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file:///C|/Users/Bob/Desktop/William%20Slaughters.txt WILLIAM SLAUGHTER OF PRINCE GEORGE AND LUNENBURG COUNTIES VIRGINIA - PROGENITOR OF PIONEER CATTLEMEN OF TEXAS AND THE SOUTHWEST VOLUME TWO By Robert D. Taylor 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword ………………………………......................................................Page ii Chapter One - Additional Information on the Descendants of William Webb Slaughter, son of Walter ……………………............Page 1 Chapter Two - Additional Information on the Descendants of Richard Slaughter, son of Walter……………………………….......Page Chapter Three- Additional Information on the Descendants of John Slaughter, son of Walter……………………………….......Page Chapter Four - Additional Information on the Descendants of David Slaughter, son of Walter……………………………….......Page Chapter Five - Additional Information on the Descendants of Robert Slaughter and George Slaughter, sons of Walter…………..Page Chapter Six - Additional Information on the Descendants of James Smith and Presumed Daughter of Walter Slaughter…… Page Chapter Seven - Samuel Webb and Nancy Ann Snead Descendants……. Page Chapter Eight - Descendants of Mary “Fannie” Webb, daughter of George Webb………………………………................ Page Chapter Nine - Rachel Webb and Michael Dockery Descendants……….. Page Chapter Ten - Descendants of George Webb, Jr…………………………..Page Chapter Eleven - Corrections for Volume One………………………….. Page FOREWORD The Slaughter family that was a pioneering force in the cattle industry in Texas had its beginnings in the Colony of Virginia in the 1600’s. Some have tried to connect this family to the first of the name Slaughter to arrive in Virginia, a John Slaughter, who had sons named William, Francis, and Richard. DNA marker evidence has proven this relationship to be untrue. Some have also tried to connect this family to a Robert Slaughter of Virginia, unrelated to both this Slaughter family and that of the first John Slaughter, and this too has been proven untrue. file:///C|/Users/Bob/Desktop/William%20Slaughters.txt (1 of 211)1/15/2021 9:35:25 AM file:///C|/Users/Bob/Desktop/William%20Slaughters.txt William Slaughter was the father of two children, Walter and Elizabeth. Elizabeth appears to have died early. She was named for her grandmother, Elizabeth Leake, wife of Richard Leake. Her maiden name was Hill. Walter Slaughter was named after Richard Leake’s brother, Walter Leake, who became quite prominent. Walter Slaughter married Susannah Margaret Webb, daughter of George Webb and Margaret Adcock. Walter and Susannah had nine and possibly ten children. Son Richard was named for Walter’s grandfather, Richard Leake, and may have had the middle name of Leake, though there is no document to prove it. Richard named a son Walter Lee Slaughter. It is believed that Richard named him Lee, thinking that his great-grandfather was named Lee, as the name Leake could have become misspelled in later years. Walter’s son David was named after David Hill, brother of Elizabeth Hill, wife of Richard Leake. Son George Slaughter was named after George Webb. Son Robert Webb was named after Walter’s good friend, Robert Webb, unrelated to George. William Slaughter, son of Walter, was named either after Walter’s father or his great grandfather, William Leake, father of Richard, or perhaps his grandfather, William Slaughter. Walter’s son John was named either after Elizabeth Hill’s father or after Walter’s possible grandfather, John Slaughter. This volume contains new and updated information on the descendants of William Slaughter, father of Walter Slaughter. A possible aunt of William Slaughter, father of Walter Slaughter, has been located. Nancy Slaughter, born about 1703, probably in Charles City County, Virginia, married Joseph Pitts about 1724, probably in Prince George or Surry County. Joseph’s father was Charles Pitt of Southwark Parish, Surry County, which borders Prince George County on the east. By 1640, James City County’s population was sufficient to support a new parish, and Lawne’s Creek Parish was established. Southwark Parish was separated from James City Parish in 1647 and Surry County was separated from James City five years later. Soon afterward Arthur Allen built his Jacobean brick house, now known as Bacon’s castle because it was occupied as a fort or “castle” during Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676. Southwark and Lawne’s Creek parishes in Surry County were not prosperous, as evidenced by reports to the Bishop of London in 1724 by ministers of these two parishes. The Rev. John Worden, minister of Lawne’s Parish, made this report: “I arrived in Virginia in 1712, when Governor Spottswood sent me for six month to Jamestown. Then I went to the parishes of Weynoake and Martins Brandon, both of which parishes were hardly sufficient to support a minister; therefore I removed to this parish, where I have been since January 30th, 1717.” He stated that his