Hand-written Slipp Family History

On February 18th, Renae Grubb wrote:

Take a look at this handwritten family history on the Slipp family. Aunt Francine [Ormiston] had this 7 paged photocopy in her collection. No idea who wrote it nor who has the original. I love the second paragraph talking about getting “pepper in his wooden shoes”. What does that mean I wonder?

Rick, do you have any idea what that is referring to? This sure adds a more personal touch to Leonard’s journey!

Rick Crume’s reply:

Thanks for sharing the seven-page handwritten history of the Slipp family. The pages are quite legible. Marke Leonard Slipp, formerly of Alberta and now of Nova Scotia, sent this history to me several years ago. But he might not have sent the whole thing and it wasn’t this handwritten version.

I don’t know the tradition behind getting “pepper in his wooden shoes,” but other facts in this manuscript have been proven. We know from newspaper articles from the time that Leonard Slip was indentured to a potash maker in New York and that he later had a tavern at Blizzards, near Hampstead, N.B. I’m quite sure he was born in Franconia, Germany–not Holland, but maybe he embarked for America on a ship leaving from Holland.

Slipp Family History – Author Unknown: