This genealogy of the Slade family comes from a four volume set of genealogy research compiled in the early 1900s. Each generation is shown in parentheses ( ). Begin with one individual and continue that line through the furthest generation currently known before starting a new descendancy for the next sibling. This method keeps each family group intact, while presenting the families of siblings separately but under the same generational number.
The name Slade has an interesting origin. Its meaning as a common noun is “a small strip of green plain within a woodland.” One of the rhymes about Robin Hood runs:
“It had been better of William a Trent
To have been abed with sorrowe,
Than to be that day in greenwood slade
To meet with Little John’s arrowe.”
In England we have the de la Slades of the Hundred Rolls. The word is seen in many compounds like: Robert de Greneslade (of the green-slade); William de la Morslade (the moorland-slade); Richard de Wytslade (the white-slade); Michael de Ocslade (the oak-slade). Sladen, that is slade-den, implies a woodland hollow. The name Slade in this country has sometimes been written Sled and Sleed.
(I) Stiles’ Ancient Windsor gives three residents of that town, named Slade, including William, Junior, from which we may infer that they were sons of William. No account of the latter is given. His origin is unknown, but he probably lived in Windsor where were born to him three sons.
(II) John Slade, one of these, was married September 12, 1751, in Windsor, to the Widow Martha Gleason, of Enfield, and their children included: John, Martha, William, Thomas, Daniel and Samuel. He settled in Alstead, New Hampshire, in 1773. He received a grant of land there and is said to have been a revolutionary soldier. The Revolutionary Rolls of Connecticut mention a John Slade, who served eighteen days from Wallingford.
(III) Samuel Slade, youngest son of John and Martha (Gleason) Slade, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, and was in the neighborhood of two years old when he came with his father to Alstead, New Hampshire. He died there September 28, 1860, at the age of ninety-eight years, his death being caused by a fall which broke his hip bone. He and his brother remained on the paternal homestead in Alstead. They lived and dwelt in great peace and harmony, although they held opposing principles in both religion and politics. Samuel was an ardent Democrat, while his brother was quite as earnest in support of Whig policies. Samuel enlisted at Keene, New Hampshire, July 6, 1779, for the defence of Rhode Island. He was a member of Captain Ephraim Stone’s Company of Colonel Bellows’ regiment. He enlisted July 26, 1779, in Colonel Hercules Mooney’s regiment, and was discharged January 10, 1780. He received a bounty of thirty pounds and traveling expenses of twelve pounds for his Rhode Island service, being credited to the town of Alstead. He married Hannah Thompson, who lived to the age of eighty years. They are said to have had eleven children, but they do not appear in the vital records of New Hampshire. (Mention of their sons, Enoch and Samuel, appear in this article.)
(IV) Enoch Slade, son of Samuel (1) and Hannah (Thompson) Slade, was born April 12, 1787, in Alstead, New Hampshire, and settled when a young man in Brookfield, Vermont. When his children had become partially grown he removed to Thetford, Vermont, to secure the advantages of the academy there in the education of his family. He was the owner of a farm, but was kept employed in the transaction of public business, in probate matters and other local affairs. Although he was not a licensed lawyer, yet he transacted most of the legal business in his town. He filled all of the chief offices, to which he was repeatedly elected. He was trustee of Thetford Academy, and a member of the Congregational Church. He was a very earnest adherent of the principles of the Republican party, and ever aimed to promote the welfare of the community in which he resided, as well as of the state and nation. Mr. Slade was possessed of an unusual degree of intelligence and executive ability, and occupied a very influential position in the community where he lived. He was a man of large stature and usually weighed more than two hundred and fifty pounds. He married Penelope Wellington, who was a daughter of Palsgrave and Abigail (Sparhawk) Wellington. The last named was famed for her beauty, and before her marriage to Mr. Wellington was the wife of Hall Sewell, a wealthy Englishman, who was a graduate of Harvard College, and died early in life. Enoch Slade and wife had five children. The first, a daughter, died in infancy. The second, Samuel Wellington, became a distinguished lawyer, residing in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. Laura, the third, is the widow of Asa Snow and lives in Boston. William lived and died in Thetford, Vermont. Hannah, the youngest, is the widow of Governor Moody Currier, of Manchester (see Currier).
