histoey and
Biography, v. 21, pp. 306-10, 427-30, v. 22, pp. 99-102, 208-11, 319-22; Robert. M.
Torrence, Torreuu and Allkd Families (Philadelphia, 1938), p. 301; George Harrison
Sanford King, The Register o[ Overwhwrton Palish, Stal ord County, Virginia, 1723-
1758 (Fredericksburg, Va., 1961), p. 50.
2Register ol the Kentucky Historical Society, v. 21, p. 182. He rlaimed 400 a tes and
pre-emption of 1,000 acres for raising a crop of corn in that year.
3 Culpeper Co., Va., Deed Book P, p. 360. On 24 Oct. 1789 he gave a power of
attorney to his son Gabriel, stating that he was about to remove to the Western WaEers.
4 Mercer Co., Ky., Chancery suit, Benjamin Fisher vs. Robert Sl,a,ug hter's heirs, 1814.
William Buckner McGroarty, "William Buckner of Caroline,' Tykr' Qu rwrly Hirtofical
and Genealogical Magazir , v. 21, p. 177; Virginia Hcraid, Fredetickshnrg, Va.,
SeI t. 21, 1816.
John Wesley Gart and John. Calhnun Garr, Genealogy of tho De:cend nt: o/ Jol n
Garr (Cincinnati, 1894), p. 72. She married Jeremiah Fisher of Boyle Co., Ky., and left
de/cendants.
7 Her gravestone in the Irvine and Caldwell graveyard in Boyle Co., Ky., states she died
in July, 1825, aged 34 years. She married James Caldweil and left descendants.
sCuipeper Co., Va., Deed Book R, pp. 1-2. He had acquired this tract of 118 acres in
1786 (Culpeper Co., Vs., Land tax book, 1786) although he did not receive a deed lot
it until 1789 (Culpeper Co., Va., Deed Book P, pp. 70-71). He was given 400 acres by
his father in 1789 but sold that tract the next year (/bid., pp. 360-62, 520-22).
Robert B. McAfee, "The Life and Times of Robert B. McAfee and His Family Connections,"
Register o/the Kantucky Historical Society, v. 25, p. 123.
0 "Excerpts from the Executive Journal of Governor Isaac Shelby," Re&i t o] th8 Kentucky
Hi:torica2 Society, v. 28, pp. 203, 208.
z* Mercer CO.. Ky., Tax lists, 1795.
lz Mercer CO., Ky., Quar r Sessions Deed Book 4, p. 128. On Feb. 24, 1796, they were
deeded 426 acres by George Thompson, and on April 6, 1802 Thompson and Samuel
McDoweil, Jr., con6tmed to them the 476 , acres on which they then lived, there having
been a suit concerning the title to the land in 1796 (/bid., Deed Book 4, p. 341). On
Jan. 9, 1801, William StarLing sold him 60 acres and he purchased another 30 acres from
Starling on Aug. 13, 1813 (/bid., pp. 176-77; Deed Book 8, p. 451). He entered into
deeds of division with A dn S. Slaughter on April 24, 1819 (/bid., Deed Book 11, pp.
192-94). The title was probably still not dear, however, for in 1822 both Starling and
McDoweil conveyed to him 286 acres on which he lived (/bid., Deed Book 12, pp.
400-02 ).
lSMarla Thompson Daviess, Hi tory of Mercer and Boyle Countles (l-[arrodiburg. Ky.,
1924), p. 59.
14 lbi
Carollne Co., Va., Marriage ret-arns, no. 2; Arnold Harris Hotd, The Hord Famibl
o Virginia (n.p., 1915), p. 90.
*eNotation William A. Slaughter Papers, Alderman IAbrary, University of Virginia.
He married first Mary Belle Weisiger and second Mrs. Sarah Pleasants (Webster) Railey
and left descendants by his second wife.
17 Ruth Lawrence, ed., Colonial Pa nilies of Am ,ica (New York, n.d.) v. 5, pp. 292-
93. She married The Rev. John trolley Worthington and left descendants.
*sWestem Monitor, Lexington, Ky., Dec. 26, 1818. He died on Dec. 22, 1818.
10 Kentucky House of Repsesentatives, Journal, 1797-98 (Frankfort, 1798), pp. 8, 10.11.
2°lbid., pp. 21, 27, 60.
* William Lircell, The Statute Law o Kentucky (Frankfort, 1810), v. 2, p. 240.
*Kentudry House of Representatives, Journal, 1799 (Frankfort, 1800), pp. 6, 26, 32,
60.
ss Lewis Collins and Richard FL Collins, Hi:toLv'o] Kentuck (Louisville, 1924), v. 2,
p. 604.
Ibid., p. 603.
Z lbid., v. l,p. 543.
* Kentucky Senate, ]ournd, 1803 (Frankfort, 1804), pp. 14, 79, 82.
* Ibid., p. 26.
*e Ibld., p. 124. . '