When Jesse Slaughter was born on 4 December 1768, in Catalpa, Culpeper, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Robert Moses Slaughter III, was 32 and his mother, Susannah Elizabeth Triplett Harrison, was 43. He married Lucy Thornton Slaughter on 25 November 1787, in Caroline, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1824, in Mercer, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1774: Oldtown, Fincastle, Virginia Colony 1776: Harrodstown, Kentucky, Virginia, United States 1785: Harrodsburg, Lincoln, Virginia, United States 1794: Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, United States
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English:
in East Anglia and Essex, an occupational name from Middle English slaughter ‘butcher’, a derivative of Middle English slaught ‘butchery’ + er, or from a shortened form of the synonymous Middle English slaughterer, a derivative of slaughter ‘butchery’ + -er. Compare Slater 2.
in Sussex and Surrey a habitational name denoting residence at one or other of several minor placenames such as Slaughter Bridge in Slinfold, Slaughter Bridge in Shipley, Slaughterford (Farm) in Itchingfield, the lost Slaughters in Billingshurst (all Sussex), and Slaughterwicks Barn in Charlwood (Surrey). The names may derive from Middle English slo(gh) ‘sloe, blackthorn’ (Old English slāh) + tre ‘tree’ (Old English trēow), or from Middle English sloghtre, sloghtere ‘slough, mire, muddy place’, or perhaps ‘deep river valley’, or ‘ditch’ (Old English slōhtre). The latter is certainly the etymology of Upper and Lower Slaughter (Gloucestershire) and The Slaughter in English Bicknor (Gloucestershire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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