William BUCKLAND

                   Sources:Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale B11, B21.
Pope's Pioneers of Mass. p 59. CONN 16 p 375
Bosworth Gen. by Clarke Vol. 1 p. 48,59,60
Savage Dist R 8 A 47 of p xxxv MASS 20 V3 p 1998
Hist of Hingman MASS H 20 b V2 p 96

   King Phillip's (an Indian) War, which began in June 1675 and lasted for a year, cost the colonists about 600 lives, 600 buildings burned and 13 towns destroyed.  The money cost was estimated at $1,000,000.  Among those who advanced money to sustain it from Rehoboth were the following:
       Joseph Buckland  6 pounds 3s 0d
       William Buckland  2 pounds 9s 0d
       Benjamin Buckland  4 pounds 3s 10d
       And this was not all the Buckland family contributed, for Benjamin was slain on 26 March 1676 with eight others, at a place called "Nine Men's Misery."

From the Original Rehoboth Vital Records:

       William Buckland died in Rehoboth and was buried ther 1 Sept. 1683.
       Mary Bucklin, a widow, buried in Rehoboth, 29 Jul 1687.
       Joseph Buckland married 5 Nov 1659, Deborah Allen, died in Rehoboth, 26 March 1718.

       Benjamin Buckland, bapt. Hingham, Mass. July 2, 1640, md. Rachel Wheatland.  Slain by Indians at Nine Men's Misery, 26 Mar. 1676.
Joseph d. 1718 buried Rehoboth.  Tombstone states he was 84 yrs. 9 mos. 3 days old (born in England.)

3 ly - I doe promise that after me and my wifes decease that the said Joseph shall have and enjoy so much more land upland and meddow as shall make up the full halfe of what I doe now possesse in Rehoboth.

4ly - etc.

Vol 3, p. 117 - a deed from William to Benjamin
Orig. records of Attleboro - p. 1
       Names of purchasers:
         Mr. John Myles one whole share,
         William Buckland one whole share
         Joseph and Benjamin Buckland each one share
         John Cobley one whole share that he had of his father
         Jonathan Bosworth - May 28 1672

In Nov 1684 Joseph Buckland was appointed administrator on the estate of William Buckland.