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(VI) Jabez, son of Lieutenant Samuel Ful- ler, was born at Plymouth in 1660. He was a farmer at Middleborough and Barnstable. He married Mercy Hallett. Children, born at Barnstable: I. Samuel, February 23, 1687. 2. Jonathan, March 10, 1692, mentioned be- low. 3. Mercy, April 1, 1696, married, March 17, 1719-20. 4. Lois, born September 23, 1704, married, November 25, 1725, Thomas Foster. 5. Ebenezer, February 20, 1708, married Mar- tha Jones, January 1, 1729. 6. Mary. 7. Hannah.
(VII) Jonathan, son of Jabez Fuller, was born at Plymouth, March 10, 1692. He went with the family to Middleborough, where he was a farmer. He married (first) February 14, 1711-12, Eleanor Bennett, who died Sep- tember 28, 1721 ; (second) December 17, 1729, Hannah Harlow, of an old Plymouth family. Children, born at Middleborough, of first wife : I. Margaret, November 17, 1712. 2. Abigail, March II, 1714-15. 3. Jabez, mentioned be- low. 4. Jonathan Jr., July 13, 1719. 5. Tim- othy, January, 1721. 6. Molly, September II, 1725. Child of second wife: 7. Eleanor, Feb- ruary 23, 1730-31.
(VIII) Jabez (2), son of Jonathan Fuller, was born at Middleborough, July 17, 1717 .. He married Hannah Pratt. He was a farmer in his native town. Children, born in Middle- borough : Sarah, Peter, Lucy, Zenas, Betsey,
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John, Amos, Rev. Andrew, mentioned below. Hannah.
(IX) Rev. Andrew, son of Jabez (2) Ful- ler, was born in Middleborough, May 18, 1761. He enlisted in the revolutionary army when he was but sixteen, as stated in the records, and shown by the date, March 5, 1777, for three years. He was first assigned to Cap- tain Joseph Tupper's company of Middlebor- ough. He was in Captain Nehemiah Allen's company, Colonel Sprout's Fourth Plymouth Regiment, February 19, 1778; also in Captain Wadsworth's company, Colonel Gamaliel Brad- ford's regiment, enlisted for three years. He was at Valley Forge in Washington's army in the terrible winter of 1777-78. He was pro- moted sergeant when but seventeen years of age, in the same regiment, under Captain John Fuller, and afterward was sergeant of Captain Zebulon King's company, Lieutenant Colonel John Brook's regiment (the Seventh Ply- mouth ). He was court-martialed on the charge of disobeying orders and using inso- lent language, and was sentenced to be re- duced, but he must have been restored to his rank as sergeant almost immediately. He was certainly sergeant in 1781-82, in Captain King's company, Lieutenant John Brooks' reg- iment. He was court-martialed the second time for overstaying his furlough ten hours, but he proved his tardiness was due to lame- ness and unavoidable, and was acquitted. The records give his age in 1781-82 as twenty years, also as twenty-one; his height as six feet ; complexion dark (also given as brown) ; his occupation, farmer ; his birthplace and resi- dence, Middleborough. He was again court- martialed March 1, 1782, on the charge of overstaying his leave for three days, but was again acquitted. He was discharged June 13, 1783, his term of enlistment having expired, by General Washington himself, as stated in the Massachusetts archives. He was living in Warren (now Maine) in 1801, and was de- clared entitled according to the resolves of March-14, 1801, and June 19, 1801, to gratui- ties, etc., from the state. He had a record of long and hard service from the time he could enter the army until the close of the war. He removed, after the revolution, to Maine, and studied for the ministry in the Baptist denomi- nation. He was ordained an evangelist at Nobleborough, Maine, in 1788; was pastor on Muscongus Island until 1798; preached at Hope, Maine, from 1799 to 1803, when he was settled as pastor of the Baptist church at War- ren and continued in that pastorate the re- mainder of his life, a period of twenty years.
