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EDWARD FULLER AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

BY HOMER W. BRAINARD, HARTFORD, Conn.

(Continued from Vol. XXXIII., p. 235 of the RECORD.)

EDWARD FULLER (John', Samuel, Edward), b. about 1691, probably in Barnstable; d. Jan. 7, 1731, in Colchester, Conn.; in. July 21, 1715, Elizabeth, dau. of Shubael and Catherine (Crippen) Rowley of Colchester; b. about 1694 in Barnstable or Falmouth, Mass.; grand-dau. of Moses and Elizabeth' (Fuller) Rowley of Barnstable and Falmouth; she m. (2) Dec. 10, 1739, Jonathan Kilbourn of Colchester. The probate records at Hartford show that she was Edward's second wife, but I have been unable to discover the name of the first. Shubael Rowley d. in 1714, and Edward Fuller received his estate (or a part) in return for supporting the widow Catherine Rowley.

Edward Fuller removed from East Haddam to Colchester in 1719. He was not prosperous; met with pecuniary losses and left an insolvent estate, the personal property appearing in the inventory at The births of his children are recorded in Colchester; their baptisms at East Haddam. Children:

£54-10-6.

the

i. * Elizabeth, b. about 1713-14; m. Dec. 3, 1735, Job Ackley, b. March 14, 1702; son of Thomas and Hannah Ackley of East Haddam. Children: (1) Ann, b. May 20, 1737; (2) Stephen, b. Sept. 9, 1739; (3) Thomas, b. June 6, 1747; (4) Phœbe, b. July 17, 1742; (5) Ezra, b. March 31, 1744; (6) Hannah, b. April, 1746; (7) Job, bap. July 17, 1748; (8) Elizabeth, bap. July 22, 1750; (9) Edward, bap. July 22, 1753, at Westchester church.

ii. Ann, b. May 28, 1716; m. Dec. 31, 1733, Lewis Love-
ridge of Colchester. Children: (1) Edward, b. 1734;
(2) John, b. 1736; (3) Eunice, b. 1740; (4) Anne, b.
1743; (5) Abner, b. 1745; (6) David, b. 1748; she
d. before March 24, 1757, probably in 1756.

iii. Abigail, b. April 3, 1718.
iv. Sarah, b. July 8, 1719.

v. Silence, b. May 22, 1721; m. Dec. 22, 1748, Joseph
Selden of Haddam. Children: (1) Silence, b. Aug.
14, 1749; m. Jonathan Huntington; (2) Joseph, b.

• The will of Lieut. James Bates, Sr., of Haddam, (east side) dated Dec. 4. 1729, is found in Hartford Probate Records. In it he names his grand-daughter, Elizabeth Fuller, who is to receive but £20 from his estate "since her mother in her life time had sundry things out of my estate." The distribution, Nov. 15, 1732, shows that Ellzabeth Fuller received three acres of swamp east of Salmon River, one black pied heifer, one ox, three sheets, as her portion of £20. From the above it is fair to infer that Edward Fuller's (No 20) first wite was a daughter of James and Mary (Lord) Bates, and that her only daughter, Elizabeth Fuller, was born in 1714 or 1715, and after the death of her mother lived with her grandfather, James Bates.

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Oct. 10, 1750; resided in Hartford, Conn. Had 8
children. (3) Cephas, b. Oct. 19, 1756; m. Martha
dau. of Elisha Brainard. Resided Hartland, Conn.
(4) Edward, b. July 22, 1759; m. Sybil May of Had-
dam; had a large family. Mrs. Silence Selden d.
(See Huntington Gen. pp. 185-6).

vi. Phœbe, b. April 18, 1723; m. Jan. 17, 1744, Samuel
Church. Children: Samuel, b. 1745; Lydia, b. 1746;
Ann, b. 1747; Hannah, b. 1749; Phœbe, b, 1752;
John, b. 1754; Edward, b, 1756; David, b. 1760.

vii. Eunice, b. May 12, 1726.

