Mary (Slocum) Corey (1738)

Born 1 Oct 1738 in Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island

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Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

note: marriage source lists Mary Slocum marrying Caleb Cory 16 Dec 1756 NOT Mary Seabury as claimed on the profile of Mary Seabury and Caleb Cory.

Descendents of Thomas Durfee p 39 lists Mary Slocum as the second wife of Caleb Corey. Children listed are William, Wbenezer, Barhseheba, Mary, Abigail, Deliverance, Seabury, Sarah, from 1759 to 1784.

source for death not yet found.

Slocum "Fifth Generation. 73

62. i. Charles, b 19 Feb 1729; mar. Sarah Allen; d. April 1777.

63. ii. Abraham, born 29 June, 1730; married Abigail Smith.

iii. Ebenezer, b. 9 May, 1732, in Dartmouth, Mass.; died young.

iv. Desire, botn 23 Feb, 1734; was mar. with William Cook of Portsmouth, R. I., 8 June, 1755, by william Hale, J. P.

64. v. Samuel, born 4 Nov 1736; mar. Ruth Hall for 2d wife.

vi. Mary, born 1 Oct 1738; was married with Caleb Cory of Portsmouth, R. I., 16 Dec 1756, by william Anthony, J. P. They had children, Bathsheba and William.

65. vii. David, b 23 Sept., 1740; mar. Phebe Manchester; d. 1818

viii. Eliezer, born 7 May 1742; married Thankful -----, and had one daughter living in 1781. He resided in Hampshire County, Massachusets, 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 removed to New Brunswick, with his nephew Ebenezer Slocum (sketch No. 132), arriving at St. John by the ship Union in 1783. He was a large muscular man and possessed strength of a giant.

66. ix. Elijah, b. 23 June 1744; mar. Comfort -----, in Tiverton.

x. Stephen, born 24 June 1746; mar. Elizabeth Fisher (?).

67. xi. Edward, born 1748; mar. ------------- -------------; died about 1822.

xii. Ebenezer, born 26 May, 1750; married, 4 June 1778, widow Rebecca (Burgess?) Briggs of Dartmought, Mass. and had a child Mary. He was Lieutenant in the Second Company of Tiverton soldiers in 1775 and '76, and member of Rhode Island Regiment in 1781."

Source: #S73

Mary was born about 1740.

Sources

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-TVW8 : 18 February 2020), Mary Slocum, 01 Oct 1738; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.

• "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8VV-1M7 : 22 January 2020), Mary Slocum in entry for Caleb Cory, 1756.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4GC5-XW6Z : 22 January 2020), Mary in entry for Bathsheba Cory, .

• Weygant, Charles H. The Hull Family in America (Sun Printing Co., Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1913) p 281

• Slocum, Charles Elihu. History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America (the author, Defience, Ohio, 1908)

• Reed, William Field. The descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth, R.I. (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1902) p39 Google books

https://archive.org/details/descendantsoftho00lcreed/page/38/mode/2up

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of dyermaeettaaug2010.ged on 11 September 2010.

• Slocum-726 was created by Steven C Slocum through the import of Steven Slocum family tree.ged on Jul 29, 2015.
• Al B. Cory, Corys of America, 2nd Edition