Job 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:

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

1. James L. SLACUM was born ca 1813, Maryland; died 22 Mar 1880, Northumberland Co. VA; was buried , Saint Francis de Sales Catholic Church Cemetery, Kilmarnock, Lancaster Co. VA.
2. John Slacum was born ca 1819, Maryland; died Sep 1870, Northumberland Co. VA.
3. Mary Jane Slacum was born ca 1833, Northumerland Co. VA.
4. George H. Slacum died Bef 1848, Northumberland Co. VA.

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]

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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:

CENSUS RECORDS

Maryland, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890
Name: Job Slacum
State: MD
County: Maryland Colony
Township: Residents
Year: 1748
Page: 084
Database: MD Early Census Index

PASSENGER LIST

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Job Slacum
Arrival Year: 1753
Arrival Place: Maryland
Source Publication Code: 1243
Primary Immigrant: Slacum, Job
Annotation: Date and place of mention in land survey. County and name of land purchased are provided. Original records are contained in Land Office Registers, indexed starting on page vii of the introduction.
Source Bibliography: COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. Settlers Of Maryland 1679 - 1783. Consolidated Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002.
Page: 608

LAND RECORDS

17 FEB 1752
Slacums Lot, Job Slacum, 331 Acres

1 NOV 1764
Slacums Lot, Job Slacum, 758 Acres


HISTORY

Source: History of Dorchester Co. MD, p. 213

"One, Basil Clarkson, was charged with going on board the
British tenders in Hooper's Straits and giving them information, and also persuading Job Slacum and others to join Lord Dunmore's naval forces. Clarkson was arrested and
committed to jail in Annapolis by the Council of Safety on
evidence given by John Rumley, of Straits, before the Com-
mittee of Observation."

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, 498-99.

"Job Slocombe (George) was born in Maryland early in the 18th century, and was reared on a farm in Dorchester County. He there received several grants of land, in part as follows:

in 1751,three tracts or parcels, two being Little Slycamp (in another place spelled Sleicome) granted to his father 16 April, 1715, and 'Slacom's Lett' originally granted 8 February, 1738 to Job's brother George.

Further grants were received in 1754, 104 acres; 1766, 403
acres. No further account of him has been found.

Children:

i. Job. July 12, 1776, the committee of observation of the Maryland Council of Safety during the Revolutionary War, reported in part that: . . . "It is said Clarkson bears a very ill character as to holding a communication with & carrying men in his boat to the Tenters. And we have just now been informed that one Job Slacom Jr of this County [Dorchester] will prove that Clarkson endeavored to persuade him & some others to go with him on board the Tenders and join Lord Dunmore, but as the guard was setting off with the Prisoners we could not delay them until we sent a summons for Slacom. There were several other persons apprehended in this County on suspicion of being unfriendly and having a communication with the enemy, but upon our enquiring into their conduct, we could fix nothing
criminal on them & therefore discharged them." . . . ?Archives of Maryland.

Job Slocum, Jr., was granted land in Dorchester Co. in 1790
and 1792. 'Job Slocumb and Anne Slocumb' gave Deed 13
Oct., 1819, to John Williams, to tracts of land in Worcester Co., Md., called Addition to Handy's Security, Handy's Frolic, and Low Meadows. Whether this is the above Job or his son, is not known to the writer.

ii. MARCELLUS, born ; married Sara ; died in 1807."

Job married Mary (Polly) Dunn. Mary (daughter of Andrew Dunn and Mary Carroll) was born ca 1725, St. Dunstan and All Saints, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England; died ca 1776, Dorchester Co. MD. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
Name: Mary Dunn
Baptism Date: 8 Aug 1725
Parish: St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney
County: Middlesex
Borough: Tower Hamlets
Parent(s): Andw Dunn,
Mary Dunn
Record Type: Baptism
Register Type: Parish Register

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IMMIGRATION

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: George Sleycomb
Arrival Year: 1697
Arrival Place: Maryland
Source Publication Code: 6157.35
Primary Immigrant: Sleycomb, George
Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of first mention of residence in the New World; some are birth and death dates with place of death; some are date and place of naturalization. Place of residence in Maryland, date and place of birth, names of rel

Source Bibliography: NEWMAN, HARRY WRIGHT. To Maryland From Overseas: A Complete Digest of the Jocobite Loyalists Sold into White Slavery in Maryland, and the British and Continental Background of Approximately 1400 Maryland Settlers from 1634 to the Early Federal Period with Source Documentation. Annapolis, MD: Newman, 1982. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985, 1986, 1991. 190p. Page: 158.

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.497-98.

"George Slocombe, with surname spelled Slacum (give broad
sound to the a) and several other ways, has been found by the writer earliest recorded in the Archives of Maryland, viz.:

1695, October 3-19, Assembly Proceedings. George Slacum; his accompt examined for bringing the Cage Whipping post pillory and Stone from London Towne to Annapolis referred to the County for his pay being the proper goods of the County.

