Mary (Hayward) Fuller (1667 - bef. 1731)

Born Dec 1667 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Fuller — married Oct 1685 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

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Formerly Mary (Wood) Fuller, whose maiden name has been corrected to Hayward, based upon a reading of the partly torn original marriage record, the book Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass., Howard Genealogy, The American Genealogist, Mary Hayward's birth record, and William Howard/Hayward's will; thus, not the same person as Mary (Wood) Ordway

Biography

This profile is part of the Fuller Name Study.

Mary Hayward / Hayword / Howard, daughter of William Howard/Hayward and of Tabitha Kinsman, was born in December 1667 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony. ^[1]

Mary Hayward / Hayword, birth

In a couple of published family histories and on-line family trees she is known as Mary Wood, but her birth record gives her name as Mary Hayward, and the other primary source for her full name - the torn marriage record - gives her name as M... ...word, which another published family history tells us is Mary Hayward. In any case, her parents definitely could not have been Isaiah and Mercy (Thompson) Wood, nor could she have been born in 1653. Please See: Research Question

[Jo]seph Fuller & M[ary Hay]word, marriage

Mary married Joseph Fuller in October 1685 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} They had the following known children together:

1. Joseph Fuller, b. Aug. 13, 1690; m. 1, Bathsheba Hanchett; m. 2, Elizabeth Hutchins;
2. Thomas Fuller, b. Apr. 6, 1692 ; d. young;
3. William Fuller, b. Mar. 7, 1694; m. Sarah Waite;
4. John Fuller, b. May 16, 1698; d. Sept. 29, 1699;
5. John Fuller, b. Apr. 22, 1701; m.1, Mary Howard ; m.2, Hannah Lord;
6. Benjamin Fuller, b. Apr. 22, 1701; d. June, 1703;
7. Daniel Fuller, b. Jan. 30, 1702; m. Anna Doliver;
8. Benjamin Fuller, b. Aug. 20, 1705; d. July 22, 1722;
9. Ebeneser Fuller, b. Jan. 10, 1707; m. Mary Gritsman;
10. Jacob Fuller, b. Mar. 22. 1712; m. Ann Harris.

Daughter Mary Fuller is mentioned in her father William Howard/Hayward's last will and testament dated 23 July 1709, and proved on 1 August 1709. This will definitely proves that Joseph Fuller's wife was Mary Howard/Hayward/Hayword. ^[6]

William Howard/Hayward, father of Mary (Hayward) Fuller

Mary Hayward/Hayword Fuller passed away before her husband, who died on 22 August 1731.

Excerpt, as found in this profile's older version, with added notes, proving that Joseph Fuller never wed Mary Wood

from 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, 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 – William Hyslop Fuller, pg. 177

"Joseph Fuller ([son of] John), b. ,1658, in Ipswich; d. there Aug. 22, 1731; m. Oct. 1686, Mary Wood, b. Oct. 31, 1653, dau. of Isaiah and Mercy (Thompson) Wood. She died before her husband. ^[7]

Apr. 1, 1680, Joseph Fuller lived with Simon Wood, brother of his wife. ^[8] Was sergeant of militia in Capt. Turner's Co. in the Falls fight in 1676. In Mar., 1692-3, the selectmen of Ipswich set off a lot to Joseph Fuller which he sold to his brother Nathaniel. He was a carpenter by trade. In 1696, he bought of Samuel Bush his Suffield Proprietor's grant. Nov. 1, 1731, William Fuller was appointed administrator of the estate of Joseph Fuller, deceased. No widow mentioned. The administrator reported that "Joseph the eldest son hath acquitted ye estate by an instrument upon record at Springfield, to my satisfaction." The property was divided equally between William, John, Ebenezer, Jacob, and Daniel. Feb. 26, 1742, Ebenezer and Jacob signed receipts for personal property.

Children, born at Ipswich. ^[9]

27. Joseph, b. Aug. 13, 1690; m. 1, Bathsheba Hanchett; m. 2, Elizabeth Hutchins. 28. Thomas, b. Apr. 6, 1692 ; d. young. 29. William, b. Mar. 7, 1694; m. Sarah Waite. 30. John, b. May 16, 1698; d. Sept. 29, 1699. 31. John, twins, b. Apr. 22, 1701; m.1, Mary Howard ; m.2, Hannah Lord. 32. Benjamin, b. Apr. 22, 1701; d. June, 1703. 33. Daniel, b. Jan. 30, 1702; m. Anna Doliver. 34. Benjamin, b. Aug. 20, 1705; d. July 22, 1722. 35. Ebeneser, b. Jan. 10, 1707; m. Mary Gritsman. 36. Jacob, b. Mar. 22. 1712; m. Ann Harris."

