A History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, vol 3, Part 6

Author: Hutt, Frank Walcott, 1869- editor
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: New York, Chicago, Lewis historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 528


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laws and acts of the colony "into such a method that they may be put in print." In 1684 he was chosen assistant, but refused to accept the office. William Wardwell died some time before May, 1693. His will, which was dated September 8, 1692, was proved May 2, 1693. In it he mentions his daugh- ter Alice, mentioned below. The will was recorded both at Portsmouth and Taunton.


(II) Alice Wardwell, daughter of William Ward- well, was born February 10, 1650. On December 26, 1671, she married Abraham Anthony, son of John and Susanna (Potter) Anthony. After her husband's death, October 10, 1727, she removed to the home of her son, William Anthony, and re- mained there until her death in 1734. (See An- thony). They had issue thirteen children, of whom their fourth child, William Anthony, was the father of Benjamin Anthony, who married Martha Luther (see Luther), and whose youngest child, David Anthony, left a daughter, Keziah Anthony, who married Israel Brayton. (See Brayton).


HON. WILLIAM LAWTON SLADE-The following is the heraldic description of the Slade arms :


Arms-Per fesse argent and sahle a pale counterchanged, and three horses' heads erased, two and one, of the second, a chief ermine. Thereon two homhs fired proper.


Crest-On a mount vert a horse's head erased sahle, en- circled with a chain in form of an arch, gold.


Motto-Fidus et audax. (Faithful and hold).


The Slade coat-of-arms as it was originally registered during the time of Queen


Elizabeth was:


Arms-Argent, three horses' heads sable, a chief gules. Crest-A horse's head erased, sahle.


The Slade family of America is descended from the lineage of that name in England, distinguished ancestral lines of which are discovered in Cornwall, Salop, Dorset, Warwick, Somerset, Derby, Hunting- don, Norwich, Oxford, Bedford, and other counties. These county families were all offshoots of the an- cient de la Slades, mentioned in the Hundrel Rolls, and the arms borne by nearly all the branches dis- play a similarity of emblazonment which indicates their common ancestral root.


The Somersetshire lineage, as well as the Bed- fordshire and Huntingdonshire Slade, bore on their escutcheons:


Arms-Argent, three horses' heads erased sable, and a chief gules. ' To this was added in the Bedfordshire house a crest. Crest-A horse's head erased, sahle.


The Cornwall branch of the Slades bore similar arms slightly elaborated but bearing the same three horses' heads (therein termed nags), as follows :


Arms-Gules, a fesse hetween three nags' heads coupled look- ing to the dexter, argent and maned sable.


Crest-A lion guardant, erased, holding three ostrich feathers proper.


The name of Slade itself signifies a "small strip of green plain within a woodland;" it is one of the most ancient of surname designations existent in


England at the present day, and has undergone but slight differentiation in its orthography in the many centuries of its history. Upon the ancient records of England is found (in addition to the original or parent form of the name, Slade), such compounds as Richard dela Wytslade (of the white-slade); Michael de Ocslade (the oak-slade); William de la Morslade (of the Moorland-slade); and Robert Greneslade (of the green-slade).


From the Slades of Somersetshire derive the Slades of New England as well as the line of Slade Baronets of England, both descending from the ancient Slades of that county, who were also very probably the ancestors of the Slades of Cornwall and Huntingdon. In County Cornwall, that branch of the lineage held for many generations the manor of Trevennen, and they were, states Sir Bernard Burke, noted English authority, "a family of con- siderable antiquity and were certainly settled at Trevennen in the reign of Elizabeth if not at a much earlier date." As early as the reign of Richard III appears an amusing item in regard to one Alianore Slade, of Somerset, who, states the chronicle, was then "fine one penny," which sum, together with another penny fine against another person, formed a two-penny total "as the sole receipts of the court for that twelve-month."


(The Ancient Lineage).


(I) Nicholas de la Slade, of County Somerset, appearing in the Parliamentary Writs A. D. 1300. The ancient estates in Somerset are indicated by the hamlet or district formerly, in olden times, called Slade; thus we read in the Pedes Fimium, commonly called "the Feet of Fines," for the county of Somer- set, of the 31st Henry III. (A. D. 1247-8), held at Westminster in the octave of St. John the Baptist, between Adam and Geoffrey de Cusington, respect- ing several virgates of land in Cusington; that Geoffrey conceded to Adam, half a virgate and a half an acre of land "Whereof two acres and a half lye in the tall ground on the Lusbell: * * * and three * * * in * * * Slade."


