Person:Giles Fuller (1)

Giles Fuller of Dedham and Hampton.

"The earliest date found in New England of Giles Fuller is on page 50, Dedham Records, Town and Selectmen, 1636-1659: 'The 23th of Nouember, 1638 Granted vnto Giles Fuller & Thomas Ward to haue ech of them 3 : acres to impve & possesse for their own vse & benefit soe long as they shall remayne in towne pvided allwayes that they build none house vpon the same w^thout further licence of y^e towne.'

[Page 94.] 'The 6 of the 12 month 1642 Eliazer Lusher hath liberty granted him to purchace that grant of land which the Towne hath formerly made & conferred vpon Giles Fuller and Thomas Ward,' &c.

Giles Fuller and Thomas Ward had grants of land in Hampton, June, 1640. Dow's « History of Hampton,' v. I, p. 19. 'Att y^e County Court held at Salisbury the 8th of April 1673. Administracon to y^e estate of Giles ffuller of Hampton Is granted unto Thomas Warde of Hampton, & Richard Currier of Amsberie, who are to attende such ordor as the Court shal make in y^e Disposall of the sd estate.

Att ye Conntr Court held at Hampton Octob^r y^e 9th 1677. M^r. Thomas Thurton Atturny to his father & mother Tho: Thurton, & Susanna Thurton: w^c Susanna was sister to Giles ffuller of Hampton deceased w^ch appeares by y^e Instrum^ts & oathes p^rsented to this court (w^c: are now on file or record:) appearing & making challenge to the estate of y^e sd Giles; y^e Court approues of his letter of Atturney to bee full & firme in law & own him as y^e p^rsent apparent succcsso^r in beehalfe of his mother to y^e estate of Giles ffuller: And therfore the said m^r Thomas Thurton giueing bonde to this Court y^t y^e estate shalbee forthcoming or y^e worth of it if any other pson shall appeare w^th a better right: hee also paijing w^t shall bee duo to y^e Administrators who had y^e estate: in their hands: Doe order y^e sd Administrato^rs to deliver y^e sd estate in to y^e said Thurtons hands hee giueing vnder his hand to them an accompt, of w^t hee receuies of them.

Ric: Pettingell aged about 52 years faith y^t being very well acquainted w^th Giles ffuller of Hampton deceafed & w^th m^r ffuller of Biftable doctor both in old England & here in New england & both told mee they were of Kinn: & y^e sd Giles ffuller haue told mee in old England & now that Marth ffuller doctor now of Baftable was y^e neareft Kinfman he had:

Sworn before y^e County Court held att Hampton y^e 14 : 8^th m^o 1673 as atteftd Tho: Bradbury rec.

This is a true Cople of y^e originall now on file w^th Hampton Court Records 1673 as attefts Tho: Bradbury rec."^[5]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 1 Giles Fuller, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
   249, 787.

   1 Giles (Fuller), son of Roger of Topcroft in Norfolk (R. F. and Jane Gowen m. in Redenhall 24 Apr. 1600), his nearest kinsman in this county Dr. Matthew of Barnstable. He was first at Dedham and came to Hampton with the first from there. Dedham made a joint gr. to G. F. and Thomas Ward 23 Nov. 1638, and the latter was app. adm. on his death. In 1650 a seat in the meeting house was assigned to his 'wife appointed,' no further ment. Gr.j. 1648, 1660, 1667. … He d. 'suddenly, in his own house' 6 Apr. 1676 [error for 1673 per Hampton VR, corrected on p. 787 of GDMNH]. Adm. was issued to T. W. and Richard Currier, but his nephew, Thomas Thurton, s. of his only surv. sister Susannah, came over with suff. proofs to claim the estate.

2. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   48:345, 1894.
3. ↑ Sanborn, George Freeman, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1992-1998)
   1:116.

   Cilles Fuller Died sudenly in his owne House y^e: 6: 2 mo 1673

4. ↑ Dow, Joseph. History of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire: from its settlement in 1638, to the autumn of 1892. (Salem, Massachusetts: L.E. Dow, the Salem Publishing and Printing Co. , 1893)
   718-19.

   Giles Fuller was one of the "young men who received house-lots" at the settlement of the town. His relationship to the other Fullers of Hampton is not known. His house-lot was the present homestead of Ebenezer W. Lane, and extended northerly to the swamp, still called, probably after him, Giles' swamp. Later, he owned another lot, on the Exeter road, between lots of William Godfrey and Abraham Drake. He was probably married about 1650, for then a seat was assigned to him in the meeting-house, "for a wife." He died "suddenly, In his own house," Apr. 6, 1676.
   
   The following registry of emigration is found: "Susanna Thurton (alias Fuller) daughter of Rodger Fuller, late of Topcraft in y^e Co: of Nor. & Sister of Giles Fuller, late of Hampton in N. E , dec^d (no other son or dau.) That Tho. Th. of the parish of St. Bultolphs, Bishopgate, Tobacconist - now to go to New England in ship Mary & Sarah (John Foye Mr.) son of Tho: Th. of Croydon & Susanna his wife. London, Apr. 5. 1677."
   
   In a list of church members in full communion, Sept., 1671, is Frances Fuller. As the name has not the prefix "Goody," she was probably unmarried and may have been a daughter of Giles Fuller.

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   55:193, 1901.