Barker, {I3371} (b. )

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Reference: 3371

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Birth: 16 NOV 1672

Death: 1708

Reference: 3372

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Death: 1725

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Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Reference: 3378

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Families
Abbreviation: Rhode Island Families

Reference: 3379

Birth: 21 DEC 1670

Reference: 3380

Birth: ABT 1678

Reference: 3381

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Birth: 10 SEP 1637 Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England

Death: 1711 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3382

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Source: (Birth)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Page: Year only.

Birth: 05 FEB 1638 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Death: 1719 Kingstown, Rhode Island

Reference: 3383

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Reference: 3384

Source: (Name)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Reference: 3385

Birth: 1645 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Death: 1703 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3386

Note: 15th of the first month of 1647

Note: He was generally chosen Moderator of the Portsmouth Town
meetings, and was, evidently, the most prominent man of his
time in that township.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Source: (Birth)
Title: The Slocums of America
Abbreviation: The Slocums of America

Source: (Individual)
Title: Legal Records
Abbreviation: Legal Records

Birth: 25 MAR 1647 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Event: Type: Moved to
Date: BEF 1669
Place: Dartmouth Township, New Plymouth

Event: Type: Moved to
Date: BEF 30 APR 1678
Place: Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Occupation: Freeman
Date: 30 APR 1678
Place: Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Occupation: Deputy from Portsmouth to the Rhode Island General Assembly
(Legislature)
Date: BETWEEN 1685 AND 1690

Occupation: Selectman for Portsmouth
Date: 25 JUL 1687

Occupation: Chosen to serve on the next Grand Inquest. Also chosen in
1685.
Date: 28 AUG 1682

Occupation: Town Councilman
Date: 02 JUN 1690

Occupation: Assistant (Colonial Senator). Also in the years 1698, 1700,
1703, 1705, and 1708.
Date: 1696

Occupation: Chosen with Governor Cranston and others, as a committee on the
part of Rhode Island to settle the long continued and vexatious
question of boundary line between that Colony and Connecticut.
Date: 1705

Religion: Chosen on committees, and singly, to attend to business
appertaining to the Society of Friends (Quakers). It also
appears he was sometimes called upon to explain conduct which
was declared disorderly by that Society.
Date: BETWEEN 1681 AND 1711

Death: 01 JAN 1710/11 Newport, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3387

Probate: Date: 07 MAR 1670
Note: "Nathaniel Soule complained against Gyles Slocom, of Dartmouth,
that said Slocome entered into and upon the rights of said
Soule in his absence and refused to surrender the same... The
jury find for the defendant."

Probate: Date: 12 JUL 1679
Note: "The eare marke of the Cattle of Giles Slocum Junr is a crop on
the Right Ear and a halfpeney on Each side the same and A slit
in the left Eare with A halfpeney under the same. Entered and
Recorded the 12th of 5th month 1679."

- mee John Anthony, Towne Clerke

Probate: Date: 05 JUL 1671
Note: "Nathaniel Soule of Duxburrow, and George Soule of Dartmouth...
complaineth against Gyles Slocome of the towne of Dartmouth,
late of Rhode Island... that he did in 1669, in absence of the
first named, enter into and upon their rights and refused to
surrender and so brought into question the title to their
land... The jury find for plaintiffes... thirty shillings
damage and the cost of the suite."

Probate: Date: 13 NOV 1694
Note: Named as one of the proprietors of Dartmouth Township in the
confirmatory deed of Governor William Bradford

Note: Giles made many more purchases and sales of land in addition to
the ones listed here. He was a very energetic and prosperous
man, and he possessed the characteristic English desire for a
large landed estate.

Source: (Name)
Title: The Slocum Genealogy, by Charles E. Slocum, M.D., Ph.D.
Abbreviation: The Slocum Genealogy, by Charl

Page: pp 219-223

Genealogy of Rhode Island Families, Vol II, New England
Historical and Genealogical S

Source: (Death)
Title: The Slocums of America
Abbreviation: The Slocums of America

Source: (Individual)
Title: Austin's Genealogical Dictionary
Abbreviation: Genealogical Dictionay

Baptism: 28 SEP 1623 Old Cleeve, Somerset County, England

Event: Date: AFT 1638
Place: To 'Slocum' on entry to America
Note: Type: Changed Name

