Eliezer SLOCUM
1742 - -
Name Eliezer SLOCUM [1, 2, 3] Birth 7 May 1742 [2] Gender Male Living 1777 ,, Hampshire County, Massachusetts 
[4, 5] - "He resided in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, in 1777, in which year he was a soldier in the Continental Army under Captain John Hamilton and Col. John Moseley for the Defense of Newport*; he also served under Col. Nathan Sparrowhawk at Saratoga. He afterwards moved to New Brunswick, with his nephew Ebenezer Slocum, arriving at St. John by the ship Union in 1783**. He was a large muscular man and possessed the strength of a giant."
* See the Revolutionary War Rolls in the Secretary of State's office, Boston, Massachusetts.
** See Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of teh American Revolution, by Lorenzo Sabine, 2 vols., 1864.
Immigration 1783 [6] - Eliezer immigrated to Saint John, New Brunswick in 1783 as a United Empire Loyalist with his nephew, Ebenezer. He was accompanies by his wife and one child over ten years of age, who would be Jerusha.
Name Eleazer Slocum [7] Person ID I1430 Ancestral Trails Last Modified 13 Apr 2024
Father Ebenezer SLOCUM, b. 1705, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts d. Aft 1774 (Age > 70 years) Mother Bathsheba HULL, b. Abt 1710, Rhode Island d. Aft 1774 (Age ~ 65 years) Marriage 4 Apr 1728 Newport, Rhode Island [8] - Married at the Newport Friends Meeting house.
Family ID F324 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Thankful Marriage Y [4] Children 1. Jerusha SLOCUM Family ID F161 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Sep 2025
- "He resided in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, in 1777, in which year he was a soldier in the Continental Army under Captain John Hamilton and Col. John Moseley for the Defense of Newport*; he also served under Col. Nathan Sparrowhawk at Saratoga. He afterwards moved to New Brunswick, with his nephew Ebenezer Slocum, arriving at St. John by the ship Union in 1783**. He was a large muscular man and possessed the strength of a giant."
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Sources - [S118] Verna Haywood Coe Rissell, 118. (Reliability: 1).
- [S1326] Short History of the Slocums, 1326. (Reliability: 3).
- [S312] A Short History of the Slocums, 312. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1326] Short History of the Slocums, 1326. (Reliability: 2).
- [S257] Biographical Sketches American Revolution, 257. (Reliability: 2).
- [S17046] American Loyalists to New Brunswick, 17046. (Reliability: 3).
Page 61 - [S2164] The Hull Family in America, 2164.
281 - [S16194] Marriage Record - Ebenezer Slocum & Bathsheba Hull, 16194. (Reliability: 3).
Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014), Originally Published as: Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, by James N. Arnold. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company.
- [S118] Verna Haywood Coe Rissell, 118. (Reliability: 1).