Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth Dulaney 
Birth1720
Spouses
ChildrenMargaret (1740-)
Research notes for William (Spouse 1)
(From book of admins by Anne W B Belle, LDS film.) William Slade 1785 will LOA to Elizabeth Slade. Also William Slade 1795 intestate LOA to Elizabeth Slade & Dixon Stansbury Jr.
My Comments notes for William (Spouse 1)
William was not our ancestor, he was the brother of our ancestor Ezekiel. But William is of interest to me because of the story I found about Slade’s Tavern which William apparently founded.
Slade’s Tavern is now a rather fancy bed and breakfast in current operation in Monkton, MD known as Slade’s Inn. I found the history of this inn on-line.
“William Slade built and conducted the Old Slade’s Tavern sometime in the year 1746. The Tavern was situated directly on the Old York Road, which formed a part of the great Eastern Highway -- a post road that led to York, PA, thence to Philadelphia and New York. It was about a quarter mile east of St. James Church. In the War of the Revolution, the soldiers who were assigned to guard the store of munitions in St. James Church, made the Tavern their loafing place and during the Civil War, the draft for that section of the country was held there. Washington and Lafayette are said to have been guests at Slade’s during the Revolution and to have occupied a small log house which stood on the property about three hundred yards to the north of the Tavern. Slade’s Tavern was handed down from father to son or daughter through the family until approximately 1886, when William Thomas Slade, the last of the family to own it, sold it to Mr. Jacob Pearce. It was torn down in 1900 to make room for the present Victorian home now located on the property.”
Slade’s Tavern is now a rather fancy bed and breakfast in current operation in Monkton, MD known as Slade’s Inn. I found the history of this inn on-line.
“William Slade built and conducted the Old Slade’s Tavern sometime in the year 1746. The Tavern was situated directly on the Old York Road, which formed a part of the great Eastern Highway -- a post road that led to York, PA, thence to Philadelphia and New York. It was about a quarter mile east of St. James Church. In the War of the Revolution, the soldiers who were assigned to guard the store of munitions in St. James Church, made the Tavern their loafing place and during the Civil War, the draft for that section of the country was held there. Washington and Lafayette are said to have been guests at Slade’s during the Revolution and to have occupied a small log house which stood on the property about three hundred yards to the north of the Tavern. Slade’s Tavern was handed down from father to son or daughter through the family until approximately 1886, when William Thomas Slade, the last of the family to own it, sold it to Mr. Jacob Pearce. It was torn down in 1900 to make room for the present Victorian home now located on the property.”