The Slocum family estate was given to the county, becoming what is known as Elizabeth Park, named after Elizabeth Slocum.

The Slocum family continued on their next ship, the 326-ton Aquidneck.

The Slocum family, with the exception of Jessie and Benjamin Aymar, again took to the sea aboard the Aquidneck, bound for Montevideo, Uruguay.

Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche.

The Slocum family were Quakers who emigrated from Rhode Island to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania in 1777.

The Slocum family remained in the settlement while many others had fled during the Battle of Wyoming in July of 1778.

The Slocum family believed their Quaker belief and friendly relations with natives would protect them.

On November 2, 1778 Frances Slocum was taken captive at the family farm near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

He sent a letter to the postmaster in Lancaster, Pennsylvania asking if anyone in the Slocum family had a relative that was taken by Indians about the time of the Revolutionary War.

The Slocum family hired European artist George Winter to paint a portrait of Frances.

He was hired to do a painting of Frances Slocum for the Slocum family but he also did one of his own.

In the painting for the Slocum family, Frances's skin appears whiter and her clothes not as vibrant.

To gain sympathy in Congress, Manaquana's lawyer, appointed by her white relatives, played to his audience portryaing Frances Slocum as an old woman who had enduring years of torture and captivity and only wished to remain near her family — both white and Indian.

Details of her years spent with the Slocum family and her years as an elderly woman after reuniting with her white relatives have been recorded in history.

After sailing to Massachusetts, Slocum left his three youngest children, Benjamin Aymar, Jessie, and Garfield in the care of his sisters ; his oldest son Victor continued as his first mate.

Slocum resisted the suggestion, claiming the terrain was too difficult for an assault, but he continued to fancy himself the right wing commander for the rest of the battle, leaving Brig.

First-year students live in the Kellas and Slocum Halls.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

During his stay on the Juan Fernández Islands, Slocum runs across a marker commemorating Selkirk's stay.

The two leading Democratic candidates were Roswell P. Flower and Henry W. Slocum, but their factions deadlocked, and the convention could not agree on a nominee.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

Hepburn was so impressed by Catlett's talent and coaching ability that on her insistence he was hired to play Constable Slocum in the film.

The Spray originally belonged to Captain Eben Pierce of Fairhaven, a whaling captain, who gave the derelict boat, slowly deteriorating in a ship cradle in a meadow on Fairhaven's Poverty Point, to his friend, Captain Slocum.

Slocum spent thirteen months in Fairhaven while working on the Spray, making her fit for open-ocean sailing.

In 1976, a small booklet on the town history was assembled by Addison historian Alice Slocum, followed in 1997 by a 225 page illustrated book by local author Dan Cherry.

For the jazz drummer and lead musician on the album Portraits, see Matt Slocum ( drummer ).

In 1991, Slocum played guitar in with Chris Taylor on a garage-band tape release called A Place to Hide Away ( Part 1 ).

Slocum played cello on Viva Voce's first album, Hooray For Now.

On March 13, the fleet sailed up the Neuse River, anchored at Slocum Creek, and disembarked infantry on the river's south bank.

The northern and southern portions are mountainous, and the elevation on Penobscot Mountain reaches above sea level along the township's southern border with Slocum Township.

Joshua Slocum ( February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909 ) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world.

Joshua Slocum was born on 20 February 1844 in Mount Hanley, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia ( officially recorded as Wilmot Station ), a community on the North Mountain within sight of the Bay of Fundy.

Slocum quickly rose through the ranks to become a Chief Mate on British ships transporting coal and grain between the British Isles and San Francisco.

However, the vitality of the community was sapped by the General Slocum disaster on June 15, 1904, in which over a thousand German-American died.

Many of Yorkville's original German residents moved to Yorkville and other neighborhoods from " Kleindeutschland " ( Little Germany ) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan after the General Slocum disaster on June 15, 1904.

While there is an ongoing plot about Slocum preparing for a promotion at work, most of the book focuses on detailing various events from his life, ranging from early childhood to his predictions for the future, often in non-chronological order and with little if anything to connect one anecdote to the next.

It was also the second deadliest disaster in New York City – after the burning of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904 – until the destruction of the World Trade Center 90 years later.

* June 15, 1904 – The General Slocum, carrying 1300 to a picnic site on Long Island, catches fire while on the East River alongside Astoria, Queens.

In 1693, Peleg Slocum purchased all of the holdings on Cuttyhunk, and became its sole owner.

Swift, Thomas Nye, and Eben Perry bought Cuttyhunk from Otis Slocum for fifty dollars.

Graham will be recognized for his meritorious service to baseball and will get the William J. Slocum Memorial Award.

Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898.

They are jailed by a befuddled town constable, Constable Slocum ( Walter Catlett ) for breaking into the house of Dr. Fritz Lehman ( Fritz Feld ).

* Transcription for Wind Band by Earl Slocum

Matt Slocum ( born 27 December 1972 ) is a guitarist, cellist, pianist and composer, known for his work as the principal songwriter and lead guitarist of Sixpence None the Richer.

* Henry Warner Slocum, General for the Union during the Civil War and US Congressman from Brooklyn.

Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca and

However, the owner, strapped for cash, sold the vessel out from under Slocum, and he and Virginia found themselves stranded in the Philippines without a ship.

During this period, Slocum also fulfilled a long-held ambition to become a writer ; he became a temporary correspondent for the San Francisco Bee.

In his book, Terrorism, media, liberation, John David Slocum argues that like Satyajit Ray's classic masterpiece Pather Panchali ( 1955 ), Khan's Mother India has vied for alternative definitions of Indianness.

This embarrassing incident might have damaged his reputation except for two factors: the part of the battle he was supposed to march to join had ended, so he wasn't really needed ; and, because of a dispute between army commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade and Slocum over the filing of their official reports, little public notice ensued.

* William J. Slocum – Jack Lang Award ( for long and meritorious service )

When Hooker was relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac, Slocum, being the most senior general in that army, was in line for command.

At the Battle of Gettysburg, Slocum received some criticism for his corps ' slow march to the battlefield, which led to his derisive nickname, " Slow Come ".

" Some historians have explained Slocum's indecision by citing the " Pipe Creek Circular ", Meade's contingency plan for a defensive line in Maryland, saying that it directed Slocum to stop at Two Taverns and into thinking that Meade wished to avoid a general engagement at Gettysburg.

As the ranking general on the field, Slocum commanded the army for about six hours after the fighting that day, until Meade arrived after midnight.