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LIEUTENANT ISAAC BUCK (d. 1695)
FRANCES UNKNOWN (d. 1696/1701)
Isaac Buck died intestate in 1695 leaving a widow Frances.
Frances died between 2 July 1696 and 7 May 1701.
Deane says that Isaac was the brother of Cornet John Buck of Scituate and possibly the son of James Buck of Hingham. [1]
John and Rebecca March of Charlestown emigrated from Shadwell in 1638 with four children. John's difficult-to-read 1665 will refers—perhaps (as seen in the figure)—to a daughter Frances Buck. [2]
Isaac was a blacksmith.
Isaac is in the Scituate section of the August 1643 list of men between 16 and 60 in Plymouth colony able to bear arms. [3] He took the oath of fidelity on 15 January 1644. [3]
On 7 August 1650 the Court of Assistants at Plymouth ruled that where as Isaac Buck of Scituate had accused John Hewes of stealing four hoes from him, the court did not have sufficient evidence to proceed. It ordered that the hoes be kept in John's custody until further evidence could be produced. [4]
On 4 October 1655 the General Court at Plymouth admonished members of the Scituate trainband for their choice of sergeants. It added that the current clerk of the company, Isaac Buck, "did unworthyly misdemeane himself" when he ordered the company together the last day of training. He was ordered to appear at the head of the company and publicly acknowledge this, or would be called to court to answer for it. At the same court, he was fined 20 shillings for refusing to shoe horses which were to carry one of the commissioners to New Haven. The fine was remitted on 3 July 1656. [5] Also on 4 October 1655, Mr. John Floyd sued Isaac Buck for 30 shillings for non-payment for a parcel of wheat at Boston. The court found for the plaintiff. [6]
Isaac was admitted freeman and sworn in as constable of Scituate on 1 June 1658. [5] He was a deputy to the General Court on 1 June 1663, 8 June 1664, and 7 June 1665. [7]
By a deed dated 17 March 1662, Isaac Buck—blacksmith of Scituate—bought two parcels of meadow in Scituate from Resolved White for 13 pounds and ten shillings. [8]
Isaac was town clerk from 1665 to 1695. [1]
Indian unrest and fears of conflict with the French caused the 2 April 1667 Court to appoint committees for each town to dispose of arms and ammunition. Isaac was named to the Scituate committee. [7]
On 1 March 1669/70 the Court approved and established Isaac as the lieutenant of the Scituate trainband. [9]
Isaac was a selectman on 7 June 1670, 2 June 1677, 5 June 1678, 3 June 1679, and 1 June 1680. [9][10]
After some dissension over laying out land in Scituate, the town petitioned the court for assistance on 7 March 1670. The Court appointed an eight-person commission, including Isaac, that was to present a plan. This was done and approved by the Court, but rejected by the town. The Assistants drew up a proposal, which was also rejected, and the Court decided to leave the town to its own devices. On 24 November 1673 the town agreed that the court could choose an eight-person committee and the town would add four members. Isaac was again on the committee appointed by the Court. [1]
Isaac was appointed to a committee to lay out land at Scituate on 29 October 1672. This is probably the initial eight-person committee. [9] He had eight acres laid out for him, and drawing the fourth lot, he received 75 acres in Scituate on 4 June 1673. On 24 November 1673 the 75 acres were laid out for him with eight acres deducted for the small division. [11, 1:57–58]
Esther Woodford of Scituate made her will on 27 May 1672. She left Isaac Buck, Jr. her bed, bedding, a green rug, a chest, a mare and colt. She left Frances, the wife of Isaac Buck, her cloak and hood. [12]
On 29 October 1672, Isaac was appointed to a committee to resolve a dispute between John Williams of Scituate and William Rogers. [9]
On 21 July 1676 Lieutenant Isaac Buck was owed ten pounds for services in King Philip's War. He chose to be paid in land. [9]
Isaac was a juryman on 31 October 1682. [6]
On 8 May 1686 Lieutenant Isaac Buck, blacksmith, and Frances his wife, sold ten acres that had been granted to Isaac in Scituate to John Cushing, Sr. for four pounds. [8]
On 3 February 1693 Isaac Buck and Frances Buck sold a 60-acre lot—the tenth lot of the third allotment—to Edward Wanton for 12 pounds. [8]