He was a sturdy Christian minister, suffer- ing cheerfully the hardships of a pioneer life, of sterling character and a vital influence for a generation in that section. He died January 21, 1820. He married Hannah Richards, of Bristol, Maine, who died March 13, 1845, at the advanced age of ninety-one years. Chil- dren : I. Captain William Oliver ; in command of the sloop "Peggy" he was captured by a privateer in the war of 1812 and died in the British prison at Halifax, Nova Scotia, No- vember 21, 1813; married Mary McIntyre. 2. Andrew, born 1787. 3. Sarah, 1788, mar- ried James Chaples. 4. Peter, mentioned be- low. 5. Priscilla, died young.
(X) Peter, son of Rev. Andrew Fuller, was born at Warren, Maine, April 30, 1791, died there March 20, 1866. He was a well-to-do farmer and influential citizen in his native town, where he filled the usual town offices, and for twenty-five years was sheriff of Lin- coln county. He married Phoebe Dunbar, in 18II. Children, born at Warren: I. Andrew, born March 26, 1812, died aged five days. 2. Belinda W., August 4, 1813, married, Octo- ber 25, 1846, Samuel Braley, died January 22, 1896. 3. William Oliver, February II, 1816, died October 14, 1908, mentioned be- low. 4. Daniel Dunbar, April 5, 1818, mar- ried Mary White, of Boston, died at Rock- land, November 6, 1876. 5. Andrew, May 3, 1820, married, 1841, Sarah Braley and, October 17, 1855, Elizabeth Gay, and died at Albany, New York. 6. Mary W., May 16, 1822, married Deacon Calvin Bick- ford. 7. Phoebe A., August 21, 1826, died young. 8. Eliza A. Barker (adopted), August 1, 1831.
(XI) William Oliver, son of Peter Fuller, was born in Warren, February 1I, 1816. He attended the public schools of his native town and after completing his education taught in schools in that vicinity. In 1836 he started in business as a storekeeper and manufacturer of lime and was in that business for a number of years there and in St. George. In 1844 he removed to East Thomaston (now Rockland), Maine, and laid the foundations of the dry goods business now carried on by the Fuller- Cobb Company, with which he was identified to the time of his death, October 14, 1908, at the advanced age of ninety-two years eight months. To the end his faculties remained and he took enjoyment in the progress of events. His life was well-ordered, and while not conspicuous, furnished an excellent ex- ample of the success that follows in the train of the old-fashioned New England attributes
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of honesty and thrift. The sermon preached at his funeral had for its theme, "Character," illustrated by references to the career and achievements of the deceased. He married, August 12, 1841, Bethiah C. Snow, of Thom- aston, Maine, born April 22, 1823, daughter of Robert Snow, of Thomaston. (See sketch of Snow family elsewhere.) She is a descend- ant of Stephen Hopkins, who came in the "Mayflower." Mrs. Fuller at eighty-six con- tinues in excellent health. Only a short time before Mr. Fuller's death the couple celebrated the sixty-seventh anniversary of their mar- riage. Children: 1. Adela Snow, born Au- gust II, 1842, married Cyrus C. Hills, of Boston, December 12, 1867, now resides in Rockland. 2. Martha Cobb, September 19, 1844, married John Reed, of Damariscotta, Maine, February 15, 1881. 3. Ambrose S., June 20, 1846, drowned at sea, September, 1861. 4. Mary, November 21, 1852, married Edward L. Veazie, October 20, 1880, resides in Rockland. 5. William Oliver Jr., Febru- ary 3, 1856, mentioned below. 6. Frank Washburn, August 24, 1860, married Harriet O. Watts; (second) Grace Cobb Andrews.
