Giles Slocum
Truth – Myth – Legend – Possibility

Need your help in discussion on the history of Giles.
I have finished Anthony however Giles is a little more difficult and would like your ideas on this subject and any new research.

Giles as the son of Anthony Slocum.
I believe it to be a myth.

Giles as the son of Philip and Charity Bickham Slocombe
Possibility? Born 1623

My concerns: Giles had an ear mark listed in 1668 as having it for 30 years which
Would place him in the Providence of Rhode Island in 1638. [age 15]
Thomas Cooke’s ear mark would place him in Rhode Island in 1642.

Giles father died in Goathurst, Somerset in 1624, Giles was age 2 and he and his mother lived with Aldred Bickham in Old Cleeve.

Giles would have left Rhode Island in 1639 to 1640 and went back to Old Cleeve, married Joan Cooke in 1641 and had daughter Joan in 1642.
Giles was listed as taking oath to church of England in 1641, listed on protestation
Returns in Old Cleeve in 1642, his Mother Charity died and will was proved in 1643/44 in Old Cleeve, she did not mention... [More]

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