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Phillip was a justice of King William County, Virginia in 1741[1] and church warden of St. David's Parish in King William in 1746. He advertised his King William property for sale in 1751,[2] and apparently moved to Louisa Co. VA afterward. His birthdate is unknown, though presumably it was around 1700, give or take a decade.
Philip's future wife Jane Robinson renounced the will of her husband Christopher Robinson in 1742 in Caroline Co. (witnessed by Benjamin Hubbard and Richard Buckner), which is probably just before she married Phillip.
Phillip Buckner is generally thought to have been the son of Richard Buckner of Caroline Co., though there is no direct evidence for the relationship.[3]
An alternative is that he was the son of Richard's brother, John Buckner Jr. The main evidence to support the latter idea is that John is known to have had a son named Phillip who was alive in 1733 (from a lawsuit involving John's heirs) and that one Louisa Co. deed refers to Phillip as Phillip Buckner of "Gloster". [4] Since John Buckner Jr. was a lifelong resident of Gloucester Co. and Richard Buckner lived most of his adult life in Essex (later Caroline) Co., this inclines more to the idea that he was John's son.
A second earlier reference to Phillip Buckner "of Gloucester" can be found in the Orange Co. Court Order Book I March 1738/9 (Virginia)[5]
This case is also referred to in Virginia Colonial Decisions,[6] which also gives Gloucester as his residence. Apparently, he lived close enough to the King Willam Co. border that a horse could easily wander into King William, which is essentially what happened in this case.
This would seem to be fairly conclusive evidence that Phillip lived in Gloucester Co. prior to living in King William Co.
If one then notes that John Buckner Jr. received a 400 acre land patent with Robert Bullard (this may be a variant of "Ballard", but it seems to be the regular spelling in other records) in King William Co. in 1714,[7] it becomes apparent that all primary source evidence points to the idea that Phillip Buckner was one of the sons of John Buckner Jr.
In the Louisa Co. VA deed books,[8] Phillip Aylett and his wife on 16 Nov 1751 conveyed land to John Brockman, which was part of a patent granted to John Aylett and bounding on Thomas Carr, Phillip Buckner, and William Aylett's orphans. This indicates that Phillip got the Louisa land as part of his wife's inheritance.
Phillip left a will probated in Louisa Co. VA in 1762 (transcribed below in the notes), and his wife Jane (or Jean)'s was probated in Albemarle Co. VA in 1789.[9] It should be noted that Jane's will is rather complicated, and, most oddly, it names a child Judith who was not named in Phillip's will. Unless something strange is going on, Judith was probably born between the writing of Phillip's will in 1761 and the probate in 1762, or perhaps even posthumously. The terms of Jane's will make it clear that Judith was a full-blood sister of the others, so she wasn't just a half or step daughter. This may explain why Phillip's estate was put into administration (under their son William) in 1772. Under English law of the period, omission of a child from a will invalidated it, so perhaps the error was not discovered by the court until 1772. Children known from the wills:
In the Louisa Co. VA deed books,[10] Phillip Aylett and his wife on 16 Nov 1751 conveyed land to John Brockman, which was part of a patent granted to John Aylett and bounding on Thomas Carr, Phillip Buckner, and William Aylett's orphans. This indicates that Phillip got the Louisa land as part of his wife's inheritance.
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