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Deer's Head for Emblem. Buck Mansion, Crown Point. N. Y. Buck History and Genealogy Supplement or Appendix Second Edition, Revised and Abridged Compiled D.tid A rrang~d · · By Samuel Buck of Crown Point, N. Y. As a sequel to the first edition of June, 1917, after an interval of seven years to 1924. Also embracing full lines of the Meads, Paines, Viall~, Stevens and other relatives but briefly mentioned in the first book "Society is a partnership in all science. a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. "As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many g~neratio·ns, it becomes a partnership not only ·between those who are living, but between those who are living, those wh_o are dead, and those who are to be born." • (Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.) Announcement A second edition newly revised and abridged of the "Buck History and Genealogy of Europe ~nd America,'' published in June, 1917, by Samuel Buck of Crown Point, N. Y., it being a "Supplement or Appendix" to the first work, as a comprehensive illustrated sequel, bearing additional data found pertaining to the origin and continuance of many lines. and at the solicitation of many friends and relatives and which I think it my duty to perpetuate, so long as I have the records pressed upon me. And particularly of the full lines of the Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and other New England and other western and southern branches and lines. Also in cluding that c-f our near relatives the Meads, Paines and Vialls in full down from brief mention in first book, which it gives me pleasure to enumerate, as I have personally known and associated with them for the last 60 years or more. Also of the noted Bucks in "Who's Who" in America, and the wo·rks of the writers in American science and literature, and of the great world events that have taken place after the lapse of 7 years, of devoted research work in European and American descent7 from the first publication down to present reconstruction times. I am enabled to present you this work trusting it will be found as interesting and profitable as that which has preceded it, and now out of print, but may be found in many large. Libraries and Hist., Gen. and Biog. Societies, and Buck families and descendants throughout the land from Maine to Texas and California, to hand down t-0 posterity_ This not only ·being a new and later edition, but a concise epitome, and comprehen sive cc-ntinuance of the old work, as far as possible, for although a great part of the first book was sufficient in itself of the times and subjects named, yet some of it was necessarily fragmentary, as it had chanced to come into my hands from various families and sources, or being gathered from a wide field, with no order of presentation, however, the particular families, persons and subjects will be found well arranged and extended through the headlines and the index, and with the reference number to the pages of the first book, to which it pertains, if such be the case, and you should care for it. Also as being invaluable to all who have the first work, or easy access to it, in carrying out or explaining that work to -make it more definite and clear, in an interest ing, readable form, to all those who receive the book or claim the blood or revere the name. and now in submitting this work and yet claiming your indulgence, trusting that it may meet and deserve as kindly an acceptance as that which preceded it. "O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the place of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer." (John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892.) COPYRIGHT 1924 BY SAMUEL BUCK. Introduction In defence of our heritage. We came mostly from the old New England stock and have inherited their patriotism and· justice. Our ancestors are a heritage from the past and we are proud to honor and have reverence for them and shall always_ revere their names, for blood will tell, no matter how far the drop is :removed from the source of suppl:y. · "Of all the affections of man those which connect him with ancestry are among the most natural and generous. They enlarge the sphere of his interests, multiply his motives to virtue and give intensity to his sense of duty to generations to come~ by the perception of obligation to those who are passed.'' (Josicih Quincy, 1772-186"4.) Foreword This volume is the direct outgrowth and development of the "Buck Hist. and Gen.t published in June, 1917, and copyrighted, covering and extending the same heads, lines and branches of the family tree, and striking events pertaining thereunto, after a lapse of seven years. It