(II) Henry de la Slade, mentioned in the Parlia- mentary Writs A. D. 1327, and then of Somerset- shire.


(III) Nicholas (2) Slade, of Cusington, County Somerset, living temp. Edward III. and Richard II .; married Margareta Leetes, daughter of Richard Leetes, of Comberton.


(IV) Richard Slade, of Spetchley, Somerset, who dying about 1420, was succeeded by:


(V) Richard (2) Slade, of Bruton, who married Agnes He was succeeded by:


(VI) John Slade, of Spetchley; married Christina Leweston, daughter of John Leweston, of a distin- guished family of Dorset. His monument stands in Spetchley Church and shows his arms and those of his wife.


(VII) William Slade, of Bruton and Taunton; married Matilda Slade, daughter of - Slade, of Taunton.


(VIII) William (2) Slade, of Somerset and Corn- wall, in the Exchequer Depositions for Cornwall, in the 31st of Elizabeth's reign, appears a suit by


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MADOC (MADOCK).


Arms-Azure, a bend or, in chief three boys' heads couped at the shoulders argent, cach enwrapped about the neck with a snake proper, in base as many grif- fins' heads erased of the third.


Crest-A lion's head erased or, pierced through the neck with a sword in pale. the point coming out at the top of the head imbrued proper, hilted and pommelled of the first.


MORE. . Irms-Ermine, a fesse gules between five moorcocks proper.


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Irms-Quarterly argent and gules, in the 2nd and 3rd a fret or. Crest-Out of a ducal coronet or a plume of five ostrich feathers, gules, azure, or, vert and tenec.


LEETES (LEETE).


Arms-Argent, on a fesse gules between two rolls of matches sable, fired proper, a martlet or.


Crest-On a ducal coronet an antique lamp or, fired proper.


LEWESTON (LEWISTON).


Arms-Gules, three battle-axes argent.


BELLOT.


Arms-Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils of the field. Crest -- A fox's head erased sable.


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Nicholas Cortney against Richard Bennett, John Slade and William Slade, upon a plea of lands at Tremaynon and Goodorock.


(IX) Edward Slade, of Somerset, and later of Northamptonshire, where he married Alice who was deceased before 1610.


(X) Edward (2) Slade, of Somerset, and later of Penzance, Cornwall, and Wales, but who returned to Somerset, where he may have married again and have been the Edward Slade who, January 14, 1663, married, at Taunton, Elizabeth Lisant.


(XI) William (3) Slade, believed to have been born in Wales during his parents' sojourn there, the founder of the family.


Through this same ancient line branched, it is believed, at some time during its course, the Slades of Dorsetshire and of Somersetshire, in the line of the Baronets of the name in England at the present day. Of the latter Baronet line was:


Sir John Slade, First Baronet, born December 31, 1762; entered the military service of England as Cornet in the 10th Hussars, 1780, and served in the Peninsular campaign under Sir John Moore, at the battle of Corunna, and subsequently under Duke of Wellington, from the year 1809 to 1813 inclusive, when he had command of a brigade of cavalry. He was twice honored with the thanks of the House of Commons. He also received the gold medal and one clasp for Corunna and Fuentes d'onor, where he had his horse shot from under him, and the silver war medal with two clasps for Sahagun and Busaco. Sir John Slade was a general in the army and a colonel of the Fifth Regiment of Dragoon Guards. He was one of the equerries to the Duke of Cum- berland from the formation of His Royal Highness' household in 1800. Created Baronet 30th Septem- ber, 1831. Married (first), September 20, 1792, Anna Eliza Dawson; married (second), June 17, 1822, Matilda Ellen Dawson, daughter of James Dawson, of Fork Hill, Armagh, from whom have descended: Sir Frederick William Slade, Second Baronet, born January 21, 1801; married, December 23, 1822, Barbara Maria Brown, daughter of Charles Brown, of Mostyn, Kiddington. Sir Alfred Frederic Adolphus Slade, Third Baronet, born May 28, 1834; married, September 6, 1860, Mary Constance Cuth- bert, daughter of William Cuthbert. Sir Cuthbert Slade, Fourth Baronet, born April 10, 1863; married December 2, 1896, Kathleen Scovell, daughter of Rowland Scovell. Sir Alfred Fothringham Slade, Fifth Baronet, born January 17, 1898, the present representative of the title.


