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About Reverend Ebenezer Slocum
Ebenezer Slocum
- Birth: Circa 1650 - Portsmouth,Newport,Rhode Island, USA
- Death: Circa 1715 - Conanicut Island,Jamestown,Rhode Island, USA
- Parents: Giles Slocum, Joanne Cook
- Wife: Mary Thurston
He was deeded land in 1678 in Jamestown and was chosen as deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1679.
Ebenezer received five shillings of lawfull monyes of New England from his father's will.
He deeded land to the Society of Friends for 2 meeting houses and was a minister for 36 years.
In 1705 he and brother Giles were chosen with Governor Cranston and others as a committee on the part of Rhode Island to settle the long continued and vexatious questions of boundary line between that colony and Connecticut.
He is buried in the Friends Cemetery in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
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Ebenezer was a quaker preacher.
- Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Feb 8 2017, 2:29:05 UTC
GEDCOM Note
Biography ==Ebenezer Slocum was born 25 March 1650 at Portsmouth Township, Rhode Island, to Giles and Joanna Slocum.<ref name=Arnold>Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 Vol. 7 Friends and Ministers (Providence, R.I., Narragansett Historical Pub. Co.,1895) children p. 75; death p. 121
</ref><ref name="Austin" >Austin, John Osborne. Genealogical Dictionary ofRhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 : With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. (Albany: J. Munsell Sons, 1887)
pp. 181-183</ref><ref name=Paine>Paine, Lyman May. [[Space:My Ancestors: In Memory ofJohn Paine & Mary Ann May of East Woodstock, Conn.|My Ancestors: In Memory of John Paine & Mary Ann May of East Woodstock, Conn.]] (Private Publisher, 1914) [https://archive.org/stream/myancestorsmemor00byupain#page/190/mode/2up/search/giles p 190 </ref><ref name=NEHGR34>Slocum, Charles E., M.D., Ph.D, of Syracuse, N.Y. The Slocum Genealogy, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.) Vol. 34, October 1880, Page 392 </ref><ref>This record was entered after the fact. The friends were not established in Rhode Island until the 1650s. In addition, Giles and wife were members of the Baptist Church until 1673. </ref> Ebenezer married Mary Thurston. Mary Thurston was born Feb 1657, d/o Edward Thurston and Elizabeth (Mott) Thurston. She died 16 Nov 1732<refname="Austin" /> at Jamestown. Ebenezer and Mary settled on Canonicut Island, Jamestown, Rhode Islandwhere Ebenezer received land from his father in 1678. For much of thetime from 1679 until his death in 1715, he was the Deputy (Representative) for Jamestown in the Rhode Island legislature. He was often chosen for the offices of Counsellman and Head Warden, and to chair the Jamestown town-meetings.<ref name=Slocum>Slocum, Charles Elihu. A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America (Theauthor in Syracuse, N. Y., 1882) Person No. 6, pages 30, 31, 41, 45-47 https://ia600303.us.archive.org/32/items/shorthistoryofsl00slocrich... </ref>
Events ===:25 Oct 1678: Recd Jamestown land by deed from his father and soon settled there<ref name="Austin" />
:1679, 1681-1685, 1696, 1701, 1705, 1707-1714. Deputy, from Portsmouthto the Colony government.<ref name="Austin" /><ref>Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England Vol. 3 1678-1706 (1858) p. 29, p. 98, p. 107, 121, 150, 167,169, p. 311, 532, 550</ref><ref>Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England Vol. 4 1707-1740. (1859) p. 37, 68, 113, 142 (speaker), 168</ref>
:1700 gave £1 toward building the Quaker meeting house at Mashapaug.<ref name="Austin" /> :28 May 1707 granted privilege to keep a ferry on the west side of Canonicutt Island, from Kingstown, for two years on the same terms as other ferries.<ref name="Austin" /><ref>Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New EnglandVol. 4 1707-1740. (1859) Ferry p. 25</ref> :27 Sep 1710 Gave a deed for a friends meeting house at Jamestown.<refname="Austin" /> :1712/1713 Speaker of House of Deputied. He often served as moderator,Councilman and Head Warden<ref name="Austin" />
:He was "a valuable Minister" of the Quakers.<ref name="Austin" />
Death ==="Ebenezer Slocumb of Jamestown in y<sup>e</sup> Colony of Rhoad Islandaged 65 Years & neare a month being of good Reputation & Sarvis in Church of Christ he departed theare at his own house y<sup>e</sup> 13<sup>th</sup> day of y<sup>e</sup> second month about y<sup>e</sup> 11<sup>th</sup> hour in y<sup>e</sup> night in y<sup>e</sup> Yeare 1715 andwas bureyed in friends Bureying Ground in Jamestown."<ref>A Short History of the Slocums: quoting the Friends' record of death.</ref><ref name=Paine/><ref name="Austin" />For an obituary of sorts, see p. 151 Piety Promoted in a Collection of Dying Sayings of Many of the People called Quakers ... Newand Complete Edition (1854) Volume Second. Philadelphia: 1854. The original of this was published about 1723, less than ten years after hisdeath.
