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Mathias Buckey

Male Bef 1759 - 1805  (> 46 years)


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  • Name Mathias Buckey 
    Born Bef 1759  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Dec 1805  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2771  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Christina Römer,   b. 18 Jul 1752, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Nov 1808, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married 23 Apr 1780  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F751  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. FHL book 975.2 D2se v.1 "Monocacy and Catoctin. Some Early Settlers of Frederick and Carroll Counties, MD and Adams County, PA also Descendants 1725-1985," vol. 1, by C.E. Schildknecht, pp. 383-84, has a good article about Mathias Buckey/Bocke and his brother Peter. Mathias is the father of our Mathias Buckey and seven other children. The pertinent part of the quote:
      "Mathias and brother Peter are the earliest Buckey names recorded in Frederick Co. In the Frederick Reformed Church records the name is given in French forms such as Buquet and Bouquet, while the Lutherans used German forms such as Bucke, Bucki, and Bocke. Mathias signed in German scirpt Bucki to deeds in the Frederick Courthouse. The name Bouquet is abundant also in Switzerland...
      Mathias Buckey, April 17, 1728 - Oct. 5, 1794, m. Mary Hoffman, Nov. 23, 1737 - Jan. 15, 1800; from Minfeld, S. Pfalz to Frederick area. [Children:]
      (2) Mathias, Jr., m. 1780 widow Christena (Roemer) Grosch, 1752-1808, (dau/o Michael); she had 2 sons by first marriage who died in Rev. War; Mathias, Jr. and Christena had sons Michael and Jacob."
      [Note the statement about two sons who died in the Rev. War is probably erroneous since the records show only two daughters born of the first marriage: Maria Sophia and Charlotta Amalia.]

      2. Website http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/014300/014384/html/14384bio.html accessed 22 Feb 2015, Maryland State Archives, Biographical Series:
      2nd Lt. Michael Grosh (also Grosch) (c.1750 - October 4, 1777)
      MSA SC 3520-14384
      Soldier, Revolutionary War
      Biography:
      Born: September 11, 1749
      Died: On or about October 4, 1777 at the Battle of Germantown
      Father: John Conrad Grosh (born in Germany by 1720, died in Frederick in 1794)
      Mother: Maria Sophia Gutenburg (born in Germany, died in Frederick)
      Siblings:
      Mary Dorothea (born in 1739 in Mayence, Germany); married William Beatty
      Peter Grosh (born in Mayence, Germany probably before 1745, died in Frederick); married Mary Charlton daughter of Arthur and Eleanor Charlton;
      Catherine Kimball (born in Mayence, Germany September 10, 1745 - May 18, 1831); ran a tavern from 1797 - 1828 (renamed the the City Hotel after 1828)
      Anna Barbara Williams (born April 28, 1752 in Frederick); married by 1786 to Elie Williams (1750-1822). Elie was clerk of the Washington County Court from 1795-1796 and possibly presided on the Orphans Court by 1800.
      Adam (born June 28, 1754 in Frederick - died c.1782)
      Marriage: Married c.1770 to Christiana Roemer (later Buckey) (July 18, 1752 - November 10, 1808) of Frederick, daughter of Michael and Charlotta Amalia Roemer.
      Children:
      Maria Sophia Kolb (September 15, 1772 - May 12, 1819), married Michael Kolb (? - December 22, 1826) in 1796, had daughter Sophia and son Roemer (and probably Daniel, David Brosch, and Frederick)
      Charlotte Ramsberg (married Jacob Ramsberg, Jr. after April 16, 1796)
      Nieces:
      Daughters of Peter Grosh:
      Eleanor who married Thomas Hart on or about April 14, 1795, and lived in Kentucky by 1797. Portrait of Eleanor from Kentucky Antebellum Portraiture (1956, in collection of Mrs. William P. Bohan (Nell Talbot Arnold of Loiusville).
      Sophia, married Rev. Edwin Porter Clay in Kentucky c.1800 - Henry Clay's (the statesman) brother.
      Catherine, who also lived in Kentucky by 1797, probably with her sister Eleanor.
      Mary
      Sophia born March 6, 1777, daughter of Barbara and Elie Williams
      Nephews:
      Johann Michael born March 31, 1779 and Eli born January 17, 1776, sons of Mary and William Beatty
      John son of Peter Grosh
      Military Service: 2nd Lt. Michael Grosh enlisted in the Continental Army by November 29, 1775 when he first appears with Captain Haass' Company of the 1st Battalion. Also served with Colonel Baker Johnson's 4th Battalion.
      Biographical Notes:
      Michael Grosh was the first American-born child to John Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence, Germany. In 1777, he became the first in the family to die in America.
      Michael Grosh, his two brothers Peter and Adam, and father Conrad, were early supporters of the patriot movement. Both Peter and Conrad gave money in support of the local militia. By September 1775, all three brothers joined the Frederick Militia, while Conrad served on the Committee of Observation for the Middle District of Frederick County. By the end of 1775, all appeared in the Journal of the Committee of Observation of the Middle District of Frederick as Assoicators to the Oath of Fidelity.
      A definitive enlistment date for Michael Grosh has not been determined, but by November 29, 1775, he was serving as a 2nd lieutenant in Captain John Haas's Company. Before the war on March 3, 1772, Michael and wife Christiana sponsored the baptism of Johann Haas' son, Johannes. Kinship ties ran deep in the local militia. Though Michael never served alongside a member of his immediate family, he knew many of the men in his company from the Frederick Evangelical Lutheran and Monocacy Lutheran Congregations, and from friendships and a business associates in Frederick. Later in his military career, he served under his sister's brother-in-law Charles Beatty and Frederick resident Baker Johnson, brother of Maryland's first governor Thomas Johnson. After he was killed at the Battle of Germantown, Lt. Christian Weaver notified the family of Michael's death with a signed certificate from his command. Lt. Weaver began his career in Capt. Charles Beatty's Company of the Frederick County Militia.
      In more peaceful times, Michael Grosh was probably a shoemaker as his inventory lists large quantities and varieties of sole and upper leather. Grosh's inventory lists many hides, tools, and stores of leather. Bernard Steiner's Western Maryland in the Revolution quotes British officer J.D.F. Smyth's description of the Frederick Committee of Observation. Smyth, a tory, states that after he was taken prisoner, he was "dragged before a committee consisting of a tailor, a leather breeches maker, a shoemaker, … the majority were Germans."
      When 2nd Lt. Michael Grosh died intestate at the Battle Germantown, he left behind his wife, Christiana, and two young children, Sophia and Charlotte. The young couple's extended families came to their aid until Christiana remarried; and even after that Michael's father, Conrad, made certain Sophia and Charlotte received their due inheritance.
      In a case heard before the Frederick County Orphans Court on August 12, 1778, Peter Grosh applied for a pension on behalf of Christiana Grosh stating that Lt. Christian Weaver notified the family of Michael's death with a signed certificate. John Beatty and Peter Mantz testified via certificate that the widow lived in Frederick and had two small children.
      Christiana was granted a £5 per month pension for the period of Oct. 18, 1777 - Oct. 18 1778. Several years later on June 8, 1783, Michael Roemer (sic.?) re-applied on behalf of the Grosh children and received £300 for their support for the period Oct. 18, 1778 - Oct. 15, 1783. Michael Roemer was either Christiana's father or brother. Christiana married Mathias Buckey on or about April 22, 1780, and had two more children, Michael and Jacob Buckey. Michael's final legacy to his children likely came with his father's death c. 1790. John Conrad Grosh provided for his son's children in his will dated November 4, 1786."

