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THE S1DRY OF THE BUCK FAMILY
(Researched by Mrs. Colin Campb ell of Winnipeg, and
given to Mrs. Alice (Buck) Biggi ns of Fort Erie.)
Little is known today of th ese, our noble progenitors.
There is n o
written re c ord of t hei r lives. Some printed record, by way of affidavit,
tells us t hat our family was founded in Ameri c a by Frederick Buck, his
wife a nd in fant so n, who came from German y in the 18th c entury .
T ens
of t ho usands left t he Fatherland for England, Holland and America at
this time, owin g to civil and religious persecutions.
They en j oyed
l ibe rty under the British flag.
Thousands of them fought for it, and
followed it to C anada
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.lunomgstthemw as Philip 1, who was a so ld i er , having joined Butler's
Rangers in 1776 a t Fort Stanwix. He h ad a comf o rt abl e home in the
Susquehann a Valley, with fifteen a c res cleared from the forest primeval,
and 100 bu sh el s of grain in the cribs, with cattle and hogs to add to
the living. The Revolutionary ·1·Jar cl ai m ed him as a rebel. He was made
a pr i so ner in Philadelphia.
His pr op erty was confiscated.
His wife
f'.iarga:ret and six children found t hems el ves in desperate circumstances.
They w ere n ot alone.
They had joined oth er re:t;ugee women and children,
probably neighbours.
The party now consisted of Mrs. Nelles, Mrs.
Secord (Mother-in-law of Laura Se co r d ) , Hrs. Young, :fvlrs. Bowman and
Mrs. Buck, (great-grandmother of Mrs. Campbell who oompiled this history )
and their 31 c h i ld r en .
They had only one pair of shoes among t hem.
It
was winter time.
The oonunander of the British Forces heard of the ir
desperate plight. He �sent soldiers a nd Indi an Soouts to bring them in,
and in his charge they were brought to Fort Ge orge , Nov. 3, 1777, where
Philip II, t he third son , and s e v e n th child, ( gr an df athe r of Mrs.
Campbel 1), was born
We cannot picture the distress of this noble
woman, h er c ourage, or her faith in God that al l w:>uld be w ell with the
child, with herself, her half-dozen lively young ch i ldren and her husband.
Pe rhaps it was a comfort to know t hat he was a prison er, and had a settled
abode, as s he a nd her children had j o urn eyed th rough a wilderness with no
place to lay their heads until the barr acks of Qu ebec were -reached.
Barracks h a ve little comfort at any tim e, but w hat a comfort it was for
mother Margare t and her little son whom she called Philip II after h is
.
father.
The re are descendents of all these splendid women among all those wh o
The late Rev. Dr. Nelles, the fi rst pr esident of
Victori a College, Cob ou rg, (now Victoria
niversi ty, Toronto) ) was a
grandson. He was a friend cf Philip JJ:ls son;
Another was Brig. Gen.
Nelles of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Mrs. Cainpbell1s mother was d escended
from Mrs, Young.
In 1927 Mrs. Campbell was a guest at a Confederation
Party given by Stanley Mills of Hamilton to mark C an ada ' s Diamond Jubilee.
Some 1, 000 guests assembled.
All w er e ex pected to be 60 years or over.
Jvirs. Campbell was asked to be gue st speaker on the theme 11The Coming Of
The Loyalists. 11 She quoted from the words of Mrs. Bo wman 's granddaughter,
"They drew lots for their lands, a nd wit h t heir axes cleared t h e forests,
·are b ui lding Canada.
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and with their h oe s , planted
a lady
the
seeds of Canada's future greatness."
and said that he r mother had written
and that her grec:t-grandmother had been with Mrs. Campbell's
great-grandmother during the trek to Canada.
When she had finished
car11e up
those words,
In time, the enlarged refugee party was ta ke n on to Quebe c , and quartered
Then by open boat, a long voyage was
in t he barracks until spring.
They traversed the length of Lake O n t ar io un til Niagara Rive r was
the irs.
reached. They eventu ally sett led at Ridgeway, Ontario, ln 1778.� After an
exchange of prisoners, Philip • made his way to Niagara to join h is.
He had a hazardous journey. Mrs. Spohm, granddaughter of JV1rs.
family.
Bowman, tells of some of the ha rdships endured in the trek into the CanÂ
adian wilderness in 1783 in s ea r ch of his wife and children. Within
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three miles of the Peace Bridge is the Buck homestead. They were promised
Tradition tells
pork and flour to sustain life, and s eeds for vegetables.
us that when the la st morsel had gone that tea from the budding basswood
H osp1tal ity was unÂ
trees sustained life until vegetation p r ovid e d food.
bound ed and so far as w as able each cared for the other, as was t he
Loyalist way. Once more, the fore s t was to be f elled, the rude log cabin
thilip°7-Mt family incr e as e d until there were
built and home begun anew.
Half of these were born in f.lmerica,
12, seven sons and fiv e daughters.
and half in Upper Canada, a s it was t hen known .
