Dr. Henry Buck
Henry Buck was a surgeons mate in the Revolutionary War, and afterwards, a doctor in Central Pennsylvania. His later life is reasonably well documented, but accounts of his origins are sketchy and contradictory. According to a published account. "....... Henry Buck, a soldier in the American Revolution, who had immigrated from England with his Irish wife to New York and moved later to Pennsylvania (1)" The source for this was Willard L. Huss, a descendant of one of Henry's sons. Another account is given in a letter to the Commissioner of Pensions from Mrs. Mable Wallace, of Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1915. Mrs. Wallace, in requesting information on Henry Buck, wrote "Came from Germany. Enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. His father was Baron Buck (2)" This letter and other papers in the pension file for Henry Buck, are important documents in this history and so a (nearly) full transcription is given later.
In a private communication, Mrs. Shirley Buck Welton wrote that this man's name was John Buck and he was married to Nancy - who was Irish. He was a surgeon in the German Army who came to America with General (Baron) von Steuben at the time of the American Revolution. She did mention a Henry Buck who married Mary McKee, but she didn't know the relationship (3). There was a McKee family near Lewiston, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, where Henry later settled. The McKees first settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, then later separating, some settling near Carlisle (4). A look at the warrant maps from Mifflin County reveals that McKees owned a tier of tracts in Oliver and Granville Townships: Jonathan McKee obtained a land warrant in 1766, William McKee in 1766, John and Andrew in 1766 and Andrew in 1784.
A letter from a descendant of Elizabeth Buck (a daughter of Henry) stated that Henry (or Rachel) may have come from Thaxted, Essex, England (5).
The author's family tradition, as told by his Grandfather, Clifford P. Buck, is that Henry Buck was a German, who lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with two brothers, until a family argument split them up.
There are references to one or more Jacob Bucks in central Pennsylvania, where Henry lived at least the last twenty years of his life. One Jacob Buck landed in Philadelphia in 1751 on the ship, Neptune. Jacob, a day laborer, his wife Madalena Raitenb, and children John, born 1739; Sofia born 1745 and Christian born 1749, were from Hulben, Wuerttenberg, Germany (6)
There was also a Jacob Buck family in Muncy, then Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Jacob Buck of Philadelphia obtained a release from Alexander Roddy in Northumberland County on August 15, 1773 for 300 acres of land on the north east branch of the Susquehanna and on the south west side of Fishing Creek (7). There was at least one Henry Buck in Northumberland County, but that Henry was there from 1787 onwards, as tax records show, after the subject of this work is definitely placed in Mifflin County. However, the earliest Revolutionary War record of Henry Buck is in a unit recruited from Northumberland County.
A Jacob Buck obtained a warrant in Derry Township, in what is now Mifflin County, in 1766, as shown on the Mifflin County land warrant maps.
Another, or possibly the same, central Pennsylvania Buck family was in what is now Perry County, Pennsylvania Jacob Buck (German Bock) settled in Buck's field, near the east end of Buck's Valley, in what is now Buffalo Township, Perry County (8) It is said that Jacob came from Wittenbury, Germany and settled in Buck's Valley about 1772. He had two brothers, one of whom settled in New Jersey. Jacob had a son Jacob 2nd, who married Suzane Ulsch. Jacob Buck 2nd had sons Fred Buck, born 1813 and Jacob Buck 3rd, born 1815 and died 1907 (9). The Saint Michael Evangelical Lutheran Church in the upper Pfouts Valley, Greenwood Township, Perry County, recorded the Christening of George Buck and Anna Buck, children of John Buck, on July 15, 1798 and of the christening of Fred Buck, son of Jacob and Susan Buck in 1812 (10).
Saint Michaels was a very early church, organized between 1770 and 1773. Services were held in a large schoolhouse until a new building was erected from the church in 1798 and consecrated in 1800. The services were still being held in German at that time (11).
This Buck family continued to live in Buck's Valley, and in Hunter's Valley, just north over Berry Mountain. The United Methodist Church in Buck Valley is Buck's Church, which belonged to the Evangelical United Brethren before the merger with the Methodists. Jacob Buck 3rd, and several others, later Bucks are buried in the Buck's Church Cemetery. Many Bucks are also buried in the Messiah Church Cemetery in Hunter's Valley. Apparently, Samuel, a school teacher, liked the looks of Bucke better and so added a final "e" (12).
Another family to note is a Buck family in Duchess County, New York. Revolutionary War records indicates that there was a surgeon, Henry Buck, in Pawling, Duchess County, New York, in 1780-81. There is nothing definite to tie this Henry to either our Henry, or the Duchess County Bucks, but the former seems almost a certainty. Clifford M. Buck has written a genealogy of the Buck family of Duchess County, but did not mention a Henry Buck in this time frame.
There was a John Buck in the Third Pennsylvania Regiment in the Revolutionary War, according to the pension files in the National Archives. An inquiry states that he was born in 1752 in Hanover or Holland, came to America with his father at age 3, and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He volunteered in June, 1776, in Captain Mcconnell's Company, Colonel Scope and Cadwallader's Pennsylvania Regiment of the Flying Camp. In 1826, he was living in Butler County, Ohio, and in 1835 in Putnam County, Indiana (13).