1697 (?) A Bill for the Naturalization of Stephen Francis and George Slacombe read the first time.

1697, June 2. The above bill read the second tyme and passed.

1697, June II, An Act for the Naturalizacon of Stephen Francis an Italian & George Slaycombe a German borne* read and assented. [Note: country of origin may not be accurate.]

*This question of naturalization of these two men is repeated several times in different parts of the records, and was apparently agreed to different times. The question was finally settled in the affirmative at the session of
April 26 to May 9, 1700. The exceptions made from time to time are not definitely stated; but their foreign birth?outside the realm of Great Britain is the inferred cause. Many English children were born in foreign ports,
on shipboard and in cities. The names in question are both English, and the parentage English, on the father's side at least, but these men may not have had ready proof of British citizenship.

It is inferred that this George Slocombe became Master at Arms of the Maryland Assembly, as the record reads in volume xxvi of the Archives in part as follows:
1705, May 25. . . . It is further Remarqued that the Hon: Mr Tench Col Addison Mr Brooks Mr Cheseldin and Mr Coursey are not allowed for their Attendance in Councill this or the last Session of Assembly....& fifty two shill paid to George Slacomb to put a stopp to the Members coming to the Assembly. . . .

1700, March 20. George Slacom sold his house and lot. No. 40, in Annapolis, Md., to Amos Garrett. He was granted land in Dorchester County, Md., as follows:

1713, Nov. 24. In tract called "Priviledge, manor of Nanticoke, 174 acres.

1714, Sep. I. Tract called "Little Slycome near Black River, 50 acres;" also 50 acres near source of Raccoon Creek.

"George Sleicome's Will," on record at Annapolis, Maryland, is a short document, made 11 October, 1725. It names sons George and Job as heirs to his lands, and . . . "my wife is supposed to be with child which, if a son after my decease, gets remainder;" if a daughter, land goes to son George. His wife Sarah is named sole executrix. This will was proved 26 November, 1825.

Children:
i. George, born ; married ; died .
ii. Job, born ; married ; died .
iii. A Daughter, born after the death of her father.

WILL EXTRACT

Sleicome, George, sailor, Dorchester Co.,11th Oct., 1725;
26th Nov., 1725.

To son George and hrs., "Timber Swamp," s. side Racoun Ck., and pt. of "Privilege" adj.

To son Job and hrs., residue of "Priviledge."

To unborn child and hrs., if a son, residue of "Timber Swamp" and "Little Sleicampe," both on n. side of Racoon Ck.; shd. child be a dau., sd. lands to son George and hrs.

To wife Sarah, extx., 1/3 personal estate, residue to all children equally.

Test: Ellinor Hart, Mary Macmilington, Samuel Hedge. 18, 414.

George married Sarah Deane. Sarah (daughter of William Richard Deane and Elizabeth Meredith) was born 1687, Dorchester Co. MD; died 1725, Dorchester Co. MD. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Sarah is mentioned in her father's will

"I Will and Bequeath unto my loveing wife Elizabeth Deane all my Lands, Liveings, Goods, Chattells, Cattle and Hoggs, tools, Creditts. My tools and Creditts being first paid and Satisfyed unto her dureing her widdowhood and if she marrieth again her thirds onoly. I will and bequeath her and likewise what Goods, Chattells, Cattle and Hoggs shall then be remaining shall be Equally divided between my Sons and daughters viz John, Henry, Sarah & Mary but to my Daughter Elizabeth Johnson att the said time I Give one heiffer and her calfs unto her and her heires for ever for their portion and their increase."

Source: Prerogative Court (Wills) Volume 6, pages 305-306, Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland; File number F-903 Dorchester County Historical Society, Maryland Room, Dorchester County Public Library, Cambridge, Maryland, et al.

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"George Sleicome's Will," on record at Annapolis, Maryland, is a short document, made 11 October, 1725. It names sons George and Job as heirs to his lands, and . . . "my wife is supposed to be with child which, if a son after my decease, gets remainder;" if a daughter, land goes to son George. His wife Sarah is named sole executrix. This will was proved 26 November, 1825.

Children:
i. George, born ; married ; died .
ii. Job, born ; married ; died .
iii. A Daughter, born after the death of her father.

WILL EXTRACT

Sleicome, George, sailor, Dorchester Co.,11th Oct., 1725;
26th Nov., 1725.

To son George and hrs., "Timber Swamp," s. side Racoun Ck., and pt. of "Privilege" adj.

To son Job and hrs., residue of "Priviledge."

To unborn child and hrs., if a son, residue of "Timber Swamp" and "Little Sleicampe," both on n. side of Racoon Ck.; shd. child be a dau., sd. lands to son George and hrs.

To wife Sarah, extx., 1/3 personal estate, residue to all children equally.

Andrew married Mary Carroll. Mary was born ca 1699, St. Dunstan and All Saints, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex,. [Group Sheet]