Sgt. N.H. and Vt. Militia during Revolutionary War. widow pensioned. Grandson's bio says he d. with English Bullets still in him.
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William Sloan (1756-1828) served as sergeant, 1777, in Capt. P. Allen's company, Colonel Herrick's regiment of Vermont Rangers; 1781, sergeant in Capt. Charles Nelson's company, Colonel Waite's regiment. He was pensioned as invalid, 1793. He was born in Westfield, Mass.; died in Smithfield, NY.
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Janice Anderson provides from a letter written by Cyrintha Holt to Sidney Viel Holt dated June 4, 1931:
Dear Sidney it has just come to me who Margaret Sloan was. She was your great grandmother, Margaret Sloan Holt. I have a bottle that was in her father's pocket in the revolutionary war. The neck has been shot off and the bullet that broke the bottle wounded him. He lay on the battle field for three days. The government issued rum to the soldiers at that time and he always said the rum was what saved his life. Jim wrote to William Sloan at Sandusky for history of the bottle and I have what he wrote rolled up and put in the neck of the bottle. {Cyrintha Holt;s husband, Jim, was a great grandson of William Sloan}
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From Susan Sloan: "The History of Chenango and Madison Counties, NY 1764-1880" by James H. Smith. 1880:
William Sloan, George Bridge and James Taft came in from Washington County in this State. Sloan settled on a farm on the south part of the Edson lot, which he bought of a man named Gillett who purchased of Edson, but remained only a short time. The farm is now occupied by Andrew Hallenback. Sloan cleared up the farm and afterwards went to live with his youngest son, Lyman, in the edge of Smithfield, where he died. His son William was a man of some prominence in the town of Smithfield. He was a Justice and held several other offices in that town. Other of his children were Josephus, the eldest Abigail, who married Amost Bridge, Olive, who married William Farrington, John, Orange who died young, and Betsey who was dement. None of them are living." End of quotation. (no Abigail on our Bible page perhaps she went by her middle name she may have been Sarah Abigail...to avoid confusion with her mother?)
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Apr 2005: Susan P. Sloan is listing William as a son of William Sloan & Mary McMighel. I'm doing so also. f.e.m.


Sources:
1. Bible of William Sloane, Photocopy from DAR Collection, NY State Library, provided by Susan Sloan: 17 Apr 2003, [dob, dom, wife Sarah, 12 children, Bible2.jpg]
2. LDS Family Search Website: International Genealogical Index #2, [dpom/25 May 1779, Lyme, Grafton Co. NH. spouse]
3. DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition, c. 1990, p. 2689-90. [dpob/MA., spouse, dpod/NY., Mil]
4. Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (152 Vols.) The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 74, page 249, Mrs. Laura Agnes Goodell Sullivan. DAR ID Number: 73681 [military units, dob, pod, son Wm. Sloan Jr.] Ancestry Website
5. National Register of the Society Sons of the American Revolution, pg. 871 [son, mil] Pension papers exist. Sgt from NH. and VT.

• Married: 25 MAY 1780 in Lyme, GRAFTON Co. NH. ⁴

1. William Sloan , Jr. b: 27 JAN 1781 in Lyme, GRAFTON Co. NH.
2. Mary Sloan b: 3 NOV 1782 in of Smithfield, MADISON Co. NY. ?
3. Sarah Sloan b: 8 AUG 1784
4. Josephus B. Sloan b: 18 AUG 1786 in VT.
5. Margaret Sloan b: 23 JUL 1788
6. Olive Sloan b: 29 JUL 1790 in CATTARAUGUS Co. NY. ?
7. Orange Sloan b: 1 APR 1792
8. Betsy Sloan b: 5 MAR 1794
9. John Nelson Sloane b: 6 NOV 1795 in MA. or NY.
10. Lyman G. Sloan b: 18 NOV 1797 in NY.
11. Lucinda Sloan b: 10 NOV 1800
12. Dau Sloan b: 12 APR 1802
13. Chloe Sloan b: BEF 1783

1. Title: Bible of William Sloane
   Publication: Photocopy from DAR Collection, NY State Library, provided by Susan P. Sloan: 17 Apr 2003
   Repository:
   Note: FBR00002.jpg
   Media: Other
   Text: [dob, dom, wife Sarah, 12 children]
2. Title: Zachow, Andrew L.
   Publication: Postem: 22 Dec 2007
   Repository:
   Note: no file - Find a Grave submitter
   Media: Tombstone
   Page: Tombstone photo: ts000369
   Text: [photo unreadable, burial]
3. Title: Tombstone Inscriptions, Siloam Cemetery, Siloam, Madison Co. NY.
   Publication: Rootsweb Website: 15 Oct 1998
   Note: 7 Sloan entered.
   Repository:
   Note: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymadiso/bit-of-past/borg/cemsilo.htm
   Text: [William Sloan, dod/12 Jul 1928, age 73y/1m/7d, burial]
4. Title: Bible of William Sloane
   Publication: Photocopy from DAR Collection, NY State Library, provided by Susan P. Sloan: 17 Apr 2003
   Repository:
   Note: FBR00002.jpg
   Media: Other
   Text: [dom/25 May 1780]