Samuel Slocum (1684-1741) is #746 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #747 Hannah Carr (1691-1785) in 1708 in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
I am descended through:
* their daughter #373 Hannah Slocum (1710-1737), married #372 Thomas Hazard (1707-1748), in 1727.
* their son #186 Stephen Hazard (1730-1804), married #187 Elizabeth Carpenter (1741-????) in 1760.
* their daughter #93 Mary Hazard (1765-1857), married # 92 Joseph Oatley (1756-1815) in 1781.
* their son #46 Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872), married #47 Amy Champlin (1798-1865) in 1813.
* their daughter #23 Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864), married #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married in 1844.
* their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
* their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Samuel Slocum[1–4]
* Sex: Male
* Father: Ebenezer Slocum (1650-1715)
* Mother: Mary Thurston (1656-1732)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 2 March 1684, Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1,3]
* Death: before 4 April 1741 (before age 57), letters of administration granted; North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[1]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Hannah Carr (1691-1785)
* Marriage 1: January 1708 (about age 23), Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1,3-4]
* Child 1: Mary Slocum 1708-1708
* Child 2: Hannah Slocum 1710-1737
* Child 3: Samuel Slocum 1711-1775
* Child 4: Ebenezer Slocum 1714-1715
* Child 5: Ebenezer Slocum 1716-
* Child 6: Edward Slocum 1718-1718
* Child 7: Moses Slocum 1720-1748
* Child 8: William Slocum 1722-1774
* Child 9: Maria Slocum 1724-
* Child 10: John Slocum 1732-1756
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
The Slocum family history book has this life sketch[1]:
"Hon. Samuel Slocum (Ebenezer, Giles, Anthony,') was born on Canonicut Island, Jamestown Township, Rhode Island, 2 March, 1684, and married Hannah. He was chosen Deputy (Representative) to the Rhode Island General Assembly for Jamestown in 1718. He removed to North Kingstown Township, R. I., ("the Narragansett country") previous to the year 1729, and was there admitted freeman in 1734. His estate was administered in North Kingstown on 4 April, 1741."
Samuel married Hannah Carr (1691-1785) in January 1708 in Jamestown, Rhode Island[1.3-4]. She was the daughter of Edward and Hannah (Stanton) Carr. They had at least ten children, the first six were recorded in Jamestown town records[1]:
* Mary Slocum (1708-1708).
* Hannah Slocum (1710-1737), married 1727 Thomas Hazard (1707-1748).
* Samuel Slocum (1711-1775), married 1733 Ann Gould (1714-1746).
* Ebenezer Slocum (1714-1715).
* Ebenezer Slocum (1716-????), married 1738 Mary (Cary) Northup (1722-????).
* Edward Slocum (1718-1718).
* Moses Slocum (1720-1748), married 1746 Frances Watson (1724-1748).
* William Slocum (1722-1774), married 1748 Sarah Tarbox (1726-1802).
* Maria Slocum (1724-????).
* John Slocum (1732-1756).
Ebenezer Slocum, father of Samuel, wrote his will on 10 December 1714, and it was proved by the Jamestown Town Council. He bequeathed land in Scituate to his son Samuel Slocum[2]. (Jamestown Land Evidence, Vol. 1, pages 165-167).
On 25 August 1721, Samuel's widowed mother, Mary (Thurston) Slocum, gave her thirds of 85 acres of land that was his brother Ebenezer Slocum on the north side[2] (Jamestown Land Evidences, Vol 1, pg. 181).
Also on 25 August 1721, Samuel Slocum, late of Jamestown, blacksmith, sold 45 acres in Jamestown to John Wanton, Nathaniel Coddington, Jonathan Nichols, Edward Thurston, Robert Gardner and William Coddington, trustees of the General Assembly, for £243 13s in good and lawful bills of credit. The land was bounded by east by Edward Tew's land, south by land in possession of Edward Carr, west by the sea, and north by land in possession of Edward Carr, being 45 acres of land, together with the buildings, fences, and improvements. (Jamestown Land Evidences, Vol 1, pg. 181-2). Samuel's wife, Hannah Slocum, signed this indenture[2].
Also on 25 August 1721, Samuel Slocum, late of Jamestown, blacksmith, sold a tract of land in in Jamestown to John Wanton, Nathaniel Coddington, Jonathan Nichols, Edward Thurston, Robert Gardner and William Coddington, trustees of the General Assembly, for £200 in good and lawful bills of credit. The land was bounded north by land in the possession of Edward Carr, east by Richard Tew's land, south by land in possession of Mary Slocum, west by the sea, being 40 acres of land, together with the buildings, fences, and improvements. (Jamestown Land Evidences, Vol 1, pg 184-5). Samuel's wife, Hannah Slocum, signed this indenture[2].
Samuel Slocum died before 4 April 1741 when his estate was administered in North Kingstown[1]. There is no burial record for Samuel Slocum.
5. SOURCES
1. Charles Elihu Slocum, A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs, and Slocombs of America, Genealogical and Biographical; Embracing Eleven Generations of the First Named Family, 1637 to 1881 (Syracuse, N.Y. : the author, 1881), pages 63-64, #16 Samuel Slocum family sketch.
2. "Land Evidence Records, 1680-1899," Volumes 1-2, (manuscript, Jamestown, Rhode Island), Family History Library (Salt Lake City, Utah, on 8 microfilms), on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,946,901; original records in Jamestown, Rhode Island land evidence records;, pages 181-182, 184-185, Samuel Slocum land records.
3. James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths : a Family Register for the People (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912), Vol. 4, "Newport County, Births, Marriages, Deaths;" Jamestown Births and Deaths, Samuel Slocum birth entry, March 1684; accessed on Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com).
4. Alden G. Beaman, "Lines of Descent from Caleb Carr of Newport," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Volume 11 (1988), page 221, Edward Carr family sketch.
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