An untotaled inventory of the estate of Isaac Buck is dated 25 May 1695. His real estate was valued at 130 pounds. On 9 July 1695 Joseph Garrett and Stephen Chittenden posted bond on his estate. On 26 March 1696 John Cushing, Stephen Vinall, Nathaniel Tilden, David Jacob, and Nicholas Wade were authorized to divide the lands of Lieutenant Isaac Buck of Scituate among his widow and children. [13] They set off one-third to Isaac's widow Frances. They noted that Isaac Buck, Jr. was deceased with living heirs and was the eldest son, except for "who Dyed in his fathers lifetime without Issue." They also noted that he had already received his double portion and "considerably more." Thus, they split the other two-thirds into nine portions for son Thomas; the representatives of son James, deceased; sons Joseph, Jonathan, Benjamin; daughter Elizabeth, wife of Robert Whitcome; daughter Mehitable, wife of Stephen Chittenden; daughter Ruth, wife of Joseph Garrett; daughter Deborah, wife of Henry Merritt. [14]
On 7 May 1701 the court noted that his widow had lately deceased and ordered this committee to divide her estate among the children. [13] The division of the dower third set out to Frances, widow of Isaac Buck, is dated 30 August 1701. The recipients were the legal representatives of deceased sons Thomas, James and Joseph; sons Jonathan and Benjamin; daughters Ruth the wife of Joseph Garrett, Mehitable the wife of Stephen Chittenden, Deborah the wife of Henry Merritt, and Elizabeth the wife of Robert Whitcomb. [14]
An Isaac Buck, age 33, appears on a 13 October 1635 passenger list of the Amitie, bound for St. Christophers. The Amitie sailed on 20 October and Isaac does not appear on the list of those who sailed. [15][16] This Isaac seems too old to be the Isaac here.
Children of Isaac Buck and Frances Unknown: The order is unknown and it is unclear if Frances is the mother of all the children.
i. John Buck died before 2 March 1679/80.
John must be the eldest son as he is the only one who died before his father, apparently without (lawful) issue.
On 29 October 1671 John Buck and Mary Atkinson were called to court to answer charges of adultery. John pleaded innocent and asked for a trial. The jury found them guilty after Mary confessed and named John the father of her child. It was, however, unclear whether Mary's husband Marmaduke Atkinson was alive at the time the act was committed. Until this could be determined, John and Mary were found guilty of fornication. Both were sentenced to be whipped or to pay a fine of ten pounds; they chose the latter. John agreed to pay for the upkeep of the child. Lieutenant Isaac Buck posted bond for his son and Edward Jenkins posted bond for his daughter Mary. [9]
John Buck is on a 26 January 1676 list of those who sustained losses in King Philip's War. His house and barn, worth 40 pounds, had been burned. [1]
John Sutton was granted administration on the estate of John Buck of Scituate on 2 March 1679/80. [10]
ii. Ruth Buck died before 25 April 1726. She married Joseph Garrett.
iii. Mehitable Buck died after 30 August 1701. She married Stephen Chittenden on 6 November 1679 in Scituate. [17]
iv. Isaac Buck was born say 1656. He died on 19 March 1688/9 in Scituate. [17] He married Eunice Turner on 24 October 1684 in Scituate. [17] Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Turner and Sarah Hyland, was born on 10 April 1661 in Scituate. [18] She married second Jonas Deane. [18] He died in 1697 in Scituate. [18] She married third James Torrey as his third wife. [18] James, the son of James and Ann (Hatch) Torrey, was born on 3 September 1644 and died between 12 September 1719, when he wrote his will, and 9 October 1719, when it was proved. [18] James married first Elizabeth Willis on 1 June 1666 in Scituate. [18] He married second Elizabeth Rawllings on 29 September 1679 in Scituate. [18] Elizabeth, the daughter of Nathaniel and Lydia (Sylvester) Rawlings, was born in 1661 in Scituate. [18]
On 23 June 1710 a committee was ordered to appraise the estate of Isaac Buck, who had left a son and children of his deceased daughter. [13] Isaac's estate was not fully divided until 22 September 1722. The division identifies Eunice, the wife of James Torrey, as Isaac's widow. [18]
v. Thomas Buck was born say 1658. He died between 26 March 1696 and 22 July 1701. He probably married Mary Turner about 1681 as his first known child was born on 15 September 1682. [17]
Joseph Otis was granted guardianship of Thomas, the son of Thomas Buck, on 22 July 1701. Joseph Otis posted bond on the estate of Thomas Buck on 18 December 1702. On 25 September 1703 administration was granted to Thomas's son Thomas Buck, and Thomas Buck and Thomas Turner posted bond. [13]
vi. James Buck died in 1689/90. [19] He had an unknown wife. [19]
On 14 May 1684 James Buck of Scituate sold the house and lands that he recently bought from Edward Wanton, Sr. to Thomas Macumber for 22 pounds. [8]
vii. Joseph Buck died between 2 July1696 and 30 August 1701.
