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Dear Don and all other Fultons my info possible link to David Fulton born Feb 23 1762 Scotland. Parents Andrew Fulton, Agnes Baine, in the Gen. file it says film no 446191. Batch no 71889 how do you access this info so that you can look at it? The actual film may tell more from what I understand anybody help. Stephen.

I have photographs of Willie Frances Fulton aka Booey born 4-2-1918 daughter of William B. & Elizabeth Cox Fulton of Gate City, VA. Married June 5, 1939 to Frank LeRoy Lilley. Granddaughter of Mary Banner Cox. This is not my family. Any interest in these photos? Contact me direct at molliver@kiski.net .

Found a David born 1762 in England that could be our David his fathers name was Andrew and his Granddads name was also Andrew any one related to this line? Thanks Stephen.

Hi my name is Stephen Schifani and here is some of my background my great-grandmothers name was iva Lou Fulton born 1880 in Lisbon NY died 1974 buried i Lisbon cemetery her dads name was James knox fulton born 1844 died 1918 buried same hotelkeeper and farmer. his dads name was Adonijah Fulton born 1807 in Stamford VT died 1880 in Lisbon buried in fulton cemetery and his dad was David Fulton born unknown died 1822 buried in fulton cemetery wife Polly 1773-1813. any info or links to my family would be appreciated thanks Stephen.

Reference - Roberta Hirth's reply to Sharyn WIsely Anderson. My main interest is the Fultons of Lisburn Co Antrim, but in researching them I have found references to other Northern Ireland Fultons which I keep though have not tried to analyse. I have a copy of the Fulton section of the Grove Documents held in the Public Record Office in Belfast (Grove was a genealogist who was working before the records were lost in Dublin in 1922, and his transcriptions are sometimes the only record to survive). This shows that Rev Thomas was the first minister (Presbyterian) of Dunboe, but that before 1660 he had moved to present day Limavady known at that time as Drumachose or Newton-Limavady, from whence he was evicted at the Restoration of King Charles after the Cromwellian period. Limavady is about 12 or 14 miles west of Dunboe, still in Co Londonderry. The Grove Document also contains a summary of his will made on 27 Dec 1688 when he was again the minister of Drumachose, and this confirms the facts as set out by Roberta Hirth. Other references to Dunboe in the Grove Doc. are:- Index of Derry Wills - James Fulton of Dunboe died 1721 Hearth Money Roll for 1663(a form of tax) - Dunboe parish in Coleraine 1/2 Barony - Henry Fulton one hearth 2s(hillings) (two shillings was 1/10 of £1) Muster Roll of Ulster 1630 - a register of able bodied men over 16 years able to be called on to defend the country includes two Fultons, David and John in Coleraine Barony but does not give a more specific location. Subsidy Roll Co Londonderry 1662 has an entry - Dunboe Parish Goods - Robert Fulton of Ballymore valuation £6 Assessment £3 4s. (I do not know but suggest that Ballymore is one of the townlands into which the Parish of Dunboe is divided) There is a note saying that Ballywoolen townland of 238 1/2 acres is in Dunboe parish in Coleraine 1/2 Barony and in County Londonderry. Commonwealth Orderbook shows that Thomas Fulton was at Drumachose and receiving £60 yearly for the year from 28th Sept 1655 and it was made £80 yearly from 24 June 1657. He was struck off the salary list in 1658 because he had been put in possession of tythes. (Tythes were a levy nominally of 10%, hence tythe, of the annual produce of parishioners which was paid to their minister - this was normally the Anglican clergyman but during the Commonwealth when the King was deposed and Cromwell ruled it was granted to presbyterians in some cases - I am not familiar with all the details) Parliamentary Return of Protestant Householders 1740 Dunboe Parish - Robert Fulton, J Fulton and (surprisingly as this is a list of Fulton records) Robert Gutery - this looks remarkably like a spelling variant of Guthrie as in Abraham Fulton and Margaret Guthrie. There is no explanation of why this name was included in the Fulton list. This seems to be all the Fultons linked to Dunboe in this section of the Grove Docs. The full reference in PRONI is T.808 pages 4768 to 4776. Trevor Fulton

