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Abijah Buck

Male 1742 - 1829  (87 years)

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  • Name Abijah Buck  [1]
    Birth 1742  Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male
    Death 1829  Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I2778  Bisbee
    Last Modified 4 Jan 2014

    Father John Buck, Jr.,   b. 1716   d. Yes, date unknown
    Mother Sara Clemens   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F1407  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Phoebe Taylor,   b. 1742   d. 1816 (Age 74 years)
    Children 
    +1. Ellen Buck,   b. 8 Jan 1765, New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1836, Waterford, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    Family ID F1406  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Aug 2008

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1742 - Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1829 - Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • First settler of the name in Buckfield. Abijah Buck left New Gloucester, Maine with a group of hunters and came to what is now Buckfield, Maine: firstly to select lots for settlement and secondly for good hunting. "Streaked Mountain, " "Twenty Mile River," "Owl Mountain" and "Bog Creek" had long been given their present names and the region was famous for bear and catamount.

      Abijah Buck, then 34 years old, had served with the Colonial forces in 1760 and had previously been a "Scout to the Eastward." He was born in Dunstable, Mass., the son of John Buck, Jr. Abijah wrote a fair hand for those times and records in his diary, "Bucktown, March 4, 1777--beginning this town at this time."

      "The Bucks of Buckfield descended from William Buck, a plowwright who emigrated to Salem, Mass. in the ship 'Increase' in 1635. He was born in England and came to Americal with four sons, Isaac, James, John and Roger."

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 94.

    2. [S2754] www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Internet Website.