Reverend Richard Buck
1582 - 1624 (42 years)-
Name Richard Buck Title Reverend Birth 1582 Norfolkshire, England 
Gender Male Special Jamestown FSID LHRM-7Q8 Death 1624 Virginia, United States Burial Virginia, United States - Jamestown Fort James Cemetery
Person ID I26072 footsteps Last Modified 28 Apr 2025
Father Edmund Bucke, b. 1540, Swaffham, Norfolk, England d. 1588, Swaffham, Norfolk, England (Age 48 years) Mother Elizabeth Palfriman, b. 1542, Swaffham, Norfolk, England d. 1585, Swaffham, Norfolk, England (Age 43 years) Marriage 5 Apr 1562 Norfolkshire, England Family ID F14461 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Browne, b. 1583, England, United Kingdom d. 1623, Virginia, United States (Age 40 years) Marriage 7 Jul 1607 Children + 1. Elizabeth Buck, b. 1600, Lancastershire, England d. 1660, New Kent County, Virginia, United States (Age 60 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F14479 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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Notes - Richard Buck was born in the county of Norfolk, north-east of London, in 1582. He graduated from Oxford University and became a minister in the Anglican Church. He married and had two babies when he was recruited by the Virginia Company after the Jamestown colony's first pastor died in the colony's first winter of 1608. Reverend Buck, his wife and two baby daughters, sailed for Jamestown in 1609 with the colony's new governor, Sir Thomas Gates aboard the Sea Venture. The Sea Venture was wrecked in a storm at Bermuda and the passengers and crew did not arrive at Jamestown until May 23, 1610, nine months after the other ships of the Third Supply mission. When Gates and the other colonists from the Sea Venture arrived at Jamestown, they found only 60 of the 500 colonists alive after the harsh winter of 1609-1610 later known as the "Starving Time."
Rev. Buck soon won the respect and trust of his Virginia flock and settled into his religious duties that included leading prayers twice a day and preaching on Thursday and Sunday. He also officiated at religious and public events, including opening the first session of the Virginia General Assembly, made up of the House of Burgesses and the Virginia Governor's Council. This assembly met in the church at Jamestown on July 30, 1619, as the first elected assembly and law making body in colonial America. Rev. Buck also presided over the wedding of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. He was a minister to the needs of the inhabitants of Jamestown from 1610 to 1624.
Rev. Buck was an ancient planter. On a landowners list sent to England in 1625, he was given credit for 750 acres, planted, by patent, in the Corporaton of james City.
Like so many of the early Virginia colonists, Rev. Buck fell ill and died in 1624 in Jamestown.
- Richard Buck was born in the county of Norfolk, north-east of London, in 1582. He graduated from Oxford University and became a minister in the Anglican Church. He married and had two babies when he was recruited by the Virginia Company after the Jamestown colony's first pastor died in the colony's first winter of 1608. Reverend Buck, his wife and two baby daughters, sailed for Jamestown in 1609 with the colony's new governor, Sir Thomas Gates aboard the Sea Venture. The Sea Venture was wrecked in a storm at Bermuda and the passengers and crew did not arrive at Jamestown until May 23, 1610, nine months after the other ships of the Third Supply mission. When Gates and the other colonists from the Sea Venture arrived at Jamestown, they found only 60 of the 500 colonists alive after the harsh winter of 1609-1610 later known as the "Starving Time."