There are records in the Cumberland County Courthouse which place our Henry Buck in Cumberland County before the Revolutionary War. There was a civil court case, David Nelson vs Henry Buck in July 1774, but apparently the suit was not prosecuted.
Copied from a letter written by Mrs. Mable Wallace, of Pine Hill, #2 Greensboro, North Carolina to Commissioner of Pensions, dated April 13, 1915.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the data you can find concerning Henry Buck. He came from Germany and enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. His father was Baron Buck. Henry Buck was a surgeon. He was the father of Robert N. Buck and George Washington Buck from Pennsylvania. They both served in the War of 1812.
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DR. HENRY BUCK 1750/55 - 1805 [4th Great Grandfather]
Dr. Henry Buck is the earliest identified ancestor in the Buck Family Genealogy. All of the information about Henry Buck in this report is derived from a Paper prepared by Roger Buck of Columbia, MD, titled "HENRY BUCK - A REVOLUTIONER" and found in my Buck Genealogy Notebook. Dr. Buck was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War and, afterwards, a doctor in Central Pennsylvania. His later life is reasonably well documented, but accounts of his origin are sketchy and contradictory. Depending on the source, he may have immigrated from various parts of Germany or England. Willard L. Huss, a great grandson of Henry Buck's son, George, wrote in "St. Joseph in Homespun", which is in my Buck Genealogy Notebook under "George Buck", "George Buck was born in 1792 in Pennsylvania, one of the six sons of Henry Buck, a soldier in the American Revolution, who had immigrated from England with his Irish wife to New York and moved later to Pennsylvania". Henry's son, Robert N. Buck, reported that his father married Rachel in 1786, well after his time in the Revolutionary War, so information on his early life is conflicting. There are Cumberland County, PA Courthouse Records that place Henry Buck in Cumberland County, PA in 1774. The Revolutionary War provided some further record of Henry's career. His son, Robert N. Buck, furnished some insight in his application seeking Revolutionary War Pension money which Henry's wife, Rachel, would have been entitled to under the provisions of the Pension Act of 1838. In the application he stated that "Henry Buck, a resident of Pennsylvania, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. He came from Cumberland County, PA, served from near its commencement until he was honorably discharged at the close of the War, and had several scars from wounds". The Pennsylvania Records show that a Henry Buck served in the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment. This Regiment was formed in the Spring of 1776 and Henry probably enlisted in Sunbury, PA as a private on 27 March 1776 and then joined Captain Caspar Weitzel's Company at Marcus Hook, PA. On 1 September 1776 he appeared on the roll of Captain John Marshall's Company as a surgeon’s mate and periodically showed on musters through February 1777. Henry disappeared from the Revolutionary War Records until 1780 when he reappeared as a surgeon in Colonel Lewis DuBois' Regiment of New York Levies. Dr. Buck had a break from the War, and then was called upon once more for the New York Levies of Colonel Frederick Weissenfels. Most of the New York action was against the Tories and Indians in Upper New York State. The years between the end of the Revolutionary War and 1788 provide no clues as to his whereabouts. The Cumberland County, PA tax records showed he was a resident in 1788 and the Mifflin County, PA [formed from Cumberland County] 1789 tax records listed him in Lewistown. Henry Buck also appeared in the 1790 Federal Census. He practiced as a doctor in Central Pennsylvania until his death in 1805 and also had continuous legal problems which are described in Roger Buck's Paper. As regards Henry Buck's death, Robert N. Buck's pension application stated that his father died at the Blue Ball Tavern in Cumberland County, PA on 11 December 1805. Rachel and the family apparently continued to live in Millerstown until 1817, or even later, as she appeared in the 1810 Federal Census and her sons, Robert N. and George, served in the War of 1812. Robert N. Buck showed up indirectly in a letter written by his great granddaughter, Elizabeth Keller, wherein she indicated that Robert's son, Henry H. Buck, who was born in 1817, migrated from Juniata County, PA to Ohio. We know very little about Rachel other than what was recorded in Robert N. Buck's pension application. It stated that she was married to Henry Buck in 1786 and died in Mahoning County, OH on 12 April 1849. Henry and Rachel had eight children: George Buck [1792-1854], married to Martha Irey; Elizabeth Buck [1790-1856], married to Michael Seydel, John Buck [1796-1876], married to Miriam Lamborn; Robert N. Buck [1788-1867], married to Sarah McConnell; Thomas Buck [1797- ?], married to Eve Fisher; Moses Buck [1801- ?], married to Phoebe Hendricks; Mary Buck [1803- ?] and Samuel Buck [1805- ?], married to Sarah Gueldon. This information is found in Roger Buck's Paper, a separate detailed letter which was written by Roger Buck to Shirley Buck Welton on 18 February 1983, as well as copies of cemetery records found in the Buck Genealogy Notebook..
