Robert Fuller

Abt 1615 - 1706  (~ 91 years)

• Name	Robert Fuller  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1615  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 May 1706	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I23197	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

  Family	Sarah Bowen,   b. Abt 1622   d. 14 Oct 1676, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 54 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1643  [1, 4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan Fuller,   b. Abt 1644, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 10 Feb 1709, Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 65 years) + 2. Elizabeth Fuller,   b. Abt 1652, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 11 Jan 1689, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age ~ 37 years)
  Family ID	F13958	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2021

  
  

• Notes

  First in Salem about 1639, then in Rehoboth 1643, where he was one of the original proprietors. He was a bricklayer. The extensive DNA tests of multiple direct-male-line descendants of early New England Fullers chronicled in Pamela Paschke and Raymond T. Wing's article "The Fuller Family of Redenhall, Norfolk, England: Initial Report on the Fuller Big Y DNA Project" (Mayflower Descendant 70:101, 2022) show that while Dr. Matthew Fuller (d. 1678) cannot have been a son or direct descendant of Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller, Dr. Matthew and the Robert Fuller of this entry were clearly related in some way, and that all three of these Fullers, along (obviously) with Edward's brother Samuel Fuller (1581-1633), also a Mayflower passenger, probably shared a common ancestor. In "Was Matthew Fuller the Son of Mrs. Edward Fuller...Or Was He From a Different Family?" (Mayflower Descendant 72:109, Summer 2024), author Erica Hahn proposed, based on DNA evidence and contemporary records, that this Robert Fuller was a brother of Dr. Matthew Fuller, and that they were both sons of a John Fuller baptized in Redenhall on 30 Oct 1586, "son of William Fuller." But in a subsequent article, "Was Matthew Fuller of Barnstable, Massachusetts, a Son of Edward Fuller's Unnamed Wife? Some Corrections, Some Additions" (Mayflower Descendant 73:8, Winter 2025), Hahn says she no longer believes that this Robert Fuller was a son of the John Fuller baptized in Redenhall in 1586.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3020] Richard LeBaron Bowen, Jr., "The Ancestry, Wives, and Children of Richard Bowen1 of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, with Notes on His Sons-in-Law Robert1 Wheaton and Robert1 Fuller and on Griffith Bowen1 of Roxbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 76:263, 2001. [S7891] Erica Hahn, "Was Matthew Fuller the Son of Mrs. Edward Fuller...Or Was He From a Different Family?" Mayflower Descendant 72:109, Summer 2024. [S8113] Erica Hahn, "Was Matthew Fuller of Barnstable, Massachusetts, a Son of Edward Fuller's Unnamed Wife? Some Corrections, Some Additions." Mayflower Descendant 73:8, Winter 2025. [S4089] Richard Bowen (1594?-1675), of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, volume 1, by William B. Saxbe, Jr. Hope, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2011. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S6732] Pamela Paschke and Raymond T. Wing, "The Fuller Family of Redenhall, Norfolk, England: Initial Report on the Fuller Big Y DNA Project." Mayflower Descendant 70:101, Summer 2022., year only. [S8113] Erica Hahn, "Was Matthew Fuller of Barnstable, Massachusetts, a Son of Edward Fuller's Unnamed Wife? Some Corrections, Some Additions." Mayflower Descendant 73:8, Winter 2025., year only.