193 Main St., the Parsonage.
Slocum Homestead
03-21-1818 Norfolk County Deed:
214:206
Jabez and Amos Shumway to Christopher Slocom Esq. ½ acre, on south side of Turnpike Road at the corner of
High, 6x14 rods. No building listed. $50.
Christopher Slocum built a center chimney house here in 1819, and married
Charlotte Adams in 1822. He moved his center chimney house to Slocumb Place in 1849 and built another house at 193 Main
for his law office. Norfolk County map of 1852: C Slocum & office.
Christopher Slocum died in 1861 at his Slocumb Place house. This
Homestead lot on Main Street included dwelling house, barn, shop (Cushings Block at 195 Main) and outbuildings.
In 1867, his widow Charlotte sold the 193 Main St house to
the church for a parsonage - they used the Levi Adams parsonage funds for the purchase.
10-26-1867 Norfolk County Deed: 364:115
Charlotte
Slocum (widow) to the Trustees of the Levi Adams Parsonage Fund (Stephan Adams, Elihu White, AMB Fuller)
½ acre “nearly
opposite the Congregational Church" with house built in 1849, $3500.
She kept lot #195 where she
had a store; it was 1/8 acre and was called "Cushings Block" by the town for John Cushing who had his tailor shop there.
According to the 1870 Annual Report for the Town of Medway, she made improvements
to the building that year - she was 75 years old..
Norfolk County map of 1876: Congregational Parsonage