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Henry Buck was a surgeons mate in the Revolutionary War, and afterwards, a doctor in Central Pennsylvania. His later life is reasonably well documented, but accounts of his origins are sketchy and contradictory. According to a published account. "....... Henry Buck, a soldier in the American Revolution, who had immigrated from England with his Irish wife to New York and moved later to Pennsylvania (1)" The source for this was Willard L. Huss, a descendant of one of Henry's sons. Another account is given in a letter to the Commissioner of Pensions from Mrs. Mable Wallace, of Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1915. Mrs. Wallace, in requesting information on Henry Buck, wrote "Came from Germany. Enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. His father was Baron Buck (2)" This letter and other papers in the pension file for Henry Buck, are important documents in this history and so a (nearly) full transcription is given later.
In a private communication, Mrs. Shirley Buck Welton wrote that this man's name was John Buck and he was married to Nancy - who was Irish. He was a surgeon in the German Army who came to America with General (Baron) von Steuben at the time of the American Revolution. She did mention a Henry Buck who married Mary McKee, but she didn't know the relationship (3). There was a McKee family near Lewiston, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, where Henry later settled. The McKees first settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, then later separating, some settling near Carlisle (4). A look at the warrant maps from Mifflin County reveals that McKees owned a tier of tracts in Oliver and Granville Townships: Jonathan McKee obtained a land warrant in 1766, William McKee in 1766, John and Andrew in 1766 and Andrew in 1784.
A letter from a descendant of Elizabeth Buck (a daughter of Henry) stated that Henry (or Rachel) may have come from Thaxted, Essex, England (5).
The author's family tradition, as told by his Grandfather, Clifford P. Buck, is that Henry Buck was a German, who lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with two brothers, until a family argument split them up.
There are references to one or more Jacob Bucks in central Pennsylvania, where Henry lived at least the last twenty years of his life. One Jacob Buck landed in Philadelphia in 1751 on the ship, Neptune. Jacob, a day laborer, his wife Madalena Raitenb, and children John, born 1739; Sofia born 1745 and Christian born 1749, were from Hulben, Wuerttenberg, Germany (6)
There was also a Jacob Buck family in Muncy, then Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Jacob Buck of Philadelphia obtained a release from Alexander Roddy in Northumberland County on August 15, 1773 for 300 acres of land on the north east branch of the Susquehanna and on the south west side of Fishing Creek (7). There was at least one Henry Buck in Northumberland County, but that Henry was there from 1787 onwards, as tax records show, after the subject of this work is definitely placed in Mifflin County. However, the earliest Revolutionary War record of Henry Buck is in a unit recruited from Northumberland County.
A Jacob Buck obtained a warrant in Derry Township, in what is now Mifflin County, in 1766, as shown on the Mifflin County land warrant maps.
Another, or possibly the same, central Pennsylvania Buck family was in what is now Perry County, Pennsylvania Jacob Buck (German Bock) settled in Buck's field, near the east end of Buck's Valley, in what is now Buffalo Township, Perry County (8) It is said that Jacob came from Wittenbury, Germany and settled in Buck's Valley about 1772. He had two brothers, one of whom settled in New Jersey. Jacob had a son Jacob 2nd, who married Suzane Ulsch. Jacob Buck 2nd had sons Fred Buck, born 1813 and Jacob Buck 3rd, born 1815 and died 1907 (9). The Saint Michael Evangelical Lutheran Church in the upper Pfouts Valley, Greenwood Township, Perry County, recorded the Christening of George Buck and Anna Buck, children of John Buck, on July 15, 1798 and of the christening of Fred Buck, son of Jacob and Susan Buck in 1812 (10).
Saint Michaels was a very early church, organized between 1770 and 1773. Services were held in a large schoolhouse until a new building was erected from the church in 1798 and consecrated in 1800. The services were still being held in German at that time (11).
This Buck family continued to live in Buck's Valley, and in Hunter's Valley, just north over Berry Mountain. The United Methodist Church in Buck Valley is Buck's Church, which belonged to the Evangelical United Brethren before the merger with the Methodists. Jacob Buck 3rd, and several others, later Bucks are buried in the Buck's Church Cemetery. Many Bucks are also buried in the Messiah Church Cemetery in Hunter's Valley. Apparently, Samuel, a school teacher, liked the looks of Bucke better and so added a final "e" (12).
Another family to note is a Buck family in Duchess County, New York. Revolutionary War records indicates that there was a surgeon, Henry Buck, in Pawling, Duchess County, New York, in 1780-81. There is nothing definite to tie this Henry to either our Henry, or the Duchess County Bucks, but the former seems almost a certainty. Clifford M. Buck has written a genealogy of the Buck family of Duchess County, but did not mention a Henry Buck in this time frame.
There was a John Buck in the Third Pennsylvania Regiment in the Revolutionary War, according to the pension files in the National Archives. An inquiry states that he was born in 1752 in Hanover or Holland, came to America with his father at age 3, and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He volunteered in June, 1776, in Captain Mcconnell's Company, Colonel Scope and Cadwallader's Pennsylvania Regiment of the Flying Camp. In 1826, he was living in Butler County, Ohio, and in 1835 in Putnam County, Indiana (13).