Family Histories are as good as their sources, but most are unsourced. They can be trusted only until proven wrong by sources. The errors sometimes contained in family histories are due to information not based upon actually-consulted sources, but rather upon hearsay, oral tradition or someone else's reporting. One can suspect that the author of the above family history, which does not give any source for Joseph Fuller's marriage to a Mary Wood, based his misinformation upon someone else's faulty reading of the original marriage record, which by then was already torn, and only showed M .... word. In a hurry, that could look like M. ... Wood. But in fact, the name is Mary Hayword (variant of Hayward, Howard).

Sources

1. ↑ Ipswich Births, page 181. Text: "Mary Hayward / Hayword, daughter of William, born December 1667."
2. ↑ Ipswich, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. The image of the partly-torn original reads: "..seph Fuller was married to M....word October [1685]". See Image.
3. ↑ Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, page 113. Text: "Joseph Fuller married Mary Hayward in October 1685." See image.
4. ↑ New England Marriages prior to 1700, Ancestry.com. Text: " Joseph Fuller & Mary Howard / Hayward / ... word / ... wood, October 1685, Ipswich." All possible readings of Mary's maiden name were included by the transcribers of the torn marriage record. Note: M ... word is what one actually sees on the record. Mary Wood is not a possibility. We know that her maiden name was Hayward from the book Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, p. 113, which states, that "Joseph Fuller married Mary Hayward October 1685." This author might well have seen the original record before it was torn. Also, according to her birth record she is Mary Hayward, daughter of William, and in her father William Howard's Will she is referred to as daughter Mary Fuller.
5. ↑ Howard Genealogy, p. 11. Information: "Joseph Fuller married Mary Howard/Hayward 17 Oct 1685, Ipswich." Cited in American Genealogist. See Image.
6. ↑ The American Genealogist. Last will and testament of William Howard/Hayward of Ipswich, wherein Daughter Mary Fuller is named as one of the heirs. See Image.
7. ↑ This marriage information is based upon a misreading of the torn original marriage record which in fact reads: "..seph Fuller was married to M.... word October [1685]". The history Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, page 113, states: "Joseph [Fuller]1 son John1 married Mary Hayward October 1685", which corresponds perfectly with the now torn, original marriage record, supplying the missing letters. The author must have seen the original marriage record before it was torn. - Fuller-5187 - 21 June 2021
8. ↑ That Simon Wood was brother of his wife is conjecture a posteriori , that is, first of all presuming that Mary Wood was Joseph's wife, which she wasn't, and then thinking that Simon Wood must have been Joseph's brother-in-law.
9. ↑ The birthdate of the real Mary Wood - 1653 - was much too early for Joseph's wife, who would have been impossibly old to be having children with him from 1690 till 1712, i.e. from 37 till 59 years of age! Joseph's true wife, Mary Hayward, on the other hand, was more likely born abt. 1665 - 1667, which is fact is proven by 1) Mary Hayward's birth record, 1667, Ipswich, and 2) William Howard/Hayward's will, wherein Daughter Mary Fuller is named. - Fuller-5187

• Howard, Jarvis Cutler.Descendants of Thomas and Susanna Howard (Hartford, Conn., 1884) Page 10.
• Greene, David L., Was Tabitha, Wife of William Howard of Ipswich, Mass., A Daughter of Robert¹ Kinsman?, The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, 1991) Vol. 66, Page 112.
• Howard Genealogy
• Andersons Great Migration regarding Joseph's father John and list of children. (New England;The Great Migration; Vol 2, C-F PAGE 598-602) Note: this work incorrectly considers Mary Wood to be Joseph Fuller's wife. He was in fact married to Mary Howard/Hayward/Hayword. See image of The American Genealogist article.

Profile History & Acknowledgements

Whitney Rappas originally created WikiTree profile Wood-30981 on 16 May 2019, as a duplicate of the older profile Wood-29441. On 20 June 2021 Albertus adopted Wood-30981 and changed the incorrect maiden name Wood to Hayward, thus creating the present profile Hayward-5538, which then became a duplicate of Howard-9511. On 22 June 2021 Derrick Watson merged Howard-9511 into Hayward-5538, deferring to the name Mary Hayward found on her birth record.