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viii. David, b. June 26, 1727-8; m. 1747 Sarah--; b. -, d.; m. (2) Dec. 16, 1756 Lucy (Fuller) Williams, dau. of Samuel and Patience Fuller, and widow of Isaac Williams of Colchester; b. 1727, d. June 14, 1757, aged 30 years. Children: (1) Abigail, bap. Sept. 11, 1748; (2) Sarah, bap. April 2, 1749, at Westchester church. Probably other children. I have not been able to discover when or where he died.

ix. Edward, b. May 11, 1730. He may perhaps be the Edward Fuller who was Corporal June 10, 1755, in Capt. Dimock's Company, of which Christopher Holmes of East Haddam was lieutenant, in the service of the Province of New York.

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JOHN FULLER (John, Samuel, Edward'), b. Nov. 10, 1697, in East Haddam; d. there in the winter of 1757-8; his will probated March 6, 1758; m. May 10, 1721, Mrs. Mary Rowley, widow of Thomas Rowley of East Haddam; b. Nov. 21, 1694; d. dau. of William and Esther (Ward) Cornwall, of East Middletown (now Portland), Conn. John Fuller and wife Mary joined church at East Haddam July 11, 1731. The son Andrew is not mentioned in the will.

Children born in East Haddam.

i. Mary, b. Feb. 19, 1721-2; m. Nov. 1,1750 Joseph Smith of Colchester and East Haddam, son of John and Elizabeth (Kinard) Smith of East Haddam; date of her death I have not found. Children: Mary, b. Aug. 26, 1751; Anna, b. July 5, 1753; m. John Brainerd, son of Joshua and Mehitable (Church) Brainerd; lived in East Haddam; Rachel, b. Dec. 26, 1755; m. David Brainerd, brother of John Brainerd just named; went to West Steventown, N. Y.; John, b. Dec. 19, 1757; Reliance, b. April 7, 1760; m. Jehiel Fuller of East Haddam and Vernon, Conn.; Lydia, b. June 18, 1762; Joseph, b. Dec. 19, 1765.

ii. Esther, b. July 6, 1724; m. abont 1744, Stephen Gates of Chatham, (East Hampton Society), son of Samuel and Esther Gates of East Haddam, b. June 30, 1723; d. Feb. 27, 1784. She d. Nov. 18, 1796, at 73. Children: Stephen, d. unmarried, a Revolutionary

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soldier; Hannah; Esther, b. Aug. 23, 1750; Dimmis,
b. Nov. 23, 1752; Olive; Mary; Darius, b. Aug. 1768;
Jonah, b. Sept. 30, 1769.

iii. John, b. Jan. 29, 1727; m. Susannah-
iv. William b. June 16, 1729; m. Rebecca Spencer.

v. Mehitabel, b. Jan. 3, 1731-2; m. April 29, 1756 at East
Haddam, Israel Champion. She d. 1793. Children:
Ichabod, b. Nov. 23, 1757; Reuben, b. March 31,
1759; Mehitabel, b. Dec. 24, 1760; Anna, b. March
4, 1763; Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1764; Andrew, b. Sept.
5, 1766; Martha; Judah; Martha, b. April 17, 1773;
Noadiah.

vi. Andrew, b. Aug. 11, 1734, (m.)

vii. Sarah, b. June 14, 1737; m Timothy Chapman, Jan. 26, 1764; he was son of Caleb Chapman of East Haddam, b. Oct. 3, 1736. She d. Sept. 18, 1787. Children: Timothy, b. Nov. 13, 1765; Warren, b. July 7, 1767; Russell, b. Oct. 9, 1769; Sarah, b. Oct. 19, 1771; Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1773; Statira, b. Feb. 2, 1776; Russell, b. April 16, 1778; Ansel, b. April 18, 1781; Horace, b. April 17, 1788.

