Display Patriot - P-290980 - Philip SLAUGHTER

Philip SLAUGHTER

SAR Patriot #: P-290980

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Captain
DAR #: A105070

Birth: 04 Dec 1758 Catalpa / Culpeper / VA
Death: Dec 1849 Richmond / Henrico / VA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. 1775, served as a Culpeper Minuteman
  2. 1777, commissioned as a Lieutenant in the company of Captain Long, attached to Colonel Daniel Morgan
  3. 1778, commissioned as a Captain of the same regiment

Additional References:
  1. Revolutionary War Pension file W29886
  2. Bounty Land file 1653-300
  3. Eckenrode, H.J, List of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia, Special Report of the Department of Archives and History for 1912, Virginia. Richmond: Davis Bottom, 1913, pg 404
  4. Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1873, Washington DC: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914, pg 499
  5. Obit. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 3, pg 294-295

Spouse: (1) Margaret French Strother; (2) Elizabeth Towles
Children: Daniel French Strother; Lucy; Mary Smith; Susan; Thomas Towles; Eliza French; Sallie;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1957-02-19 DC Unassigned Loren Hansbrough Fryer (81369) Eliza   
2000-06-15 VA 6902 Robert Cameron Thompson Jr (154091) Daniel   
Burial:
Shockoe Hill (aka Shockoe) Cemetery (C-0371787)
Location:
Richmond / Richmond City / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
52134
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
37.552380 / -77.431800
Find A Grave Memorial #:
50587706
Marker Type:
SAR lug
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
09 Feb 2024

Comments:
  • modern stone
  • SAR lug mounted horizontally


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Chris Yohn

Philip Pendleton Slaughter was born on 4 December 1758, in Caltalpa, Culpeper County, Virginia. He was the son of American Revolution Colonel James Slaughter and Susannah Clayton Slaughter. He was brother to at least 13 siblings. 

He joined the Culpeper Minutemen at the age of 17 in 1775. He was appointed a Lieutenant by the Culpeper County Committee of Safety the following year and marched to New York as part of Captain Long's company of riflemen. In 1777, his company was attached to the 11th Continental Regiment commanded by Colonel Daniel Morgan. He was promoted to Captain in 1778. After a reorganization of the army in 1779, he commanded a company of the 7th Virginia Regiment, also led by Colonel Daniel Morgan. He was a messmate of future Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. 

His obituary reads, in part, "[He] . . . enlisted in the Culpeper Minutemen and marched to Williamsburg at the call of Patrick Henry in the first of the Revolutionary strife. He was then promoted to a Lieutenancy and marched to the north with one of the Virginia Continental regiments. Before reaching the age of twenty, he was made a Captain and served in that capacity throughout the war. He was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and at the storming of Stony Point. He was with Washington during the dreadful winter spent by the army at Valley Forge." 

In 1783, Philip married Margaret French Strother. In 1803, and following the death of his first wife, he married Elizabeth Towles. He was the father to the following known children: 

  • Lucy married Isaac Hite Williams.
  • Susan was born in about 1790 and married James McConochie.
  • Mary was born in 1806 and married Robert Thompson
  • Elizabeth "Eliza" French was born in 1793 and married John Dade.
  • Sarah "Sallie" was born in 1791 and married Phillip Slaughter.
  • John
  • Philip
  • Katherine
  • Alfred
  • Daniel French was born on 13 December 1799 and married Mary Winston.
  • Thomas Towles was born on 16 June 1804 and married Jane Chapman.
  • Ann Mercer was born in 1810 and married Philip Slaughter.

His obituary continues, "He has frequently expressed his comfort in the fact that he felt no ill-will to any human being - had no enemies - and had not felt the emotion of anger for many years. Thus, full of honors, in love and charity with all mankind and ripe for the tomb, a 'father in Israel' has fallen - a Christian and a Patriot has gone - leaving behind him a bright example." 

The Patriot died on 24 April 1849, at Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia. He was buried in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, where his name appears on the Sons of the American Revolution memorial to Revolutionary War veterans. His gravestone proudly reads: "He feared God; he had no other fear."




Author: Mr. Joshua Shawn Wilberger
1st wife lived 1759-1835 Son of James (1732-1799) & Susannah (Clayton) (1740-1818) Slaughter. Received BLW #1653-300 8 Jul 1830. Sol had applied BLW Culpeper Co where sol lived during rev. Received pension from 1830 Culpeper County. Dau. Ann Mercer Slaughter, blind & helpless, pensioned by Special Act of Congress 8 Feb 1893. Officer is eligible for representation in the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia. This eligibility is based on the Rule of 1854 whereby those officers, who did not avail themselves of membership in their lifetime, are now considered "eligible". This means descendants may now apply by right of their ancestor's service assuming line is not already claimed.


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