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Note: FROM DEMUS BUCKNER'S FAMILY TREE:
BENJAMIN BUCKNER MOVED TO ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FROM VIRGINIA IN 1778 AND HAD A LAND GRANT. HE WAS THE PASTOR OF THE FORK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH (IN ROWAN COUNTY) FROM 1792 UNTIL 1813 WHEN HE RESIGNED AND WENT TO PUTNAM COUNTY, GEORGIA WHERE SEVERAL OF HIS SONS HAD ALREADY MOVED.
HE WAS LISTED IN THE 1820 PUTNAM COUNTY, GEORGIA CENSUS. HE DREW IN THE 1827 LAND LOTTERY IN MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GEORGIA. TO DRAW IN A LAND LOTTERY, ONE HAD TO BE A VETERAN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
HE DIED THERE IN ABOUT 1830. HIS WIFE DIED ABOUT 1835.
FROM FILES OF DICK HOWELL, SEPT 10, 1995:
BENJAMIN BUCKNER FIRST APPEARS ON THE MUSTER ROLL CALL OF CAPTAIN ISAIAH HOGAN, CHATHAM CO. NC, SEPT 19, 1772. ON THE SAME ROLL CALL APPEARS A JESSE BUCKNER AND A BENJAMIN CAUDLE. SEVERAL RESEARCHERS SAY THAT BENJAMIN AND JESSE BUCKNER ARE THE SONS OF JOHN AND SARAH BUCKNER. THEY ALSO SAY THAT BENJAMIN AND JESSE BUCKNER WERE PROBABLY BROTHERS, BOTH BEING BORN IN BRUNSWICK CO. VA IN THE EARLY 1740'S. UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS NO PROOF OF THIS. FOLLOWING ARE SOME DETAILS ON BENJAMIN BUCKNER. IT APPEARS THAT POSSIBLY THERE WERE TWO BENJAMIN'S IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD.
ABSTRACTS OF COURT MINUTES, CHATHAM CO. NC, MAY 1774-MAY 1778, RECORD THE COURT ORDERED ROBERT POE BE APPOINTED OVERSEER OF ROAD IN ROOM OF BENJAMIN BUCKNER.
SEPT 11, 1777 BENJAMIN BUCKNER WITNESSED THE WILL OF WILLIAM MCCORMACK IN ST. BARTHLOMEW'S PARRISH, COLLETON, SC. THIS BENJAMIN BORN NO LATER THAN 1756. FROM A WILL RECORD BOOK 1774-1779; ELLIS-BUCKNER HISTORY, P/39 BY J. E. WOOLEY.
ROWAN CO. VACANT LAND ENTRIES, 1778 TO 1779 #1805..WM BAILIE TO BENJAMIN BUCKNER, NOV 28, 1778..200 ACRES, SOUTH SIDE MAIN YADKIN RIVER, ADJACENT LAND OWNED BY THOMAS, JOSEPH AND JAMES JONES, & ADAMS, ZACHARIAH.
1779 SAW BENJAMIN BUCKNER NAMED ON "1779 TAX LIST" OF RANDOLPH CO. NC, JOHN HINDS DISTRICT. (NORTH CAROLINIAN, VOL II, 1956, P/182. ON THIS LISTING IT IS SHOWN THAT HE OWNED 5 CATTLE, 3 HORSES, 1 NEGRO VALUED AT 700 POUNDS, 1 NEGRO VALUED AT 400 POUNDS, 10 POUNDS, 8 SHILLINGS, AND 6 PENCE (TOTAL MONEY, NOTES, BONDS ETC) OR A TOTAL VALUE OF 1410 POUNDS, 8 SHILLINGS, 6 PENCE. ON THIS SAME LISTING WAS A HENRY BUCKNER WITH 7 CATTLE, 3 HORSES, 4 POUNDS MONEY ON HAND, TOTAL VALUE 224 POUNDS.
NOV 4, 1779 HE RECEIVED A LAND GRANT IN ROWAN COUNTY, NC FOR 200 ACRES ON PEELERS CREEK.
IN NOV 1784 BENJAMIN BUCKNER RECEIVED A GRANT OF 525 ACRES BY NC STATE..NC LAND GRANTS, BOOK 11, P/246.
SEPT 1785 A BENJAMIN BUCKNER (WITH HENRY WHITAKER) WITNESSED A DEED OF SALE FROM WM AND MARGARET COUPLAND TO JOHN WINDLE RENARD, 50 ACRES ON PEELERS CREEK, FOR 150 POUNDS, ADJ. JOHN FEAGLEY AND MARK WHITAKER (ABSTRACTS OF DEEDS OF ROWAN CO. NC 1753-1805, P/209). PROVED FEB COURT 1786.
