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- Baptist Minister, Siler City. Listed in 'A Roll of Captain Isaiah Hogans Company at a Muster September 19th 1772' from 'Chatham Regimental Return made 23rd Sept. 1772'.
Will of Jesse Buckner
I, Jesse Buckner, of the county and state aforesaid being in a low state of body but of perfect mind and memory to make the following to be my Last Will and Testament. That is first I resign my Soul to God who gave it, and my Body to be decently interred in Christian Burial, and as to my worldly estate I dispose of in the following manner, to wit,
I give unto my daughter Aquilla West a Negro girl name Cinda to her and her heirs forever.
I give unto my son Jesse Buckner a Negro man named Peter to him and his heirs forever.
I give unto my daughter Sarah Jones a Negro girl named Prissy to be her property for lifetime then to be equally divided between her daughters Fably Austin and Fanny Johnson to them and their heirs forever.
I give unto my daughter Peggy West sixty dollars to be paid out of my estate by my executors.
I give to my Grand-daughter Susannah Buckner one hundred dollars to be paid as above named.
I also, give ten dollars to be equally divided between the hairs of my son Nathaniel Buckner dec’d, Susannah excepted as to her part of the ten dollars.
I also give unto my son Martha Johnson (probably means daughter) one side board together with the contents attached to it.
I also give unto Nancy Hogan one hundred dollars to be paid out of my estate by my executors.
I also give unto my son John Buckner a certain tract of land wherever he now lives together with another small tract adjoining the same containing one hundred and eighty acres in all to him and heirs forever.
I also give unto Wesley Buckner son of Jesse Buckner and Buckner Johnson son of Jesse Johnson my tract of land wherever I now live to be equally divided between them at my decease.
I also give to Nancy Hogen two chests, one walnut and one pine chest which is now in my house. I also give unto the heirs of my son Elisha dec’d five dollars to be equally divided between them, to be paid out of my estate.
I also give unto my son William Buckner five dollars to be paid as above, I also give unto Riche Buckner my son five dollars to be paid as above named.
I also give unto my son Edward Buckner five dollars to paid as above named.
I also give unto my son Edward Buckner five dollars to be paid as above named:
I also give unto the heirs of my daughter Polly Street decd five dollars to be equally divided between them to be paid out of my estate as above. I also give unto my grand son Samuel Jones sixty dollars to be paid out of my estate.
The balance of my estate after paying all my just debts to be divided in the following many, viz, to my daughter Peggy West sixty dollars to her and her heirs, and also to my daughter Aquilla West I give sixty dollars to her and her heirs in addition to what was before mentioned.
I also give to my son Richd Buckner sixty dollars in addition to what was before given the balance of my estate if any to be equally divided between my three youngest children., John Buckner, Jesse Buckner and Martha Johnson and I do ordain and appoint Jesse Buckner and Jesse Johnson my whole and sole executors. In witness where I have set my hand and seal the twenty sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
Signed and delivered in the presents of witness Jesse Buckner (seal)
Absolom Rogers
Proved May Sessions 1826
Recorded in Book B, pgs 122-123 in Chatham County Courthouse, Pittsboro, NC
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THIS INDENTURE made this ninth day of August one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty five between Jesse Buckner of the County of Chatham in North
Carolina, planter, of one part & Isham Thrift of the County & State aforesaid
. . . Jesse Buckner for and in consideration of the sum of Two hundred pound to him in hand paid by Sd Isham Thrift
. . . sell alian (assign?) releast and confirm
. . . Track or parcel of land containing six hundred and forty acres lying and being in the said County of Chatham the Northside of Haw River bounded...
. . . stake formerly Isaac Hollinsworth line and
running east along Powells line to a poplar on the Bank of Wilkersons creek [etc. no additional names mentioned] to the first station
. . . said Jesse Buckner and his wife have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and date above written
Jesse Buckner
(SEAL)
Martha x Buckner
(SEAL)
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presents of US W. Douglass Chatham County Nov. Term 1785. This deed was duly acknowledged in Open Court & ordered to be registered. Test John Ramsey C>C> Recorded in Book D, at Page 39, Chatham County Registry.
