Lt Isaac Buck

• General Notes
  • he first American ancestor of the Buck family was one Isaac Buck, who, in October, 1635 whit several other persons, was transported from England to Boston in the ship Ametia, Captain George Downs, for refusing to take the oath of conformity. He was at that timethirty-four years of age. His wife, who was Frances Marsh, and whom he married before leaving England, followed him to America in December, 1635. Isaac Buck went to Scituate, Massachusetts, where he bought land. In the history of that town he is described as follows: "Lieutenant Isaac Buck was a brother of John Buck, and was in Scituate before 1647. * * * In 1660 he built a house near the harbour, on the Duckfield, so-called even now. * * * He was a very useful man, often engaged in public business, and the clerk of the town of many years. He was a lieutenant in King Phillips' war and repulsed the Indians with great loss from Scituate in March, 1676. He died in 1697." 

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