(XII) William Oliver, son of William Oli- ver Fuller, was born in Rockland, February 3, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of Rockland and at the Kent's Hill Seminary. A natural aptitude for writing led him into newspaper work. In 1874 he founded the Rockland Courier and conducted it success- fully for eight years, when, in 1882, it was consolidated with the Rockland Gazette, under the name of The Courier-Gazette. This print- ing and publishing business was incorporated in 1892 under the name of the Rockland Pub- lishing Company, of which he is treasurer and Arnold H. Jones is president. Mr. Fuller con- tintes editor and manager of the newspaper. He has a distinguishing sense of humor and is an entertaining editorial writer. The Courier-Gazette has been a wholesome in- fluence in the community. Mr. Fuller is known as a witty after-dinner speaker and public lecturer, and has some reputation as a writer of humorous books and newspaper sketches. He is a prominent Republican. From 1880 to 1885 he was city clerk of Rock- land, and represented the third ward in the common council, of which he was president in 1892. He was appointed to his present office of postmaster in Rockland by President Roose- velt in 1902. He is connected with Masonry as a member of Aurora Lodge, No. 50; of King Solomon Temple Chapter, No. 8, Royal Arch Masons; and of King Hiram Council,
No. 6, Royal and Select Masters. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society, of the Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the 12mo Club. He has traveled extensively, recently visiting the an- cient home of his Fuller ancestors in England. His home, "Pickwick Place," with its unique literary treasures, notably in Dickensiana, has been visited by many literary persons. He is a member of the Baptist church.
Mr. Fuller married (first) October 25, 1882, Elizabeth N. Jones, born July 4, 1861, died June 8, 1890, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Woodcock) Jones. He married (second) March 29, 1892, Kathleen M. Stephens, born January 30, 1869, daughter of Richard and Sophia Stephens, of Baldwin, Kansas (both native of Cornwall, England). Mrs. Fuller is descended from the famous Glanville family of England. Children of first wife: I. Doug- las Wardwell, born September 9, 1884, grad- uated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1906, promoted to ensign in 1908. 2. Donald Hills, August 4, 1886. 3. Elizabeth Jones, June 23, 1887. Child of sec- ond wife : 4. Richard Stearns, May 22, 1894.
(For preceding generations see John Fuller I.) (III) Edward Fuller, son of
FULLER Robert Fuller (2), was baptized September 4, 1575, at Reden- hall, county Norfolk, England; came in the "Mayflower" to Plymouth with the Pilgrims in 1620, with his famous brother, Dr. Samuel Fuller, and was one of the signers of the compact on board the ship before landing. He probably joined the "Mayflower" company at Southampton, England. Both he and his wife died early in 1621, leaving a son Samuel, men- tioned below.
(IV) Samuel, son of Edward Fuller, came in the "Mayflower" to New England with his parents, who died and left him an orphan. He went to live with his uncle, Dr. Samuel Ful- ler, who was the first physician in the country He had three shares in the division of land in 1624, out of respect to his father and mother. He was the executor of his uncle's will in 1633. He was admitted a freeman in 1634. He removed from Plymouth to Scituate, where he married, April 8, 1635, Jane Lothrop. daughter of Rev. John Lothrop. He joined the church at Scituate by letter from Ply- mouth, November 7, 1636, and built in the same year the fifteenth house in Scituate, on Greenfield street, the first lot abutting on Kent street. He owned twenty acres in the east part of Bell House Neck. He was a resi-
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dent of Barnstable as early as 1641, accord- ing to the church records. He was certainly an inhabitant there January 1, 1644, and his cousin Matthew came later. The town of Barnstable bought of the Secunke Indians land called Scorton or Sandy Neck, set off the arable land, and reserved the rest for common land, and afterward divided it. The Fuller cousins lived on this land. Samuel Fuller also bought a meadow of his cousin Matthew, which had previously been owned by Major John Freeman, and meadowland of Samuel House. He resided in the northwest angle of Barn- stable, in a secluded spot, where travellers sel- dom passed. He was seldom in public life. He was constable of Scituate in 1641, and sometimes juror. He was sometimes appointed to settle difficulties with the Indians. Unlike his cousin, he was retired and very pious. Mat- thew was a Puritan, but ambitious and ener- getic. Samuel Fuller died in Barnstable, Oc- tober 31, 1683, and was the only settler of that town who came over in the "Mayflower." In 1679 he was one of twelve survivors of that famous voyage. His will was dated Octo- ber 29, 1683. He married, April 8, 1635, Jane Lothrop. The ceremony took place at Mr. Cudworth's and was performed by Captain Miles Standish. Children, born at Scituate: I. Hannah, married, January 1, 1658-59, Nich- olas Bonhaur. 2. Samuel, baptized February II, 1637-38, mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth, married Taylor. 4. Sarah, baptized at Barnstable, August 1, 1641, died young. 5. Mary, baptized June 16, 1644, married, No- vember 18, 1674, Joseph Williams, son of John Williams, of Haverhill. 6. Thomas, born May 18, 1650, probably died young. 7. Sarah, born December 14, 1654, married Crow. 8. John, "Little" John to his son Matthew. 9. Child, born February 8, 1658, died aged fif- teen days.
