Family:Ebenezer Slocum and Alice Unknown (1)

From Slocum, Charles Elihu. A short history of the Slocums, etc. comes the following profile:

"EBENEZER Slocum (Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Giles, Anthony) was born in North Kingstown Township, Rhode Island, 27 July, 1736. He married Alice and resided in Portsmouth Township, R. I. Children: i. Edward, born in Dec., 1774; was a resident of Tiverton Tp., R. I., in 1811 (?). His widow (?), Eunice, died in Tiverton in 1826, leaving children, Clarissa and Edward. ii. Alice, b. 3 Feb., 1776, in Portsmouth Tp., R. I.; died young. iii. Charles, b. 6 March, 1778; mar. Mary Brownell; d. 1850. iv. Alice, b. 12 Sept., 1781, in Portsmouth Tp., Rhode Island. v. Lillis, born 28 June, 1784, in Portsmouth Township, R. I."

Note that Ebenezer was not listed among the births of North Kingstown or South Kingstown by James N. Arnold. See Person:Ebenezer Slocum (11).

1.   Slocum, Ebenezer, in Slocum, Charles Elihu. A short history of the Slocums, Slocumbs, and Slocombs of America, genealogical and biographical (1882): embracing eleven generations of the first-named family from 1637-1881, with their alliances and the descendants in the female lines as 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. (Syracuse, New York: Slocum, 1882)
   p. 101.