Notes from "History of the Slocums in America," by Charles Elihu Slocum, p. 148: John and his family moved to the State of New York in 1794, lived for several years in Burlington, Otsego County, and later in Lebanon in the adjoining county of Madison. He was drafted for a soldier in the War of 1812. A carpenter, he traveled alone to Smithport, McKean Co., PA, in June 1824, to work in a shop. He died there 29 Dec 1824, after a few hours suffering great pains in his stomach. He was buried there.