COSHOCTON COUNTY OHIO - Ebenezer Buckingham, From "Buckingham Colonial Ancestors" published by George Tracy Buckingham - 1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Maggie_Ohio List Al Dawson, Berea, OH. at788@detroit.freenet.org September 27, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Buckingham Colonial Ancestors" - published by George Tracy Buckingham ["for private distribution" - the WRHS copy has a signed bookplate] Chicago, Illinois, 1920. Listed as among the descendants of Rev Thomas Buckingham (1646-1701) [my ancestor OOOPs - that should read 1709 as his dead-date! - who was one of the founders of Yale, 1701, and hosted the first college commencement of same at his Saybrook, CT home] and citing as his source "The Ancestors of Ebenezer Buckingham" by James A. Buckingham, 1892: EBENEZER BUCKINGHAM, born February 9, 1778, an Ohio pioneer at Coshocton and Muskingum, where he lost his life in the fall of a bridge [HMMM ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE PERHAPS??] in 1836. He married (1) Catherine PUTNAM, a daughter of General Rufus Putnam, (2) Sarah STURGES, (3) Eunice HALE. He is the ancestor of most of the Ohio and Illinois Buckinghams. Al Dawson, Berea, OH. at788@detroit.freenet.org