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GENEALOGY COLUECTION
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HUGH R. FULTON, No. 65.
GENEALOGY
FULTON FAMILY
Being Descendants of
JOHN FULTON,
Born in Scotland 1713. Emigrated to America in 1753.
Settled in Nottingham Township, Chester
County, Penna., 1762.
With a Record of the Known Descendants of
Hugh Ramsey, of Nottingham,
AND
Joseph Miller, of Lancaster County, Pa.
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Compiled and Edited by / "^ J • <ri^
HUGH R. EJLLLTON. ' """^
LANCASTER, PA.
1900
Phess of
The New Era printing company
LANCASTER, PA.
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1152478
Dedicated
TO THE Descendants of
John Fulton.
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Scotch Fulton Crest, Fairbairne's Book of Family
Crests, Great Britain and Ireland, Pi,. 51.
Cr. 9. Crest on Keystone.
PREFATORY.
Justice Sharswood in his memoir of Sir William
Blackstone says :
"A sad and dreary thought would it be to a man,
that of dying unwept by any one, unhonored by anv sur-
vivor, and entirely forgotten as soon as removed from
sight. If not an actor upon the more prominent theatre
of the world's history, within some narrower circle of
society, his neighborhood, his friends, his family, or at
least his descendants, every one looks anxiously forward,
in the hope that his memory will be respectfully cher-
ished, his faults and foibles overlooked and excused, his
virtues adorned in their fairest and loveliest colours."
Macaulay, the great English historian, says: "• They
who take no pride in the deeds of a remote ancestry,
will hardly be likely to accomplish anything worthy to
be remembered by a remote posterity."
The Fulton family crest reproduced from Fairbairnes'
Book of Crests, of Great Britain and Ireland, with the
legend "Things which we ourselves have done," and
the motto "Rest is attained by labour," cut on the
Pennsylvania Keystone, is not used by the compiler of
this little book with any spirit of boastfulness, for in our
opinion, the Fultons have had to earn almost all they
have ever had. They have, by Divine Providence, been
blessed with the capacity for work, and, therefore, in
this day and generation, as it seems must have been the
case with our ancestors in the days gone by, we recog-
nize the law, that rest comes only after labor, and now
VI PREFATORY.
even as then, we must do something in order that we
may amount to anything.
We have, therefore, industriously gathered this list of
names, and the biographical sketches of our people, that
we may know, as we should know, who we are, where
we are from, and what our people have been doing in
the years that are past.
Hugh R. Fulton.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
History of the Fulton Family; Will of John Fulton i
CHAPTER II.
Genealogical Table ; Chart of Fulton Family 37
CHAPTER III.
Second generation, Mary Fulton; Revolutionary
record of Captain James Fulton ; Fac-simile hand-
writing and signature of Captain James Fulton at
S2 ; Fac-simile receipt to Captain James Fulton,
for pay of soldiers, 1777; James Fulton in Penn-
sylvania Legislature; Head-stones, Oxford Ceme-
tery, of James and Joseph Fulton; John Fulton,
No. 5 53
CHAPTER IV.
Third generation, John Fulton, No. 16; Fourth
generation, Dr. D. W. Hutchison, Dr. James Ful-
ton, William T. Fulton, Joseph M. Fulton, Hugh
R. Fulton, Louis B. Fulton 80
CHAPTER V.
Fifth generation, James Hutchison Kerr, Dr. Geo.
Kerr; Notes of Lizzie E. Kerr on Kerr Family;
Kerr Family Crest — Unicorn's Head ; Dicky Fam-
ily ; Fulton Family ; Hutchison Family ; Copies
of Old Records from Family Bibles ; Court House
Records 131
Vlll CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI.
The Ramsey Family; Genealogical Table, Chart of
the Family ; Memoranda by Mrs. Elizabeth T.
Watson 1 69
CHAPTER Vn.
The Miller Family; Genealogical Table, Chart of
Family 191
APPENDIX.
Robert Fulton; Genealogical Table and Chart 196
David Ramsey, S. C. Fulton, James Alexander
Fulton, John L. Fulton, Robert B. Fulton, Rev.
Justin D. Fulton, James M. Fulton, Hugh Ful-
ton, John Fulton, et al. ; General Index 201
CHAPTER I.
History of the Fulton Family.
1 "VERY family has a history, every family has
— ^ worthy and honored members who have been
useful and respected and give occasion for a cer-
tain family pride, which, if not over-estimated, or
held to in a spirit of boastfulness or haughtiness, is
generally considered laudable.
The descendants of John Fulton have a family
history which, although not voluminous or of daz-
zling brilliancy, is one which we need have no
desire to suppress.
John Fulton, our ancestor farthest back in re-
liable traditional history, was born in Lanarkshire,
Scotland, in 1713. In .1743 he married a lady
whose first name was Eleanore, but whose last
name the writer has not learned.
Three children were born to them in Lanark-
shire, Scotland: Mary in 1745, Elizabeth in 1748,
and James on February 2, 1751.
When James, their son, was two years old, or
in the year 1753, John Fulton and his wife Eleanore
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gathered their little family, Mary eight years old,
Elizabeth five years old, and James two years, and
with their baggage set sail for a new home in
America.
Grandfather James Fulton wrote a chapter of
family history in 1832, in which he stated that he
was born in Scotland on February 2, 1751. The
presumption therefore follows that his father was
also a native of Scotland, and was of full Scotch
blood, and emigrated from Scotland to America.
Mr. Watt, of the firm of Watt & Shand of Lan-
caster, who is a native of the vicinity of Glasgow,
Scotland, tells me that in his native neighborhood
there are many families by the name of Fulton, and
that in County Ayr, which lies southwest of Glas-
gow, there are several of the name who are well
to do and prosperous people.
I take it as being most probable that John Ful-
ton and family came from Lanarkshire in Scotland
and set sail from the seaport towm of Glasgow, as
that place lay near by on the west coast and would
afford a quicker and cheaper trip to America.
Tradition has it that the little family landed at
New Castle, Delaware, or Baltimore, for James
wrote that he had lived in Maryland for seven
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years, where his son John was born in 1755.
Then in 1762 he moved to Chester County, Pa.,
where he had resided ever since.
In 1772 he purchased a tract of 260 acres of land
from John Hawthorn for five and fifty pounds, or
about $275.00.
This land la}^ on the Big Elk Creek and the
Oxford and New London Road, and included what
are now the properties of Job Pugh, Peter Cald-
well, or the old Charles McDonald farm, and the
Henry Way place.
John must have been a good business man and a
good manager, for he built the fulling mill, the
paper mill, and several farm buildings, and left a
good estate, which is the best evidence of his in-
dustry and frugality.
His will was dated February 6, 1796, and proven
at West Chester, March 24, 1796.
His sons, James and John Fulton, were the ex-
ecutors.
He was one of the elders of the Oxford Associate
Presbyterian Church, and was one of the signers
of a petition sent by that congregation in 1754 to
the Associate Synod of Edinburgh for a minister to
supply their pulpit.
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He gave a part of the ground where the Pres-
byterian Church of Oxford now stands, the ground
having been contributed by John Fuhon, Matthew
Wilson and a Mr. Calvin.
In the Forty-fifth Anniversary or Memorial Ser-
mon of Rev. Wm. Easton, pastor of the United
Presbyterian Church of Octoraro, I find the fol-
lowing :
" At my installation over the congregation of Ox-
ford (then called East Nottingham) there were only
nineteen members, and of these there were six
who had not, at the Union, joined the Associate
Reformed Church, namely : James Fulton, Rachel
Fulton, John Hutchinson, Fulton Hutchinson,
Elizabeth Hutchinson and Agnes Thompson. The
other thirteen were a remnant of the Associate
Reformed Church in Oxford, who refused to fol-
low Mr. Dickey into the General Assembly Pres-
byterian Church.
"These faithful servants of God have now all
been called home. At my installation the congre-
gation of Oxford met for worship in the paper mill
of James Fulton, Esq.
" It was at the house of this venerable man, I
was informed that Reverend Messrs John Anderson
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and Thomas Beveridge lodged together, while
the Declaration and Testimony of the Associate
Presbytery was by them jointly written and
arranged."
Of the petitioners for a Pastor for the Asso-
ciate Presbyterian Church of Oxford, Mr. Easton
says :
"A majority of the people who thus petitioned
were emigrants from Scotland and Ireland, intelli-
gent and faithful men, firmly attached to the prin-
ciples of the Reformation, and of whom an his-
torian has truly testified ' that a more intelligent,
virtuous and resolute class of men than these
Scotch-Irish, never settled any country.
" 'They were manly, pious, honest, honorable,
full of love for truth and freedom, and willing to
peril all, even to martyrdom itself, for what they
believed to be the right.'"
The family as we find it in 1796, at the decease
of John Fulton, was as follows :
Mary Proudfit, wife of Rev. James Proudfit, of
Salem or Perth, N. Y.
Elizabeth Hutchinson, wife of James Hutchin-
son, Esq., of East Nottingham (Elizabeth, how-
ever, died before her father).
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James Fulton, who married Margaret Miller,
daughter of Col. Joseph Miller, of Bartville, Lan-
caster County, on November 25, 1781.
John Fulton, Jr., who married Margaret Dickey,
and after her decease, E&ther Cooper.
Susanna Clarkson, wife of Reverend James
Clarkson, Pastor of the Hopewell United Presby-
terian Church, York County, and
Jane Wilson, wife of Matthew Wilson, of East
Nottingham.
In 1776, James Fulton, the eldest son of John
Fulton, born in Scotland on February 2, 175 1,
entered the Colonial Army.
He served three terms of service, the first two
terms as Lieutenant, and the last as a Lieutenant
acting as Captain of a Company.
First : On July 3, 1776, he was commissioned by
John Morton, Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives of Pennsylvania, as Lieutenant of Militia
for two months' service, in the company commanded
by Capt. Joseph Gardner, in the regiment of Col.
Wm. Montgomery, Lieut. Col. Evan Evans, of
Chester County, Pa.
The Regiment joined Gen. Washington in New
Jersey, marched to Trenton, to Princeton, to New
FULTON FAMILY. 7
Brunswick, and to Perth Amboy, thence to Wood-
bridge.
Second: Mustered December, 1776, as a Lieu-
tenant, and was under Gen. Putnam about Phila-
delphia, Pa. Was on duty at Burlington and
Crosswicks, and in the battle of Trenton, N. J., in
the Battalion of Col. Evan Evans. Gen. Miff-
lin, of Penna., was in command of the Brigade
at Trenton. Jos. Gardner was Captain of the
Company. Andrew Boyd was First Lieutenant.
Third : Lieutenant acting as Captain of the Com-
pany. Mustered October i, 1777, under Gen. Pot-
ter, served at Reading, and Philadelphia, although
at first only First Lieutenant, he passed muster and
received pay and rations as Captain under orders
of the Secretary of War.
The Regimental officers were, Col. George
Pierce, Maj. John Culbertson.
An incident has been related of grandfather's
army experience, which is told for truth, and is
worth repeating here.
That story is, that John Watt, a Mr. Ewing, and
James Fulton, were fighting side by side in the
same company in the battle of Trenton, when a
ball took a button from Watt's coat, Ewing was
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killed, and another ball went through Fulton's cap
and through his hair.
This we regard as a pretty spicy revolutionary
war story, but those who went through some of the
battles of the Rebellion will readily admit its prob-
able truth.
Grandfather was a good scholar, was a public-
spirited citizen, and took some part in local and
state politics.
He belonged to the party known in his time as
the Republican party. In 1802 they called them-
selves Republican Democrats, but the prefix was
finally dropped and those of their political faith are
now the Democratic party.
He was elected to the Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania in the fall of 1802, and took his seat as a
member of that body, on Tuesday, December 7th
of that year.
The Legislature at that time held its sessions in
the old Court House, Penn Square, Lancaster.
The Chester county delegation to that session, as
shown by the House Journal found in the State
Library at Harrisburg, was James Fulton, Joseph
Park, Edward Darlington, Thomas Taylor, and
Methuselah Davis.
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He was also reelected by the people of his
county by a strong vote to the succeeding sessions
of 1803 and 1804, and again in 1804 and 1805.
In his services as a legislator, he was active and
aggressive. He served on several important com-
mittees, as shown by the Journal, and performed
his duties according to the present ideas of good
statesmanship.
John Fulton, the second son, who was the first of
the family born in this country, was married twice.
The first wife was Margaret Dickey, by whom
he had three children, Elizabeth, married to David
Lafevre,John who died young, and Mary who
married Ecles and lived in Steubenville, O.
By his second wife, Esther Cooper, there was
issue five children, as follows: (i) Thomas; (2)
James C. ; (3) Andrew ; (4) Jamima ; (5) Jefferson
C. ; (6) George Washington ; (7) Eleanor R. ; (8)
Matthew Wilson.
The similarity of names, James, Jefferson, and
Matthew Wilson, indicating a disposition to cling
to family names, is a matter too often overlooked
in finding names for children.
John, No. 5, sold out his interest in the Fulling
Mill on Elk Creek, East Nottingham, to his brother
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James on May 6, 1805, and moved to Pittsburg.
He is said to have lived at New Brighton, Beaver
County, Pa., and is reported to have prospered in
business and left a large estate.
George W. Fulton, No. 198, or 28 A, was the
youngest son living, and went into the business of
manufacturing buttons, and thereby amassed a
fortune, and died wealthv.
Andrew Fulton, No. 26, established the brass
and bell foundry business in Pittsburg in 1832,
which has proven itself a wonderful enterprise. In
1883, it is said, that the establishment had almost
a monopoly of the business of furnishing bells for
the western river steamboats, and for schools and
churches.
In the year 1883 I met a Mr. Bailey, a member
of a firm of barge builders in Pittsburg, who said
to me that he was well acquainted with old Andy
Fulton, as he was familiarly called, and that he
had had a long and successful business experience,
and that Andrew (Dick) Fulton, a son of Samuel
Fulton, had been mayor of Pittsburg, that he
was married, and had two daughters.
Thomas C. Fulton, No. 204, George Washing-
ton Fulton, No. 218, and Louis B. Fulton, No. 208,
THOS. C. FULTON, No. 204.
FULTON FAMILY. II
were engineers in the U. S. Navy during the Civil
War. James B. Fulton, No. 203, was chief engi-
neer of the U. S. gunboat Louisville, in the Civil
War, and afterwards Chief Engineer Mound City-
Navy Yard.
Louis B. Fulton, No. 208, is the president of
the Chaplin, Fulton Mfg. Co., Bell and Brass
Founders, at 28 Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, who are
successors to A. Fulton's Son & Co.
Matthew H. Fulton, No. 221, served in the
army during the Civil War, in the 9th Pennsylva-
nia Reserves, and was wounded in the battle of
Gaines' Mill. He was taken prisoner when
wounded at Savage Station, and was held for
three months a prisoner of war in Richmond. He
went to Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1866, where he has
been postmaster and mayor. His son, James
Edward, served in the war with Spain.
Elizabeth Fulton, No. 3, who came over from
Scotland with her parents when only five years of
age, and who married James Hutchison, Esq., of
East Nottingham, was a member of the Oxford
Associate Reformed and of the United Presbyterian
Church. They had seven children :
I. Eleanore, No. 9, married to James Wilson, of
York County, Pa.
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2. Jane Hutchison, No. lo (unmarried).
3. Elizabeth, No. 11 (unmarried).
4. James Hutchison, No. 12, married to Eliza-
beth Watt.
5. John Hutchison, No. 13 (unmarried).
6. David Hutchison, No. 14, .married to Fannie
Watt.
7. Fulton Hutchison, No. 15, married to Elea-
nore Fulton.
Jane Fulton, No. 6, married Matthew Wilson, of
East Nottingham, who was the grandfather of R.
Frank Wilson, Matthew and John Wilson.
We have little record of the families of Susan
Fulton, No. 7, who married Rev. James Clarkson,
or of Mary Fulton, No. 2, who ' married Rev.
James Proudfit.
James Fulton's children were : (i) John Fulton,
No. 16; (2) Rachel Fulton, No. 17; (3) Joseph
Fulton, No. 18 ; (4) Eleanore M. Fulton, No. 19 ;
(5) Miller Fulton, No. 20 ; and (6) James Jefferson
Fulton, No. 21.
John never married, was well educated ; was
said to be fine looking, and fond of dress, but
somewhat extravagant. His father built him a
paper mill on Muddy Run, Chester County, three
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miles above Oxford. The mill" caught fire and
burned down. Grandfather built him another, but
the business and the rebuilding of mills, and the
lack of sufficient insurance in those days, proved
disastrous, and run his father into financial em-
barrassment in 1818.
John then went South to Georgia, was fortunate
in getting good positions and large salaries.
While in the South he occasionally visited his
relatives in Pennsylvania, and being a polished and
genial gentleman, was always gladly received.
The writer remembers his last visit to father's
house in East Nottingham in 1854. -^^ ^^^ then
about 70 years of age. Was tall and straight,
though beginning to show age. Shortly after this
visit he returned to Petersburg, Va., where, after a
short illness, he died, about 1854.
Joseph Fulton, No. 18, who married Martha
Watt, had no children. He owned the John A.
Kerr farm and the McHenry Mill in East Notting-
ham. He sold the mill, however some years be-
fore he died, and left the farm with considerable
personal property to his wife. He died December
27, 1844, 60 years of age.
Eleanore M. Fulton, No. 19, married Fulton
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Hutchison, No. 15, and lived on the old farm at
J. Hervy Hutchison's near Elk Dale. Their chil-
dren were: (i) Margaret Hutchison; (2) Rachel
Hutchison, married Rev. Ephraim Stevenson ; (3)
Eliza Hutchison, married to John Patterson ; (4)
James Banks Hutchison, of California; (5) John
Reed Hutchison; (6) David Stevens Hutchison;
(7) Mary F. Hutchison, married to Joseph Hutch-
ison.
8. Fulton Ankrim Hutchison, a minister of the
U. P. Church at Noblestown, Pa.
9. Ellen Hutchison.
10. Joseph Hutchison, deceased.
11. Wm. G. Hutchison, who married Ann Eliza
Campbell, both deceased.
James Jefferson Fulton, No. 21, was born on the
old James Fulton homestead on the Big Elk Creek
on February 18, 1801. He received a common
school education, and learned the trade of paper
making. An old da3'-book shows that James J.
and Miller Fulton were in partnership in running
the fulling mill and paper mill on Big Elk from
1823 to 1827.
Immediately on the dissolution of this partner-
ship, James J. found another partner and married
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Nancy Ann Ramsey, a daughter of Hugh Ramsey,
of East Nottingham.
He continued to manufacture paper at Elk mills,
McCrery's mill, and Eshleman's mill in Lancaster
county.
In 1831, 1832 and 1833, he and Samuel Bahill
formed a copartnership and carried on the business
of making wall paper by the old fashioned hand
presses in the two-storied frame building which
stood on the corner of East King and Duke Streets,
Lancaster, where the Court House now stands.
They drew a length of paper into the press by
hand ; they rolled the colors on the form by hand ;
they pushed around a large lever by hand to press
down the form on the paper ; then it was thrown back
and another length drawn through. It took hard
work all day to run off a few hundred lengths of
paper.
What would that good old man think, if he should
step into one of our modern printing offices to-day,
and see the Goss perfecting press doing practically
the same kind of work and running off ten thousand
pieces an hour, fold them, and hand them out to
the boys ?
He saw the first locomotive stand at the Lancas-
ter station in 1835.
