Abijah Buck

1742 - 1829  (87 years)

• Name	Abijah Buck  [1]
  Birth	1742	Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1829	Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA   [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

  
  

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

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1742 - Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 1829 - Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  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

  [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 94. [S2754] www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Internet Website.