George Slacum

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IMMIGRATION

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: George Sleycomb
Arrival Year: 1697
Arrival Place: Maryland
Source Publication Code: 6157.35
Primary Immigrant: Sleycomb, George
Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of first mention of residence in the New World; some are birth and death dates with place of death; some are date and place of naturalization. Place of residence in Maryland, date and place of birth, names of rel

Source Bibliography: NEWMAN, HARRY WRIGHT. To Maryland From Overseas: A Complete Digest of the Jocobite Loyalists Sold into White Slavery in Maryland, and the British and Continental Background of Approximately 1400 Maryland Settlers from 1634 to the Early Federal Period with Source Documentation. Annapolis, MD: Newman, 1982. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985, 1986, 1991. 190p. Page: 158.

Source: 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), p.497-98.

"George Slocombe, with surname spelled Slacum (give broad
sound to the a) and several other ways, has been found by the writer earliest recorded in the Archives of Maryland, viz.:

1695, October 3-19, Assembly Proceedings. George Slacum; his accompt examined for bringing the Cage Whipping post pillory and Stone from London Towne to Annapolis referred to the County for his pay being the proper goods of the County.

1697 (?) A Bill for the Naturalization of Stephen Francis and George Slacombe read the first time.

1697, June 2. The above bill read the second tyme and passed.

1697, June II, An Act for the Naturalizacon of Stephen Francis an Italian & George Slaycombe a German borne* read and assented. [Note: country of origin may not be accurate.]

*This question of naturalization of these two men is repeated several times in different parts of the records, and was apparently agreed to different times. The question was finally settled in the affirmative at the session of
April 26 to May 9, 1700. The exceptions made from time to time are not definitely stated; but their foreign birth?outside the realm of Great Britain is the inferred cause. Many English children were born in foreign ports,
on shipboard and in cities. The names in question are both English, and the parentage English, on the father's side at least, but these men may not have had ready proof of British citizenship.

It is inferred that this George Slocombe became Master at Arms of the Maryland Assembly, as the record reads in volume xxvi of the Archives in part as follows:
1705, May 25. . . . It is further Remarqued that the Hon: Mr Tench Col Addison Mr Brooks Mr Cheseldin and Mr Coursey are not allowed for their Attendance in Councill this or the last Session of Assembly....& fifty two shill paid to George Slacomb to put a stopp to the Members coming to the Assembly. . . .

1700, March 20. George Slacom sold his house and lot. No. 40, in Annapolis, Md., to Amos Garrett. He was granted land in Dorchester County, Md., as follows:

1713, Nov. 24. In tract called "Priviledge, manor of Nanticoke, 174 acres.

1714, Sep. I. Tract called "Little Slycome near Black River, 50 acres;" also 50 acres near source of Raccoon Creek.

"George Sleicome's Will," on record at Annapolis, Maryland, is a short document, made 11 October, 1725. It names sons George and Job as heirs to his lands, and . . . "my wife is supposed to be with child which, if a son after my decease, gets remainder;" if a daughter, land goes to son George. His wife Sarah is named sole executrix. This will was proved 26 November, 1825.

Children:
i. George, born ; married ; died .
ii. Job, born ; married ; died .
iii. A Daughter, born after the death of her father.

WILL EXTRACT

Sleicome, George, sailor, Dorchester Co.,11th Oct., 1725;
26th Nov., 1725.

To son George and hrs., "Timber Swamp," s. side Racoun Ck., and pt. of "Privilege" adj.

To son Job and hrs., residue of "Priviledge."

To unborn child and hrs., if a son, residue of "Timber Swamp" and "Little Sleicampe," both on n. side of Racoon Ck.; shd. child be a dau., sd. lands to son George and hrs.

To wife Sarah, extx., 1/3 personal estate, residue to all children equally.

Test: Ellinor Hart, Mary Macmilington, Samuel Hedge. 18, 414.

George married Sarah Deane. Sarah (daughter of William Richard Deane and Elizabeth Meredith) was born 1687, Dorchester Co. MD; died 1725, Dorchester Co. MD. [Group Sheet]

1. George Slacum was born ca 1716, Dorchester Co. MD; died 29 Oct 1794, Dorchester Co. MD.
2. Job Slacum was born ca 1720, Dorchester Co. MD; died ca 1790, Dorchester Co. MD.
3. Sarah Slacum was born ca 1725, Dorchester Co. MD.