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The Baldwin compound locomotive of to-day is
as unlike the original engine now in the National
Museum at Washington, as the old screw down or
lever press is unlike a Goss perfecting press.
The Pennsylvania railroad was built only sixty-
seven years ago. The development of manufac-
turing, printing, and public conveyance in that
time has been wonderful.
The telegraph, telephone, and electric power
have all been developed to great perfection within
the last seventy years. I heard father sa}^ the first
time he went to Pittsburg, which, I think, was
about 1841, he had to go by packet boat on the
canal for some distance. When John Fulton went
west in 1805, Pittsburg and Beaver were on the
frontier.
When father and mother lived in Lancaster, they
were members of the Presbyterian church here.
In the pastor's book of the church we find this
entry :
James J. Fulton admitted to membership Sep-
tember 30, 183 1. Nancy Ann Fulton admitted to
membership same date, both on certificate.
October 2, 1832, certificates of dismission at
their request, granted both.
FULTON FAMILY. I 7
In an old family Bible I find that Margaret Jane
and Rachel Mariah, the only daughters, both died
in Lancaster, the former on August i6, 183 1, 10
months old, the latter on June 19, 1832, 4 years
and 2 months old.
Father and mother, while living in Lancaster, oc-
cupied a two-story stone house on East King Street,
some half a dozen doors east of the Leopard Hotel.
Mother has told the writer that the children were
buried in the lower end of the old Presbyterian
graveyard in Lancaster City.
On leaving the City they removed to Eshleman's,
now David W. Jackson's, mill, on the west branch
of the Octoraro, in Bart Township, at which place
Dr. James Fulton was born, November 12, 1832.
In conclusion, we may, by way of a tribute of
respect to our parents, as well as historical fact, re-
mark that they did not in the least degree fall
short of the standard of integrity and honor set up
by our great-grandfather, John Fulton.
Father was a man of more than ordinary natural
talent. His memory had an iron grasp. For him
to read a book was to know its contents when he
was through. As an historian, there were few in
our section of the county who could equal him.
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The history of America, the French and In-
dian War, the struggle of the colonies for freedom,
the battles fought, the movements of the armies,
and the meritorious conduct of the different offi-
cers appeared as familiar to him as if he had been
on the ground and knew the facts personalh\
He enjoyed the discussion of, and sometimes
grew severe in criticism, of national and local po-
litical affairs. He had a large and long square
head, he wore a 7^ hat, and was a man of re-
markable nerve power. The blackest plug to-
bacco and the strongest coffee were suitable to his
taste and nerves. He was cool and deliberate, and
was a good penman. His day-books are to this
day a model of neatness and accuracy. He was
pushed forward by his neighbors at one time for the
Legislature. He declined, however, to electioneer
for the office. His opponent, Mark Hudson, can-
vassed the county in his eagerness to get the office,
and secured the nomination by a majority of one
vote.
He was a trustee and an elder of the West Not-
tingham Presbyterian Church for twenty-five years,
and was alwa3^s attentive and consistent in the per-
formance of his duties.
FULTON FAMILY. I 9
Mother, however, has the credit of being the
financial success of our family.
She was a good manager, and could gather up $5
or $10 worth of marketing when many a woman
would fail to see anything, and she would make
the proceeds buy the most useful things. She was
the cashier of the family, and, although sH'e never
had a big bank account, there was always money
to pay the pew rent and buy clothing and school
books.
Mother was a politician. She was the bitterest
opponent of human slavery I ever knew, and had
many heated discussions about the time of the
breaking out of the Rebellion with her lady ac-
quaintances of pro-slaver}^ and secession ideas on
the border lands. (We lived within half a mile of
Mason and Dixon's line.) The unreasonable con-
duct and bad language of a Catholic neighbor in
Lancaster city while living there had the effect of
making her a very zealous Protestant and skillful
in debate on that subject.
She and father were both radical on all ques-
tions. They never allowed an opportunity to es-
cape for stamping their condemnation of rum
drinking and gambling. They were certainly
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GENEALOGY OF THE
true Christians, and were respected by all who
knew them.
The Scotch Fulton Crest, taken from Fairbarnes'
book of Crests of Great Britain and Ireland, found
in the State Library at Harrisburg, is authority for
the conclusion that our ancestors in Scotland had
considered the matter of Crest or Coat of Arms,
very carefully, and had adopted what seemed to
them appropriate.
The Stag lodged on a mount regardant, rest-
ing, yet watchfully looking around, and with the
legend, " Things which we ourselves have done,"
and the motto, " Rest is attained by labor," are
very suggestive of laborious watchful industry,
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and of safe escape from the hounds of the
enemy.
There is a work on Heraldry in America, by
Eugene Zerber, published by Bailey, Banks &
Biddle, Philadelphia, which says that the fact that
arms were borne here in Colonial times creates of
them American arms, and a sufficient authority for
their use b}- descendants of the old families.
That there is no reason why any individual
should be deterred from preserving for himself or
his children the heraldic devices which were borne
by his ancestors, even though in our own land such
devices have no governmental recognition and are
not of official record in any herald's office.
Cussans, in his work, remarks that "It is no
matter of surprise that Americans, particularly
those in the Eastern States, with all their venera-
tion for republican principles, should be desirous
of tracing their origin to the early settlers, and of
proving their descent from these single-hearted
God-fearing men, who sought in a foreign land
that religious liberty which was denied them at
home."
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JOHN FULTON. No. i.
By Mrs. Eliza J. Kerr.
Came to Chester County from Scotland ; was a
fuller by trade ; must have come to America about
1 753 5 gave a part of the grounds where the Pres-
byterian Church and the old graveyard, in Oxford,
now stands. The grounds being contributed by
John Fulton, Matthew Wilson and a Mr. Calvin.
The papers for this ground were lost by his son
John on his way to Pittsburgh.
John Fulton owned a large tract of land, 260
acres, between Oxford and New London Cross
Roads. All that section along Elk Creek by Finley
Crowl's later Theodore Kirk's and now Henry
Way's and Charles McDonald's old place, including
the mill property, now Job Pugh's mill, and had
in his time a paper mill and fulling mill. He
was one of the Elders of the Oxford Associate
Presbyterian Church one hundred and twenty-four
(124) years ago (1877 ), when the first call was sent
to Scotland for an associate Presbyterian preacher.
In answer to this urgent request the Synod sent
to Pennsylvania in 1753 two ordained ministers as
FULTON FAMILY. 23
missionaries, Rev. Alexander Gellatley and Andrew
Arnot. Mr. Gellatley was to remain permanently
in this country ; Mr. Arnot was to return after two
years. These faithful men left Scotland in the
summer of 1753 and arrived here near the close
of the year.
See Rev. Easton's memorial sermon. Was con-
sidered wealthy;, was a smart, shrewd Scotchman
of full Scotch blood.
Copy of John Fulton's (No. i) Will.
Recorded in the Office of the Register of Wills
of Chester County in Book 9, page 397.
John Fulton's 1 Know all men by these presents
Will. I that I, John Fulton, of East Not-
tingham Township being weak in body but of
perfect and sound mind and memory, calling to
mind the mortality of m}" body, and that it is ap-
pointed unto all men once to die. Do make this my
last will and testament, and as touching m}^ worldly
Estate wherewith God hath blessed me I dispose
of in the following manner : First. I give and de-
vise unto my son James Fulton all my land and
tenements on the west side of the creek now in his
possession with the appurtenances to him, his heirs,
24 GENEALOGY OF THE
and assigns, as also all that land lying on the East
side of the Creek. Beginning at the Creek, at the
place the State Road crosses the Creek, thence. along
the course the State Road was laid out until the
new Race along the new race until the waste gate,
thence a straight course to a post at the west end
of the Fenders four perches North of the tail Race,
thence up the tail race and between the paper mill
and the fulling mill along the trunk and two
perches East of the mouth of the trunk, Thence to
an apple tree south of the Great Road nigh the
paper mill and from thence a straight course to a
white oak on Robert Currey's line and thence to
the creek westward with the Paper Mill and all the
appurtenances to him, his heirs, and assigns.
I give a Devise unto my son John Fulton all the
remainder of my lands and fulling mill. Houses,
and Tenements, with the appurtenances to him, his
hqirs, and assigns forever, allowing to each of my
sons the benefit of the waters to the fulling mill
and paper mill as formerly.
I Give and bequeath unto my son-in-law, Rev.
James Proudfoot the sum of three Pounds Current
money. I give a Bequeath unto my son-in-law
James Hutchinson Three Pounds Current money.
I give a bequeath unto my daughter Susanna,
Eight pounds Current money and as much furni-
ture and property as my daughter Jennet has got-
ten from me. I give and Bequeath to my son-in-
FULTON FAMILY. 25
law Mathew Wilson Three Pounds. I give and
Bequeath unto my Daughter Jennet Wilson, Forty
Seven Pounds current money. I give and Be-
queath unto my Deceased Daughter Elizabeth's
Children the sum of Forty Seven Pounds to be
equally divided amongst them, or such of them as
will be living, to be paid four years after my De-
cease. I give and Bequeath to my Grand Daughter
Mary Proudfoot the sum of Forty Seven Pounds
Current mone}' to be paid to her when she arrives
at the age of Eighteen years, and if she dies be-
fore she arrives at that age, my will is, that her
part be equally divided among my Children that
will be living at the time of her decease. I give
and Bequeath unto ni}^ Loving Wife Eleanor one
full Third of the lands and tenements Devised to
my son John or the profits thereof during her nat-
ural life and that In lieu of Dower out of the lands
and appurtenances Devised to my son James, my
will is that he pay her Five Pounds Current money,
Annually, During her natural life ; and further my
will is, and I do hereby allow that the Furniture
Bequeathed to my Daughter Susanna equal to
what my Daughter Jennet received from me when
she was married, shall be taken out of my per-
sonal Estate. My will is, and I do hereby give
and Bequeath all the remainder of my personal
Estate to my loving wife Eleanor to dispose at her
pleasure ; and, lastly, my will is, and I do hereby
26 THE FULTON FAMILY.
order, that my Son John pay all the Several leg-
acies herein Bequeathed agreeable to law, and
At the times mentioned Respectively Except the
Bequeathments out of the personal estate out of his
share of the land and appurtenances and that my
Son James have his part free and clear of any in-
cumbrance, Saving five Pounds Annually to his
Mother during her natural life, and I do hereby
nominate and appoint and order my son James
Fulton and my son John Fulton Executors of this
my last will and testament in witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and Seal this fifth day
of February A.D. One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Six [Ninety omitted]. John Fulton [seal]
Signed, Sealed, Published, Pronounced and De-
clared by the aforesaid John Fulton to be his last
will and testament in the presence of us whose
names are subscribed as witnesses.
Nathaniel Hudders, William Buchanan, Philip
Scott.
Proven at West Chester, March 24, 1796, and
letters granted to John and James Fulton.
Chart No. i ; ist, 2d and 3d Generations.
I. Mary, 2.
m. Rev. James Proudfit.
I
I. Mary, 8.
II. Elizabeth, 3.
m. James Hutchison.
I. Eleanor Miller, 9.
II. Jane, 10.
III. Elizabeth, 11.
IV. James, 12.
V. John, 13.
VI. David, 14.
VII. Fulton, 15.
GENEAU]
JOHN, I, AN(
III. James, 4.
m. Margaret Milld
I. John, 16. i
II. Rachel, 17.
III. Joseph, 18.
IV. Eleanor Miller,
V. Miller, 20.
VI. James Jefferson,
Chart No. 2 ; 4th Generation.
Eleauore M. Hutchison, 9.
m. James Wilson.
I
I. John, 32.
II. James, t,t,.
III. David, 34.
IV. Elizabeth, 35.
V. Margaret, 36.
James Hutchison, 12.
ni. Elizabeth Watt.
I
I. Eliza Jane, 37.
II. Susan Eleanor, 38.
III. Martha A., 39.
IV. James Hervey, 40.
V. Margaret Charlotte, 41.
VI. Mary Amanda, 42.
David Hutchison,
m. Fannie Watt:
I
I. James Fulton, 451
II. John Watt, 44.
III. David Watt, 45.
IV. Joseph M., 46.
V. Fulton C, 47.
VI. MargarettaE., 4J
4th Generation, continued.
Robert Wilson, 30.
tn. Lydia .
I
I. Matthew James, 67.
II. Phoebe Wilson, 68.
III. Tamar Jane, 685^.
IV. Robert Franklin, 69.
V. John, 70.
John F. Clarkson. 31.
I. Andrew, 71.
TABLE.
L FUUTON.
V. Jane, 6.
m. Matthew Wilson.
I
I. John, 29.
II. Robert, 30.
[V. John, 5.
Margaret Dickey.
lary, 21 5^.
;iizabeth, 22.
ohn, 23.
ond Marriage.
isther Cooper.
*homas, 24.
ames C, 25.
indrew, 26.
eminia, 27.
efferson C., 28.
ieorge W., 198.
Jleanor R., 199.
»Iatthew Wilson, 200.
on Htitchison, 15. James J. Fulton, 21.
:anore M. Fulton, 19. m. Nancy Ann Ramsey.
Vlargaret Jane, 49. I. Rachel Maria, 60.
liza A., 50. II. Margaret Jane, 61.
.Rachel, 51. HI. James, 62.
ames Banks, 52. IV. Wm. Thompson, 63.
ohn Reed, 53. V. Joseph Miller, 64.
David Stevens, 54. VI. Hugh Ramsey, 65.
Mary Fulton, 55.
Fulton Ankrim, 56.
511en, 57.
oseph, 58.
i^^illiam Gustavus,59.
VI. Susan, 7.
m. Rev. James Clarkson.
I, John Fulton, 31.
Andrew Fulton, 26.
m. Jane Magee.
1
I. John C, 209.
II. Samuel M., 210.
III. Jane M., 211.
IV. Christopher S., 212.
V. Fr'cis M'Allister, 213.
VI. Henrietta, 214.
VII. Margaret M., 215.
VIII. Andrew, Jr., 216.
IX. Eliza M., 217.
Chart No. 3 ; 5th Generation.
John Wilson, 32.
m. Charlotte Watt.
I. James Marshall, 72
[I. John David, 73.
David Wilson, 34.
ni. Jane Manifold.
I. James, 74.
II. Henry, 75.
III. Elizabeth, 76.
IV. Alexander, 77.
V. John, 78.
VI. Amanda, 79.
GENEALOGICi
Margaret Wilson)
m. John Collini
I
I. John, 80.
II. Eleanor, 81. I
III. Margaret Jane, i
IV. James, 82.
V. Elizabeth, 83.
VI. David, 84.
5th Generation continued.
James F. Hutchison, 43.
ni. Jane H. Dickey.
Samuel Dickey, 105.
David Watt, 106.
Jane Dickey, 107.
David W. Hutchison, 45.
m. Jane A. Noble.
I
I. William Noble, 108.
II. David C, 109.
III. Susan Noble, no.
IV. Francis Pringle, in.
V. J. H. Andrew, 112.
VI. Fannie Watt, 113.
VII. Maggie Dickey, 114.
VIII. Agnes, 115.
5th Generation continued.
Fxilton A. Hutchison, 56.
m. Martha Buchanan.
I
I. Ellen Cornelia, 128.
II. Nancy Lavina, 129.
III. Mary, 130.
IV. Fulton, 131.
William G. Hutchison, 59,
m. Ann Eliza Campbell.
I. Ross Alexander, 132.
II. Sarah Fulton, 133.
III. William Easton, 134.
IV. Joseph Cooper, 135.
Joseph M. Hutchisc
m. Mary F. Hutchis
I
I. Elizabeth, 116.
II. David, 117.
III. Fannie W., 118.
IV. Maggie, 119.
V. Amelia, 120.
VI. Josephine, 121.
James Fulton, (
m. Anna M. John
I. Rebecca, 136.
II. James, 137.
III. Mary. 138-
IV. William, 139.
V. Carrie, 140.
VI. Gertrude, 141.
E.— Continued.
J. Hutchison, 37.
an Alexander Kerr.
I .
.mes Hutchison, 85.
lizabeth Eleanor, 8€
eorge, 87.
irah Thomson, 88.
ihn Hervey, 89.
asan Marjorie, 90.
James H. Hutchison, 40.
m. Nancy Dickey.
I. Elizabeth, 91.
II. Jane Dickey, 92.
III. Susan Ellen, 93.
IV. Maggie Dickey, 94.
V. James Melville, 95.
VI. Anna Martha, 96.
VII. Ida Cornelia, 97.
Mary A. Hutchison, 42.
m. William Sherer.
I. Uzzie Watt, 98.
II. Marj' Ramsey, 99.
III. Ella Rachel, 100.
IV. Martha A., loi.
V. Lina R., 102.
VI. William John, 103.
VII. James Hervey, 104.
ta E. Hutchison,
. J. Cyrus Kerr.
. L/izzie, 122.
mnie Watt, 123.
ivid Fulton, 124.
Eliza A. Hutchison, 50.
m. John Patterson.
I. John Fulton, 125.
Rachel Hutchison, 51.
m. Rev. E. H. Stevenson
I
I. Ephraim F., 126.
II. Elizabeth Eleanore, 12:
liam T. Fulton, 63.
Hannah Kirk.
I
:irk, 142.
nnie E., I43-
econd Marriage.
mnie E. Keeper.
;ieanor Jane, 144.
Chart No. 4; 5th Generation, continued.
Joseph M. Fulton, 64.
ni. Sarah Anna Brown.
I
I. Etta L,awrence, 145.
II. Fred. Jefferson, 146.
III. Alfred Miller, 147.
IV. Norman Brown, 148.
Hugh R. Fulton, 65.
m. Sarah Thomson Kerr,
I
I. Hugh Kerr, 149.
II. Eleanore Jane, 150.
III. John, 151.
GENEALOGK .
James B. Fulton, 6
Thos. C. Fulton, 6;
Louis B. Fulton, 6=
Samuel M. Fulton"
Margaret M. Fulto
George W. Fulton,
For the above see
No. 5, Pittsburg 1
Chart No. 5 ; 6th Generation.
James H. Kerr, 85.
tn. MarjT Ella Speer.
George Kerr, 87.
n. Annie Deibert.
I. Helen Mary, 161.
II. Guy Manning, 162.
I. Minnie Love, 163.
6th Generation, continued.
William J. Sherer, 103.
m. Elizabeth Grittinger.
I. Mary Elizabeth, 175.
II. William.
III. Robert.
Chart No. 6 ; 7th Generation.
Helen May Kerr, 161.
m. Henry M Blackmer.
I
I. Myron Kerr, 192.
II. Margaret Gray, 193.
Samuel M. Fulton, 190.
tn. Lizzie Bair.
I
I. Susanna, 194.
II. John Clarkson, 195.
III. James Sample, 196.
IV. Kathleen, 197.
i
Maggie D. Hutchi
m. James S. E
I. Albert D., 164.
II. Eli'th Hutchis
III. Martie S., 166.
John F. Patterson, 125.
m. Charlotte I. McDowell.
I
I. Austin McDowell, 176.
Rebecca Fulton
m. Charles E Mc:
I
I. Charles E., 17
II. Bertram, 178.
III. James Fulton,
IV. Helen Rebecc;
V. William, 181.
3
(.—Continued.
ij- James Wilson, 67.
5)ecca C. Mclntire.
bert B., 153-
«a F., 154-
dia Jane, 155.
n Elizabeth, 156.
Robert F. Wilson, 69.
m. Agnes Thomson.
I. Robert Thomson, 157.
II. William, 158.
Andrew Clarkson, 71.
m. •
I
I. Eliza, 159.
iM. Hutchison, 95.
