Robert Slye

Bef 1627 - 1671  (> 43 years)

• Name	Robert Slye  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	Bef 8 Jul 1627  [7, 8]
  Baptism	8 Jul 1627	Lapworth, Warwickshire, England   [7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1670  [2]
  Death	Between 18 Jan 1671 and 13 Mar 1671	Bushwood, St. Clement's Manor, St. Mary's County, Maryland   [8]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Sarah Slye ,   b. Bef 29 Oct 1615 ▻ Lt. Thomas Cooper ,  m. Bef 1642 + 2. Robert Slye ,   b. Bef 8 Jul 1627   d. Between 18 Jan 1671 and 13 Mar 1671, Bushwood, St. Clement's Manor, St. Mary's County, Maryland  (Age > 43 years) ▻ Susannah Gerard ,  m. Abt 1653
  Person ID	I12215	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	George Slye,   b. Bef 4 Sep 1564, of Lapworth, Warwickshire, England d. Aft 8 Jul 1627 (Age > 63 years)
  Family ID	F9215	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susannah Gerard   d. Aft 1679
  Marriage	Abt 1653  [7, 8]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Slye,   b. 1668   d. 1734 (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F7972	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was in Connecticut on 24 Apr 1649, when he was fined for trading a gun to Native Americans. He was a merchant living in Bushwood, St. Clement's Manor, St. Mary's County, Maryland, when he wrote his will. He was a freeholder of St. Clement's in 1660. According to Ancestral Records and Portraits (citation details below), he was a member of the Maryland council of state in 1655, and a burgess from St. Mary's County in 1658; also a captain of militia.

  
  

• Sources

  [S312] John Medley (1615-1660), St. Mary's County Maryland, His Descendants, by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: Mary Louise Donnelly, 1995. [S5935] Ancestral Records and Portraits: A Compilation from the Archives of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of America. 2 vols., New York, 1910. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S5936] John Walton, "Genealogica Marylandia: Gerard's Daughters." Maryland Historical Magazine 68:443, 1973. [S248] Robert Cole's World: Agriculture & Society in Early Maryland by Lois Green Carr, Russell B. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. [S258] Hayden/Rapier and Allied Families: Colonial Maryland, Kentucky, U.S.A. by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: MLD Genealogy Company, 1991. [S2058] George Ely Russell, "Slye-Cooper-Russell Connections." The American Genealogist 57:92, 1981. [S7427] Clifford L. Stott, "The Slye Family of Lapworth, Warwickshire: Ancestors of Capt. Robert Slye of St. Mary's County, Maryland, and Sarah (Slye) Cooper, Wife of Lt. Thomas Cooper of Springfield, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177:333, Fall 2023.