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From: "Jan Buker" <>
Subject: Re: [MAINE] Roster 1834 - Artillery Company, Brooksville,Capt. Eben P. Parker's Co.
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:26:51 -0700
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Hello Janice,

My husband is directly related to Fayette Buker. Is there any other information regarding the Buker's in this book?

Thank you kindly,
Jan Buker

> -----Original Message-----
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> To:
> Subject: [MAINE] Roster 1834 - Artillery Company, Brooksville,Capt. Eben P.
> Parker's Co.
>
> History of Castine, Penobscot & Brooksville, Maine by George Augustus Wheeler.
> p.162
> The organization of the Artillery Company was kept up for quite a number of
> years after
> the evacuation of the town by the British. This company mustered in
> Brooksville, Sept. 18,
> 1834, under the command of Captain Eben P. Parker, and the members were paid
> fifty cents
> each for their services on that day. The following is the roster of this
> company at that
> time:
>
> Captain Eben P. Parker
> Edward Lawrence
> William Jarvis
> William Averill
> Rufus P. Parker
> Otis Hatch
> Daniel Moore
> Stephen Witham
> John Blake, Jr.
> Robert C. Straw
> Darius Lawrence
> Ithiel Lawrence
> John Wilson
> David C. Wilson
> Jotham Gardner
> Otis Morey
> William F. Nelson
> Thomas A. Murch
> Reuben Turner
> James Turner
> John Bridges
> Miles Gardner
> Robert Stockbridge
> Isaac Stockbridge
> Benjamin Wilson
> Zimri Bryant
> Eldridge Bridges
> John B. Wilson
> James Foster
> Jonathan L. Moor
> Robert Moor.
>
> How long the organization of this company was kept up is uncertain; but the
> military spirit
> of the community
>
> p.163 BROOKSVILLE & PENOBSCOT.
>
> was preserved and fostered by the formation, about this time, of a company of
> Light Infantry
> by the name of the Hancock Guards.
>
> They constituted Company "D" of the First Regiment, First Brigade, Third
> Division of the
> State Militia. No account of this company is to be found prior to the year
> 1839, and the
> opinion of former members is that it was formed that year. On February 17th
> of this year,
> the State, fearing an invasion, on account of the difficulties with England,
> in regard to
> the settlement of the North-eastern Boundary question, ordered all the
> Militia to the North-
> eastern frontier. Twenty-one members of Company D went to Aroostook County
> and performed
> military duty for some two months - though they saw no enemy.
>
> This calling out of the State Militia is popularly known as the "Aroostook
> War," and has to
> this day, rather unfairly, we think, been the source of much amusement and
> raillery, at the
> expense of those who participated in it. It certainly require no small
> degree of courage,
> to brave the deep snows and excessive cold of an unbroken wilderness, in the
> most northern
> portion of the United States, for the express purpose of meeting, as they
> supposed, an
> armed foe. The men who could cheerfully do this, would, without doubt, have
> acquitted them-
> selves honorably in actual battle, had the occasion required. The expenses
> of this Company
> cost the town the sum of three hundred and ninety-six dollars and
> thirty-seven cents, which
> amount was, however, reimbursed by the State. The following bill and vouchers
> show to whom
> this money was paid and for what purposes:
>
> "Dr. THE STATE OF MAINE.
> TO THE TOWN OF CASTINE.
> Upon Requisition of 17th February, 1839.
>
> Feb. 17th, 1839. For amount of H. Rowell's bill $32.72
> Feb. 19th. For amount of Witherle & Jarvis's bill. 34.92
> Feb. 19th. For amount of Wm. Chamberlain's bill. 52.64
> Feb. 19th. For amount of Adams & Gay's bill. 35.60
> Feb. 19th. For amount of J. Hooper, Jr's. bill. .55
> The names of those members of Company D, who went to Aroostook, will be found
> in Part III.
>
> p.164 HISTORY OF CASTINE.
>
> Feb. 17th. For amount of Richard Hawes's bill. 4.00
> Feb. 21th. For amount of H.M. & J.J. Hyde's bill. 16.09
> Feb. 22d. For amount of Pond & Johnson's bill. 19.50
> Feb. 22d. For amount of Joseph Bryant's bill. 20.65
> Feb. 22d For amount of Joshua Norwood's bill. 24.00
> Feb. 23d. For amount of John A. Avery's bill. 15.38
> Feb. ___ For amount of Fayette Buker's bill. 20.02
> Mar. 11th. For amount of D. Montgomery's bill. 68.00
>
> Upon Requisition of 9th of March, 1839.
>
> March 13. For amount of Charles Rogers' bill, 19, 68. 363.75.
> March 13. For interest upon $363.75 to Feb. 13, 1840 - 11 mos. 20.00
> March 13. For commissions to Selectmen upon purchases, etc, .05 % 18.18
> ________
> $401.93
> Contra Cr.
> By amount of sales of camp utensils, etc., returned, 5.56
> _______
> $396.37.
> The undersigned, a majority of the Selectmen of the town of Castine, hereby
> certify that
> the expenditures charged in the foregoing account, were made for the purpose
> of furnishing
> a detachment of the Militia belonging to said town, which were ordered into
> actual service
> by the authority of the State, in February and March last, with
> transportation, supplies of
> provisions, camp equipage, and camp utensils, as provided by law; and that
> the account is
> just and true, according to our best knowledge and belief.
>
> C. J. Abbott
> Charles Rogers,
> Selectmen of Castine.
>
> >From the accompanying account, certificates and vouchers, it appears 'the
> number of men for
> which transportation was furnished was eighteen and with Captain Wing,
> nineteen. One man and
> a one-horse team to Milford from Castine, forty-seven miles; one man and a
> two-horse team
> to Houlton, from Castine, one hundred and sixty miles. The name of the
> Commanding Officer,
> late Captain - now Lieutenant Colonel Wing.
>
> p.165
> The number of men for which supplies were furnished was eighteen, and with
> Capt. Wing, nine-
> teen.
>
> Supplies commenced Feb. 21st, 1839 and those furnished were consumed mostly
> by the 10th of
> March. The camp utensils will be found in several vouchers - chiefly in the
> bills of H.
> Rowell, R. Hawes and Adams & Gay - and those returned in the memoranda of
> William Chamber-
> lain, auctioneer. Upon requistion of 9th, March, 1839, three soldiers,
> accompanied by Mr.
> Charles Rogers, one of the Selectmen, went to Bangor. Mr. Rogers paid for
> their board while
> there, in preference to purchasing rations, etc., and the charge appears in
> his bill.
>
> I hereby certify that the camp utensils, supplies, services, etc., charged in
> the several
> bills in the foregoing account, under Requisition of 17th February, 1839,
> were actually
> furnished for myself and eighteen men from said Castine, of the Hancock
> Guards under my
> command, and that Fayette Buker, with his one-horse team, and David
> Montgomery with his
> two horse team, attended said troops with said camp utensils, supplies, etc.,
> to wit:
> Fayette Buker from Castine to Milford, 47 miles; and David Montgomery from
> Castine to
> Houlton, one hundred and sixty miles, and that the certificate marked A,
> signed by William
> Chamberlain, contains a true list of the camp utensils returned.
> Chas. H. Wing, Captain of D. Co., L. Inft.,
> 1st Regiment, 1st Brig., 3d Division.
> Transcribed by Janice Farnsworthp
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