Giles SLOCUM
Biography

Giles' father, Giles, gave him a deed of land in Portsmouth, RI the first day of April in the three and twentieth yeare of the Raigne of our Souerraine Charles the second King of England, scotland, fraunce and Ireland.....1672.
Louving sonn Gyles was left all the lands and housing belonging to his father in the Towne of Portsmouth except foure accors of land with one small teniment on it laying in the Towne of Portsmouth and now in the occupation of Will Rickinson, house carpenter. Gyles also received one great chest, one table, one bedsteed, one great chaire.
Giles separated from the First Baptist Church of Newport, RI in 1673 with his parents, sister and brother-in-law, Jacob and Joanna Mott, for the Quakers/ Society of Friends.

Materials Toward a Hist of the Bapt. Vol 1, page 175, Morgan Edwards

He removed to Dartmouth around 1669 but returned to Portsmouth before 1678 at which date he was made freeman. From 1681 he was chosen on committees and to attend to business appertaining to the Society of Friends. He was chosen "Deputy" (Representative) to the RI General Assembly (Legislature) in 1685 and 1690.
Selectman for Portsmouth 5-25-1687.
Town Councilman 4-2-1690.
"Assistant" (Colonial Senator) in 1696, 1698, 1700, 1703, 1705, 1708 and 1712.
In 1705 he and brother Ebenezer were chosen with Governor Cranston and others as a committee on the part of RI to settle the long continued and vexatious questions of boundary line between that colony and Connecticut. He was generally chosen Moderator of Portsmouth Town Meetings and was evidently the most prominent man of his time in that township.

GMAllen of Granville, New York

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