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Note: N26 BIOGRAPHY: "MATTHIAS SLAYMAKER purchased that portion of the aforesaid 1,00 acre tract, belonging at present to his great-grandsons, Jn, M. Slaymaker and Nathaniel E. Slaymaker, esq., the latter at present and for many years past secretary and treasurer of the Lancaster County Mutual Insurance Company." - Biographical History of Lancaster County Pennsylvania
Fought with Washington and Braddock in the ill fated campaign against the French at Ft. Duquesne, on the present site of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1755. He and his two brothers were officers in the Revolutionary War.
Private, 5th Co., 7th Battn,. 1776-1777, Lieut, & Captain 1st Battn,. 1780-1782: Lancaster County, PA.
Lancaster County Will Book I, Volume 1 Page 450
MATHIAS SLAYMAKER) Deceased
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN! I Mathias Slaymaker of Strasburg township in the County of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, being of weAR body, but of sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of this life, do make and publish this my last will & testament in manner and form following that is to say ñ
FIRST, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son John Slaymaker his heirs & afsigns, all the lot or piece of ground with its appurtenances lying on the Strasburg road, adjoining lands of Baltasar Berkman, Henry Slaymaker and the said John Slaymaker, containing twelve acres be the same more or lefs, he paying the following sums to my other children to wit; the sume of five pounds to the children of my beloved daughter Rachel seven years after my decease, to be equally divided among them, five pounds to my beloved daughter Elizabeths children when ye all arrive to full age to be equally divided among them, to my beloved daughter Rebekah the sum of seven pounds ten shillings yearly and every year during her natural life, commencing at my decease, to my daughter Mary the sum of one hundred pounds including the one half of what she has already got, to be paid twenty five pounds yearly commensing one year after my decease, to my grand daughter Mary McCompsey the sume of five pounds, four years after my decease; to my grand daughter Barbary Pickele the sum of five pounds when she arrives to the age of twenty one years - -
SECOND, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son William Slaymaker his heirs and afsigns, all the tract of land lying on the mountain, adjoining lands formerly belonging to Daniel Slaymaker late deceased and others containing fourty four acres be the same more or lefs, with its appurtenances, he paying to my other children the following sums to wit, to my beloved daughter Rachels children the Sum of five pounds, seven years after my decease, to be equally divided among them, to my daughter Elizabeths children the sum of five pounds when the all arrive to full age, to be equally divided among them; to my daughter Rebekah the sum of seven pounds ten shillings yearly during her natural life, commencing at my decease; to my daughter Mary the sum of one hundred pounds including the one half of what she has already got, to be paid twenty five pounds yearly commencing one year after my decease; to my grand daughter Mary McCompsey the sum of five pounds four years after my decease; to my grand daughter Barbara Pickele the sum of five pounds when hshe arrives to the age of twenty one years - - THIRDLY, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughters Rebekah and Mary all my cloths bed and bedding and books that I may have at my decease to be equally divided between them - - FOURTHLY, it is my will that all the bonds or notes which I hold on my sons John and William Slaymaker or that I may hold at the time of my decease, may be given up to them or be void and of none effect - - FIFTHLY, it is my will that my executors collect what money is due to me by bond or note from Samuel McCompsey at my decease and divide it equally among the children of my daughter RebekAR - - AND LASTLY I do hereby appoint my beloved sons John and William Slaymaker executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made In witnefs hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the twenty second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three ñ 1803. - -
his Mathias X Slaymaker (seal) mark
SIGNED sealed published & declared by the above named Mathias Slaymaker to be his last will & testament in presence of us whose names are hereunto subscribed as witnefs in the presence of the testator Herman Skiles; Amos Slaymaker
Mathias Slaymaker, second son of Mathias Slaymaker, was a Lieutenant in the First Battalion, Third Company, during the Revolutionary War. Buried in Old Leacock cemetery in "Slaymaker Row", his tombstone says he died Jan. 9, 1804, aged 76 years. Mathias was the largest land owner of cleared land of the Slaymakers as shown in the tax records by 1759. He claimes 80 acres cleared, compared to 50 acres for Henry and 40 acres for John Slaymaker. Mathias Slaymaker died testate and in his last will and testament he willed to his son John Slaymaker, 12 acres of land adjoining lands of Baltares Berkman, Henry Slaymaker, and son John Slaymaker, along the Strasburg Road. DAR Patriot Index; Gunderson Slaymaker Family Association "White Chimneys" by Samuel Cochran
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