The way we connect is through the Pattees. Dotia Slocum married Day Emerson Pattee. Their son Wellington was Dad’s Grandmother’s Grandfather.
The Slocums came over very early, 1637 or so. They were, or shortly became, Quakers, and so were non-citizens in both the Massachusetts and Plymouth Colonies. Apparently they first came to Portsmouth, Rhode Island (which was safe for Baptists and Quakers), then they lived for a while in Dartmouth, either thinking it was in Rhode Island or else that it was far enough from the centers of power to be ignored.
Our line goes like this:
Giles 16xx - 1682
wife Joan - I have no extra information on her. Some people say her last name was Cooke.
children - I have no extra infomation about them - I didn't copy all the pages of the Slocum book (and now don't I wish I had)
Eliezer 1664 - ~1737
wife Elephel Fitzgerald
children
Ebenezer ~1705 - aft 1774
wife Bathsheba Hull
children
Abraham 1730 - aft 1790
wife Abigail Smith It is Abigail's great-grandfather who was supposedly born in Plymouth in 1618. (see below - sources) I was so happy to find the information too - I'd been dreading trying to research Smiths. I have given the info I found on Rootsweb, but I wouldn't trust it.
children
Peleg 1773 - 1849
wife Ruth Hill I have no extra information about her.
children
Dotia 1804 - 1855
husband Day Emerson Pattee
children
Sources:
I don’t know enough about the geography and early history of New England to be anything but muddled on where they lived and what it meant, so I am not going to try to explain it to anyone else. My basic source for all Slocum information is a book:
A short history of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Genealogical and biographical; embracing eleven generations of the first-named family from 1637 to 1881: with their alliances and the descendants in the female lines so far as ascertained. Also the etymology of those surnames, an account of some researches in England concerning their ancestors who bore the parent surname, Slocombe, etc.
This is by Charles Elihu Slocum, and was published by him in 1882 (Syracuse, NY). Since the title is so daunting, I refer to it in these pages as “The Slocum book.”
There are several files on Rootsweb's World Connect site which have some different information, but I'm not sure how trustworthy they are - many seem to repeat the same mistakes without comment. (Examples: one ancestor being born in Plymouth MA in 1618, one ancestor becoming a proud father at age 11 . . . .) I can't possibly follow up all these families, so I mark the Rootsweb information I have used, and I would recommend NOT believing it, unless there is some supporting evidence provided as well.
Pretty much the only primary source material I have is the census, so please be careful if/when you use the info I provide - I have not verified any of the info from The Slocum book or from the Rootsweb files.
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