Henry Buck

Extracted from DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, VOLUME XXIII, CALENDAR OF NEW JERSEY WILLS, VOLUME I, 1670-1730;Paterson NJ, 1901 ( Libers 1, 2, etc. are of West Jersey Wills. Those as Libers A, B, etc.,are of East Jersey Wills)

BUCK, beginning page 68:

1725-6 Feb. 9. Buck, Henry, of Fairfield, Salem Co., Esquire; will of. Wife Rachel. Children – Henry, Ephraim, Jeremiah, Daitton, Judah. Home farm of 550 acres on South side of Cohansey Creek, personal property (4 negro slaves). Executors – sons Henry and Jeremiah. Witnesses – JosiahBrooks, Ephraim Daton, Hugh Chard. Proved February 21, 1725-6. Lib. 2, p.326.

1725-6 Feb. 16. Inventory of the personal estate, £540.12.11, incl. debts due, £129.4.10; made by Josiah Brooks and Ephraim Daton.

[*** NOTE. The following, concerning Henry Buck Sr., whose will is above,was taken from ORIGIN, HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE BUCK FAMILY, byCornelius Harvey, Esq.; Jersey City, N. J., J. J. Griffiths, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1889; LOC Copyright April 20 1889, Washington, Copy #8624 - Microfilm Copy No. 2; pp. 34, 35:

Page 34:

“The eight children of Henry Buck (2) and Elizabeth Churchill, born at Wethersfield, Conn., were:

1. Henry, b. 1662
2. Samuel, b. Feb. 2, 1664
3. Martha, b. Oct. 15, 1667
4. Elizabeth, b. June 6, 1670
5. Mary, b. March 12, 1673
6. Sarah, b. July 25, 1678
7. Ruth, b. Dec. 4, 1681
8. Mehitable, b. Jan. 4, 1684.

Of these eight children Henry Buck (23) removed to Fairfield; Salem Co., N. J., about 1692, in company with Connecticut settlers, who located in Fenwick’s Colony, where he married Rachel Unknown. Their descendants scattered over New Jersey, Penn- [page 35] sylvania and Delaware. Shrouds, in his “History and Genealogy of Fenwick’s Colony,” says that Henry “became one of the leading men in Fenwick’s Colony, as the records of Salem fully confirm.” In partnership with one Richard Whitacar, a Quaker, he opened a store in “New England Town.” The firm, as appears by one of their account books (now in the possession of Caroline Whitacar, a descendant of Richard Whitacar), must have done an extensive business, besides owning a sloop which traded as a regular packet between Cohansey and Boston. The first entries in this book are dated 1704, but the firm must have been in existence long before that time. Henry was elected a Justice of the Peace and served as foreman on the Grand Jury of Salem County in 1707. Besides holding the office of Overseer of the Highways for South Cohansey precinct, he filled several other public offices of trust and confidence, all of which proves him to have been a representative man of the Colony. He died in 1726, leaving a large estate, including several negro slaves. His will, dated Feb. 9, 1726, was recorded in Liber 2, page 326 of Trenton wills. His children were: I. Henry; II. Ephraim; III. Jeremiah; IV. Dayton; V. Judith.”]

1725-6 March 14. Buck, Henry, of Cohansey, Salem Co.; will of. Wife Ruth. Children – Henry, Jane and Hannah. Farm on the North side of Cohansey Creek, derived from father and owned with brother Ephraim Buck; personal property (negroes). Executors – the wife and brother-in-law John Burgin. Witnesses – Ed. Fairbanck, James Robbenson, Rachel Burgin. Proved April 18, 1726. [page 69] 1726 May 25. Inventory of the personal estate, £144.1, incl. three negro slaves, £75; and a prentice boy, Samuel Josten, £5; made by James Robbenson and Robert Ayars.

