Speaking of Capt. David, yesterday I made contact with William A. Sloan, III and his sister Ginger Sloan Billingsley also descendants of David. Right now they are missing the link(s). Their great grandfather was (I love this!!) SLOAN MAXWELL SLOAN and grandmother was Vigrinia Dare Stribling (probably a cousin). Does anyone know who their parents were?? Now the good part!! William sent the following newspaper transcribion that predates both Stribling & McKoy's works. The author wasn't mentioned it may have been R.W. Simpson, who published an article in 1913. Article printed in the GREENVILLE, SC NEWS July 29,1911 OF INTEREST TO THE D.A.R. Brief Sketch of the Early History of the Sloan Family Greenville, July 17 - Editor Keowee Courier: I enclose a little sketch of the early history of the Sloan family, which I clipped from an issue of The Courier about eighteen years ago. There are so many descendants of this patriot couple in Oconee and upper Carolina that I thought it might be interesting reading for a great many of your present subscribers. The D.A.R. are seeking information about patriots, and I thought it might be interesting to them also. I hope you can publish it in The Courier again. Yours truly, J. Capt. David Sloan, the progenitor of his race in the United States, was born in County Down, Ireland, in the year 1753. He emigrated to the United States and settled in the western part of North Carolina. He was a captain of a company of North Carolina troops in the Revolutionary war. Capt. Sloan married Susan Majors and moved soon thereafter to Pendleton District, South Carolina. He settled on the Seneca River, ten miles west of the present site of Anderson Court House, and made that place his home until death, which occurred on the 9th of October, 1826, at the age of 73 years. His wife, Susan, lived at the old homestead until her death, which occurred on the 5th day of September, 1853, at the age of 92. This honored couple had born unto them twelve children, six sons and six daughters. The first-born, which occurred on the 19th of May, 1787 were twins, and were named for their parents, David and Susan. The mother said she often put these little children to sleep at night and then hid them in the canebrakes while she took her bag of corn on her shoulder and went to the nearest mill to have it ground. On her return her heart was always in her mouth, for she expected to find her innocent babes butchered and scalped by the wily, treacherous Red Men. We give below the names of the children of this well known and patriotic couple, together with the names of their wives and husbands as the case may be: David married Nancy Trimmier, daughter of Obadiah Trimmier and his wife, Lucy Stribling, both of whom came from near Mount Vernon, Va., and settled on Toxaway Creek, in the territory now known as Oconee county. Susan, the twin sister of David, married Robert Bruce, of Georgia. William died when about 23 years of age unmarried. Mary died when about 18 years of age. Benjamin Franklin married Eliza Earle, a daughter of Gen. John B. Earle. Thomas Majors married Nancy Blassingame, a daughter of John Blassingame. William (the second) married Eliza Hackett, a daughter of Robert Hackett. James Madison married Rebecca Linton of Abbeville. Elizabeth married Jesse Stribling, of Anderson. Rebecca married Dr. J. B. Earle, of Anderson, and moved to Mobile, Ala. Nancy married Col. Joseph Taylor, of Anderson. Katherine married John P. Benison, of Anderson. The following obituary notice, which appeared in the newspapers at the time, gives an interesting account of the family: "Departed this life, on Tuesday the 5th of September, 1853, at her residence on Seneca River, Mrs. Susan Sloan, in the d year of her age, relict of Capt. David Sloan, S., who died October 9th, 1826, aged 73 years. Sixty-seven years ago, when the country was a wilderness and inhabited by the Red Men, Capt. Sloan, with his wife and their twin children, their first born, (Capt. David Sloan Jr., who died 29th of October, 1834 at the age of 47 years, and Mrs. Susan Bruce, who still survives) pitched his ten on the canebrakes on the western bank of the Seneca. For years they encountered and endured all the privations and dangers of a border life, but by industry, economy, energy, and enterprise the many obstacles incident to the settlement of a new country were overcome and the means of comfort and ease gathered around them. After the death of her husband Mrs. Sloan continued to occupy the homestead, and in the management of her farm and domestic matters exhibited a skill truly remarkable. "More than a half century she became a member of the Presbyterian church at Roberts, in Anderson District, under the ministration of Rev. Mr. Simpson, and in all probability she was the last of that generation to be called to the spirit land. She was the mother of twelve children, only five of whom survive here, 107 grandchildren, 273 great-grandchildren--413 descendants--of whom 344 are now living. To them she has left an example of industry, energy, piety, and Christian spirit, worthy of all imitation." "September, 1853." ******************************************************** Frank Mitchell