After the snow melts and we will be able to get in the door of the Rensselaerville Grist Mill where our records are in our Research Room, we will look in a hard cover book we have with Fuller genealogy. Yes, the Fullers were descended from Mayflower folk. The first minister in the Rensselaerville hamlet was Samuel Fuller and we have a lot about his forebears and his descendants but the name Reuben does not ring a bell at the moment. Since he came to Rensselaerville and not to Albany it is likely that your Reuben is not a direct relation but since most if not all the Fullers were descended from that Mayflower ancestor it is possible that the information we have might point to Reuben. I find it interesting that David's middle name was Tuttle since the ward of Rev. Samuel Fuller, Mary Brewerton Hedges, wrote a story about "Tuttleville" that was obviously really Rensselaerville. Maybe she knew of Fuller ancestors named Tuttle????? In the story she speaks of "Tuttleville" early settlers having come from Massachusetts and their reverence for "The Rock" which obviously refers to their arrival at Plymouth Rock, aka on the Mayflower. Janet Haseley, Research Chair, Rensselaerville Historical Society In a message dated 4/3/2009 11:49:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lbmurphy@hotmail.com writes: I would be very grateful if someone would do an obituary lookup at the NY State Library for me. The individual is Reuben Fuller, who lived in Albany and died June 18, 1841. According to the Presbyterian Burial Ground inscriptions in Munsell's "Annals of Albany", he was 72 at death, so I'm assuming a birthdate of 1768 or 1769 for Reuben. I'm hoping to find an obituary listing his wife's, children's and parents' names and, with great good luck, birthplaces. I don't think the Times Union was publishing yet, but I've read that there was a lively newspaper culture in Albany at the time, with several papers extant. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know which paper would have the most informative obituary, but someone familiar with the library resources for Albany county might. Reuben has proved to be a stubborn brick wall. There is an oral family tradition that he was a Mayflower descendant, originally from Connecticut, but no further information on lines of descent. He appears in the 1800 Albany census. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Albany, baptized in 1813 and leaving the church in 1834. A church record indicates his wife, Sarah Ann (Tuttle) Fuller became a member in 1818 and died on April 25, 1823. He may have remarried, since I've found a death notice for an "Elizabeth, wife of Reuben Fuller", dated April 25, 1833, from Munsell's "Annals of Albany". Reuben Fuller had at least one daughter, Maria, who joined the church March 26, 1819, and one son, David Tuttle Fuller, who married Mary Frances Sinclair (sometimes "St. Clair"), also of Albany. I have much information on the David T. Fuller line down to the present. Thanks very much to anyone who might be able to help! _________________________________________________________________ Quick access to your favorite MSN content and Windows Live with Internet Explorer 8. http://ie8.msn.com/microsoft/internet-explorer-8/en-us/ie8.aspx?ocid=B037MSN55 C0701A ====NY-Albany Mailing List==== Check out the mailing list's website at:http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Albany/ Add/check your Albany surnames on the Surname Registry. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYALBANY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Eat Great & Lose Weight FASTER! Start the South Beach Diet Online FREE! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221394870x1201432948/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B213623126%3B35100424%3Bk)