(V) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Ful- ler, was baptized February II, 1637-38, at Scituate. He married Anna Fuller, daughter of his uncle, Captain Matthew Fuller. Her father was born in England, and came in the "Mayflower" to New England, but on the death of his parents returned to England; later he came back and applied for admission as a freeman September 7, 1642, qualifying June 7, 1653. Matthew Fuller was one of the leading men of the colony ; was first sergeant, then lieutenant in Captain Miles Standish's company. The company intended to march against the Dutch in New York, but peace be- tween England and Holland was concluded before they had started. Matthew Fuller was
a prominent Indian fighter and served in King Philip's war; he was deputy to the general court in 1653. The inventory of Samuel Ful- ler's estate was filed December 29, 1691, and his widow was not living at that time. The estate was settled by agreement December 30, 1691, all the heirs signing the agreement by mark. Children, born at Barnstable: I. Mat- thew, married, February 25, 1692-93, Patience Young. 2. Barnabas, mentioned below. 3 Joseph, married Thankful Blossom. 4. Ben- jamin. 5. Desire. 6. Sarah.
(VI) Barnabas, son of Samuel (2) Fuller, resided at Barnstable. He married, February 25, 1680-81, Elizabeth Young. Children, born at Barnstable: I. Samuel, November, 1681. 2. Isaac, August, 1684, mentioned below. 3. Hannah, September, 1688. 4. Ebenezer, mar- ried Martha Jones. 5. Josiah, married Ann Rowley.
(VII) Isaac, son of Barnabas Fuller, was born in August, 1684, in Barnstable, and re- sided there. He married, July 9, 1719, Jerusha Lovell. Children, born in Barnstable: I. Eli, April II, 1720, married, 1746, Mercy Rogers, of Harwich. 2. Mehitable, March 10, 1722- 23, married, October 30, 1740, Thomas Ames. 3. Jerusha, January 19, 1725-26, married John Green, of Falmouth. 4. Zaccheus, October 16, 1727, married, February 22, 1752, Sarah Jones. 5. Charity, December II, 1729, married, Au- gust 7, 1760, Silas Lovell. 6. Isaac, Septem- ber, 1731, married Susan Wadsworth. 7. Seth, May 29, 1734, mentioned below. 8. Han- nah, April 9, 1736.
(VIII) Seth, son of Isaac Fuller, was born in Barnstable, May 29, 1734. He was one of the brothers who came from Barnstable about the close of the revolution, of whom two set- tled in Kennebec county. Chief Justice Ful- ler is a descendant of one of them. Seth Ful- ler settled in Fairfield, Somerset county, Maine, and built one of the first frame houses in the town, and in his house was held the first town meeting. He was a leading citizen of the town. He married Children, born at Barnstable or at Fairfield, Maine: I. Benjamin, mentioned below. 2. Seth Jr. 3. Thankful, married Nathaniel Blackwell and theirs was the first marriage in Fairfield ; Mr. Blackwell was a representative to the gen- eral court of Massachusetts and for twelve years used to drive to Boston to attend the sessions of the legislature there. 4. Abigail. 5. Mercy. 6. Hannah.
