• General Notes

  REFN: 533
  Daniel Slaymaker, who died in 1801, was the youngest son of Mathias
  Schleiermacher, and was left as executor of his father's estate.  He
  married Agilis Young and had five children.
  Daniel was with General Washington under General Braddock when Braddock
  was killed by the French and Indians, near where Pittsburg now stands. 
  He enlisted as a private during the Revolutionary War  and marched to
  Virginia with the army and was detailed as a teamster.  At one time,
  probably Brandwine, when in full retreat, three of his horses were shot,
  the one at the side of the tongue was not injured (he was blind).  Upon
  this horse, Daniel mounted and made his escape, saving only his rifle.  
  While encamped in Virginia with a small division of the army, Daniel was
  on picket duty and while there engaged,  a Hessian soldier made some
  insulting remarks which exasperated Daniel, who raised his rifle and shot
  the Hessian solder.  He was courtmartialed, the circumstances related
  which brought about the shooting, and he was cleared.  Near the end of
  the war, he took camp fever and did not recover until after the end of
  the war.  

Details of Daniel's family with Agilis Young