In 1771 Daniel Bucklin had property in Providence at 295 South Main Street,
the west side of South Main Street between Silver and Coin Streets).
Old deeds show:
[Re South half of the present building]
1763 Joseph Tillinghast sells for 6000 £ Old Tenor to Daniel Bucklin,
mariner, a certain lot of land in Providence about
1/4 mile S/ward of the Great Bridge
with a Dwelling House standing thereon. Bounded; E by Main Street 40'; S by
gangway (now Coin Street); W by the Channel of the Harbor 40'; N by Arthur
Fenner ...Deed Book 18, page 7 in Providence City Hell.
[Re the North half of the present building] 1771
Arthur Fenner, son-in-law of Nicholas Cooke, sells for 200 Spanish Silver milled
dollars to Gershon Carpenter, shop joiner, one certain 40' lot of land towards
the S,/ly end of Providence bounded: N by gangway; E by Town Street 40'; S by
Daniel Bucklin, and runs W to the Channel; W by the Channel of the River, ..Deed
Book 18, page 416 in Providence City Hall.
For further notations on this building, as found in the Survey of Historical Buildings in Providence.
Click here.
Other Bucklins had property in Providence before and during the
Revolutionary War. For more information regarding property of Daniel, Joseph and Jonathan Bucklin
in Providence before and during the Revolutionary War, see other pages of this site. E.g.,
property owners in 1770; map of 1770
Providence; map of 1777;
1798 Providence.
