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Descendants of John Buckman of Boston

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN¹ BUCKMAN was born Abt. 1630, and died Bet. April 20 - May 13, 1681 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Source: Suffolk County Probate, # 1183.). He married (1) HANNAH NEE UNKNOWN BUCKMAN Abt. 1652 in Massachusetts. She was born Abt. 1634, and died Bef. 1662 in Massachusetts. He married (2) SARAH NEE UNKNOWN BUCKMAN Abt. 1662. She died Unknown.

Notes for JOHN BUCKMAN:
To date, no marriage records have been found for John and the names of his first two wives are learned from the birth records of his first three children. However the name Hannah and Ann were sometimes interchanged and he may have only been married twice, since no death records have been found for either Hannah or Ann Buckman. There has been speculation that John was the estranged son of William Bucknam of Charlestown, MA. This is disproved by the request to the courts which was filed on June 06, 1695 by William's daughter-in-law Judith requesting subsistence for the tending of her deceased husband's brother John, who had been living with them for 20 years. (Evidently, this John was abducted by his grandmother shortly after his mother's death, raised by her and in 1672, while living at Rehoboth, MA, was a partner in a silver mine at Providence, RI. Around 1678 he was "struck dumb" and didn't regain his speech until 1696). Gravesend (Long Island, NY) was divided in 1645 into thirty-nine lots and among those receiving shares were: Richard Stout, John Buckman, Samuel Spicer, Nicholas Stillwell, John Bowne, William Goulding, William Compton, and others whose names are familiar in the early history of Monmouth. The following year, 1646, John Buckman sold his share to Thomas Applegate, who was probably the same Thomas Applegate who, with the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1635, was licensed to keep a ferry between Weymouth and Braintree.

John Buckman's will, dated 20 April 1681, was allowed 28 July 1681 (Suffolk Co. Probate #1183): In the name of God Amen I John Buckman of Boston in New England Senior being in a Competant measure of health and of a Sound Memory and under understanding yet Considering the frailty of mans life... Doo make and ordaine this to bee my last will and testament revoking and Nulling all other willes by mee formerly made In manner following First I Bequeath my Soule unto the Everlasting arm es of Jesus Christ my Saviour hoping through his grace to obtain Eterlasting life when this miserable life is Ended And my body to the Earth from whence it came.. .Itm I give and Bequeath my' Just debts and funeral expenses first being discharged unto my' two children Mary Buckman and Jeremiah Buckman all the Estate I shall leave behind mee at the time of my decease Equally to be divided between them. Only I give unto my Daughter Mary my best furniture besides the said halfe part & a Chest and Drawers belonging to it and I doo make and constitute my lovinge friends Mr. John Viall Junior and Samuell Townsend to be the Executors and overseers of this my last will desiring them to take care that this last will may be performed and that my two children above named may have what I leave behind mee at my decease when they come to age. And In testimony that this is my last will I have hereunto Set my hand & Seale this twentieth day of Aprill -Anno Dm one Thousand Sixe hundred & Eighty and one. 1681. [Samuel Townsend renounced his Executorship and Thomas Kemble deposed that he and Nicholas Shepley were present at the signing of the will (Case #1183, Recorded.July 20, 1681).]

An inventory of John's estate was performed on May 13, 1681 and consisted of: no real estate; 2 ruggs (00 16 00); 3 shirtes, 3 shoohes, 3 shawls (01 05 00); a parcell of his wearing clothes (01 00 00); one old chest of drawers (00 10 00); a meale trough, 2 iron potts & potthookes tongs & gridiron (00 10 00); ane bed, bedstand, 2 pillows, 1 old rugge & some other ould bedding (02 00 00); one ould cubberd (00 05 00); two pewter dishes, 3 earthen dishes & 1 pan (00 04 00); one wooden spinning wheele and cards (00 04 00): Total: Ł06 14s 00d. On September 24, 1684 the widow of John Buckman was granted his entire estate since he made no provision for her in his will.

Some notes above sourced from "A Bucknam/Buckman Genealogy" by Ann Theopold Chaplin; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1988.

Notes for HANNAH NEE UNKNOWN BUCKMAN:
In 1652 John Buckman, "although he took his wife bare, without anything", promised to pay Ł5 to Joseph Armitage to settle a claim against the estate of William Butler. (This would imply that Hannah was William's widow, or child.)

Children of JOHN BUCKMAN and HANNAH BUCKMAN are:

2.	i.		HANNAH² BUCKMAN, b. July 06, 1653, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; d. Bef. 1681.
	ii.		JOHN BUCKMAN, b. Abt. 1655, Massachusetts; d. April 1676, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Notes for JOHN BUCKMAN:
In "Report on the Sudbury Fight, April, 1676" there is the statement that a John Buckman, junior "dyed in the country's service, 1676." Though there is no record for the birth of this John, the use by his father of the appelation "Senior" and of this John, both in the records of the Sudbury fight and by his sister, as "Junior" leaves room for little doubt.

iii.

DANIEL BUCKMAN, b. March 29, 1660, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Source: Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths 1630-1699, 9th Report of the Record Commissioners, Boston City Document 130.); d. Bef. 1681.

Children of JOHN BUCKMAN and SARAH BUCKMAN are:

	iv.	SAMUEL² BUCKMAN, b. February 17, 1662/63, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Source: Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths 1630-1699, 9th Report of the Record Commissioners, Boston City Document 130.); d. Bef. 1681.
	v.	MARY BUCKMAN, b. December 12, 1667, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Source: Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths 1630-1699, 9th Report of the Record Commissioners, Boston City Document 130.); d. Aft. 1681.
3.	vi.	JEREMIAH BUCKMAN, b. February 05, 1669/70, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; d. August 19, 1747, Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts.

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