(IX) Benjamin, son of Seth Fuller, was born in Fairfield, Maine, about 1775-80. He was educated in Fairfield and followed farm-
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ing there all his active life. He married De- liverance Jones, daughter of Ephraim and Pa- tience Jones, who came also from Barnstable, descended from one of the oldest and best known families of that town. Benjamin Ful- ler died in 1815 in Fairfield and his wife sev- eral years later. Children, born in Fairfield : I. Edward, 1804. 2. John Jones, July 22, 1806, mentioned below. 3. Abigail Nye, mar- ried Franklin Blackwell, of Winslow, Maine. 4. Warren, who was a farmer at Fairfield.
(X) John Jones, son of Benjamin Fuller, was born in Fairfield, July 22, 1806. He was reared on his father's farm and received a rather meagre schooling, but through his own efforts became well educated, acquiring a broad knowledge of the world and of literature. His father died when he was only nine years old, and from that time he did his share of the toil and drudgery on the farm. When he was twenty years old he engaged in trading in farm produce, finding a market in Bangor. Later he engaged in the hotel business and was for a time proprietor of the old Fairfield House, and in partnership with Colonel Eben Lawrence, under the firm name of Lawrence, Pratt & Company, general merchants. After many years of prosperous business in Fair- field he removed, in 1842, to Augusta, where he opened a retail grocery store with con- tinued success, and continued a popular and prosperous merchant during his active life. In 1864 he disposed of the business to his son, James E., and retired. He was associated in the lumber business for a number of years with his father-in-law, James Rogers. In poli- tics he was a Democrat ; in religion a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died in 1886. He married, December 24, 1840, Deborah Rogers, born in Peru, Clinton county, New York, September 8, 1815, daughter of James Jr. and Sarah (Keese) Rogers, and granddaughter of James Rogers, who went from Marshfield, Massachusetts, to New York, descendant of John Rogers, the Pilgrim an- cestor. Children : I. Abbie, born November 10, 1841, married Rev. Perry Chandler, now a resident of Oregon; children : Perry F. and Webster A. Chandler. 2. James Edward, born December 17, 1844, mentioned below. 3. John Martin, born December II, 1846, died aged eighteen years. 5. Samuel Rogers, born 1853, engaged for some years in the book business in Augusta, Maine; now living in the south; married Frances Chick ; children : Harry, Em- ma (twin), Grace (twin), Thaddeus C., James E.
(XI) James Edward, son of John Jones Ful-
ler, was born December 17, 1844, at Augusta, Maine. Ile was educated in the common schools of Augusta, and then entered upon his business career as clerk in his father's store. In 1864 he succeeded his father as proprietor of the grocery store and he conducted it suc- cessfully to 1902, when he devoted his atten- tion exclusively to the wholesale business in partnership with his son John. At first the firm name was the Fuller Wholesale Grocery and Grain Company, later the Fuller, Halloway Grocery Company, and a very large and flour- ishing business has been established. Mr. Ful- ler stands high in the business world and has the respect and confidence of all who know him. Few business men in Augusta have been in business there for a longer time, thirty- eight years, and few are better known or more enterprising and successful. Mr. 'Fuller is a Democrat in politics and has served his party and city in various positions of trust and hon- or. He was city treasurer in 1903 and has been a member of the common council. He is an active and consistent member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church and has been chairman of its board of trustees for a number of years.
He married, March 21, 1867, Emily How- ard, born in Sidney, Maine, daughter of Col- umbus and Lucy ( Hammond) Howard, grand- daughter of Major Ruel Howard, who was a native of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. (See sketch of the Howard family herewith.) Chil- dren of James Edward and Emily Fuller: I. Florence, born July 21, 1868, married, April 27, 1895, Thomas C. Ingraham; children : James Fuller, Deborah, Horace and Howard Ingraham. 2. John H., born December 10, 1869, member of father's firm; married Fran- ces Elliott, of Elmira, New York. 3. Edith M., born January 18, 1879, married Henry T. Elmore, of Elmira, New York. 4. James Mar- tin, born July 26, 1882, died May 15, 1905.
FULLER Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, traces his descent in unbroken line from two of the most important families of the Plymouth Colony, and numbers among his forbears lawyers and jurists of marked ability. (The ancestry down to Matthew (VI) is contained in previous pages.)