Reference: Note from Sharyn Wisely Anderson <sanderson@nwaluminum.com> dated 29 July 1999 regarding Dunboe, Wisely ancestors, and requesting information on Abraham Fulton and Maragret Guthrie Anderson, Sharyn" wrote:> > Dear Roberta, > I am so glad you wrote back to me. I was at 1st Dunboe Church last month > with my grown daughter, researching my family, the Wisely family, of > Ballywildrick... Dear Sharyn, Glad to hear that your visit in Dunboe was so rewarding when you searched the church registers. The Rev. James McCaughan and his wife Alison at Dunboe are such gracious hosts. I highly recommend reading Alison A. McCaughan's book HEATH, HEARTH AND HEART, The Story of Dunboe & the Meeting House at Articlave, Coleraine Printing Co, Londonderry, NI, 1988. She gives a wonderful analysis of the historical times that influenced the community at Dunboe. I have a copy of the first two chapters that covers 1603-1800 and can start a "Round Robin" exchange for those who are interested. Unfortunately the book is out of print. You mentioned about a Rev. Fulton was the founding pastor of the First Dunboe and that his descendants pretty much owned one of the townlands. In the pamphlet "First Dunboe An Historical Sketch" by the Rev James Mark, privately published 1936, on page 6 he lists a Thomas Fulton 1656, not a James, as the first Presbyterian minister of Dunboe. He states that the descendants of Thomas Fulton owned the townland of Ballywoolen which rests on the River Bann where it flows into the ocean. He says they were tillers of the soil until the year 1772, when they migrated to America and that the farms once owned by the Fultons now belong to four families named Dugan. Some researchers who have analyzed Thomas Fulton's will feel that he had no living children because his will (of which there is an extract in P.R.O.N.I. - T808 4776) does not mention any descendants, only his brother William and sisters Barbara and Margaret. Perhaps Abraham Fulton and Margaret Guthrie were a collateral branch to Thomas' line. Returning to Rev Mark's pamphlet, on page 7 he comments, "It is interesting to record some of the names of old families in Dunboe connected with the Presbyterian Church in 1663 and who are still represented in the parish and connected with our Church - Hazlett, Fulton, Morrison, Blair, Hyndman, Cunningham, Anderson, M'Clelland, Barr, Henry, and Jeffers." > Do you know anything about the above reference [Abraham Fulton > and Margaret Guthrie]? He suggests that I look for > Wiselys in the Derry Presbyterian Church history. On the Fulton discussion list archives there is a great deal of information on Abraham Fulton/Margaret Guthrie lines. ROOTSWEB has now provided on menu-driven interface to search the archives of the discussion lists. It can be reached at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Specify Fulton-L and search for Guthrie. I am not familar with the Wisely family. I will :cc the Fulton discussion list in case someone on the list can offer you more information. It does not appear in the index of the book the Fulton Family of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania by Ernest Craighead, but keep in mind that indexes are rarely complete. It sounds as though you feel that your Wisely family must have been in Pennsylvania. Genealogical "How-to" books recommend start with what you know and work backwards. Check the neighbors of Wiselys in the area in the U.S where you know they lived. Also, since you know where your Wisely's were located in Dunboe, check out their neighbors' surnames. Did any of them migrate ? That may give you leads as to where your Wiselys first settled. Do you know when the immigrant ancestor arrived in America ? From the book, The Presbytery of Coleraine, by Julia E. Mullin, Belfast, 1979 on page 79 it states: "Descendants of Mr. Fulton farmed at Ballywoolen on the river Bann until 1772 when Abraham Fulton and his wife Margaret (nee Guthrie of Exorna) and their children James, Robert, Abraham, Henry, Joseph and Margaret emigrated to America. The Fulton family were given a certificate from Dunboe church before they left Ireland - it was dated 26 May 1772 and signed by the Rev Wm Knox, minister of Dunboe at that time. A number of families emigrated from Dunboe at this time including Wm and John Guthrie, and John Boyd and his wife who was a daughter of Abraham and Margaret Fulton. They landed at Baltimore and penetrated into western Pennsylvania as far a Westmoreland County, which was just opening up for settlers, and established a hamlet which they called Derry and which is now a flourishing town in Pennsylvania. During the American war of Independence the emigrants from Dunboe fought against the home country and served in the Westmoreland County Militia in support of Washington. John Boyd was paymaster and Wm and John Guthri, Abraham, James, Robert, Joseph, and Henry Fulton were all privates. After the war, the emigrants built a church in Derry called "Old Salem Presbyterian Church" and John Boyd was an elder in this church. Four of his sons became ministers - Abraham of Bull Creek Presbyterian Church, Pennsylvania, John of several churches in Pennsylvania, Benjamin and James of churches in Ohio." Dunboe was instrumental in "populating" numerous other areas in America. You may want to focus on some of the primary ones, although this is not an efficient way of researching and should only be used after you have exhausted all your resources in the areas that you definitely know your folks were living in. Rev. Marks mentioned that Dunboe folks settled in Casco Bay, Maine and Londonderry, New Hampshire, Derry, Westmoreland, PA, and Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co, PA In Rev. Mark's booklet pages 24-25 he mentions his trip to America in 1926 to raise money for the Dunboe church and he visited churches at Mauch Chunk, Summit Hill and Catasauqua, PA all of which were started by emigrants from the First Dunboe. He also found "kinsfolk" in Bethlehem. In the book, GENEALOGIES, NECROLOGY, and REMINISCENCES of the IRISH SETTLEMENT or A Record of those Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Families who were First Settlers in the "Forks of Delaware," now Northampton county Pennsylvania - A Sequel to the History of the Allen Township Presbyterian Church, by Rev. John C. Clyde, A.M. Whose Ancestry have been identified with the Settlement from its Infancy, publ by the author,1879, it discusses early settlers in an area not far from Catasauqua, PA. There are no Wisely or Fultons listed in the Index. On page 16 it states, "John Boyd was born in or near Edinburg, Scotland, in sixteen hundred and ninety. He removed thence, with his father's family, to Antrim, Ireland, in seventeen hundred. From thence he removed to America, when twenty-four years of age, in seventeen hundred and fourteen settling in Philad'a. In seventeen hundred and fifteen, he married 2 jane Craig, sister to 3 Thomas Craig. She was born in Scotland, in sixteen hundred and ninety-five. John and 2 Jane Boyd removed, with Col Thomas Craig and other families, from Phil'a, about seventeen hundred and twenty-eight, and formed what was afterwards known as the Irish Settlement in Northamptom County, Pa." Even though the above quote does not provide us any specific information on Wisely or Fulton, is does nicely document the migration pattern we see for so many of our families: from Scotland, to Northern Ireland, to America. Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York 10926 FULTON web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm

