Site Summary:   (A) Rhode Island and Massachusetts History 1600 -1799, emphasizing the events and people involved in the Americans' 1772 attack on the Royal Navy ship Gaspee, and 
                           (B) Bucklin Family and Genealogical History, including a 3,500 person database. 
This is a national history center both for the Gaspee Affair of 1772  and also for the Bucklin Family 1600-1899.

Division 1: Burning the Gaspee and American Revolution History. How Joseph Bucklin fired the shot that started the revolution!

The Rhode Island attack on the English Navy ship Gaspee  was a significant event in American Colonial Revolutionary War history.  Rhode Island and the Joseph Bucklin Society celebrate Joseph Bucklin's shot in the Gaspee Affair as the actual first shot of the Revolution.  The English Attorney General declared it the first Act of War!  Division 1 of this web site has information about American Colonial History, with special emphasis on colonial Rhode Island and Massachusetts, on the American Revolution, and on the burning of the Gaspee.

Division 2: Bucklin Family Genealogy and History.

Searching for an ancestor or more detailed information about him/her?  If you are a Bucklin you are probably a descendent of William Bucklin, who arrived in America in 1634!  His family was one of the more important landowners of the early Rhode Island colony.

Division 2 of our society collects information about the interesting history of the Bucklin family. Our site is the most comprehensive site for information both about places and notable persons named Bucklin and also about Bucklin family history. from 1600 to 1799.  We emphasize the collection of genealogy data of 1600 to 1799 in the colonial American history.  But we try to include every Bucklin family there ever was.  We are developing the central database for every Bucklin. (There were over 3500 names in the data base by January 2005.)   This database also includes historical biographical data on members of the Gaspee raiding party of 1772.

Division 3: Joseph Bucklin Society Organization.

Join.  Help. Receive.    As a member you help preserve  important American History and Bucklin History from loss. You get the benefit of the coordinated research efforts of Society members in preserving history.  Members receive a distinguished three color certificate suitable for framing, containing your personalized information, a quiet mark of your family roots back to the 1600's in American and proud mark of your interest in American History. 

This American History, Gaspee History, and Bucklin History site is extensive. Here's the computer's count as of 2 Jan 2006: Over 250 web pages, over 1200 files of information you can access,  and over 250 links to sources of information outside our website. 67 other organizations have websites that link to our information pages.

The Joseph Bucklin Society is an organization for American history and genealogic research and the dissemination of educational materials.  The Society is not connected with any denomination or political group. The Society is an educational and historical organization. 100% of your contribution goes to preserving history!

Our Division 3,  the Society organization and administration, includes book lists about American History and the Gaspee Affair and about Bucklin history.  This division also includes our book store.  In our book store we suggest gift books and books for you.  Although our emphasis is on history, any book available in print can be purchased here, quickly and easily.

MORE ABOUT OUR ---Division 1: History Section  These pages are where you find history of:  

(a) The Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Colony, in the period 1600--- 1799, and England in the same time period (with particular reference to the New England Bucklin families and settlements and their spread to other places); 

(b) The 1772 Rhode Island capture and burning of the English ship Gaspee (with particular reference to the legal and political background) and the period of the early American Revolution.  The Gaspee Affair was legally declared in England as the first act of war and treason, and was the first deliberate shooting an English military person.  Find out about the people involved, the English and American actions and reactions, and the rich history in our history pages.

(c) Bucklin family daily life in 1600 to 1900, their homes, hopes, loves and business. This division is where we research American History, with special emphasis on the colonial and Revolutionary War era in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  Bucklin family history is a part of American History.  Bucklins have had  deep involvement in the development of the communities in which they lived.   Service above self is a Bucklin family tradition. The Bucklin family members sense of honor and their commitment to ideals burns through the records of American History.  

Have fun with history!  Meet us at the Gaspee Days parade!

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