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That he and his wife were hard w o rking and frugal to a degree beyond our
will be realized when one reads t he memorial t o his will made in
thinking
1813.
Like all wills of the ear ly days he 11gave a nd bequeathed to his
decent and
comfort able home during
wife Margaret from h i s estate a good,
He makes beques ts t o 6 sons and daughters in c ash;
he r natural life".
The
ahd his sev en th son,
Peter, their heirs and assigns forever, to be equally d ivided between them.
While th e amount of his possessions seem s little today, it must have been a
and it is thought that he had giv en to the othe rs during his lifetime.
homestead he bequeathed to his fifth so n, Wi l liam,
fort me
in 1813.
FHILIP BUCK - U.E.L.
The fo ll owing data cop ied from "Loyalist s a nd Thei r Times11 by E. Ryerson is
a letter from Elizabeth Bowman Spohm to Dr. Ryerson, dat ed fro m Ancaster,
July 23 , 1861.
11.Jn the fal l the commander of the British For c es a t .Niagara, hearing of
the ir de st it ut e situation, s e nt a part y with s ome Indians to bring th em in .
They brought in five families, the .Nelles, the Secords, the Youngs, the
Bucks and the Bowmans;
five women, thirty-one children, and only one pair
of
shoes among them all.
.November,
They arrived at For t George on the third of
1776, from th ere t hey were sent first to Montreal, then t o Quebec,
where the government took care of th em - th at is, gave them something to eat
and barracks t o sleep in, but Mrs. Bowman was exposed so much to damp and
cold that she t oo k rheumatism from w hich she never recovered.
II
In the spring o f
1776 my father joined Butler's Rangers and
Col. Butler in al l his camp aigns.
a fi f e r .
was with
His br othe r, only nine year s old, w ent as
But to return t o my g randfather,
Jacob Bowman, his captors took him and
After an exchange
his son to Philadelphia where he was c onfined 18 months .
and 51_gip Buck were sent to l\Tew Yor k. F rom
there they st art ed for their homes, not knowing that they would never ag ain
see these homes, and that their f runili e s were far away in th e w ilds of
Canada. The third evening after they s tar ted for h ome they came to a pond
and shot some ducks for supper.
The repor t of their guns was heard by some
of prisoners he and his son
s couts who concealed t hemselves unt il the men were asleep, when
The boy was w ounded in the thigh after
they came stealthily up and fired.
The two men on the ot h er side of
hat.
s
i
h
five shot s had passed th rough
an gave himself up when he knew
wm
o
B
but
the fire escaped into the bushes,
The scouts left with their
escaped.
Buck
that his so n w as wounded.
Phi+ip
American
two prisoners.
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RECORD OF THE BUCK FAMILY
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FREDERICK BUCK, wife and c hil d , came from Germany to America.
soldier.
He settled in Pennsylvania.
He was a
Issue
FHILIP BUCK 1, born in Germany, married in America, to Margaret.
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FREDERICK,
.-MICHA.EL
($);xFHILIP 2,
't.
� GFDRGE
yWILLIAf'.'I
4 )\ ABRAHJ;\M
:i,
the eldest,
(3rd
son,
history,
born at
Peaquee River,
seventh child,
ancestor of
born in Montreal
in 1777)
Penn
12
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children.
•
Mrs.
Campbell who compiled this
(our a n ces tor )
'iLPETER
HARY
��ROSANNA
)! .., ELIZABE'IH (BET SY)
<-
vCA.TH.ERINE
y '/.MARGARET
(KATY)
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t° .k e. P< H CA lG o L t iJ (::
(names are from the wi ll of Phil i p
l,)
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Issue of FHILIP
; Mary, b.
2 (1777-1863)
ha rch 3, 1811,
died
and
1894,
John, b. YJB.y 19, 1813, died Dec.
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Celinda, born June
... �
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Eliza, b.
Jan.
Wellington,
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Helen-Julia, born
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Verual, born
�<
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d
Jacob Ter ry:l;>erry
married
. ;.
·.
1877)
( 1804 - 1863)
R3.'����:; pavis
.,
28, 1873,
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(1816-1891)
26, 1815, died Feb. 17, 1888, married Jame s "White, (1808
18 9l )
1818, died April 15, 1900, married Jacob Lawren c e , 1817-1875)
3, 1824, died 1907, in Australia,1anarried Macy Ann Bullman
(1830-1872) .. He was mar ried twice.
June
17, 1826 died in 1826 .
Adelia, born March
.....
r
m a rie
(1795
18, 1821, died June 3, 1877, married Maria M. }.i.arlatt
George, born Feb.
..:
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28,
h i s wife Julianna Boehm
Apr.
28,
1828, died V.iay
1900, married James Philip
Gage, (1810-1883)
24,
April 1, 1831, died 1856.
ANSON, born Aug. 17, 1835, died Apri l 26,
1919,
m a rr ie d Keturah Adelaide
Howell,
Jeanette, born June 6,
(1852-1908)
1837, died 1880, married vian. Lyell.
