Begins with Robert Slayton (ca. 1630-1672) of Kent County, England. He married Mary Gisard (b. 1633) in 1655. His second wife was Alice. Traces 2198 descendants for 11 generations.

Newletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Slaton, Slatton, Slayden (and other variant spellings) families in America. This series has updates, addtions and corrections to the two Slaton books, viz. "The new Slaton family index" published: Homewood, Alabama : C. Slayton, 1992; and "The Slaton family, ab antiquitas" published: Los Angeles, California : A.J. Slaton, 1964, and revised edition 1974.

William Maurice Slayton (1906-1986) was born at Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Charles Guy Slayton (1890-1952) and Lydia Emma Becker Slayton (1887-1968). He married Jennie Mae Cochran (1900-1968) in 1935 at Kansas City. They had one son born in 1942 at Kansas. He married 2) Mary Elizabeth Cochran (1912-1986). Ancestors include: John Sladden (1669-1721) of Dover, Kent County, England, and Slayden Creek, Hanover County, Virginia -- John Sloden (ca....

The earliest known ancestor, Robert Estes (Eustace), was born about 1475 in Kentshire, England, and he died in 1506 in Dover, Kentshire. The immigrant ancestor, Abraham Estes (1647-1720), son of Sylvester Estes and Ellen Martin, was born in Ringwould, Kentshire, England. He married (1) 1672 in Sandwich, Kent, England, Ann Burton, and (2) Barbara ? He had thirteen children, oldest born ca. 1684 in Virginia. Abraham Estes died in King & Queen, Virginia....

Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of John Henry Biddle. John was born between 1780 and 1790. He was the father of five children. The family lived in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and elsewhere.

Materials and correspondence collected by William Slayton on several of his ancestral lines who settled in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and in other states after leaving Virginia. These records go back to colonial times for some lines.

History and genealogy of the Nichols family of New York and elsewhere, descendants of Daniel L. Nichols (1800-1877) and his wife Eunice Merryfield (1802-1873). Includes related families of French, Knipfer, Phetteplace, Slayton, Youmans and Merryfield, etc.

Thomas Prudden was born in 1487 in England to Thomas and Margaret Prudden. He married Ellen and they had at least one son. He was buried in 1558/1559. Two of his second great-grandchildren, James and Peter Prudden, immigrated to Connecticut before 1640. Descendants lived in England, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Idaho, and elsewhere.