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Benjamin Bucklin, one of the two sons of William Bucklin, the original Bucklin settler in American, was killed in the Indian war called King Philip's War, in 1676, in an action known as Nine Men's Misery.A monument to the nine men still exists at the site.
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Nine Men's Misery On this spot |
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Benjamin was slain in the King Phillip's War, in an incident memorialized as "Nine Men's ' Misery", as a part of what is generally referred to as the Captain Pierce Fight. News of the Captain Pierce Fight ( a terrible loss of life and defeat for the organized military forces of the Massachusetts colonies) was terrifying to the 50 or so scattered villages that constituted the English the Massachusetts and Rhode Island area. The military, political, and religious events in the war against King Phillip are to us an interesting story, but to the colonists of the 1600's the war against King Phillip was thought of as a matter of life and death of themselves, and of the very survival of the Massachusetts towns. Rehoboth was in the midst of King Phillip's War. One cause of the war was the trial of three Indians who were put on trial in Rehoboth. William Sabin was foreman of the jury that found them guilty of murder. They were hanged in June of 1675 in Rehoboth. Nine months later, the Indians burned William Sabin's Mill and killed there his 29 year old son, Nehemiah. The "Ring of the Town" of Rehoboth was burned by the Indians, under the command of King Phillip. Forty houses and thirty barns were destroyed. In the Ring, only the heavily fortified garrison house a house on the south side of the Common escaped the fire-setting. The house on the south side of the Ring was saved in a clever manner because a number of black sticks (resembling rifle barrels) were placed obtruding from the home, giving it the appearance of also being a garrison house. All the town inhabitants, except one, had sought refuge in the garrison house, and were saved because the Indians wisely decided to stay more than a rifle shot away from the garrison house. The one who did not seek refuse was Robert Beers. When the alarm was given that the Indians were coming, he stayed in his house calmly reading the Bible, believing that nothing could harm him while reading that book. The Indians shot him through the window, then burned the house. |
In 1675, William Bucklin contributed 2, 9s to assist in the war against the Indian King Phillip. His sons Benjamin and Joseph contributed 4, 3s and 6 , respectively. Pawtucket was in the center of the war zone, with many, if not most, of the houses burned, and many killed. Providence was essentially burned to the ground.
At age 23, Benjamin had married RACHEL WHEATLEY ALLEN, daughter of William Allen, in Nov 1663 [5,6,7]. The first of their six children, Rachel Bucklin, was born the same month as the marriage.
Benjamin's wife was Rachel Allen. who was a sister of Debora Allen, who was the wife of Benjamin's brother Joseph Bucklin. In other words, Allen sisters married the Bucklin brothers. Upon the death of Benjamin and later his father William, it was left for Joseph to carry on the management of the William Bucklin 600 acres , at the Pawtucket Falls area, plus substantial land William or Joseph had purchased in other towns (e.g., 400 acres north of Providence).
After the death of Benjamin, Rachel retreated out of the active war zone to the safer area of Braintree, MA, where she later married John Loring. She died 27 Nov 1690 in Hull, MA [8]. The children of Benjamin, his heirs, later sold their Pawtucket area lands to non-Bucklins, and so the original 600 contiguous area of William Bucklin were no longer all in the Bucklin family.
Little is known about Benjamin, but we do also know that Benjamin and his brother John, with other persons, formed a partnership to dig a mine for silver in Rhode Island. John signed with an "X", but Benjamin signed his name, spelling his last name as "Bucklen".
More about documented events concerning BENJAMIN BUCKLIN:
Appointed: 1659, Rehoboth, MA - Trooper [9]
Christened: 07 Jul 1640, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA [10,10,10,11]
Burial: 1676, Nine Men's Misery fight site, Cumberland, RI [12]
Christening: 02 Jul 1640, Hingham, MA [13]
Contributed: 1676, for King Phillip's War [14]
Land Obtained: Attleboro, MA [15]
Military service: 26 Mar 1676, Nine Men's Misery fight [16]
Moved to: 1675, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA [17]
Record: 07 Feb 1688/89, Rehoboth, MA [18]
Children of BENJAMIN BUCKLIN and RACHEL ALLEN were:
i. RACHAEL BUCKLIN, b. Nov 1663, see endnote 3
ii. BENJAMIN BUCKLIN, b. 27 Feb 1664/65; d. Unknown.
