Abram Fuller (1771 - 1856)

Born 18 Dec 1771 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Desire (Foster) Fuller — married before 4 Feb 1803 in Livermore, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1856 at age 84 in Lagrange, Penobscot, Maine, United States

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Biography

Birth

The birth of Abram Fuller, the son of John Fuller and Anna (Tobey) Fuller, was recorded at Winthrop, Maine (then in Massachusetts) with a date of 18 Dec 1771.^[1] The 1928 history of Livermore, Maine, says that his parents did not move to Winthrop from Barnstable, Massachusetts, until 1773.^[2] The birth of his brother Isaac, born in 1769, is recorded at Barnstable^[3] and was re-recorded at Winthrop after his parents moved there,^[4] but Abram's birth is recorded only at Winthrop. The 1850 Census shows his birthplace as Massachusetts,^[5] and the 1908 Fuller genealogy says he was born at Barnstable.^[6] His name at his birth was recorded as Abram, but it appears later both as Abram and as Abraham.

Marriage

On 15 Jan 1800, Abram Fuller (recorded as Abraham Fuller) and Desire Foster, both of Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts), published at Livermore their intention to marry.^[7] and they married on 2 Feb 1800; a transcription of the marriage record appears in the vital records of Hallowell, Maine, but is gives no place,^[8] and it is unlikely that they were married there. Their first known child was born at Livermore on 4 Feb 1803.^[9]

Childen

Abram and Desire (Foster) Fuller recorded the following children at Livermore, Maine.^[9]In the 1820 census, the Abraham Fuller household includes four male and two female children; the oldest female child was aged 16 to 25, and she may not have been a daughter, or she may have been their daughter and born before started recording children at Livermore in 1803.^[10]

1. Orin Fuller, born on 4 Feb 1803
2. Samuel Foster Fuller, born on 31 Mar 1804
3. John Hiram Fuller, born on 7 Aug 1806
4. Michael Fuller, born on 6 May 1809
5. Katharine Barton Fuller, born on 9 Jan 1811

Residences

Abram Fuller was in Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts) by the date of his marriage intention in January 1800.^[7] The last record of him there is the 1820 census.^[10] The 1928 history of Livermore says that he lived in East Livermore and later moved to Lagrange, Maine, where he died.^[2] The 1850 Census shows him living at Lagrange with his wife Desire in the household of Jos. A. Thomas.^[5]

Death

The gravestone at the Hill Crest Cemetery in Lagrange, Maine, says that Abram Fuller died on 8 Dec 1856 at the age of 85.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Abram Fuller, 1771 FamilySearch transciption of the birth record of Abram Fuller, in Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900, database, FamilySearch
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), pages 107-108
3. ↑ Transcription of the birth record of Isaac Fuller (AmericanAncestors.org subscription may be required), in Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016) > Barnstable > page 233 of 797. The page is labeled "Volume III" and marked as page 233 in that volume
4. ↑ FamilySearch transcription of the birth record of Isaac Fuller, in Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900, database, FamilySearch, Isaac Fuller, 1769.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} A. Fuller, 78, and Desire Fuller, 77, in the Jos. A. Thomas household, family #31, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Penobscot > La Grange > image 4 of 12; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ William Hyslop Fuller, Fuller Genealogies, Volume III: Genealogies of Some Descendants of Captain Matthew Fuller (Palmer, Mass., 1914) page 75
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; "Livermore Vital Records, 1762-1810," unpaginated; FHL Microfilm 11332, image 286 of 718
8. ↑ Undated transcription by the town clerk of Hallowell, Maine, of the marriage record of Abraham Fuller and Desire Foster, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Delayed returns for vital records 1670-1891 > Frost, 1834-Gardner, 1818 > image 1155 of 4858; multiple sources, Maine. The Hallowell vital records contain may transcriptions for events that happened elsewhere.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} A record of the names and times of the births of the children of Abram Fuller and Desire his wife, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910 > "Livermore Vital Records, 1786-1840 > page 227 > Image 146 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Abraham Fuller household, in United States Census, 1820, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Oxford > Livermore > image 6 of 11; citing NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). The household included five males, one 45 and up, two 18 to 15 (both 16 to 18), and two 5 to 10; and three females, one each 45 and up, 16 to 25, and under 10
11. ↑ Photos of the two pieces of the broken gravestone of Abram Fuller and "Desire, His Wife" (Find A Grave: Memorial #65817517)