The surname Slocum, like so many other Englis surnames, is of local origin, and due to the abundant growth of the Sloe Tree in one of the numerous Combes (depressions, or valleys, in the hills) of southwestern England; hence the Sloe-Combe, and Slocumbe. The Sloe tree---known also as the Black-thorn, English (spiny) plum (prunus spinosa) -- is the parent stock from which the varieties of cultivated plums in England have been propagated.

A family of the Slocumbe name possessed landed estates in the counties of Sumerset and Devon, and also in Wales. Their coat of arms is found trucked in the reports of the Visitation of Somersetshire about the year 1573; a Harleian MS. No. 1385, in the British Museum Library, as follows: Ar. On a fess gu. Betw. Three griffins' heads couped sa. As many sinister wings or. CREST -- A griffin's head gu. Betw. Two wings expanded or.

Charles was a farmer who lived in Bristol, RI. He was a Quaker and married Sarah Allen who was a fifth generation Quaker. Charles was loyal to Britian. During the American rebellion a rebel mob came to the door of their house and when Charles opened the door he was shot by George Babcock following which, his two sons, Ebenezer and Eleazer, were taken off as prisoners of war. Charles widow, Sarah, had to move five miles from the sea due to the activities of her son Ebenezer who was spying for Lord Percy in retaliation for his father's death. His mother Sarah was blamed for Ebenezer's spying although she had no part in it. Later on the rebels cropped Sarah's ears, branded both cheeks and put her in stocks for issuing forged notes. She came to New Brunswick and was buried at Fanjoy Point on Grand Lake which is a Loyalist graveyard.

Ebenezer served as Captain of the Royal Volunteers during the American Revolutionary War. He was a United Empire Loyalist, he came to Saint John, NB with his wife and two children in 1783 on the ship 'Union'. In 1784 he settled on the river Saint John, opposite Long Island, and shortly after on Fanjoy Point.

"SLOCUM, Ebenezer, A U.E. Loyalist, was born in Rhode Island, May 18 1750.
His wife, whose maiden name was Corey, was also born in Rhode Island, May
30, 1749. After having experienced every indignity and hardship of which
the vagabond band, known as the Sons of Liberty, were capable, he arrived at
St. John with his wife and two children in 1783, in the ship Union. In 1784
he settled on the river St. John opposite Long Island, and shortly after on
Fanjoy's Point, Grand Lake. As already stated, his father was shot by the
rebels before he left the country. he had three sons, Eleazer, who was left
in the United States; Ebenezer and Daniel. Ebenezer, when seventeen years of
age was drowned in the river St. John by the capsizing of a boat opposite
Boar's Head. Daniel had two children, Daniel and Esther. The former was
born in 1797 and is still living. His sons, Charles, William and Daniel are
farmers on Grand Lake. Mrs Mary Coram, wife of the late Joseph Coram, Esq.,
M.P.P. for the city of St. John was a daughter of Esther."

He was a lumberman and worked for the C. T. White Company as did most of his family in their earlier years. He was an Orangeman and was active in the Orange Lodge.

Giles was an early settler in Portsmouth, RI. Probably among the first in 1638. Giles Slocombe changed his name to Slocum on entry to America. Giles and Joan raised their children as Baptists, but about January of 1674, Giles, Joan, Giles, Jr., and two other family members were excommunicated from the Baptist Church. After leaving the Baptist Church, the Slocums became Quakers and in doing so, Giles recorded the births of all his children in the Friends' records though several were now grown, married and living in distant parts.