iii. LEAH BUCKLIN, b. 29 May 1668; d. Unknown; m. THOMAS LORING; b. Bef. 1680; d. Aft. 1696 see endnote 20.
iv. SOLOMON BUCKLIN, b. 15 May 1669; d. Unknown.
v. JONATHAN BUCKLIN, b. 28 Sep 1672; d. Unknown.
vi. DAVID BUCKLIN, b. 22 Mar 1674/75; d. Unknown. Residence: 1696, Boston, MA, see endnote 21
Endnotes
1. Charles Henry Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts, (Genealogical Publishing House, Baltimore, MD,1986 (originally published 1900)).
2. Attleboro Town Records, p 4.
3. Hull, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1989, pp 135-136. Hull notes the Journal of Israel Loring, at p. 2, for Hull's source that Benjamin was slain..
4. Rehoboth Vital Records Deaths, Vol. 1, page 54, "slain March 26, 1676."
5. Charles H. Pope, Loring Genealogy, (Murray and Emery Company, 1917), gives name as Rachel Wheatley.
6. Patricia Fowler, GEDCOM Submission RIK10111 to Jos Bucklin Soc, (11 Jan 2001 rikkisky@swcp.com), "Electronic," Date of Import: Jan 12, 2001.
7. Patricia Fowler, GEDCOM Submission RIK10111 to Jos Bucklin Soc, (11 Jan 2001 rikkisky@swcp.com), "Electronic," Date of Import: 12 Jan 2001.
8. Hull, Massachusetts Vital Records.
9. Mary Bosworth Clarke, Bosworth Genealogy, (Cossitype, San Francisco 1926), 148, "...appointed with his cousin Jonathan Bosworth, Jr., and another...as troopers to guard the town."
10. Patricia Fowler, GEDCOM Submission RIK10111 to Jos Bucklin Soc, (11 Jan 2001 rikkisky@swcp.com), "Electronic," Date of Import: Jan 12, 2001.
11. Patricia Fowler, GEDCOM Submission RIK10111 to Jos Bucklin Soc, (11 Jan 2001 rikkisky@swcp.com), "Electronic," Date of Import: 12 Jan 2001.
12. bones were dug up and not reburried at site.
13. Mary Bosworth Clarke, Bosworth Genealogy, (Cossitype, San Francisco 1926), p 60, "bap. in Hingham, Mass., by Rev. Peter Hobart, July 2, 1640."
14. John C. Erhardt, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony 1645-1692, 378, This list in the town records of those who contributed money for the war lists Benjamin as paying money and adds the note: " with ye loss of a gun",.
15. Attleboro Town Records.
16. Leonard Bliss, Jr., History of Rehoboth, (Otis, Broaders & Company, 1836), 95, "one of the men was ascertained to be a Bucklin of Rehoboth, from his very large frame, and from a set of double teeth all around."
17. Holems, Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, (1964).
18. John C. Erhardt, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony 1645-1692, 479, Town list of proprietors of the town lists "The heirs of Benjamin Bucklin" as "Orphans."
19. John G. Erhardt, History of Rehoboth, Seekonk, Mass., Pawtucket & East Providence, RI, 1692-1812, (PO Box 33, 500 Fall River Av., Seekonk, MA, 1990), 38, On 31 Oct 1696, sold his interest in the Benjamin Bucklin homestead to Henry Smith, John and Rachel recited as being of Hull.
20. John G. Erhardt, History of Rehoboth, Seekonk, Mass., Pawtucket & East Providence, RI, 1692-1812, (PO Box 33, 500 Fall River Av., Seekonk, MA, 1990), 38, On 31 Oct 1696, sold his interest in the Benjamin Bucklin homestead to Henry Smith, Thomas and Leah recited as being of Hingham.
21. John G. Erhardt, History of Rehoboth, Seekonk, Mass., Pawtucket & East Providence, RI, 1692-1812, (PO Box 33, 500 Fall River Av., Seekonk, MA, 1990), p 38, Sold his interest in the Benjamin Bucklin homestead to Henry Smith, David recited as being of Boston.