Giles  SLOCUM

Biography
Giles Slocombe emigrated to America after his mother's death. He was the sole executor of her will dated November 21, 1642 and proved January 26, 1643 in Old Cleeve, Somerset, England. His father had died earlier, so he assumed full adult responsibility at an early age. He married when he was eighteen and had his first child a year later. Upon immigration he first went to Taunton, Plymouth Colony where Anthony Slocum (possibly his uncle) lived. He owned land rights that he later sold in 1675. He then removed to RI.
Gyles Slocum paid three pounds for thirty acres of land in Portsmouth, RI September 4, 1648 to William Baulston, Treasurer, and entered upon record by Richard Bulgar, recorder for ye towne of Portsmouth. In 1655 he was recorded as a freeman of Portsmouth as shown by 'the Roule of ye Freemen of ye Colonie of everie Towne'.
Giles owned 'ase, cowes, oxen, sheepe, horskine' and 'the earemarke of Gyles Slocom (for his livestock) is a Crope (crop) in the right eare and a hapeny ...Read full story