(IV) Samuel Slade (2), son of Samuel (1) and Hannah (Thompson) Slade, was born May 10, 1797, in Alstead, New Hampshire. He was a farmer in that town. He saw some service in the War of 1812. He enlisted in Captain James M. Warner’s company, in the Second Regiment of Detached Militia. He enlisted September 25, 1814, for sixty days. Samuel (2) Slade married Emma Angier, daughter of Benjamin and Enice (Johnson) Angier. She was born November 3, 1799, and had the distinction of living in three centuries. Her death occurred May 12, 1901, at the remarkable age of one hundred years, six months and nine days. The children of Samuel and Emma Slade were: Lucius, whose sketch follows; Eunice, Lora, Ira, Dana, Orrissa and Orrilla.
(V) Lucius Slade, eldest son and child of Samuel (2) and Emma (Angier) Slade, was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, April 12, 1818. He attended the public schools in Ludlow, New Hampshire, and was graduated from the school in Unity, New Hampshire, taught by Dr. Monzo A. Miner, afterwards the noted Universalist clergyman in Boston.
For a time Lucius Slade taught school in Surry and other places in his immediate neighborhood. At the age of twenty-four he moved to Boston, and for six months was employed by Aaron Aldrich, a butter and egg dealer in Faneuil Hall market. He was afterwards employed by John Miller in the same business. In 1851 Lucius Slade formed a partnership with George Rust, for the purpose of conducting the butter, cheese, and egg business in Faneuil Hall market. Mr. Rust retired in 1851, and Mr. Slade removed to Faneuil Hall Square, where he conducted this business alone for forty-four years. In 1896, as Mr. Slade was approaching eighty years, he felt the need of an associate, and he took W. J. Hayes into partnership. The firm then became Lucius Slade & Company. Mr. Slade lived on Poplar Street, on the lower slope of Beacon Hill, Boston, till 1896, when he removed to North Cambridge, where he died at the age of nearly eighty-six. During Lucius Slade’s long and active life he served as councilman two years and alderman for eight years in Boston. He was a member of the Massachusetts senate from 1862 to 1864. While alderman he was chairman of the committee on sewerage, paving and public buildings. He was also a member of the school board. He made the public good his chief object and he was a thoroughly upright and much respected man. He was one of the oldest of the Boston Lancers, being a member for half a century. He was captain of the Lancers for eight years, and was in command at the Cooper Street riot, one of the draft riots of the Civil War. After the war he was made major of a battalion composed of the National Lancers, the Roxbury Horse Guards, Prescott Light Guards and Dragoons. During the Civil War Captain Slade was active in forming several companies from the Lancers for the Union army. He belonged to the Masons and Odd Fellows, and was one of the oldest members of the Boston Club. While in Boston Major Slade lost his interest in New Hampshire. He bought several farms in Walpole, on one of which his daughter, Mrs. Sawyer, now lives. Lucius Slade married Lucy Rust, daughter of Daniel Rust, who was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, December 3, 1817. She was the granddaughter of Nathaniel Rust, who had a government grant of land in Alstead, and came there from Windsor, Connecticut. They had three children: Franklin, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Carrie, who died young; and Lelia L., whose sketch follows. Major Lucius Slade was a man of great energy and business capacity, and of a kind and genial disposition and many people have reason to remember his generosity. His long and useful life ended January 13, 1904. His wife lived a little more than a year after her husband, dying April 5, 1895, in her eighty-eighth year.
(VI) Lelia L. Slade, second daughter and youngest child of Major Lucius and Lucy (Rust) Slade, was born in Boston, January 1, 1857. On March 12, 1883, she married Henry Holmes Sawyer, who was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. (See Sawyer, III.)
Source
Stearns, Ezra S., Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, 4 vols., New York : Lewis Publishing Co., 1908.