Thomas Richardson

Notes:

Thomas Richardson must have married Mary shortly before they came to America,
in that no children were born in England. The first entry in the Colony
regarding them was in Feb 1635-6 when Mary was united with the church in
Charleston. Samuel and Thomas Richardson joined said church the 18th of the
12th month [February], 1637-8; in consequence whereof they were admitted
freemen of the colony, 2 Mar 1638. Their names are found on the records of
Charlestown for the first time in 1637, when to each of them the town granted a
house-plot, clearly indicating that they had recently become citizens of the
place. The same year, their names are for the first time found on the records
as citizens of Charlestown. They doubtless came from England together.

The three brothers had lots assigned them, 20 April 1638, on "Misticke Side and
above the Ponds," that is, in Malden. The share they had in the settlement of
Woburn, and the organization of the church in that town, has been sufficiently
related in the notices already given of Ezekiel and Samuel Richardson.

An Inventory of the Goods of Thomas Richardson, late of Woburn.
4 Working Oxen 24. 0. 0
5 Cows 22. 10. 0
3 Steers 8. 0. 0
2 Heffers 4. 10. 0
3 Calves 4. 0. 0
1 Mare 4. 0. 0
1 Ewe 1. 0. 0
8 Swine 5. 0. 0
Corne in the Barne 30. 0. 0
10 pieces of pewter 1. 0. 0
3 pieces of Brass 1. 5. 0
3 Iron pots 1. 0. 0
5 pairs of Sheets 1. 13. 4
1 table Cloth, 2 pillow beers 0. 5. 0
Bedding and the Furniture belonging to it 3. 0. 0
His wearing apparel 4. 5. 0
Two muskets and other arms 2. 4. 0
Tubs and other wooden vesells 0. 16. 0
1 Table, 1 Cupboard, 2 chares and other lumber 0. 16. 0
Iron tools 0. 17. 0
Carte, plows, chaines, and other instruments of husbandry 7. 13. 0
For his servant's time, that he hath yet to serve 6. 0. 0
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L133. 14. 4

Further, the said Thomas Richardson died possed of one Dwelling House, Barn,
and One hundred acres of Land, situate in the Town of Woburn, of which 25 acres
are plowed land, and ten of meadow, Real Estate valued at 80 pounds.

He is indebted the sum of ten pounds, ten shillings.

The two steers formerly forgotten, 4 pounds ten shillings.

Following the inventory, and it would seem a part of it is this statement:

"He hath left a wife, three sons, and four daughters. The eldest son is 8
years old; the second, 6 years; and the third, three-quarters [of a year]. The
eldest daughter is 13 years old; the second, 11 years; the third, 4 years; the
fourth, 2 years."

Samuel and Thomas were on a committee to lay out lots (of land)
for hayfields 1 July 1636.

In 1635 and 1636 Edward Converse and 2 other men sent to explore what became
Woburn, Massachusetts. Grants of land made to Ezekiel and Thomas Richardson.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 504, 505.

Thomas married Mary Baldwin 4 Mar 1635. Mary was born Abt 1612, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died 19 May 1670. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

Mary married John Baldwin 15 May 1655, Billerica, Massachusetts. John was born Abt 1615; died 1687. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married Michael Bacon, Jr. 22 Mar 1660. (son of Michael Bacon and Mary) [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Isaac Richardson lived on "Richardson's Row," in the easterly part of Woburn,
and about half a mile, more or less, from the present village of Winchester.
His farm adjoined that of the second Ezekiel Richard, son of Theophilus. His
will dated 28 February 1688/1689, recorded Middleton Probate Record, vii 11,
mentions wife Deborah, son Jonathan, then under twenty-one years of age, sons
Edward, Joseph, Benjamin, and David, all minors, and daughters Mary and
Elizabeth. "Two eldest sisters" are mentioned, to whom Jonathan, the eldest
son, was to pay ten pounds each when they came of age. their names do not
appear in this connection, but they must have been Mary and Phebe. the
testator disposes of other land, and a house then building, besides the
homestead. He had a lot near "bare hill" -- more correctly Bear Hill -- in
Charlestown, afterwards included in Stonham. Samuel Richardson [1556], Stephen
Richardson [1557], and Thomas Fuller, his brother-in-law, sign as witnesses.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 11.
"Richardson Chronicles, 1590-past 1850", Richardson Descendants, 1988.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506-507.

