Rabbit Holes With Randy - Finding Land Records for Samuel Buck of Sutton, Massachusetts

 One of the deep rabbit holes that I have dug into in the past two weeks, is  Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1985 on FamilySearch; this is a follow-up post to Rabbit Holes With Randy - Which Mary Buck is Rebecca's Ancestor? published on August 25.

1)  I want to find as many land records for a Samuel Buck of Sutton, Massachusetts up to about 1800 as I  can, then find as many records for a Samuel Buck of Woburn in Middlesex County.  My hope was the find information about each deed entry that identified the land, Samuel Buck's occupation, and perhaps the spouse's given name.

2)  I made a word processor table to list everything consistently, trying to capture the Volume, Page number, Grantee name, Grantor name, the Year, the Town, The Transaction Date, the Recording Date, and Notes about Image numbers, Acreage, and Sale value.

To do this for a specific place, the user has to:

*  Select the County.

*  Find and Review the Grantee Index and search for the Surname and then the Given Name.

*  Find and Review the Grantor Index and search for the Surname and Given Name.

*  Note the Volume and Page Number for each entry.

*  Find the specific Deed and note the Image number.

*  Capture all of the needed information for each Deed in the Table.

*  List the Deeds by Recorded Date.

3)  Here is the list for Worcester County, for Samuel Buck persons up to about 1800:

Samuel Buck (of Sutton) Deeds – Worcester County, Mass.

Grantees A-E (image 222 of 620), Grantors A-C (image 279 of 438)

Vol	Page	Grantee	Grantor	Year	Town	Transaction Date	Recording Date	Notes
3	83	Samuel Buck of Woburn, cordwainer	James Bound	1732	Sutton	1 June 1732	2 June 1732	Image 113 of 683. 100 acres, dwelling house, £550
21	89	Samuel Buck Jr, husbandman, only son	Samuel Buck of Sutton, cordwainer	1746	Sutton	8 Feb 1744/5	5 Feb 1745/6	Image 62 of 602 50 acres love and affection
27	195	Samuel Buck Jr of Sutton, yeoman	Jos’h Richardson Daniel Chase Jr	1748	Sutton	10 August 1748	23 August 1748	Image 106 of 609 69 acres wilderness £69 15s
31	220	Samuel Buck Jr of Sutton husbandman	Joseph Sparhawk	1752	Sutton	6 January 1752	6 February 1752	Image 123 of 649 11 acres £53 6s 8d
37	43	Jabez Stockwell	Samuel Buck Jr of Sutton husbandman	1755	Sutton	4 July 1753	20 December 1755	Image 32 of 626 7.5 acres £5 12s
42	117	Samuel Buck Jr of Sutton husbandman	Edm’d Towne	1759	Sutton	1 May 1759	22 June 1759	Image 392 of 639 32 acres £80
43	214	Samuel Buck Jr of Sutton innholder	Jabez Pratt wife Elizabeth Pratt	1764	Sutton	12 July 1760	20 August 1760	Image 117 of 587 32.5 acres £80
37	210	Thomas Holeman	Samuel Buck of Sutton, cordwainer	1756	Sutton	6 June 1750	10 April 1756	Image 122 of 626 1.5 acres, £4
53	198	Dan’l Dike	Samuel Buck Jr. of Sutton, husbandman	1765	Sutton	4 July 1753	21 October 1765	Image 120 of 680 22 acres, £46, bounded by Amos Case
60	1	Peter Hardy	Samuel Buck of Sutton, innholder wife Sarah Buck	1768	Sutton	1 July 1767	16 August 1768	Image 301 of 627 64 acres £206
65	241	Nath’l Gowing	Samuel Buck of Sutton Innholder	1771	Sutton	25 April 1768	11 June 1771	Image 132 of 609 1 acre £4 13s
72	316	Samuel Buck innholder of Sutton	Joshua Barnard	1774	Sutton	9 March 1768	23 March 1774	Image 480 of 621 15 acres 43 rods £40 14s
72	317	Samuel Buck innholder of Sutton	Ralph Richardson	1774	Sutton	10 June 1768	26 March 1774	Image 480 of 621 26 acres £ 93 6s 8p
72	318	Samuel Buck innholder of Sutton	Andrew Patch wife Ann Patch	1774	Sutton	3 December 1773	26 March 1774	Image 481 of 621 62 acres w/buildings £229
74	53	Jas Freeland	Samuel Buck	1774	Sutton
74	184	Samuel Buck of Sutton	David Bucknam of Sutton, husbandman	1774	Sutton	9 Apr 1774	29 Aug 1774	Image 423 of 599 104 acres, £220
77	46	Moses Brown	Samuel Buck and wife Sarah Buck Elisha Goddard of Sutton	1777	Sutton	26 March 1777	3 May 1777	Image 494 of 650 104 acres £425
82	224	Oliver Holman of Athol	Samuel Buck of Sutton, yeoman	1779	Athol	16 April 1778	8 September 1779	Image 170 of 956 90 acres, £300
85	232	And’w Patch	Samuel Buck	1781	Sutton
91	447	Jos Waters	Samuel Buck	1784	Sutton
92	494	Simon Tainter	Samuel Buck	1784	Sutton
92	69	Sam’l Bixby	Samuel Buck	1784	Sutton
94	48	Eunice Kenny	Samuel Buck	1784	Sutton
96	26	Sam’l Bixby	Samuel Buck	1784	Sutton
96	98	Jacob Chamberlain Jr	Samuel Buck	1785	Sutton
96	108	Jacob Chamberlain	Samuel Buck Jr wife Sarah of Sutton husbandman	1785	Sutton	3 December 1784	15 January 1785	Image 62 of 570 88 acres homestead £440
115	416	Nath’l Moore &c	Samuel Buck	1792	Sutton
151	167	Jacob Chamberlain	Samuel Buck	1803	Sutton

My apologies for the table having too many entries without cell lines (which I cannot find on LibreOffice menus).

4)  There may be four Samuel Buck persons in the time period from 1731 to about 1800:

• one a cordwainer, who first appears in the deeds in 1732 and last in 1754;
• another who is an innholder, who first appears in the deeds in 1765 and last in 1774; 
• another who is a husbandman, probably the son of the cordwainer, who first appears in the deeds in 1746 and last in 1765; and is probably the yeoman in a 1748 deed.
• one who is a yeoman, who first appears in the deeds in 1778.  

The cordwainer is the Samuel Buck who first bought land in Sutton in 1732, who had a 1760 will that named his son Samuel Buck and daughters Hannah Walker and Mary Case (married to Amos Case).

One of the four is likely Samuel Buck Jr. who is the only son of the cordwainer as shown in the 1746 entry, and is the husbandman.  Unfortunately, his wife is not named in the deeds.  He last appears in the deeds in 1765.

The innholder first appears in the deeds in 1760, and is probably a different Samuel Buck  with a wife named Sarah - some entries say Jr. and some don't (if the Samuel Buck Sr. died then they stop using Jr in some cases).  He may be the son of Samuel Buck Jr. or some other Buck of Worcester County at the time, or Middlesex County at some other time.

I need some more carrots (and some luck) to figure all of this out!

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