Infant SLACUM

Notes:

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Slacum&GSiman=1&GScid=152122&GRid=31016517&

Other Events:

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Notes:

More than likely he was from the Dorchester Co. MD area as there is a concentration of Slacums in that area.

Souce: Maryland Militia in the War of 1812 - Volume 1 (Eastern Shore Counties)p. 69
Dorchester County - 48th Regiment

Possible candidates:
George Slacum
George Slacum Jr
Samuel Slacom
Jobe Slacum
Marcellass Slacum/Marcilous Slacum


CENSUS RECORDS

Census: 1840, Northumerbland County, Jas. Slacum,
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free Colored Persons - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Males - 36 thru 54: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 2
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored,Slaves): 8
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total Free Colored Persons: 1
Total Slaves: 4
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8

Also listed on same census is John Slacum, also in Northumberland County,
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Males - 36 thru 54: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 2
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 3
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 12
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 4
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total Slaves: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 12

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: James Slacum
Age: 37
Birth Year: abt 1813
Birthplace: Maryland
Home in 1850: Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia
Gender: Male
Family Number: 358
Occupation: Tanner
Household Members:
James Slacum 37
E A Slacum 32
P A Slacum 7 [Perry]
Adline Slacum 9 [Alexena]
Andrew J Slacum 4

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: J S Slacum
Age in 1860: 47
Birth Year: abt 1813
Birthplace: Maryland
Home in 1860: Independence, Schuyler, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Lancaster
Value of real estate: 1300
Personal Estate Value: 1200
Household Members:
Name Age
J S Slacum 47
Mary Slacum 36
Perry Slacum 18
Margarett Slacum 8 [could be Mary Slacum as DOB and location are a close match]

Census 1870 Wicomico, Northumberland Co. Virginia,
Household No. 129
Post Office: Brown's Store
Age in 1870: 57
Estimated Birth Year: 1812
Birthplace: Maryland
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: $150
Occupation: Retired Farmer
Inhabitants: Mary C. Slacum, age 37, born in Maryland, keeping house


WILLS AND COURT CASES

1853 Fredericksburg, VA Wills
Collection WL-WH-N
Record ID 376-116

Decedent Ann Slacum
Devisee John Slacum; Mary Jane Wallace; James L. Slacum
Executor / trix James L. Slacum
Family Mary Jane Wallace, daughter of Ann Slacum
Family John Slacum & James L. Slacum, sons of Ann Slacum
Locality Fredericksburg
Witness Enoch E. Rollow; James Chiveral; William Layton

1854 Fredericksburg, VA Court Records
Comwth vs Slacum
Record ID Number 471-195
Charge: assault on H.W.P. Junius
Defendant: James Slacum

[Note: Will try to get court record on this. It seems that Dr. Junius may not have been the upstanding clergyman as he presented himself according to the following newspaper article.]

Rochester Democrat, August 17, 1858.

A Jeremy Diddler at Niagara Falls

"Some days since, a fine-looking and gentlemanly man, tolerably advanced in years, arrived at the International Hotel, Niagara Falls, with a female companion, and put upon the register the name of Dr. H W. P. JUNIUS and lady," from Lexington, Ky. In short, the Doctor wanted it known he was a southern gentleman traveling north for health and recreation."

He claimed he was robbed of all his money $300 in cash in $10 notes when it came time to leave the hotel. He was very anxious and upset of course, and the kindly hotelier, Mr. Osbourn, taking pity on him was assured Dr. Junius credit was good. So Dr. Junius arranged to a $250 draft on his bank in Louisville, KY for Mr. Osbourn to cash. In order to purchase the bank draft, Mr. Osborn had to give his bank a $70 check. All seemed fine and Dr. Junius with his lady left Saratoga. Mr. Osborn then found out the bank in Kentucky had never heard of Dr. Junius and a quick message was sent to the bank in Lockport not to cash the $70 check.

Dr. Junius returned to Lockport to cash his check and he was arrested. His lady was not with him, having been left in a Buffalo hotel. The good Dr. was taken to Niagra Falls where he "was unable to tell the names of any of the prominent men of that place [Lexington, KY] and some Simon Pure Kentucky gentlemen from that vicinity who happened to be staying at the Falls just now, happened to be ignorant of the existence of such a clergyman."

The article concluded with the possibility of his having to go to state prison in New York unless he can show his clean record.


Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Slacum&GSiman=1&GScnty=2853&GRid=56917344&
Inscription:
IN MEMORIAM
AGED 66 YEARS
REQUIESCANT IN PACE

James married Mary C. 05 May 1856, Baltimore, MD. Mary was born 02 Jul 1825, Maryland; died 23 Feb 1895, Lancaster Co. VA; was buried , Saint Francis de Sales Catholic Church Cemetery, Kilmarnock, Lancaster Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Maiden name may have been Winchester.

