These pages are from: A. Gregg Finley, The Loyalists: A catalogue featuring selected pieces of Loyalist history from the collections of The New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, N.B.: The New Brunswick Museum, 1975.
If you have the book, please scan the images and we can have a decent posting of them online (these photocopies are really substandard). I only post these here as they are the only known (to me) artifacts left behind by this couple.
Pewter Candlesticks brought to New Brunswick with Leonard & Elizabeth Slip as United Empire Loyalists in 1783
Silver Candle Snuffer brought to New Brunswick by the Loyalist Slipp family in 1783
Its good to have these pictures on the site. I am sure I say the real thing at the Museum at Gagetown some time back.
I had always heard the story that Leonard also had all of his silver melted down while in NY and made into garters and shoe buckles so that he could run with his fortune when need be- what with the revolution in sight. When he had settled in NB, some time later, his daughters convinced him to melt the garters back down and have a set of pure silver spoons made. Has anyone else heard this story? (I also have a photo of Leonard G. for anyone interested- I come from his line).
I never heard this story before but sounds interesting. Thanks for telling it. We would be very interested in seeing the picture of Leonard Slipp.
Did you get a letter about the Slipp Family Reunion planned for next summer?