MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO - Thomas BUCKINGHAM (1646-1709)
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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.  MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973.
Family surnames include "Mary and John" (1630) passenger/puritans
MASON, GILLETT, WOLCOTT, PHELPS, HOLCOMBE, GRISWOLD, FORD, and COOK.


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