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This
page is the entry to organizational and membership information about the
Joseph Bucklin Society
an American history organization: American History 1600-1799, the Bucklin
Family 1600-1999, and the Gaspee Affair of 1772.
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Explanation of the meaning and symbols of our Society's distinctive logo.
We are dedicated to historical and genealogical research and the dissemination
of educational
material. The Society is not connected with any denomination or political group.
We are here to preserve family and country history and thereby preserve courage,
zeal, faith, duty, and honor.
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Why, and what, we research and preserve.
BECAUSE: The colonists of the seventeen century who planted the
Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Colony were one of the most influential settlers of North America.
William Bucklin and his descendants were a vital part of that group.
AND BECAUSE: Joseph Bucklin and his relatives were typical of the
early Americans who rose in the American Revolution to start what became a
new nation. The attack on the English Navy ship Gaspee, in 1772, was an outstanding event in
the formation of the American Revolution. Joseph Bucklin, in the Gaspee
attack, was the first American who deliberately shot an English military
man, and thus can be honored as firing the first shot in the American
Revolution..
NOW THEREFORE:
The Joseph Bucklin Society is
named for Joseph Bucklin. The Society is dedicated to researching and
preserving the history of Massachusetts and Rhode Island colonists and
transmitting their example of courage, zeal, faith, duty, and honor. |
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Join the Society
and receive the benefits of membership including a
distinguished three color certificate suitable for framing, containing your
personalized information, a quiet mark of your family roots back to the 1600's
in American and of your interest in American History. Plus, you get
the benefit of the coordinated research efforts of other Bucklins.
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We of the United States of America were
not united as a people by ethnic heritage, language or geography.
We were, and are now, united by adherence to a set of shared beliefs;
and those beliefs are those formed mainly by the colonists of
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. As we research and preserve the history of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we
find ourselves draw into the events of the Revolutionary War, and the period
preceding and after that war of revolution. The Gaspee affair is worthy of
special study because it gives us a focus of attention that allows us to drill
downward into the layers of culture and society that surrounded the event. The
Bucklin family has been involved with events that have been of public interest
or been of significance in American history, particularly in the period of 1630
to 1799. The Gaspee event is one of those in which the family was
involved.
Our scope of research, study, and education includes:
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(1) the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations Colony, in the period 1600--- 1799; and England in the same time
period (with particular reference to the Dorset area), and |
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(2) the Bucklin family in 1600-1899, and thereafter, and |
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(3) the Gaspee Affair of 1772 (including the legal and political
background as it relates to the American Revolution). |
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