Giles SLOCUM

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25 March 1647 , Portsmouth, Providence Plantations

Died

1 January 1713 , Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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Giles SLOCUM Joan COOKE?

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Born: 25 March 1647 in Portsmouth, Providence Plantations

Father: Giles SLOCUM

Mother: Joan COOKE?

Paternal grandparents: Philip SLOCOMBE , Charity BICKHAM

Maternal grandparents: Christopher Jr COOK , Elizabeth COOK

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Giles married Ann LAWTON 26 MAY 1669 in Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Ann LAWTON was born abt. 1645 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA. Ann died 27 September 1703 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA. Ann was the child of Thomas LAWTON and Elizabeth SALISBURY.

Giles SLOCUM died 1 January 1713 in Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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Ann LAWTON
Marriage date: 26 MAY 1669
Marriage place: Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Source: Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
(Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.

Ann LAWTON was the child of Thomas LAWTON and Elizabeth SALISBURY

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SLOCUM Giles Giles (1647-) & Anne [LAWTON] 26 May 1669 Portsmouth, RI-Newport {Noyes-Gilman 97 Earle 29 Slocum 4 Austin's Dict. 122, 182 Reg. 34:392-3 Coggeshall (1930) 31 Brownell Anc. 182}

Children of Giles SLOCUM and Ann LAWTON

Elizabeth SLOCUM

Born: 8 April 1671, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Died: ,

Married: Joseph EARLE 1703 Place: , Rhode Island, USA

Joanna SLOCUM

Born: 9 October 1672, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died: 1 April 1705, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Married: Christopher ALMY 16 April 1690 Place: Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA (North) (Bliss Corner) (Smith Mills) (Padanaram)

Mary SLOCUM

Born: 30 November 1675, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Died: 11 May 1747, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Married: John COGGESHALL 18 March 1696 Place: Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Sarah SLOCUM

Born: 1 March 1678, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Died: ,

Giles SLOCUM

Born: 8 December 1680, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Died: 20 September 1749, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Married: Ann Mary BORDEN 15 January 1701 Place: Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

John SLOCUM

Born: 22 September 1682, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Died: 7 April 1740, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Married: Barbara LAWTON? 1708 Place: Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

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1647 Birth
name: Giles Slocum
gender: Male
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baptism/ christening place: SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, NEWPORT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
birth date: 25 Mar 1647
birthplace: SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, NEWPORT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
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father's name: Giles Slocum
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mother's name: Joan
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indexing project (batch) number: C52505-1
system origin: Rhode Island-VR
source film number: 22488
reference number: 2:1781GRM
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Giles' father, Giles, gave him a deed of land in Portsmouth, RI the first day of April in the three and twentieth yeare of the Raigne of our Souerraine Charles the second King of England, scotland, fraunce and Ireland.....1672.
Louving sonn Gyles was left all the lands and housing belonging to his father in the Towne of Portsmouth except foure accors of land with one small teniment on it laying in the Towne of Portsmouth and now in the occupation of Will Rickinson, house carpenter. Gyles also received one great chest, one table, one bedsteed, one great chaire.
Giles separated from the First Baptist Church of Newport, RI in 1673 with his parents, sister and brother-in-law, Jacob and Joanna Mott, for the Quakers/ Society of Friends.

Materials Toward a Hist of the Bapt. Vol 1, page 175, Morgan Edwards

He removed to Dartmouth around 1669 but returned to Portsmouth before 1678 at which date he was made freeman. From 1681 he was chosen on committees and to attend to...Read full story

Giles SLOCUM - Title A short history of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America: genealogical and biographical embracing eleven generations of the first-named

Title A short history of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America: genealogical and biographical embracing eleven generations of the first-named family, from 1637 to 1881: with their alliances and the descendants in the female lines as far as ascertained
Author Charles Elihu Slocum
Publisher The author, 1882
Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized Nov 28, 2007
Length 643 pages
Pages 43-45

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1669 Marriage / Partner
Giles SLOCUM and Ann LAWTON 26 MAY 1669, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

He was 22 years old.

1671 Birth of Child
Elizabeth SLOCUM was born 8 April 1671, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Giles was 24 years old.

1672 Birth of Child
Joanna SLOCUM was born 9 October 1672, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA (North) (Bliss Corner) (Smith Mills) (Padanaram)

Giles was 25 years old.

1675 Birth of Child
Mary SLOCUM was born 30 November 1675, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Giles was 28 years old.

1678 Birth of Child
Sarah SLOCUM was born 1 March 1678, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Giles was 30 years old.

1680 Birth of Child
Giles SLOCUM was born 8 December 1680, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Giles was 33 years old.

1682 Birth of Child
John SLOCUM was born 22 September 1682, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Giles was 35 years old.

1690 Marriage of Child
Joanna SLOCUM married 16 April 1690, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA (North) (Bliss Corner) (Smith Mills) (Padanaram) to Christopher ALMY

1696 Marriage of Child
Mary SLOCUM married 18 March 1696, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA to John COGGESHALL

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1701 Marriage of Child
Giles SLOCUM married 15 January 1701, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA to Ann Mary BORDEN

1703 Death of Spouse/Partner
Ann LAWTON died 27 September 1703, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

1705 Death of Child
Joanna SLOCUM died 1 April 1705, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Giles was 58 years old.

Giles SLOCUM - Grave Inscription: Here lyeth ye body of Giles Slocum Senior who depart ye this life January first day 1713 in ye 64 year of his age.

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Inscription:
Here lyeth ye body of Giles Slocum Senior who depart ye this life January first day 1713 in ye 64 year of his age.

Portsmouth Historical Cemetery 55 Newport County Rhode Island, USA

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Death — 1713
1 January 1713
Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
He died at the age of 65.

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Portsmouth Historical Cemetery 55 Newport County Rhode Island, USA

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The first mention of Rhode Island in writing ('isola di Rhode') was made by explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 (he refers to an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay which he compares to the Island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean). Some attribute the name to Dutch explorer Adriaen Block ('Roode Eylandt'), again because its red clay is similar to the Greek island of Rhodes. (statesymbolsusa.org)

Prior to 1633 - New England
1633 - 1662 - Providence Plantations
1663 - 1685 - Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1690 - 1790 - Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
May 29, 1790 - Rhode Island becomes 13th U.S. state

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