Hance Slaughter and his wife Caterina were passengers on the Ship Allen in 1729. They settled in Philadelphia County (now Montgomery County) Pennsylvania. In the 1734 Roxburro records, John Slaughter was listed with 38 acres. Also listed in Roxburro were Brethren men John Mack (18 acres) and John Gumry (100 acres). Later, John and Catherine Slaughter were living in the "Back Part" of Germantown, where he was a butcher. An interesting account of their experience in Germantown can be found in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 2. This account says that they were Brethren but it lists Brumbaugh as the source. Brumbaugh has all passengers on the Ship Allen as being Brethren, which was not the case, thus we cannot be sure that John Slaughter was Brethren. In "September 1750, Catherine, wife of John Slaughter, Germantown, Philadelphia County, eloped" according to an account written in the Pennsylvania Gazette. What this means is that she left her husband, but not necessarily for another man. Slaughter is not a usual German spelling. Hance Slaughter was not literate when he immigrated and thus his name was written on Lists B and C as the clerks heard it. Perhaps his name was Schlotter or Schlatter or something similar. Does anyone know anything about this interesting couple? Dwayne Wrightsman