The Sluder name first comes to America with Johann Heinrich/Henry Schlucter and his mother Anna Barbra Schoene-Blackenbuhler-Schlucter-Fleishmann as part of the Second Germanna Colony in 1717. Heinrich and his mother came with her extended third family, her first and second husbands having died; her first husband was Hans Blackenbuhler and her second (Heinrich's father) was Johann Jacob Schlucter. Jacob died in 1698, not long after Heinrich's birth in 1697. Anna Barbra remarried to Cyraicus Fleishmann sometime before 1704 as that had a daughter, Maria, in that year. These families were all from Baden-Württemberg region of Germany and most likely from the small village of Neuenburg.

Following repeated French invasions into southwest Germany as well as hard winters, the extended Fleishmann/Schlucter family left the region as part of the German Palatines exodus. This emigration group spanned the early part of the 1700s and many Germans fled first to England and Ireland but eventually crossing the Atlantic to the Colonies with the promise of free land in the New World. One of those recruiting new settlers was Englishman Alexander Spotswood, the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Spotswood founded the First Germanna Colony in 1714 with about 42 Germans who came to work in silver and iron mines. This and other settlements were meant to act as a defensive barrier against the French and Native Americans. Spotswood himself would later lead the Blue Ridge Expedition, also known as the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition (this is where the Germanna Organization gets its emblem of the golden horseshoe) and would be some of the first Europeans to explore the western side of the mountains. This first group to Germanna came voluntarily and were free individuals. They understood what their new life would be like. The Second Colony group with Anna Barbra and Heinrich were not so lucky.

The Second Colony consisted of 20 families numbering about 80-odd people including Cyraicus Fleishmann and Anna Barbra; part of the reason Heinrich and the Schlucter name went undetected was that he was listed under the family of his mother and step-father. Their story goes awry early on however. Captain Andrew Tarbett arranged with these families to take them from London to Pennsylvania aboard his ship, The Scott. They had planned to join other Germans but Tarbett himself was in debt and in order to avoid imprisonment, sold these refugees to Spotswood as indentured servants to pay off his own debts and sailed the ship to Virginia, claiming the ship had been blown off course. So, lost, penniless and not speaking the language they had no choice and were settled by Spotswood two miles west of the original colony on the north bank of the Rapidan River between Potato Run and Fleishman's Run.

The settlers toiled under Spotswood for 7 to 8 years and as some of them began to earn their independence by the mid-1720s, they began to move away from the Colony to free land in the west along the Robinson River Valley. Spotswood sued many of those that tried to flee, claiming that they still owed money to him; Cyraicus Fleishmann was one of these but he prevailed and the case was dismissed, freeing the family from servitude. The Second Germanna settlers moved to what is now Madison county VA, gaining their own Lutheran pastor in 1733 and by 1740 building Hebron Lutheran Church that still stands today and is the oldest continually operating Lutheran church in the United States.
It is from here that the Sluders begin to grow and spread across the United States.

Generations:
Generation Z
Johann Jacob Schluter and Anna Barbra Schoene
Johann Jacob Schluter BIRTH 1653 • Hellsultz, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
DEATH 13 NOV 1698 • Neuenburg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
MARRIED 1691
Anna Barbara Schone
BIRTH 2 JAN 1664 • Neuenburg, Baden, Germany
DEATH 1743 • Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States of America
ALSO MARRIED Hans Blackenbuhler (1st) & Cyraicus Fleishmann (3rd)

Generation 0
Johann Heinrich (Heinrich) Schluter and Sarah LNU (not Fleishmann)
Johann Heinrich Schluter
BIRTH 1697 • Neunenburg, Baden-Weuttemberg, Germany
DEATH AFTER 1753 • North Carolina, USA
MARRIED Sarah last name unknow. She is sometimes listed as Sarah Fleischmann making her possibly either a step- or half-sibling through Cyraicus. I believe this to be incorrect as the only documentation of this is a land deed that has not been sufficiently explained. Others would say that marriage or close relations like that would be taboo but that can be debated as well.

Generation 1
John (Juan) ~1730
Johann Heinrich (Henry) ~1732 and Mary LNU
Mark ~1746 and Pheobe Stillwell(?)
Possible sons include David, Michael and Valentine

Generation 2
Offspring of Generation 1
Aaron Sluder of Davidson, TN - wife Elizabeth Sluder
James SluderJames Sluder of NC
David Sluder of KY
Isaac Sluder born in 1763 in NC that lived to be 110 years old of Vanderburgh, IN
Isaac Sluder born in 1785 in NC that went to Washington, IN
There are also early Sluders in KY and TN that can't be accounted for

Generation 3
Generation 3 becomes much more expansive and is too large to contain in this document

Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanna
https://germanna.org/
http://www.secondcolony.org/
http://germannacolonies.org/