Isaac married Deborah Fuller 19 Jun 1667, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Thomas Fuller and Elizabeth Tidd) was born 12 May 1650, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507.

Thomas married Mary Stimpson 5 Jan 1669/1670, Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 11, 12.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507.

Ruth married Thomas Fuller 1669. Thomas (son of Thomas Fuller and Elizabeth Tidd) was born 30 Apr 1644, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died Mar 1721. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Nathaniel Richardson passed his life in Woburn, Massachusetts and was made
freeman in 1690. In the great Indian War, known as "King Philip's War," he was
a soldier in Captain Prentiss' troop of horse, and was wounded in the "Great
Swamp Fight," 19 December 1675. Seven other Woburn men, Eliah Tottingham,
Celeb Simonds, Zachariah Snow, Lieut. John Wyman, John Baker, Francis Wyman,
Jr. and Peter Bateman were wounded in that tremendous encounter, and John
Wyman, Jr., a son of Lieut. John Wyman, Francis Wyman, Jr., and Peter Bateman
died a few weeks after, probably from wounds then received. Six brave captains
fell in the action, and eighty men were killed or mortally wounded. Four
hundred were disabled besides the wounded. But t\of the Indians seven hundred
warriors out of four thousand fell that day, and three hundred more died of
their wounds or perished from the cold.

Nathaniel Richardson died intestate.
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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 510-511.

Nathaniel — Mary. Mary died 22 Dec 1719. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

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Mentioned in a deed given by his father 4 October 1696 as then "of Billerica, shoemaker."
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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 506.

Notes:

Jonathan Richardson's father died when he was under twenty years of age, and he
was probably left to his own resources. He seems, early in life, to have gone
to Mendon, then in the County of Suffolk, and made his home there. Mendon then
included Milford, Blackstone, and parts of Bellingham, and Uxbridge. Seventy
acres of land in Mendon were laid out to him, 10 April 1699, and twenty acres
more, 25 March 1702. He was "of Providence" in 1709; but in 1719, he was again
in Mendon, selling land there, 1 January 1718-1719, to Samuel Thayer, of that
place, as we learn from Suffolk Deeds, xxxvii. 69. But another deed, dated 5
January, 1722-1723, describes him as of Providence, as does another conveyance,
1 January 1726-1726.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507, 510.

Jonathan — Mary. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507.

Notes:

Joseph Richardson united with his brother Jonathan in a conveyance of land in
Woburn, probably in the present town of Winchester, which they inherited from
their father Isaac Richardson, who died in April 1689. At the date of this
conveyance both brothers had left, or were soon to leave, Woburn. He owned
land in Stoneham, probably near "Bear Hill," for which he was taxed as a
non-resident, in 1726-1727.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507, 511.

Notes:

Twin brother of Joseph, Benjamin Richardson lived in what is now the town of
Stoneham, on the border of Woburn. Stoneham was then a part of Charlestown,
and known as "Charlestown End," until its incorporation, 17 December 1725. He
removed about 1717, to the new town of Leicester, incorporated February 1713.
Leicester was then, and till 1731 in Middlesex County, which will account for
the settlement of his estate in that county. A request for administration on
his estate was presented by his widow Lydia, 6 January 1729-1729.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507, 511-512.

Benjamin — Lydia Draper. (daughter of Nathaniel Draper) [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507.

Notes:

David Richardson was a yeoman, and lived at Wills Hill, in what was then
Danvers. His name occurs in a petition, with twenty-three others, dated 28
February 1726/1727, addressed to the parish, asking for an abatement of their
tax for the salary of Rev. Peter Clark, of Danvers, for the reason that they
now had preaching in their own neighborhood, afterwards incorporated 20 June,
1728, as part of Middleton.

His will is dated 5 April 1748; proved 15 August, 1748. Inventory, forty-five
acres of land with the buildings thereon.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 15.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507, 512.

David married Hannah Putnam 14 Sep 1702, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. Hannah was born Abt 1682, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507.

Phebe married Joseph Rice 20 May 1703. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507.

Mary — King. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 13.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 507.

