Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameWilliam John Sloan 
Birth1715, Fermanaugh, Tyrone, Ireland
Death1745, Peters, Cumberland, Penn
FatherGeorge Sloan (1689-)
MotherMary Campbell
Misc. Notes
History. 2094
Newspaper: 2095
The story of Ann Wasson is not one of youth and romance as has been portrayed of other Indian captives, but that of suffering and privation. The story of a noble pioneer woman who was willing to risk all that this country should be developed for her children. In the spring of 1756 we find Ann Wasson living with her second husband, John Wasson, and seven children-John, William, Robert and Jane Sloan, issue with her first husband, William Sloan, and Thomas, James and Elizabeth Wasson, issue with her second husband, John Wasson- on a plantation of 450 acres in Peters Township. Cumberland (now Franklin) County. The times were exceedingly dangerous. Since Braddock's defeat the previous fall the Indians bad been terrorizing this whole section. Many settlers had lost their lives and many been captured. Rev. John Steele's meeting house had been turned into a fort, which was a place of refuge for the women and children of the neighborhood, as well as a stronghold when attacked by the Indians. On April 5, 1 756, Fort McCord,
Newspaper: 2095
The story of Ann Wasson is not one of youth and romance as has been portrayed of other Indian captives, but that of suffering and privation. The story of a noble pioneer woman who was willing to risk all that this country should be developed for her children. In the spring of 1756 we find Ann Wasson living with her second husband, John Wasson, and seven children-John, William, Robert and Jane Sloan, issue with her first husband, William Sloan, and Thomas, James and Elizabeth Wasson, issue with her second husband, John Wasson- on a plantation of 450 acres in Peters Township. Cumberland (now Franklin) County. The times were exceedingly dangerous. Since Braddock's defeat the previous fall the Indians bad been terrorizing this whole section. Many settlers had lost their lives and many been captured. Rev. John Steele's meeting house had been turned into a fort, which was a place of refuge for the women and children of the neighborhood, as well as a stronghold when attacked by the Indians. On April 5, 1 756, Fort McCord,
Spouses
Birth1 Jan 1717, Fermanagh County, Tyrone, Ireland
Death1776, Mercerburg, Cumberland, Penn
FatherJohn Means
MotherElizabeth McCord (1678-1717)
Marriage1735