(VI) Matthew, son of Samuel and Ann (Fuller) Fuller, was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in 1659, and died in Colches- ter, Connecticut, before 1744. He settled in Colchester in 1713, and was baptized at the First Church there December 12, 1734. He married, February 25, 1692, Patience Young,
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born about 1670, died June 2, 1746, daugliter of George and Hannah ( Pinson) Young, of Scituate. Children : I. Anna, born November, 1693. 2. Jonathan, born October, 1696. 3. Content, born February, 1698. 4. Jean, born 1704, died 1708. 5. David, born 1706, died young. 6. Young, born 1708 ( see post). 7. Cornelius, born 1710. 8. Hannah, born 1712.
(VII) Young, son of Matthew and Patience (Young) Fuller, was born in Barnstable, Mas- sachusetts, in 1708. He was about five years old when his parents removed to that part of Windsor, Connecticut, which now is Elling- ton, and after 1767 he made his home with the family of his son Joshua, in Ludlow, where he died in 1796. The house in which his corpse was laid took fire, his body being re- moved to a neighbor's. He married, April 23, 1730, Jerusha, daughter of Jonathan and Bridget ( Brockway) Beebe, of East Haddam, Connecticut. Children : 1. John, born Sep- tember 9, 1731. 2. David, born 1733. 3. Ca- leb, born 1735. 4. Jerusha, born July 30, 1737. 5. Lydia, baptized December 13, 174I. 6. Anne, baptized March 15, 1747.
(VIII) Caleb, son of Young and Jerusha (Beebe) Fuller, was born in Colchester, Con- necticut, in 1735. He removed to Ellington in 1747. He graduated from Yale College in 1758, and received the degree of A. M. in 1762. He is called Deacon in some records, and Reverend in others. He married, Octo- ber 28. 1762, Hannah Weld, daughter of Rev. Habijah Weld, the famous minister who preached at Attleboro, Massachusetts, for fifty-five years. Rev. Habijah Weld was son of Rev. Thomas Weld, the first minister of Dunstable, and great-grandson of Rev. Thom- as Weld, the first minister of Roxbury, Mas- sachusetts. Caleb Fuller removed in 1771 to Middletown, Connecticut, and in 1790 to Han- over, New Hampshire, where he died August 20, 1815.
(IX) Captain Henry Weld Fuller, son of Caleb and Hannah (Weld) Fuller, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, January 1, 1783, and died January 29, 1841. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801, studied for the legal profession, and in 1803 settled for practice in Augusta, Maine. He was county attorney in 1826, and judge of probate for Kennebec county from 1828 until the time of his death (very suddenly) in Boston, January 29, 1841. He married, January 7, 1806, Esther Gould, daughter of Captain Benjamin Gould, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Captain Gould led a company of thirty minute-men from Topsfield to Lexington, on the alarm of
April 19, 1775, and in that battle received a wound which left upon his cheek a scar for life; he was commissioned captain in the Con- tinental army, and after the battle of Bunker Hill was the last man to cross Charlestown Neck on the retreat; and he was present at the battles of White Plains, Bennington and Stillwater, and commanded the main guard at West Point, when Arnold fled after the cap- ture of Major Andre. Among Captain Gould's children was Benjamin Aphthorp, a distin- guished educator, who was head master of the Boston Latin School (1814-28) and made it the most famous preparatory school in the United States, and was author of Latin text- books and classic translations from that lan- guage. A daughter of Captain Gould, Han- nah Flagg Gould, was a poetess of note in her day. Her volume, "Hymns and Poems for Children," is yet prized in many homes.
(X) Frederick Augustus, son of Captain Henry Weld and Esther (Gould) Fuller, was born October 5, 1806. He read law under his father, was admited to the bar, and prac- ticed at Augusta and Orono, Maine. He was chairman of the board of county commissioners of Penobscot county. He died January 29, 1841. He married, May 17, 1830, Catherine Martin, daughter of Nathan and Pauline (Bass) Cony. Her father was the second Chief Justice of Maine, and her maternal grandfather, Daniel Cony, was also a jurist of note.
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