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Winthrop Pickard Bell 1884 – 1965 is considered the expert on the "Foreign Protestants" of which the Schlaginweit family were members. The name is German and Bell spelled it SCHLAGINWEIT.
The "Foreign Protestants" were illiterate and very few could read or write. They could not confirm if their name was spelled correctly or not. It has been spelled today many, many, different ways. Even brothers in the same family spelled it different from one another. Some used Slaughenwhite, some Slauenwite. Regardless, only one came to Nova Scotia from Wurttimburg in 1752 aboard the ship Sally. He was a Joseph, 40 year-old farmer with his family that included wife Ursula Magdalens, John Jacob and John Frederick. No matter how the name is spelled, all early Slaughenwhite families in Nove Scotia descend from this man.
Contributed by Sandy (Nash) Wooden, a Schlaginweit descendant.