\| Dora Gibson.
1
rvey, 167.
iiflliam, 168.
ilville, 169.
len, 170.
Anna M. Hutchison, 96.
m. William Eves.
I
I. James, 171.
II. Madge D., 172.
III. Anna H., 173.
Elizabeth W. Sherer, 98
m. William R. Martin.
I
I. Royle S., 174-
rk Fulton, 142.
! Sarah Kimble.
I
^anette, 182.
)bert, 183.
agh Hodge, 184
iDrence, 185.
Eliza Clarkson, 159.
m. James Sample Fulton.
I
I. James C, 186.
II. L,ouisa A., 187.
III. Andrew Clarkson, 188
IV. John C, 189.
V. Samuel Martin, 190.
VI. John Farquahar, 191.
Chart No. 5 ; ist Generation.
2d Genera- I. Mary, 2.
tion. m. Rev. J. Proudfit.
3d Genera- |
tion. I. Mary, 21^.
GENEALOGICJ
I. JOHN AN]
II. Klizabeth, 3.
m. James Hutchison.
II. Elizabeth, 22.
III. James, 4.
m. Margaret Mil]
I
1st wife,
Margaret Dicker
III. John, 23,
4th Generation.
Elizabeth Fulton, 22.
VI. David l,afevre.
i
I. Jacob, 201.
II. Jane Dickey, 202.
III. Maiy Ann, 202j^.
Thomas Fulton, 24.
m. Margaret Baird.
I
I. James B. , 203.
II. Thomas Cooper, 203^^.
5th Generation.
Jane Dickey Lafevre, 202.
ni. William Crawford.
I
I. David L,afevre, 230^.
II. Rebecca J., 231.
III. Harriet Ralston, 231^.
IV. J. Shoenberger, 231 J<.
5th Generation, continued.
Andrew Fulton, 216.
m. Maria Smith.
I
I. Sarah S., 245.
24. James C. Fulton, 25.
m, Eliza Jane Morrow.
I. Thomas C, 204.
II. Matilda Jane, 205.
III. William Morrow, 206.
IV. James Wilson, 207.
V. Louis B., 208.
6th Generation.
D. Lafevre Crawford, 230 J^.
m. Martha Neillie.
I
I. William D , 260.
II. George B., 261.
Mary Ann Lafevre, 202 M.
m. Albert Crawford.
I
I. William Dickey, 232.
II. David Irwin, 232^^.
III. Ella May, 232^^.
IV. Robert Grier, 232K.
Andrew Fulton, :
ni. Jane MageeJ
I \
I. John C, 209.
II. Samuel M., 2i<i
III. Jane M., 211.
IV. Christopher M
V. Fr. McAllister,
VI. Henrietta, 214
VII. Margaret M., 5
VIII. Andrew, Jr., 2J
IX. Eliza M., 217.
Thomas C. Fulton, 1
■m. Margaret M. Fu
I. Thomas Cooper.
II. Jean Magee, 234
III. Plenny A., 235.
IV. James Cooper, 2
V. Andrew F., 237.
Eleanor Rich. Fulton, 219. Matthew Henry Fulto
m. Geo. W. Armstrong. m. Kate N. Swing
I.
IL
III.
Charles, 246.
Christian S., 247
James, B. F., 248.
Rebecca J. Crawford, 231.
m. Edward C. Negly.
I. Jennie Lafevre, 262.
II. Kate Edna, 263.
III. R. Herberton, 264.
I. Carrie, 249.
II. Geo. Frederick
III. Blanchard, 251.
IV. Matthew Percy
V. James Edward,
VI. Thos. Denman,
VII. Che'r Courtney
Dr. John S. Crawford,
m. Isabel Barclay
I. Rebecca, 265.
II. Margaret, 266.
III. Thomas Barclay,
7th Generation.
William D. Crawford, 260.
■}n. Mary Wier.
I
I. Martha Neillie, 274.
II. David Lafevre, 275.
IIL William D., 276.
IV. George Ball, 277.
Geo. Ball Crawford, 261.
m. May Scott.
I. George Scott, 278.
.—Continued.
ULTON, I . Chart of the Pittsburg branch of the Fulton Family.
I
V. John, 5.
V. Jane, 6.
m. Matthew Wilson.
VI. Susan, 7.
m. Rev. James Clarkson.
2d wife,
Esther Cooper.
Thomas, 24.
Jemima, 27.
Eleanor R., 28b.
;on C. Fulton, 28.
liza McCartney.
irge W., 218.
.nor Richmond, 219
III. Andrew, 26.
;,«- VI. George W., 28a.
II. James C, 25.
V. Jefferson C, 28.
200, VIII. Mat. Wilson, 28c.
George W. Fulton, 198, 28a. Eleanor R. Fulton, 199, 28b.
m. Harriet Blanchard. in. William Brice Boies.
is B. Fulton, 208.
Annie M. Birch.
;garet Jane, 238.
I. Elizabeth Esther, 220.
II. Matthew Henry, 221.
Seco7id Marriage.
George W. Fulton, 198, 28a.
m. Mary Ann Kennedy.
I. Robert Warnock, 222.
II. Harriet Jane, 223.
III. Thomas Kennedy, 224,
IV. Annie Margaret, 225.
V. George, 226.
Samuel M. Fulton, 210.
m. Agnes R. Smith.
I
I. Andrew, 239.
II. Jane M , 240.
III. Margaret M., 241.
IV. William S., 242.
I. George W., 227.
II. David, 228.
III. James Franklin,
IV. Andrew Fulton,
229.
230.
Jane M. Fulton, 211.
m. Dr. Samuel Dilworth.
I
I. PaulF., 243.
II. Andrew F., 244.
arnock Fulton, 222.
, Ella Fombelle.
;eorge Henry, 256.
James F. Boies, 229.
7n. Addie Crouch.
I
I. James F., 257.
II. Ella C, 258.
Dickey Crawford, 232. D. Irwin Crawford, 232iX-
Louisa Schlagel. " m. Amelia Betz.
Carrie Fulton, 249.
m. James Eaton Phillips.
Villiam A., 268.
ohn Schlagel, 269.
David Lafevre, 270.
Robert Fulton, 271.
foseph Irwin, 272.
I. Mary A. Lafevre, 273. I. Isabelle, 259.
I
« I was unable to get a correct list of the Pittsburg
branch of the family until the numbers ran up to 198,
and too late to change the figures before going to press.
— H. R. F.
CHAPTER II.
A Chart of the Fulton Family.
FIRST GENERATION.
(i) i John Fulton, b. Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1713,
d. March 20, 1796; m. Eleanor Fulton.
SECOND GENERATION.
Children of John Fulton (No. i) and Eleanor
Fulton.
(2) i Mary Fulton, b. 1745 ; m. Rev. James Proud-
fit, Salem, N. Y.
(3) ii Elizabeth Fulton, b. 174S; m. James Hutch-
ison 1767? d. June 12, 1S12.
(4) iii James Fulton, b. February 2, 1751, d. Feb-
ruary 15, 1S33, aged S3 years ; m. Margaret
Miller November 25, 17S1, b. January 20,
1757, d. July 20, 1S16.
(5) iv John Fulton; m. Margaret Dickey ; 2d wife,
Esther Cooper.
(6) V Jane Fulton, d. January 19, 1797; m. Mat-
thew Wilson August 27, 1792, b. July
27, 1762, d. January 10, 183S.
(7) vi Susan Fulton, b. 1760, d. at Troy, N. Y. ;
m. Rev. James Clarkson, York County.
28 GENEALOGY OF THE
THIRD GENERATION.
Children of Mary Fulton Proudfit (No. 2) and
Rev. James Proudfit.
(Grandfather of Rev. Alexander Proudfit,
Baltimore.)
(8) i One child, Mary Proudfit, m. Mr. Raid.
Children of Elizabeth Fulton (No. 3) and
James Hutchison.
(9) i Eleanor M. Hutchison, b. September 11,
1770, d. June II, 1844; m. James Wil-
son, York County, b. August 12, 1766,
d. January 14, 1S57.
(10) ii Jane Hutchison, u.
(11) iii Elizabeth Hutchison, u.
(12) iv James Hutchison, b. October 26, 1775, d.
December 25, 1S57; ^^^' Elizabeth Watt,
b. January 19, 1784, d. March 31, 1844.
(13) V John Hutchison, u.
(14) vi David W. Hutchison, d. November 26, 1835 :
m. Fannie Watt, d. July 30, 1862.
(15) vii Fulton Hutchison, b. 1783, d. 1S60; m.
Eleanor M. Fulton, b. 17S5, d. 1826.
Children of James Fulton (No. 4) and
Margaret Miller.
(16) i John Fulton, b. March 23, 1783, u., d.
at Petersburg, Va., 1S54.
(17) ii Rachel Fulton, b. April 9, 1787, u., d.
March 15, 1864.
ANDREW FULTON, No. 26
FULTON FAMILY. 29
(iS) iii Joseph Fulton, b. March 3, 1785, d. Decem-
ber 27, 1844; m. Martha Watt, March 2,
1809, b. January 15, 17S6, d. December
4, 1S69, aged 84 years.
(19) iv Eleanor M. Fulton, b. November 23, 1793;
m. Fulton Hutchison.
(20) V Miller Fulton, b. December 13, 1797, u., d.
September 16, 1S59, aged 61 years, 9
months, 3 days.
(21) vi James Jefferson Fulton, b. February 18,
1801, d. April 28, 1864, aged 63 years;
m. Nancy Ann Ramsey, June 7, 1827, b.
August 22, 1802, d. January 7, 1870,
aged 68 3'ears.
Children of John Fulton (No. 5) and Margaret
Dickey..
(2ii) i Mary Fulton ; m. Eckles, Steubenville, O.
(22) ii Elizabeth Fulton; m. David Lafevre.
(23) iii John Fulton, deceased.
Children of John Fulton (No. 5) by Second
Wife, Esther Cooper.
(24) i Thomas Fulton; m. Margaret Baird.
(25) ii James C. Fulton; m. Eliza Jane Morrow,
d. 1S65.
(26) iii Andrew^ Fulton (ex-mayor's grandfather) ;
m. Jane Magee. He established the bell
and brass foundry business in Pittsburg
in 1S32.
(27) iv Jemima Fulton.
30
GENEALOGY OF THE
(28) V Jefferson C. Fulton; m. Eliza McCartney.
(19S) vi George Washington Fulton, b. in Chester
28a.* County, Pa., August, 1802, d. November,
1864; ni. Harriet Blanchard, of Wor-
cester, Mass., on February 14, 1838, b.
February 20, 1808, d. May 25, 1844;
second inarriage, Mar}^ Ann Kennedy, in
1846. Trade steam-boat engineer, Ohio
and Mississippi I'ivers.
(199) vii Eleanor Richmond Fulton ; m. William Brice
28b. Boies.
(200) viii Matthew Wilson Fulton, deceased, u.
28c.
Children of Jane Fulton (No. 6) and Matthew
Wilson.
(29) i John Wilson.
(30) ii Robert Wilson, b. July i, 1796, d. April 3,
1862; m. Lydia Wilson, b. July iS,
1S04, d. September 7, 1S65.
Children of Susanna Fulton (No. 7) and Rev.
James Clarkson.
(31) i John Fulton Clarkson, d. at Troy, N. Y.,
1842.
* I was unable to obtain a correct list of the Pittsburg branch
of the Fulton family until the numbers ran up to 19S, and too
late to change the figures before going to press, -which explains
the irregularity of numbers in the chart.
FULTON FAMILY. 3 I
FOURTH GENERATION.
Children of Eleanor M. Hutchison (No. 9)
AND James Wilson.
(32) i John Wilson, b. March 16, 1796, d. July 4,
1886; m. Charlotte Watt, b. March 26,
1795, d. May 17, 1S74.
(33) i' James Wilson; m. Susan E. Hutchison.
(34) iii David Wilson, b. September 20, 1805, d.
February 24, 1S93 ; m. Jane Manifold, b.
January 23, iSoS, d. July 28, i860.
(35) iv Elizabeth Wilson, u.
(36) V Margaret Wilson; m. John Collins, York
county.
Children of James Hutchison (No. 12) and
Elizabeth Watt.
(37) i Eliza Jane Hutchison, d. July 9, 18S9; m.
John Alexandei' Kerr, d. January 10,
'1891.
(38) ii Susan Eleanor Hutchison; m. James H.
Wilson.
(39) iii Martha A. Hutchison, u.
(40) iv James Hervey Hutchison ; m. Nancy Dickey.
(41) v Margaret Charlotte Hutchison, u.
(42) vi Mary Amanda Hutchison, b. July 19, 1822,
d. May 14, 1895; m. William Sherer, b.
January 13, 18 19, d. February i, 1899.
32 GENEALOGY OF THE
Children of David W. Hutchison (No. 14) and
Fannie Watt.
(43) i James F. Hutchison; m. Jane H. Dickey.
(44) ii John W. Hutchison, deceased.
(45) iii David W. Hutchison, d. May 29, 1874; m.
Jane A. Noble, died April 15, 1894.
(46) iv Joseph M. Hutchison ; m. Mary F. Hutchi-
son.
(47) V Fulton C. Hutchison, u.
(48) vi Margaretta E. Hutchison; m. Rev. Lamb;
second marriage J. Cyrus Kerr.
Children of Eleanor M. Fulton (No. 19) and
Fulton Hutchison (No. 15).
(49) i Margaret Jane Hutchison, b. 181 1, u.
(50) ii Eliza A. Hutchison, b. 1812; m. John Pat-
terson.
(51) iii Rachel Hutchison, b. 1814; m. Rev. Ephraim
Stevenson.
(53) iv James Banks Hutchison, b. 1S16, u., Cali-
fornia.
(53) ^ Joh^"^ Reed Hutchison, b. 181 7, u.
(54) vi Mary Finney Hutchison; m. Joseph M.
Hutchison.
(55) vii Fulton Ankrim Hutchison, b. October iS,
1820; Minister U. P. Church, Nobles-
town, Pa. ; m. Martha Buchanan, b. Feb-
ruary 27, 1827.
(56) viii Ellen M. Hutchison, u.
(57) ix David Stephen Hutchison, California.
FULTON FAMILY. 33
(58) X Joseph L. Hutchison, deceased, u.
(59) xi William G. Hutchison, b. November 9, 1825,
d. February 4, 1893 ; m. Ann Eliza Camp-
bell, June 6, 1854, b. July 5, 1S26, d.
October i, 18S6.
Children of James J. Fulton (No. 21) and
Nancy A. Ramsey.
(60) i Rachael Maria Fulton, b. March 30, 1S2S;
d. in Lancaster, June 19, 1832, aged 4
years, 2 months, 19 days.
(61) ii Margaret Jane Fulton, b. October i, 1830;
d. in Lancaster, August 16, 1831, aged 10
months, 16 days.
(62) iii James Fulton, M.D., b. November 12, 1832 ;
m. May 16, 1S61, to Anna M. Johnson, b.
August 31, 1 84 1.
(^6t,) iv William Thompson Fulton, b. February 27,
1835; m. April 5, 1865, to Hannah A.
Kirk; second m. October 19, 1876, to
Annie E. Neeper.
(64) V Joseph Miller Fulton, b. January 11, 1840,
d. February 21, 1892; m. Sarah Anna
Brown, b. December 3, 1845.
(65) vi Hugh Ramsey Fulton, b. November 16, 1843 ;
m. November 15, 1871, to Sallie Thomp-
son Kerr (No. 88).
Children of Elizabeth Fulton (No. 22) and
David Lafevre.
(201) i Jacob Lafevre, Pittsburg, Pa.
65a
34 GENEALOGY OF THE
(202) ii Jane Dickey Lafevre, m. William Crawford,
65b. Pittsburg, Pa.
(202!) iii Mary Ann Lafevre, m. Albert Crawford.
Children of Thomas Fulton (No. 24) and Mar-
garet Baird.
(203) i James Baird Fulton, m. Matilda Boies,
65c. second wife unknown. He was Chief
Engineer in the U. S. Navy Gunboat
Louisville in the Civil War. Afterwards
Chief Engineer at the Mound City Navy
Yard.
(203I-) ii Thomas Cooper Fulton, died young.
Children of James C. Fulton (No. 25) and
Eliza Jane Morrow,
(204) i Thomas Cooper Fulton, b. December 19,
65d. 1830, d. June, 1S94; m. Margaret M.
Fulton (a cousin) in 1868. She resides
at White Bear Lake, Minn. He was an
engineer in the U. S. Navy during the
Civil War.
(205) ii Matilda Jane Fulton, b. 1832, d. 1853.
656.
(206) iii William Morrow Fulton, b. 1834, ^' 1897;
65f. m. Sarah G. Shilling.
(207) iv James Wilson Fulton, b. 1836, d. 1855, u.
65g-
(208) v Louis Brown Fulton, 34 Penn Avenue, Pitts-
65h. burg. Pa. ; m. Annie M. Birch, January
5, 1878. He is a manufacturer and a bell
WM. M. FULTON, No. 206.
1152478
FULTON FAMILY. 35
and brass founder; was also an engineer
in the U. S. Navy in the Civil War, and
was born at Old Brighton, Beaver County,
Pa., October 19, 1841.
Children of Andrew Fulton (No. 26) and
Jane Magee.
(209) i John C. Fulton, deceased, b. 1826.
66a.
(210) ii Samuel Magee Fulton, deceased, b. 1839;
66b. m. Agnes Smith.
(211) iii Jane Magee Fulton, deceased, b. 1830; m.
66c. Dr. Samuel Dil worth.
(212) iv Christopher Magee Fulton, deceased, b. 1832.
66d.
(213) V Francis McAllister Fulton.
66e.
(214) vi Henrietta Fulton.
66f.
(215) vii Margaret Magee Fulton, b. in Pittsburg,
66g. 1S34; m. Thomas C. Fulton (cousin) in
1868 ; resides at White Bear Lake, Minn.
(216) viii Andrew Magee Fulton, Jr., deceased; m.
66h. Marie Smith.
(217) ix Eliza Magee Fulton, deceased.
66i.
Children of Jefferson C. Fulton (No. 28) and
Eliza McCartney.
(218) i George Washington Fulton, deceased; m.
66k. Josephine Goddard. He was an engineer
in the U. S. Navy during the Civil War.
Widow living in St. Louis, Mo., with
children.
36 GENEALOGY OF THE
(219) ii Eleanor Richmond Fulton, deceased j m.
661. George W. Armstrongf.
Children of George W. Fulton (No. 198) (28 a)
AND Harriet Blanch ard.
(220) i Elizabeth Esther Fulton, b. January 21, 1839;
66m. m. Jacob S. Winans, February 17, 1S64,
resides in Manchester, Kans.
(221) ii Matthew Henry Fulton, Bucyrus, O., b.
66n. at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pa.,
May 22, 1S40; m. Kate N. Swingly.
Children of George W. Fulton (No. 198) (28 a)
AND Mary Ann Kennedy (Second
Marriage) .
(222) i Robert Warnock Fulton, Beaver, Fa. ; m.
660. Ella Fombelle.
(223) ii Harriet Jane Fulton, u.
66p.
(224) iii Thomas Kennedy Fulton, deceased.
66q.
(225) iv Anna Margaret Fulton, u.
66r.
(226) V George Fulton (died young).
66s.
Children of Eleanor Richmond Fulton (No. 199)
(28 b) and William Brice Boies.
(227) i George Wilson Boies, eldest son, Hillsboro,
66t. O.
(228) ii David Brice Boies, deceased.
66u.