There are records in the Cumberland County Courthouse which place our Henry Buck in Cumberland County before the Revolutionary War. There was a civil court case, David Nelson vs Henry Buck in July 1774, but apparently the suit was not prosecuted.
Copied from a letter written by Mrs. Mable Wallace, of Pine Hill, #2 Greensboro, North Carolina to Commissioner of Pensions, dated April 13, 1915.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the data you can find concerning Henry Buck. He came from Germany and enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. His father was Baron Buck. Henry Buck was a surgeon. He was the father of Robert N. Buck and George Washington Buck from Pennsylvania. They both served in the War of 1812.
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DR. HENRY BUCK 1750/55 - 1805 [4th Great Grandfather]
Dr. Henry Buck is the earliest identified ancestor in the Buck Family Genealogy. All of the information about Henry Buck in this report is derived from a Paper prepared by Roger Buck of Columbia, MD, titled "HENRY BUCK - A REVOLUTIONER" and found in my Buck Genealogy Notebook. Dr. Buck was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War and, afterwards, a doctor in Central Pennsylvania. His later life is reasonably well documented, but accounts of his origin are sketchy and contradictory. Depending on the source, he may have immigrated from various parts of Germany or England. Willard L. Huss, a great grandson of Henry Buck's son, George, wrote in "St. Joseph in Homespun", which is in my Buck Genealogy Notebook under "George Buck", "George Buck was born in 1792 in Pennsylvania, one of the six sons of Henry Buck, a soldier in the American Revolution, who had immigrated from England with his Irish wife to New York and moved later to Pennsylvania". Henry's son, Robert N. Buck, reported that his father married Rachel in 1786, well after his time in the Revolutionary War, so information on his early life is conflicting. There are Cumberland County, PA Courthouse Records that place Henry Buck in Cumberland County, PA in 1774. The Revolutionary War provided some further record of Henry's career. His son, Robert N. Buck, furnished some insight in his application seeking Revolutionary War Pension money which Henry's wife, Rachel, would have been entitled to under the provisions of the Pension Act of 1838. In the application he stated that "Henry Buck, a resident of Pennsylvania, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. He came from Cumberland County, PA, served from near its commencement until he was honorably discharged at the close of the War, and had several scars from wounds". The Pennsylvania Records show that a Henry Buck served in the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment. This Regiment was formed in the Spring of 1776 and Henry probably enlisted in Sunbury, PA as a private on 27 March 1776 and then joined Captain Caspar Weitzel's Company at Marcus Hook, PA. On 1 September 1776 he appeared on the roll of Captain John Marshall's Company as a surgeon’s mate and periodically showed on musters through February 1777. Henry disappeared from the Revolutionary War Records until 1780 when he reappeared as a surgeon in Colonel Lewis DuBois' Regiment of New York Levies. Dr. Buck had a break from the War, and then was called upon once more for the New York Levies of Colonel Frederick Weissenfels. Most of the New York action was against the Tories and Indians in Upper New York State. The years between the end of the Revolutionary War and 1788 provide no clues as to his whereabouts. The Cumberland County, PA tax records showed he was a resident in 1788 and the Mifflin County, PA [formed from Cumberland County] 1789 tax records listed him in Lewistown. Henry Buck also appeared in the 1790 Federal Census. He practiced as a doctor in Central Pennsylvania until his death in 1805 and also had continuous legal problems which are described in Roger Buck's Paper. As regards Henry Buck's death, Robert N. Buck's pension application stated that his father died at the Blue Ball Tavern in Cumberland County, PA on 11 December 1805. Rachel and the family apparently continued to live in Millerstown until 1817, or even later, as she appeared in the 1810 Federal Census and her sons, Robert N. and George, served in the War of 1812. Robert N. Buck showed up indirectly in a letter written by his great granddaughter, Elizabeth Keller, wherein she indicated that Robert's son, Henry H. Buck, who was born in 1817, migrated from Juniata County, PA to Ohio. We know very little about Rachel other than what was recorded in Robert N. Buck's pension application. It stated that she was married to Henry Buck in 1786 and died in Mahoning County, OH on 12 April 1849. Henry and Rachel had eight children: George Buck [1792-1854], married to Martha Irey; Elizabeth Buck [1790-1856], married to Michael Seydel, John Buck [1796-1876], married to Miriam Lamborn; Robert N. Buck [1788-1867], married to Sarah McConnell; Thomas Buck [1797- ?], married to Eve Fisher; Moses Buck [1801- ?], married to Phoebe Hendricks; Mary Buck [1803- ?] and Samuel Buck [1805- ?], married to Sarah Gueldon. This information is found in Roger Buck's Paper, a separate detailed letter which was written by Roger Buck to Shirley Buck Welton on 18 February 1983, as well as copies of cemetery records found in the Buck Genealogy Notebook..
