Ninth Generation

472. John BUCK was born on November 28, 1716 in Woburn, MA.⁷⁵ He died on January 3, 1761 in New Gloucester, ME. He was buried in New Gloucester, ME. One source gives the following re John Buck:

He is said to have m. SARAH CLEMENTS* abt 1741 or 1742 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA.. She died on 25 Nov. 1760 in New Gloucester, Cumberland Co., ME. Sarah is said to have been born in Haverhill, part of the large Clements family there. In 1760 their son Abijah stated on his enlistment papers that he had been born in Dunstable, Middlesex Co., MA. His age was 17 which would have put them in Dunstable about 1742 or 1743. How long they resided in Dunstable isn't known. They removed to New Gloucester prior to 1754 where their son John III is said to have been born.
John Buck Jr. was a soldier in the French and Indian War. He was at one time captured by the Indians and was close to being executed by then but mananaged to escape. He and Sarah died within a short time of one another, John dying last, and tradition maintains they were buried in the same grave because the ground was frozen too hard and deep to dig a new grave. From the diary of his son Abijah Buck, "Abijah Buck, his book, 1760, God give him grace therein to Look". "New Gloster, November the 25, 1670, my mother died.", "Dec. the 10, 1760, I came home from Crown Point", "Jan. the 3, 1761, My father died and left us both motherless and fatherless".

John BUCK and Sarah CLEMENTS were married in 1740.

473. Sarah CLEMENTS was born on March 2, 1721 in Newbury, Essex, MA. She died on November 26, 1760 in New Gloucester, ME. One source gives death as 1761. She was buried in New Gloucester, ME. died a few hrs. before husband; buried in same grave Children were:

	i.	Abijah BUCK was born in 1742 in Dunstable, MA. He died in 1829 in Abbott, ME. ‚Abijah Buck came from New Gloucester to settle in Buckfield (inc. 1793) in 1777. It was previously called No. 5 or Buckstown. Abijah and his brothers were large landholders there, giving the town its name. "Soldiers, Sailors and Patriots of the Revolutionary War - Maine" by Fisher, pub. by National Society of the S.A.R., 1000 S. Fourth St., Louisville, KY 40203. lists birth & death dates, birthplace and marriages. It gives b. at Dunstable, res. Buckstown; m.(1) Phebe; (2) Rebecca. Listed as "Patriotic Service" in war. Barbara Buck Sharkey of 1505 S. Miramar Ave., Indialantic, FL 32903, reports (5 May 1991) that Abijah's first wife was Phebe Tyler (d. 1816), and second wife was Rebecca Packard Bisbee. She lists descendants from first marriage.
	ii.	Nathaniel BUCK was born in 1747 in Newbury, Essex, MA. He died in 1817 in Buckfield, ME. One of first three families to settle in Buckfield, ME
	iii.	Esther BUCK was born in 1753 in Newbury, Essex, MA. She was christened on August 19, 1753 in Newbury, Essex, MA. She died on October 12, 1851 in Errol, NH.
	iv.	John BUCK was born in 1754 in Newbury, Essex, MA. He died on March 4, 1828 in Woodstock, ME. S.A.R. book is source of dates and places. Also names wife. Barbara Buck Sharkey (see in Notes under brother Abijah) gives name of wife as Abigail Irish (b.1749 - d.1824) and lists descendants. Another source gives the following: JOHN BUCK III*, was born about 1754 in New Gloucester, Cumberland Co., ME. and died on 4 Mar 1828 in Woodstock, Oxford Co., ME. John m. ABIGAIL IRISH*, int. published on 8 Feb 1777 in Gorham, Cumberland Co., ME. Abigail was born on 24 Dec 1746 in Gorham, Cumberland Co., ME, and d. on 20 Jul 1824 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME. She was the daughter of JOHN IRISH* and Sarah (_____) of Gorham, ME.[1] John was a Revolutionary War Vet, having been at Ticonderoga.[1] John and Abigail arrived in Bucktown (later Buckfield), ME. in February or March of 1779. They brought with them their two daughters, the oldest aged two years, the youngest but a few weeks old having been born 5 Feb. 1779. Family tradition states their arrival was only a short time after her birth.[1] The settlement of Bucktown was founded by John's older brother Abijah, who along with another brother Nathaniel, preceeded John in settling there. In 1786 Abijah Buck arranged the purchase of the township at two shillings an acre for a total purchase price of 1732 pounds, 17 shillings and 10 pence. The proprietors receiving their deed 13 Nov. 1788 although they had been deeding property to settlers since immediately after arranging the purchase. Of the 41 shares in the new township held by sixteen proprietors the Buck brothers were represented by Abijah - 9 shares, Nathaniel - 4 shares and John - 2 shares.[1] John Buck was one of the petitioners to the General Court of Ma. in 1791 to incorporate a Baptist Society. (ie. Church) in Bucktown; was chosen Road Surveyor in 1794. [1-370] "1828, March 4. of this year, John Buck, one of the early settlers in Buckfield, died in Hamlin's Grant, now a part of Woodstock, at the home of his son Simeon, at the age of 74. He had been an officer in the Continental Army, having entered the service from Haverhill.....". This section continues by stating that John had once been a large landholder in Buckfield; had later suffered from periods of apparently some form of Senile Dementia, during which he was subject to very erratic behavior such as appearing at the door of the church shouting that the parishioners should "beware of the wrath to come", and another time when he "cut down the liberty pole ..... which had been standing for many years and was an object of great veneration...". [1][3]
	v.	Sarah BUCK was born on August 15, 1756 in Newbury, Essex, MA. Place of Birth seems inconsistent with data on siblings. Apparently there is some uncertainty as to when family moved to New Gloucester. She died on March 4, 1828 in New Gloucester, ME.
236	vi.	Moses BUCK PVT.