Husband Capt. John Sloan 1 2
Born: 1751 - Scotland 2
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Died: 1833 or 1835 - near Latrobe, Unity Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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Father: Samuel Sloan ( - ) 3
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Capt. John Sloan.
• Document: George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882).
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1 M David Sloan 2
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Spouse: Lydia Hurst ( - ) 2
2 M James Sloan 4 5
Born: 1802 - Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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Spouse: Sarah Ann Corbett (1801- ) 6
General Notes: Husband - Capt. John Sloan
He served in the army during the War of the Revolution.
Andrew Allison located on the banks of the Loyalhanna, [in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,] between the present town of Latrobe and Kingston. A neighbor on the creek below Allison was John Sloan, Esq., high sheriff of the county. Sloan was distinguished as an officer in the militia along the frontier during the troubles after the Revolution. In an expedition against a party of depredating Indians he was wounded in his groin, and had a silk handkerchief drawn entirely through the wound. He shot and scalped an Indian in that expedition, and brought the scalp home with him. This he would frequently produce on public occasions.
Capt. Sloan, who was a large man, left a big track with his moccasins. It was, indeed, so big that it was a matter of astonishment for the natives. One of them pulled out his ramrod and measured it in length and in width, and when he had done so he exclaimed, with abroad grin on his heroic countenance, "Great sawarick! great sawarick!" by which we suppose he meant something like "great warrior." "Yes," said Mitchell, "that is the big Capt. Sloan, the great Indian-fighter."
He was born in Scotland and was young at the time of his parents' immigration to the colony of Virginia. He was a gallant and faithful soldier in the war of the Revolution, and was captain of a company in a Virginia regiment. After the close of hostilities he received from the government a large land grant in Pennsylvania, for services rendered in time of war. This land, which was located in Clarion County, he divided into farms for his sons. A pioneer among the Indians, Captain John Sloan, who was an abnormally large man, was known among them as "Sloan of the Big Feet." [GPHAV, 745]