William Hyslop Fuller, Genealogy of Some Descendants of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower, 1908: pg. 21. (link to pdf)
We've blogged about our* connection to Edward Fuller - son of Robert Fuller, butcher- through his son, Samuel, in the post, A Mayflower Family. Cornelius Fuller, Jr. is our broken connection in this lineage. This post attempts to repair it.
Edward Fuller
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| Signing the Mayflower Compact |
Edward Fuller (1575 – winter of 1620/21) was a passenger on the historic 1620 voyage of the ship Mayflower. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and perished with his wife soon after the passengers came ashore to their new settlement at Plymouth.
Read more: Wikipedia
Samuel Fuller, Sr.
Second Generation
The first winter was devastating.
During the winter, the Mayflower colonists suffered greatly from lack of shelter, diseases such as scurvy, and general conditions onboard ship. Many of the able-bodied men were too infirm to work; 45 out of 102 pilgrims died and were buried on Cole's Hill.
Read more: Wikipedia
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| Memorial to Pilgrims who died the first winter. |
Both Samuel Fuller's parents died shortly after they arrived. Their names are on a memorial wall in Plymouth, Massachusetts. His uncle, Samuel, raised him. The first Thanksgiving Samuel, son of Edward, was about nine-ten years old.
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| First winter in Plymouth, Massachusetts |
Samuel Fuller {Edward (1)} b. about 1612 at someplace in England not yet found, no record of his birth or baptism having been discovered. d. Oct 31- Nov 10, 1683.at Barnstable, Mass. m.at Mr. Cudworth's house in Scituate by Capt. Miles Standish, magistrate "on ye fouthe daye of ye weeke'', Apr 8-18, 1635. Jane Lathrop, dau. of Rev. John Lathrop of Scituate..."
(ibid pg 24)Samuel Fuller, Jr.
Third Generation
Samuel [3] Fuller (Samuel [2], Edward [1]) b. Feb. 1637-8; m. Ann Fuller (Matthew [1]). (They were cousins She descended from Edward Fuller's brother, Matthew ed) There is no record of his family on the Barnstable records, and little is known of him.
Fuller genealogy...by Fuller, William Hyslop pg 33His will does list his children. Our family line is purported to come from his son, Matthew.
Matthew Fuller
Fourth Generation
Matthew Fuller was born in 1662 in Barnstable, Massachusetts. He married Patience Young. They had seven children. He died in 1734, at New London, Connecticut. He was 72 years old.
-(ibid pg 38)
Cornelius Fuller, Sr.
Fifth Generation
The records
Old Dutchess County courthouse
Cornelius [5] Fuller {Matthew [4], Samuel [3]. Samuel [2], Edward [1]}. b. 1710 Barnstable; m. Feb. 25, 1730, at Colchester, Patience Chappel who d. Jun 25, 1746. Lemuel (6) was their only son. I find no further trace of him. ...It is said that he is the first Fuller who settled in Hebron (Connecticut), about 1733. ...
In a muster roll of provincial troops of New York, Dutchess County, 1758, is the name Cornelius Fuller, aged 19, b. in Connecticut. He is perhaps the son of Cornelius [5] Fuller.
(ibid pg 135-6)Since Hyslop's publication, Mayflower researchers are convinced Lemuel and Cornelius Fuller were brothers.
According to another source;
Cornelius (Sr.) emigrated from Dutchess county as early as 1800. He first lived in Big Hollow, then at what is now Hensonville, and the farm now owned by Linus Peck. He afterward removed to what was known as Fuller's Tavern, on the old turnpike. The house was built in 1812, the same year Mr. Fuller went to war. It is now the residence of John Holcombe.
He lived here for more than fifty years. His family consisted of eight sons and eight daughters, all of whom lived to be married. His wife died from the effects of a fall. She slipped on an apple skin and fell, breaking her thigh.
Mr. Fuller kept the hotel at a time when the turnpike was much traveled and he made money rapidly. He was a genial, affable, kind, belevont man. Barney Fuller, son of Major Cornelius, is a resident of Mitchell Hollow. He was born in Hensonville in 1809.
