Jacob Fuller

1655-1731 · Woburn MA

Born 1655, Woburn, Massachusetts

Died 1731

Father: Thomas Fuller

Mother: Elizabeth Tidd

Children include Elizabeth

Jacob Fuller was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, on 14 May 1655. He was the sixth child of Thomas Fuller, the town blacksmith, and Elizabeth Tidd. About 1665 his father moved the family to a three-hundred-acre farm in the north part of Salem, near Will's Hill, in what became the town of Middleton.

He learned his father's trade and was a blacksmith. On 14 June 1683 he married Mary Bacon at Salem. The Salem town clerk entered their children under his father's name: "Jacob Fuller, sone of Thomas Fuller, his daughter Eliza borne by Mary his wife 19th Feb'y, 1687: their daughter Mary borne 20th 8th mo., 1684." They had six children in all: Mary in 1684, Elizabeth in February 1687 or 1688, a Jacob who died as a baby, Edward in 1695, Sarah in 1698 and another Jacob in 1701.

He lived in the farming district of Salem Village, where the witchcraft accusations began in 1692. His name appears among the farmers there in the village's long quarrels over taxes for its minister.

He stayed on the home farm. When his father made his will in June 1698, Jacob received the farm and the rest of the estate: eighty acres at Little Beach Meadow, the home field of about sixty acres, about 150 acres of upland and swamp in Reading, the rights in the saw mill irons, all the tools and all the household goods. He was sole executor.

Two of his daughters married into the Fiske family of Wenham. Elizabeth married Ebenezer Fiske in 1710, and Sarah married his nephew Daniel Fiske in 1717.

Jacob Fuller died at Middleton on 15 November 1731. Mary died there on 17 July 1741, aged eighty-one.

Parents

Thomas Fuller 1618-1698

Elizabeth Tidd

Children

Elizabeth Fuller 1687-1732

Sources

Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 2 no. 2 (April 1860), Salem town records of births, archive.org sim_peabody-essex-museum-collections_1860-04_2_2.

Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 3 (Salem, 1924), archive.org vitalrecordsofsa03esse_0, p. 69.

William Hyslop Fuller, Fuller Genealogy, vol. 4 (1908), archive.org fullergenealogy04full, p. 11.

A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller and One Line of His Descendants (1909), archive.org briefsketchoftho00lcfull, p. 51.

William Hyslop Fuller, Fuller Genealogy, vol. 4 (1908), archive.org fullergenealogy04full, pp. 9-11. A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller and One Line of His Descendants (1909), archive.org briefsketchoftho00lcfull, pp. 3-4, 13, 50-51. Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 2 no. 2 (April 1860), Salem town records of births, archive.org sim_peabody-essex-museum-collections_1860-04_2_2. Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, vol. 3, archive.org vitalrecordsofsa03esse_0, p. 69.

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