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1Blakemore, Maurice Neville, Blakemore family and Allied lines, The, p.119, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL JSMB Book 929.273 B583b. FHL Film 1033872 Item 5. "York County General Records Book no. 16, part 2, folio 605 records his will which is dated May 19, 1729 and probated June 16, 1729. In it he names his sons Joseph Buck and Nathaniel Buck, his daughter, Mary Kirby and his grandchildren, Benjamin Buck and Elizabeth Buck, the children of his son, Benjamin, deceased. His name appears on the Rent Rolls of 1704 ("The Planters of Colonial Virginia", p 210, Wertenbaker; Virginia Magazine of History and Biorgraphy, vol. 31, no. 1, p 72)."
1Blakemore, Maurice Neville, Blakemore family and Allied lines, The, p.119, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL JSMB Book 929.273 B583b. FHL Film 1033872 Item 5. "... who sailed from Gravesend, England, on August 21, 1635 on the ship "George", when 17 years of age, thereby preceding the arrival of the Lees, Carters, and they Byrds ("The Buck Family and its Kin", Walter H. Buck, 1956; "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality", p 125, J.C. Hutten, London, 1874). Thomas Buck I waqs the grandson of Peter Buck of Rochester who lived there in 1592. This Peter Buck's grandfather was Sir Peter Buck also of Rochester. A copy of the family coat-of-arms is in the Library of Congress ("The Buck Family of Virginia", Walter H. Buck, 1936). He settled in York County, then Charles River County, Virginia, on the south side of the York River. He was mentioned in the court records of 1658 and his will, dated October 23, 1659, was probated November 17, 1659 (York County Records, 1657-1662, folio 69; "Virginia County Records", W.A. Crozier). He believed that education should not be neglected in this new land and in his will there is a provision that "his children be place in the care of a tutor"... .
His will does not name ohis wife but a court order of January 24, 1659 required that John Overstreet be paid 80 pounds of tobacco for "treating the wife of Thomas Buck, deceased", from Buck's estate."
1Blakemore, Maurice Neville, Blakemore family and Allied lines, The, p.122, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL JSMB Book 929.273 B583b. FHL Film 1033872 Item 5. "... lived in Kentucky and is buried in Franklin County. He ... had thirteen children of whom there is a record of only seven..."