General Notes

"According to Bradfield Genealogy by Donald G. Armstrong, 'The Buckmans came to America as passengers on the Welcome with William Penn in 1682'.  See files for a list of the goods the Buckman's brought with them to America.

William inherited the land rights of his bothers Edward and Thomas when they died without issue.

The Buckman's are believed to have spent their first winter in Pennsylvania in a cave south of Fallsinton.

William was appointed one of several to lay out a road from Newton to the Ferry on the second Wednesday in December 1693.

He was appointed to lay out another road from Wrightstown to Neshamineh Meeting House on 5 October 1697.

He was a juror in 1684, on the grand jury in 1688,1689,1691, and 1698 and a witness on 14 April 1698.

On 14 April 1697 records show that William sold land granted to him by the Proprietor on 13 Sept 1686 to John Shaw.  Bucks Deeds 2:142

Recorded 11 Oct 1697, William bought land from Robert Webb.  Bucks Deeds 2:143

Bucks Deeds 3:242, 3 Dec 1705.  William purchased land from John & Priscilla Rowland (land that Priscilla had bought from William Penn 19 Aug 1681).

Bucks Deeds 4:34, Dec 1708 from Henry Cooper, blacksmith (son in law of William Buckman).

Patent to William Buckman granting him a city lot in the right of his two deceased brothers.

In 1703 William Buckman is shown as owner of a county lot of 668 acres, a Town lot of 59 acres on the west side of Newtown.

His first wife, Patricia Rowland died about 1690, probably as a result of childbed.
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