Giles Slocum
| His name first appears in the mutilated records of that township in a land grant showing his 'peacable possession' of land there in 1648: 'At a meetinge of the free inhabitants of the towne of Portsmoth September the 4th 1648 there was graunted by the disposers of Land, and since Laid out unto Gyles Slocom with in the bounds of the towne of portsmoth above said and in the peacable possestion of the said Gyled Slocom thirty ackres of land more or less for which the Tresurer is paid and is butted and bounded as followeth with Land bought by the Said Gyles of John Cranston, one the South Side with lands partly belonginge to Ralph Cowland, and partly with Land belonginge to the Said Gyles Slocom, and the west end it buttinge upon the common, to haue and to hould and peacably to posses and injoy to him his heires and assignes for Euer. Where as it is Ordered that for Eury Ackre of Land that is impropriated, two Shillings is to be paid in to the tresury I haue Receued of Gyles Slocom three pounds which is for thirty ackres of Land graunted to him September the 4th 1648 and is Laid out. I Say Receued by me the 10th of September 1648 three pounds.' |