Folks, Enclosed are some more references to a David Fulton around the Philadelphia, PA area. It looks as though we are dealing with several generations of David Fulton in this area. This thread is really becoming fascinating. As I dig through some of the papers I copied at Salt Lake City, I will provide more updates. I think we are going to have to put the collected facts in chronological order to see how they sort out. Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York 10926 FULTON web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm ****************************************************************** Chris Kolda (cfkolda@lbl.gov) has a web site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kolda/ that describes James & Anastasia [Tuel] Fullton of York County, South Carolina. His site states the following: "James B. Fullton Born: Jan 21, 1765 in Bordentown, Burlington Co, NJ Married: May 27, 1787 to Anastasia Tuel in Montgomery Co, MD by Rev. James Hunt Died: April 26, 1848 in Yorkville, York District, SC James B. Fullton was born and spent the first 6 years in Bordentown, Burlington Co, NJ [1], the son of a tailor, Robert Fullton and his wife, Catherine Sparburn. Catherine's death at or shortly after James' birth forced his father to remarry before James was 6 months old; thus he was raised by his step-mother, Mary Roger Fullton [2]." continuing on... "Finally, the large mystery remains of where Robert and Catherine came from. The name Sparburn is highly unusual -- so much so that I can't find another single reference to it. On the other hand, there were large numbers of Fulton's living just across the Delaware River from Robert and he may well be connected to some of them, though I have never seen how. There may be one subtle clue: an advertisement in the 9 Dec 1756 issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette (published in Philadelphia) from one David Fulton of Cheltenham Twp, Philadelphia Co, announces that he is missing a horse which had been brought to its present home from Bordentown, NJ after the previous harvest. Could this David be someone tied to our Robert?" *************************************************************** >From the FULTON-L archives: Subject: Abstracts from Gen Soc of PA Publications Dated: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 From: dkfulton@futura.net (dorothy k fulton) Vol V 3/1912 p 200 Abstract of Wills of Philadelphia Co David Fulton of Cheltenham Twp, Phil. Co, yeoman; died 11/3/1757, wife Judith; Abel Morgan son in-law; ment plantation purchase of Henry Slingo; Thomas Greer, his sister's son; Presby Cong. at Abrington; Enoch Morgan; Jos. Fulton, his brother's son; exec: friends Archibald McClean of Horsham & Robert McCurdy of Springfield Twp; adm to Judith Fulton, widow of David Fulton, 1/5/1758 exec. named having renounced. ****************************************************************** Pennsylvania Births Montgomery County 1682-1800 by John T. Humphrey, Humphrey Publications, Washington, D.C., 1993. On page 137 it lists from the Records of the Abington Presbyterian Church in Abington Township,PA baptismal register begins 1714. David FULTON bp 3 Aug 1756 father = Robert, mother not given James FULTON bp 11 Dec 1733 father = David, mother not given (Since Montgomery Co, PA was not formed until 1784, these baptism took place in Abington, Philadelphia Co. PA) ******************************************************************