SAMUEL M, FULTON, No. 210
FULTON FAMILY. 37
(239) iii James Franklin Boies, deceased; m. Addie
66v. Crouch.
(230) iv Andrew Fulton Boies, Pittsburg, Fa. ; m.
66w. Kate Crouch.
Children of Robert Wilson (No. 30) and Lydia
Wilson.
(67) i Matthew James Wilson, b. January II, 1830;
m. Rebecca C. Mclntire.
(68) ii Phoebe Wilson, b. August i, 1831.
6S^) iii Tamar Jane Wilson, b. February 8, 1836;
m. W. Kersey Warden.
09) iv Robert Franklin Wilson, b. June 23, 1S39;
m. Agnes E. Thomson, January 19, 1870.
(70) V John Wilson, b. January 11, 1842; m. S.
Elizabeth Thompson.
Children of John Fulton Clarkson (No. 31).
(71) i Andrew Clarkson.
FIFTH GENERATION.
Children of John Wilson (No. 33) and Char-
lotte Watt.
(72) i James Marshall Wilson, b. July 8, 1822;
m. November 13, 1S76, to Jane Miller
Thompson, deceased. Second marriage
September 14, 1893, to Mrs. Harriet T.
Campbell.
(73) ^^ John David Wilson, b. August 11, 1825, u.
38 GENEALOGY OF THE
Children of David Wilson (No. 34) and Jane
Manifold.
(74) i James Wilson, b. December 25, 1833; m.
Lydia Mechem.
(75) ii Henry M. Wilson, b. December 9, 1835,
d. February 9, 1S73.
(76) iii Elizabeth M. Wilson, m. December 12, 1867 ;
m. John H. Anderson, b. September 9,
1S35.
(77) iv David Alexander Wilson, b. October 2, 1839 ;
m. J. Ellen Anderson, January 7, 1869.
(7^) ^ John H. Wilson, b. June 2, 1847; m. Miss
Wiley.
(79) vi Amanda J. Wilson, b. September 7, 1844;
m. January 12, 1875, to W. N. McAlister,
b. October 3, 1S43.
(79^) vii Eleanor Wilson, b. October 2, 1841, d. June
2, 1844.
Children of Margaret Wilson (No. 36) and
John Collins.
(80) i John Collins.
(81) ii Eleanor Collins.
(81^) iii Margaret Jane Collins.
(82) iv James Collins; m. Martha Jane Wilson.
(83) V Elizabeth Collins.
(84) vi David Collins.
Children of Eliza Jane Hutchison (No. 37) and
John Alexander Kerr.
(85) i James Hutchison Kerr, b. August 31, 1837;
m. Mary Ella Speer, Christmas, 1S66.
FULTON FAMILY.
39
(^S6) ii Elizabeth Eleanor Kerr, b. May 4, 1S39.
(87) iii George Kerr, M.D., b. January 9, 1S41 ;
m. March 17, 1864,10 Christiana Deibert,
b. February 21, 1S43, d. January 20, 1S91 ;
second marriage Carrie L. Trout, Febru-
ary I, 1893.
(88) iv Sallie Thomson Kerr, b. October 31, 1842;
m. Hugh R. Fulton, November 15, 1S71.
(89) V John Hervey Kerr, deceased.
(90) vi Susan Margery Kerr.
Children of James Hervey Hutchison (No. 40)
AND Nancy Dickey.
(91) i Elizabeth Hutchison; m. John Fulton Pat-
terson.
(92) ii Jane Dickey Hutchison, deceased.
(93) iii Susan Ellen Hutchison.
(94) iv Maggie D. Hutchison ; m. Dr. James S. Eves.
(95) V James M. Hutchison; m. Dora Gibson.
(96) vi Anna M. Hutchison; m. William Eves.
(97) vii Ida C. Hutchison, u.
Children of Mary Amanda Hutchison (No. 42)
AND William Siierer.
(98) i Elizabeth Watt Sherer, b. April i, 1S50;
m. William R. Martin, December 17,
1874, b. September 22, 1S47.
(99) ii Mary Ramsey Sherer, b. April i, 1S52, d.
April 16, 1S93,
(100) iii Ella Rachel Sherer, b. August i, 1S56, u.
(loi) iv Martha A. Sherer, b. March 10, 1S5S, u.
40 GENEALOGY OF THE
(102) V Lina R. Sherer, b. December 4, i860, u.
(103) vi William John Sherer, b. February 14, 1862;
m. Elizabeth Grittinger.
(104) vii James Hervey Sherer, Esq., b. March 27,
1S67.
Children of James F. Hutchison (No. 43) and
Jane H. Dickey.
(105) i Samuel D. Hutchison; m. Mary Irwin.
(106) ii David Watt Hutchison; m. Emma Cooley.
(107) iii Jennie D. Hutchison, u.
Children of David W. Hutchison (No. 45) and
Jane A. Noble.
(108) i William Noble Hutchison, M.D., u., drowned
October 4, 1S77.
(109) ii David C. Hutchison, u.
(no) iii Susan Noble Hutchison, u.
(in) iv Francis P. Hutchison, M.D., u.
(113) V J. Hervey A, Hutchison, u.
(113) vi Fannie W. Hutchison, u., d. May, 1859.
(114) vii Maggie Dickey Hutchison, u.
(115) viii H. Agnew Hutchison; d. April 29, 1884.
Children of Joseph M. Hutchison (No. 46) and
Mary Fulton Hutchison (No. 55).
(116) i Elizabeth Hutchison, deceased, u.
(117) ii David Hutchison, deceased.
(118) iii Fannie W. Hutchison, u.
(119) iv Maggie Hutchison, u.
(120) v Amelia Hutchison; m. Scott.
(121) vi Josephine Hutchison.
fulton family. 4i
Children of Margaretta E. Hutchison (No. 48)
AND J. Cyrus Kerr.
(122) i M. Lizzie Kerr, deceased, u.
(123) ii Fannie Watt Kerr, u.
(124) iii David Fulton Kerr, deceased, u.
Children of Eliza A. Hutchison (No. 50) and
John Patterson,
(125) i Dr. John Fulton Patterson, b. May 27, 1842,
d. March 22, 1S82; m. Elizabeth Hut-
chison (91), December 21, 1S65, d. Au-
gust 8, 1S69; second marriage Charlotte
Isabella McDowell.
Children of Rachel Hutchison (No. 51) and
Rev. Ephraim H. Stevenson.
(126) i Ephraim F. Stevenson.
(127) ii Elizabeth Eleanor Stevenson.
Children of Fulton Ankrim Hutchison (No. ^6)
AND Martha Buchanan.
(128) i Ellen Cornelia Hutchison, b. January 28,
1851.
(129) ii Nancy Lavina M. Hutchison, b. February 9,
1853.
(130) iii Lizzie Martha Hutchison, b. 1855.
(131) iv Fulton Hutchison, b. September 12, 1857.
(i3i-i-) v C. O. Jennie Hutchison, b. 185S,
(13 1 1) vi Sarah Ann Hutchison, b. 1S62.
42 genealogy of the
Children of William G. Hutchison (No. 59) and
Ann Eliza Campbell.
(132) i Ross Alexander Hutchison, b. August 25,
1S57, d. December 20, 18S5.
(133) ii Sarah Fulton Hutchison, b. July 14, 1855,
d. June 6, 1859.
(134) iii Williain Easton Hutchison, Judge in Kansas,
b. July 14, i860; married Reba Ander-
son August 6, 1895.
(^35) ^^ Joseph Cooper Hutchison, M.D., b. July i,
1S63; married Essie Mosier, Februaiy 5,
1895, b. April 20, 1S73. Residence,
Florissant, Colorado.
Children of Dr. James Fulton (No. 62) and
Anna Mary Johnson.
(136) i Rebecca Fulton, b. September 25, 1862;
married Charles E. McKillips April 25,
1889.
(^37) " James Fulton, b. September 12, 1865, d.
November 29, 1898, u.
(138) iii Maiy Fulton, b. November 26, 1869.
(139) iv William Fulton, b. June 9, 1872.
(140) V Carrie Fulton, b. November 19, 1876.
(141) vi Gertrude Fulton, b. November 11, 1880.
Children of William Thompson Fulton (No.
63) AND Hannah A. Kirk.
(142) i Kirk Fulton, b. August 25, 1866; m. March
25, 1 89 1, to Sarah Kimble, b. September
3, 1870.
(143) ii Annie E. Fulton.
MARY FULTON, No. 138.
fulton family. 43
Children by Second Marriage, Annie E. Neeper.
(144) iii Eleanor Jane Fulton.
Children of Joseph Miller Fulton (No. 64)
AND Sarah Anna Brown.
(145) i Etta Lawrence Fulton, b. October 15, 1S6S,
d. November 10, 1S93.
(146) ii Frederick Jefferson Fulton, b. August 4,
1S74. Resides in Philadelphia, Pa.
(147) iii Alfred Miller Fulton, b. January 34, iSSi.
Bookkeeper, 1312 W. 4th Street, Wil-
mington, Del.
(14S) iv Norman Brown Fulton, b. December 19,
18S5, d. July 27, 1S92.
Children of Hugh Ramsey Fulton (No. 65) and
Sallie Thomson Kerr (No. SS).
(149) i Hugh Kerr Fulton, b. April iS, 1875.
(150) ii Eleanore Jane Fulton, b. February 4, 18S2.
(151) iii John Fulton, b. July 37, 1883.
Children of Jane Dickey La fevre (No. 302)
(65 b) and William Crawford.
(2304-) i David La fevre Crawford; m. Martha Neillie.
(231) ii Rebecca J. Crawford; m. "Edward C. Negly.
E. C. N. is an alderman in East End,
Pittsburg.
(231!) iii Harriet Ralston Crawford; m. Miller Mon-
tooth.
(231I) iv Dr. John Shoenberger Crawford; m. Isabel
Barclay, Greensburg, Pa.
44 GENEALOGY OF THE
Children of Mary Ann La fevre (202i) and
Albert Crawford.
(332) i William Dickey Crawford; m. Louisa
Schlagel.
(232!) ii David Irwin Crawford; m. Amelia Betz.
(232!) iii Ella Mary Crawford.
(232!^) iv Robert Grier Crawford.
Children of Thomas C. Fulton (No. 204) (6^ d)
AND Margaret M. Fulton, of White
Bear Lake, Minn.
(233) i Thomas Cooper Fulton, M.D., b. 1869.
(234) ii Jean Magee Fulton, b. 1871.
(235) iii Plenny A. Fulton, b. 1872.
(236) iv James Cooper Fulton (mechanic), b. 1874.
(237) V Andrew F. Fulton, b. 1876.
Children of Louis B. Fulton (No. 208) (65 h)
AND Annie M. Birch.
(238) i Margaret Jane Fulton, b. October 22, 1878.
Children of Samuel M. Fulton (No. 210) (66 b)
AND Agnes R. Smith.
(239) i Andrew Fulton, ex-maj-or of Pittsburg, b.
1S50.
(240) ii Jane M. Fulton, b. 1S53.
(241) iii Margaret M. Fulton, b. 1855; m. J. S.
Arnold.
(242) iv William S. Fulton (deceased), b. 1S57.
FULTON FAMILY. 45
Children of Jane M. Fulton (No. 3ii) (66 c) and
Dr. Samuel Dilworth.
(243) i Paul F., deceased.
(244) ii Andrew F., deceased.
Children of Andrew Fulton (No. 216) (66 h) and
Marie Smith.
(245) i Sarah S., deceased.
Children of Eleanor R. Fulton (No. 219) (66 l)
AND George W. Armstrong.
(246) i Charles, deceased.
(247) il Christian Seibert.
(24S) iii James B. Fulton Armstrong.
Children of Matthew Henry Fulton (No. 221)
(66 n) and Kate N. Swingly, Bucyrus, O.
(249) i Carrie Fulton, b. September 22, 1873; m.
James Eaton Phillips, June 10, 1S96. Re-
side at Marion, O., dry goods merchant.
(250) ii George Frederick Fulton, b. February 17,
1876.
(251) iii Blanchard Fulton, b. December 19, 1877, d.
January 17, 187S.
(252) iv Matthew Percy Fulton, b. April 20, 1879.
(253) V James Edward Fulton, b. June 3, 1881.
(254) vi Thomas Denman Fulton, b. November 30,
1SS3.
(255) vii Chester Courtney Fulton, b. November 13,
1 886.
46 genealogy of the
Children of Robert Warnock Fulton (No. 222)
(66 o) AND Ella Fombelle.
(256) i George Henry Fulton.
Children of James F. Boies (No. 229) (66 v)
AND Addie Crouch.
(257) ^ James F.
(258) ii Ella C.
Children of Matthew James Wilson (No. 67)
AND Rebecca C. McIntire.
(153) i Robert B. Wilson; m. Ida Mary Crowl,
December 29, 1881.
(154) ii Ella F. Wilson.
(155) iii Lydia Jane Wilson.
(156) iv Ann Elizabeth Wilson.
Children of Robert Franklin Wilson (No. 69)
AND Agnes E. Thompson.
(157) i Robert Thompson Wilson, b. December 6,
1872.
(158) ii William Jeffers Wilson, b. February 15,
1879.
Children of Andrew Clarkson (No. 71).
(159) i Eliza Clarkson, b. June, 181 2, d. November
2, 1877; m. James Sample Fulton, York
County, b. October, 181 2, d. May 10,
1897.
Y
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1
ANDREW FULTON, No. 239
FULTON FAMILY. 47
SIXTH GENERATION.
Children of Elizabeth M. Wilson (No. 76) and
John H. Anderson.
(159^) i Joseph Clay Anderson, b. November 24,
1S6S.
(159^) ii Nora Anderson, b. September 15, 1S71.
(159^) iii Harry M. Anderson, b. August 36, 1S74.
(^59f) ^'^ David Ross Anderson, b. May 16, 1876.
Children of David Alexander Wilson (No. 77)
AND J. Ellen Anderson,
(160) i David Reed Wilson, b. July iS, 1872.
Children of Amanda J. Wilson (No. 79) and
W. N. McAlister.
(i6oi) i Jennie W. McAlister, b. June 19, 1876.
(i6oi) ii Mary E. McAlister, b. February 7, 1S7S. .
(160I-) iii Nellie I. McAlister, b. February 22, iSSo.
(i6o|) iv Blanche N. McAlister, b. April 9, iSSi.
Children of James Hutchison Kerr (No. 85)
AND M. Ella Speer.
(161) i Helen May Kerr, b. November 10, 1S68; m.
October 28, 1891, to Henry M. Blackmer,
Esq., b. July 25, 1S68.
(162) ii Guy Manning Kerr, b. May 20, 1S70; m.
April 5, 1899^ Bertha Thompson, of New
Bedford, Mass., b. September 23, 1870.
48 GENEALOGY OF THE
Children of George Kerr, M.D. (No. 87), and
Annie Deibert.
(163) i Minnie Love Kerr, b. November 28, 1865;
m. William Greene ; second marriage Sep-
tember 30, 1 89 1, to George C. J. Fleck, b.
October 21, 1S56, of the firm of Fleck
Bros., merchants, Philadelphia.
For Children of Sallie Thomson Kerr (No. 88)
and Hugh R. Fulton, see (65).
Children of Maggie Dickey Hutchison (No. 94)
AND Dr. James S. Eves.
(164) i Albert D. Eves.
(165) ii Elizabeth H. Eves.
(166) iii Martie S. Eves.
Children of James Melville Hutchison (No. 95)
AND Dora Gibson.
(167) i Hervey Hutchison.
(168) ii William Hutchison.
(169) iii Melville Hutchison.
(170) iv Helen Hutchison.
Children of Anna M. Hutchison (No. 96) and
William Eves.
(171) i James Eves.
(172) ii Madge D. Eves.*
(173) iii Anna H. Eves.
MINNIE L. KERR, No. 163,
Wife of Geo. C. ]. Fleck.
fulton family. 49
Children of Elizabeth Watt Sherer (No. 98)
AND Wm. R. Martin.
(174) i Royle S. Martin, b. July 2, 1S7S.
Children of William John Sherer (No. 103) and
Elizabeth Grittinger.
(175) i Mary Elizabeth Sherer.
(175!) ii William John Sherer.
(175I) iii Robert Sherer.
Children of John Fulton Patterson, M.D. (No.
125), AND Charlotte Isabella McDowell.
(176) i Austin McDowell Patterson.
Children of Joseph Cooper Hutchison, M.D.
(No. 135), and Essie Mosier.
(176-I-) i Ralph Cooper Hutchison, b. February 27,
189S.
Children of Rebecca Fulton (No. 136) and
Charles E. McKillips.
(177) i Charles Edward McKillips, b. May 10, 1S90.
(17S) ii Bertram Galbraith McKillips, b. January 2S,
1892, d. December 4, 1893.
(179) iii James Fulton McKillips, b. March 21, 1894.
(180) iv Helen Rebecca McKillips, b. July 7, 1897.
(181) V William Kerr McKillips, b. July 7, 1S97,
d. November 11, 1897.
50 genealogy of the
Children of Kirk Fulton (No. 142) and Sarah
Kimble,
(152) i Jennett Fulton, b. December 13, 1891.
(153) ii Robert Fulton, b. July 31, 1S93.
(154) iii Hugh Hodge Fulton, b. March 16, 1896.
(155) iv Florence Fulton, b. November 8, 1898.
Children of Eliza Clarkson (No. 159) and
James Sample Fulton.
(186) i James C. Fulton; m. Sarah Mitchell.
(187) ii Louise A. Fulton, b. 1845.
(188) iii Andrew Clarkson Fulton, Esq., b. February
II, 1847, d. February 5, 1892.
(189) iv John C. Fulton, d. February, 1844.
(190) V Samuel Martin Fulton, b. February 17, 1849 ;
m. November 15, 18SS, to Lizzie Bair,
b. October 18, 1857.
(191) vi John Farquhar Fulton; m. Edith Wheaton.
Children of Carrie Fulton (No. 249) and
James Eaton Phillips.
(259) i Isabelle Phillips, b. March 25, 1897.
Children of David La fevre Crawford (No 230^)
and Martha Neillie.
(260) i William D. Crawford; m. Mary Wier.
(261) ii George Ball Crawford; m. Mary Scott.
ANNIE E. FULTON, No. 143.
FULTON FAMILY. 5 I
Children of Rebecca J, Crawford (No. 231) and
Edward C. Negly.
(262) i Jennie La fevre Negly.
(263) ii Kate Edna Negly; m. Eugene Gerst.
(264) iii R. Herberton Negly, Jr.
Children of Dr. John S. Crawford (No. 231^)
and Isabel Barclay.
(265) i Rebecca Crawford.
(266) ii Margaret Crawford.
(267) iii Thomas Barclay Crawford.
Children of William Dickey Crawford
(No. 232) and Louisa Schlagel.
(268) i William A. Crawford, deceased.
(269) ii John Schlagel Crawford, deceased.
(270) iii David La fevre Crawford.
(271) iv Robert Fulton Crawford.
(272) v Joseph Irwin Crawford.
Children of Dayid Irwin Crawford (No. 232^)
AND Amelia Betz.
(273) i Mary A. La fevre Crawford.
52 THE FULTON FAMILY
SEVENTH GENERATION.
Children of Helen May Kerr (No. i6i) and
Henry M. Blackmer, Esq.
(192) i Myron Kerr Blackmer, b. February 6, 1893.
(193) ii Margaret Gray Blackmer, b. January i,
1S96.
Children of Samuel Martin Fulton (No. 190).
AND Lizzie Bair.