JOSEPH FULLER (John', Samuel, Edward'), b. March 1, 1699-1700, at East Haddam; d. at Kent, Conn., July 19, 1775; m. (1) Dec. 22, 1722, Lydia Day, b. April 11, 1698, at Hartford, Conn.; d. Nov. 2, 1763, at Kent; dau. of John, Jr. and Grace (Spencer) Day, (her parents removed from Hartford to Colchester); m. (2) Jan. 8, 1766, at Kent, Mrs. Zerviah Noble. Joseph Fuller resided in Colchester until 1740, and his older children were probably born in that town. In 1740 he removed to Kent, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was one of the founders of the church at Kent, April 29, 1741; his wife joined by letter May 10, 1741. He was a deacon in the church, and next to the minister the foremost man of the town. He owned extensive tracts of land in Kent.

Deacon Joseph Fuller and his wife Lydia were buried at North Kent. The inscriptions on their monuments read as follows:

year of her age."

A deed, (Colchester land records, Vol. x. p. 11), dated Jan. 3, 1777, speaks of the heirs of Lieut. David Day of Colchester, deceased, being brothers and sisters living chiefly in Kent, in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, who sell land set out by distribution from the estate of said David Day, and is signed by Jeremiah Fuller, Joseph Fuller, Zachariah Fuller, Abraham Fuller, Jacob Fuller, Samuel Bates and Rachel his wife, Asa Parish and Mindwell his wife, and Lydia Hatch.

The East Haddam Probate records, Vol. vii. p. 431, (preserved at Colchester) mention the heirs of Lieut. David Day, among whom are "the heirs of Lydia Fuller." These, with the inscriptions, prove convincingly that Lydia Day was the mother of Joseph Fuller's children.

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Children born in Colchester, or East Haddam.
i. Joseph, b. 1723; m. Aug. 10, 1752 Zerviah Hill.
ii. Rachel, b. 1724; m. July 16, 1741 Samuel Bates of
Kent. Children: Barnabas, bap. b. May 9, 1742;
Lydia, bap. July 8, 1744; Margaret, b. May 24, 1747;
Joseph, b.. March 27, 1748; m. Deliverance Skiff;
Rachel, b. April 27, 1750; Rhoda, b. Sept. 24, 1752;
d. Jan. 11, 1768; Samuel, b. Sept. 1, 1754; m. Deb-
orah Bliss March 25, 1784; Thomas, b. Sept. 23,
1758; Adah, b. May 24, 1761; Jeremiah, b. Feb. 16,
1763; d. March 6. 1785.

iii. Zachariah, b. 1725; m. Abigail Hubbel.
iv. Grace, b. 1726; m. Dec. 23, 1745 John Cahoon. Chil-
dren born in Kent were: Elizabeth, bap. Aug. 7,
1748; m. Richard Lane of New Milford, Conn.;
Lydia, bap. Aug. 7, 1748; d. before 1776; Ruth, bap.
Dec. 23, 1751; m. Matthias Spencer, and settled in
Spencertown, N. Y.; Abigail, bap. Nov. 10, 1748;
m. Aaron Day and settled in Spencertown; Joseph,
bap. July 1, 1750, settled in Spencertown. John
Cahoon was probably from New Milford, son of
John and Comfort (Peet) Cahoon, who was b. in
Swansea, Mass., March 9, 1673. Mrs. Grace (Fuller)
Cahoon died before 1776.

v. Jeremiah, b. 1728; m. Lydia Mills.
vi. Lydia, b. 1729; m. Aug. 19, 1749, Thomas Hatch of
Kent. Children: Barnabas, James, Phœbe, b.
March 8, 1754; Abigail, b. Dec. 8, 1755; Sarah, b.
Sept. 1, 1759; Abi, b. Jan. 2, 1762; Lydia, b. Dec. 29,
1763; Ruth, b. Sept. 1, 1765, d. July 30, 1767; Lasell,
b. Oct. 14, 1766, Thomas Hatch d. Sept. 5, 1776; his
widow remained in Kent until 1782, but in 1784 was
in Manchester, Vt., living with one of her children
who had settled there.