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Dr. Henry Buck
Henry Buck was a surgeons mate in the Revolutionary War, and afterwards, a doctor in Central Pennsylvania. His later life is reasonably well documented, but accounts of his origins are sketchy and contradictory. According to a published account. "....... Henry Buck, a soldier in the American Revolution, who had immigrated from England with his Irish wife to New York and moved later to Pennsylvania (1)" The source for this was Willard L. Huss, a descendant of one of Henry's sons. Another account is given in a letter to the Commissioner of Pensions from Mrs. Mable Wallace, of Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1915. Mrs. Wallace, in requesting information on Henry Buck, wrote "Came from Germany. Enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. His father was Baron Buck (2)" This letter and other papers in the pension file for Henry Buck, are important documents in this history and so a (nearly) full transcription is given later.
In a private communication, Mrs. Shirley Buck Welton wrote that this man's name was John Buck and he was married to Nancy - who was Irish. He was a surgeon in the German Army who came to America with General (Baron) von Steuben at the time of the American Revolution. She did mention a Henry Buck who married Mary McKee, but she didn't know the relationship (3). There was a McKee family near Lewiston, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, where Henry later settled. The McKees first settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, then later separating, some settling near Carlisle (4). A look at the warrant maps from Mifflin County reveals that McKees owned a tier of tracts in Oliver and Granville Townships: Jonathan McKee obtained a land warrant in 1766, William McKee in 1766, John and Andrew in 1766 and Andrew in 1784.
A letter from a descendant of Elizabeth Buck (a daughter of Henry) stated that Henry (or Rachel) may have come from Thaxted, Essex, England (5).
The author's family tradition, as told by his Grandfather, Clifford P. Buck, is that Henry Buck was a German, who lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with two brothers, until a family argument split them up.
There are references to one or more Jacob Bucks in central Pennsylvania, where Henry lived at least the last twenty years of his life. One Jacob Buck landed in Philadelphia in 1751 on the ship, Neptune. Jacob, a day laborer, his wife Madalena Raitenb, and children John, born 1739; Sofia born 1745 and Christian born 1749, were from Hulben, Wuerttenberg, Germany (6)
There was also a Jacob Buck family in Muncy, then Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Jacob Buck of Philadelphia obtained a release from Alexander Roddy in Northumberland County on August 15, 1773 for 300 acres of land on the north east branch of the Susquehanna and on the south west side of Fishing Creek (7). There was at least one Henry Buck in Northumberland County, but that Henry was there from 1787 onwards, as tax records show, after the subject of this work is definitely placed in Mifflin County. However, the earliest Revolutionary War record of Henry Buck is in a unit recruited from Northumberland County.
A Jacob Buck obtained a warrant in Derry Township, in what is now Mifflin County, in 1766, as shown on the Mifflin County land warrant maps.
Another, or possibly the same, central Pennsylvania Buck family was in what is now Perry County, Pennsylvania Jacob Buck (German Bock) settled in Buck's field, near the east end of Buck's Valley, in what is now Buffalo Township, Perry County (8) It is said that Jacob came from Wittenbury, Germany and settled in Buck's Valley about 1772. He had two brothers, one of whom settled in New Jersey. Jacob had a son Jacob 2nd, who married Suzane Ulsch. Jacob Buck 2nd had sons Fred Buck, born 1813 and Jacob Buck 3rd, born 1815 and died 1907 (9). The Saint Michael Evangelical Lutheran Church in the upper Pfouts Valley, Greenwood Township, Perry County, recorded the Christening of George Buck and Anna Buck, children of John Buck, on July 15, 1798 and of the christening of Fred Buck, son of Jacob and Susan Buck in 1812 (10).
Saint Michaels was a very early church, organized between 1770 and 1773. Services were held in a large schoolhouse until a new building was erected from the church in 1798 and consecrated in 1800. The services were still being held in German at that time (11).
This Buck family continued to live in Buck's Valley, and in Hunter's Valley, just north over Berry Mountain. The United Methodist Church in Buck Valley is Buck's Church, which belonged to the Evangelical United Brethren before the merger with the Methodists. Jacob Buck 3rd, and several others, later Bucks are buried in the Buck's Church Cemetery. Many Bucks are also buried in the Messiah Church Cemetery in Hunter's Valley. Apparently, Samuel, a school teacher, liked the looks of Bucke better and so added a final "e" (12).
Another family to note is a Buck family in Duchess County, New York. Revolutionary War records indicates that there was a surgeon, Henry Buck, in Pawling, Duchess County, New York, in 1780-81. There is nothing definite to tie this Henry to either our Henry, or the Duchess County Bucks, but the former seems almost a certainty. Clifford M. Buck has written a genealogy of the Buck family of Duchess County, but did not mention a Henry Buck in this time frame.
There was a John Buck in the Third Pennsylvania Regiment in the Revolutionary War, according to the pension files in the National Archives. An inquiry states that he was born in 1752 in Hanover or Holland, came to America with his father at age 3, and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He volunteered in June, 1776, in Captain Mcconnell's Company, Colonel Scope and Cadwallader's Pennsylvania Regiment of the Flying Camp. In 1826, he was living in Butler County, Ohio, and in 1835 in Putnam County, Indiana (13).
