James Sloan (1769-1853) was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia and served in the American Revolution. He eventually settled in Kentucky. He was the father of eleven children. Descendants married into the Hale family. One of the earliest known ancestors of the Hale family was Lewis Hale (1746-1802) who married Mary Burwell and settled in Grayson County, Virginia. His descendants moved to Kentucky. Descendants live in Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, Colorado and other parts of the United States.

13 Generations pass between the first known ancestor (JOHN HEALD) and my husband's two-fourth cousins. (1985) The year is the early 1600s, the place is Northumberland County in the far north of England, bordering Scotland. John Heald or Hale, probably walks or uses the canal systems when leaving his home for the most likely port of Plymouth on the English Channel. In all likelihood John Heald travels a zigzag journey, where ships are waiting in the bay to sail for America. For passage he (with a wife?) perhaps signs on as indentured servants because early Colonial Massachusetts records tell us "...he (John Heald) is made Freeman on 2 June 1641." He dies and is buried in Concord, Massachusetts in 1662. In the 4th generations a second son born to Reuben Hales' at Waterbury, Connecticut in 1763 is named ISAAC HALE (5th generation). Isaac is taken by his matronal grandfather, Arah Ward to Vermont while still a small boy. Isaac Hale marries ELIZABETH LEWIS on 20 September 1790 in Wells, Rutland County, Vermont. "..they, Isaac Hale and his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Lewis with their wives Elizabeth and Sarah, formed an immigrant train...and came a distance of about 220 miles from ...Vermont to ... Pennsylvania in 1790." All of Isaac and Elizabeth Hale's children are born and raised in Pennsylvania. This Isaac and Elizabeth are the father-in-law and mother-in-law to the Prophet Joseph Smith. Isaac dies in 1839 and his wife three years later. It is the first child of the 8th generation, a daughter named ALICE HALE who is the first female in our direct line back to John Heald approximately 260 years, born in 1861 who marries SAMUEL REGINALD WOOD (SR) on 27 October 1878. SR's parents are ENOS WOOD and MARGARET EAMER of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. This much is a heritage that we all share in common. My husband is one of forty-one first cousins born in the 10th generation. Our flour children are of the 11th generation and the, 12th generation - our grandchildren . By 1985, the 13th generation in our family lists only two little boys.

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