(194) i Susanna Fulton, b. February 27, 1890.
(^95) ii John Clarkson Fulton, b. February 20, 1892.
(196; iii James Sample Fulton, b. February 2, 1895
(197) iv Kathleen Fulton, b. March 14, 1898.
Children of William D. Crawford (No. 260)
AND Mary Wier.
(274) i Martha Neillie Crawford.
(275) ii David La fevre Crawford.
(276) iii William D. Crawford.
(277) iv George Ball Crawford.
Children of George Ball Crawford (No. 261)
AND Mary Scott.
(278) i George Scott Crawford.
CHAPTER III.
Second Generation.
Mary Fulton. No. 2.
Mary Fulton", No. 2 (John Fulton^), was born
in Lanarkshire, Scotland, about the year 1745.
John Fulton in his will dated March 24, 1796, be-
queathed to his son-in-law, Rev. Jas. Proudfit, the
sum of three pounds, and to his granddaughter,
Mary Proudfit, the sum of forty-seven pounds.
Reverend Proudfit was Pastor of the Associate
Presbyterian Church of Salem, New York.
They had one daughter, Mary, who married a
Mr. Reed, a merchant who was considered in af-
fluent circumstances. They, in company with
Susan Clarkson and John Fulton Clarkson, visited
James Fulton and other friends and relatives near
Oxford, Chester Co., about 181 7. Mary was the
second wife of Rev. Proudfit, who by his first wife
had reared several children, one was a minister of
his oivn church, and succeeded his father as pastor
of his old church, at Salem, N. Y. Mr. Proudfit
54 GENEALOGY OF THE
was of full Scotch blood and was one of those sent
here to this country as a missionary.
Elizabeth Fulton. No. 3.
Elizabeth Fulton^ No. 3 (John Fulton^), was
married to James Hutchison. She was born in
Scotland in 1748 and came to this country with her
father when she was five years old.
Rev. Alexander Proudfit. No. 2.
II S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. 7/5/88.
Hugh R. Fulton, Esq.
My Dear Sir: Mary Fulton must have been
my great-grandfather's second wife. I believe they
had only one child — a daughter named Mary — who
married a Mr. Reid. I believe she lived for many
years at Argyle, Washington County, N. Y., if I
mistake not, and is now buried in our family lot at
Salem, Washington County, N. Y., where my
great-grandfather, grandfather and grandmother,
father and mother, and other relatives peacefully
sleep.
You will see that I am not a descendant of Mary
Fulton, and so only a connection by marriage of the
Fulton family. Still it may interest you to know
FULTON FAMILY. 55
the genealogy of my ancestors who married into
your family, I therefore run it out below.
James Proudfit, maiden name of first wife un-
known to me. Second wife, Mary Fulton.
Alexander and Susanna Williams. Children,
John W., James O., Alexander M.
John Williams and Abigail H. Ralston. Children,
Robert Ralston, Alexander, Mary.
Alexander and Annie Couper Smith. Children,
John Williams, Mary Couper, Alexander Couper.
Mary Fulton Proudfit had one daughter, Mary,
married Mr. Reid as above.
I am, my dear sir,
Yours very truly,
Alex. Proudfit.
James Fulton. No. 4.
James Fulton^ No. 4 (John Fulton^).
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
Commonwealth of Penna. ,
Chester County, ss.
On this Eighteenth day of August in the year of
our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty
two. Personally appeared before James Hutchison
Esquire, duly commissioned and qualified one of
the Justices of the Peace of said Commonwealth,
residing and being in the Township of East Not-
56 GENEALOGY OF THE
tingham in the said County of Chester, James
Fuhon, a resident of the Township of West Not-
tingham, in the County aforesaid, aged about
Eighty-two years, who being first duly sworn ac-
cording to law, doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to enable him to obtain the
benefit of the Act of Congress " for the relief of
certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revo-
lution," passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States
as an officer commissioned by the State of Penn-
sylvania, and served as herein stated, to wit:
1st. In the 3^ear 1776, I performed a tour of duty
as a Lieutenant of Militia, of two months Continu-
ance, in a company commanded by Captain Joseph
Gardner. This Company composed a part of the
Regiment commanded by Col. William Mont-
gomery and Lt. Col. Evan Evans, both of Chester
County. Our Company left home on the third or
fourth day of July 1776. Rendezvous at Phila-
delphia, passed muster there and in obedience to
orders, proceeded to join Gen'l Washington in
Jersey. We marched by Trenton, Princeton and
New Brunswick to Perth Amboy, thence to Wood-
bridge and encamped on Smith's Farm, where we
remained until our time expired, to wit in Septem-
ber 1776.
The commission held by this declarant in this
campaign, was signed by the Speaker of the House
FULTON FAMILY. 57
of Assembly of Pennsylvania ; this he believes was
the only kind of Commission extant until, a Militia
law was passed by the State Government. The
commission of which this declarant speaks, was by
him preserved for a long time among his other
papers, but he, about one year ago, burned it by
mistake.
2. In the Month of December, in the same year,
this declarant marched as a Lieutenant upon
another tour of duty. The Enemy at this time
were overrunning the Jerseys. Gen'l Washington
had retreated across the Delaware into Pennsyl-
vania for aid, our Captain being from home and
emergency demanding prompt action, this declar-
ant as first Lieutenant and acting under the au-
thority of his commission, collected all the men he
could find willing to go, and marched them to
Philadelphia, where we performed duty for three
weeks under the command of General Putnam.
The performance of this duty for the time specified,
was rendered necessary on account of a report
prevailing, and being credited, that when the Militia
or the forces left the City, the Tories intended to
rise and burn the City, and upon a request being
preferred to General Washington that a guard
might be left behind for the purpose of overawing the
malcontents and disaffected and to protect the City.
The Regiment to which this narrator belonged,
was designated for that dutv, and directed to re-
58 GENEALOGY OF THE
main. Previous to our leaving the city, the inde-
cision of our Captain in determining whether he
would join the main army or not and his being
sick or pretending to be so, and also on account
of his being elected a member of the Assembly, oc-
casioned a new election of officers to take place,
and those elected were not agreeable to all the men.
This narrator, although not satisfied with the
change, did not choose, either to leave the Com-
pany or to return home, but preferring the good of
his country and the success of the cause to the
gratification of personal feelings or individual com-
fort continued in the Service in the same Company
as a volunteer, and marched therewith to join the
commander in chief. On the 26th day of Decem-
ber 1776, which was the next day after the Hes-
sians were taken at Trenton, this narrator with the
Company to which he was attached, were conveyed
up the river in a sloop to Burlington thence to
Crosswicks, and (on the morning of January 3,
1777) from thence to Trenton, stood there under
arms, and under the rake of the British cannon,
all day, and till about eleven o'clock at night,
when we were ordered to march into the road lead-
ing from the ferry into town, where we remained
about two hours, during which time Gen'l Wash-
ington marched to Princeton. We remained at
Trenton keeping up the fires until the wagons
and baggage were all marched off. Our battalion
FULTON FAMILY. 59
was at this time under the command of Lieut. Col.
Evans. We were ordered to march as a rear
guard to the baggage and with directions to con-
vey it to Burlington. This we did. Stayed there
one day and marched back to Trenton. Stayed
there two days. Then marched for Headquarters
which was then at Morristown. At Morristown
we remained doing camp duty until our tour
expired. Genl. Mifflin of Pennsylvania com-
manded the brigade, and addressed us in an ex-
cellent and animated speech, using arguments to
induce us to continue in the field, if it should be
but for four or five days, until some other troops
then believed to be on their march should arrive.
This proposition was generally agreed to, and in so
doing our tour of duty was lengthened to about
txuo 7nonths and a half, which brought us to the
middle of February, and left us about one hundred
and fifty miles from ovu" homes. Our captain's
name was Joseph Gardner, but he did not come
forward to take the command, and the company
was under the command of First Lieut. And. M.
Boyd.
3 . Performed a third tour of duty of two months
continuance in the militia, as a LieiUenant Com-
mandtng a Company . (The circumstances explain-
ing which will be herein narrated.) The company
agreeably to orders marched on the first day of Oc-
tober, 1777. Our company was ordered to Read-
6o GENEALOGY OF THE
ing where we marched to procure arms. We
could not be supplied. Our Major ordered us
back to guard the election then at hand. That
duty performed we were ordered to march imme-
diately to join Genl. Potter wherever he might be
found, which we were informed would be some-
where in Chester Co. We marched accordingly
and fell in with him near the Fox Chase within ten
or eleven miles of Philadelphia, and remained under
his command until our term of service had expired.
When this narrator left his home upon this, his
third and last tour of service, he did so under the
expectation that his captain in obedience to the call
of his country would have appeared on duty, but
this he steadfastly declined to do. Nor did he
ever send or give an intimation that he would or
would not take the command. He never showed
his face, and this narrator was directed to take
command of the company with its responsibilities
and with the remark that if he was to do all the
labors of a captain, he would be entitled to all the
honors and all the profits, accordingly this nar-
rator did (with the approbation and under the au-
spices of the Field Officers), assume the title of
Captain, a title which was voluntarily conceded
and never disputed. As a captain he passed
muster, and as such received rations and pay with-
out any objections, and in that character he wishes
to present himself to the consideration of the Hon-
FULTON FAMILY. 6l
Durable, the Secretary of War. This tour of duty
was performed in a regiment commanded by Col.
George Pierce and Maj. John Culbertson. The
Lieut. Col. he never saw, nor does he now recol-
lect his name.
And further this declarant says that he has no
other documentary evidence of his services than
the two ancient papers appended to this his declar-
ation. One of which is his commission as a Lien-
tenant, granted b}' the Supreme Executive Council
of Pennsylvania, under which he performed his
last tour of duty in the service of his country, in her
hour of greatest need, the other of which is the or-
iginal pay-list of the company under his command
which was prepared in the tented field and at the
time when the stoutest heart had nearly quailed.
That he knows of no other person convenient now
living who can testify to any part of his services
except William Carlile, whose deposition is here-
unto annexed. That he' has been unfortunate in
the business in which he has been engaged and is
now depressed in circumstances, and finally, that
he is now about 82 years of age, that from the
misfortune of broken limbs, rheumatic pains, to-
gether with the natural weakness and the usual
and common infirmities of age, he is entirely un-
able to (travel 30 miles) appear in open court for
the purpose of making this declaration, or of leav-
ing his residence at all.
62 GENEALOGY OF THE
This declarant hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or annuity except the pres-
ent, and declares that his name is not on the pen-
sion roll of the agency of any state.
James Fulton.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore-
said before James Hutchison, Justice of the Peace.
Memorandum.
The foregoing declaration was written by me
with a feeling and anxious desire that Mr. Fulton,
the declarant, should receive the benefit of the act
of Congress of June 7, 1832, in relation to Revolu-
tionary officers and soldiers, and was thrown into
the preceding form under the impression if authen-
ticated before 2i Justice of the Peace, that the court
would in consequence (under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case), add the usual attestation, and
this impression grew out *of an apparent ambiquity,
in the instruction published by the War Depart-
ment relative to cases supposed to occur under the
law mentioned.
After the declaration was completed as above
and shown to the court, the court alleged that it was
incomplete, inasmuch as although it might be found
to contain answers generally to the seven inter-
rogatories which were by the commissioners of
pensions required to be answered, yet said that
FULTON FAMILY. 63
each interrogatoiy ought to have a distinct and
explicit answer, and the judge in handing the
paper back gave me this information and pointed
to the words written between the black lines (in
pencil marks), viz. : "The declaration should em-
brace answers to the questions propounded by the
Secretary of War." These words are in the hand-
writing of Judge Darlington. I then cheerfully
set to work and wrote the entire declaration over
again, and also embodied therein the seven inter-
rogatories required to be answered by the Depart-
ment of War, together with the explicit and proper
answer to each. Also prepared the deposition of
William Carlile and finished the whole and ap-
pended them together in due form ready for the ex-
amination and consideration of the Court, which ap-
peared to be the next necessary step, as, according
to Judge Darlington's view that nothing short of Mr.
Fulton's appearing before the Court would answer
the purpose. I thought differently and after some
effort prevailed upon Judge Sharp to go to Mr.
Fulton's residence in West Nottingham, as it was
impossible as I understood from different persons
his connections, that he could either go or bear to
be taken to the seat of Justice. Judge Sharp did
go according to promise and after due form and
ceremony attested what had been done in his pres-
ence. This was presented to the Court who duly
certified their approbation thereof and that the de-
64 GENEALOGY OF THE
clarant had proven to their satisfaction that he was
what he had stated himself to be agreeably to form.
To all which the official seal of the court was
annexed and the Declaration thus prepared and
authenticated by the hand which writes this history
of the matter, was by the same forwarded to the
Secretary of War, Washington city, and it may
not be improper for me to state for the information
and satisfaction of those who ma}' read this, that it
was done without fee or reward or the expectation
thereof.
Also after waiting for a time which I considered
altogether sufficient to hear from the War Depart-
ment, I wrote to the Secretary urging him for a
decision upon the case, and received no answer.
Waited a considerable time, wrote again and still
received no answer. Congress being then in ses-
sion I took measures to interest Mr. David Potts,
member of Congress in the matter, so far as to seek
for information as to the cause of delay and to
urge the head of the Department to action on Mr.
Fulton's application. Mr. Potts was informed that
the papers belonging to Mr. Fulton's case had been
mislaid and could not be found. Here the matter
appeared for sometime to rest. The papers were,
however, afterwards found, but before the decision
of the War Department was made known, Mr.
Fulton had deceased. The decision was a favor-
able one, a pension was granted, and the famih' of
FULTON FAMILY. 65
Mr. Fulton, I am informed have received the bene-
fit thereof.*
John W. Cunningham.
Interrogatories to be Answered by
Mr. James Fulton.
Interrogation ist. Where and in what 3"ear were
you born? Anszcer ist. I was born in Scotland in the
year 1751, on the second day of February, old style.
Interrog. 2d. Have you any record of your age,
and if so where is it? Ans. 2d. I have no record
of my age, nor ever had. If there be any, it must
be in the Minister's book where I was baptised in
Scotland.
Interrog. jd. Where were you living when
called into Service? Ans. jd. I was living then
in the township of East Nottingham, in the county
of Chester, and State of Pennsylvania, where I
have lived ever since, till within these five years,
when I moved into West Nottingham, where I now
live.
Interrog. ^th. How were you called into ser-
vice ? Were you drafted ? Did you volunteer, or
were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for
whom? Ans. ^th. I was called into service then
*The sum granted, we are informed, was paid some months
after Captain Fulton's decease and was sufficient for and was
used to pay the costs of the head and foot stones erected over
his grave now in Oxford Cemetery. — H. R. F.
66 GENEALOGY OF THE
by the general voice of the people, the pressure
of the times, the love of country, and the company
going " en masse," there being no draft then made,
and I never acted as a substitute ; I always went in
my own place.
Interrog. ^th. State the names of some of the
regular officers who were with the troops where
you served. Such Continental and Militia Regi-
ments as you can recollect. Alls. jth. As we were
in a separate command, I had not an opportunity
of being mvich acquainted with the ami}' and the
names of the officers have escaped my memor}^,
but the live Regts. of Philadelphia militia marched
with us into Jersey, and John Dickinson, Daniel
Roberdean, John Cadwallader, Thomas McKean,
and Timothy Matlack were Colonels of the said
five Regiments.
Iiiterrog. 6th. Did 3'ou ever receive a commis-
sion? And if so, by whom was it signed? And
what has become of it? Ans. 6th. I received a
commission in the year 1775 from the legislature
of Pennsylvania, signed by the Speaker of the
House (I think), but last year on looking among
my old papers, I got it in my hand, and thinking
it of no use, threw it in the fire. I also received a
commission from the Supreme Executive Council
on May, 1777, which I now present herewith
signed by Thomas Wharton, which are all the
commissions I ever had.
FULTON FAMILY. 67
Interrog. yth. State the names of persons to
whom you are known in your present neighbor-
hood, and who can testify to your character for
veracity and their belief of your services as a
Soldier in the Revolution. Ans. yth. This is a
hard "matter for me to do, as my acquaintances of
that time are either all dead or moved out of the
parts, but there are several that have known me a
considerable time, viz., John W. Cunningham, the
Rev. Robert Graham, William Carlile, Arthur An-
drew, Sen'r, Nathaniel Hudders, Alexander Cor-
rey, Israel Reynolds, and Jacob Kirk.
Penna. ) Original Draughts of Wil-
ss
Chester Co. j " liam Carlile's Deposition
William Carlile being duly sworn, according to
law, doth depose and say that he was well ac-
quainted with James Fulton now of West Notting-
ham Township in the county of Chester in Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania before the Revolu-
tionary War. That the said James Fulton did to
the knowledge of the deponent, perform two ser-
vice tours of military duty in the War of the Revo-
lution in the year 1776-7 with the rank of lieu-
tenant and both of them in a company commanded
by Captain Joseph Gardner. That this deponent
was a private volunteer in a company commanded
by Capt. James McDowell, and that during the
first tour, the tv/^o companies belonged to the same
68 GENEALOGY OF THE
regiment, that both companies marched together
from Chester Co. to Philadelphia, that they went
in Shallops together from Phila, to Trenton and
marched together from thence to Perth Amboy and
Smith's farm where they lay together and where
they were both discharged at the same time. ' And
also, that during the second tour, which lasted two
months, Capt. McDowell's company to which the
deponent belonged and Capt. Gardner's company,
which Lieutenant Fulton commanded, were con-
veyed together in Row Galleys from Phila. to
Bristol ; that the said two companies served the
whole campaign in the same battalion, and were
both discharged at the same time, at Morristown ;
the said two tours of duty being of two months
continuance, and further that the said lieutenant,
James Fulton, and this deponent have lived near
neighbors nearly the whole of the time which
has elapsed since they first became acquainted,
and they have always been upon intimate terms,
and also further that the said James Fulton is a
man of excellent character and served his country
faithfully, for the time which this deponent has
stated, and further saith not.
Copies of Old Revolutionary War Papers.
Found among old papers of James Hutchison,
Esq., and handed to the writer by Mr. J. Hervey
Hutchison.
FULTON FAMILY. 69
Whereas John Hunter hath Bargained with
John Hutters to Stay the remainder of his time
which is ten days from the Date hereof And is to
have two full months Pay which is 5 pounds & all
his Back Rations for Whiskey and Vegetables Due
to a Soldier for that term of time in Witness
Whereof I have Set my hand this 18 Day of No-
vember 1777-
James Fulton Capt.
Attest : William Closkey.
Rec'd from Robert Colvin Belonging to Capt
Fulton's Company of the 5th. Class of Chester
County Militia, Commanded by Col. George
Pierce one Riffel one Blanket &c.
Novm'b 29 Hezekiah Kinze
As'st. Q\: M'r.
1777 Rec'd of L't James Fulton three Guns
Pouch Boxes and one blanket by Mr. John Russel
Rec'd. from me
Tho. Strawbridge Sub. Lt.
Rec'd Deem'. 5th. 1777 of Capt James Fulton
the Sum of fifteen Pounds Seventeen Shillings Be-
ing in full of all the Wages Coming to us for two
months Service as Witness our hands,
John Anderson
William Crawford
Thomas Williams
70
GENEALOGY OF THE
CX-
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Fac-simile of receipt indicating that the officers
of the Colonial Army not onl}^ had the fighting to
do but had to advance the pay of the men.
FULTON FAMILY. 7 1
A reduced fac-simile of handwriting and signa-
ture at the age of eighty-two years.
