Joseph Buckingham (1703 - 1760)

Born 7 Aug 1703 in Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died 29 Nov 1760 at age 57 in Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

This profile is part of the Buckingham Name Study.

Joseph was born to Thomas Buckingham and Ann Foster on August 7, 1703 in Hartford, Connecticut.^[1][2]

Yale College and Chapel.

According to Chapman, Joseph graduated at Yale in the class of 1723; studied Law and resided during his life at Hartford.^[3]

From the Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College we read about Joseph and that "At the meeting of the Trustees of the College at which the Rev. Elisha Williams was elected Rector, September 29, 1725, Mr. Buckingham was elected tutor, but he declined the appointment. That he entered on the study of theology, is inferred from the fact that in the winter following his father's decease (Nov. 19, 1731), he declined a call to succeed him in the Second (or South) Church of Hartford. He ultimately chose the legal profession, and from October, 1741, until his death, was Judge of Probate for the Hartford District. He was also a Representative of Hartford in thirty-five sessions of the General Assembly, between 1735 and 1757, and he served the town and the colony in many other important trusts. He died, unmarried, in Hartford, November 29, 1760, in his 58th year,"^[4]

Joseph never married.^[3] He died on November 29, 1760^[5] He left an unfinished will, bequeathing the most of his estate to the religious society over which his father had been settled, but his cousin (the Rev. Daniel Buckingham, Y. C. 1735) and other heirs successfully contested the admission to probate of this nuncupative disposition of ancestral real estate; finally, the General Assembly, in May,1764, overruled the decision of the probate court, and of the Superior Court, to which appeal had also been made, and appointed the testator's mother (now the widow Ann Burnham) administratrix, —she having in the mean time deeded to the South Congregational Society her house and homestead, in confirmation of her son's intentions. “Elegiac Thoughts, occasioned by the sudden death of Joseph Buckingham, Esq.,” consisting of ninety-seven lines of blank verse, by “W. W.,” were published in the Connecticut Gazette for February 21, 1761.^[4][6]

He was buried in the Center Church Burying Ground, Hartford Connecticut December 1, 1760.^{[7] [8]}

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F741-YQ2 : 7 January 2020), Joseph Buckingham, 1703.
2. ↑ Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)

   https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21077/239/426686141

   BIRTH:8/7/1703

   LOCATION:Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

   VOLUME:13

   PAGE:239

   TEXT:Hartford Records

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Chapman, Frederick. The Buckingham Family; or The Descendants of Thomas Buckingham, One of the First Settlers of Milford, Conn. (Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford, Conn., 1872) Page 16-7
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: With Annals of the College History. New York: Holt, 1911. https://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/books/Biographical_Sketches_of_Grads_of_Yale_1701-1745_1885.pdf. pg. 278
5. ↑ Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]

   Name: Joseph Buckingham

   Death Date: 1760

   Death Place: Connecticut

   Gender: Male

   FHL Film Number: 3245

6. ↑ Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut. Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line].

   Name: Joseph Buckingham

   Probate Date: 1761

   Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut, USA

   Inferred Death Year: Abt 1761

   Inferred Death Place: Connecticut, USA

   Case Number: 828

7. ↑ O'Maxfield, Karen, comp.. List of Burials, Center Church Burying Ground, Hartford, Connecticut [database on-line].

   Name: "Joseph Buckingham, Esq."

   Date: 1 Dec 1760

   Birth Date: 7 Aug 1703

   Comments: son of Rev. Thomas and Ann (Foster) Buckingham; Yale College 1723 "born Aug. 7, 1703. "

8. ↑ "Burial List." Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground. Accessed August 06, 2020. http://theancientburyingground.org/history/burial-list/.