Hi Folks, I thought I'd pass this query along to the group. So far, I'm getting nowhere with it. I had Wm. H. in my records but no parents either. His father must have hid from the census taker in 1850. Can anyone help?? Also see my other comments at the botton. From: "Robert S.Carlon" <rcarlon@runet.edu> -------------------------------------------- My great great grandfather was named William Herring Sloan and owned a large plantation in Duplin County NC near Chinquapin. I have also been told that he was a surveyor. He fought for the Confederacy (I am cure he is one of the Williams listed from NC) and according to my grandmother he was captured in the vicinity of Petersburg and held in Libby prison by the yankees for almost a year after the fall of Richmond. After the war he returned to Duplin County where he raised his 10 children and is buried in the family plot in Chinqupin. I have no idea who my Sloan ancestors are prior to William. After reading your information I am wondering if he was decended from the Robert Sloan that recieved the land grant in Carolina in 1757 and died in Duplin county the next year. I am not sure how much land my great great grandfather owned but it was a fairly substantial tract. I have been told that his land holdings streched for ten miles on both sides of the road that ran through the area so it had to have been thousands of acres. According to my grandmother he came over from England as a boy. I doubt this because I think it would be difficult for someone who had just arrived in this country with nothing to aquire this much land by the time of the Civil War when he was probably in his twenties or thirties. My theory is that he was born in this country perhaps to a son or grandson of the Robert Sloan who recieved the grant, and his land was all or part of that 1757 land grant that he inherited. Anyway, as for my Sloan connection my great grandfather Binford Sloan inherited some of the land that his father owned and was a farmer in Duplin County. His daughter Virginia Sloan is my father's mother. She had two brothers Francis, and Binford Jr. My great grandfather came to Hopewell VA in the teens to work in the Dupont factory that was producing gunpowder for WWI. They returned Wallace NC for about 10 years but when the depression hit they pretty much lost everything, because they could not make enough to pay the taxes on the farmland so they moved back to Hopewell VA. My family still lives a few miles from there. My name is Robert Sloan Carlon Jr. The Robert however came from the Carlon side. Maybe what I told you will add a piece to the Sloan puzzle! I have always been very interesting in tracing my family history yet I have never been able to get past the early 19th century. I have even stopped in Chinquapin on my way to the Wrightsville Beach and tried to locate the family cemetary. My father said he remembered being there in the 60s but could not locate it in recent years. Perhaps like so many family plots it has become overgrown. Anyway thanks for the information it was very informative. Rob P.S. Have you found any evidence that any Sloans were related to the British Royal family. My uncle said that one of our relatives down in NC had done some research and had had found a link to the british Royal family either through the Tudors or the Stuarts There is also a place in London known as Sloan Square. I once heard someone on TV refering to Princess Diana as bring very "sloany". I was intruiged so I asked a friend of mine who is a Brit what that meant. He said that Sloan Square is a very trendy part of London where a lot of young people lived. People who are Sloany are are simply young and fasionable. [End of Message] ********************************************************** Links to the rich and famous?? I've never seen any line of Sloans that go back to British Royality. If it exist, it is probably through one of wife's lines. For example, I know some of the Sloans of Duplin Co. m. into the Pearsall family. The Pearsall family (one of my lines) can be traced back to royality. So, Sloans of this Sloan/Pearsall branch probably can trace their ancestors back to Wm. the Conqueror etc. Sloane Square, Somewhere in my piles of misc info I have an article about the "Sloane Rangers" of Sloane Square. The article was sent to me some time ago from cousin Anna Sloan of Guam. If I can find it, I'll post the info. I do recall seeing the Sloane Square tube stop when I was in London back in the the late 70s. Later, Frank Mitchell -- Apartado 11521, Zona 6 Panama, Republic of Panama Phone day 011-507-261-9757 Email: fmitchel@panama.phoenix.net Visit "The Sloan Connection" at: http://www.panama.phoenix.net/~fmitchel/welcome.html