THE PAST.
The West Chester Reftihlican, 1872, says:
Seventy years ago last Tuesday the Legislature
of Pennsylvania met at Lancaster. At that time
Chester County sent five members — ^Joseph Parke,
James Fulton, Methuselah Davis, Thomas Taylor
and Edward Darlington. These gentlemen rep-
resented the Republican party, as it was then
called, but subsequently they were called Repub-
lican Democrats, and finally the prefix was drop-
ped, and the late Democratic party was the re-
sult. This was the first time the county had been
carried against the Federalists, and there was great
rejoicing thereat. There were no railroads in
those days, and the people traveled long journeys
72 GENEALOGY OF THE
on horseback. An old gentleman, then a boy, in-
forms us that he took one of the members to Down-
ingtown, where he intended to take the stage for
Lancaster, but when he arrived at the former place
he found the seats all taken. He must be at Lan-
caster early the next morning, and so there was no
other course than for the boy to drive him to Lan-
caster. It was a cold day, and the journey was
not, therefore, an overpleasant one. The journey,
and the incidents connected therewith, made such
an impression upon the boy that he remembers
them well to-day, although seventy years have
elapsed. It is related of Methuselah Davis, who
was a pompous man, wearing a cocked hat after
the fashion of the Revolution, that on one occasion
while passing a bill to the Speaker's desk — there
were no pages in those days — his foot caught, and
he went sprawling upon his face on the floor,
whereat a most undignified shout arose that " Me-
thuselah has fallen !"
Old Book of Dr. Joseph Long.
Receipts and expenditures of the Treasury of
Pennsylvania, December i, 1804, to November
30, 1805. Paid the Legislature as follows;
FULTON FAMILY.
73
House of Representatives James Fulton, No.
529, $372.00. Methuselah Davis $372.00, Simon
Snyder, Speaker.
Inscriptions taken from headstones in Oxford
Cemetery. These stand side by side near Eliza-
beth and Jane D., wives of James F. Hutchison
and John Watt Hutchison.
No. 18.
• Sacred
to the memory of
Joseph Fulton
who departed this life
December 27th, 1844
in the 6oth year
of his age
also
his wife
Martha W.
Died Dec. 4th, 1869.
No. 4.
In
memory of
James Fulton
who departed this life
February 15th, 1833
aged 83 years
and
Margaret
his wife
who departed this life
July 20th, 1816.
in the S4th year of her age. Aged 59 years 6 months.
H'd stone 4;^ ft. x 2 ft.
Marble and foot stone.
Marble head stone
3^ ft. and ft. stone.
John Fulton. No. 5.
John Fulton-, No. 5 (John Fulton^), the second
son and fourth child of John Fulton, Sr., was born
in Cecil County, Maryland, in 1755. He was
74 GENEALOGY OF THE
married to Margaret Dickey, by whom he had
three children, viz, Mary, Elizabeth and John.
Margaret died about 1785 and a few years later
he married Esther Cooper. Shortly after their
marriage they moved to Pittsburg, Pa., where they
raised the family of eleven children : by Margaret
Dickey three and by Esther Cooper eight children.
One son, George, began the manufacture of
buttons in a small way, and enlarged his business,
and amassed a fortune and died wealthy.
It was said that John, by some accident, lost the
title papers of the grounds of the Oxford Presby-
terian Church, while on his trip to Pittsburg. He,
like his father, was a fuller by trade, and carried
on his business in a mill which stood on the east
bank of Big Elk Creek, above the Oxford and
New London road? alongside of the old paper mill
of Chas. McDonald, but a little farther up the
bank. But the mill, as also the business, went
down after John went to Pittsburg.
The children by the second marriage were :
(i) Thomas, (2) James C, (3) Andrew, (4) Jamima,
(5) Jefferson C, (6) George W., (7) Eleanor R.,
and (8) Matthew Wilson.
We find that the Pittsburg branch of the family
has been prolific and well-to-do. From John's
FULTON FAMILY. 75
eleven children ninety-seven names are added to
our list, and we are quite sure that all have not
been given. They appear to have been entirely
unacquainted with the fact that a much larger
branch of the family, at least in blood if not in
name, remained back in eastern Pennsylvania.
One lady cousin, Mrs. Margaret M. Fulton, of
White Bear Lake, Minn., writes : "I want to ask
to what Fultons do you belong, as I thought the
Fultons were all at Pittsburg." I had to answer
her that her grandfather John and my grandfather
James were brothers, and that we were full second
cousins.
Deed of 1 ^ . , .
T u -IT u JT7 *u u- •£ i Consideration 92
Johnrulton andiLsther, his wife, | _ j „j
to
pounds and 10
T -c^ 1^ shillings.
James rulton. j ^
Lot of ground, 5 acres.
Being part of tract on Big Elk of 260 acres,
which John Fulton the elder late of East Notting-
ham, dec'd, was seized of, by virtue of Sundry
Deeds, willed as by his will dated Feb. 5, 1796
to John Fulton and James Fulton, of which the
Eastern end was devised to John Fulton, of which
this is part. Dated May 6, 1805.
John Fulton.
Esther Fulton.
*]6 GENEALOGY OF THE
Deed of
John Fulton et. ux.
to James Fulton Esq., J
This indenture made the 6th day of May, 1805,
between John Fulton of East Nottingham Town-
ship, Chester County, Pa., of the one part, and
James Fulton of the same place of the other
part,
WITNESSETH, that the aforesaid John Fulton and
Esther, his wife, for and in consideration of the
sum of Three Hundred and Seventy pounds one
shilling and seven pence to them in hand, paid by
the aforesaid James Fulton Esq., containing 20
acres.
Recital in Deed.
Whereas, Richard Flower did sell and convey
260 acres unto John Hawthorne, as by their Deed
of Conveyance dated the 17th day of November,
1761, and the said John Hawthorne for the con-
sideration of five and fifty pounds did sell and
convey the same unto John Fulton, as by his Inden-
ture of Conveyance dated 1772, and the said John
Fulton by his last will and testament bearing date
the 5th day of February A. D., 1796 devised the
aforesaid Two Hundred and Sixty acres and allow-
ances unto his two sons viz : James and John Ful-
ton, with appurtenances.
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Receipt for Three Hundred and Seventy pounds
one shilling and seven pence.
Chester County ss : May 6, 1805.
Acknowledged before Phillip Scott,
Justice of the Peace.
West Chester.
Deed Book Z, vol. 2, page 63.
Jane Fulton. No. 6.
Jane Fulton', No. 6 (John^), was born in Mary-
land about 1758; married Matthew Wilson. An
anecdote has it that Jane was courted by one Dr.
Anderson, a professor of the first theological semi-
nary in this country, located in Beaver County,
Pa., and at the same time by Wilson, and, being
somewhat in love with both, left the question
with her father to decide which one she should
accept, who after deliberation, recommended Mr.
Wilson as having the best visible means of gaining
a good living. Mr. Wilson was rich, while Ander-
son was a young missionary preacher, liable to
move from place to place.
Matthew Wilson (No. 6) was appointed by the
Executive Council of Pennsylvania May i, A. D.
1789, First Lieutenant in the Fifth Battalion of
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Chester County Militia, and in 1792 was appointed
Captain by Governor Mifflin, and again in 1800 by
Governor McKean, and in 1807 was appointed
paymasterw^hich position he held until 1814, making
twenty-five years in the militia service. He mar-
ried Jenny Fulton August 27, 1792, who died Jan-
uary 19, 1797. Matthew died January 10, 1838.
Respectfully,
M. J. Wilson.
Susanna Fulton, No. 7.
Susanna Fulton", No. 7 (John Fulton^), was
born in Maryland about 1760. She married Rev.
James Clarkson, pastor of Guniston Congrega-
tion, Associate or United Presbyterian Church,
Hopewell, York County, Pa. He was one of the
two preachers of that Church who stood out against
the union of the Associate and Associate Reformed
or Covenanter Church in 1782. Susan died in
Troy, N. Y., about 1819. She had one child
John Fulton Clarkson (No. 31), who died at Troy,
N. Y., 1842. He had been a clerk on large salary,
took a contagious disease from an emigrant ship
lying in harbor. He was to have been married in a
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few weeks. Susan and Mr. and Mrs. Reid, and
John F. Clarkson had visited their friends and rel-
atives in this neighborhood, making their princi-
pal visiting places Capt. James Fulton's and Mat-
thew Wilson's homes. Susan was the second wife
of Rev. Clarkson, who by his first wife had reared
a large family. A son, Andrew Clarkson, was the
grandfather of A. Clarkson Fulton, Esq., a dis-
tinguished law3'er of York, Pa., deceased, and
Samuel Fulton, of York County.
Mr. Clarkson was of full Scotch blood and was
sent from Scotland by the Associate Church as a
Missionary.
CHAPTER IV.
Third Generation.
John Fulton. No. i6.
John Fulton^, No. 16 (James Fulton^ John Ful-
ton^), was James Fulton's oldest son, born March
23, 1783, was reared in wealth and luxury, and
well educated. His father built him a Cotton
Factory on Muddy Run, three miles above Oxford,
Chester County.
John ran this mill until it was burned down.
Then his father built a Paper Mill on the site. Here
John carried on paper making for several years
and during this time manifested considerable of a
disposition to be sportive and extravagant. He was
unmarried, tall, good-looking, dark complexioned,
always well dressed and disposed to be high-
minded or aristocratic. He went South to Virginia
and Georgia, and was fortunate in getting a good
lucrative position as Superintendent of a Cotton
Factory.
While in the South he took great pleasure in
visiting his friends in the North and, being a great
THE FULTON FAMILY. 8 1
gentleman, was always gladly received. The
writer remembers his last visit to father's house,
our old home in East Nottingham. He was then
about seventy years of age, tall and straight,
though beginning to look old and showing some of
the signs of disappointed ambition. This I re-
membered in the countenance, dress and bearing
of the man to whom I was introduced, chatted
with, and respected as my uncle from the South.
Shortly after this visit, he returned to Petersburg,
Va., where after a very short illness of which his
friends and relatives in Chester Co. knew nothing
— he died. It was about 1854,
that my father received a paper from Petersburg,
Va., in which was an obituary notice marked
around with pen and ink, giving a brief account
of his sickness and death and that he was buried
by his friends with funds in his possession, but left
no further Estate.
Aug. i8th, 1853, Rosswell Mills Cobb
Co. Georgia.
James J. Fulton :
Dear Brother, I have long wished to hear from
vou. I have been here since last December cover-
ing rollers in a large Cotton Mill. All the land
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and houses here belong to the Company, the
houses are double, two families in house therefore
there is a poor chance for boarding. This was the
gold region 20 years ago. It is poor country, has
some good Mill Streams, there are 2 Mills here
belonging to the Company, they employ 300 hands ;
the New Mill has 5000 Spindles or 37 Throttle Cap
Spinners 120 Looms, old Mill is not so large.
***** Yours respectfully,
John Fulton.
Rosswell Cobb Co. Georgia, Aug. 23, 1854.
Mr. James J. Fulton :
Dear Brother, I wrote 3'ou and Rachel about the
first of June, I put 5 dollars in Rachel's letter on
the Bank of Georgia and directed to Nottingham
post office. As I have not heard from you I am
afraid you have not got it, I wish you to let me
hear from you as soon as you can. If you have
not rec** it I wish you would see the Postmaster at
Nottingham, and see if there was' a letter came the
beginning of June from me — we have had a very
warm Summer here and still is warm and dry,
there has been a good deal of sickness among the
hands. I wish you to let me hear from all the old
neighbors.
This is a poor country for farming, the land is
so poor. The Mills belong to gentlemen that lived
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in the lower parts of the State and moved up here
on account of this being a more healthy place and
put their money in Two large Cotton Mills. They
have fine houses and land near the Mills, but on
the other side of the road from the village, that the
hands live in.
Yours respectfully,
John Fulton.
Copy of Joseph Fulton's^ Will. No. i8.
(James-, John^)
I Joseph Fulton of the township of East Notting-
ham County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania
considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, and
being of sound mind and memory (blessed be
Almighty God for the same) do make and publish
this my last will and testament in manner and form
following (that is to say).
First. I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife
Mar"' Fulton the farm on which I now reside, with
all my real and personal estate of every description
of w^hich I am in possession, except the following
legacies which it is my will is to paid within one
year of my decease.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my brother John
Fulton five dollars.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my sister Rachel
Fulton fifty dollars.
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Item. I give and bequeath unto my brother,
Miller Fulton, one hundred dollars.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my brother,
James J. Fulton, twenty dollars.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my brother-in-
law, Fulton Hutchison, ten dollars for his children.
Item. I give and bequeath unto Joseph Hutchi-
son, son of David Hutchison, deceased, one hun-
dred dollars.
Item. I give unto the associate congregation of
East Nottingham two hundred dollars.
Item. I give unto the Home Missionary society
of the associate church two hundred dollars.
And Lastly, As to all the rest, residue, and re-
mainder of my real and personal estate, of what kind
and nature soever, I give and bequeath the same
to my said beloved wife Mar**" Fulton whom I hereby
appoint sole executrix of this my last will and tes-
tament hereby revoking all former wills by me
made.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twenty third day of March A. D.
eighteen hundred and forty four
Joseph Fulton [seal].
Signed sealed and delivered by the testator as his
last will and testament in the presence of us.
John T. Horson, James Hutchison.
James H. Hutchison.
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Elizabeth Fulton. No. 22.
We find that Elizabeth Fulton^ No. 22 (John^,
John^), who married David La fevre, is the maternal
ancestor of a numerous family of Crawfords.
Jane Dickey La fevre married William Craw-
ford, and left issue four children, among them Dr.
John Shoenberger Crawford, of Greensburg, Pa., a
prominent physician.
Mary Ann La fevre married Albert Crawford,
and had four children, viz : William Dickey Craw-
ford, David Irwin Crawford, Ella Mary Crawford,
and Robert Grier Crawford.
William Dickey Crawford and David Irwin
Crawford have also married and have families.
John Fulton. No. 23.
John Fulton^ No. 23 (John-, John^), was born at
McDonald's Mill, Chester County, the old home.
He made his home with David La fevre and his
sister Elizabeth in Pittsburg. He married Mary
Nixon. They had one son, James Jefferson Ful-
ton, who learned the blacksmith trade, and carried
on the business at Parkersburg, W. Va. John en-
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tered the regular army, and was killed in action
about four years after his enlistment.
George W. Fulton. No. 28 a (198).
George W. Fulton^ No. 28a (198) (John^ John^),
was a steamboat engineer, and ran between Pitts-
burg and New Orleans most of his life, with the
exception of about six or eight years, when he was
engaged in the lumber business in Fallston, Beaver
County, Pa., right across the creek from New
Brighton, where the children were born. The firm
name was Lukens, Fulton & Kennedy. He was
successful in business, and accumulated quite a
competency.
The Fulton Bell Foundry, Established 1832.
Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A., March 2, 1900.
Hugh R. Fulton :
Dear Sir : Your letter of the ist at hand, and
was fortunate enough to meet the party that could
give the desired information. This morning I
called on Mr. Frank Cooly, an old river engineer,
whose mother was John Fulton's (No. 23) widow.
John Fulton No. 23 (my father's half-brother) mar-
LOUIS B. FULTON, No. 208.
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ried Mary Nixon. They had one son, James Jef-
ferson Fulton. Three months before the birth of
J. J. F., John Fuhon, No. 23, entered the Regular
Army, and was killed in action about four years
later. His son, James Jefferson Fulton, learned
the blacksmith trade, and went to Parkersburg, W.
Va., where he married, and carried on the black-
smith business. He died about three years ago.
His family, I believe, still live there. John Ful-
ton's (No. 23) widow married John Cooly, and
had quite a family. I have heard my mother
speak of Mrs. Cooly quite often. She used to
visit there, also to Mrs. La fevre's. Frank Cooly,
the person who gave the above information, is 68
years of age, and is strong and hale. James J.
Fulton of Parkersburg, if living to-day, would be
72 years of age. You will understand that James
J. Fulton and Frank Cooly were half-brothers.
Trusting that the above will be satisfactory, I am
Very truly yours,
Louis B. Fulton.
John A. Kerr and Eliza J. Hutchison. No. 37.
Death of an Old Citizen.*
John A. Kerr, a well-known and highly es-
teemed citizen of Oxford and vicinity, died at his
* From the Oxford Press.
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residence on Broad street at ii o'clock Tuesday
morning, January lo, 1891.
John A. Kerr was born at Gettysburg, Adams Co.
Pa., December 8, 1810, and was the son of George
Kerr, Esq., and Eleanor W. Kerr. He remained
at home until September 20, 1836, when he mar-
ried Miss Eliza J., daughter of James H. Hutchi-
son, Esq., and Elizabeth W. Hutchison, East Not-
tingham, Chester Co., Pa. With his bride he
returned home and commenced the journey of life
on the farm of his father at Gettysburg, the wheat
field which became so noted during the late war
being a part of the farm. In 1845 he purchased
a farm in East Nottingham, Chester County, now
owned by George Watterson.
Mr. Kerr was an active man until a few years
ago, when he became afflicted with nervous rheu-
matism. His wife died July 7, 1889, in her 8ist
year. In 1889 Mr. Kerr and daughters. Misses
Lizzie and Sue, removed from the farm to a new
house they had built in Oxford.
He was ordained an elder in the United Presby-
terian Church, of Oxford in 1855, which office he
held until his death, being an earnest and devout
man, upholding the principles of the church of his
choice.
FULTON FAMILY. 89
On September 20, 1886, Mr. and Mrs. Kerr cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage,
when a large number of relatives and friends
gathered to congratulate the aged couple.
Five children survive their parents : Prof. James
H. Kerr, of Colorado Springs, Dr. George Kerr,
of Philadelphia, Mrs. Sarah T., wife of Hugh R.
Fulton, Esq., of Lancaster, and Misses Elizabeth
E. and Sue M. Kerr, who have waited on their
father during his long illness. The funeral took
place from his late residence on Broad street.
Fourth Generation.
Dr. David W. Hutchison. No. 45.*
Dr. David W. Hutchison^ No. 45 (David^ Eliza-
beth^ John^).
This community was greatly shocked on Friday
last at the announcement of the death of Dr. D. W.
Hutchison which occurred suddenly at half-past
two o'clock on that morning, at his residence iii
this Borough.
Dr. Hutchison was a physician of great skill and
his large and extensive practice extended over a
wide district. He had skillfully performed many
* From the Oxford Press of June 3, 1874.
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difficult surgical operations and raised many deeply
diseased persons from the worst sick beds to life
and strength. He seemed to possess great intui-
tive knowledge of every case he undertook and
could almost always inspire confidence in the pa-
tient of ultimate recovery. He was kind and af-
fectionate in his manner and won the deep regard
of all. His kindness of heart would never allow
him to refuse a call from any, no matter how small
his reward might be and no matter how unfit his
own health was for the duty. His place as a
physician will be hard to fill.
He took an active part in politics and was one of
the ablest stump speakers and debaters in the
State. In 187 1 he was a candidate for Congress
before the Republican county nominating conven-
tion, receiving a very liberal support from his
many friends.
Dr. Hutchison was born in East Nottingham
Township, August 10, 1818, and was therefore in
the 56th year of his age. He studied medicine
under Dr. Johnson, of Drumore Township, Lan-
caster County, and graduated at the Medical De-
partment of the College of Pennsylvania in 1840.
He removed to Oxford in the spring of 1841 where
FULTON FAMILY. 9I
he commenced that brilHant professional career
which had but few equals in its extent, and which
ended only with his death. It might be truly said
of him he died in the very walks of life and busi-
ness.
