Family Land
Where the Slaters owned land, from the first Simsbury grants of the 1670s to Harry Slater's farm at Luthers Mills in 1950. Each circle marks a place named in a deed, grant, will or map. Its size shows how precisely the record places it. A dashed outline is a lot reconstructed from survey maps.
These are locations, not surveyed boundaries. Colonial deeds describe land by its neighbours, brooks and hills rather than measured lines, so most parcels can only be placed within half a mile to a mile or so. Exact outlines will need the deeds themselves, and the Burlington farms are still being researched.
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Connecticut: Simsbury and Granby, 1673–1795
| Date | Land |
|---|---|
| 1673/4–1683 | Salmon Brook meadow (later "Slaters meadow") John Slater · precision ±1 km 14 acres of meadow on Salmon Brook, "bounded Southwesterly on the Hill Northerly on Samon Brook"; enlarged to 26 acres in 1683. Still called "Slaters meadow" in 1750, south of the south branch of Salmon Brook. Source: Simsbury Town Records Book I (typescript), DGS 8200143, image 31; Simsbury town records, DGS 7896790, image 52, p. 84 |
| before 1686 | Hop Meadow house lot and meadow lot John Slater · precision ±0.5 km House lot of 5 acres abutting "the way that goes down to ye Mouth of Hopp Brooke", and a 12-acre meadow lot running to the Farmington River. Source: Simsbury town records, DGS 7896790, image 52, p. 84 |
| 1677 | Terry's Plain, east of the river John Slater · precision ±1 km 10 acres "on the playn by Ensign Terryes", south on the river. Source: Simsbury town records, DGS 7896790, image 52, p. 84 |
| 1685 | Raven Swamp John Slater · precision ±2 km 10 acres "on the Southerly syde of Slaters lot at Salmon Brok"; 5 acres here left to daughter Elizabeth in 1712. Source: Simsbury town records, DGS 7896790, image 53, p. 85 |
| 18 Apr 1688 | Weatogue meadow (deed from Nathan Gillett) John Slater · precision ±1–1.5 km 11-acre lot "in Weatoug Meadows and lying on the west syde of mount philip", given by Nathan Gillett to "my son in Law John Slater Husband to my daughter Abiah". Source: Simsbury town records, DGS 7896790, image 53, p. 86 |
| 1712 will | Land "near Manatock" John Slater · precision ±1 km (place inferred from the name) Left to son Samuel in the 1712 will. Probably near Manitook Mountain, Granby. Source: Will of John Slater, 15 Aug 1712, Hartford probate, DGS 7627877, image 613 |
| 1749–1778 | Home lot at the mouth of Hop Brook John Slater (1708–1778) · precision ±0.5 km Bought 1749: 30 acres "on the west side of the River at the mouth of hop Brook … oposite to the meeting house" with a dwelling. The c.30-acre home lot in his 1778 inventory. Source: Simsbury land records, DGS 8200147, image 248 (machine transcription); Inventory, 24 Feb 1778, Simsbury probate file 2514, DGS 7629256, image 1154 |
New York: Amenia, Dutchess County, c.1780–1800
| Date | Land |
|---|---|
| by 1782–before 1808 | Part of lot 35, Great Nine Partners Patent (then Amenia, now southern North East), Dutchess Co., NY John Slater (Jr.) · precision lot outline reconstructed, ±1 km; John's part within the lot not known "John Slater of Amenia Precinct" sells Simsbury land in 1782. A deed of 1808–10 describes land "in the Town of Amenia … part of lot Number 35, in the great nine partners", beginning "at the south west corner of Noah Wheeler land that he bought of John Slater". Lot 35 was the second lot from the north in the eastern tier of the patent (lots 28–36, numbered south to north, each about 3,400 acres; Reed 1875). Richard Edsall's survey map of c.1740 shows it as 3,475 acres, between lot 36 (Hendrick Ten Eyck) and lot 34 (David Jamison). The outline drawn here divides the tier into nine equal strips between Amenia's south line and the old Amenia–North East line through Millerton (the land north of today's town line, called North Amenia, was moved to North East in 1823). The strips are bounded by the Stanford line on the west and the Oblong on the east. It agrees with Reed's placing of lot 32 at Amenia village and the Red Meeting House. The Wheeler family's Nine Partners land lay "just to the west of the Oblong Lot 65", near Coleman Station, which suggests the Slater–Wheeler land was at the east end of lot 35. That is a lead, not proof. His sister Sarah and her husband Noah Brown lived "in ye Great nine Partners in Amen[ia] Precincts" in 1783. Source: Dutchess Co. deeds 1808–1810 (FamilySearch full text); Simsbury land records, 1782 and 1783 deeds (FamilySearch full text); Edsall, manuscript map of the Great Nine Partners Patent, c.1740 (NYPL); Newton Reed, Early History of Amenia (1875), pp. 6, 21–27; NRHP nomination, Thomas N. Wheeler Farm (1999); U.S. Census TIGER town boundaries (2024) |