1716 Nov. 4. Buck, John, of Cape May, mariner; will of. Wife Annie. Children – Joseph, John, Thomas, Mary. Real and personal estate (gold and silver objects). Executor – John Taylor with Jonathan Swain and Christopher Church as overseers. Not witnessed, because at the time, when Nathaniel Jenkins wrote the instrument for the testator, the same was ill of smallpox, of which he died.1716 Nov. 22. Inventory of the personal estate (£126.9.1), of which 22 stand for 1/3 interest in the sloop Dolphin), made by Christopher Churchand Nathaniel Jenkins.

1717 April 15. Bond of John Taylor as executor, Jeremiah Hand and Ebenezer Swain fellow bondsmen.

The following names appear in the INDEX of this volume, the references being as persons mentioned in wills, such as recipients, trustees, witnesses,etc., but not wills of:

BUCK - Amey, Annie, Daitton, Ephraim, Hannah, Hen., Henry, Henry junior,Jane, Jeremiah, John, Joseph, Judah, Mary, Rachel, Ruth, Thomas, Thos.

BUK - William

Extracted from DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, VOLUME XXX, CALENDAR OF NEW JERSEY WILLS, VOLUME II, 1730-1750; Paterson NJ, 1918 ( Libers 1, 2, etc. are of West Jersey Wills. Those as Libers A, B, etc.,are of East Jersey Wills)

BUCK, page 72:

1738, April 17. Buck, Ephraim, of Cohansey, Salem Co., weaver; will of. Wife, Ruth, use of house and lands until son Ephraim will be 21, which will be in 1753. Sons, Ephraim and Joseph Buck (both minors), all houses,lands, marshes and tenements. In case Hannah Buck, daughter of my brother Henry, cannot maintain a right, by law, to that property given her in my father’s will, then she shall have at 18 the land (90 acres) and marsh (10 acres) which my father bought of William Rush between Thomas Brown and John Pratten’s and Robert James’s land, but in case she leaves no issue, my sons shall have the same. Daughter, Abigail Buck (not 18). Apprentice, Peter Dayton. Executor – wife and Jeremiah Buck. Witnesses – Samuel Harris, Nathaniel Bishop, Nathaniel Harris, Moses Bishop. Proved 15 June, 1738. Lib. 4, p. 177.

1738, April 24. Inventory (£124.13.6) includes cattle, negro girl, “3 lums, tackling, two pearse of combs and hooks.” Appraisers – Moses Bishop, Saml. Harris.

1734, July 17. Buck, Joseph, of Cape May Co.; will of. Wife, Lydia,sole executrix. Brothers – Thomas and John Buck. Witnesses – William Johnson, Frs. Taylor, Thomas Stonebanks. Proved 9 August, 1734. Lib. 3, p.443.

1734, July 20. Inventory of personal estate (£82.08.01), includes cattle, horses, sheep and swine. Appraisers – Ebenezer Swaine, William Johnson.

The following names appear in the INDEX of this volume, the references being as persons mentioned in wills, such as recipients, trustees, witnesses, etc., but not wills of:

BUCK - Abigail, Dacon, Ephraim, Hannah, Henry, Jeremiah, John, Joseph, Lydia, Ruth, Thomas.

FROM: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BUCK/2002-09/1031711208

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From Bi-centennial celebration of the Old stone church, September 29, 1880