A Mr. DeWitt came, with his family, and purchased from Fuller his first place, the present Linus Peck place. None of his family are now in the vicinity.
History of Greene County, New York : with biographical sketches of its prominent men. pg 396According to tradition, Cornelius Fuller, Jr. is our ancestor.
Cornelius Fuller, Jr.
Sixth Generation
Cornelius Fuller, Jr., had at least four children; a daughter named Sarah and her brothers, Eli, Ira, and Johiel. This is how Ancestry DNA connects us to Cornelius, using their grouping system for DNA matches called 'Thrulines.'
We have one DNA match with a descendant of Ira Fuller, brother of Johiel. This DNA match is genuine. They have a small family tree containing sparse information; two generations of generic Fullers. The only way we can be matched is through their DNA profile. We have no paper trail to Johiel, either.
Johiel Fuller
Seventh Generation
Johiel Fuller
Seventh Generation
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| 1820 Land Act map |
The Land Act of 1820...
...reduced the number of acres that Ohioans had to purchase from 160 to eighty and the cost from $2.00 per acre to $1.25 per acre, in an attempt to encourage additional land sales. The Relief Act permitted Ohioans to return land that they could not pay for back to the government, granting credit towards their debt for the returned land. Additionally, Congress extended credit to the buyer for eight more years.
Read more: Ohio History Central
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On April 30, 1835, the Zanesville land office issued a deed to Johiel Fuller for forty acres in Guernsey, Ohio (deed here). He paid cash.
From the Genealogy Guru (link here):
Johiel's first deed in Sussex Co. NJ, was an 1812 purchase of Eli 178 acres for $150. Johiel sold all of his Sussex Co., NJ, holdings in 1823 and 1824 to Christian Smith.
In Guernsey County, Ohio, Johiel settled in Monroe Twp., by 1824, where he kept a mill and distilled whiskey. In 1840, he owned 171 acres in section 21 and 22.
Wolfe's "Stories of Guernsey, Ohio" linkThe Genealogy Guru connects Johiel to his father, Cornelius, and to his son, Allen Fuller.
Allen 'Al' Fuller
Eighth Generation
Allen 'Al' Fuller was born in about 1813 in New Jersey. He married Rachel Kimble on February 8, 1838, in Guernsey, Ohio. They had fifteen children; three sets of twins. The Genealogy Guru pages name our grandpa, Allen Fuller, as a son of Johiel. In our DNA results group, he is one of four matches on Ancestry with descendants of Grandpa Al's siblings.
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Price London Fuller
Ninth Generation
Two brothers claim Allen and Rachel (Kimble) Fuller as parents on their death certificates- great-grandpa Price London (link here) and our great uncle, Alfred Fuller (link here).
(Note: Allen Fuller's death certificate says he was born in Maryland while Alfred's lists Ohio. In every census record of grandpa Allen, he contains his state of birth as New Jersey. These records weren't always perfect.)
We're also DNA matches with two of grandpa Price's sibling's family DNA groups; Lula Mae (Fuller) Morris and Henrietta (Fuller) Gilland.
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Lemuel Fuller
Tenth Generation
We blogged about great-grandpa Lemuel (link here) and about his wife (link here) previously. There's not much more to say.
Anna Grace (Fuller) Merrick
Anna Grace (Fuller) Merrick
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| Anna Grace (Fuller) Merrick |
Grandma Merrick was an eleventh generation, Mayflower Fuller. Our Fuller male line stopped here. Her brother - our great uncle Melvin, the only son in the family - never married nor had children.
That's a shame because it's been determined Edward Fuller's line belongs to the Y-DNA haplogroup, R-U106. What this means is, any male descendant from an all-male line could disprove their lineage through y-DNA testing.
Our family has no such candidate.
The Story of the Pilgrims
*Note: Relationships, such as grandmother, 2nd great, etc., are expressed from the perspective of the grandchildren of Leon Arthur and Anna Grace (Fuller) Merrick.
Terms of relationship - grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin, etc. - are used here generically to include relatives such as fourth great grandfathers, great grand uncles, second cousins twice removed, etc.
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