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 04 SEP 1648
Note: His name first appears in the mutilated records of that
township in a land grant showing his 'peacable possession' of
land there in 1648: 'At a meetinge of the free inhabitants of
the towne of Portsmoth September the 4th 1648 there was
graunted by the disposers of Land, and since Laid out unto
Gyles Slocom with in the bounds of the towne of portsmoth above
said and in the peacable possestion of the said Gyled Slocom
thirty ackres of land more or less for which the Tresurer is
paid and is butted and bounded as followeth with Land bought by
the Said Gyles of John Cranston, one the South Side with lands
partly belonginge to Ralph Cowland, and partly with Land
belonginge to the Said Gyles Slocom, and the west end it
buttinge upon the common, to haue and to hould and peacably to
posses and injoy to him his heires and assignes for Euer.
Where as it is Ordered that for Eury Ackre of Land that is
impropriated, two Shillings is to be paid in to the tresury I
haue Receued of Gyles Slocom three pounds which is for thirty
ackres of Land graunted to him September the 4th 1648 and is
Laid out. I Say Receued by me the 10th of September 1648 three
pounds.'

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 01 APR 1672
Note: Giles Sr. gave a deed of land in Portsmouth, Rhode Island to
his son Giles.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 23 FEB 1668
Note: Received a deed of land from William Brenton.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 14 JAN 1657
Note: Received a deed of land from John Randall of Portsmouth.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 24 JAN 1650
Note: Giles received a deed of land from John Cranston of Portsmouth.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 1651
Note: Giles gave to Thomas Guinnings a deed of land in Portsmouth.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 04 JAN 1657
Note: Received a deed of land from John Cranston of Portsmouth.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 02 FEB 1657
Note: Received a deed of land from Thomas Cooke, Jr. of Portsmouth.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 06 MAR 1657
Note: Received a deed of land from the Township of Portsmouth.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 20 MAY 1667
Note: Received from Robert Carr of Newport, Rhode Island, a deed of
land at Navisink, New Jersey.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 15 OCT 1669
Note: Received a deed of 1/24th part of the purchasers Township of
Dartmouth, in New Plymouth, from Nathaniel, William, and
Wrestling Brewster, it being the same land that was "a gift
from our Dear Mother Mistress Sarah Brewster". The price of
this purchase (36 pounds) was "paid by Ralph Earle in behalf of
Gyles Slocome".

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 28 FEB 1670
Note: Received from John Wood of Newport, Rhode Island, for a
consideration of 30 pounds, a deed of "one share of land lying
and being within the Liberties and precincts of Norwatacunck in
the Jurisdiction of New Jersey Neer New York near Adjoining to
the Land of John Slocum [his son] now there inhabiting."

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 03 APR 1670
Note: Giles Slocum received from Thomas Lawton of Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, a deed of two shares of land in or near Shrewsbury
Township, New Jersey.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 02 NOV 1676
Note: Giles gave to his son, John Slocum of Shrewsbury Township, New
Jersey, a deed of one-fourth of one share of land in
Shrewsbury, and also the tracts at Navisink, near Shrewsbury,
which he purchased in 1667 and 1670.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 02 NOV 1676
Note: Giles gave to his daughter Joanna Mott a deed of three-fourths
of one share of land in or near Shrewsbury, New Jersey.

Event: Type: Land Rec
Date: 1675
Note: He owned rights in the Township of Taunton, New Plymouth, and
sold them to Nicholas White Sr.

Immigration: Date: 1638
Place: Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Occupation: He was recorded as a freeman of Portsmouth.
Date: 1655

Religion: Giles and his wife were early members of the Society of
Friends.
Date: AFT 1638

Religion: Joined the Quakers
Date: AFT AUG 1673

Religion: Excommunicated by the Baptist Church at Newport
Date: 23 AUG 1673
Place: Newport, Rhode Island