Notes:

Died the same day.
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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

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Died the same day.
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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

Mary — Edward Farmer, Jr.. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

Thomas — Abigail. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

Andrew — Hannah Jeffts. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

Nathaniel — Mary Peacock. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

Jonathan — Hannah French. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

Ruth — John French. [Group Sheet]

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Died the same day.
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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 509.

Thomas married Elizabeth Andrews 3 May 1693. [Group Sheet]

Jonathan married Susannah Trask 3 Jan 1694. [Group Sheet]

John married Phoebe Symonds 22 Jan 1704. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Rachel Buxton 17 Feb 1711. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Susanna Dorman 3 Nov 1713. Susanna was born Abt 1681; died 6 Oct 1765. [Group Sheet]

William married Elizabeth Goodale 16 Oct 1714. [Group Sheet]

William married Deborah Hill 15 Jun 1741. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Isaac Richardson was of Mendon, "a husbandman," in January, 1726 and 1760; and
of Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1731.
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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 511.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 511.

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Reference:
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 511.

Notes:

Solomon Richardson was born in "Salem Village," afterwards incorporated as a
part of the town of Middleton. He was a yeoman. His will is dated 2 May 1761;
proved 6 July 1761; recorded Essex Probate Records, xxxviii, 129. This will
gives to wife Abigail, "Dinah her maid," in the inventory valued at 40 pounds;
"also all my household furniture, and other things which she brought with her."
It gives to son David the testator's house and barn, and about forty acres of
land and meadow by Cromwell's brook and Hutchinson's meadow; also to be
executor of the will, and "to sell my negro man Frank," in the inventory
appraised at 60 pounds, to pay debts, etc. To sons John Richardson and
Jonathan Richardson, daughter Elizabeth Sawyer, and daughter Sarah Richardson,
legacies are to be paid by son David. Sons Amos, Stephen, and Solomon, are to
have the other land after the decease of the widow. The testator's
grandchildren to have their legacy "in five years after their grandmother
Richardson's decease."

The real estate, as shown by the inventory, presented 14 September 1761,
consisted of the homestead, containing about three hundred acres of land, with
the buildings thereon; salt marsh at Lynn, about three acres; about twelve
acres of meadow in Middleton, and about seven acres of woodland in Andover.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 15.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 528.

Solomon married Elizabeth Goodale 26 Feb 1728, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Goodale and Mary Hutchinson) was born 7 Aug 1706, Salem, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Solomon married Abigail Buxton 7 May 1741. Abigail was born Abt 1711; died 15 May 1805. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 15.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 512.

Hannah married Joseph Richardson 12 Jun 1746. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Living and unmarried in 1748.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 15.
"The Richardson Memorial...", John Adams Vinton, 1876, p 512.

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Reference:
Perley Welch, wcwelch@Empire.Net, 9 January 1997.

Hezekiah — . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died young.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

Notes:

Tradition furnishes many interesting anecdotes of one Timothy Fuller, who lived
in Middleton, Massachusetts and was commonly called "Old Tim." It is related
that at a time when at work, becoming thirsty, he called at a house for a
drink; the woman being alone said "you rock the cradle while I draw the cider."
Upon her return with the cider, he asked her to give him the child in the
cradle. She promised to do so on condition that he would wait till she was
eighteen years old. He promised to do so, and at that time came and took her
as his wife, making her the mistress of his forty slaves. At this writing
(1896) the old "gambrel roofed" house where these slaves were domiciled is
still standing and occupied. It was built in 1710.

The killing of volunteer farmers on the historical 19th of April, 1775, by
order of the British Commander, stirred the blood of all in this region, and
with characteristic energy "Old Tim," now 73 years old, with his white mare and
shotgun started for the scene of action. He was also int the fight at Bunker's
Hill.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14, 30-31.

Timothy married Sarah Smith Jul 1749. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

Mary — Benjamin Fuller. (son of Benjamin Fuller and Sarah Bacon) [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

Notes:

It is traditionally reported that Captain Ephraim Fuller was a revolutionary
soldier, and it is confidently believed this tradition is true although at this
writing (March, 1896) no authentic record of his connection with the war has
been found.
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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14, 17.

Ephraim married Mary Putnam 17 Oct 1749. [Group Sheet]

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.

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Reference:
"A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller", Jesse Franklin Fuller, 1896, p 14.