Person:Robert Slaughter (5)

Family History: 217 Genealogy Books 7-Robert (1680-1726), Essex Co., Va., m 1700, Frances Ann Jones (Lt. Col. Cadwallader 8; Richard 9)

Family History: Virginia Genealogies #1; From Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. — Vol. V. Slaughter Family — pp. 300-329. 4. 1. ROBERT. [Though most probably a son of Francis, no record evidence of the fact is given.-ED.] 4. ROBERT SLAUGHTER 4 (Francis 3- 2, John 1), was born about the year 1680. He was a prosperous planter of Essex County, where he lived and died. He had extensive grants of land in Spottsylvania County (1719 and 1723), part of which was transferred to his sons during his lifetime, and the remainder bequeathed to them by his will. He married about the year 1700 Frances Anne Jones, daughter of Lt. Colonel Cadwalader Jones, and grand-daughter of Richard Jones, a wealthy merchant of London, and the owner of a considerable landed estate in County Devonshire, England. The following is an abstract of Robert Slaughter's will, dated Feb. 5, 1725, and proved in Essex County on August 16, 1726:

"To loving wife Frances Slaughter, two negro men named Jack and Tony; to son Francis one thousand acres of land lying in the forks of the Rappahannock River, one negro boy named Fanny, one negro girl named Cate and their increase; to son Robert one negro woman named Moll and her two children named Harry and Toney and their increase, one ,cow and calf; to son Thomas, one tract of land lying at the Little Mountains containing two hundred and fourteen acres, one tract of land lying at the Black Walnut Run, and one tract of land lying on the Mounts Creek, containing three hundred acres, also negro boy named Ben, negro girl Beck and their increase; remainder of estate to loving wife Frances and to sons Francis and Thomas. Executor Francis Slaughter.

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Col. Robert Slaughter, married Frances Anne Jones, a daughter of Col. Cadwallader Jones, son of Richard Jones, of Devon, England. Col. Slaughter commanded in the French and Indian Wars, and Col. Cadwallader Jones was of the British Army in Virginia. To this marriage we know of but three brothers., Robert the second, Thomas and Francis.