• General Notes

  REFN: 532
  Henry Slaymaker, fourth son of Mathias Schleiermacher, married Faithful
  Richardson and had 10 children.  He was born in August, 1734, married
  April 23, 1754, and died September 25, 1785. 
  Henry served in the Revolutionary War as an Ensign of a company commanded
  by his uncle, John Slaymaker.
  He was an active and conspicuous Whig during the Revolutionary War and
  among the first to take a stand with the Republic.  Active measures were
  taken by the British authorities to prevail on the inhabitants to take
  protections from the Crown.  Henry Slaymaker was called upon to take one,
  but refused.  Being a magistrate, he administered the oath of allegiance
  to those who espoused the cause and was prompt in suppressing any efforts
  on the part of the Tories at insurrection and in punishing them for
  furnishing the British with horses and provisions, which they were
  stealing in the eastern end of Lancaster County, PA.  He was a member of
  an association of young men who entered into articles of agreement for
  the purpose of suppressing all who were Tories, and he had at all times
  information of what was going on so as to suppress any attempt at rising
  against the Republic, and he would order them out when any information
  was given of the presence of Tories in the neighborhood. 
  He helped clear the ground where the old jail stood,  now the site of
  Fulton Opera House.  After Mr. Hubley became too old to try cases, Henry
  Slaymaker was appointed principal Judge.   He was a delegate to the
  convention for framing a constitution of the State of Pennsylvania, which
  met in Philadelphia, July 15, 1776. He was a member of the Legislature of
  Pennsylvania and an elder of the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster
  County, PA.  He was very prominent in the local affairs of Lancaster
  County.

Details of Henry's family with Faithful Richardson