Still another branch of the family was distin- guished and anciently landholding in Huntingdon- shire, where an ancient pedigree gives:


Richard Slade de Huntingdon, Consiliarius ad Legem; married Elizabetha, filia Joh'nes Spencer de Patenham in Bedfordshire. Issue: 1. Thomas Slade de Huntingdon, Consiliarius ad Legem; married Clayes Bellikin Clamp, uror ejus ._ Issue: Johanna filia, ob. s. p .; Anna, nupta Ambrosio Mason de Hemingford. 2. Robertus Slade de Elington, in County Huntingdon. 3. Rosa, nupta Thomas Spill- water de Leighton.


The Slades of Somersetshire may rightly be con- sidered the most distinguished of the lineage of Slade. They were long conspicuous in the affairs of the community; in the parish of Bewdley, Samuel Slade was several times mayor of the town, and of much interest appears an item in the year 1707 re- garding the charter of the corporation (i. e., bor- ough) of Bewdley, where, on discovering the char- ter of James II. to be void (for, states the historian, "the bailiff and burgesses of Bewdley had surren- dered their old charter in 1684" * * * as "it is well known that Charles II. and James II. were very fond of granting new charters to such corporations as could be persuaded to surrender their old ones." * * ), it was found that only one "capital burgess, Mr. Slade," was alive, who had acted under the an- cient charter. Among ecclesiastics who have derived their lineage from this family were William Slade. who, preceding the Reformation, was "clerke" at the "Chauntrie at Estcoker," and later was in receipt of a pension of five pounds, and, at a more modern period, Rev. James Slade, incumbent of Winsford (in the patronage of Emanuel College, Cambridge) on the river Ex, near Dulverton. There is also found, in West Pennard Parish, County Somerset, a charity school, endowed by Robert Slade, Esq., with "ten pounds per annum for teaching ten poor children to read;" and among the lists of govern- ors of Bath Hospital appears John Slade, Esq., who contributed a donation to the hospital. Of the church foundation at Bruton, Somerset, there are extant two valuations of conventual property, the first, the Taxatio Pope Nicholas I. of A. D. 1281, made for the Crusades, and the second, the Valor Ecclesiasticus of the 26th year, temp. Henry VIII., in which latter we find Giles Slade as the collector of the monastery rents. This Giles Slade was of Bruton Parish, Somerset, and was buried there, January 17, 1562-63. His probable son (or near kinsman) was John Slade, M. A., Fellow of Mag- dalen College, Oxford, who became a Fellow in 1544, and is described in the College books as "ecom. Somerset." He was Master of Magdalen College School (founded in 1519), during 1548 and 1549, and on September 6, 1550, the president and fellows of Magdalen granted leave of absence for a half-year to Mr. Slade "profecturo ad aperiendum Ludum gramma ticalem pueris Brutonie." Of his further history we learn that in 1559, he had ceased his connection with Magdalen School, and he prob- ably thereafter became involved in the political troubles of the times, for he has been identified by some writers as the same John Slade who on the 30th of October, 1583, was executed at Winchester for denying the Queen's supremacy. That there have been members of the lineage prominent also in the rangs of the "dissenters" or "Puritans" is shown by the presence of Daniel Slade as elder of the "Independent" Church of Bideford in 1658. There have been likewise many collateral lines es- tablished by the Slades in Somersetshire. Particu- larly is this true of the daughters of the name. Katherine Slade, daughter of Richard Slade, Esq., of Wooton Hall, County Salop, proprietor of that


