John Slater

Last year while I was recovering from Knee replacement I chatted with a lady who is a dna match to me.  I can find her Ancestry identifier and e-mail address in my Reunion data base as descendant of Marion Slater who was the son of Daniel Chapman Slater.  Her name is Pam.  I am copying some of her information from her Ancestry tree this morning and looking at past correspondence.  And I found a huge phooey.  I had sent her this note:

 I do not know if I ever sent her the note nor do I know what I was looking at when I saw this marriage record.  Nor do I know if this John Slater would be our mutual ancestor or a false lead.  But I wanted to put this information somewhere.  And this would have been more than a 100 years before our John Slater was born c. 1799 in York, England.  Still it is possible that our John Slater was a Quaker when he left England for Pennsylvania.  

Wallace family

Last year I realized that George Selden Wallace who was the author of several excellent books on the history of Huntington, WV (where I live) is descended from the Wallace family that accompanied William Woods and George McNeely and their families on the move from Pennsylvania to what is now Albemarle County, Virginia after 1732 and before 1736.  And then I realized that George Selden Wallace had written a book about his Wallace family and that the book was available in the special collections at the downtown Cabell County library.  

Michael Woods' sister, Elizabeth had married Peter Wallace in Ireland.  It is this family that accompanied Michael Woods and the McNeely family down the great wagon road.  I think that Peter was deceased.  But I need to double check this.

I took some photos of some of the pages of George Selden Wallace's book and will put them here:

There follows several pages of later descendants, but there did not seem to be more clues in this book for our McNeely family.  Actually I just found another page.  I will go back and look at this book one more time.