Archive:NEHGR, Volume 166
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Wheelock Whitney III and Carol Botterton, Gideon Hixon & His Hixson/Hixon Ancestors (La Crosse, Wis.: the authors, 2005), ...
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Ezekiel Fuller's estate was inventoried on 4 May 1824 and consisted of 115 acres of land, a dwelling house, and a barn for a total of $1,875 in real estate, plus $492.90 in movables.[100] The heirs reached an agreement on the distribution of the real estate on 8 November 1824, and a final distribution was made on 8 February 1825.[101]
Children of Ezekiel7 and Abigail (-----) Fuller, recorded in Salisbury:[102]
i. MARY8 FULLER, b. -- Feb. 1761; d. 1 July 1761. ii. MARY/MOLLY FULLER, b. 19 April 1764; d. after 1840;[103] m. by 1783 JOEL DEAN, b. Salisbury 3 Oct. 1759, d. after 1840, son of Seth and Sarah (-----) Dean.[104] They moved to Schoharie Co., N.Y., by 1800,[105] amd were living in Broome, Schoharie Co., on 13 Sept. 1827 when they sold Mary Dean's portion of the estate of her father Ezekiel Fuller, deceased, to [their brother-in-law] Ruluff D. Whitney of Sheffield for $5.[106]
Children of Ezekiel and Hannah (Dutcher) Fuller, all born in Salisbury;[107] names of sons-in-law from the distribution of Ezekiel's estate:[108]
iii. MATTHEW FULLER, b. 27 Oct. 1771; d. 10 Jan. 1861, bur. Tully Cemetery, Tully, Onondaga Co., N.Y.;[109] m. ELIZABETH WELDON, b. Sallisbury 19 Dec. 1780, d. 14 June 1844 age 64, daughter of Elijah and Ruth (Westcott) Weldon.[110]
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101 Berkshire County Probate, 28:99, 285. The recipients were widow Hannah Fuller; Bathsheba, wife of Ruluff Whitney; Olive, wife of Philo Dutcher; Matthew fuller; Mary/Molly, wife of Joel Dean; the heirs of Ezekiel Fuller deceased; Abigail, wife of Milo Weldon; John Fuller; the heirs of Hannah Porter deceased, wife of Obadiah or Dyer Porter of New York; the heirs of Laura Whitney deceased, wife of William Whitney, and Archibald Fuller "youngest child."
102 Salisbury Vital Records, 1:118. These two Mary births and one death are recorded together in the original town volume as a small grouping, without any other related events nearby.
103 1840 U.S. Census, Conesville, Schoharie County, New York, roll 338, p. 36.
104 Salisbury Vital Records, 1:170: Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, 10 vols. to date (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.: the author, 1990- ), 4:104-05.
105 1800 U.S. Census, Bristol, Schoharie County, New York, roll 26, p. 144.
106 Berkshire County Land Records, Southern District, 64:458-59.
107 All recorded there except Ruth in Salisbury Vital Records, 2:32 (original numbering), 2:38 (as indexed). The entries were in two groups in different areas of the same page. Both groups were noted as, "Entered on 24 April 1790," except for Archibald's record, which was added later to the bottom of one group.
108 See note 101.
109 Findagrave.com. The gravestone supposedly says aged 92 years, 2 months, 18 days.
110 Salisbury Vital Records, 2:37 (birth), 47 (parents' marriage). Margaret Roberts Hodges, ed., "Genealogical Department," Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 53 (1919): 448, is the source for Elizabeth's date of death, but no evidence has been found that she was buried in Greenfield, Wisconsin, as stated there. Indeed, her husband was listed in the 1840 and 1850
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iv. EZEKIEL FULLER, b. 19 Feb. 1774; d. before 8 Feb. 1825, leaving children; m. -----. v. ABIGAIL FULLER, b. 29 July 1776; d. 6 Sept. 1831, aged 56 years, 1 month, 8 days, bur. Chapinville Cemetery, Salisbury;[111] m. MILO WELDON, b. Salisbury 17 Feb. 1783,[112] d. 3 April 1841 age 55, bur. Chapinville Cemetery,[113] son of Elijah and Ruth (Westcott) Weldon, and brother of Elizabeth Weldon who m. Abigail's brother Matthew Fuller. vi. FAITH FULLER, b. 2 May 1779, probably died young as she was not named in her father's estate. vii. HANNAH FULLER, b. 10 April 1781; d. before 8 Feb. 1825 leaving children; m. DYER/OBADIAH PORTER of New York. viii. RUTH FULLER, b. -----;[114] d. 25 March 1782.[115] ix. OLIVE FULLER, b. 9 March 1783; d. by 1840; m. PHILO DUTCHER, b. ca. 1785, d. after 1850, probably in Onondaga Co., N.Y.,[116] son of Ruluff and Mary (Nichols) Dutcher.[117]
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censuses of Onondaga County, New York; in 1840 his household included a female 50-59, in 1850 he was living in the household of Levi Webb (1840 U.S. Census, Tully, Onondaga COunty, New York, roll 317, p. 222; 1850 U.S. Census, Lafayette, Onondaga County, New York, roll 567, p. 207A).
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