Individual Details

Sarah Slayden

(1691 - )

Events

Birth1691Canterbury, City of Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Christen25 Sep 1691Saint Alphege's Church, Canterbury, City of Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Marriage1705Blisland Parish, Virginia, British Colonial America - John Bunch III
Legal16 Aug 1705& Sarah Slayden, A white woman, petitioned the Council of VA on 16 AUG 1705 to Allow them to marry because the Minister of Blisland Parish (in New Kent & James City counties) had refused to marry them. The Attorney General was undecided "whether the petition came within the intent of the Law to prevent Negros & White Persons intermarrying" because he could not resolve "Whether the issue begotten on A White woman by A Mulatto man can properly be called A Mulatto, that name As I conceive being only Appropriated to the Child of A Negro man begotten upon A white woman or A white man upon A negro woman, & As I Am told the issue of A Mulatto by or upon A white person has Another name viz. that of Mustee; wch if so, I conceive it wholly out of the Letter (tho it may be conjectured to be within ye intent) of the sd Act, to which (as Abovesd being Penal) is, As I conceive, not to be construed beyond ye letter thereof." The matter was referred to the court to decide [McIlwaine, Executive Journals of the Council, III:28, 31].

Families

SpouseJohn Bunch III (1684 - 1742)
ChildJohn Bunch IV (1710 - 1777)
ChildLucretia Bunch (1714 - 1774)
ChildNancy Bunch (1714 - 1777)
ChildWilliam Bunch (1715 - 1776)
ChildHenry Bunch (1717 - 1783)
ChildSamuel Bunch Sr (1720 - 1782)
ChildDavid Bunch Sr (1722 - 1776)
ChildJames Alpheus Bunch Sr (1724 - 1802)
ChildRebecca Bunch (1730 - 1731)
FatherSir. John Sladden (1669 - )
MotherAnne Gurney (1675 - 1744)