vii. Mindwell, b. 1730; m. Nov. 23, 1749 Asa Parish of Kent.
She d. Oct. 24, 1780, aged 51. Children born in Kent.
Isaac, b. May 13, 1750; Jerusha, b. Sept. 24, 1751; Asa,
b. Oct. 6, 1752, m. Sarah Swift Jan. 10, 1783; John, b:
Jan. 5, 1754; Joanna, b. June 4, 1755; Daniel, b. Aug.
8, 1756; William, b, Aug. 23, 1758; Oliver, b. Aug. 15,
1762. The ancestors of Thomas Hatch were of Barn-
stable and Falmouth, Mass.

viii. Ruth, b. about 1733; m. Feb. 24, 1773 Job Gould, Jr., ix. Abraham, b. Oct. 1737; m. Lydia Gillett.

of Sharon, Conn.

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x. Jacob, b. 1739; m. Elizabeth Payne.
Born in Kent(?).

xi. Isaac, b, 1741; m. Nov. 5, 1769 Sarah Kelsey; d. Nov.
17, 1772, s. p. His estate was divided among his
brothers, sisters, and children of his deceased sister,
Grace Cahoon, in 1776.

23 BENJAMIN FULLER (John, Samuel, Edward'), b. Oct. 20, 1710 in East Haddam, Conn.; d. Dec. 30, 1740, in Sharon, Conn.; the first of the settlers that died; m. about 1720 Content Fuller, dau. of Matthew' and Patience (Young) Fuller of Colchester, Conn.; Mrs. Content Fuller m. (2) Sept. 20, 1741 Nathaniel Skinner, Esq., of Sharon, who was also from Colchester. She d.Benjamin Fuller and wife Content were dismissed from the church at Westchester (Colchester) in the spring of 1740. He had been surveyor or inspector of highways at Colchester in 1727. In Sharon he lived on the lot next below that of Gov. John Cotton Smith of a later time. All his children, except the youngest, were born in Colchester. His oldest daughter was probably born in East Haddam, whence he removed about 1722. Children:

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i. Patience, b. Jan. 15, 1721-2; m. Ebenezer Mudge, b.
Oct. 23, 1709; removed to Sharon with her father,
married there and died in Canaan, Conn., about 1769,
aged 47. Ebenezer Mudge m. (2) Mary Cornish,
widow of Gabriel Cornish, about 1771. Children:
Joshua, b. 1737, m. Mary Cornish; Hannah, m. Cor-
nelius Hamlin; Samuel; Abigail, m. Isaac Fisher of
Sharon; Stephen; Patience, b. July 7, 1756; unmar-
ried.

ii. Matthew, b. March 6, 1723; m. Joannah Root.
iii. Deborah, b. May 2, 1725; m. Jan. 17, 1741-2 Gideon
Tyler of Sharon. Children: Gideon, b. July 6, 1742;
and probably others.

iv. Rachel, b. June 19, 1727; d. young or unmarried.
v. Josiah, b. Feb. 23, 1729-30; m. Dec. 20, 1749, Irena

Dickenson.

vi. Jemima, b. Dec. 15, 1731; m. Nov. 10, 1748 Nathaniel Warren of Sharon. Children: Jemima, b. May 6, 1749; Rachel, b. July 26, 1751; Nathaniel, b. March 29, 1757; John, b. June 21, 1759; James, b. June 5, 1761.

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ix. Ann, b. Dec. 23, 1738; m. March 31, 1754 Nehemiah Warren. Children: James, b. Dec. 30, 1758; Lois, b. April 3, 1755; Simeon, bap. May 23, 1779, and probably others.

x. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 23, 1741; d. April 14, 1741. 24 JOSEPH FULLER (Thomas, Samuel, Matthew, Edward'), b. July 12. 1683, at Barnstable; d. —; m. Feb. 9, 1708-9, Joanna