Fuller, *Thomas

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NOTES from Helen Gerhard :

"Thomas1 Fuller, who came to America from England in 1638 and settled in Woburn, died in Salem in June, 1698, aged 80 years and 2 months. He married 1st, June 13, 1643, Elizabeth Tidd, dau. of John Tidd of Woburn, and 2d, Aug. 25, 1684, Sarah (Nutt) Wyman, who died May 24, 1688. His 3d wife was Harriet (Pamer) Wilson; date of marriage, and of her death not found. Woburn, incorporated Sept. 27, 1642, was previously a part of Charlestown. According to Sewall's History of Woburn, Thomas Fuller was a subscriber to the Town Orders of Woburn, drawn up in Charlestown, in December, 1640. He was a blacksmith, and had meadow land granted him in 1648, and also, "4 poles square of swamp next to his shop." He bore the title of "sargeant" in 1656, and of lieutenant in 1685. He was Selectman in the years 1663, 1664 and 1685. His wife Elizabeth dying, he appears to have removed to Salem about 1664; to have returned in 1684; married his second wife, and after her death returned to Salem and married his 3d wife, who survived him and came to Woburn, to live with her married daughters. According to Stiles' History Essex County, Thomas Fuller purchased in 1663, some 300 acres in that part of Salem now known as Middleton, (incorporated in 1728), and erected a dwelling house there, and had a blacksmith shop. He made his will June 9, 1698, and it was probated in Salem, July 4, 1698. The legatees were sons Thomas, Benjamin, Jacob; daughters "Dean," Ruth Wilkins and her daughter, Deborah Shaw, and her two sons and three daughters--Ruth Wheeler, grandson David Richardson, and grand-daughters, Bethiah Fuller, and Ruth Wheeler--with son Jacob Fuller as Executor."

Source:
Fuller, William Hyslop. Genealogy of Some Descendants of Thomas Fuller of Woburn. Privately Published. 1919. (page 9)
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