Things About the Buckley Family

 

Here is a list of 40 facts about the Buckley family, particularly Joshua Buckley:

• Joshua Buckley was granted the "Buckley Land Grant" in 1762 by King George III because the king was grateful to the pioneers for settling in the Ohio River watershed.
• The Buckley family had come to the colony of Virginia from Ireland.
• The Buckley family was Roman Catholic.
• They moved to Holland and Belgium to escape persecution.
• They returned to England when word came that the colony of Virginia had been established.
• They sailed for the New World and arrived at Jamestown.
• Two of the Buckley brothers moved northwestward to Winchester, Virginia.
• From Winchester, they moved across the mountains to what is now Ohio, two of them going north of the mountain and over into the Greenbrier Valley.
• The Buckley that went south to its head and came down the river to what is now Hosterman was Joshua.
• Joshua made his home with the Collins family until 1774.
• He married Hannah Collins in 1773.
• Joshua had scouted the Greenbrier River Valley for a home about 1762 and took a grant for land after his marriage to Hannah.
• They had a son by the time Joshua arrived at the mouth of Swago Creek in March of 1774.
• He brought with him his wife and son, a horse, and provisions enough to last until a crop could be raised.
• He cleared about two acres of land and had been there with his family for a year when the Indians had cleared it for corn.
• Joshua built a lean-to shed against a large white oak tree just above the high-water mark on the east side of the river.
• He built a yard fence and also a large corn crib about two hundred yards south of the mouth of Swago Creek.
• Joshua made a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts to settle with General Washington.
• Joshua was sent back to the valley as a runner between the settlers in the Greenbrier Valley and Indians fort at Lewisburg.
• He was to notify the settlers in the valley if there was to be an Indian uprising.
• The Governor of Virginia made a treaty with the Indians that they would not make settlements in the Ohio River Valley because the rivers that flowed into it flowed into the Atlantic Ocean.
• The land granted to the pioneers settled in the Ohio River watershed was known as "Tomahawk Grants".
• Three other children were born to Hannah and Joshua Buckley: John, Hettie, and Elizabeth.
• The Buckley family raised crops and livestock.
• They had a cider press.
• They traded more of the bottom land crops and furs for family clothing and food.
• The children were given that part of the farm north of the Big Rocks in the Greenbrier River and west of the river, extending to the top of the mountain between Swago Creek and the Kee Tract.
• Petty Gibson was given the part of the land west of the river, south of the Kee Tract and south to Swago Creek, with the exception of the flat land just north of the mouth mentioned above.
• John Buckley and his wife Patsy Casebolt lived on the east side of the river just north of where his parents lived.
• Hettie married George Kee.
• George and Hettie Kee were given the part east of the river.
• The part east of the river was later divided.
• Polly, the wife of John Kee, got the part east of Farm 219, and the part west of the river was sold to Karon.
• The John Buckley tract west of the river was sold to several families.
• Joshua Buckley was one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church.
• Joshua Buckley II was born on the west side of the river on March 6, 1810.
• He farmed on the west side of the river and also was a local Methodist minister.
• He disagreed with the elders of the church as to its form of government.
• A descendent of the Buckley family, Ralph Buckley, wrote a booklet called "THE BUCKLEY LAND GRANT" in 1947.
• Ralph Buckley researched his family genealogy, and included a family tree in the booklet.