Gentleman of Bushwood Lodge, St Mary's County, Maryland.
Died testate with a will dated July 23, 1733, which was recorded November 23, 1733.
Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia, by Helen West Ridgely, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908, page 32:
The Sacred Heart chapel is a modest wooden structure that has stood upon the land of "Bushwood" - a fragment of St. Clement's Manor - for more than 125 years. The graveyard may have been there before the chapel, and it probably was. In 1669, Capt. Gerard Slye, then proprietor of this beautiful plantation inherited from his father, Robert Slye, was a very active leader in the proceedings which debarred Catholics from holding office in the Province. This gentleman did not foresee that he was to marry a Catholic dame of intrepid character, that his will, probated in 1733, would direct that his children should be reared in the faith, that his wife should "think most proper and convenient for their souls' health," and that through her, his home, once the stronghold of Protestant intolerance, should pass into the exclusive possession of his Catholic posterity.
It is supposed that Capt. Gerard Slye was buried in the Bushwood family graveyard adjoining the Sacred Heart chapel, and that this chapel, so long the only place of worship allowed to the neighboring Catholic gentry, was built by his wife, probably after his death.
Died testate with a will dated July 23, 1733, which was recorded November 23, 1733.
Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia, by Helen West Ridgely, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908, page 32:
The Sacred Heart chapel is a modest wooden structure that has stood upon the land of "Bushwood" - a fragment of St. Clement's Manor - for more than 125 years. The graveyard may have been there before the chapel, and it probably was. In 1669, Capt. Gerard Slye, then proprietor of this beautiful plantation inherited from his father, Robert Slye, was a very active leader in the proceedings which debarred Catholics from holding office in the Province. This gentleman did not foresee that he was to marry a Catholic dame of intrepid character, that his will, probated in 1733, would direct that his children should be reared in the faith, that his wife should "think most proper and convenient for their souls' health," and that through her, his home, once the stronghold of Protestant intolerance, should pass into the exclusive possession of his Catholic posterity.
It is supposed that Capt. Gerard Slye was buried in the Bushwood family graveyard adjoining the Sacred Heart chapel, and that this chapel, so long the only place of worship allowed to the neighboring Catholic gentry, was built by his wife, probably after his death.
Gentleman of Bushwood Lodge, St Mary's County, Maryland.
Died testate with a will dated July 23, 1733, which was recorded November 23, 1733.
Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia, by Helen West Ridgely, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908, page 32:
The Sacred Heart chapel is a modest wooden structure that has stood upon the land of "Bushwood" - a fragment of St. Clement's Manor - for more than 125 years. The graveyard may have been there before the chapel, and it probably was. In 1669, Capt. Gerard Slye, then proprietor of this beautiful plantation inherited from his father, Robert Slye, was a very active leader in the proceedings which debarred Catholics from holding office in the Province. This gentleman did not foresee that he was to marry a Catholic dame of intrepid character, that his will, probated in 1733, would direct that his children should be reared in the faith, that his wife should "think most proper and convenient for their souls' health," and that through her, his home, once the stronghold of Protestant intolerance, should pass into the exclusive possession of his Catholic posterity.
It is supposed that Capt. Gerard Slye was buried in the Bushwood family graveyard adjoining the Sacred Heart chapel, and that this chapel, so long the only place of worship allowed to the neighboring Catholic gentry, was built by his wife, probably after his death.
Died testate with a will dated July 23, 1733, which was recorded November 23, 1733.
Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia, by Helen West Ridgely, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908, page 32:
The Sacred Heart chapel is a modest wooden structure that has stood upon the land of "Bushwood" - a fragment of St. Clement's Manor - for more than 125 years. The graveyard may have been there before the chapel, and it probably was. In 1669, Capt. Gerard Slye, then proprietor of this beautiful plantation inherited from his father, Robert Slye, was a very active leader in the proceedings which debarred Catholics from holding office in the Province. This gentleman did not foresee that he was to marry a Catholic dame of intrepid character, that his will, probated in 1733, would direct that his children should be reared in the faith, that his wife should "think most proper and convenient for their souls' health," and that through her, his home, once the stronghold of Protestant intolerance, should pass into the exclusive possession of his Catholic posterity.
It is supposed that Capt. Gerard Slye was buried in the Bushwood family graveyard adjoining the Sacred Heart chapel, and that this chapel, so long the only place of worship allowed to the neighboring Catholic gentry, was built by his wife, probably after his death.