There are records in the Cumberland County Courthouse which place our Henry Buck in Cumberland County before the Revolutionary War. There was a civil court case, David Nelson vs Henry Buck in July 1774, but apparently the suit was not prosecuted.
Copied from a letter written by Mrs. Mable Wallace, of Pine Hill, #2 Greensboro, North Carolina to Commissioner of Pensions, dated April 13, 1915.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the data you can find concerning Henry Buck. He came from Germany and enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. His father was Baron Buck. Henry Buck was a surgeon. He was the father of Robert N. Buck and George Washington Buck from Pennsylvania. They both served in the War of 1812.
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DR. HENRY BUCK 1750/55 - 1805 [4th Great Grandfather]
Dr. Henry Buck is the earliest identified ancestor in the Buck Family Genealogy. All of the information about Henry Buck in this report is derived from a Paper prepared by Roger Buck of Columbia, MD, titled "HENRY BUCK - A REVOLUTIONER" and found in my Buck Genealogy Notebook. Dr. Buck was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War and, afterwards, a doctor in Central Pennsylvania. His later life is reasonably well documented, but accounts of his origin are sketchy and contradictory. Depending on the source, he may have immigrated from various parts of Germany or England. Willard L. Huss, a great grandson of Henry Buck's son, George, wrote in "St. Joseph in Homespun", which is in my Buck Genealogy Notebook under "George Buck", "George Buck was born in 1792 in Pennsylvania, one of the six sons of Henry Buck, a soldier in the American Revolution, who had immigrated from England with his Irish wife to New York and moved later to Pennsylvania". Henry's son, Robert N. Buck, reported that his father married Rachel in 1786, well after his time in the Revolutionary War, so information on his early life is conflicting. There are Cumberland County, PA Courthouse Records that place Henry Buck in Cumberland County, PA in 1774. The Revolutionary War provided some further record of Henry's career. His son, Robert N. Buck, furnished some insight in his application seeking Revolutionary War Pension money which Henry's wife, Rachel, would have been entitled to under the provisions of the Pension Act of 1838. In the application he stated that "Henry Buck, a resident of Pennsylvania, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. He came from Cumberland County, PA, served from near its commencement until he was honorably discharged at the close of the War, and had several scars from wounds". The Pennsylvania Records show that a Henry Buck served in the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment. This Regiment was formed in the Spring of 1776 and Henry probably enlisted in Sunbury, PA as a private on 27 March 1776 and then joined Captain Caspar Weitzel's Company at Marcus Hook, PA. On 1 September 1776 he appeared on the roll of Captain John Marshall's Company as a surgeon’s mate and periodically showed on musters through February 1777. Henry disappeared from the Revolutionary War Records until 1780 when he reappeared as a surgeon in Colonel Lewis DuBois' Regiment of New York Levies. Dr. Buck had a break from the War, and then was called upon once more for the New York Levies of Colonel Frederick Weissenfels. Most of the New York action was against the Tories and Indians in Upper New York State. The years between the end of the Revolutionary War and 1788 provide no clues as to his whereabouts. The Cumberland County, PA tax records showed he was a resident in 1788 and the Mifflin County, PA [formed from Cumberland County] 1789 tax records listed him in Lewistown. Henry Buck also appeared in the 1790 Federal Census. He practiced as a doctor in Central Pennsylvania until his death in 1805 and also had continuous legal problems which are described in Roger Buck's Paper. As regards Henry Buck's death, Robert N. Buck's pension application stated that his father died at the Blue Ball Tavern in Cumberland County, PA on 11 December 1805. Rachel and the family apparently continued to live in Millerstown until 1817, or even later, as she appeared in the 1810 Federal Census and her sons, Robert N. and George, served in the War of 1812. Robert N. Buck showed up indirectly in a letter written by his great granddaughter, Elizabeth Keller, wherein she indicated that Robert's son, Henry H. Buck, who was born in 1817, migrated from Juniata County, PA to Ohio. We know very little about Rachel other than what was recorded in Robert N. Buck's pension application. It stated that she was married to Henry Buck in 1786 and died in Mahoning County, OH on 12 April 1849. Henry and Rachel had eight children: George Buck [1792-1854], married to Martha Irey; Elizabeth Buck [1790-1856], married to Michael Seydel, John Buck [1796-1876], married to Miriam Lamborn; Robert N. Buck [1788-1867], married to Sarah McConnell; Thomas Buck [1797- ?], married to Eve Fisher; Moses Buck [1801- ?], married to Phoebe Hendricks; Mary Buck [1803- ?] and Samuel Buck [1805- ?], married to Sarah Gueldon. This information is found in Roger Buck's Paper, a separate detailed letter which was written by Roger Buck to Shirley Buck Welton on 18 February 1983, as well as copies of cemetery records found in the Buck Genealogy Notebook..
