Hi, I am new to this list, but have been studying family histories & genealogies for over 30 years. For all my years of searching, several ancestors continue to elude me, SILAS FULLER is the prime example! My elusive great-great grandfather, Silas Fuller, was born, according to an old family Bible, in Needham, Mass. on 3 Aug 1790, (right in the middle of the period when no ministers were attached to Needham) and died 5 Oct 1846 in Philadelphia, Pa. where he had taken his family to ply his trade as a shoemaker with a friend, NESTOR FRYE, also of Lynn. Silas is buried in Lynn, Mass at the Old or Western Cemetery. Silas married 4 Dec 1815, MARY (POLLY) SWEETSER, (19 Jan 1792, Lynn, Mass.- 16 Dec 1842, Lynn, Mass.) Mary was the daughter of JOSEPH SWEETSER (30 Sep 1766, Saugus, Mass. - 28 Jun 1848, Danville, Caledonia Co., Vt.)(his line in the book: Seth Sweetser and his Descendants, by P.S.Sweetser 1938 is (SAMUEL, MICHAEL, SAMUEL, BENJAMIN, SETH). Joseph Sweetser married 3 Apr 1787, SARAH CHEEVER (28 Feb 1762, Lynn, Mass. - 15 Aug 1849, Lynn, Mass.), the daughter of EZEKIEL CHEEVER and MARY GILES. Mary Sweetser, Silas' wife, apparantly was a twin as CLARISSE SWEETSER is listed as Joseph & Sarah Sweetser's daughter and as being born on 9 Jan 1792(should be 19 Jan 1792, I guess). Clarisse married 6 Nov 1816, JACOB SKINNER. Silas & Mary Fuller had nine Children: 1. SILAS FULLER, JR., (30 Dec 1816, Newark, Vt. or Lynn, Mass.) married 27 Nov 1837, Lynn, Mass. MARY BREED. (listed in the Phila., Pa directory until 1872:"Silas Fuller, lamps, 924 Spring Garden, house 1005 Race Street") 2. ROBERT ROBINSON FULLER, (13 Dec 1818, Cambridge, Mass) married 30 Mar 1845, Lynn, Mass. SARAH ANN PIERCE. 3. DAVID PIKE FULLER, (30 Mar 1821, Newark, Caledonia Co., Vt. - ) 4. JOHN PIKE FULLER, (29 Apr 1823, Newark, Caledonia Co., Vt. - ) 5. MARVIN GROW FULLER, (1 Mar 1826, Newark, Caledonia Co., Vt. - ) married @1850, ELIZABETH J. of Maryland. 6. ANDREW FULLER, (22 Feb 1828, Newark, Caledonia Co., - 19 Jul 1834) 7. CYNTHIA PIKE FULLER, (26 Feb 1831, Newark, Caledonia Co., Vt. - ) married DANIEL HAND.(probably of Cape May Co., NJ) 8. HENRY FRANCIS FULLER, (30 Dec 1833, Lynn, Mass.) married MARTHA NICKELSON, (14, Feb 1827 West Creek, Cape May Co., NJ- ) 9. MARY JANE FULLER, (6 Dec 1836 [or 7 Dec 1835], Lynn, Mass.-11 Dec 1884, Philadelphia, Pa.) married THOMAS FOWLER NICKELSON, (4 Nov 1835, West Creek, Cape May Co., NJ - Sep 1895, Richmond, Va.) Thomas Fowler Nickelson was Martha Nickelson's brother, another sister, NAOMI M. NICKELSON, (4 Jun 1832, West Creek, Cape May Co., NJ - ) married Silas Fuller's friend from Lynn, Mass., Nestor Fry(e) Why the Fullers moved to Newark, Caledonia Co., Vt, 22 miles from the Canadian border & @ 20 miles from Danville, Caledonia Co., Vt., where Mary's father Joseph Sweetser would die in 1848 is not known. They must have known Newark residents: DAVID PIKE & his daughter, CYNTHIA PIKE, (21 Oct 1800, Newark Twp.,Caledonia Co., Vt - ) as they named children after them, but the relationship, if any, is not known. Thanks for your time, attention, & interest. Perhaps you have run across my SILAS FULLER, SR. & know who is parents were, if so please get back with me. Dr Ray Giron