The Reverend Richard Buck, a close friend of William Shakespeare, sealed the peace between Jamestown colonists and local Algonquians in 1614 by marrying planter John Rolfe and Pocahontas, the daughter of the Powhatan Mamanatowick, or supreme chief. Buck acquired 750 acres of land in the Neck-of-Land area on January 20, 1619. He and his wife had perished by 1624 and were survived by six of their children-- Elizabeth, Bridget, Mara, Gercian, Benoni, and Peleg. Several of the Buck kids were born with disorders and the children's estate was the focus of frequent battles between custodians who tried to acquire sizable portions of Buck land legally and otherwise. Historical court records detailed the disputes of Neck-of-Land's inhabitants, providing elaborate descriptions of mismanaged inheritance, land squabbles, diseased cattle, kidnappings, and murder. During the approximate 20-year occupation at 44JC568, the land passed from Richard Buck's son-in-law Sergeant Thomas Crump to the Reverend's eldest son Gercian to his youngest son Peleg, and finally to his eldest daughter Elizabeth.