Rev War Veteran
Son of Enoch Buck & Mary Beebe
Spouse: Deborah Farrand
Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: William Buck Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 Mar 1723
Birth Location: New Milford
Parent Name: Enoch Parent Name: Mary
William Buck, known as " Capt. William," married about 1745, Deborah, who was born about 1747. He joined the church at New Milford in 1741, and remained a resident of the town until about 1763, when he joined a company of emigrants who settled in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. In that settlement he seems to have been a leading spirit. He served as a grand juror of the Kingston settlement in 1774. He is said to have been slain in one of the Indian attacks. His name is not mentioned after 1775. Besides his son Abel, born July 12, 1745, and daughter Mary, born November 2, 1746, at New Milford, William is said to have had other children, among whom were Capt. Aholiab Buck and Lieut. Asahel Buck, who, with the latter's son William, aged 14, were murdered in the bloody massacre of 1778. Lieut. Asahel was at one time a Colonial officer connected with the Land Office. Capt. Aholiab Buck, married in 1777, Miss York, a sister of Bearentha York and Rev. Minor York, hereinafter mentioned. Mrs. Buck was in "Forty Fort" on the day of the terrible massacre, with her infant daughter, only a few weeks old, in her arms.
Son of Enoch Buck & Mary Beebe
Spouse: Deborah Farrand
Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: William Buck Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 Mar 1723
Birth Location: New Milford
Parent Name: Enoch Parent Name: Mary
William Buck, known as " Capt. William," married about 1745, Deborah, who was born about 1747. He joined the church at New Milford in 1741, and remained a resident of the town until about 1763, when he joined a company of emigrants who settled in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. In that settlement he seems to have been a leading spirit. He served as a grand juror of the Kingston settlement in 1774. He is said to have been slain in one of the Indian attacks. His name is not mentioned after 1775. Besides his son Abel, born July 12, 1745, and daughter Mary, born November 2, 1746, at New Milford, William is said to have had other children, among whom were Capt. Aholiab Buck and Lieut. Asahel Buck, who, with the latter's son William, aged 14, were murdered in the bloody massacre of 1778. Lieut. Asahel was at one time a Colonial officer connected with the Land Office. Capt. Aholiab Buck, married in 1777, Miss York, a sister of Bearentha York and Rev. Minor York, hereinafter mentioned. Mrs. Buck was in "Forty Fort" on the day of the terrible massacre, with her infant daughter, only a few weeks old, in her arms.
Rev War Veteran
Son of Enoch Buck & Mary Beebe
Spouse: Deborah Farrand
Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: William Buck Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 Mar 1723
Birth Location: New Milford
Parent Name: Enoch Parent Name: Mary
William Buck, known as " Capt. William," married about 1745, Deborah, who was born about 1747. He joined the church at New Milford in 1741, and remained a resident of the town until about 1763, when he joined a company of emigrants who settled in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. In that settlement he seems to have been a leading spirit. He served as a grand juror of the Kingston settlement in 1774. He is said to have been slain in one of the Indian attacks. His name is not mentioned after 1775. Besides his son Abel, born July 12, 1745, and daughter Mary, born November 2, 1746, at New Milford, William is said to have had other children, among whom were Capt. Aholiab Buck and Lieut. Asahel Buck, who, with the latter's son William, aged 14, were murdered in the bloody massacre of 1778. Lieut. Asahel was at one time a Colonial officer connected with the Land Office. Capt. Aholiab Buck, married in 1777, Miss York, a sister of Bearentha York and Rev. Minor York, hereinafter mentioned. Mrs. Buck was in "Forty Fort" on the day of the terrible massacre, with her infant daughter, only a few weeks old, in her arms.
Son of Enoch Buck & Mary Beebe
Spouse: Deborah Farrand
Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: William Buck Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 Mar 1723
Birth Location: New Milford
Parent Name: Enoch Parent Name: Mary
William Buck, known as " Capt. William," married about 1745, Deborah, who was born about 1747. He joined the church at New Milford in 1741, and remained a resident of the town until about 1763, when he joined a company of emigrants who settled in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. In that settlement he seems to have been a leading spirit. He served as a grand juror of the Kingston settlement in 1774. He is said to have been slain in one of the Indian attacks. His name is not mentioned after 1775. Besides his son Abel, born July 12, 1745, and daughter Mary, born November 2, 1746, at New Milford, William is said to have had other children, among whom were Capt. Aholiab Buck and Lieut. Asahel Buck, who, with the latter's son William, aged 14, were murdered in the bloody massacre of 1778. Lieut. Asahel was at one time a Colonial officer connected with the Land Office. Capt. Aholiab Buck, married in 1777, Miss York, a sister of Bearentha York and Rev. Minor York, hereinafter mentioned. Mrs. Buck was in "Forty Fort" on the day of the terrible massacre, with her infant daughter, only a few weeks old, in her arms.
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