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1740 - 1804 (63 years)
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Name |
Gabriel Slacum |
Born |
12 Mar 1740 |
Dorchester Co. MD |
- 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
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Gender |
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Died |
1804 |
Dorchester Co. MD |
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
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Person ID |
I25561 |
Master File |
Last Modified |
23 Nov 2017 |
Father |
Job Slacum, b. ca 1720, Dorchester Co. MD , d. ca 1790, Dorchester Co. MD (Age ~ 70 years) |
Mother |
Mary (Polly) Dunn, b. ca 1725, St. Dunstan and All Saints, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England , d. ca 1776, Dorchester Co. MD (Age ~ 51 years) |
Family ID |
F11309 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Catherine Boyne, b. ca 1764, Ireland , d. Aft 1810, Dorchester Co. MD (Age ~ 47 years) |
Children |
| 1. Mary Catherine Boyne Slacum, b. 03 Jun 1784, Dorchester Co. MD , d. 21 Sept. 1872, Grenada Co. MS (Age 88 years) |
+ | 2. George Slacum, b. 18 Dec 1785, Dorchester Co. MD , d. 04 Sep 1820, Dorchester Co. MD (Age 34 years) |
| 3. Job Slacum, b. ca 1790, Dorchester Co. MD , d. Bef 1837, Northumberland Co. VA (Age ~ 47 years) |
| 4. Gabriel Slacum, b. ca 1788, Dorchester Co. MD |
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Last Modified |
10 Mar 2014 |
Family ID |
F11306 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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