Job Slacum

Male 1720 - 1790  (~ 70 years)


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  • Name Job Slacum 
    Born ca 1720  Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died ca 1790  Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    • 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."
    Person ID I25575  Master File
    Last Modified 11 Mar 2014 

    Father George Slacum,   b. ca 1675, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1725, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years) 
    Mother Sarah Deane,   b. 1687, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1725, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Family ID F11310  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary (Polly) Dunn,   b. ca 1725, St. Dunstan and All Saints, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. ca 1776, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Children 
     1. Gabriel Slacum,   b. 12 Mar 1740, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1804, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years)
     2. Mary Slacum,   b. 18 Mar 1752, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Keziah Slacum,   b. 24 Dec 1754, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Job Slacum, Jr.,   b. 20 Dec 1757, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1804, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)
     5. Nancy Slacum,   b. 11 Apr 1759, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Rebecca Slacum,   b. 03 Jan 1762, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. John Slacum,   b. 16 Jun 1763, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8. Marcellus Slacum,   b. 18 Nov 1765, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jun 1804, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
    +9. Barzilla Slacum,   b. 25 Jan 1770, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 10 Mar 2014 
    Family ID F11309  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart