Giles Slocum

Baptism: 28 SEP 1623  Old Cleeve, Somersetshire, England Immigration:  1638 Note:  from England to Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island.  On entry to America, he changed his last name from Slocombe to Slocum. Marriage:  ABT 1640  Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island Religion:  Giles and his wife were early member of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Birth of Daughter:  16 MAY 1642 Name:  Johanna Slocum Note:  21 Nov 1642 Details:  Giles was named at 20 years old, executor in the will of his mother Charity Slocombe of Old Cleeve. Note:  27 Feb 1642/3 Details:  Giles signed the Somerset Protestion Roll (Library, House of Lords). Birth of Son:  26 MAY 1645 Name:  John Slocum Birth of Son:  25 MAR 1647 Name:  Giles Slocum Moved to:  BEF 1648 Place:  Taunton, Plymouth Colony, where Anthony Slocum lived. Land Rec:  04 SEP 1648 Note:  Possessed land in Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island.  Land was next to Thomas Cook. Land Rec:  24 JAN 1650 Note:  Giles received a deed of land from John Cranston of Portsmouth. Birth of Son:  25 MAR 1650 Name:  Ebenezer Slocum Land Rec:  1651 Note:  Giles gave to Thomas Guinnings a deed of land in Portsmouth. Birth of Son:  25 DEC 1652 Name:  Nathaniel Slocum Birth of Son:  17 AUG 1654 Name:  Peleg Slocum Freeman:  1655 Place:  Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island Birth of Son:  1657 Name:  Samuel Slocum Land Rec:  04 JAN 1657 Note:  Received a deed of land from John Cranston of Portsmouth. Land Rec:  14 JAN 1657 Note:  Received a deed of land from John Randall of Portsmouth. Land Rec:  02 FEB 1657 Note:  Received a deed of land from Thomas Cooke Jr. of Portsmouth. Land Rec:  06 MAR 1657 Note:  Received a deed of land from the Township of Portsmouth. Birth of Daughter:  03 JUL 1660 Name:  Mary Slocum Birth of Son:  25 DEC 1664 Name:  Eliezer Slocum Land Rec:  20 MAY 1667 Note:  Received from Robert Carr of Newport, Rhode Island, a deed of land at Navisink, New Jersey. Land Rec:  23 FEB 1668 Note:  Received a deed of land from William Brenton. Probate:  25 APR 1668 Note:  The earemarke of Gyles Slocom [for his livestock] is a Crope [crop] in the Right Eare and a hapeny [half-penny] under the same one the lime [i.e., leading?] eare, with a slitt in the left eare and ahapeny under of thirty years standing and is entered upon Record this 25th of April 1668 by me.   - Richard Bulger, towne Clerk Land Rec:  15 OCT 1669 Note:  Received a deed of 1/24th part of the purchasers Township of Dartmouth, in New Plymouth, from Nathaniel, William, and Wrestling Brewster, it being the same land that was "a gift from our Dear Mother Mistress Sarah Brewster". The price of this purchase (36 pounds) was "paid by Ralph Earle in behalf of Gyles Slocome". Land Rec:  28 FEB 1670 Note:  Received from John Wood of Newport, Rhode Island, for a consideration of 30 pounds, a deed of "one share of land lying and being within the Liberties and precincts of Norwatacunck in the Jurisdiction of New Jersey Neer New York near Adjoining to the Land of John Slocum [his son] now there inhabiting." Land Rec:  03 APR 1670 Note:  Giles Slocum received from Thomas Lawton of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a deed of two shares of land in or near Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey. Land Rec:  01 APR 1672 Note:  Giles Sr. gave a deed of land in Portsmouth, Rhode Island to his son Giles. Religion:  23 AUG 1673 Note:  Excommunicated by the First Baptist Church at Newport since Giles and his wife had become Quakers. Land Rec:  1675 Note:  He owned rights in the Township of Taunton, New Plymouth, and sold them to Nicholas White Sr. Land Rec:  02 NOV 1676 Note:  Giles gave to his son, John Slocum of Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey, a deed of one-fourth of one share of land in Shrewsbury, and also the tracts at Navisink, near Shrewsbury, which he purchased in 1667 and 1670. Land Rec:  02 NOV 1676 Note:  Giles gave to his daughter Joanna Mott a deed of three-fourths of one share of land in or near Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Land Rec:  25 OCT 1678 Note:  Giles gave land to his son, Ebenezer, on Canonicut Island in Jamestown Twp, Rhode Island Note:  Giles made many more purchases and sales of land in addition to the ones listed here. He was a very energetic and prosperous man, and he possessed the characteristic English desire for a large landed estate. Will:  1681 Death:  1682  Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island Parents are Philip Slocombe and Charity Bickham

 

Joan Cook
Birth:  1630  Cambridge, England Religion:  16 AUG 1673 Note:  Excommunicated by the Baptist Church at Newport.  Became a Quaker along with her husband. Death:  08 OCT 1712  Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island Parents are unknown

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