A recent posting mentioned a David Fulton of Craven Co. SC ( current Williamsburg Co.) who had a land grant in Kingstree in 1731, who's descendants went to Maury Co. TN. ( 1803- 1830) with other generations to AL. I am looking for information of a David & Jeremiah Fulton who came out of TN. to AL. during the 1800's. Any help will be most appreciated.

What you want is a copy of "The Fulton Family of Westmoreland County, Pennsyl- vania, 1712-1772-1940," by Ernest Craighead, which everyone just calls "Craighead." It was pub. in 1940 in mimeo. I can make you a copy, but it runs more than 200 pp. and I suspect that there is a great deal in it you wouldn't be interested in. If yer interested, I'll do it at 5 cents a page, which would cost you about ten bucks or more. But I couldn't do it for a few weeks; I'm still teaching summer school. h.l. fulton

I'm looking for someone who may have a copy of "The Fulton Family of Westmoreland Co. PA 1712-1772-1940". I read a posting on the Fulton forum referring to this publication. I have only one Fulton in my tree so far: MARGARET FULTON from Patterson Mills, PA. She married John Patterson abt. 1790-1800. John was born in PA 1770. Margaret's parents are unknown. Margaret and John removed to Morgan Co. OH abt 1815 with their one known son William Henry Patterson. Anyone knowing of my Margaret Fulton or anyone having a copy of the above book, please respond! I have just discovered my Fultons and want to know more about them. Thanks. Sharyl ferrall@mtaonline.net

Kathy wrote: > Looking for information on Jerusha Fulton b. about 1875-85 maybe in > Mobile, AL, d. about 1950 in Mobile. She married John William Warren ... > Kathy http://members.xoom.com/genealogykat/index.html Dear Kathy, Search the Fulton discussion list archives for Bibb Co, AL and Shelby Co, AL for previous posts about Fultons in those areas. Below are three web pages that focus on the James B. FULTON and Anastasia TUEL lines. Their descendant Horatio Fulton m. Gilly James and some of their children were born in Alabama. I believe they ended up in Walker Co, AL. James B. Fulton b 21 Jan 1765 in Bordenton, Burlington Co., NJ; Served in the Rev. War in Frederick Co (current Montgomery Co), MD; m. Anastsia Tuel 27 May 1787; d. 27 April 1848 in York Co, SC. Glenn Busbin from Inman, SC has a web site at: http://members.aol.com/Busbin8088/home.html Chris Kolda from Princeton, NJ has a web site at: http://phyweb.lbl.gov/~kolda/fulton/ Sylvia Caldwell Rankin from Marietta, GA has a web site at: http://www.studiosr.com/research/ Recently several research "how-to" books have been published that provide hints on how to research female lines, such as "The Hidden Half of the Family, A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy" by Chritina K. Schaefer. It contains hints on this challenging area of research. Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York 10926 FULTON web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm

