> > > > > 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 > a period when no ministers were attached to Needham & few records are extant) > 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. (Silas, jr.was 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.,Vt. - 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). They were the > children of Capt. THOMAS HAND NICKELSON, (30 May 1797, Cape May Co., NJ - 16 > Feb 1846, Drowned at sea off Squan Inlet, NJ in command of his schooner the > Alabama.) & LYDIA FOWLER, (24 Dec 1803 - 12 Nov 1887, West Creek, Cape May > Co., NJ) > > 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, I don't know. Most of Joseph > Fuller's family, brothers, nephews & sons were involved in the Shoemaking > industry. Many are listed as "lived in Lynn, Mass, and Danville, Vt.". > > Silas & Mary must have known Newark residents: JOHN PIKE, 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. They also named children for MARVIN GROW, (1 Mar 1776, Abington, Vt. > - ),son of JAMES GROW & ANNA ADAMS & ROBERT CUTLER ROBINSON, (12 Mar > 1784, Windsor, Vt. - ) Since I have never discovered the parentage > of Silas Fuller, I was hoping that he might have more of a link to Caledonia > County than shoemaking, if that was why he was there. Perhaps his father also > traveled between Mass. & Vt. & married someone in Vermont. Perhaps you have > run across my Silas in your records. Often births, marriages & deaths were > recorded everywhere our ancestors traveled. > > 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