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Nikols, Clark
Sly- Cont'd --
Desire fern ale --
= 1 child
Amy 1
= John Huntley, Benjamin 58 DESCENDANTS OF ENSIGN BUCK

Barnum. Jabez :35 Hester 50 OF BRANT COT.iNTY
Rester 33 Enoch 21
Deborah 11 = Betsy 18 J. Orton Buck
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William 10 Bullard, Josiah 54 New York City
Sally 8 Mary
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John 7 Josiah Jr. 25 The tradition in this branch of the Buck farnily is that it
Joseph 5 = Chancy
14 came to Canada from Dutchess County, New York and before
Charles 3 Chipman, Barnabas
40 that was from Connecticut. This would indicate that the mem-
= Philip 1 Buly
42 bers are descendants of Emanuel (or Enoch) Buck who in the
Nikols, David Buly Jr. 14 summer of 1647 at the age of 23 arrived in Boston with his
Sally Parmely 13 brother Henry and moved westward to Connecticut, settling in
Ruth Susannah 11 wethersfield. It is hoped that in time this connection will be

Sheldin Eli 9 substantiated and the line of descent documented.
Phebe Abner 2 At this time the earliest known ancestor is Lideral Buck

Sally Jr. = infant 1 who was married to Vashta Waterhouse. In the early years of
David Jr.
Storey, Solomon Jr. 21 the nineteenth century they moved westward from Dutchess Co.
Hiram
Polly 22 Lideral Buck is supposed to have died at Waterloo, New York
= infant = infant
Gilpin, Nathan in 1816. I have had records searched at Waterloo. but ha,·e
Frazea, Jeremiah 32 not found evidence of Lideral Buck being there although there
Florey
Jerutha 30 were other Bucks in the vicinity at that time. Lideral Buck
Grilla
2 Diadama 11
infant and his wife Vashta had four known children: Ensign Buck of
Collum 7 whom more to follow, Carol ina Buck, Angelina Buck, and Annie
Cunningham, John 11
= William 6 Buck. The order of their births is unknown.
Jeremiah Jr. 4 After the death of Lideral Buck, his widow, Vashta "'ater-
Daniel 2 house Buck, marri~d Captain Marshall Lewis. In 1- ~ey
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moved to Canada settling in Brant County \v·here she died.m ::- ·
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In the U. S. cens us of New York taken in 1790 the re 18 h;:,ted

a Lediel Buck at Livingston, Columbia County as head of a
family With three white females in his family. rd~
I na lllanuscript copy of the First Bap t ' t Church rero ~.
ts
D ~ York Genea -
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over, N. Y. , which is in the library of the Nell dd·I joined
oglcat & Biographical Society, is listed: "Buck. Le .l •
Dec 1 1 rd d "
T ' 757. The first baptism reco e · Buck family I
h he fol!owing genealogy of this branch of t te , ·motion ,,b-
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ave c 0 . . .~ from llltOI •
ta· lllptled over the past forty ye.ns . t of whom
lnect from my father, his mother :md cousms n
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