Christian Buck

• BUCK, CHRISTIAN
• Ancestor #: A016434
• Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank: PRIVATE
• Birth: 1754 LANCASTER CO PENNSYLVANIA
• Death: 2-18-1829 HUNTINGDON CO PENNSYLVANIA
• Service Source:
• PA ARCH, 5TH SER, VOL 7, PP 726, 759, 786
• Service Description:
• 1) COL ALEXANDER LOWRY

During the Revolutionary War, Christian served in the Militia as well as did his brothers John and Frederick. The following is his service record found in PA archives, Fifth Series, Volume 7, page 726:

Lancaster Militia for October 1, 1781, Christian Buck, Second Class, Colonel Alexander Mowrys Company, David McQueen, Captain. Also again on page 786 of the archives. Members of the militia did not fight. They guarded the home front, gave arms and food for the Army and helped to transport the same.

About 1813, Christian and his wife with their son John and his wife Catherine Longnecker Buck traveled by covered wagon and went up into Warriours Mark Valley in Huntingdon County, Pa. Christian bought a farm consisting of 212 acres; this farm lays two miles east of Tyrone Pa and is now (in 1958) owned by Mr. L. R. Clark. Christian and his wife Catherine and a grandson Samuel, son of John Buck, Sr., and an infant daughter of Nancy and Jacob Buck are buried on this farm

According to tax records he was taxed in this township in 1782 for l 00 acres of land, 3 cattle, 4 sheep, 0 negroes, 0 mills, 1 house, seven inhabitants, and, one other building.

During the Revolutionary War Christian served in the Militia as well as did his brothers John and Frederick. The following is his service record found in the Pa. Archives, Fifth Series, Volume 7, page 726.

Lancaster Militia for October 1, 1781, Christian Buck, Second Class, Colonel Alexander Mowrys Company, David McQueen, Captain. Also on page 759, for the year commencing in October 1782. This is a true and exact list of the names of each and every male white person inhabiting or residing within my district in the Fourth Company of the Seventh Battalion of Lancaster County Militia between the ages of 18 and 53 years. Colonel Alexander Mowrys Company, Christian Buck--Second Class.

About 1813 Christian and his wife with their son John and his wife Catherine Longenecker Buck traveled by covered wagon and went up into the Warriors Mark Valley in Huntingdon County, Pa. Christian bought a farm consisting of 212 acres; this farm lays two miles east of Tyrone, Pa.