George H. Slacum

Notes:

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

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

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

John married Mary Stewart. Mary (daughter of John Stewart and Mary Trevallian) was born 01 Jan 1731, Dorchester Co. MD; died 1749, 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."

Henry married Rhoda Jewett 1762, Dorchester Co. MD. [Group Sheet]