In brief

Born about 1721 in Newport, Rhode Island. He died August 13, 1773 in Newport, Rhode Island.

Family

Children

  • Abner Slater
    b. February 1743
    m. Sarah Russell, abt. 1765
  • Joseph Slater
    b. October 10, 1745
    m. Lois King
  • Abial Slater
    b. September 15, 1747
    m. Anna Adams
    d. August 1813
  • Silas Slater
    b. November 26, 1754
    m. Beulah Adams in 1773
    m. Sarah Whitney (née Coomer)
    d. August/September 1825
  • John Slater · in this line
    b. 1756
    d. February 14, 1815, in Guilford, Vermont
  • Hannah Slater
    b. 1760
    m. Stephen Slater in 1776
    d. September 1829
  • Sarah Slater
    m. William Taylor
    d. August 1808

Siblings

  • Esther Slafter
    b. July 26, 1723, in Willington, Connecticut
    m. Timothy Grover
  • John Slafter
    b. 1725, in Mansfield, Connecticut
    m. Elizabeth Handell
    d. February 7, 1821
  • Abraham Slafter
    b. October 7, 1731
    m. Hannah Adams
    d. 1795

Life story

A Newport Freeman

Joseph Slafter was born around 1721, son of the elder Joseph Slafter, and was admitted a freeman of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1743, later settling in Scituate, Rhode Island. He died August 13, 1773.

Sources (1)
  1. Reverend Edmund F. Slafter A.M., Memorial of John Slafter (Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1869), 9-10, 40-41; reprinted from original images by Scholar Select.