Will: Date: 1681
Note: 'Seeing it pleaseth God to give me this opportunity being in
good & sound memory it is with me to setle my out ward Estate
that the Lord hath blessed mee with all unto whome I give the
glory whoe is gold over All blessed for Ever more amen now Know
all people whoe may bee concerned hearin That I Gyles Slocom
now of the Towne of Portsmouth one Road Island and in ye Kings
Providence Plantation of New England in Amerrica sinnair I doe
make this my last will & Testiment in mannar & forme ase
ffolloweth my will is that my depts bee first payd by my
Executirx hereafter named. Item I doe give & beequeath unto my
Louving sonn Samuell Slocome five shillings in Lawfull monyes
of New England. Item I give & beequeath unto my sonn John
Slocom five shillings Lawful monyes of New England. Item I doe
give and beequeath unto my Louving sonn Gyles Slocom him his
heires And asignes for Ever all my Lands and housing to mee
beelonginge and apertaining beeing and Laying in or one Rhod
Island in the Towne of Portsmouth and now in my occdupation
Excepting foure accors of Land with one Small Teniment one it
laying in the Towne of Portsmouth in Rhod Island and now in the
occupation of Will Rickinson house carpenter. Item I give unto
my sonn Giles Slocom one great Chest one table one bedsteed one
great chaire. Item I give unto my son Ebenezer five shillings
Lawfull monyes of New England. Item I give unto my son
Nathaniell Slocom two shars of Lands Laying neere the Towne of
Shrosbury in New Jersey to him his heires and asignes for Ever.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Peleg Slocom halfe A
sheare of Land Lying and beeing in the Towne of Dartmouth with
all the Rights prineledges theare unto beelonging to him his
heires and asignes for Ever. Item I give and bequeath unto my
son Eliezer Slocom one quarter of a sheare of Land Laying and
beeing in the aforesaid Towne of Dartmouth in the Colonye of
Plimouth to him his heires and Asignes for Ever. Item I give
and beequeath unto my Louing Darter Johanah Mott three quarters
of a sheare of Land situate and Laying neare Shorsbury [
Shrewsbury] in New Jersey to her her heires and asignes for
Ever. Item I give and beequeath unto my Loueing Dauter Mary
Tucker foure accars of Land with one small Teniment one it
Laying in the Towne of Portsmouth one Rhod Island and now in
the occupation of Will Rickinson house carpenter to her and her
heires for Ever. Item I give and bequeath unto my Dafter Mary
Tucker sixteen accors of Land situate and Laying up one the
Island of Cononicut which wase formerly in the posstiion of
Robert Hasard to her her heires and asignes for Ever. Item I
give unto my son Eliezer Slocom two oxen foure cowes one horse.
Item I give and beequeath unto my Dafter Johanah Mott five
pounds Lawful monyes of New England to bee payd her out of my
stocke when when solde. Item I give and bequeath unto my
Dafter Johanah Mott my Riding horse. Item I doe give and
beequeath unto my Loueing friends the peple of God called
Quakers foure pound Lawfull monyes of New England to bee payd
into the mens meeting one Road Island. Itme I give and
beequeath unto my three children Nathaniell Eliezer Slocom and
Johanah Mott all my beding equaly devided betwixt them. Item I
give unto all my Grand children each of them five sheepe A
peace. Item All the Remainder of my Estate undisposed of I
give and beequeath unto my five children Nathaniell Peleg
Eliezer Slcom Johanah Mott Mary Tucker to bee Equalye devided
bee twen them. Item my will is that all my legises bee truly
payd by my Executirx within six months after my deseas. Item
my will is that after my dessease my sonn Gyles Slocom shall
give one mounthes time unto my Executirx for the Removing and
taking all my stock ase coews osen sheepe horskine and
household goods. Lastly I doe heare by nominate constitute and
apoynt my trusty and well beloved Dafter Johanah Mott to bee my
full and sole Executrix of this my Last will and Testament
nulling and makeing void all other wills formerly by mee made
what soever And this to stand for my Last will and Testament
furder I doe desire my Loueing friends John Easton Simn Water
Charles and Arthur Cooke all of Road Island to see this my Last
will performed unto which I have heare unto set my hand & seale
the Tennth day of ye Eigh mounth called October in the yeare
one Thousand six hundred Eighty and one [1681].

Reference: 3388

Probate: Date: 25 APR 1668
Note: The earemarke of Gyles Slocom [for his livestock] is a Crope
[crop] in the Right Eare and a hapeny [half-penny] under the
same one the lime [i.e., leading?] eare, with a slitt in the
left eare and ahapeny under of thirty years standing and is
entered upon Record this 25th of April 1668 by me.

- Richard Bulger, towne Clerk

Note: Joan raised her children as Baptists; but, about January of
1674, Giles, Joan and Giles Jr. and two other family members
were excommunicated from the Baptist Church. After leaving the
Baptist Church, the Slocums became Quakers and in doing so,
Giles recorded the births of all of his children in the
Friends' records though several were now grown, married and
living in distant parts.

Source: (Name)
Title: Church Records
Abbreviation: Church Records

Page: Society of Friends, Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Source: (Individual)
Title: Austin's Genealogical Dictionary
Abbreviation: Genealogical Dictionay

Religion: Excommunicated by the Baptist Church at Newport
Date: 16 AUG 1673
Place: Newport, Rhode Island

Religion: Joined the Quakers
Date: AFT AUG 1673

Death: 31 AUG 1679 Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Reference: 3389

Source: (Death)
Title: Rhode Island Records
Abbreviation: Genealogy of First 100 Families to Settle Rhode Island

Birth: 16 SEP 1647 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Death: 05 JUL 1718 Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Reference: 3390