On 2 July 1696 Joseph Buck of Scituate sold to Peter Collamer the inheritance he received from his father Isaac Buck of Scituate and would receive from his "Aged mother" Frances Buck of Scituate for five pounds and the payment of 14 shillings a year to Frances for the rest of her life. [8]
viii. Deborah Buck was born on 17 July 1665 in Scituate. [17] She died after 30 August 1701. She married Henry Merritt. [19]
ix. Jonathan Buck died between 30 August 1701 and 1705, when his estate was settled. [19]
x. Benjamin Buck died between 30 August 1701 and 5 October 1705. [19]
xi. Elizabeth Buck married Robert Whitcomb. [19][20] She married second Daniel Lincoln of Hingham in January 1710/1 in Scituate. [20][21, 15 . 12 . 17[10/11]]
Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Whitcomb and the daughter of Lieutenant Isaac Buck, received a parcel of salt marsh in the 11 March 1696/7 division of Isaac's estate. [14]
Elizabeth Whitcomb was administratrix of the estate of her husband, Robert Whitcomb, late of Scituate on 18 June (?) 1707. [13]
References:
1. Samuel Deane, History of Scituate (Boston: James Loring, 1831): 11, 112, 229, 401.
2. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648–1871," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, case 14683, citing records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.
3. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Miscellaneous Records, 1633–1689 (Boston: William White, 1857), 183, 191.
4. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Vol. 2, 1641–1651 (Boston: William White, 1855), 160.
5. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Vol. 3, 1651–1661 (Boston: William White, 1855), 89–90, 106, 136–7.
6. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Judicial Acts, 1636–1692 (Boston: William White, 1857), 74, 255.
7. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Vol. 4, 1661–1668 (Boston: William White, 1855), 37, 60, 90, 145, 182.
8. Ann Smith Lainhart, "Plymouth County Mass., Records of Deeds," Mayflower Descendant 31 (1933): 181 (sale by James Buck); 40 (1990): 174 (sale by Isaac Buck); 44 (1994): 188 (sale by Resolved White); 49 (2000): 54 (sale by Joseph Buck); 54 (2005): 81 (sale by Isaac Buck).
9. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Vol. 5, 1668–1678 (Boston: William White, 1856), 33, 35, 81–82, 103, 107, 230, 257, 275.
10. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Vol. 6, 1678–1691 (Boston: William White, 1856), 9, 32, 34.
11. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001), vol. 1: 57–59.
12. "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories," Mayflower Descendant 19 (1917): 62–63.
13. "Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors, cases 3218 (Isaac), 3219 (Isaac), 3226 (Thomas), 3228 (guardianship of Thomas), 22495, 22496 (Robert Whitcomb). Source: records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.
14. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Plymouth County Probate Records," Mayflower Descendant 40 (1990): 35–36 (1696 division); 49 (2000): 155 (1701 division).
15. H.B. Somerby, "Emigrants for St. Christophers," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 14 (1860): 356.
16. "Passenger Lists for Amitie," .pdf file, Humanities for Wisdom (https://www.humanitiesforwisdom.org/uploads/5/8/9/8/58987361/4_passenger_lists_amitiepdf_1.pdf : accessed 2 November 2022).
17. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), vol. 1: 61–62 (births); vol. 2: 49 (marriages), 361 (deaths).
18. Clifford L. Stott, "Humphrey Blake (1494?–1558) and His Descendants ... ," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 164 (2010): 67.
19. Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Abigail Buck, Wife of Nathaniel Harlow and Mary Buck, wife of Allerton Cushman," The American Genealogist 24 (1948): 104–8.
20. Mary Lovering Holman, The Scott Genealogy (Boston: n.p., 1919), 254–5.
21. "Records of the First Church of Scituate, Mass.," Mayflower Descendant 11 (1909): 45.
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