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  • ID: I036252
  • Name: Alexander Sloan 1
  • Sex: M
  • Title: Lt.
  • Birth: 10 MAY 1742 in Canaan, LITCHFIELD Co. CT. 2 3
  • Death: 15 FEB 1812 in Sharon, SCHOHAIRE Co. NY. 4
  • Event: Military 15 APR 1776 Revolutionary War, 2d Lieutenant of MA. of Elmore's Continental Regiment 5
  • Event: File Number RK #2425
  • Note:
    I'm assuming that Samuel & Alexander are brothers and the sons of Alexander as per the Boston Transcripts.
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    1771: The 1771 Mass. Tax Valuation List shows in Williamstown: Alexander Sloan with a house, 1 cow, no other information. [Samuel Sloan is also listed]
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    1775: "Alexander Sloan of Williamstown" who appears in Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the War of the Revolution, a sergeant in Capt. Samuel Sloan's Company of Minutemen, who marched in response to the alarm of 4/19/75. {This is the battle of Concord Bridge, where the minutemen fired the shot heard around the world}
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    A.B.L. says:"Sloan, Alexander (Conn). 2d Lieutenant of Elmore's Continental Regiment, 15th April, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 2d Canadian (Hazen's) Regiment, 16th December, 1776; resigned 2d June, 1777.
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    There appears to be two or three different Alexander Sloan, all of Ct. one m. to a Margaret with 5 known children. Another Alexander m. to Hannah Cole b. abt 1720. and one b. 1742 that served in the Rev. War. No wife has ever been mentioned concerning the vet. Margaret is supposed to have d. in 1761, so Hannah Cole could not be a 2nd wife of Alexander.
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    Betsy Mae Sloane's DAR application names 14 children.
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    "A History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts In Two Parts" published in Pittsfield in 1829 (15-16 years after the death of Samuel Sloan), page 406, says, "Sam. Sloan, a native of Norwalk, came from Canaan, Con., and began between the village and Woodcock's corner about 1766, and his brother Alexander came soon, and afterwards built the house there, now occupied by Gershom Bulkley..."


    Sources:
    1. "DAR Patriot Index" National Society DAR 1966 [dpob, dpod/NY, Served as a Lt. from MA.]
    2. Census 1790: Berkshire Co. MA. Pg. 39 Williamstown [Alex Sloan, 1-3-7]
    3. 1771 Mass. Tax Valuation List
    4. "American Biographical Library", (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1996.), Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, 15th Virginia, pg. 500.
    5. Boston Transcripts, (Queries from early 1900's, transcribed by Gloria Odom), [Alexander Sloan s/o Alexander & Margaret Sloan of Wilton CT.]




    Father: ALEXANDER SLOAN b: BEF 1715 in of Wilton Parish, Norwalk, FAIRFIELD Co. CT.
    Mother: Margaret [--?--] b: in of Wilton Parish, Norwalk, FAIRFIELD Co. CT.

    Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown
      Children
      1. Has Children Almira S. Sloan b: 10 SEP 1767 in of Williamston, BERKSHIRE Co. MA.
      2. Has No Children Alexander Sloan b: 24 JUN 1769
      3. Has No Children William Sloan b: 12 OCT 1770
      4. Has No Children Cloe Sloan b: 7 SEP 1772
      5. Has No Children Ebenezer Sloan b: 2 JUN 1774
      6. Has No Children Phebe Sloan b: 22 SEP 1775
      7. Has Children Beaman Sloan b: 22 DEC 1777 in NY. ?
      8. Has No Children Samuel Sloan b: 14 OCT 1779
      9. Has No Children Electa Sloan b: 6 JUN 1781
      10. Has No Children Lucinda Sloan b: 20 APR 1783
      11. Has No Children Permelia Sloan b: 12 MAY 1785
      12. Has No Children Hannah Sloan b: 15 MAR 1787
      13. Has No Children Ebenezer Sloan b: 25 DEC 1788
      14. Has No Children Tryphena Sloan b: 18 DEC 1791 in NY.

      Sources:
      1. Title: Boston Transcripts
        Publication: Queries from early 1900's, transcribed by Gloria Odom
        Repository:
        Note: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/7937/bt11-5.htm
        Media: Book
        Text: [Alexander Sloan s/o Alexander & Margaret Sloan of Wilton CT.]
      2. Title: DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition
        Publication: 1990
        Repository:
        Note: pg. 2689-90.
        Media: Book
        Text: [dpob, dpod/NY, Served as a Lt. from MA.]
      3. Title: "A History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts in Two Parts"
        Author: Citizens of Berkshire County
        Publication: Samuel W. Bush, Pittsfield. 1829. 468 pages
        Repository:
        Note: Roberta Calhoun-Eagan's research, no copy on hand
        Media: Book
        Text: [Samuel Sloan, brother Alexander, relocation from Norwalk, Canaan Ct. to Berkshire Co. Ma.]
      4. Title: Sloane, Bessie May
        Publication: DAR Application Nat. #155295
        Repository:
        Note: Roberta D. Calhoun-Eagan's source, no copy on hand.
        Media: Other
        Text: [dpod, 14 children]
      5. Title: "American Biographical Library"
        Publication: Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1996.
        Note: comprised of the following works:
        Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949;
        Biographical Cyclopedia of American Women. 2 vols; Daughters of America (Women of the Century);
        Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution;
        Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century;
        American Biographical Notes: Being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those Not Included in Allen's or Drake's Biographical Dictionary; Plymouth Colony;
        The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
        Repository:
        Note: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/2016.htm
        Media: Other
        Page: Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution
        Text: 15th Virginia, pg. 500

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