Pennsylvania, 1858–1950
| Date | Land |
|---|---|
| 1858–1867 | Saw mill and 10.7 acres on Tuscarora Creek, Auburn Twp. William J. Slater · precision ±1 mile 1858 county map shows "W. J. Slater" with a saw mill on Tuscarora Creek at the Bradford line. 1864 deed: 10.7 acres, part of George Porter's warrant, running "to the center of the road up Tuscarora creek"; sold 1867. Source: Susquehanna Co. deeds vol. 42 pp. 291–292, DGS 008094331, image 1598; Map of Susquehanna County, 1858 (Library of Congress) |
| 1869 | "H. Rogers & B. Slater, S. Mill", Mehoopany Creek possibly William J. or Adolphus Slater · precision rough (measured across a map fold) A saw mill shared with a Rogers. William J. later sold land to Joseph H. Rogers (1879). Not proven to be him. Source: Map of Wyoming County, 1869 (Library of Congress) |
| 1950 | Harry Slater's farm, north of the Luthers Mills bridge Harry G. Slater · precision road certain; house within ~¼ mile 1950 census: "¼ mi. N of bridge on T552 at Luthers' mills" — the road north from the Sugar Creek bridge (today T-557 / Covered Bridge Rd). The 1957 topographic map shows dwellings on this road about 0.1 and 0.47 mile north of the bridge. Fits the family map's Slater parcel north of Route 6. Source: 1950 U.S. census, Burlington Twp., ED 8-14, sheet 6; USGS Ulster 1:24,000 topographic map, 1957 |
| 1858 | "A. Slatter" house, north of Sugar Creek at East Burlington (Luthers Mills) "A. Slatter" — possibly Adolphus D. Slater · precision ±0.2 mile; name reading uncertain On the 1858 county map a house marked "A. Slatter"[?] stands on the road leading north-east out of East Burlington (the village now called Luthers Mills). Source: Map of Bradford County, 1858 (Wm. J. Barker), PA State Archives Map #334, tile 2 |
| 1858 | "W. Sluter" house, south-east Burlington Twp. "W. Sluter" — possibly William J. Slater · precision ±0.5 mile; name reading uncertain On the 1858 county map, "W. Sluter" (perhaps W. Slater) is near E. Bennett, M. Bailey and the Stropes — names that also neighbour the Slaters in later censuses. About a mile south-west of Slater Hollow. Source: Map of Bradford County, 1858 (Wm. J. Barker), PA State Archives Map #334, tile 6 |
| — | Slater Hollow place name · precision named valley (USGS) A valley named Slater Hollow, about 2 miles east-south-east of Luthers Mills, south of Sugar Creek. Adolphus Slater was "of Slater Hollow, Burlington Twp." (d. 1881). Source: USGS Geographic Names (GNIS), via PASDA |
Known from records but not yet placed
- John Slater (1685): 20 acres "over the mountain", east of the Farmington River
- John Slater (1687): Marsh on the south branch of Hop Brook "where Joshua Holcomb made Tarre" (still "Slater Marsh" in 1797)
- John Slater (1713 inventory): 14 acres "in Slaters swamp"
- Deacon John Slater (1709–1717): House lot east of the river by the Weatogue–Windsor road, with 60 acres "to the foot of the mountains"
- John Slater Jr. (1768–1770): Hopmeadow home lot (4 acres) and 13⅓-acre meadow lot on the river, sold before he moved to Amenia, NY
- William J. Slater (1867–1879): Land in Forkston Twp., Wyoming Co. (deed books not filmed; at the courthouse in Tunkhannock)
- Edwin and Harry Slater (c.1880–1955): Exact farm boundaries and acreage in Burlington Twp. (Bradford deeds before 1970 are not online; courthouse in Towanda)
- Hemenway family (c.1900): No Hemenway farm found in Burlington on the 1858 map; location not yet confirmed
- Scouten family (1858): "C. Scouten" on the 1858 map in the far south-west of Burlington Twp., about 3 miles from Luthers Mills — not where the family map puts the Scouten land