parish was ten miles wide along the river and 120 long with 700 titheables in it. There were some Indians, bond and free. Some masters would have their Negroes baptized and some would not, because they would not be sureties for them. “I cannot persuade parents and masters to send their children and servants to be catechized. I sometimes get eight shillings and four pence for my tobacco, file:///C|/Users/Bob/Desktop/William%20Slaughters.txt (2 of 211)1/15/2021 9:35:25 AM file:///C|/Users/Bob/Desktop/William%20Slaughters.txt per hundred, and sometimes no so much; and if I send it to Europe, perhaps it brings me in debt, as of late years it hath happened. The vestry will not keep my glebe-house1 in order; but if I do it myself, I may and welcome. I have church and chapel thirty miles apart, twelve communicants at the former, and thirty or forty at the latter.” The Rev. John Cargill, minister of Southwark Parish, made a similar report: “I have been here sixteen years. My parish is twenty miles in width and one hundred inhabited in length, it being a frontier parish. It has three hundred and ninety-four families. The school of Mr. Griffin called Christina, for Indians, is in the borders of my parish. There is one church and two chapels and seventy or eighty communicants. My tobacco now sells at five shillings per hundred; my salary from thirty to forty pounds. My glebe house is in a very bad condition, and the parish will not repair it, so I must look out for a house elsewhere. No school, no library in the parish.”2 Descendants of William Slaughter migrated from Prince George County, Virginia to Anson County, North Carolina about 1767. They lived in the part of Anson which became Richmond in 1799. From there they went to Warren County, Georgia for a short time and then to the Mississippi Territory, settling in Wilkinson County, where they were enumerated in the 1805 Mississippi Territorial census. After a few years they removed to Marion County, Mississippi to the part that became Lawrence County on December 22, 1814. Part of the family remained here until the 1850’s and other branches of the family moved northward in the early 1820’s to Copiah and Hinds counties, looking for new land in the newly-opened lands of the Choctaw Session. Two branches went to Rankin County, and one branch moved to Louisiana. All but the branch that went to Louisiana eventually wound up in Texas. In Texas, many became stock raisers and cattlemen and were instrumental in building the early Texas cattle industry, as mentioned previously. Some became law enforcement officers. Many fought for the Confederate cause in the Civil War, some losing their lives. A few were what some might call black sheep of the family, but who are we to judge their actions? A case in point was Coney Cross Slaughter, who was accused and indicted for embezzling funds and negotiables from his father’s bank in Pueblo, Colorado. Here was a person whose family was certainly not destitute, who was a man who loved his family and children, but made serious mistakes in judgment. Additional information is given on the Webb family. Walter Slaughter married Susannah Webb, daughter of George Webb and Margaret Adcock. Information on several of their other children and their families are presented. Due to DNA tests, it has been discovered that some of the Webb families in Wiltshire, England were related to the George Webb family. Wiltshire, England lies adjacent to Somerset (shire), England, to the east. Descendants of these Wiltshire families are in the United States today. Because of the DNA marker evidence, it has been found that Robert Webb of Bromham, Wiltshire, was the probable file:///C|/Users/Bob/Desktop/William%20Slaughters.txt (3 of 211)1/15/2021 9:35:25 AM file:///C|/Users/Bob/Desktop/William%20Slaughters.txt grandfather of Timothy Webb, who was the father of George Webb. Robert married Cisly Webb on October 20, 1655 and they had a son, Tymothy Webb, born April 14, 1662 at Bromham. The Webbs were not cattle raisers except for their own use. Most of the descendants of George Webb were farmers in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas. Some were prominent physicians in Alabama. One became a mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama. In summary, only the descendants of Walter Slaughter were true cattlemen, trail drivers, cowboys, and ranchers. This researcher is descended from four generations of cattlemen, trail drivers, and cowboys. CHAPTER ONE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM WEBB SLAUGHTER, SON OF WALTER Coney Cross Slaughter, son of William Baxter Slaughter, son of George Webb Slaughter, son of William Webb Slaughter, in his younger years, was a Stearns automobile dealer in Los Angeles, California. He, at times, entered his cars for racing. The Los Angeles Times of July 28, 1908 reported the following news headlined: “LOCO AND STEARNS RACERS GROOMED FOR LONG ROUTE.

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