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estate, united the name in marriage with the an- cient family of de Botevyle, and left a numerous progeny. Elizabeth Slade married Philip Sheldon, of an old county family, and through this marriage eventually inherited a portion of the ancient manor of Spetchley. This manor was, in the reign of Edward IV., in the ownership of "that most re- nowned father of the laws," Sir Thomas Lyttleton (Littleton), Knight of the Bath, through whom the property passed for several generations until the manor and lands were deeded to Richard and Katherine Sheldon for ninety-nine years at four pounds rent per annum, the afore said Richard Shel- don being a son of Daniel Sheldon, of Spetchley, living temp. Henry VII., who married Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of John Grove, of Fordhall, Warwickshire, and had issue: Baldwin, living 1502; and Richard, living 1508, who married Katherine, daughter of Thomas Littleton, and sister and heir of William Littleton; the said Richard having issue: Jane, who married Anthony Atwood, of Park At- wood; Cicily, who married Robert Gower; Walter; and Philip, who married Elizabeth Slade, of Ruston, County Derby. Subsequently, Philip Sheldon and his wife Elizabeth (Slade) Sheldon removed to Dorsetshire, where they acquired a large estate. The Sheldon family was of Royalist sympathies, and during the Parliamentary War, one of its mem- bers was among those who surrendered to Crom- well at the taking of Worcester.


The Somersetshire estates of the Slades were large and have a most interesting history. Mem- bers of the lineage came into possession of the ancient manor of Murtock, in that township, the identical lands which in Saxon times had been held by Edith, Queen of Edward the Confessor; after the Conquest, King William gave the same to his Norman follower, Eustace, Earl of Bulloigne, in Picardy, from whom it passed to the de Fieules, progenitors of the Barons Dacre. In the reign of Edward III., the manor was confiscated to the Crown, and thereafter given by the King to William de Montacute, Earl of Sarum, down through whose family line it descended until the attainder of Sir John de Montacute. Once more restored to the Crown, it was granted to John Beaufort, Marquis of Dorset, and thence passed to Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, who being attainted in 1483, the manor again reverted to the Crown. No further kingly grants of the manor were made until the reign of James I., when that monarch presented it in fee to Lord Morly Monteagle as a reward for his discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. The vicissitudes in the ownership of the manor at last came to an end, when it was divided and sold, Henry and John Slade, Esqrs., of Ash, acquiring a considerable portion of the historic domain, and with that family now rests. A very interesting descrip- tion is given of the old manor house on this estate: "The old mansion house of the Fieules and Monta- cutes was moated round, and the walls embattled and crenellated. Its site occupied the space of two acres. Nothing remains therof, save a double arched stone porch over the moat, which served


as the principal entrance. In emptying the moat some years ago there were found several cannon shot, the offspring probably of Cromwell, or some of his coadjutors."


Still another ancient manor held by the Slades was that of North-Petherton, originally a posses- sion of the Norman family of de Erleigh (de Erleia in the old monuments of titles), and later given by Edward VI., to John, Duke of Northumberland, and whence, after many changes, it passed to the Slade family. Not far from this estate is another possession of the family, the estate of St. Michael's of Michaelchurch, which is mentioned in the Domes- day Book: "Ansger holds Michaelescerce. Alwi held it in the time of King Edward, and gelded for half a hide. The arable is one carucate. It was formerly and is now worth five shillings." (Liber Domesday). In process of time, the Norman de Erleighs, lords of Petherton and Durston, incor- porated the lands with their other possessions, and after their enjoyment by the families of St. Maur, Bampsylde and Stowell, it passed to the Slades.


The history of these estates strikingly illustrates the temporal character of power of the early Nor- man barons; both they and their estates passed away, and this is again portrayed by the estate of Mansel, long in the Slade family, which, according to the records of Somersetshire, was for more than twenty generations in the hands of the Mansel family, records of whom hardly exist, and are now, as states an old chronicle, "a family of oblivion." Among other holdings of the Slades are portions of the vast estates of the Monastery at South Brent, dispersed at the Reformation, the particular part held by the Slades having been granted to the Duke of Somersetshire, after whose attainder it passed through various hands until acquired by the Slades.


At the present date, the representatives in Eng- land of the ancient Slade line ably support the excellence of their family station. Among others may be mentioned Major-General Sir John Ramsay Slade, K. C. B., notable in the Diplomatic Corps, and commander of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare, of Italy, and a grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy. He was a son of the equally noted Lieutenant-General Marcus John Slade, and was raised to the Baronetcy in 1907. Still another well known member of the family was the Rev. George Fitzclarence Slade, eleventh son of the first Baronet Slade, of Maunsell, whose son, Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade, was a noted navy officer. The Slade arms of the Maunsell line are :


Arms-Per fesse argent and sable a pale counterchanged, and three horses' heads erased, two and one, of the second, a chief ermine. Thereon two bombs fired proper.