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Henry Buck was a surgeons mate in the Revolutionary War, and afterwards, a doctor in Central Pennsylvania. His later life is reasonably well documented, but accounts of his origins are sketchy and contradictory. According to a published account. "....... Henry Buck, a soldier in the American Revolution, who had immigrated from England with his Irish wife to New York and moved later to Pennsylvania (1)" The source for this was Willard L. Huss, a descendant of one of Henry's sons. Another account is given in a letter to the Commissioner of Pensions from Mrs. Mable Wallace, of Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1915. Mrs. Wallace, in requesting information on Henry Buck, wrote "Came from Germany. Enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. His father was Baron Buck (2)" This letter and other papers in the pension file for Henry Buck, are important documents in this history and so a (nearly) full transcription is given later.
In a private communication, Mrs. Shirley Buck Welton wrote that this man's name was John Buck and he was married to Nancy - who was Irish. He was a surgeon in the German Army who came to America with General (Baron) von Steuben at the time of the American Revolution. She did mention a Henry Buck who married Mary McKee, but she didn't know the relationship (3). There was a McKee family near Lewiston, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, where Henry later settled. The McKees first settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, then later separating, some settling near Carlisle (4). A look at the warrant maps from Mifflin County reveals that McKees owned a tier of tracts in Oliver and Granville Townships: Jonathan McKee obtained a land warrant in 1766, William McKee in 1766, John and Andrew in 1766 and Andrew in 1784.
A letter from a descendant of Elizabeth Buck (a daughter of Henry) stated that Henry (or Rachel) may have come from Thaxted, Essex, England (5).
The author's family tradition, as told by his Grandfather, Clifford P. Buck, is that Henry Buck was a German, who lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with two brothers, until a family argument split them up.
There are references to one or more Jacob Bucks in central Pennsylvania, where Henry lived at least the last twenty years of his life. One Jacob Buck landed in Philadelphia in 1751 on the ship, Neptune. Jacob, a day laborer, his wife Madalena Raitenb, and children John, born 1739; Sofia born 1745 and Christian born 1749, were from Hulben, Wuerttenberg, Germany (6)
There was also a Jacob Buck family in Muncy, then Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Jacob Buck of Philadelphia obtained a release from Alexander Roddy in Northumberland County on August 15, 1773 for 300 acres of land on the north east branch of the Susquehanna and on the south west side of Fishing Creek (7). There was at least one Henry Buck in Northumberland County, but that Henry was there from 1787 onwards, as tax records show, after the subject of this work is definitely placed in Mifflin County. However, the earliest Revolutionary War record of Henry Buck is in a unit recruited from Northumberland County.
A Jacob Buck obtained a warrant in Derry Township, in what is now Mifflin County, in 1766, as shown on the Mifflin County land warrant maps.
Another, or possibly the same, central Pennsylvania Buck family was in what is now Perry County, Pennsylvania Jacob Buck (German Bock) settled in Buck's field, near the east end of Buck's Valley, in what is now Buffalo Township, Perry County (8) It is said that Jacob came from Wittenbury, Germany and settled in Buck's Valley about 1772. He had two brothers, one of whom settled in New Jersey. Jacob had a son Jacob 2nd, who married Suzane Ulsch. Jacob Buck 2nd had sons Fred Buck, born 1813 and Jacob Buck 3rd, born 1815 and died 1907 (9). The Saint Michael Evangelical Lutheran Church in the upper Pfouts Valley, Greenwood Township, Perry County, recorded the Christening of George Buck and Anna Buck, children of John Buck, on July 15, 1798 and of the christening of Fred Buck, son of Jacob and Susan Buck in 1812 (10).
Saint Michaels was a very early church, organized between 1770 and 1773. Services were held in a large schoolhouse until a new building was erected from the church in 1798 and consecrated in 1800. The services were still being held in German at that time (11).
This Buck family continued to live in Buck's Valley, and in Hunter's Valley, just north over Berry Mountain. The United Methodist Church in Buck Valley is Buck's Church, which belonged to the Evangelical United Brethren before the merger with the Methodists. Jacob Buck 3rd, and several others, later Bucks are buried in the Buck's Church Cemetery. Many Bucks are also buried in the Messiah Church Cemetery in Hunter's Valley. Apparently, Samuel, a school teacher, liked the looks of Bucke better and so added a final "e" (12).
Another family to note is a Buck family in Duchess County, New York. Revolutionary War records indicates that there was a surgeon, Henry Buck, in Pawling, Duchess County, New York, in 1780-81. There is nothing definite to tie this Henry to either our Henry, or the Duchess County Bucks, but the former seems almost a certainty. Clifford M. Buck has written a genealogy of the Buck family of Duchess County, but did not mention a Henry Buck in this time frame.
There was a John Buck in the Third Pennsylvania Regiment in the Revolutionary War, according to the pension files in the National Archives. An inquiry states that he was born in 1752 in Hanover or Holland, came to America with his father at age 3, and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He volunteered in June, 1776, in Captain Mcconnell's Company, Colonel Scope and Cadwallader's Pennsylvania Regiment of the Flying Camp. In 1826, he was living in Butler County, Ohio, and in 1835 in Putnam County, Indiana (13).