CENSUS RECORDS

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Mary Slacum
Age in 1860: 36
Birth Year: abt 1824
Birthplace: Maryland
Home in 1860: Independence, Schuyler, Missouri
Gender: Female
Post Office: Lancaster
Household Members:
J S Slacum 47
Mary Slacum 36
Perry Slacum 18
Margarett Slacum 8

1870 United States Federal Census about Mary C Slacum
Name: Mary C Slacum
Age in 1870: 37
Birth Year: abt 1833
Birthplace: Maryland
Home in 1870: Wicomico, Northumberland, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Browns Store
Household Members:
James Slacum 57
Mary C Slacum 37

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Mary C. Slacum
Age: 40
Birth Year: abt 1840
Birthplace: Maryland
Home in 1880: Wicomico, Northumberland, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Mother-in-law [actually step mother]
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Maryland
Mother's Birthplace: Maryland
Occupation: No Occupation
Household Members:
Alexena Hurst 37
Homer Hurst 14
Eula Hurst 12
Bessie Hurst 10
Annie Hurst 5
Warner Hurst 1
Mary C. Slacum 40
[Note: Mary doesn't age much with each census. There must have been some familial feeling since Mary came to live with her stepdaughter after the death of James. Elexena was now a widow with 5 children and needed all the extra help she could get.]

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Slacum&GSiman=1&GScnty=2853&GRid=56917286&
Inscription:
wife of James Slacum

Notes:

COURT RECORDS

High Court Chancery Records - Dorchester County, Md
Case No.9549 Date: 1834
MCNAMARA, John S, dec
William MCNAMARA & Eliza his wife*
Job SLACUM & Ann his wife*
John HOOPER & Zipporah his wife*
Henry L MCNAMARA & Harriet his wife
Rhoda COWART
John HOOPER & Susan his wife
Arthur PRITCHETT & Sarah his wife
John STAPLEFORT
Harriet Ann BARNES*
(* Living outside of Maryland)

MILITARY RECORDS

Souce: Maryland Militia in the War of 1812 - Volume 1 (Eastern Shore Counties)p. 69
Dorchester County - 48th Regiment

Jobe Slacum

War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815 about Jobe Slacum
Name: Jobe Slacum
Company: 48 REG'T (JONES') MARYLAND MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: SERGEANT
Rank - Discharge: SERGEANT
Roll Box: 191
Microfilm Publication: M602

Died:
based on information on court case Admr George H. Slocum [Slacum] Etc. vs. Ann Slocum [Slacum], 11 Dec 1848 Northumberland Co. VA.

Job married Ann McNamara 09 Nov 1812, Dorchester Co. MD. Ann (daughter of Col. John Stewart McNamara and Lavinia (Lovey) Lake) was born ca 1798, Dorchester Co. MD; died 18 May 1853, Fredericksburg, VA; was buried , Wicomico United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wicomico Church, Northumberland Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

High Court Chancery Records - Dorchester County, Md
Case No.9549 Date: 1834
MCNAMARA, John S, dec
William MCNAMARA & Eliza his wife*
Job SLACUM & Ann his wife*
John HOOPER & Zipporah his wife*
Henry L MCNAMARA & Harriet his wife
Rhoda COWART
John HOOPER & Susan his wife
Arthur PRITCHETT & Sarah his wife
John STAPLEFORT
Harriet Ann BARNES*
(* Living outside of Maryland)

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=slacum&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=48&GScnty=2866&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=94078307&df=all&

Inscription:
Dep. [arted] This Life May 18, 1853


Died:
1853 Fredericksburg, VA Wills
Collection WL-WH-N
Record ID 376-116

Decedent Ann Slacum
Devisee John Slacum; Mary Jane Wallace; James L. Slacum
Executor / trix James L. Slacum
Family Mary Jane Wallace, daughter of Ann Slacum
Family John Slacum & James L. Slacum, sons of Ann Slacum
Locality Fredericksburg
Witness Enoch E. Rollow; James Chiveral; William Layton

Notes:

Married:
DORCHESTER COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS.
McNamara, Ann M Job Slacum. 1812, Nov. 9. Dorchester. License Book No. 2, p. 8. Page 333.

Notes:

Source: History of Dorchester Co. MD, p. 346

"Gabriel Slacom (Slacombe) was an officer of the crew of
the Privateer "Sturdy Beggar," sailing under Letters of Marque, commissioned in 1776 and 1777. He was captured and imprisoned for several years in England; finally escaped to
France and reached his home after an absence of seven years, broken in health from serious wounds received at the time."

