Enoch Buckingham (1740 - 1814)

Born 15 Dec 1740 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut

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Died 12 May 1814 at age 73 in Huntington, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Enoch BUCKINGHAM was born ^[1] 15 Dec 1740 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He died 12 May 1814 in Huntington, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA and was buried in Huntington Burial Grounds, Shelton, Fairfield, CT. Enoch married Maria CURTIS on 1763.

His will is dated 22 August 1811 and proved on 4 July 1814 in Stratford. He mentions his wife Urania, his sons, Enoch, Samuel, Isaac, and Hezekiah and his grandsons, Enoch and Philo, sons of his deceased son Curtiss Buckingham, and Isaac Merwin Buckingham, and his daughters, Nancy Peck, and Urania Fairchild. His inventory was completed on 4 July 1814 in Stratford.^[2]

In 1817, his widow Urania received her dower. She refused the right to any land in Brookfield.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F741-T5C : 3 December 2014), Enoch Buckingham, 15 Dec 1740; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ “Probate records v. 5-6 1805-1820”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-TJ1S : 10 January 2023), FHL microfilm 007627134, image 446-448, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 6, 1813-1820, Pages 165-168.
3. ↑ “Probate records v. 5-6 1805-1820”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-TJT7 : 14 January 2023), FHL microfilm 007627134, image 531-532, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 6, 1813-1820, Pages 345-346.

See also:

• Rev. F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family; or the Descendants of Thomas Buckingham, One of the First Settlers of Milford, Conn. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1872), 45, 48.
• Rev. F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family, p. 48. "May 12, 1814."
• Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Statford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut - Vol 2, Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886, p. 971.
• Huntington Burial Grounds Photograph - Shelton, CT. http://oxfordpast.net/cem12010a.html.
• Rev. F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family, p. 48.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVJ-LX8T : 13 December 2015), Enoch Buckingham, 1814; Burial, Huntington, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States of America, Old Cemetery of Huntington; citing record ID 21243169, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• Curtiss, Frederic Haines, 1903. A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family, being a Record of the Descendants of Widow Elizabeth Curtiss, who settled in Stratford, Conn., 1639-40. Rockwell & Churchill Press, Boston, page 22

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