There are records in the Cumberland County Courthouse which place our Henry Buck in Cumberland County before the Revolutionary War. There was a civil court case, David Nelson vs Henry Buck in July 1774, but apparently the suit was not prosecuted.
Copied from a letter written by Mrs. Mable Wallace, of Pine Hill, #2 Greensboro, North Carolina to Commissioner of Pensions, dated April 13, 1915.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the data you can find concerning Henry Buck. He came from Germany and enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. His father was Baron Buck. Henry Buck was a surgeon. He was the father of Robert N. Buck and George Washington Buck from Pennsylvania. They both served in the War of 1812.
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DR. HENRY BUCK 1750/55 - 1805 [4th Great Grandfather]
Dr. Henry Buck is the earliest identified ancestor in the Buck Family Genealogy. All of the information about Henry Buck in this report is derived from a Paper prepared by Roger Buck of Columbia, MD, titled "HENRY BUCK - A REVOLUTIONER" and found in my Buck Genealogy Notebook. Dr. Buck was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War and, afterwards, a doctor in Central Pennsylvania. His later life is reasonably well documented, but accounts of his origin are sketchy and contradictory. Depending on the source, he may have immigrated from various parts of Germany or England. Willard L. Huss, a great grandson of Henry Buck's son, George, wrote in "St. Joseph in Homespun", which is in my Buck Genealogy Notebook under "George Buck", "George Buck was born in 1792 in Pennsylvania, one of the six sons of Henry Buck, a soldier in the American Revolution, who had immigrated from England with his Irish wife to New York and moved later to Pennsylvania". Henry's son, Robert N. Buck, reported that his father married Rachel in 1786, well after his time in the Revolutionary War, so information on his early life is conflicting. There are Cumberland County, PA Courthouse Records that place Henry Buck in Cumberland County, PA in 1774. The Revolutionary War provided some further record of Henry's career. His son, Robert N. Buck, furnished some insight in his application seeking Revolutionary War Pension money which Henry's wife, Rachel, would have been entitled to under the provisions of the Pension Act of 1838. In the application he stated that "Henry Buck, a resident of Pennsylvania, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. He came from Cumberland County, PA, served from near its commencement until he was honorably discharged at the close of the War, and had several scars from wounds". The Pennsylvania Records show that a Henry Buck served in the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment. This Regiment was formed in the Spring of 1776 and Henry probably enlisted in Sunbury, PA as a private on 27 March 1776 and then joined Captain Caspar Weitzel's Company at Marcus Hook, PA. On 1 September 1776 he appeared on the roll of Captain John Marshall's Company as a surgeon’s mate and periodically showed on musters through February 1777. Henry disappeared from the Revolutionary War Records until 1780 when he reappeared as a surgeon in Colonel Lewis DuBois' Regiment of New York Levies. Dr. Buck had a break from the War, and then was called upon once more for the New York Levies of Colonel Frederick Weissenfels. Most of the New York action was against the Tories and Indians in Upper New York State. The years between the end of the Revolutionary War and 1788 provide no clues as to his whereabouts. The Cumberland County, PA tax records showed he was a resident in 1788 and the Mifflin County, PA [formed from Cumberland County] 1789 tax records listed him in Lewistown. Henry Buck also appeared in the 1790 Federal Census. He practiced as a doctor in Central Pennsylvania until his death in 1805 and also had continuous legal problems which are described in Roger Buck's Paper. As regards Henry Buck's death, Robert N. Buck's pension application stated that his father died at the Blue Ball Tavern in Cumberland County, PA on 11 December 1805. Rachel and the family apparently continued to live in Millerstown until 1817, or even later, as she appeared in the 1810 Federal Census and her sons, Robert N. and George, served in the War of 1812. Robert N. Buck showed up indirectly in a letter written by his great granddaughter, Elizabeth Keller, wherein she indicated that Robert's son, Henry H. Buck, who was born in 1817, migrated from Juniata County, PA to Ohio. We know very little about Rachel other than what was recorded in Robert N. Buck's pension application. It stated that she was married to Henry Buck in 1786 and died in Mahoning County, OH on 12 April 1849. Henry and Rachel had eight children: George Buck [1792-1854], married to Martha Irey; Elizabeth Buck [1790-1856], married to Michael Seydel, John Buck [1796-1876], married to Miriam Lamborn; Robert N. Buck [1788-1867], married to Sarah McConnell; Thomas Buck [1797- ?], married to Eve Fisher; Moses Buck [1801- ?], married to Phoebe Hendricks; Mary Buck [1803- ?] and Samuel Buck [1805- ?], married to Sarah Gueldon. This information is found in Roger Buck's Paper, a separate detailed letter which was written by Roger Buck to Shirley Buck Welton on 18 February 1983, as well as copies of cemetery records found in the Buck Genealogy Notebook..
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