| Female, Born | in Scotland Parish, Windham County, Connecticut on 2/11/1750 |
Born February 11, 1750, in Scotland Parish, Windham County, Connecticut, of Jeremiah ROSS and Ann (PAINE) ROSS. She had brothers Perrin, Jeremiah, and William; and sisters Aleph, Ann, Diana, Mary, Lucy, and Elizabeth.
Sarah accompanied the family when they moved to Montville, New London County, Connecticut; then in early 1774, they moved to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. She was a sister of Perrin ROSS (Chart A, 410), and considerable details of the family are contained under his account.
Sometime prior to July 3, 1778, Sarah married Giles SLOCUM, who was one of a large family fathered by Jonathan SLOCUM. Giles was present in the battle in which the UTLEY family was massacred in the Wyoming Valley in 1778, and was forceful perhaps to the extreme in seeking vengeance against the Indians. As a consequence of his efforts, the SLOCUM family was marked for destruction by the Indians. On November 2, 1778, Indians attacked Giles' home and took his little sister Frances (about five years old). Many years later, in August 1837, after years of searching, Giles' brothers Joseph and Isaac located her near Logansport, Indiana. She had not previously revealed her identity because she was fearful of being taken away from her Indian family (with whom she lived a long and pleasant life)!
Sarah fled the Wyoming Massacre (July 3, 1778) with her mother and returned to the old family home in Connecticut. It is recorded that she and her mother did not immediately return to the Wyoming Valley with the rest of the family in August 1778; but in April 1779 her husband, at least, was present in a town meeting held at the Wilkes-Barre Fort. Presumably they had both returned to the Valley shortly prior, since at that town meeting "Giles SLOCUM (and others) were admitted freemen..."
The Trenton Decree (the legal resolution of the long-fought conflict between the states of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, a struggle which caused the seemingly endless violence between the Connecticut settlers of the Wyoming Valley and the Pennsylvania authorities) was in full force by 1784. Sarah's husband was loyal to the Pennsylvania government by this time, contrary to his forceful opposition to that state's rule when the matter was controversial. It was, in fact, Sarah House which served as the guard house where her brother William was imprisoned (see William ROSS, Chart A, 401).
No more details concerning Sarah or her children are known.