Rep. Daniel Buck (Fed-VT)

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of SERGEANT.
DAR Ancestor # A016435

US Congressman. Vermont House Speaker. Father of US Congressman Daniel Azro Ashley Buck. Served as soldier in Revolution, rising to rank of sergeant, fighting at White Plains, and losing an arm at Battle of Bennington.

Studied law, admitted to bar, commenced practice, 1783. Orange County prosecuting attorney, 1783-85. Clerk, Orange County Court, 1783-84. Moved to Norwich, Windsor County, 1785. Married Content Ashley of Windsor, September 22, 1786. Fathered eleven children. Delegate, state constitutional convention, 1791. Argued for maintaining Vermont as a Republic separate from the United States, but ultimately voted in favor of Vermont joining Union.

Buck (1753–1816)

native of Hebron, Conn., was a sergeant in a Massachusetts regiment, losing an arm at the Battle of Bennington (1777).
He moved to Thetford, Vt., became a lawyer, and from 1783 to 1785 was the
prosecuting attorney for Orange County and the clerk of the county court.

In 1785 Buck moved to Norwich in Windsor County. Between 1792 and 1803. Buck held such positions as member of the state council of censors, Norwich delegate to the state General Assembly, state attorney general, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and state attorney for Windsor County.

In a letter to the editor opposing Buck’s election as a U.S. representative, “All Our Folks” referred to Buck as a notorious “professed enemy to the constitution” (Vermont Journal, 28 June 1791).
This refers to a speech (or speeches) he made in Bennigton at the Convention of Jan. 1791, preserved here in <documents> . See <timeline>