Ninth Generation

352. Eliezer SLOCUM was born on 25 December 1664 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI. He died on 11 March 1727 at the age of 62 in Dartmouth, MA. He and his brothers Giles and ? were named among the proprieters of the township of Dartmouth confirmed by the deed of William Bradford November 13, 1694. He was a yeoman and left a large estate when he died in 1727. He was granted one-quarter share of the land lying in Dartmouth by his father's will. He settled on the neck of land at the confluence of Paskamansett River with Buzzards Bay, which became known as Slocum's Neck. He had a substantial estate at his death.

In the confirmatory deed of Governor William Bradford, November 13, 1694, Eliezer Slocum and his brothers Giles and Peleg were named among the proprietors of Dartmouth which then included the present townships of Dartmouth, New Bedford, Westport and Fairhaven. He dealt quite extensively in lands and was very successful in the accumulation of property considering the newness of the country and the various unfavorable circumstances of his time. The oppressions of the New Plymouth and Massachusetts governments show a marked contrast between the civil standing of these brothers, and all other members of the Society of Friends, who settled in Dartmouth and those who resided in Rhode Island. The former were excluded from the rights of citizenship and the privilege of holding office, though they were obliged to bear their proportion of the governmental burden while the presence and counsel of the latter were much sought in directing public affairs.
Eliezer received one quarter of a sheare of land laying in the Towne of Dartmouth in the Colonye of Plimouth from his father's will. He also received two oxen, foure cowes, one horse and a third of his father's beding.
Eliezer's will was proven July 30, 1727 and his estate was appraised at L5,790. 18s. 11d. personal L665. 18s. 11d. real L5,125 exclusive of the former gifts to his children. Eliezer Slocum's original will is preserved in the probate office at Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

A Short Hist. of the Slocums, Slocumbs, Slocombs of America
Charles E. Slocum 1908
Elephel FITZGERALD and Eliezer SLOCUM were married about 1684 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.

353. Elephel FITZGERALD was born in 1668 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 4 October 1748 at the age of 80 in Dartmouth, MA. Tradition has it that Elephel was an Irish lady of high birth. Some hold that she was among those brought to Virginia and sold as wives to prospective purchasers and that the purchase money in this instance amounted to about $600.

Another legend is that she was the daughter of the Earl of Fitzgerald. An English Army officer fell in love with a fair Geraldine. The Geraldines had no love of the English, remembering how Lord Thomas, the son of the great Earl, along with his five uncles was hanged as a traitor on February 3, 1536. Queen Elizabeth later repealed the attainder, but the Fitzgeralds never forgave and never forgot. So her father forbade his daughter's marriage to the English Army officer. So they eloped, taking along younger sister Elephel. Elephel came to work in the Giles Slocum household, and she and Eliezer fell in love. The story goes that Giles forbade their courtship and locked her in the smokehouse, where Eliezer came down the chimney and somehow freed her. See The Slocum House at Barney's Joy by Henry Howland Crapo, 1990, Ancestry.com.

After Eliezer's death, she lived with son Ebenezer.

Children were:

176	i.	Eleazer SLOCUM.
	ii.	Ebenezer SLOCUM was born (date unknown).
	iii.	Benjamin SLOCUM died before 1727.
	iv.	Joanna SLOCUM was born on 15 July 1702 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 14 September 1772 at the age of 70 in Jamestown, Newport Co., RI.