Gabriel Slacum

Male 1740 - 1804  (63 years)


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  • Name Gabriel Slacum 
    Born 12 Mar 1740  Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Maryland, Births and Christenings Index, 1662-1911
      Name: Gabrill Slocum
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 12 Mar 1740
      Birth Place: Dorchester Parish, Dorchester, Maryland
      Father's Name: Jobe Slocum
      Mother's name: Mary
      FHL Film Number: 13889
    Gender Male 
    Died 1804  Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Source: History of Dorchester Co. MD, p. 346

      "Gabriel Slacom (Slacombe) was an officer of the crew of
      the Privateer "Sturdy Beggar," sailing under Letters of Marque, commissioned in 1776 and 1777. He was captured and imprisoned for several years in England; finally escaped to
      France and reached his home after an absence of seven years, broken in health from serious wounds received at the time."

      Source: The Short History of the Slocums Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Dr. Charles Elihu Slocomb,1882, p. 577

      "Capt. Gabriel Slocomb, Prizemaster of the American Privateer " Sturdy Beggar," of Maryland, was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War. He was committed to Forton Prison, England, 23 January, 1778, and effected his escape there- from 23 July, 1778.*

      *The Privateer " Sturdy Beggar" captured four vessels of the British Leeward Island Fleet in the summer of 1777, and was in turn destroyed in the Delaware River later in that year. See The New England Historical and Genealogical /Reg-
      ister for 1876, '77, 78, and '79."

      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.498

      "Was Prizemaster of the American Privateer, Sturdy
      Beggar, of Maryland. He was captured by the British, and
      committed to Forton Prison, England, in 1778. He escaped
      the same year. See Vol. I."

      CENSUS RECORDS

      1800 United States Federal Census
      Name: Gaberiel Slaunn [Gabriel Slacum]
      Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Dorchester, Maryland
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
      Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 2
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
      Number of Slaves: 15
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 4
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 21

      LAND RECORDS

      25 May 1800
      Slacums Inclosure, Capt. Gabriel Slacum, 507 1/2 Acres
    Person ID I25561  Master File
    Last Modified 23 Nov 2017 

    Father Job Slacum,   b. ca 1720, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. ca 1790, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Mother Mary (Polly) Dunn,   b. ca 1725, St. Dunstan and All Saints, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. ca 1776, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Family ID F11309  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine Boyne,   b. ca 1764, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1810, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Children 
     1. Mary Catherine Boyne Slacum,   b. 03 Jun 1784, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Sept. 1872, Grenada Co. MS Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
    +2. George Slacum,   b. 18 Dec 1785, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Sep 1820, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 34 years)
     3. Job Slacum,   b. ca 1790, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1837, Northumberland Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 47 years)
     4. Gabriel Slacum,   b. ca 1788, Dorchester Co. MD Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 10 Mar 2014 
    Family ID F11306  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart