Varsel Fuller (1755 - 1834)

Born 22 Feb 1755 in Amenia, Dutchess, Province of New York

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Crowell) Fuller — married 17 Jun 1776 in Stillwater, Saratoga, Province of New York

Descendants

Died 27 Aug 1834 at age 79 in Ft Edward, Washington, New York, United States

Biography

Varsel Fuller served with 13th Regiment, Albany County Militia, New York Militia during the American Revolution.

Varsel Fuller is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A207993.

Varsel Fuller was born on February 23, 1755, in Amenia, New York, to Josiah Fuller and Irene Dickenson. He married Mary Crowell on June 17, 1776, in Stillwater, New York. He served as a soldier in the American Revolution. He died on August 27, 1834, in Fort Edward, Washington, New York, having lived a long life of 79 years.

Revolutionary War Soldier

Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor record^[1]:

FULLER, VARSELL Ancestor #: A207993

Service: NEW YORK Rank: NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER

Birth: 2-3-1754 OBLONG PATENT DUTCHESS CO NEW YORK

Death: 8-27-1834 FT EDWARD WASHINGTON CO NEW YORK

Pension Number: S*W15769

Service Source: S*W15769

Service Description: 1) ORDERLY SGT; ALSO PVT; CAPTS COLLENS, JOHN SMITH, H DUNHAM, FONDA, P FRISBY; COLS WATERMAN, MCKINSTER, WHITING

RESIDENCE

Created: 2011-09-14 09:56:20.0, Updated: 2011-09-14 09:56:20.0, By: SNEWTON 1) City: NEW CONCORD - County: ALBANY CO - State: NEW YORK

Served in Revolutionary War: At the time he served in the Rev. War, he was living in New Concord, Columbia County, NY (then in Albany Co.) He also lived in Stillwater, Saratoga Co. New York, Fort Miller, Washington Co, NY and at the time he applied for his pension in 1832, at 77 years old, he was living in Queensbury, Warren County, NY. He had a brother named Josiah who was born in 1766 and testified he was 67 in 1833. ^[2]

Deposition regarding war service and family:

"County of Wayne State of New York: Personaly appears before this subscriber a justice of the peace in and for Said County Thomas Rennals of the town of Lyons in Said County age [or aged] ninty one years. after being duly Sworn according to law deposith and saith that for the last Forty five years he has been personally acquainted with VARSEL FULLER late a soldier in the war of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States: And with his present widow MARY FULLER and this(?) Family: That this(?) said MARY FULLER who is applying for a pension as the widow of the said Varsel FULLER, is the identical person and widow of the said VARSEL FULLER, the late pensioner of the United States: That this is the identical person that was his wife of said VARSEL FULLER at the first acquaintance of this deponent. This deponent is confident that his acquaintance with said family of VARSEL FULLER commenced before the year Eighteen hundred - That at the time of his first acquaintance with said family he will recollect that their oldest child named was MARY - That she was at that time a full grown woman. Thinks she must have been nineteen or twenty years old. That she has since married a man by the name of BRAMAN. That their next child named was CORNELIUS who was two or three years younger than MARY. That the present applicant widow MARY FULLER has from the first acquaintance of this deponent been considered and believed to be the wife of the above named VARSEL FULLER, and the above named MARY and CORNELIUS has been and still are considered children of the above named VARSEL FULLER and the person applicant widow MARY FULLER. This deponent further asaith(?) and saith that his acquaintance with said Family commenced in the town of Argyle, Washington County, State of New York; That the understood(?) by this said VARSEL FULLER, (inserted above what looks like 'Mrs.') they(?) had formerly lived in the town of Stilwater, Saratoga Co., where he was married. That the said VARSEL FULLER died sometime in the year 1834 that his widow had not since remarried but remains a widow. Signed, Thomas X Rennels [possibly spelled Reynolds or Runnels?]"^[3]

Census

1790 - He was listed as Versale Fuller in the 1790 Hebron, Washington, NY Census, living next door to Joseph Dickinson.

3 Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: (sons Cornelius, Samuel, Varsel Jr.)

1 Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: (Varsel Fuller)

3 Free White Persons - Females: (wife Mary; daughters Mary, Irene Fuller)^[4]

1800 - listed as "Versal Fuller" and living in Argyle, Washington, New York.

2 Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: (Samuel, Varsel Jr.)

1 Free White Person - Males - 16 thru 25: (Cornelius)

1 Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: (Varsel)

2 Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: (Irene and Samantha)

1 Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: (Mary)^[5]

1830 - listed as "Varsel Fuller" and living in Fort Edward, Washington, New York

1 Males - 5 thru 9 (unknown)

1 Males - 70 thru 79 (Varsel Fuller)

1 Females - 70 thru 79 (Mary Crowell)^[6]

Children

1. Mary Fuller Brayman 1779–1855
2. Cornelius L Fuller 1783–1865
3. Samuel S Fuller 1787–1861
4. Varsel Fuller, Jr. 1789–1865
5. Irene Fuller 1791–
6. Samantha Fuller Hopkins 1794–1887
7. John Fuller 1800–1882

Sources

• 1790 U.S. Census
• 1800 U.S. Census
• 1830 U.S. Census
• The 1841 Pensioners List, New York State - Excerpts; Publication Place: Albany, New York; Page Number: 444
• Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor record, DAR website, http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/default.cfm
• Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88086661
• Heads of Fams. at the first U.S. census. NY. By U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, 1908. (308p.):190 (Versale Fuller, born 1750.)
• New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Vol. I - Extracts; Publication Place: Albany, New York; Publisher: J. B. Lyon Co.; Publication Year: 1904; Page Number: 89.
• New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Vol. I - Extracts; Publication Place: Albany, New York; Publisher: J. B. Lyon Co.; Publication Year: 1904; Page Number: 238 (Land Bounty Rights, 17th Regiment)
• New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Vol. I - Extracts; Publication Place: Albany, New York; Publisher: J. B. Lyon Co.; Publication Year: 1904; Page Number: 123 (17th Regiment)
• One World Tree: OneWorldTree takes family trees submitted by Ancestry members and "stitches" them together with family trees and historical records from other sources. (name, birth, marriage, death)
• U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872, Ancestry.com. Original data: Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, 1818-1872; (National Archives Microfilm Publication T718, 23 rolls); Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, Record Group 217; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• U.S., The Pension Roll of 1835, Ancestry.com. Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.

1. ↑ http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/default.cfm
2. ↑ Sources: Pension records for Rev. War service and Family Bible.
3. ↑ source: Rootsweb family tree http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rdreynolds&id=I26197
4. ↑ 1790 U.S. Census
5. ↑ 1800 U.S. Census
6. ↑ 1830 U.S. Census

• Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 4) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006), Page 210
• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15769, Varsell Fuller, New York
• Fuller, Varsel - New York - Van Veghten's Regiment, Militia
• New York in the Revolution as colony and state; these records were discovered, arranged, and classified in 1895, 1897, and 1898, by James A. Roberts, Comptroller, page 89, 123 and 238

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Elizabeth Dye for creating WikiTree profile Fuller-3603 through the import of Dye_Lohof_Orr Family Tree.ged on Dec 16, 2013.