Person:William Sloan (11)

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IV. William Sloan, 1758-1827, m. Jane Stevenson 1st, - ‘LittleGabriel’. From records at both Washington and Raleigh it is learned that Wm. Sloan served in Captain Sharpe’s company as private, 10th regiment of N.C. Troops in war of the revolution. He enlisted November 10th, 1778 and served nine months. About 1807 when the Louisiana purchase began to thrill the hearts of the people of the South Atlantic state, forth families , or more, left Bethany congregation for the west – Tennessee and beyond. Many went to Tennessee and others went to Kentucky. Wm. Sloan, accompanied by his brother –in-law, Robert Stevenson, whose wife was Rebecca Steele, and Andrew McCormick whose wife was Sarah Steele, a sister of Rebecca, both being daughters of Captain Mortimer Steele, who had command of a company of Whigs in the war for Independence, like the ‘Star of the Empire’, westward took their way, with their families and a suitable number of unmarried men. Their objective point was that part of Mr. Jefferson’s purchase embraced in what was Missouri. Leaving their families in Kentucky – Christian county – Robert Stevenson and some others went to Missouri to view the country and select a location for their settlement, being accompanied by Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman . Having selected a site for a settlement of the colony on Big river at what was later Caledonia in Bellevue Valley, in the bounds of Washington county, Mo., the colony set out from Kentucky September 16, 1807, and arrived at Caledonia the last of November. Wm. Sloan, Robert Stevenson, and Andrew McCormick were the leaders of the colony. Wm. Sloan was one to the men chosen to select the county site, Potosi, and location of the court house of Washington county, Mo. It is twelve miles from Caledonia in the beautiful Bellevue valley. He was a large land owner in and around Potosi. He aided in the erection of the Caledonia Presbyterian church and with his relatives was a member of that church, and in the well kept grave yard of that church, his mortal remains were laid to rest, together with his wife, Jane Stevenson, and children, William Stevenson Sloan, Fergus Sloan, Eliza Sloan Donnell and her husband, Rev. Thos Donnell. The grave of Rev. Thos. Donnell is near the spot where once stood the old brick church, the first Presbyterian church west of the Mississippi river. On his grave is an iron tablet, placed there by his congregation, inscribed as follows;