FEB 6, 1786 BENJAMIN BUCKNER AND MOSES LINSTER GAVE $400.00 BOND FOR ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATE OF WM COPELAND BY WIDOW MARGARET COPELAND AND JOSEPH HARDEN. ABSTRACTS OF MINUTES OF THE COURT OF PLEAS AND QUARTER SESSIONS, ROWAN CO. NC 1775-1789, VOL 3, P/138.
AUG 12, 1786 COUNTY COURT JURY, ROWAN CO. NC BENJAMIN BUCKNER, AMONG OTHERS, IBID VOL 5,12, P/148.
NOV 7, 1786 BENJAMIN BUCKNER EXCUSED AS JUROR OF THIS COURT. IBID VOL5,18, P/150.
MAY 1787 "JURY TO LAY ROAD FROM SHALLOWFORD ROAD. CROSSING YADKIN ROAD AT OBED SMITH AND GUILFORD ROAD. BENJAMIN BUCKNER AMONG THOSE NAMED, IBID VOL 5,69, P/162.
AUG 1790 BENJAMIN BUCKNER LISTED AS MINISTER, YADKIN BAPTIST ASSN., PASCHAL GEORGE W..HISTORY OF NC BAPTISTS, VOL 2, P/255.
IN "A CONCISE HISTORY OF FORK BAPTIST CHURCH" P/9-10 BY W. F. MERREL, BUCKNER AND CAUDEL WERE SENT TO EATONS TO SETTLE A DISPUTE BETWEEN COKER AND FROST. THIS WAS THE LAST MENTION OF REV. BENJAMIN BUCKNER AS HE LEFT ROWAN COUNTY AND MOVED TO GEORGIA IN 1815. ON PAGE 99 THERE IS NOTED "ELDER BENJAMIN BUCKNER BECAME PASTOR OF "FORK BAPTIST CHURCH" AT TIME IT WAS CONSTITUTED, BETWEEN MAY 4 AND AUG 24, 1793...A FLESHY MAN AND DRESSED IN THE STYLE OF THE REV. GENTLEMEN, WEARING KNEE PANTS AND BUCKLES. HE WAS A TAILOR BY TRADE AND MANY APPRENTICES LEARNED THIS ART FROM HIM. HE LIVED ABOUT ONE-HALF MILE SOUTH OF THE CHURCH, AND LEFT THE COMMUNITY LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL THE CITIZENS."
NOV 21, 1791..D B #13, 9/22..RICHMOND PEARSON, MERCHANT,( NO WIFE SIGNS), LETS BENJAMIN BUCKNER (BOTH OF ROWAN CO. NC) HAVE 82 ACRES ON THE WEST SIDE OF YADKIN RIVER ON PEELERS CREEK NEXT TO WILLIAM BUTLER AND JOHN BANK FOR 50 POUNDS, WIT: JOHNN DANIEL & JAMES STILL & PROVED BY JAMES DANIEL NOV 8, 1792. (THIS IS PART OF A STATE GRANT TO JAMES FOSTER WHO LET RICHMOND PEARSON HAVE IT.)
ROWAN CO. BOOK 21, P/9..JAN 9, 1807..HAILEY TATUM..NO WIFE SIGNS..LETS AVERY BUCKNER (BOTH OF ROWAN CO. NC) HAVE 45 ACRES ON PEELERS CREEK NEXT TO BENJAMIN BUCKNER AND JESSE BUCKNER FOR $90.00..WIT: NATHAN HOWARD, JOSHUA HOWARD AND PROVED IN AUG 1807.
THERE IS A DEED DATED AUG 1819 IN ROWAN CO. NC IN WHICH BENJAMIN BUCKNER OF GEORGIA, LATE OF ROWAN CO. DEEDS TO RICHMOND PEARSON 200 ACRES ON PEELERS CREEK FOR MONEY ($500.00) PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED. THIS FROM ROWAN CO. NC DEEDS, BOOK 25, P/419.
THE NAME BENJAMIN CAUDLE IS INCLUDED HERE TO HELP DETERMINE IF THERE IS/WAS A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO FAMILIES RESULTING IN A SON NAMED BUCKNER CAUDLE. IF ANYONE READING THIS HAS ANY DATA TO HELP VERIFY PLEASE CONTACT ME.
SEVERAL RESEARCHERS HAVE ACCEPTED A JOHN AND SARAH BUCKNER AS THE PARENTS OF BENJAMIN AND JESSE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER CHILDREN. THE ONLY PROOF FOUND TO DATE IS OF ONE CHILD NAMED THOMAS, BORN MAR 19, 1739 IN CUTTAROCK CO. NC AND IS BURIED IN CAROLINE CO. VA JAN 5, 1777. OTHER EVIDENCE IS THAT A JOHN BUCKNER WAS IN PRINCESS ANNE CO. VA AND CURRITUCK CO. NC THOUGH IN 1739-1743. THIS SEEMS TO VALIDATE THE POSSIBILITY OF HIM BEING THE FATHER OF OTHER CHILDREN (SEE LISTING BELOW OF ALL CHILDREN SUPPOSEDLY HIS).