From: "The Original Scots Colonists of Early America" 1612 - 1783 David Dobson Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, Maryland, Copyright 1989 Introduction "The Scottish participation in the settlement of America dates from the early seventeenth century, and from that time until the American Revolution probably around 150,000 Scots emigrated to the New World. During the seventeenth century many Scots settled within the English, Dutch and French colonies, while others attempted to establish independent Scots colonies in Nova Scotia, New Jersey, South Carolina and at Darien (Note: Darien is the Scots' name for Panama.). After the political union of Scotland and England in 1707 the Scots had unrestricted access to the English plantations in America. Emigration expanded slowly but steadily until 1763 when a combination of factors in Scotland and America stimulated emigration, especially from the Highlands. Although Scots could be found throughout the American colonies from Barbados to Rupert's Land, areas such as Georgia, the Carolinas, upper New York, Nova Scotia and Jamaica had the greatest concentration of Scottish immigrants. This then was the general pattern of Scottish immigration and settlement in colonial America." http://members.aol.com/Busbin8088/scots.html

lori lester wrote: > Roberta, > My S-I ancestors came over very early (1713) and pushed to the > frontier, which at that time was basically central Massachusetts. The town > they settled in (Rutland, MA) had so many S-I immigrants that a section of > the town was informally called "Dublin" and eventually broke away to form > the town of Oakham. I would love to know how so many immigrants decided to > form a community in this one small town ... > -- Marty Lester > lorilester@sprintmail.com Dear Marty, Usually Scotch-Irish who came over in the early 1700s, as your family did, came with other members of their religious communities. For example, potential colonists from the Bann Valley in Northern Ireland appointed the Rev. William Boyd, from Macosquin, to act as their agent in negotiating acquiring land from Governor Samuel Shute of Mass. Over 300 men from Northern Ireland signed a Petition that the Rev. Boyd presented to the Governor in 1718. Included among the signatures is a Fulton. (In the book, Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America by Charles Bolton p 329, it is listed as ?Peatter Fulltone or Jeatter Fueltone. I have also seen it listed as Yeatter, so some of the letters must be unclear). In Charles A. Hanna's book, The Scotch Irish Vol II, on page 17 he describes how the group of 600-800 who arrived in Boston 4 Aug 1718 were not welcome by the Puritan communities unless they joined the state church. Few were willing to join and as a result were encouraged to move elsewhere. "Govenor Shute assured them of his willingness to permit them to settle on the frontier, and establish new communities of their own....The governor granted them a township right, covering an area twelve miles square, which they were privileged to occupy at such suitable place in the wilderness as they may select." Hanna continues to describe how some of these went to Casco Bay, Maine, and later some to Nutfield (later called Londonderry) New Hampshire. On page 18, he states that others passed the winter on the frontier at Dracut and Andover, waiting for a suitable tract of land for permanent settlement should be found...Another portion of the emigrants who came to Boston in 1718, located at Worcester, Massachusetts, which was then also a post on the New England frontier. Hanna further explains (p 21) that some of the Puritans who had already settled in Worcester demanded the S-I pay their Puritan minister. Over this disagreement in 1738 new groups of S-I families branched out to purchase and settle a new township of Pelham, thirty miles west of Worcester, another group established themselves in Coleraine, fifty miles northwest of Worcester, and a third group settled in Otsego Co, NY. About thirty S-I families continued to live in Worcester and tried to build a meeting house, which was destroyed by the Puritans. On page 22, "Following the destruction of their church many of the families who had remained in Worcester now removed, and it is significant that the third and fourth purely Scotch-Irish towns in Massachusetts, namely Western (now Warren) in Worcester County, and Blandford in Hampden county, both incorporated the next year, 1741. The later movement of individual families from Worcester and Pelham and Coleraine and Western and Blandford carried Scotch-Irish blood into every township of western Massachutsetts, and ultimately into most of the townships in Vermont and New York"... "The prejudice against the Scotch_irish Presbyterians extended to every part of New England" On page 20, "Although staunch Protestants, the Puritans who made up the earlier settlers, were not ready to tolerate the Presbyterianism of the newcomers" And this is why I feel that the focus of subsequent S-I migration quickly shifted from New England to Pennsylvania where William Penn's land agents initially welcomed them to settle. On page 16, Hanna discusses how Thomas Craighead and Samuel Gelston were among the first ministers from Northern Ireland to arrive in New England in 1715. It is interesting that Rev. Craighead initially settled in Assonet (Freetown), Bristol County, Mass, but eight years later he moved to Pennsylvania. Rev. Gelston arrived in New England but moved to Delaware and then to Southampton, LI. I am amazed how these folks moved around in such early times. By the way, the towns you mention, Rutland and Oakham, Mass, are very close to Worcester, Mass, and perhaps their creation may be explained by the antagonism that existed between the Puritans and Presbyterians. Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York 10926 listowner fulton-l discussion group FULTON web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm

...dang fingers got away from me again!!! i APOLOGIZE for shipping the joke to the list!!! it was not meant to go there!!! :( jean

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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E2D814D38C0086CEA6772E97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I figured I would send it again in hoping that someone would have information. Thanks Lynn --------------E2D814D38C0086CEA6772E97 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by berry.epix.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1a/1998081801/Philippe Levan) with ESMTP id RAA03717 for <sjb@epix.net>; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:25:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA26977; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3713E089.21097335@epix.net> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:25:46 -0700 From: Lynn Steward <sjb@epix.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: Fulton-L@rootsweb.com Subject: John Boyd and Mary Fulton Boyd Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"0zB9PB.A.NlG.ZW7E3"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: FULTON-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: FULTON-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <FULTON-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/898 X-Loop: FULTON-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: FULTON-L-request@rootsweb.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 I am looking for information on John Boyd and Mary Fulton Boyd.Mary Fulton is the daughter of Abraham Fulton and margaret Guthrie.When my great,great,great grandparents James Boyd and Margaret(Bridgit)Reed Boyd came to america between the years 1804-07 they stayed with them till 1810. Then they settled in Tuscarawas county Ohio.John and Mary came over with Abraham and Margaret ,Mary's parents, in 1772 on the General Wolfe and settled in Westmoreland county Pa.John and Mary had nine children.Rev.John Boyd1768-1816,Rev.Abraham 1770-1845,Rev.James 1774-1813,Rev.Benjamin1776-1859,Robert 1779-1839,Henry 1780-1864,Margaret 1785-1874 and Joseph 1793-1847. I am trying to find out the names of John Boyds parents and James(my great,great,great grandfather) .They are related to each other in someway but I am unsure how. James was born in county tyrone in Fintona,Ireland in 1771.John was born in Coleraine Londonderry Ireland in between the years 1734-40. He could possibly be an uncle or maybe cousin. I am adopted and have been reunited with my birth family.It means alot to me to be able to learn about my history.If anyone has any ideas on James and John please email me at sjb@epix.net I also would love anymore information on any of these four people. thank you and hope to hear from somebody soon. I ultimately am trying to trace my ggggrandparents back to Ireland to Scotland where all the Boyds come from. I have been told we go directly back to the Boyds of Scotland castle and all! I can't seem to get any information at all from Ireland. If anyone has any suggestions let them roll!again thanks alot! Lynn(Sharon Boyd) Steward --------------E2D814D38C0086CEA6772E97--

Looking for information on Jerusha Fulton b. about 1875-85 maybe in Mobile, AL, d. about 1950 in Mobile. She married John William Warren and had at least one son, Ennis Addison Warren b. 1901. I have no information on her parents or siblings whatsoever. Any help is appreciated. Kathy http://members.xoom.com/genealogykat/index.html

