What we believe/what we know.
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Re: Was Frederick Sluss really Jared?
10/07/98
Frederick Sluss appears in the records of Montgomery Co. Va in 1782. I May of thaat year his daughter Elizabeth married Peter Groseclose. Peter Groseclose was wounded at the Battle of the Brandywine n 1771--as was Johannes Schlosser a son of Peter Schlosser who immigrated to America in 1732 with brother Leonardt. Only two sons of Leonhardt Schlosser have been positively identified. The late Helen Seubold believed that he had at least two additional sons, perhaps more.
Leonhardt settled in Northampton Co. PA (later Lehigh) where he died after 1756. One of the two sons documented was Conrad who migrated into the Valley of Virginia & whose presence is documented in Frederick Co. & Dunmore (later Shenandoah Co.)VA. He later removes to Augusta Co. VA where he died in 1819. Two of his daughters end up in Montgomery Co. While in the Valley of Virginia, he is associated with another Wythe Co. VA pioneer family--the Huddles (Hottle). It was a member of the Huddle family who (according to at least one account of the Sluss massacre) first found the bodies of the family after the killings. Because the Huddle family did not appear in the Wythe Co. area until around 1794--this appears to document a later date for the massacre.
From land tax & personal property tax records we know for certain that John Sluss who died in 1833 was a son of Frederick Sluss Sr. From other deeds we have a firm association between John Sluss & Peter & Elizabeth Sluss Groseclose, and between Frederick Sluss Sr & his sons Henry, David & Frederick Sluss Jr.
From the account of one of the sons of Henry Sluss, we have the names of his uncles & aunts and where they removed to: he aknowledges Elizabeth Groseclose, Susan Ketron, & Polly Sherrits as his aunts, & mentions uncles John who died form a falling tree in 1833, his uncle David of Scott Co. VA, & his uncle Frederick who removed to Missouri. I would love to hear from any members of the family who descend from John Sluss (most of his children removed to Johnson Co. Indiana), as well as Sluss descendants from Missouri & Arkansas.
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