Joseph Slafter

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Rhoda Slaughter ← John Slater ← Joseph Slafter ← Joseph Slafter

In brief

Born about 1698 in Tolland, Connecticut. He died about 1787 in Killingly, Connecticut.

Family

Father

John Slafter

Spouse

Esther

Children

Joseph Slafter · in this line
b. Abt. 1721 · Newport, Rhode Island
m. Hannah Covel
d. August 13, 1773 · Newport, Rhode Island
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

Siblings

Mary Slafter
b. November 1688
m. Isaac Wellman in 1717 in Lynn, Massachusetts
d. January 12, 1793
Anthony Slafter
m. Mary Eaton, December 12, 1712
d. June 28, 1723
Elizabeth Slafter
m. Thomas Hutchinson, May 2, 1711
Samuel Slafter
b. August 1696, near Lynn, Massachusetts
m. Dorothy Fenton, July 1721
d. July 31, 1770, in Mansfield, Connecticut
Sarah Slafter
m. Samuel Paulk, May 5, 1720
Moses Slafter
m. Jemima Scripture, May 13, 1743
d. Abt. 1778
Abigail Slafter
m. George Sawin
d. March 15, 1738
Benjamin Slafter
m. Bethia Eaton, November 11, 1744
d. Abt. 1760

Life story

A Connecticut Land Trader

Joseph Slafter was born around 1698, the son of John Slafter, and moved among several eastern Connecticut towns over his lifetime — Tolland, Willington, Mansfield, and finally Killingly, where he farmed near the Rhode Island line from the mid-1730s through the mid-1740s. In 1724 he signed the petition seeking incorporation of Willington as its own town. Joseph died around 1787.

Sources (1)

Reverend Edmund F. Slafter A.M., Memorial of John Slafter (Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1869), 1-12; reprinted from original images by Scholar Select.