Marriage date: 21 Oct 1658
Marriage place: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
Wife: Mary SHERBURNE
Birthdate: 20 Nov 1640
Birthplace: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
Death date: 22 Sep 1716
Place of death: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
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Father: Henry Sherburne
Mother: Rebeckah Gibbons
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Child No. 1: Bridget Sloper
Sex: F
Birthdate: 30 Aug 1659
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Child No. 2: John Sloper
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Birthdate: 13 Jan 1661
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Child No. 3: Mary Sloper
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Birthdate: 11 Feb 1663
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Spouse's name: John Brewster
Child No. 4: Sarah Sloper
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Birthdate: 26 Jul 1667
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Child No. 5: Susanna
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Birthdate: 21 Mar 1669
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Child No. 6: Elizabeth Sloper
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Birthdate: 26 Jun 1671
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Child No. 7: Rebecca Sloper
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Birthdate: 23 Oct 1673
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Spouse's name: Edward Carwithy
Child No. 8: Martha Sloper
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Birthdate: 26 Dec 1676
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Child No. 9: Tabitha Sloper
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Birthdate: 17 Dec 1679
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Spouse's name: William Bridgham
Child No. 10: Richard Sloper (twin)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 19 Jun 1682
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Child No. 11: Capt. Henry (twin)
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Birthdate: 19 Jun 1682
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Spouse's name: Lydia Penhallow
Child No. 12: Ambrose Sloper
Sex: M
Birthdate: 20 Jan 1684
Birthplace: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
Death date: 1772
Place of death: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
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Marriage date: bef. May 1709
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Spouse's name: Mary Pickering
Documentation:
(1) Ecclesiastical and other Sketches of Southington, Ct., by Rev. Herman R.
Timlow. Pg ccxxvii starts the genealogy of Richard Sloper. It states:
an early settler of Dover, Mass. Lived in Dover and from thence removed to
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Died at age 85 yrs. old.
(2) Mary Sloper- The Life and Times of Andrew Jackson Sloper, 1849-1933, by W.T.
Sloper, Printed in the United States, Copyright 1949, by William T. Sloper, pg 27 &
28, Sketch Number One, Darius Miller, Merchant and Benefactor:
Robert Sloper was the grandson of Richard Sloper who was born
in England in 1630. Richard first appeared in the country in the town records of Dover,
Massachusetts, where he had arrived about 1655. He later moved from there to Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, where he spent the greater part of his long life. He died at the age of
eighty-five years and was buried in 1716 in the Portsmouth Cemetery. In the front part of
an old geography school book published in 1812, which father found in a boostore in
Portsmouth when he visited there about 1900 in search of family genealogical data, is a
woodcut of a white woman kneeling at the feet of a "Red-skin." The Indian is holding up
her long hair in his left hand while brandishing a tomahawk held manacingly in the right
hand. Under the picture is the legend "Indian Massacre at Wakefield, Massachusetts."
Reading further in the context, it appears that a roving band of hostil Indians approached
Wakefield one summer day and this woman, "Mary Sloper, didn't run to the stockade fast
enough. She was caught up with by an Indian who cut off her scalp. Miraculously, she
survived the operation, and as no other residents of Wakefield were injured or killed," it
wasn't, after all, much of a massacre as Indian massacres went." This Mary Sloper referred
to in the school book was Richard Sloper's
daughter.
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