Captain Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world completely alone.
He left from Boston, USA, on 24th April 1895, and returned to Newport, Rhode Island on 27th June 1898, 3 Years and 2 months later.

Joshua Slocum was born in Nova Scotia. He had family roots in New England. "Captain Joshua Slocum commanded some of the finest tall ships that ever sailed the seas. On April 24, 1895, at the age of 51, he departed Boston in his tiny sloop Spray and sailed around the world single-handed, a passage of 46,000 miles, returning to Newport, Rhode Island on June 27, 1898. This historic achievement made him the patron saint of small-boat voyagers, navigators and adventurers all over the world. His book, Sailing Alone Around the World, became an instant best seller. It has been translated into many languages, and is still in print today. His vessel, the Spray, which he rebuilt himself from a derelict hull, has been copied by hundreds of boat builders world-wide. In the fall of 1909, Captain Slocum left on a voyage to South America and was never heard from again."

Frances Slocum - The White Rose of The Miami Indians

"Franes was stolen by the Delaware Indians from her father's house near Wilkes-Barre, in Wyoming Valley, Luzerne county, Pa., on the second day of November, 1778, when she was a child five years of age. The brothers of Frances, Joseph and Isaac Slocum, grew to manhood and advanced to old age, making inquiry and search for their lost sister whenever they could hear of any white woman among the Indian tribes who they thought might be their sister, sometimes offering large rewards in money for her discovery. More than sixty years passed away before they found the lost sister. She was at last discovered, as the widow of an Indian Chief, living on the banks of the Mississenawa(sic) river, about seven miles from its mouth, where it empties into the Wabash, near Peru in Indiana."

"Her father was a Quaker." "The brother of Frances Slocum is Major Benjamin Slocum. Benjamin's daughter, Maria Slocum."

The Witch Ann Foster (Clark Side) at Salem

Ann Foster, a relative of Richard Warren, came to Massachusetts from London on the ship "Abigail" in 1635. Her mother, Ann (Hooker) was a sister of Rev. Thomas Hooker, her father was Deacon George Alcock.

Ann had 5 children: Andrew, Abraham, Sarah, Mary, who was also accused of witchcraft, and Hannah, who was murdered by her husband. He was later hanged for his crime.

Convicted and confessed to witchcraft, Ann was arrested and taken to Salem Prison, where she died at the age of 80 years. Above is a sketch of the witch trials at Salem Village.

Coming Over On The Mayflower (Clark Side)

Richard Warren 1580 - 1628 was a passenger on the Mayflower (old "May Floure") in 1620. He sailed from London to Cape Cod and then settled on a 400 acre tract of land in Plymouth Massachusetts, on November 11 1620.

Here is a painting of the Mayflower at the harbor. Richard's wife Elizabeth (Walker) and five daughters came to join him on the ship Anne in 1623. They later had two sons at Plymouth. Richard was one of 10 explorers on the ship. Here is a drawing of the inside of the Mayflowers cabin and some of it's passengers signing the Mayflower Compact.

We are among his descendants, as are: "Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, astronaut Alan Shepard, author Laura Ingalls Wilder, actor Richard Gere, actress Joanne Woodward, writers Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lavinia Warren (the wife of "General Tom Thumb"), aviator Amelia Earhart, actor Orson Welles, United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, the Wright Brothers, Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, chef Julia Child, Irish President Erskine Hamilton Childers, inventor Lee DeForest, and many more." A detailed genealogy of just the first five generations of our ancestors from this particular relative takes up three volumes.

(Slocum side) Ancestor

A wonderful photo of a woman in our ancestry from the Slocum side of the family. Her name and dates are unknown.