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Buckman, John
d. BET. 20 APR - 13 MAY 1681 Boston, MA (will & inventory)
Family:Spouse: Hannah,Family History: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. (There is a John Ruckman (b1590) with wife Elizabeth and son John (II) (b.1626) who came from England in 1635 to Plymouth Colony (either Sandwich and or Lynn) who was a follower of Lady Moody and her anabaptist followers and who moved with her to Gravesend, Long Island about 1643. John (I) died there in the spring of 1650. His son John (II) moved to Middleton, Monmouth Co., New Jersey before 1667. Consequently, I believe that the above Buckman is a typo; however, I don't know if there were other Ruckmans who immigrated with John & Elizabeth and may have changed their name to avoid association as anabaptists, a belief not cared for by the Puritans. George Ruckman was listed as a creditor of Thomas Hampton of Sandwich in 1637.)Family:
In 1652 John Buckman, "although he took his wife bare, without anything", promised to pay £5 to Joseph Armitage to settle a claim against the estate of William Butler. (This would imply that Hannah was William's widow, or child.) On February 11, 1655 Walter Merry of Boston, Shipwright, to George Palmer of Boston, Wine Cooper, land "that more or lesse bounded upon John Buckmans Land on the Northwest". On August 07, 1657 George Palmer sold to Elias Parkman of Boston, Mariner, land bounded "by lands of John Buckman in the west". In November 1659, Armitage bought suit against John which resulted in the constable of Lynn, MA attaching John's boat of "sixe or seven tonnes" until payment of £6 (the original £5 due plus a £1 penalty assessed by the court) was remitted. On January 01, 1673 John & Sarah Buckman (as indicated by their marks, vice signatures) sold to Samuel Townsend of Rumney Marsh land in the Northend of Boston "leading from the Mill Bridge toward winnesemmet fferrye" with the provision of "free privillidge and enjoyment of egress and regress passage...into and from his sd dwelling house into the street". On May 27, 1674 John & Sarah Buckman sold to Samuel Townsend land & dwelling provided that John could reside in the house until his death and that if Townsend "cause to pull down a part or the whole thereof...(he must) provide a convenient roome for him the sd Buckman to reside in.". In 1676: "Peter Cole of charlsTowne was Indicted by the name of Peter Cole for yt he not having the feare of God before his eyes & being Instigated by the Divil did on or about the first of July last Comitt Adultery on the body of Sarah Bucknam wife to John Bucknam of Boston contrary to the peace of our Soveraigne Lord the Kind his Croune and dignity the lawes of God & of this Jurisdiction to wch Indictment ye prisoner at the barr pleaded not Guilty & declared he would be tried by God & ye Country : After the Indictment & evidences in the case produced were read Comitted to the Jury & are on file wth the Reccords of this Court the Jury brought in their virdict they found him not Guilty according to Indictment but Guilty of unlawfull & uncivil Accompanying wth the said Sarah Bucknam wife of Jno Bucknam being in bed together The Court sentenct him to goe from henc to ye place whene he Came & thence on the next fifth day after lecture by the marshall Generall & his order to the Carried to the Gallows & there stand wth a halter throune over ye Gallowes to stand on hower & then tooke doune & tyed to the Cartr taile & be severely whipt wth thirty nine stripe & paying his prison ffees was dischardged." "Sarah Bucknam was alike Indicted as said Cole mutatis mutandis & being found by the Jury as above not Guilty according to Indicatment but Guilty of like uncivill Accompanying wth Peeter Cole being in bed together had the like sentenc pronounct agt hir." In the name of God Amen, I John Buckman of Boston in New England Senior being in a competant measure of health and of sound memory and under understanding yet considering the fraility of mans life and not knowing how soon I may be taken out of this world 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 armes of Jesus Christ my Saviour hoping through his grace to obtain Everlasting life when this miserable life is ended and my body to the Earth from whence it came. Devoutly to God -- 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 that 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 rugg and the furniture besides the said half part and a chest and drawers belonging to it and I doo make and constitute my livinge friends Mr. John Viall Junior and Samuell Townsend to be the Executors and overseers and of this my last will desiring them to take care that this my 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 and seale this twentieth day of Aprill anno dm one Thousand Sixe hundred and Eighty one. July 28, 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: £06 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.Children:
Buckman, John
d. APR 1676 King Philip’s Wars at the Battle of Sudbury, MA
Family History:John was a soldier in Moseley's Company in December of 1675, fought in King Pillip's WarBuckman, Hannah,
Spouse: Ann,Family:
Children:Buckman, Daniel
b. 29 MAR 1660 Boston, MA
Spouse: Sarah,
Children:Buckman, Samuel
b. 17 FEB 1663 Boston, MA
Buckman, Mary
b. 12 DEC 1667 Boston, MA
Buckman, Jeremiah
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