Dear Helen, Your note to the Scotch-Irish discussion group on communication and migration is interesting and raises some important questions that all of us need to address in order for us to better understand our roots and to help us make the connection to the other side of the Atlantic. Could you please let me know the names of your folks who came from Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1850 ? My gr-gr-gr-gr grandfather and grandmother had their banns of marriage read at the Stewarton parish church in 1773 (James Fulton b 1739 Dalkeith/Mussleburgh area, Scotland, and Agnes/Nancy Cunningham). They migrated to NY in 1782/1783. In America, they belonged to churches commonly referred to as Covenanter Churches. When analyzing their migration path, family and connections to friends played a critical role in their travels to seek a better life. I am very fortunate that James created a few pages of autobiographical material a month before he died in 1824 that helps me to better understand his life in the late 1700s. Blood ties were very strong, but so were friendships in the religious community. I know that my James lived in the Dalkeith,Scotland area, worked as a shoemaker in Edinburgh on Leith Street, made a trip to Northern Ireland to visit with the family of his half-Uncle in Londonderry, migrated to NYC, made a special trip from NY to Philadelphia to search out a cousin who had traveled from Northern Ireland to PA about 20 years before. Unfortunately the cousin had died. James was illiterate, but through verbal communication with the family, he was able to keep track of his extended family. But how did my James in Dalkeith and NY maintain connections - he could not write ? I believe it was through verbal communication with an extended network of family, friends and the Church. His initial contact in NYC was through a "letter of introduction" he brought with him to a friend of his wife's family, James Duane. The ship had been blown off-course and first landed in Bermuda and delayed his trip to NYC. By the time he reached NY, he had no money and James Duane provided my James Fulton and his large family a house and free rent for one year to help him become financially solvent again. My James said he initially worked as a laborer in NYC and Kingston, NY to rebuild buildings that had been damaged during the Revolutionary War. I have wondered how did my James Fulton track down the information about his half-cousin who had settled in Lancaster,PA 20 years earlier. There was a James Fulton, the wealthy merchant in Philadelphia, who maintained extensive business ledgers. Although this is not my Fulton line, he seems to have played a key role in maintaining communication across the Atlantic. I believe that this merchant was my James' key contact in Philadelphia when he was searching for his cousin from Londonderry, although his business in Philadelphia had been burned down during the War and he was retiring. James Fulton, the literate merchant in Philadelphia, ran a shipping trade between Philadelphia, ports on the eastern seaboard of America and Londonderry. The business ledgers of James Fulton, the Philadelphia merchant, demonstrate an extensive communication between him and folks on the Western frontier of PA because of the movement of his merchandise. A transcript of 200 of his business transactions from 1760 thru 1772 are available at the Lancaster Historical Society. Merchant James Fulton, his brother John Fullton of Rathmelton, Ireland (near Londonderry), and Ephraim Campbell were partners in the shipping business. When I visited the library in Londonderry in 1995, they had an index to "The Londonderry Journal & General Advertiser", an old newspaper, that advertised the shipping/merchant business of this family that was located at Bishop Street (entries for 1772-1773). They engaged in a lot of trade between Boston, Phildadelphia, Ireland, Scotland, and England. They even owned their own ship, the "Hibernia". The Ulster American Folk Park has the microfilms of these newspapers. In James' ledgers, there are numerous entries for folks in PA, but also some entries for others in New England. His business was widespread. One of the entries mentions a James Fulton, surveyor. An entry in the day book, 12 Nov 1767, charged James Fulton surveyor, in Halifax, with sundry surveying tools and supplies shipped to him via the ship "Charming Nancy", John Maloney, Master. The charges included the standard 5% commission to merchant James Fulton. In about 1950, Herbert L Leister, a professional accountant and Fulton researcher analyzed these ledgers and made the following notation: "Please see my letter 6.15.46 to Dr. William R. Fulton, re tradition in his line from William Fulton, Fawn Twp., York County - two Fultons came over; one stayed in Penna. - one went to Nova Scotia." So this just gives a brief example of the type of communication that took place among "extended network of friends and businessmen". Another type of communication that was very extensive occurred through the Covenanter churches. As I study the Fulton migration paths, it appears that the ministers of their communities had solid communication with other communities up and down the eastern seaboard as early as the 1760's. The communication also extended to Northern Ireland and Scotland. I believe it was because the church "synods" met on a regular basis, and ministers moved to serve different parishes. And in the early days, they requested ministers from the synods in Scotland. I recall reading that one of these ministers in New England had a brother who was a shipmaster who frequently sailed to Northern Ireland. This facilitated communication between the communities that led to others making the voyage. It is a fascinating area of study, but takes a lot of time. As all of us share information on these discussion groups, the answers to these broader questions will begin to unfold and crystalize. Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York 10926 listowner fulton-l discussion group FULTON web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm

I am so envious of you people who have ancestors that left a paper trail to follow! I do believe mine simply dropped out of the clouds! or as one cousin said, crawled from under a rock! when they aren't listed on census lists, birth/death/marriage records, ships lists or military records, kinda makes me wonder if they were running from something and didn't WANT to be accounted for! oh well...<sigh>.....i always wanted to be a platinum blonde..maybe this gray hair will do it! Jean