appeared at first as an exhaustive work of 250 pages, and at once met with an universal acceptance and appre•ciation, which has in no degree abated during the seven years• existence of its valuable data, circulation and dissemination, until the books were entirely exhausted. Since ·then the interest manifested which had already developed in the field of re search in the D. A. R. and the Sons of the Rev., and late World War has ·been augmented as evidenced by enquiring friends and relatives, and the attention that historical socie ties, libraries and other organizations are giving to the subject of biography~ genealogy, history and other kindred subjects. The various illustrations also which I have been enaibled to gather of late of noted persons and passing scenes and events, of several families and surroundings pertaining to the old, as well as the new lines of our ancestry have greatly added to- those of its present pages. The first book being out of print and not available to many (only those having it or easy access to it), the need of this later volume and more complete and h~lpful termina tion of many lines and kindred families and persons has been called for, with references to the .first book as a supplement. Even briefly to describe every event of romantic or historic interest in Europe and America of the first book in this sequel, has been my intention in an abridged, concise form and much o·f the older work which has been partly eliminated as of minor impor tance for the new version. The style of the original text, forming that of the separate subjects and paragraphs, with headlines for each event, after the manner of the :first book, has been carried out to show its proper relation to the descendants and relatives of the various families aRd persons herein introduced. While no general research has been made. many authorities have been consulted and material drawn from them and introduced, and if I have not noted it, and thanked or failed of acknowledgment · as intended of any notes or quotations, we hereby make amends for our vindication and pardon. Table of Contents Page American Cousinships of English Blood of Wm. the Conqueror, Ancestor to Thou- sands of English and American People . 11 Origin of Surnames in the Good Days of Lo·ng Ago . 12 Inheritage . 13 Earliest Grecian History Pertaining to the Ancestral Line of the Bucks -in Asia..... 14 Ancient History Personified and Reconstructed in the Process and Construction of the Nations . 15 Our Earliest History of i.~1anders, in their Genealogical Family Descent, in the Foresters Line . 17 Peninsula of Gallipoli, a Most Fruitful Land, and Andorra, Oldest Republic, Dating to Charlemagne, and Army Uniforms Invented .............................. 18, 19 History and Genealogy of the Franks in Descent from Priam, King of Troy, by Rigord, a Monk of St. Denis, and Patron Saint of France . 19 The Counts of 'Flanders, Coutrai, Belgium, and Matild~ Wife of Wm. the Conqueror. 21 Former Greatness of Bruges, and Belgium Ruined and Despoiled by Late World War. 23 Louvain Invaded, Sacked and Burned by the Ruthless Germans, and Works of Art Destroyed . .•. 26 Hissarlie, the Seat of Ancient Troy, from Recent Discoveries by Dr_ Schliemann and Dr. Dorpfield and Others Still Later On . ... 26 Greek Love for Personification, Illustrated in the Sidonian and Ulysses Wanderings. 27 Rome, Constantinople and the Franks in the Ancestry and Relationship of the Suc- ceeding Nations . 29 Noted Towns and Cities in France Associated in Relation to Early Lines of Buck History ....................................·. 30 "On Flanders Field'' and "Where Poppies Bloom" (Poetry) ...................... 32, 33 Huguenots c·f France, La Rochelle, Toulouse, Orleans and Castres, Where They Suf- fered for Their Faith and Were Driven Into Exile .......................... 33, 34 War Losses in France were Appalling, Rheims and Lisle Destruction by German Invasions in World War ..........................................·........... 35 Our European Ancestry in Italy and France,. With Destruction of Rheims Cathedral. 35 Latium in Italy and of the Royal House . 37 Noted European and Asiatic Cities on the Historic Rhine, Cologne Cathedral, Jeru- salem, Palestine, and Scotland · . 38 Sir John Buck, Knight Admiral of Rhodes, and the Knights of St. John in Their Heroic Defense and Overthrow by the Turks . 39 German Bucks in America, from Darmundstadt and Others of Hessian Descent in America . .. 41 Leipzig Battle and Monument (Dedicated Upo-n 100th Anniversary of Battle)....... 42 The Bucks in Peace and War and Jean Buche in Napoleon Bonaparte's Battle of Waterloo . 43 Our Earliest Ancestral History in England, of the Bucks in Genealogical Family De seent .