Dr. Hutchison was long a member of the United
Presbyterian Church and contributed largely to the
support and advancement of the gospel. He
leaves a wife and seven children to mourn their
sudden bereavement. Peace to his ashes — they
rest in the beautiful Oxford cemetery, while his
memory is enshrined in the hearts of his friends.
Dr. Hutchison was married in 1844 to Jane A.
Noble, daughter of William Noble, of Nobleville,
an active business man, and prominent in all enter-
prises, the town of Christiana being named after
his wife. Dr. William Noble Hutchison, the oldest
son, studied under his father, and was considered
one of the most promising physicians of the sec-
tion, and especially in surgical operations. Dr.
D. W. Hutchison and Dr. Wm. N. both volunteered
their services to the wounded at the Battle of Get-
tysburg, and labored for weeks after the battle.
Dr. Wm. N. Hutchison was drowned in the fall of
i877> shortly after returning from Pittsburg, where
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he went as Surgeon of the Oxford Guards. Another
son, Dr. Francis P. Hutchison, resides in Oxford,
where he has an extensive practice. The other
children are David C, Sue N., Maggie D., J. H.
A. Hutchison, of the Oxford Press, and H. Agnew,
who died suddenly in Philadelphia, April 29, 1884.
Dr. D. W. Hutchison was identified with all that
pertained to the welfare of the town having built
over thirty houses in the town and at different times
owned about fifteen or twenty farms in the neigh-
borhood.
He was a member of the first Board of Direc-
tors of the National Bank of Oxford, Trustee in
the Oxford United Presbyterian Church and strong
supporter of the church and its doctrines, and few
cared to attack him on the question of Psalmody.
He was a man who delighted in debating questions
of the day and was known as the " silver-tongued
orator of Chester County."
In Memoriam, by Rev. Wm. R. Bingham, D.D.
Dr. Hutchison was not a man of ordinary talents,
and he brought all his capabilities to bear upon the
necessities of his patients, not merely as a doctor,
FULTON FAMILY. 93
but as a real friend. He impressed the sick with the
idea that he made their difficulties a personal mat-
ter. There was not the cold, calculating treatment
of the professional, but the ready, vigorous, de-
termined effort of a friend — not to save his reputa-
tion, or gratify his love of fame, but to save one in
whom he was interested. Who ever held out his
sick hand a second time to Dr. Hutchison, without
feeling confidence in his judgment to discover the
secret place of his disease and skill to apply the
best remedies of relief? These gifts of nature to
him gave him a great advantage over an ordinary
man in approaching a sick bed. This mesmerism
of his presence and manner has saved the lives of
many in the community when drugs would have
no effect without them. To this was added medical
ability of no ordinary kind. He had what might
be called medical instincts. His diagnosis and ap-
plication of remedies were at times truly wonderful,
even in the judgment of medical gentlemen of ac-
knowledged ability. To these natural talents he
brought an amount of thought and study known only
to those with whom he was intimate. After loner
and exhaustive rides in attendance upon a large
number of sick, he would' often spend a good part
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of the night in study. And the result of such
reading and study were carefully stored by a re-
tentive memory.
When cases of difficulty occurred in his practice,
his mind would not long be detained from the
most intense study ; other things might obtrude
for a time, but his mind would break away instinc-
tively and with renewed vigor would return to the
point of danger. Whoever has accompanied him
in his practice must have often been impressed with
this fact. Even his great interest in anything of
importance that transpired around him, his desire
for public improvement, his readiness to discuss
questions of general advantage, never prevented
him from close attention to the interests of his pa-
tients. They seemed to be uppermost in his mind.
Many a mile has he traveled out of his way to find
something that would gratify or benefit some one
bound down by disease.
As has been well written by others. Dr. Hutchi-
son was kind to his poor patients. No question of
interest, no call from the rich, no personal gratifi-
cation, no darkness of the night, no inclemency of
the weather, detained him from the bedside of a
man whose life was endangered by disease and
FULTON FAMILY. 95
who had entrusted his case to his hands, though he
knew that no pecuniary return could be made.
Thousands of dollars would not pay the pecuniary
obligations of the communit}- to him, at the ordi-
nar}^ rate of charge, and he has made no charge.
The large concourse of people that attended his
funeral showed how far the stroke of his death
was felt. The people gathered at his grave as
they do when a friend or benefactor dies — not to
gaze in idle curiosity, but in sad silence to pay
their heartfelt tribute to his memory.
Fulton Ankrim Hutchison. No. 55.
Fulton Ankrim Hutchison^ No. 55 (Eleanor M.^,
James", John ^).
Residence and post-office, Noblestown, Alle-
gheny County, Pa.
Occupation, minister of the gospel U. P. Church.
Birth-place and date of birth, New London, Pa.,
October 18, 1820.
Married, April 16, 1850, to Miss Martha Buch-
anan, Washington, Pa.
Children, Ellen Cornelia, Nancy Lavinia Mary,
and Fulton.
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Education, daughters graduates of Washington
Female Seminary, and son graduate of Oakdale
Academy and Iron City Commercial College.
Their residence and occupation, home.
Father's full name, Fulton Hutchison.
Mother's maiden name, Eleanor Fulton.
Grandfather's full name, James Hutchison.
Grandmother's maiden name, Jane Fulton.
Nationality, Scotch-Irish.
They first landed in America at New Castle,
Del.
They first settled in New London, Chester
County.
Belong to United Presbyterian Church.
William G. Hutchinson. No. 59.
William Gustavus Hutchison^, No. 59 (Eleanore
M.^, James^, John^), born November 9, 1825, was
married to Ann Eliza Campbell, June 6, 1854,
who was born July 5, 1826.
Children : Sarah Fulton Hutchison, born July
14, 1855, died June 6, 1859. Ross Alexander
Hutchison, born August 25, 1857. William Eas-
ton Hutchison, born July 14, i860. Joseph Cooper
Hutchison, born July i, 1863.
DR. JAMES FULTON, No. 62.
FULTON FAMILY. 97
W. G. Hutchison was a farmer, resided in New
London Township, Chester County, near Elk View,
until i860, when he removed to East Nottingham
Township, two miles south of Oxford, where he
resided till 1878, when he purchased the property
of Ross A. Campbell, deceased, in Bart Township,
Lancaster County. After one year he sold to W.
A. Campbell and moved to Easton, Pa., to provide
college facilities for his three sons. He was 5 feet
10 inches in height and weighed 160 pounds. He
was a member of the U. P. Church.
A. E. Hutchison was a daughter of Ross A.
Campbell.
S. Fulton Hutchison was of most amiable dispo-
sition. She met her death by a severe accident of
scalding.
Dr. James Fulton. No. 62.*
Dr. James Fulton^, No. 62 (James J.^, James^,
John^), brother of William T. Fulton, Esq., and
son of James J. and Nancy (Ramsey) Fulton,
was born November 12, 1832. He was educated
at the public schools of the neighborhood, at
the Academy of Evan Pugh, at Delaware Col-
* Taken from the History of Chester County, by Hon. J. Smith
Futhey and Gilbert Cope, p. 556.
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lege (Newark, Del.) and at Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia. He read medicine four
years with Dr. Thomas H. Thompson, beginning
in 1855 and graduating in 1859, when he began
practicing his profession at Jennerville, Chester
County. After two years he went into the army
as assistant surgeon of the 143d Regiment Penn-
sylvania Volunteers, which position he held until
his resignation, April 4, 1864. He was captured
at the battle of Gettysburg in the first day's fight,
when the Union forces were driven back through
the town, and reported to General A. P. Hill, who
directed him to go back to the hospital and do the
best he could for the sick and wounded. In this
battle it was his duty to provide food and shelter
for the sick and wounded — a difficult thing to do
when the wounded were within the enemy's lines
and the trains with the provisions far to the south
of the town. He tried begging from house to
house, but this was an exceedingly slow operation,
as the enemy had exhausted the supply before the
battle came on. In looking around he found
bakers and bakeries, but no flour. Upon consult-
ing some of the relief offlcers, they advised him
to visit General Ewell, stating they had plenty of
FULTON FAMILY. 99
flour in their trains and that he would wilHngly
supply all needed. He accordingly visited General
Ewell, finding a sharp-visaged little man enjoying
a good breakfast on a bridge to the east of the
town. He promised a supply of flour and sent him
back to duty happy in the thought of being soon
able to provide food for the poor fellows who were
suffering with hunger. This was on the morning
of the third day of the battle. It is enough to say
that the meal did not come, as at the time Dr.
Fulton was talking with him the flour was getting
away to " Old Virginia " as fast as the rebel teams
could take it. After leaving the General and
coming back to town he told a baker what he had
done, when the latter asked him if there was any
assurance that a person would get paid if they fur-
nished something in the line of provisions. The
Doctor told him that he certainly would be paid and
he would give him vouchers. He then said he had
sixteen barrels of crackers which he would sell,
and immediately proceeded to loosen the boards of
the garret of his shop and brought down the crack-
ers. The Doctor procured a guard and had them
taken to the different hospitals ; they served a good
purpose until the enemy retreated, when provisions
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poured in plentifully from all sides. Thus while
the Union Army was manfully struggling to hold
its position to the south of the town on Cemetery
Hill, Round Top and Gulp's Hill, the Doctor was
busily engaged in trying to keep the wounded of
the first day's fight from suffering with hunger.
The Doctor is a learned and skillful physician,
enjoying in an eminent degree the confidence of
the community and the esteem of the medical
world.
He married May i6, 1861, Anna M. Johnson,
by whom he has had the following children :
Rebecca, James, Mary, Carrie, William and Ger-
trude. He is a member of the Oxford Medical
Society, of the Chester County Medical Society (of
which he has been president) and is now the ex-
amining surgeon of the government for the pen-
sion department in the county.
He belongs to the F. and A. M. and I. O. O. F.
and Thompson Post of the G. A. R., in all of
which he has been quite prominent. — History of
Chester County, published 1881, page 556.
ANNA M. JOHNSON,
Wife of Dr. James F'ullon, No. 62.
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Dr. James Fulton 50TH Birthday.*
Fifty years ago our host,
A miniature man the only boast,
Unknown, unnamed, without renown ;
He weighed about eleven pounds,
With a big, wide world before him.
In Lancaster County's busy throng.
The Octoraro hills along.
He started life in an humble way,
With Eshleman's Mill not far away.
In the paper-making business.
To Nottingham he soon removed.
His opportunities much improved.
There made himself a farmer boy,
And threw away the childish toy.
For shovel, hoe and hatchet.
To the Sand Chrome banks he started next,
Profitable employment, the pretext.
He dug, he shoveled, he shook the riddle,
But never learned to play the fiddle.
Though very fond of music.
A stone mason trade he went to learn,
And took the sledge in earnest turn ;
But a flint flew up and hit his eye.
And made the little fellow fly
From that dangerous occupation.
* Poem read by Hugh R. Fulton at a surprise gathering on
November 11, 1882, at New London, Pa.
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To books his thoughts, by this, were turned,
The fount of knowledge he had learned.
Then off to school he took this flight.
He studied hard by day, by night,
And made abundant progress.
Delaware College opened ranks.
For boys who study and cut no pranks ;
They took him in their freshman class —
That he might the examinations pass,
Did drill him day by day.
In Greek and Latin roots and rules,
With all the branches taught in schools.
He spent his many toilsome hours
Developing his mental powers,
Preparing for life's duties.
At teaching too his turn he took.
O'er Lancaster and Chester Counties look.
There, many a boy, remembers well.
His knowledge bump began to swell
With Fulton's free instruction.
But teaching was only a stepping stone,
To the higher walk of life begun.
The healing art was now his hope.
And those dull books he did invoke,
For light in medical science.
In Fifty-nine the sheepskin came.
Earnest labor never is in vain ;
Of Jefferson College a graduate
With health and strength and mental weight
He started well prepared.
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The war broke out, to the field he went
As surgeon in a Regiment.
At Gettysburg the Rebels took him,
At a time he surely wasn't looking,
A prisoner of war.
His horse, his saddle and sword the}' stole,
His sash returned him with parol,
And this it was which saved him clear,
From Rebel prisons, dark and drear,
With starvation close confinement.
For two and twenty years with skill
Professional duties did fulfill,
And many a life, to some most dear,
Has saved and health restored to cheer
Their journey on through life.
And now with half a century past.
Your duties done from first to last,
A happy home you have acquired —
Good wife, six children well attired,
A joyous, happy family.
A birthday present you should get
From best and nearest friends — you bet —
So brothers true, Will, Joe and Hugh,
With kindest feelings and love for you,
Present you with this stick.
The Ebony staff and golden top
May not alone sufficient prop.
Or help two hundred and twenty pounds,
With pills and powders the grand rounds
Of professional engagements.
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But as a token of regard
T'will cheer you on your way
And if, in years you weary grow,
With work and care begin to bow.
Your locks 'come mixed with gray.
You have a consolation true
That never fails good men :
A useful, honored, Christian life
You've led amid'st the worldly strife,
And that's enough for you.
William T. Fulton. No. 63.
William T. Fulton*, No. 63 (James Jefferson^,
James^, John^).
Copy taken from the History of Chester County
by Hon. J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope. Page
555-
William T. Fulton was born in West Nottingham,
February 27, 1835. He was educated in the com-
mon schools, and later at the Jordan Bank Acad-
emy. He engaged in farming, then learned the
blacksmithing trade, and later taught school some
two years. He read law with "the Great Com-
moner," Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, and afterward
with Hon. J. Smith Futhey. He was admitted to
the bar May 13, 1861. He settled at Oxford.
MAJ. WM. T. FULTON, No. 63.
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In August and September, 1861, he helped to re-
cruit Company E, Purnell Legion Maryland In-
fantry, made up of the bordermen of Pennsylvania
and Maryland.
He was captain of the company until August,
1862, when he was promoted to be major of the
regiment and was subsequently discharged on ac-
count of physical disability. After leaving the
Army he resumed the practice of his profession
which he continued until the invasion of the State
by Lee in 1863, when he volunteered in the State
service to repel the invaders.
He was elected a Justice of the Peace in 1863,
reelected in 1868 and again in 1873, resigning No-
vember I, 1876, to accept a seat in the legislature
to which he was that 3'ear elected and to which he
was reelected in 1878. In the legislature he was
a member of many important committees among
which were those Judiciary general and local, and
of Federal Relations of which he was chairman.
He is a staunch Republican and very active in poli-
tics. In 1865 he was married to Hannah A.,
daughter of Joseph Kirk, of West Nottingham, and
in 1876 to Annie E. Neeper, of Oxford. By his
first wife he had two children. Kirk and Annie
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E. and by his second marriage one daughter,
Jennie. He is a member of the Presbyterian
Church and one of its trustees ; also belongs to
Fairview Lodge, No. 334, I. O. O. F. and a Past
Commander of Thompson Post, Grand Army of
the Republic ; is a director in the Oxford National
Bank and associate counsel of the Philadelphia
and Baltimore Central Railroad. He gives his
full time and attention to the practice of his profes-
sion in which he has been successful. He is a
public-spirited citizen and his influence is largely
felt in all measures for the public good.
From a circular issued by his friends when his
name was announced as a candidate for Judge, we
take the following :
The subject of our sketch is, to a great extent, a
self-made man, receiving his early education at the
public schools and at Jordan Bank Academy, con-
ducted by Dr. Evan Pugh, late president of the
Pennsylvania State College. It was a favorite
theory of Dr. Pugh, that every boy should learn a
trade, and young Fulton imbibing that sentiment
took an apprenticeship and became a blacksmith.
He carried on the business for himself for about
two years at Hilamans, in East Nottingham, and
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built up a successful business. Finding, however,
that increasing business left him but little time for
reading and study, which was his-ambition, and
having a desire to study law, he resolved to apply
himself to teaching and study. Dr. Franklin
Taylor, the County Superintendent at that time,
after the usual strict examination, gave him a
teacher's certificate.
He was appointed to a school in his native town-
ship, where he taught for two years. During this
period he utilized his spare time by a systematic
review of his former studies, mathematics and
English classics, with the addition of the Latin and
French languages.
At the end of two years teaching he went to Lan-
caster, where he registered as a law student with
the late Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. Mr. Stevens,
however, leaving for Congress, young Fulton was
recommended by him to Hon. J. Smith Futhey for
the completion of his law studies, and under his
instructions and training he was admitted to the
West Chester bar in 1861.
The War of the Rebellion had now broken out,
and the great thought with many young men was
how best to defend their country's honor and to
save the union of the States.
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Young Fulton laid aside his law books and turned
his attention to raising and drilling a company for
the war. This required him to leave West Chester
and join in with a number of young men in the
neighborhood of his old home in Nottingham, on
the borders of the States of Pennsylvania and Mary-
land. In recruiting this company, it was agreed
that the organization should be accredited to the
State furnishing the most men.
Colonel Purnell, postmaster of Baltimore, was
raising a regiment, as also Colonel Guss, of West
Chester.
The young men of Maryland, however, outstrip-
ped the Pennsylvanians in recruiting, and having
furnished the greatest number of members of the
company, the organization became Company E of
Purnell Legion, Maryland Volunteers, remain-
ing in the service three years. Fulton was chosen
captain of the company. After about a year's ser-
vice he was promoted to major of the regiment.
The many hard marches and great exposures of
the campaigns of 1861 and 1862 and particularly
those incident to the rebel invasion of Maryland
and the battle of Antietam, brought on a fever dis-
abling him from active service. He held on for
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several months, but was finally ordered before a
Board of Surgeons, examined and discharged.
After recovery he opened a law office in Oxford
in 1863. Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania and the
battle of Gettysburg found the Major again in the
field as a member of Company C, 29th Regiment
of Pennsylvania Militia. After the emergency
was over he resumed his law practice. He was
elected Justice of the Peace, of the Borough of
Oxford, the duties of which position he performed
with remarkable satisfaction to the people and to
the honor of the office for thirteen years, when he
resigned to take his seat in the Legislature of Penn-
sylvania.
His record as a member of the assembly for his
three years' service, 1877-1879, was one of
close application to the duties of the office, the per-
formance of those duties to the State and to his
constituents with sterling integrity, sound judgment
and marked ability.
In politics he has always been an earnest and
active Republican. He joined the party at its
formation, voted for Abraham Lincoln, the first
Republican president, and has been a steadfast
member of the party ever since.
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He has been an earnest advocate of the temper-
ance cause, but holds steadfastly to the principle
that temperance reform, like any other political
reformation in this county or in this State must
come through and within the lines of the Republi-
can party. All his efforts in that direction have
therefore been confined within the limits of his
party.
Although a Presbyterian, he has always been
tolerant and liberal in religious opinion. He has
frequently been heard to say that " he hoped the
time would never come when any religious denom-
ination, not even his own, would attain supreme
ascendancy in this country, but that for all time
while our government endures, all denominations
would continue to be equal before the law and the
right of conscience and religious worship be allowed
to remain untrammeled and uncontrolled by party
or sect."
ANNIE E. NEEPER,
Wife of Hon. Wm. T. Fulton, No. 63.
FULTON FAMILY. Ill
Wm. T. Fulton's 50TH Birthday, February 27,
1SS5.*
Wm. T. we find to-day with
1. The fiftieth milestone reached and passed
On life's journey ;
Time's Chariot must be rolling fast
Bearing all this peopled mass,
Our brother numbered in the class
Of those o'er fifty.
2. A while ago you were a boy,
A merry lad.