Will ===Dated 10 Dec 1714; proved 20 April 1715. Execs: son Ebenezer & wife Mary. Overseers friends John Hull and Joseph Mowry, cousin Jacob Mott of Portsmouth. Bequests: wife, feather bed, negro woman "Kate" and allplate; eldest son Samuel, all land on the north side of farm; To second son Ebenezer, the rest of the farm, new buildings, orchards etc., wife to have equal privilege while she remains a widow and Ebenezer is to pay her £6 per year; son Giles, farm in Warwick bought of son-in-law Peter Greene, and rights in Warwick and East Greenwich, at age, andtwo oxen, two cows, a horse and negro Sam; To son Joseph, 4 acres in Jamestown, right in Dutch Island and £150 at age; to daughters Elizabeth, widow of Peter Greene, Rebecca, wife of William Burling and Desire, wife of Samuel Dyer, ts each, they having already had from their grandfather Thurston; to daughters Mercy and Abigail Slocum, each £50 at age 18; to son Ebenezer, rest of stock and movables.
An inventory valued at £625.82.6d. included 12 spoons £8, 2 cups £5, 4 porringers £11, tankard £15, feather beds, negro woman Kate £42, white horse, concordance, great bible, parcel of old books, clock £20, money, seals, etc.<ref name="Austin" /> Ebenezer's complete will is found "Amanuensis Monday - Will ofEbenezer Slocum (1650-1715) of Jamestown, Rhode Island" geneamusingsby Randy Seaver 12 Mar 2018.
Children<ref name=Austin />
- Elizabeth b. 1 Jan 1678
- Mary b. 21 Jun 1679
- Joanna b. 30 Dec 1680
- Rebecca b. 13 Nov 1682
- Samuel b. 2 Mar 1684
- Ebenezer b. 20 Jan 1686
- Desire b. 12 Mar 1688
- Deliverance b. 15 Aug 1691
- Mercy b. 14 Sep 1693
- Giles b. 19 Feb 1697
- Joseph b. 21 Apr 1697
- Abigail b. 21 Apr 1697
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- Slocum, Charles Elihu. A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbsand Slocombs of America (The author in Syracuse, N. Y., 1882) Person No. 6, pages 30, 31, 41, 45-47 https://ia600303.us.archive.org/32/items/shorthistoryofsl00slocrich... Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1903) Page 76: "...was Speaker of the House of Deputies and often served as Moderator, Councilman, and Head Warden. He was a "valuable minister," according to Quaker records."* Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004) cites Ebenezer Slocum b. RI 1650 m Mary Thurston b. 1657 in RI [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=worldmarr_ga&h=111273... link at Ancesry($)* Genealogy on Display, Computerized Data Base Mail from Dr. Tom D. Clarke of Medfield, Norfolk, Ma. Page 392
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Reverend Ebenezer Slocum's Timeline
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March 25, 1650
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Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, Colonial America
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| 1676 |
January 6, 1676
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Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island
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| 1679 |
June 21, 1679
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Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
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January 2, 1680
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Jamestown, Aquidneck Island, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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| 1682 |
November 13, 1682
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Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
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November 13, 1682
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Jamestown, Newport County, RI, United States
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| 1684 |
March 2, 1684
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Jamestown, Aquidneck Island, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Colonial America
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| 1686 |
January 20, 1686
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Jamestown, Newport, RI
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| 1688 |
March 12, 1688
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Jamestown, Newport, RI
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