If you want to know what this "American
History" area of our site is about, the summary is: (1) American Colonial History 1600 to 1799, Revolutionary
War History, with emphasis on Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Providence, Pawtucket, and
the Bucklin families; (2) some English history (legal and political) relevant to
the Gaspee Attack of 1772 and the events leading up to and arising out of it.
History
is fun! Why just read when you can watch a parade and see reenactments of colonial life?
Join Rhode Island in celebrating the 1772 attack
on the Gaspee, watch the
Saturday parade, then on Sunday see
historical enactors of colonial life. Be in Rhode Island on the 2nd Saturday/Sunday of each June, where
Rhode Island celebrates
"Gaspee Days" as the start of the American Revolution.
Click here for information.
On this site, you can read lots of facts about Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
other New England colonies in the period of 1600 to 1799. Or if the "first
shot of the revolution" is what you want to learn about, start on this site to
read fascinating facts and figures regarding the 1772 Gaspee attack.
For a number of reasons, Bucklins were heavily involved in the American
Revolution. If your surname is Bucklin, trace your family line back and
you are almost certain to be able to be admitted into organizations such as the
Sons (or Daughters) of the American Revolution. Joseph Bucklin 5th, who
fired the first shot in the first armed attack on the English, is the intersecting point between Bucklin family history and the history of the
American Revolution.
Specialties:
(1) We have the
largest
available data base of facts about persons named
Bucklin. The data base is the result of
contributions of information, and the research efforts of dozens of individuals,
plus family data and history from Bucklins across the country. The
database is constantly cleaned of inaccurate information, and a new, expanded
database is published about every four months.
(2) The Joseph Bucklin Society site is
one of the two great publicly available sources of information about the capture
and burning of the Gaspee. The other rich
source for researchers of the Gaspee Affair is the
Gaspee Virtual Archives. The Gaspee Virtual Archive's primary focus is on
serving as a repository of information regarding the Gaspee Affair. Here,
at www.BucklinSociety.Net, and it's
subsection website at www.Gaspee.Info, we
focus on doing research, collecting and organizing the findings of both our
society and others, and publishing analysis and discussions of the history
of the Gaspee attack of 1772. So if you want discussion of the American
history surrounding the event, or want to know about the Gaspee event itself
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Push a button.
[References in
brackets] on any page in this website are to books, or other materials, listed
in the
Joseph Bucklin Society Library Catalog -- a primary resource
bibliography for scholarly study of the Gaspee.
