Photo of Murray S. and Marion Thomson

Murray Slipp Thomson (1913-2003) diligently researched the descendants of Leonard Slip. His son-in-law David Allen used genealogy software to organize Murray’s findings. Here’s a photo I took of Murray and his wife Marion in their home in Saint John West, New Brunswick, on May 7, 1993.

Murray S. and Marion Thomson

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Leonard Slip Land Grants

Much has been written about the United Empire Loyalists and there are references elsewhere , as well as on this site, offering additional reading material on this subject. This Post is to give rise to discussion on various aspects of Leonard Slip’s Land Grants. Please feel free to comment.

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Loyalist Slip family artifacts

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 [...]

Slipp descendants family tree

Hello cousins and other visitors, I’ve posted two versions of my Slipp descendants family tree file – in GEDCOM and Family Tree Maker – at Dropbox. Please follow the links. Anyone who wants either or both of them, please feel free:

Slipp Descendants – Family Tree Maker File download link

Slipp Descendants – GEDCOM File [...]

Sampler Samplings

Here are a some  samplers made  in the 19th century by some of our ancestors.  I know there’s more of these out there,  so please send them to me, or better yet,  upload them into the Media Library, then let me know they’re there and I will edit them into this Post for all to [...]

Merritt & Slipp Cemetery

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The Merritt/Slipp Cemetery is located at the end of Queenstown about 3 minutes from the Slipp farms and on the edge of Hampstead.

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Slipp Gravestone

Pictures of the Slipp gravestone in the Slipp/Merritt Cemetery at Queenstown, Queens County, N.B. The late Murray S. Thomson sent me the black-and-white picture and I took the color one in May 1993.

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Slipp Gravestone

Slipp Gravestone

Article on Schloepp and Reisner Families

I wrote this article on the family of Leonard Slip (Leonhard Schloepp) and his wife Elizabeth Ryson (Reisner) for the Winter 2008 issue of Generations, the journal of the New Brunswick Genealogical Society.

Read New Discoveries on the Loyalist Leonard Slip and His Wife Elizabeth Ryson by Rick Crume [PDF 575 kb]

Article on Leonard Slip and Elizabeth Ryson

I wrote this article in 2004 for Generations, the journal of the New Brunswick Genealogical Society. It covers the family of Leonard Slip (Schloepp) and Elizabeth Ryson (Reisner).

Read Tracking Immigrant Name Changes, The Quest for the Origins of the Loyalist Leonard Slip and his wife Elizabeth Ryson of Hampstead, Queens County, New Brunswick by [...]

Meeting of the Officers of the Garrision . . .

Meeting of the Officers of the Garrisons of St. John and  Fredrictown, on Long Island, in the River St. John, New Brunswick is the official title of this painting but often referred to as “the BLIZZARD painting” due to its subject matter: the building in the background is Loyalist Leonard Slipp’s tavern/inn of the same [...]