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intents and eanstmctions and purposes, whatsoever, as 

 any of his Majesty^s natiu*al born subjects of this 



The subjoined communications will be read with more than 

 ordinary interest* The first is from H. F. Slaymakery Esq.j 

 and the other from John Slay maker, Esq..^ both written in reply 

 to several queries previously proposed touching the ancestors 

 of this highly respectable family: 



'* Mathias Slaymaker emigrated from Strasburg, in Germany 

 He was born and bred in Hess Castle> and came to this coun- 

 try about the year 1710. He settled on what is called tho 

 *' London Lands;" a tract of 1,000 acres, near the present 

 residence of Peter J. Eckert, in Strasburg township, which is 

 supposed to have been named by him; he was at that tinie- 

 surrounded by Indians; their names are not known.. 



He had two brothers ; one of whom was a clergyman, and 

 settled in the Emperors dominion, high up in Germany ; he 

 was appointed Secretary of Legation from that Government 

 to the Court of St. James; afterwards, Charge d'Atfairs, andj 

 there married. President John Adams,, when minister to the 

 Court of St. James,, resided with one of his descendants. — . 

 His oldest son was Governor of an Islands. 



The other brother was major in the King of Prussia's full 

 regiment; and afterwards,.it is probable, his son was one of the^ 

 officers (a Major) in the Hessian troops — as^ one of that name- 

 was confined as a prisoner of war in the Lancaster jail. 



The first named, ]Mathi<is, had five sons, Lawrence, Mathias,. 

 John, Henry, Daniel and two daughters, Margaret and Bar- 

 bara Eeckman. He was married before he came to this 

 country — and Lawrence and Margaret were born in Germany. 

 Lav/rence married a sister of Jacob Pfautz, and had one child 

 who married a person by the n^am.e of Lefevre,. and moved to 

 Cumberland county. 



Mathias married a Miss Smith,, and had two sons and three 

 daughters, John,,. William, Rachel, B-ebecca and Elisabeth. 



John married Elisabeth White,, and had. Mathias, John, Wil- 

 •liam and Alexander, and five daughters, Jane,. Elisabeth, Mary, 

 Kitty and Ann. 



Henry married Faithful Richardson, and had three sons, 

 Amos, Henry and Samuel, and six daughters,, Mary, Hannah, 



