Family:John Buckner and Elizabeth Washington (1)

A Caroline Co. Order Book entry (9 Aug 1781) lists the orphans of "John Buckner Gent." as Richard [Henry] Buckner, John [Washington] Buckner, & Catherine Buckner, along with Peter [Ballard] and Margaret [Storke] Buckner who were infants. John Washington (Elizabeth's brother) was made their guardian, which seems pretty conclusive as to their identities. In 1782 and 1783 Spotsylvania tax lists, there is a John Buckner's estate, which is succeeded by an entry for Elizabeth Bucknr in 1785, which is presumably this John's. It was a fairly substantial plantation, from the looks of it. John Buckner was a lawyer in Caroline County, active from the late 1750s up until his death in 1781.

See also G.H.S. King, "Further Notes on Captain George Buckner (1760-1828) and the Caroline County Buckners" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Jul., 1956), pp. 358-372.

1. ↑ Hooe Family and Connections, in Genealogies of Virginia Families: From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982)
   V. 1, p. 231.

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