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THE SLOTE FAMILY
Originally published in 1900 |
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THE SLOTE FAMILY. - The first American ancestor of the Slote family
was John Pietersen Slot, a native of the Province of Holstein in Denmark,
who crone to America about 1650 with his two sons, John and Pieter, and
settled at Harlem, where lie bought lands and became a prominent and
useful citizen, filling the important office of magistrate from 1660 to 1665.
In 1665 lie bought of (governor Stuyvesant and located on lands on the
Bowery in New Amsterdam, remaining there until 1686. when he bought
and occupied a house in Wall Street. In 1703 he removed to the south
ward of the city, where he died. His son John; married in 1672 Judith
Elsworth, and made his residence in New Amsterdam. Some of his children removed to Hackensack. His brother, Peter Jansen Slot, bought, May
14, 1657, fifty acres at Communipaw, in Bergen County, N. J., on which
he located in April, 1665, having first married (1663) Maritie Jacobs Van
Winkle, of Bergen. He joined the Dutch church and remained there until
1671, when he sold his Bergen lands and removed to New Amsterdam,
remaining there until 1677, when he removed to Esopus, N. Y., and followed
his trade as a builder. Returning in 1683, he again located at Bergen,
but was soon back in New Amsterdam, living near the Stuyvesant Bowery.
He died there in 1688, and his widow married John Demarest and removed
to Hackensack, whither also all except one of Peter's children went and
settled. Peter's issue were John, 1665; Jacobus, 1669; Tryntie, 1671
(married Nicholas Lozier); Aeltie, 1678 (married Adam Van Orden and
Cornelius Banta); and Jonas, 1681. The descendants of these are thickly
scattered over Rockland County, N.Y., and Bergen County, N. J.
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