Henry Buck, of the old firm of Whitaker & Buck, came to this place from Wethersfield, Connecticut, about 1692. His
father, Henry, there married Elizabeth, daughter of John Churchill, and they had eight children. Dudley Buck, the foremost musical composer of the new world, is one of their posterity. Henry Buck's descendant, the Ephraim Buck who signed Mr. Ramsay's call, married Judith Nixon. They had six children. The eldest was Joseph, born May 1st, 1753. He entered the revolutionary army as ensign in 1779, two years later was made lieutenant, and when the war ended he was captain by brevet. He soon after married Ruth, daughter of Col. Enos Seeley, father of Ebenezer, who was Clerk of the county nearly twenty years, from 1814 to 1833; this Ebenezer being the father of Elias P. Seeley, Governor of the State, and of Enos Seeley, Clerk of the county in 1842. Mr. Buck was elected Sheriff four years after the close of the war, and filled the office three years. He was one of the most enterprising men in the county. He founded and named Millville, but died in the midst of his days and of his plans to create there somewhat such a city as Millville is to-day. He left a remarkable family of children. John, born April 1st, 1784, was elected Sheriff of the county before he was twenty-five years old. His sister Jane having married Daniel P. Stratton, and his sister Hannah, Nathan L. Stratton, these three men formed in Bridgeton the firm of Buck & Stratton, which remained substantially the same until Mr. Buck's death, in 1842. It was for a generation the chief mercantile house in South Jersey. One fact tells the whole story of their character. About forty years ago, their promissory notes for fractions of a dollar, issued for change in the absence of silver, though paying no interest, were hoarded by the people until they had been put forth to the amount of twent}' thousand dollars — a large sum in this county forty years ago. Mr. Buck's eldest daughter married William S. Bowen, M. D., a prosperous ph3'sician of Bridgeton, one of whose sons is John Buck Bowen, who received his degree of M. D. from the University of Penns34vania in 1861, and who held the rank of Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Army in 1862, and was the Surgeon of the 34th Regiment of N. J. Volunteers in 1863 and 1861, until he resigned and commenced his skillful and beneficent practice in Bridgeton.

Joseph Buck's son Ephraim received his medical diploma from the University of Pennsylvania, and became a well- known and skillful physician, and an unselfish and active Christian.

Joseph Buck's daughter Sarah married, first, John Bower Ogden, and after his death, Henry Sheppard. She was the mother of the late Col. Henry Sheppard, of Springfield, Mis- souri, and of Dr. Joseph Sheppard, Bridgeton.

Joseph Buck's daughter Jane married Daniel P. Stratton, and was the mother of the Rev. James Stratton, of Jackson, Louisiana, and of the late Rev. Daniel Stratton, of Salem, New Jersey. The late Rev. Wallace H. Stratton, ofLouisiana, and Rev. William M. Stratton, of Missouri, are sons of the Rev. James Stratton.

Joseph Buck's daughter Hannah married Nathan L. Stratton, and was the mother of Rev. Joseph Buck Stratton, D. D., who has been the eminent pastor of the church of Natchez for the last thirty-seven years, as he is now. He is the head of the delegation from the Southern Presbyterian Church, in the great Alliance, meeting this week, in Philadelphia. She was also the mother of Charles P. Stratton, of Camden, who is among the foremost lawyers of New Jersey.

Ephraim and Judith Buck's son Jeremiah married Sarah Holmes. They had eight children. One of them, Robert Shute Buck, was elected Sheriff of the county when he was twenty-three years old. His cousin John's election at twenty-four seems marvelous ; and his election at twenty-three appears almost incredible ; but many here may remember that it took place in 1825. This young man married Caroline James, and the marriage led to his connection with the Cumberland Nail and Iron Works. The history of her family, as well as his own, is full of interest.

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Biography

Henry Buck

Death ===Will dated Feb 9, 1725-6: <ref>New Jersey Colonial Documents - Calendar of Wills page 68 [https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/7005889/person/6471402...]</ref>Buck, Henry, of Fairfield, Salem Col, Esquire; will of, Wife Rachel,Children-- Henry, Ephraim, Jeremiah, Daitton, Judah. Home farm of 550 acres on South side of Cohansey Creek, personal property (4 negro slaves). Executors -- sons Henry and Jeremiah. Witnesses -- Josiah Brooks, Ephraim Daton, Hugh Chard. Proved February 21, 1725-6. Lib. 2 p. 326.

Henry Buck II

Sources

<references />* Seversmith, Herbert Furman. Space:Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut|Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut (Washington, D.C., 1939) Vol. 2, Page 897* Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

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Origin, history and genealogy of the Buck family; New England Marriages Prior to 1700