25 Facts About Peleg Slocum

Peleg Slocum was a Quaker from Portsmouth, Rhode Island, he was a proprietor of Dartmouth, Massachusetts and sole owner of Cuttyhunk Island.

Peleg Slocum found himself on the wrong side of the law in white-collar, and religious situations.

Peleg Slocum was a defendant against a claim that he and other Dartmouth proprietors refused to divide land.

Peleg Slocum had eighty of his sheep, as well as his land on the Elizabeth Islands seized for refusing to contribute, and pay a tax, to build a Presbyterian Church at Chilmark.

Peleg Slocum had a horse and heifer seized to pay the rates.

Peleg Slocum married his wife Mary Holder, daughter of Christopher Holder a Quaker evangelist, in 1681.

In 1693 Peleg Slocum obtained Cuttyhunk Island, a small island off of the Massachusetts Southeast coast, as well as the surrounding islands Nashawena and Penikese.

Peleg Slocum purchased the island from the combined holdings of Ralph Earle Jr.

Peleg Slocum reportedly used Cuttyhunk to graze sheep, since he didn't need walls to confine the flock.

Peleg Slocum routinely held meetings of the local Friends in his Dartmouth home - all the way until 1703.

Peleg Slocum held every recorded meeting during 1699,1700,1702 and during 1703 until the meeting house was finished.

Peleg Slocum was chosen to speak with a Quaker about his disorderly speeches at the town house, and Slocum was chastised for speaking out of turn about a bill.

Peleg Slocum was then chosen to attend another local monthly meeting and a yearly meeting in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Peleg Slocum was chosen as an overseer for a Dartmouth Meeting.

Peleg Slocum was asked about renewing his deed on the land the meeting house was built.

Peleg Slocum refused to stand during an award ceremony, was absent from several meetings, and acted in an aggressive way at other Quaker meetings he attended.

Peleg Slocum then attended 3 meetings over the years 1711,1712, and 1713.

Peleg Slocum helped the church draw up an account for a late act by Walter Newbury.

Peleg Slocum's first recorded action for the Quakers in close to ten years.

Peleg Slocum was one of the first approved Ministers of the society.

In 1698, along with several other Dartmouth Quakers, Peleg Slocum pledged money to help build a meeting house.

Peleg Slocum purchased a lot on which to build the meeting house for one pound, sixteen shillings.

Peleg Slocum settled in Slocum's Neck, when he died his homestead contained over one thousand acres.

In 1751 Peleg Slocum's land was divided some 20 years after his death.

Peleg Slocum's land included an Indian Meeting House which was thought to have been built by Slocum and the Quakers for Old Dartmouths Native American population.