Thankful (Bird) Fuller (1668 - 1729)

Born 6 Feb 1668 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Jeremiah Fuller — married about 1700 (to 27 Apr 1729) in Dorchester, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 27 Apr 1729 at age 61 in Newton, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Thankful Bird was born on 06 February 1667/8 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the daughter of Thomas and Thankful (Atherton) Bird.^[1]

She married Jeremiah Fuller as his third wife by about 1701, probably in Dorchester, Suffolk County or Newton, Middlesex County.^[2]

On 8 Mar 1710/11, she and husband Jeremiah Fuller, along with her siblings and their spouses, made an agreement with their mother regarding the estate of their father Thomas Bird late of Dorchester, deceased intestate.^[3][4]

Thankful Fuller died in Newton on 27 April 1729.^[5]

Children (Fuller) born Newton:^[6]

1. Thomas, b. 12 Sep 1701, d. 1748; m. Elizabeth Ball
2. Joshua, b. 12 Apr 1703, d. 1777
3. Thankful, b. 25 Sep 1704, d. 1745; m. Noah Wiswall
4. Jeremiah, b. 01 Nov 1707, d. 1711
5. Elizabeth, b. 24 Aug 1709, d. 1711
6. Josiah, b. 02 Dec 1710, d. 1793.

Sources

1. ↑ Boston Record Commissioners, https://archive.org/details/reportofrecordco21bost/page/10 A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825 (Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1890), p. 11.]

   "Thankfull the Daughter of Thomas Bird was Born the 6th. (12 mo:) in the year 1667."

2. ↑ Clarence A. Torrey, compiler, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (CD version) (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2001), citing Hotchkiss, Fanny, Winchester Notes (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1912) p. 14; Trask, William Blake, The Bird Family (Boston: D. Clapp & Son, 1871) p. 10; NEHGR 25:24; Fuller, William Hyslop, Genealogy of Some Descendants of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower (lettered vol. I) (Palmer Mass.: C. B. Fiske, 1908) 3:99

   "FULLER, Jeremiah (1658-1743) & 3/wf Thankful [BIRD] (1667/8-); by 1701, 1700; Newton"

3. ↑ Suffolk County Probate Records file #3227, Administration of estate, Thomas Bird 1710
4. ↑ William B. Trask, "Thomas Bird, of Dorchester MA, and some of his Descendants," NEHGR Vol. 25 (1871):21-22
5. ↑ NEHGS, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905), p. 450.

   "Fuller, Thankfull, w. Jeramiah, Apr 27 1729."

6. ↑ NEHGS, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905)