.:
Augusta-Caroline --- no information on her.
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He and his
..
Anson Buck was a docto r w ho practiced in Palermo, Ontario.
wife had two daughters, one of whom was Minnie (Mrs. Colin Campbell).
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She
two children, Elizabeth and Colin, Jr.
had
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WILLIAM BUCK
( son
of Philip 1, grandson of
)(
Frederick Buck who cam e from
Germany ) married Sarah W;! son.
His son was John.
cw.J J.�.11v-tlf � SY {7�5 4J 1 t.. J-.S .&·tJ.
JOHN BUCK marri6d. Sane John s6 n of Brantford.
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Their family :
1842
Almeda, born �pril 1,
&ilson\
·
[f
•.!i[
�(ancestor)
born August 7, 1845
Mary Eliz�beth, born May 1, 1847
Charles M. 1 born IY'"J.ay 20, 1851
EDMtil}fl}: Hora.tio, born Dec. 12, 185l(i May
Alfred W. 1859 - 1859
Albert J. 1859 - 1861
Robert B. July 26, 1861.
William
"'".
Melissa
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Wallace
.
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fll::SI
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6, 1923
(
(It is not certain if t hese l ast two were of
ALMEDA BUCK
ma rr ie
d
Edward Neasury..
Children were John,
All lived in Buffalo.
Charlie, Phoebe.
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this
family ).
William,
Cora,
NARY BUCK did not marry.
El)MUND HORATIO
r
BUCK ma r ie
d CA�NT�
Children were Jesse
A. -JA:NSEN(l862 - l�!i-iSJ
George and
�
Flora.
JESSE married Mona �li0t Freem an (b. 1887).
Children:
Frances Marian b. 1907 (married
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Spear, b. 1906 J
Edward George, b . 1909
_ Ruth Nina b. 1912
GEORGE
Thorne
·;.JI f.b
- I,)'
/ •fl
Jansen� ;JJtf6
EPHUNDma.rried Nina Rosanna
l'iildred�ice (married John B�es) / �
N
GRACE ... �_0R G!_A .1910 # LIP'(", ,1,1607 9�
Children:
Emma
FLORA, b.
lfa.ry '
b.
1911
-Jjf'J>-C 7 I lflS
Betty Jane, b. 1922 .J
1902, mar rie d Orville Erwin Sherk, b.
1897.
Children wer e Emma, Ella, Hazel,
MELISSA BUCK married John Dennahower.
Oscar, Garn p t, . Md Jo hn w ho was killed in an accident.
These alJ lived around Bridgeburg.
WALLACE BUCK married Minerva Cwin :V"'
":.:?�-Y children were Florence who
married Fred Chappell;
Elmer who lived at Niagara Falls
and George who lived near Hamkey Turnpike in Lackcwanna,
N. Y. and ovmed
a
planing mill;
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-4"WILLIAM BUCK, born 1845, son of John, grandson of \:lilliam, great-grandson of
Philip, great-great-grandson of Frederick Buck who c ame from Germany,
married Clarissa Near.
Their children were�
Bertha
(1870),
John
(1873)
and iUice
(1875).
BERTHA BUCK (1870 - 1940) married Ernest Thomas (1866 - 1 910)
JOHN BUCK (18 73 - 195 ) married Elsie Zabitz. They had two children, Fern and
Edward.
Fern has one daughter,
Edward, deceased 195
,
t
El sie.
had fol�
c hil dr en.
ALICE BUCK married Alvin Hisener, and later Algernon BiggLns.
son s,
(1875-1962)
Clarence
married to
has
(deceased
Grace
1952),
Mathewson,
and Orlin.
two
She had
Clarence was
Orlin to Fl orrie Fenwick.
one son, Gary Misener.
He
FAMILY OF BERTHA BUCK & ERNEST THOMAS:
Fred Thomas b.
Their c hildren are:
1889, ma rried Minnie Hiller.
Ruth
Frank (deceased
Leroy
1977)
Jean
Kenneth Thomas
b. 1891 married
George
Dora
Florence
Mabel
Velma Miller
(deceased,
(deceased; 1977).
Their c hildren were:
1977)
·
Myrtle
Lottie
Lois
Ken Jr.
Orlin
Carl
Velma
May Thomas,
b.
(deceased in infancy)
1897, married Perc y Price b.
children:
I�elvin,.b.
1949
Pl-1yllis, b. 1950,
1974"
Colle en, b
Janice,
e
Mildred Thomas, b.
e
1893.
They had one child,
Gwen,
b. 1925; ·married to L e o n ar d Odd in 1947· They have four
1907,
four
b.
•
married to
William
Metcalfe in
They have one son Stephen, b.
19 52, married to
1978.
Peter Mumfor d in 1977 .
1956, married to Frank Pistohlkors in 1979.
deceased 1964, was married to Chester Teal.
children, Anna, Reg, Stanley, Fred.
They had
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