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Submitted by: Rochelle Kovachi
Email address: yankeefemale@aol.com
 

Husband: Richard Sloper
Birthdate: Nov 1630
Birthplace: England
Death date: 16 Oct 1716
Place of death: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
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Marriage date: 21 Oct 1658
Marriage place: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire

Wife: Mary Sherburne
Birthdate: 20 Nov 1640
Birthplace: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
Death date: 22 Sep 1716
Place of death: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
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Father: Henry Sherburne
Mother: Rebeckah Gibbons
 

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Child No. 1: Bridget Sloper
Sex: F
Birthdate: 30 Aug 1659
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Spouse's name: John Knight

Child No. 2: John Sloper
Sex: M
Birthdate: 13 Jan 1661
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Child No. 3: Mary Sloper
Sex: F
Birthdate: 11 Feb 1663
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Spouse's name: John Brewster

Child No. 4: Sarah Sloper
Sex: F
Birthdate: 26 Jul 1667
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Child No. 5: Susanna
Sex: F
Birthdate: 21 Mar 1669
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Spouse's name: Elisha Kelly

Child No. 6: Elizabeth Sloper
Sex: F
Birthdate: 26 Jun 1671
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Child No. 7: Rebecca Sloper
Sex: F
Birthdate: 23 Oct 1673
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Spouse's name: Edward Carwithy

Child No. 8: Martha Sloper
Sex: F
Birthdate: 26 Dec 1676
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Child No. 9: Tabitha Sloper
Sex: F
Birthdate: 17 Dec 1679
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Spouse's name: William Bridgham

Child No. 10: Richard Sloper (twin)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 19 Jun 1682
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Child No. 11: Capt. Henry (twin)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 19 Jun 1682
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Marriage date: bef. 6 Oct 1716
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Spouse's name: Lydia Penhallow

Child No. 12: Ambrose Sloper
Sex: M
Birthdate: 20 Jan 1684
Birthplace: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
Death date: 1772
Place of death: Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
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Marriage date: bef. May 1709
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Spouse's name: Mary Pickering
 
 

 Documentation: (1)Ecclesiastical and other Sketches of Southington, Ct.,
by Rev. Herman R. Timlow. Pg ccxxvii starts the genealogy of Richard
Sloper. It states: an early settler of Dover, Mass. Lived in Dover and
from thence removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Died at age 85 yrs.
old. (2)Mary Sloper- The Life and Times of Andrew Jackson Sloper, 1849-
1933, by W.T. Sloper, Printed in the United States, Copyright 1949, by
William T. Sloper, pg 27 & 28, Sketch Number One, Darius Miller, Merchant
and Benefactor: Robert Sloper was the grandson of Richard Sloper who was
born in England in 1630. Richard first appeared in the country in the
town records of Dover, Massachusetts, where he had arrived about 1655. He
later moved from there to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he spent the
greater part of his long life. He died at the age of eighty-five years
and was buried in 1716 in the Portsmouth Cemetery. In the front part of
an old geography school book published in 1812, which father found in a
boostore in Portsmouth when he visited there about 1900 in search of
family genealogical data, is a woodcut of a white woman kneeling at the
feet of a "Red-skin." The Indian is holding up her long hair in his left
hand while brandishing a tomahawk held manacingly in the right hand.
Under the picture is the legend "Indian Massacre at Wakefield,
Massachusetts." Reading further in the context, it appears that a roving
band of hostil Indians approached Wakefield one summer day and this
woman, "Mary Sloper, didn't run to the stockade fast enough. She was
caught up with by an Indian who cut off her scalp. Miraculously, she
survived the operation, and as no other residents of Wakefield were
injured or killed," it wasn't, after all, much of a massacre as Indian
massacres went." This Mary Sloper referred to in the school book was
Richard Sloper's daughter. (3)L .