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- 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."
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