Source: The Short History of the Slocums Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Dr. Charles Elihu Slocomb,1882, p. 577

"Capt. Gabriel Slocomb, Prizemaster of the American Privateer " Sturdy Beggar," of Maryland, was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War. He was committed to Forton Prison, England, 23 January, 1778, and effected his escape there- from 23 July, 1778.*

*The Privateer " Sturdy Beggar" captured four vessels of the British Leeward Island Fleet in the summer of 1777, and was in turn destroyed in the Delaware River later in that year. See The New England Historical and Genealogical /Reg-
ister for 1876, '77, 78, and '79."

Source: History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, genealogical and biographical, embracing twelve generations of the first-named family from A.D. 1637 to 1908, with their marriages and descendants in the female lines as far as ascertained, Dr, Charles Elihu Slocum, 1908, p.498

"Was Prizemaster of the American Privateer, Sturdy
Beggar, of Maryland. He was captured by the British, and
committed to Forton Prison, England, in 1778. He escaped
the same year. See Vol. I."

CENSUS RECORDS

1800 United States Federal Census
Name: Gaberiel Slaunn [Gabriel Slacum]
Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Dorchester, Maryland
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Slaves: 15
Number of Household Members Under 16: 4
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 21

LAND RECORDS

25 May 1800
Slacums Inclosure, Capt. Gabriel Slacum, 507 1/2 Acres

Birth:
Maryland, Births and Christenings Index, 1662-1911
Name: Gabrill Slocum
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 12 Mar 1740
Birth Place: Dorchester Parish, Dorchester, Maryland
Father's Name: Jobe Slocum
Mother's name: Mary
FHL Film Number: 13889

Gabriel married Catherine Boyne. Catherine (daughter of Dr. Boyne) was born ca 1764, Ireland; died Aft 1810, Dorchester Co. MD. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

CENSUS RECORDS

1810 Census
Name: Caten Slacum
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Dorchester, Maryland
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 7

Notes:

Served in the Revolutionary War.

DEATH

Easton Gazette July 26 1823
"Col. John S. McNamara on Tuesday 8th inst., at his residence in Dorchester Co., in the 68th year of his age, leaving a wife and 8 children."

High Court Chancery Records - Dorchester County, Md
Case No.9549 Date: 1834
MCNAMARA, John S, dec
William MCNAMARA & Eliza his wife*
Job SLACUM & Ann his wife*
John HOOPER & Zipporah his wife*
Henry L MCNAMARA & Harriet his wife
Rhoda COWART
John HOOPER & Susan his wife
Arthur PRITCHETT & Sarah his wife
John STAPLEFORT
Harriet Ann BARNES*
(* Living outside of Maryland)

Buried:
Grave location, tombstone photo and biographical information:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=71749978

John married Lavinia (Lovey) Lake 21 Jan 1784, Dorchester Co. MD. Lavinia (daughter of Capt. Henry Lake, Jr. and Rhoda Jewett) was born 1766, Dorchester Co. MD; died 17 Nov 1843, Dorchester Co. MD; was buried , Denard Johnson Cemetery, Lakesville, Dorchester Co. MD. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source:"Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families" by Hester Dorsey Richardson, page 185

"Captain Henry Lake, son of Henry Lake, Sr., was commissioned captain of a company of Dorchester County militia in 1776. Some years later he was appointed judge or justice of Dorchester County, and in the year 1797 the important office of High Sheriff of the county was bestowed on him. Captain Henry Lake married Rhoda Jewett in the year 1762 and had, among the other children, a handsome daughter named Lovey [Lavinia] -- a name suggestive of the winsomeness which, added to her high spirit, made her a great belle.

An interesting family tradition, in which Lovey was the heroine, tells of her defiantly resisting the attempt of a British soldier to take off her silver shoe buckles. It appears that the marauding party set fire to the Lake house to take revenge on the pretty Lovey, who, however, not only extinguished the fire, but made her escape through a back window, never stopping until she reached her father's company of soldiers, who put the British ruffians to flight, glad to escape in their boats without their fair prisoner. The mother of this daughter of the Revolution also suffered in the cause, receiving a bayonet wound in the arm while resisting the capture of her husband."

Buried:
Grave location and biographical Information:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119704860

Notes:

Married:
Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850
about John Stewart McNamara
Name: John Stewart McNamara
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 21 Jan 1784
Spouse: Lovey Lake
Spouse gender: Male
State: Maryland
County: Dorchester