John Fuller

Abt 1614 - 1698  (~ 84 years)

• Name	John Fuller
  Alternate birth	1611  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1614  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Feb 1698	Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Alternate death	1699	Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Burial	East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I33677	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Cole,   b. Bef 1 Jan 1623   d. 13 Apr 1700, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 77 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1645  [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Fuller,   b. Abt 1647, probably England d. 28 Nov 1685, Cambridge Village (later Newton), Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 38 years)
  Family ID	F19850	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022

  
  

• Notes

  He was a maltster. An educated man, he was a founding member of the Newton church and a Newton selectman in 1694. His name is on the First Settlers monument in Newton's East Parish Burying Ground. DNA has proved that he was in no traceable way related to the Fullers of the Mayflower, nor to any of the other Fuller families of early New England, including the two other John Fullers who also had wives named Elizabeth. He and his wife Elizabeth first appear in New England records with the birth of their son Joseph at Cambridge on 10 Feb 1652. They probably arrived the year prior. East Parish Burying Ground in Newton is also known as Centre Street Cemetery. Wayne L. Fuller's well-done John Fuller of Newton, MAJohn Fuller of Newton, MA website makes a good circumstantial case for him having come from Lavenham in Suffolk; certainly his wife seems to have originated there, based on the will of her evident father, Walter Cole of Lavenham. "Roger Thompson notes that maltsters were often mistrusted by householders who did their own brewing for allegedly cutting corners in their process and adultering their malt. That dislike may explain why Fuller, despite owning '650 acres of land, a five-room mansion house, as well as putting £126 out on loan, ... was only chosen for office by his neighbors and never elected selectman [sic, he was listed as a Selectman in 1694]. His appearance in official sources suggests that he was a responsible neighbor: caring for the deranged wife of William Clements Jr., taking in a stray colt, cutting firewood for an aged widow, and helping with the mowing of a Villager's meadow.'" [Early New England Families Study Project, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4944] History of Newton, Massachusetts, Town and City, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, 1630-1880 by S. F. Smith. Boston: The American Logotype Company, 1880. [S5380] John Fuller of Newton, MA by Wayne L. Fuller. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.