WILLIAM BUCKNER-BORN C-1737-SOME RESEARCHERS SAY HE MARRIED ANNA MUSTAIN AND LEFT A FULL FAMILY--IN THE "KENTUCKY ANCESTORS" JAN 21, 1759..INQUEST IN BERTIE CO. NC..WILLIAM BUCKNER "SAID DECEST BEING TAKEN OVER IN DRINK AXEDENTALLY FEL DOWN FROM HIS HORSE AND WAS DROUNDED." THIS ONLY INSERTED HERE BECAUSE OF THE CLOSENESS OF BERTIE AND CURRITUCK CO. NC.
THOMAS BUCKNER-BORN MAR 9, 1739, CURRITUCK CO. NC, DIED JAN 5, 1779 AND BURIED IN CAROLINE CO. VA.
JESSE BUCKNER-BORN IN VA C-1741, DIED APR 8, 1726, WILL PROVED 1826 IN NC, MARRIED MARTHA MARY PYLE.
BENJAMIN BUCKNER-BORN C-1743, DIED 1820, MARRIED SARAH AVERY.
JOHN BUCKNER-BORN C-1737-1744, DIED JONES CO. GA 1819; MARRIED MARY BROWN AND THEN MARY SHURLY, I BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE JOHN BUCKNER WHO FIRST TURNED UP IN 1763 IN GRANVILLE CO. AS A CHAIN CARRIER.
PHILIP BUCKNER-BORN MAY 13, 1747, PORT ROYAL, CAROLINE CO. VA. DIED 1820, MARRIED TABITHA DANIEL.
THERE ARE ALSO CLAIMS BY SOME THAT A DAVID AND A HENRY WERE SONS OF JOHN AND SARAH BUCKNER. TO DATE I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO VERIFY THIS.
RECORDS OF PRINCESS ANNE CO. COURT RECORDS FROM DEED BOOKS 6 & 7:
FEB 8, 1742/3..RECORDED MAR 2, 1742/43.
JOHN BUCKNER TO HITELY ROE..100 ACRES INCLUDING TWO NECKS OF LAND..BEGIN AT THE CAROLINA LINE NEAR THE POCOSIN RUNNING UP THE SAID CAROLINA LINE TO WILLIAM BRYANS LINE, ALONG SAID LINE TO DIRT BRIDGE BRANCH, TO ROBERT REEDS LINE, TO MOUTH OF SAID BRANCH.
FEB 10, 1742..RECORDED MAR 7, 1742.
JOHN BUCKNER, GENTLEMAN AND SARAH, HIS WIFE, TO ROBERT READE OF PRINCESS ANNE CO...50 ACRES..NO DETAILS.
JOHN BUCKNER TO JOHN SOENY (SPELLING) 100 ACRES BOUNDED UPON WILLOUGHBY MERCHANTS LAND ALONG THE DAMS TO THE POCOSIN, AND SO ALONG THE SIDE OF THE POCOSON TO KEADOR (SPELLING) MERCHANTS LINE.
FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF EASTERN NC, GEN. SOC. VOL 2, #4. JOHN WAS JUROR OF CURRITUCK CO. NC IN 1739.
I HAVE OTHER REFERENCES TO A JOHN BUCKNER BEING IN BRUNSWICK CO. VA IN 1739 AS A WITNESS TO A DEED, AND IN SUSSEX CO. VA IN 1747. DURING THIS SAME PERIOD THERE WERE TWO OTHER BUCKNERS, EDWARD AND LAWRENCE, AS LAND OWNERS, AND A LAWRENCE BUCKNER WHO DIED INTESTATE IN 1720 IN PRINCE GEORGE CO. VA WITH WIFE SARAH AS EXEC. OF ESTATE.
MR. RICHARD BUCKNER, 372 ACRES IN CURROTOCK PRECINCTS; IN LOW. NORF. AT TIME OF GRANT, BUT NOW IN PRINCESS ANNE CO.; SEP 28, 1682, PATENT BOOK #8. ON A POCOSON OF THE BLACK WATER RIVER AND OF THE NORTH RIVER. PREVIOUSLY GRANTED HEN. BEACHER OCT 21, 1687. THIS CONCURS WITH THE LAND JOHN SOLD IN PRINCESS ANNE CO. VA.
IF JOHN BUCKNER IS INDEED THE FATHER OF THE BENJAMIN WHO MARRIED SARAH AVERY, THEN THIS COMPLETES THE TRACE BACK TO JOHN BUCKNER, THE IMMIGRANT.
SIGNED
DICK HOWELL
Benjamin Buckner was a Merchant in Rowan County, North Carolina and
a Revolutionary Soldier who received a land grant in Putnam County
2-3-1806
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