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Contributions to the work of the Joseph Bucklin Society are most gratefully received.

Every year this website is only a year away from closing for lack of funds. There is no permanent endowment, and every year the needed funds must be contributed. Funds are needed to maintain what we have. Anything greater than the bare minimum for maintaining what we have goes immediately for research and development of the history available to you and future generations.

You can make a special contribution, whether or not you are a member.

Some of you donated to pay for marking the family grave site of Joseph Bucklin 5th, the patriot who fired the first shot in the American Revolution, and who has no marker in the 18th century family plot. At long last this important figure (just think - a Bucklin fired the first shot in the Revolution) had had a marker placed in his memory. See photos and read about the project.

Every dollar is used for expenses. We have no paid full time employees. Our Executive Director does not draw a salary. As funds are available, he hires, on hourly rates, independent typists and researchers to assist. Your contribution is used directly for keeping this site and society as a depository of information for you and yours and the future researchers.

If you want to pay for 1 hour of data entry time --- we need about $20 to pay for an hour of electronic archives database entry time for the supervision and work by the experienced and trained persons we need for this sort of work. Keeping the historical facts and the database in proper genealogical format, with verified information is serious and professional work. It deserves and gets trained and careful attention.

If you want to sponsor a complete biography about a specific Bucklin or a specific Gaspee raider, contact us, (use the blue "Contact US button in the left hand margin of this page). We will need to discuss the amount of facts you want researched and organized, what we or you have available as raw information now, and the time you think is appropriately spent. (Normally, we have to budget about $500 to $900 for the research and work that goes into a typical biography, often several web pages in length.)

Make a one time donation of any amount. Smaller if you must, larger if you can. Click and use the following button to use your credit card to place any amount as a one time contribution.

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If you prefer to use your time and postage to send a paper check, send it by post office mail to Joseph Bucklin Society, 8063 S. Michele Lane, Tempe, AZ 85284.)

Do you want to make a contribution
for our professional researcher to do research on a specific person? ($60 pays for an hour).

Clicking on the this button is for you to use if you are making a contribution for professional research about a specific Bucklin family member of your choice, or on a person involved in the 1772 Gaspee Affair.

When you make your donation, you will be given the opportunity to add a message with your contribution, to tell us who to research.

We have stacks of paper that are submitted to us. It sits here, un-entered and hence not available to all you could enjoy it now and in the future. If you have secretarial ability to type and have a computer --- Volunteer your time to transcribe old Contribute your time in transcribing information for us records for us, so we can obtain the document as a "Word" or WordPerfect" electronic document. , with an electronic document, we can store it efficiently, index it, use the information on the website.

If you do have a computer and can volunteer time, we will send you some papers by post office mail and ask that you transcribe what it says and send it back to us in electronic format (Word or WordPerfect or PDF format). Then we can add it to the electronic archives. To volunteer time, contact us

For example, do you want to figure out what George Washington wrote about Captain Joseph Bucklin in 1776. We can send you this to page of writing by Washington for you to examine with a magnifying glass or electronic magnification, and transcribe for us!

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