Elkanah Fuller (1709 - 1793)

Born 24 Apr 1709 in Mansfield, Connecticut

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Died 21 Dec 1793 at age 84 in Freehold, Greene, New York, United States

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Biography

Elkanah Fuller was born in Mansfield, Colony of Connecticut on 24 Apr 1709, the son of Samuel Fuller. On 15 May 1731, he married, in Mansfield, Mary Andrews, daughter of Samuel and Eleanor (Lee) Andrews.^[1][2]

Children of Elkanah and Mary:^[3][4]

1. Sarah Fuller, b. 9 Oct 1732
2. Samuel Fuller, b. 25 Sep 1733; bp. 28 Oct 1733; d. 30 Dec 1737
3. Eleanor Fuller, b. 23 Aug 1735; bp. 21 Sep 1735; d. 15 Apr 1737
4. Mary Fuller, b. 1 Jan 1735; bp. 19 Jul 1737; d. 12 Mar 1819, Kentucky; m. abt. 1758, Timothy Percival
5. Bethiah Fuller, bp. 8 Apr 1739

Mary died on 13 Sep 1740, and Elkanah married as his second wife, Naomi (née unknown).

Children of Elkanah and Naomi:

1. Samuel Fuller, b. 9 Feb 1743/44
2. Bethany Fuller, b. 12 Mar 1746. Elkanah presided over her marriage to Jeremiah Gustin on 3 Feb 1763.

"Elkanah Fuller and his brother Rudolphus Fuller came to Sussex Co, NJ in 1750 or 1751 from Mansfield, CT with a group of 16 'separates' where they established a Baptist enclave."^[5] He was a Baptist preacher, "[a]ll the world knows the story of Roger Williams and of the baptism he received of Ezekiel Hollimen and of the baptsim by Roger Williams of Hollimen and of eleven others. This was repeated in the winter of 1752-3 in the township of Newtown, Sussex County, New Jersey. Elkanah Fuller baptized Rev. William Marsh and others." Their Baptist church "originated in Mansfield, in Connecticut, about the end of 1749 or the beginning of 1750: the constituents were William Marsh and wife, Joseph Pomeroy and wife, Wiliam Southworth and wife, Joshua Engard and wife, John Slate and wife, Elizabeth Lathrop, Mary Nicholas, Elkanah Fuller, Rudolphus Fuller and David Chapman and wife: These withdrew from the established worship of Mansfield, and therefore were called separates." In 1751 these separates left Mansfield for Newton, New Jersey.^[6]

Naomi may have died before 1751, as she does not appear with Elkanah in the constituents listed above. She was definitely deceased by 6 April 1767, when Elkanah returned to Mansfield to marry, Lydia (née unknown) Hooker.^[7]

Apparently, Lydia was Elkanah's fourth wife, as on 2 Jul 1752, he married Elizabeth North in Sharon County, Connecticut.^[8] Elizabeth was the daughter of Capt. Thomas and Elizabeth North.^[9]

Elkanah and his brother, Rudolphus Fuller appear on a list of seventy-three names of the original settlers of the Connectiuct Settlement, Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania in 1762.^[10] There is an asterick by Elkanah's name indicating he was dead by Apr 1788. Other genealogies state he moved to Freehold, NY with his son-in-law Timothy Percival in 1793.

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Marriage Index, 1620-1926 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Original data: Marriage Records. Connecticut Marriages. Various Connecticut County collections.
2. ↑ Ancestry,com. Mansfield and Redding, Connecticut, Compiled Marriages, 1700s-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp.. See Description for original sources listed by town.
3. ↑ Fuller, William Hyslop. Genealogy of Some Descendants of Captain Matthew Fuller, John Fuller of Newton, John Fuller of Lynn, John Fuller of Ipswich, Robert Fuller of Dorchester and Dedham, vol. 3, to which is added supplements to Volume I. Genealogy of Some Descendants of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower and Volume II. Some Descendants of Dr. Samuel Fuller of the Mayflower. Previously complied and published. Printed for the Compiler (1914). p. 71.
4. ↑ Connecticut Church Records. Abstracts of Vital Records and Membership Records as found in Mansfield First Congregational Church, 1710-1892. p. 50-51.
5. ↑ Mayflower Familes Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth Mass December 1620, vol. iv. 2nd ed. General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1995). p. 70.
6. ↑ Griffiths, Thomas S. A History of Baptists in New Jersey. Hightstown, NJ: Barr Press Publishing Company (1904). pp. 337-38.
7. ↑ Clark, Alan J. "The Indicator of Jonathan Fuller (the Wantage, New Jersey Connection) in Learning about The Past. Florida Society, Sons of the American Revoluation (2012). p. GR-8. Available at HistGen.
8. ↑ Sharon Vital Records, 1739-1865. White, Lorraine Cook, comp. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1994). p. 238.
9. ↑ North, Dexter. John North of Farmington Connecticut and his Descendants with a Short Account of Other Early North Families. Washington, D.C. (1921). p. 25-6.
10. ↑ Harvey, Oscar Jewell; Smith, Ernest Gray. A History of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Wilkes Barre, PA (1901).

Also see:

• Source: S44 Author: Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv; Repository: #R1
• Repository: R1 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
• Source: S46 Author: Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.; Repository: #R1
• Source: S62 Title: Ancestry Family Trees

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Robert Cherry for creating WikiTree profile Fuller-2641 through the import of CherryOttosen_2013-03-19.ged on Mar 19,