When Deborah Slocum was born in 1734, in Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Eleazer Slocum Jr., was 40 and her mother, Deborah Smith, was 39. She married Prince Howland on 27 December 1752, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Oblong MM, Dutchess, New York, United States in 1761. She died in 1827, in Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 93.
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English: habitational name from Slocum in Shorwell (Isle of Wight) or Slocombeslade in Brendon (Devon). Both placenames derive from Old English slāh ‘sloe, blackthorn’ + cumb ‘valley’.
History: Anthony Slocombe or Slocum (1590–1674/75) came from Taunton, Somerset, England, to Taunton, MA, in 1637.
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