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- Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service Author: Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford Call Number: R929.1 R62t Bibliographic Information: Rixford, Elizabeth M. Leach. Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service. Tuttle Company. Vermont. 1934.
DESCENDANTS OF JOHN FULLER The family and descendants of John Fuller, of Newton, are veryintimatelyassociated with Watertown families. That large tract of land called the Fuller Farm,andupon which most of the families of this name have resided, was situated in the bendofCharles River, opposite to Waltham Plain. It included nearly all the land lately takenfromNewton, and annexed to Waltham. It was however, more extensive, extending farther down,andfarther back from the river.
"Lexington Alarm List from the town of Fairfield, Conn.," Men in theWarof the Revolution; Prisoners at Fort Washington, p. 378; John Fuller 7 days--10May--10days--Discharged 12 November (p. 393); John Fuller, Elijah Abel, Capt., Dec. 23,1776,Conn. Line 1777/8, 2 Regt. Col. Butler. (p. 499); return, 1779, John Fuller, Col.Whiting'sRegt. during the War, Scituate, Mass., 1851 (p. 153). "Early History of Newton (p. 228),JohnFuller, one of the first settlers of Cambridge, 1644, b. 1611. "King Philip's War (p.71),credited Militia Service under Capt. Morlens, Dec. 10, 1675, Corporal John Fuller, 05-12-00;JohnFuller No. 5, list of First Settlers, 33 yrs.; d. 1698, 87 yrs. "Soc. Col. Wars, 1755/56,"(p.330), Ensign Fuller, 1631/95, Lynn, Mass., Deputy to General Court 1674/77; Ensign of theLynnCo., in the Essex Regt., under Major Daniel Dennison, 1674. "Early History ofNewton"(p. 203), John Fuller, soldier in the Revolution; (p. 205) John Fuller,Selectman 5yrs., from 1688; (p. 219) John Fuller, Selectman 2 yrs., from 1767. "Papers sworn tobyGov. W. Shirley" (p. 71), Brig. "Three Brothers," Thomas Green's Vessel; (p. 74)Capt.John Fuller, 1746; (p. 84) John Rogers.
John Fuller's will, dated Jan. 30, 1695/6, mentions wife Elizabethandsons, John, Jonathan, Joseph, Joshua and Jeremiah; dau. Elizabeth Hyde, deceased; dau.BethiaBond; Gr. Child, Mary Brown, Elizabeth Hyde, Hannah Hyde, and Jonathan Hyde. He d. Feb.7,1698 and his eldest four sons were adm. Freemen at the same time, Oct. 13, 1680.
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