Crest-On a mount vert, a horse's head erased sable, encir- cled with a chain in form of an arch, gold.


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(The Family in America).


(I) William Slade, founder of the family, is said to have been born in Wales, and was the son of Edward Slade. The family appears to have been


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but temporarily located in Wales. William Slade is first of record in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1659, when he was admitted a freeman of the Colony. He later became one of the early settlers of the Shawomet purchase, which included that part of Swansea, Massachusetts, which became the town of Somerset in 1790. As early as 1680, when the first record of the town begins, Mr. Slade was a resident of Swansea, and the meetings of the pro- prietors were held at his house after their discon- tinuance at Plymouth, in 1677. He was a large landholder, his domain including the ferry across the Taunton which has ever been known as Slade's Ferry. This ferry remained in possession of the family until the river was bridged in 1876, at which time it was operated by William Lawton and Jon- athan Slade. William Slade married Sarah Holmes, daughter of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, of Rehoboth. (See Holmes II). Their children were: 1. Mary, born May, 1689. 2. William, born in 1692. 3. Ed- ward, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, born Decem- ber 2, 1695. 5. Hannah, born July 15, 1697. 6. Mar- tha, born February 27, 1699. 7. Sarah. 8. Phebe, born September 25, 1701. 9. Jonathan, born August 3, 1703, died aged about eighteen. 10. Lydia, born October 8, 1706; through her, Abraham Lincoln traced descent.


(II) Edward Slade, son of William and Sarah (Holmes) Slade, was born in Swansea, Massachu- setts, June 14, 1694. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He married (first), in 1717, Elizabeth Anthony, who bore him one son, William, born September 25, 1718. He married (second), December 6, 1720, Phebe Chase, daughter of Sam- uel and Sarah (Sherman) Chase. (See Chase IV). He married (third) Deborah Buffum. The children of the second marriage were: 1. Samuel, men- tioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born April 29, 1723. 3. Joseph, born November 16, 1724. Children of the third marriage: 4. Edward, born November 11, 1728. 5. Philip, born April 19, 1730. 6. Phebe, born July 4, 1737. 7. Mercy, born in 1744.


(III) Samuel Slade, son of Edward and Phebe (Chase) Slade, was born November 26, 1721, in Swansea, where he lived and received from his uncle, Captain Jonathan Slade (who died without is- sue), the ferry previously alluded to as Slade's Ferry. Besides conducting the ferry he also en- gaged in agriculture and blacksmithing. He mar- ried Mercy Buffum, daughter of Jonathan and Mercy Buffum, born July 3, 1723, in Salem, Massa- chusetts, died November 18, 1797, in Swansea. (See Buffum IV). Children, all born in Swansea: 1. Jon- athan, mentioned below. 2. Robert, born October 7, 1746. 3. Henry, born August 20, 1748. 4. Ed- ward, born September 27, 1749. 5. Samuel, born January 20, 1753. 6. Caleb, born June 24, 1755. 7. Buffum, born May 31, 1757. 8. William, born October 18, 1759. 9. Benjamin, born March 14, 1762.


(IV) Jonathan Slade, son of Samuel and Mercy (Buffum) Slade, was born August 12, 1744, in Swan- sea, Massachusetts. He passed his entire life there, and died November 16, 1811. He married Mary


Chase, daughter of Daniel and Mary Chase, born 15th of 12th month, 1746, in Swansea, died there September 7, 1814. Children: 1. Jonathan, born 10th of 2nd month, 1768, died 8th of 12th month, 1797. 2. Mercy, born 30th of 6th month, 1770. 3. Mary, born 15th of 4th month, 1772. 4. Anna, born 20th of 1st month, 1775, died 19th of 5th month, 1805. 5. Patience, born 5th of 5th month, 1777, died 26th of 10th month, 1798. 6. William, mentioned below. 7. Nathan, born 10th of 2nd month, 1783. 8. Phebe, born 15th of 5th month, 1785. 9. Hannah, born 18th of 1st month, 1788, died 23rd of 5th month, 1805. 10. Lydia, born 3rd of 4th month, 1791, died 26th of 10th month, 1804.




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