Kay wrote: I can see where someone pronouncing SLOUT with an accent might have caused the census taker to think the name was spelled as SLOAT, so that was an "honest" mistake, . . . The first thing I thought of when I saw Kay's message about Sloats was that it might have been derived from Slaught, which generally metamorphosed into Slack in Hunterdon County. Just a thought. Marfy *Marfy Goodspeed **marfyg@gmail.com** Goodspeed Histories http://goodspeedhistories.com/ * On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:19 AM, <kaysfo@aol.com> wrote: > I can see where someone pronouncing SLOUT with an accent might have caused > the census taker to think the name was spelled as SLOAT, so that was an > "honest" mistake,