      3. The book "History of Carrollton Manor, Frederick County, Maryland," by William Jarboe Grove, Lime Kiln, Maryland, 1928, copy in Frederick Historical Society, Frederick, Maryland, p. 383, provides significant information about Michael Römer (with variant spellings of Raymer, Romer Remer, and Reymer) by giving us his will, the name of an additional wife, some of his deeds, his civic and military service, his immigration, some of the spouses of his children, and three of his grandchildren. Michael's obituary reports he had six daughters and two sons of which both sons, three daughters, and their mother had preceded him in death; however, the will only provides us with the names of four daughters -- one of whom, Maria Barbara, had predeceased him. He does not mention the other names of his deceased children nor their children even though his obituary says he had 37 grandchildren. Additionally he makes no reference to a second wife, Catherine Kemp, who may have also predeceased him. The quote:
      "44 - Michael Raymer who loaned $1,630 was on the committee of observation and attended a meeting held at the court house Jan. 24th, 1775 and was active in the cause of independence, born 1715 died Nov. 25th, 1800, aged 85 years, 2 months, is buried in the Lutheran graveyard. His will was made Sep. 11, 1794. Signed Michael Romer. He divided his estate real and personal in four parts to his daughters, Magdalona, wife of Henry Foutz, Elizabeth, wife of James Beatty, Christona, wife of Mathias Buckey and to the children of his deceased daughter, Barbara Hass, namely, Michael Hass, Christiana, wife of George Buckey and Frederick Hass, the remaining fourth part of my estate real and personal. Tradition says Michael Raymer married Catherine Kemp, who landed in Philadelphia with her father, Conrad Kemp August 17th, 1733 and is of the well known Kemp family of the County. In connection with Michael Remer (1715-1800), in a list of foreigners 252 Palatines imported in the ship "Winter Gallery" and qualified Sep. 5, 1738 at Philadelphia there appears the name John Michael Romer (also Remer) aged 23, which age corresponds with the year of birth 1715. 'The Meadow' first granted by Lord Baltimore to John Van Meter and subsequently resurveyed Nov. 2nd, 1755, was patented June 9th, 1756 to Michael Raymer, over which he had a dispute with Daniel Dulaney who laid out Frederick in 1745 and owned Locust Level containing 3,800 acres and Taskers Chance containing 7,700 acres both of these tracts adjoined 'The Meadows.' Dulaney was a Tory, and his land was confiscated, after some litigation the title to the land was awarded to Mr. Raymer. Michael Raymer was very active during the Revolutionary period, and held a commisision in the Patriot army. Mr. Raymer deeded this land to Richard Potts in 1792. Mr. Reymer gave the land for the Lutheran Church at Church Hill north of Frederick."