• General Notes

  REFN: 380
  John Slaymaker, third son of Mathias Schleiermacher, married Elizabeth
  White and had 11 children.
  He was in Braddock's campaign as a wagoneer.  He was put to draw a cannon
  at the place of rendezvous, and took it into battle on the day of
  Braddock's defeat.  He had eleven horses to pull it on that day, which
  were all shot before the retreat.  Most of the American troops were
  killed in the conflict, but John came off safe.  In 1776, he marched at
  the head of a company to Bergen, New Jersey, was in the skirmish on
  Chestnut Hill, under General Bull, when Bull was taken prisoner.   John
  was later chosen county commissioner.
  John was an Elder in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, situated on the Old
  Road, about 15 miles east of Lancaster City, PA, and it was incorporated
  March 10, 1787, by act of General Assembly of Pennsylvania.  Trustees in
  said act of incorporation were Rev. N.W. Semple, James Craig, John
  Slaymaker, G.E. McIlvaine, Henry Slaymaker Jr., Wm. Porter, Wm. Clayton
  and James Cooper.  Adjoining the church is the graveyard which has been
  and still is used as burial place by many of the descendants of Mathias
  Slaymaker, and is his own resting place.  The church was started in the
  early part of 1700.
  The following is taken from "Colonial and Revolutionary Families of
  Pennsylvania, Volumes 1-111:
  "John Slaymaker, the second son of the emigrant, was a soldier in
  the Provincial service in the second expedition against Fort Du Quesne,
  and at the outbreak of the Revolution was commissioned a caption in the
  First Battalion, Lancaster County Militia, being a colleague of Captain
  Henry Kendrick, of the same battalion, and both were in active service
  during a great part of the war for independence." 

Details of John's family with Elizabeth White