Jonathan Buck (Bucksport)

He is the founder of the town of Bucksport, having settled what was known as Plantation 1, building the first sawmill and opening the first general store.

There is a monument to Col. Buck erected in the Bucksport Cemetery in 1870 which bears a stain roughly in the shape of a woman's lower leg.

Notably, executions for alleged witchcraft are not known from Maine, and those that took place elsewhere in New England pre-dated Buck's birth and were not carried out by burning.

[2][3] Jonathan Buck left Haverhill when his request to build a shipyard on the Merrimack River was denied and instead he was offered privileges on a tributary on another side of his land.

[1] In 1775 Buck was appointed by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress as Colonel in the 5th Regiment of the District of Maine Militia in Lincoln County and placed in charge of Fort Pownall located at the mouth of the Penobscot River.