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In 1793 the church at Forks of the Yadkin in Rowan County was reconstituted with 45 members under the care of Jesse Buckner, a licentiate [he had been licensed to preach but was not yet ordained] from the Haw River Baptist Church, and joined the Sandy Creek [Baptist] Association. - Haw River Baptist Church was in Chatham County and had 320 members in the late 1790's. The pastor there was [Elder] Elnathan Davis [see bio Pickens Co. SC] and it was "much the srongest church in the Association, still under the care of Elder Elnathan Davis, who had as his assistants the licentiates Thomas Brown, Jesse Buckner, Thomas Cate, Solomon Smith, Isaac Hailes, ____ Ray, and William Weatherspoon" (Paschal, p. 40 7).
From 'mpchapter.org' (DAR):
Not all our revolutionary ancestors bore arms. Consider the case of Jesse Buckner. He was born circa 1740 in Virginia and served his country in the Revolutionary War as a Civil Patriot by giving money to the cause. Jesse owned a large plantation and was a Baptist minister for more than 40 years. He died in March 1826 in Chatham County, NC, near Siler City and is buried on the land of his plantation. His second wife was Mary Martha Pyle. They were the parents of 13 children. Jesse Buckner's great grandfather was John Buckner who came to Virginia in 1661 from Oxford, England. He brought the first printing press to the Colonies in 1682.
from http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilclark/misc/bucknr-f.htm: The Buckners of Crawford County trace their unbroken line back to Jesse Buckner of Chatham County, NC. He was one of seven brothers, who migrated from Virginia and settled in the western part of this State. He found life too wild and bloody, so he left the western region and settled near Siler City, Chatham County, about 1780. A history of the Early Baptists in North Carolina, tells of his aid in establishing the Baptist Church in that state. It is recorded that he preached on the Haw River Circuit in 1790 and in
1793 he helped to establish a church in Rowan County at the forks of the Yadkin. Jesse Buckner was married to Mary Pyle, they had seven sons and five daughters.
William Nuthead sponsored by John Buckner, set up in Gloucester County a press (the second to be established in America) and in 1682 printed two sheets of the Acts of the Virginia Assembly. Though Berkeley had been recalled to England, a spirit of intolerance toward 'liberty of presses' persisted. Buckner was summoned for this printing of the Laws, and Charles II ordered in 1683 that no person use any press in the colony.
Massachusetts had set up a printing press in 1639, but it was 1704 before any newspaper was regularly published in the colonies and 1763 before a daily paper appeared regularly.
Re. "Marlfield", Gloucester Co., Va.
Marlfield in upper Gloucester Co., Va. was built by John Buckner. It was there that he housed the first printing press in America. John Buckner was Clerk of Gloucester Co. and angered Virginia's governor, Lord Culpepper, for printing the Laws of 1680 without a license. He was fined in 1682 for this.
Marlfield had a center hall with a room on either side on one end and 2 rooms above then on a second story. The brick house had a total of 4 rooms and two long halls. In 1779/80 the house was owned by Catseby Jones who added a wing, making the building T shaped.
John Buckner, Gent., the ancestor of a numerous family in the United States, patented 1,000 acres of land in Gloucester County in 1669, and became a merchant with wide connections in Maryland and Virginia.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1:406, and William and Mary College Quarterly, 7: 9, 10 and 11.
in the year 1682, during the administration of Lord Culpeper, Mr. John Buckner,
a merchant of Gloucester County, brought in a press and a printer and set
up at Jamestown the second printing establishment of English America.
Begun auspiciously enough, what seems to have been the first venture of
this partnership met with such ill favor from the authorities as to discour-
age further attempts at printing in Virginia for many years. The action of
the Virginia Council on hearing that Buckner's press was preparing to issue
certain session laws is told in the following .record:3
Att a Councell held att James Citty February 21: 1682/3. .....
Mr. John Buckner being by his Excellency Thomas Lord Culpeper ordered to appear
1 Hening, W. W., Statutes at Large ...of Virginia, 2: 517.
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1740 - 1826 (86 years)