With whip and hatchet for a toy,
Balls and wagons were a joy,
School books were fun without alloy —
The few you had.
3. But you remember more of work
Those days than play.
The stony field you did not shirk,
A chrome bank was no place to lurk.
That blacksmith shop would tire a Turk,
Both night and day.
4. Old Davy Whitcraft brought you out
Of Egypt's land ;
He was the man who was so stout.
Weighed four hundred or thereabout,
He helped you work the iron out
With skillful hand.
*Bv H. R. Fulton.
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5. Since '56 I've often thought
Of your terrible trip
To Wilmington, to pay goods you bought ;
The note was due, the grace was naught.
Against protests you'd always fought,
Vour credit grip.
6. A winter day, with mercury low.
You started out ;
With western blizzards and drifted snow,
The trains at Newark could not go ;
You trudged and waded to and fro
The entire route.
7. Old Garret must have been surprised
To welcome you ;
The Townsfolk hardly can surmise
A Country Chap has enterprise
To beat a railroad and arrive
E'er trains get through.
8. He planked the cash the day 'twas due —
That pleased the firm.
And fixed his credit the season through,
Convinced them that man's word was true ;
They offered goo^s, and not a few,
On his return.
9. Ill wind it is that blows no good,
If men are true ;
And so we thank the winds for food.
Praise all events of life which stood
A guide to lead us through the wood.
When friends were few.
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And if you're glad you left the shop
And took to school,
Give credit to the day you dropped
The bloody Butteris, red and hot,
Kicked through your hand by — treacherous trot —
Sam Passmore's mule.
Such accidents have much to do
With course in life;
They form an impress deep and true
That follow us our journey through,
And oft our lagging powers renew.
To win the strife.
As Pedagogvie he had success —
Short avocation —
But never gave enough recess ;
The stupid lads got in a mess,
While studious pupils all express
Their approbation.
Our host was loyal to the core
In Rebellion's day ;
The oysters fresh on Eastern shore.
He captured lots and fought for more,
Until they joined another corps
Across the bay.
His Purnell Legion border men
Wore best of blue ;
They had of Infantry Companies ten.
Cannons and horsemen were welcome then ;
All fought so well at Antietam,
The Rebels flew.
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15. Of loyal blood he's always been, —
'Tis nothing new.
Grandfather Fulton's Kith and Kin
His Revolutionary record must not dim,
And so he fought the cause to win,
And won it too.
16. And now we'll let him practice law.
He loves his books ;
His shingle's up, he's learned to draw
The tedious briefs, to find the flaw,
And at the others' weakness claw,
To show his crooks.
17. To some the law's a luxury,
A very sport ;
The man who wants to pay the fee
Has right to any Court's decree,
Then Lawyer, Judge and Jury three
All play the court.
18. At other times the law is sought
By best of men,
For safety against wrong and fraud.
An aid to peace and wealth well wrought,
The crown of battles bravely fought.
And due to them.
19. The attorney has an odd career.
And not o'er pleasant ;
He is most trusted and revered.
He's loved and hated too severe,
In usefulness he has no peer.
The people's servant.
JOSEPH M. FULTON, No. 64.
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20. And since you love this avocation,
And like the labor,
We wish success on all occasions,
That health and wealth and ample rations.
May bless your every social station,
And bring you honor.
21. And as the years roll swiftly by
Without recall,
Bank not on time which doth so fly,
No mortgage take on reasons why ;
Get title deeds to mansions high,
The best of all.
Joseph Miller Fulton. No. 64.
Joseph Miller Fulton ^ No. 64(James J.^, James^
John^), was born January 11, 1840, in West Not-
tingham Township, Chester County.
He early took to the business of merchandising,
clerked in the store of Haines & Ireland at Brick
Meeting House, Maryland.
In 1863 he engaged in store-keeping at Hila-
mans, now Chrome, East Nottingham. From that
place he went to Brick Meeting house, Md., and
entered into partnership with John M. Ireland in
the general merchandise business. In 1867 he es-
tablished a drug store at New London, Chester
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County, which he conducted for a period of over
twenty years to the time of his decease.
Entered the army in 1863, and served in Com-
pany C, 29th Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia.
He studied pharmacy, and was graduated from
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He was a
Past Master of New London Lodge of F. and A.
M. He had been Treasurer of the Board of Trus-
tees, and an elder of the New London Presbyter-
ian Church, and for a time was superintendent of
the Sabbath School.
He was a man of great liberality, kind to the
poor, and generous to a fault.
He died February 21, 1892, in the 53d year of
his age.
The widow, Mrs. Sarah Anna Fulton, with the.
two sons, Frederick J. and Alfred Miller, reside
at 13 1 2 W. 4th Street, Wilmington, Del.
Hugh Ramsey Fulton. No. 65.
Hugh Ramsey FultonS No. 65 (James J.^,
James^, John^), was born November 16, 1843, in
East Nottingham Township, Chester County, in
the brick dwelling on the Christiana road adjoining
the Old Passmore homestead.
SARAH ANNA BROWN,
Wife of Jos. M. Fulton, No. 64.
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Although in early youth he had a great dislike
for the subscription and public schools of the
neighborhood, he was, through the patient perse-
verance of a thoughtful and wise mother, induced
to spend a fair portion of his time in school. A
subscription school taught by Miss Beckie Brown
near the White House, Thompson's old log school
house, the new brick at Hilamon's called Fairview,
the public school at the brick meeting house, under
Reuben Hains, Esq., Chestnut Level Academy
under Morgan Rawlins, and the select school at
Oxford under Dr. Taylor, gave him his primary
education.
In the spring of 1861, while employed on the
chrome banks of Robert McMullen, the war broke
out ; the necessities of the blockade stopped the ex-
portation as also the mining of chrome, and threw
him out of employment. About this time Wm. P.
Brown, a neighbor, was beginning the erection of
a new brick house and w^as in want of hod carriers.
He called upon Fulton for help, who complied with
the request, went to work, and carried brick and
mortar for one of the finest brick houses in the
neighborhood.
In the fall of 1861 he was, through the kind-
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ness of his cousin, Mrs. Thomas A. Clark, invited
to attend the Chestnut Level Academy, and make
his home with them. This opportunity was recog-
nized as a good one, and he at once accepted it.
During the winter and spring of 1861 and 1862 and
the summer of 1863 he attended that institution
with pleasure and profit.
It was while at the Academy in 1863 that the
ardent loyalty of the people with whom he asso-
ciated, the defeat of the Union forces in Virginia,
the onward march of the Rebel hordes upon our
own State, the approach of the Confederate cav-
alry toward the Susquehanna, the burning of the
bridge at Wrightsville, which, at the time, was
supposed to be the State Capital, were a combina-
tion of circumstances tending to patriotic impulse,
too strong to be resisted by him, and he enlisted, on
the 27th of June, in Lieutenant Samuel Boyd's
Company G, ist Battalion, Pennsylvania Six-
month Volunteers, afterwards the 187th Penn.
Volunteers.
They went into service immediately, were sworn
and mustered at Harrisburg, and while in camp
there he wrote to his parents (whom he had prom-
ised to come home during vacation and help with
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the store and harvest) telling them for the first time
what he had done, asking them to excuse and ap-
prove as he had considered it his solemn duty to
his country's cause to do as he did.
At that time James, William T., Joseph M. and
Hugh R. — the whole family — were in the Union
Army, while their father was doing all he could at
home for the success of the cause of human liberty,
national unit}^ and the return of peace and pros-
perity.
The subject of this sketch served his first enlist-
ment at provost duty at Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
Chambersburg and Antietam, Maryland. The
service was a pleasant one and also useful to the
Government, but was void of that inspiring and ex-
citing feature of camp in front and the battlefield,
which the young soldier so much loves, and it was
for this reason that, soon after his return frftm the
volunteers, he reenlisted at Philadelphia in the
Regular Army in the 5th Regiment of United
States Artillery, and was soon sent to Battery E,
then stationed at Chambersburg, Pa., but which
immediately joined the Army of the Potomac on
the Rapid Ann, Virginia. His battery during the
battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania was
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with the artillery reserve, but was soon attached to
the 6th Army Corps and remained with it to the
close of the war.
Hugh R. served with his battery in the battles
of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House,
North Ann River, Cold Harbor, the first attack on
Petersburg and the whole siege of Petersburg.
During the time of the springing of the mine at
Petersburg, or the blowing up of the Rebel fort,
and for three months after he was stationed in Fort
Hell, which was regarded as the hottest place on
the siege line. He was in the artillery duels dur-
ing the attack on the South Side Railroad, and the
Rebel attack and capture of Fort Steadman, and
was active in the great Sunday fight of April 2,
1865, when the Union Army left their fortifications,
marched out into the open field in front, .making
charge after charge upon the Rebel works and
with their artillery on that open plain, kept up
such a cannonade, that three Rebel forts were
captured, and dismantled in that one day. He was
in the last battle of the Potomac Army, which was
fought at Sailor's Creek on April 6th. He partici-
pated in the rejoicing over the surrender of the
Rebel forces under Lee on April 9th, when the
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whole Army of the Potomac threw up their hats,
cheered themselves hoarse and fired the last blank
cartridge. With the hardened sturdy soldiery he
was humbled from the highest pitch of joy and re-
joicing, and melted to grief on hearing of the as-
sassination of our honored President, Abraham
Lincoln, on the 14th of April. He had the pleas-
ure of joining in the triumphal review of the
Armies of the Republic at Washington,, and after
the close of the war, was sent south to the Caro-
linas and Florida in support of the reconstruction
plans of the Government.
He was, for short periods in 1865 and 1866, sta-
tioned at Washington, D. C, New York City,
Beaufort, Charleston, Fort Moultrie, Port Royal,
South Carolina, Saint Augustine, Key West, Bar-
rancas and Fort Pickins, Florida,
His term of service having expired, he was dis-
charged with the following letter of recommend a
tion :
Character. [Endorsed on army discharge.]
One of the most faithful and intelligent soldiers
I have ever known. T. Seymour,
Brt. Maj. Genl. Capt. 5th. Arty.
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Sergeant Hugh R. Fulton has served with this
company in the' following engagements, viz :
Wilderness, — Spottsylvania, — Cold Harbor, —
Siege of Petersburg, — Petersburg April 2nd. 1865,
— Sailors Creek, — Surrender of Lee.
T. Seymour ;
Brt. Maj. Genl. Capt. 5th. Arty. Comm'g.
Barrancas Fla., Februar}^ 22nd., 1867.
Sergeant Hugh R. Fulton — now discharged from
the U. S. Army, has served three years, in the field,
with a steadiness and fidelitv that might be
equalled — but could not be surpassed. By his con-
stant good conduct he has won the well-deserved
respect and esteem of every Officer with whom he
has associated. Should he have occasion to show
this writing, to advance his interests in any respect,
I trust that it may procure for him w^hatever he
may seek — for I have met with few better men than
Hugh R. Fulton.
T. Seymour :
Brt. Maj. Genl. U. S. Army.
He arrived home about the middle of March,
1867, and on the first of April started to Taylor's
Select School in the Presbyterian Session House,
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Oxford. Early in August he took charge of the
Union School in Elk Township, which he taught
for three terms. In the spring of 1868 he regis-
tered with his brother, William T. Fulton, Esq., of
Oxford, as a student of law, was appointed in July
of that year as teacher of Fairview School, East
Nottingham, which he taught with entire satisfac-
tion for one month, when his friends, Theodore K.
Stubbs and Benjamin F. Hudson, who were mak-
ing preparations to enter the Law Department of
the University of Michigan — which they recom-
mended very highl}^ — having urged him to go along,
he resolved to go. He then had his chief com-
petitor for the school. Miss Ruth Griffith, appointed
in his place as teacher, and started for this Athens
of the West. He entered the University on Oc-
tober I, 1868, and was graduated with the degree
of Bachelor of Laws, on March 30, 1870. He at
once came to Lancaster, and was admitted to prac-
tice law on April 19, 1870. One month later he
entered the office of Hon. William Aug. Atlee.
In 187 1 he took a tour through the Western
States for the purpose of seeing the country, and
satisfying himself of the best place for his perma-
nent location. The States of Illinois and Iowa
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failing to offer sufficient inducements for his leaving
Lancaster, he returned, and soon after married
Miss Sallie T. Kerr, daughter of John A. Kerr, of
East Nottingham, Chester County.
He was elected Solicitor for the Board of Trus-
tees of the Home for Friendless Children, Lancas-
ter, in 1872, in which capacity he served for four
years. He was afterwards elected a member of
the Board of Trustees of that institution, and in
1875 was elected Treasurer of the Board, in which
capacity he has served until the present time.
In January, 1876, he was elected Solicitor for the
Lancaster Law Library Association. In 1879 ^^
was elected by the people of Lancaster County to
the office of County Solicitor, and served with the
commendation of the people and public press in the
details of the office, the trial of the large number
of land damage cases arising during his term owing
to the opening of streets in the City of Lancaster
and for his successful collection of a large claim of
over ;^23,ooo, from the Commonwealth, for over-
paid taxes in previous years.
He was elected by the Councils of the city of
Lancaster to the office of City Solicitor in 1883
and was notably successful in the collection of a
SALLIE T. KERR, No. 88,
Wife of Hugh R. Fulton, Esq.
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large number of outstanding claims due the city,
and in requiring certain corporations to comply
with the ordinances of the city.
He was one of the organizers of the Lancaster
General Hospital, one of the most worthy charities
in the county, and has served as a director and
secretary.
He was one of the organizers and also superin-
tendent of Bethany Presbyterian Sabbath School,
in the western part of the city, and served on the
building committee in the erection of the beautiful
chapel now occupied by it on West End Avenue.
He joined Oxford Lodge A. Y. Masons in 1867,
Lancaster Chapter 43 in 1873, and the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics. He was
for five years president of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association and director for many years.
He has been an elder of the First Presbyterian
Church of Lancaster for some years, was twice
Commander of Post No. 84 Grand Army of the
Republic, frequently a delegate to the department
encampments, was Assistant Inspector at Large of
the Posts of the county, and Aid-de-Camp on the
Staff of Commander-in-Chief General Sexton.
120 genealogy of the
The Teacher Thought it was Pluck.
Elkton, Cecil County, Md.
My Dear Sir : I received by this morning's mail
your kind letter under date of the 20th instant, and
I hasten to comply. With this you will please find
the sum of 25 cents in postage stamps, with which
to purchase the stereoscopic view of ex-President
Buchanan's grave, and return postage.
There is a lawyer in your city who, when I
taught school, was a student under me in survey-
ing. He was a good boy, a faithful scholar, and
honest as the day is long. His name is Hugh
Fulton. I have not seen nor even heard of him
for at least sixteen years. All that I know of him
was what I knew over fifteen years ago, when he
used to walk four miles to the school and four
miles back home again, after he had recited. This
is what I call pluck.
I remain, yours very truly,
Reuben Haines.
To Mr. , April 21, 1881.
From Mrs. Elizabeth Esther Fulton Winans\
No. 220 (66 m). (George W.^, John', John\)
Manchester, Kas., Feb. 12, 1900.
I received your letter this morning with enclo-
sures from Mr. Hugh R. Fulton, of Lancaster, Pa.
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It is now almost thirty-six years since I married
and left home ; for twenty-five years of that time I
have been entirely separated from my relatives. I
have lost track of a great many, and being among
strangers, have not talked of old times and friends
as if I had been among them. I remember of
hearing father say that his father, John Fulton, was
born in Maryland. He was married twice. I am
not certain if it was to Margaret Dickey, but think
it was. "Beck" Crawford's grandmother. Aunt
Betsy La fevre, was one of the children. Aunt
" Polly " Eckles was another, and John, who it was
thought died suddenly, long before our time, was
another.
Our grandmother was Esther Cooper, and, as
you will see by the chart, had eight children, a
number of whom we never saw, in fact, I have no
recollection of any but Uncle Andrew and Aunt
Ellen ; but of their children I have some knowledge.
I have filled out the chart to the best of my ability.
In filling out the Matthew H. Fulton part of the
chart, I would give his army record, also that of
his soldier son Jim. Don't forget Carrie's little
girl, either. I think father said grandfather came
over the mountains to western Pennsylvania in the
year 1804. Father was born in Chester County, Pa.
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Mattheav Henry Fulton. No. 221 (66 n).
Matthew Henry Fulton*, No. 221 (66 n) (George
W.^, John^, John'), when the Civil War broke out,
enlisted in the New Brighton Rifles, which was
afterwards Co. H, of the 9th Penna. Reserves, and
served until wounded at the battle of Gaines' Mill,
Va., and was taken prisoner on account of said
wound at Savage Station, Va., a few days later, and
taken to Richmond and exchanged in three months.
He came to Bucyrus, O., in 1866, was Postmaster
in Garfield's and Arthur's administrations, and was
mayor from 1886 to 1888. My son, James Edward
(No. 246), 16 years old, was principal musician
(chief trumpeter) of the 8th Ohio, and served in
Cuba. He was the youngest chief trumpeter in
the army.
Matthew James Wilson. No. 67.
Name, Matthew James Wilson^ No. 67 (Rob-
ert^ Jane", John')*
Residence and post-office. East Nottingham,
Chester County, Pa. ; Oxford.
Occupation, farming.
FULTON FAMILY. I 29
Birth-place and date of birth, East Nottingham ;
January 11, 1830.
Married Rebecca E. Mclntire.
Names and ages of children in full, Robert B.,
Ella F., Lydia Jane, and Ann Elizabeth.
Robert B. married Ida Mary Crowl, daughter of
Robert A. Crowl, on December 29, 1881.
Educated at Oxford Academy and State Normal
schools.
Residence and occupation of children, Robert
B., East Nottingham, farming; Ella F., Liver-
mon, Cal., teaching; Lydia Jane and Ann Eliza-
beth at home.
Father's full name was Robert Wilson (No. 30).
Mother's maiden name was Lydia Wilson.
Grandfather's full name was Matthew Wilson.
Grandmother's maiden name was Jenny Fulton
(No. 6).
Robert Franklin Wilson. No. 69.
Name, Robert Franklin Wilson^, No. 69 (Rob-
ert^, Jane^, John^).
Oxford, Chester County, Pa.
Occupation, farmer.
Born in East Nottingham Township, June 26,
1839.
130 THE FULTON FAMILY.
Married to Agnes E. Thomson, January 19,
1870.
Children, Robert Thomson Wilson, born De-
cember 6, 1872; William J. Wilson, born Febru-
ary 15, 1879.
Fathers name, Robert Wilson.
Date of birth, July i, 1796, East Nottingham;
died April 3, 1862.
Mother's maiden name, Lydia Wilson.
Born July 18, 1804; died September 7, 1865.
Grandfather's name, Matthew Wilson.
Born July 27, 1762, in East Nottingham; died
January 10, 1838.
Grandmother's maiden name, Jane Fulton.
Names of father's children in full, and dates of
birth.
1. Matthew James Wilson, born January 11,
1830 ; married Rebecca C. Mclntire.
2. Phoebe Wilson, born August i, 183 1.
3. Tamar Jane Wilson, born February 8, 1836;
married William K. Warden.
4. Robert Franklin Wilson, born June 23,
1839 ' i^arried Agnes E. Thomson.
5. John Wilson, born January 11, 1842; mar-
ried S. Elizabeth Thomson.
HON. JAMES H. KERR, No. 85.
CHAPTER V.
Fifth Generation.
James Hutchison Kerr^. No. 85. (Eliza Jane^,
James^, Elizabeth^ John^)
Heidelberg, Germany, Oct. 10, 1899.
Hon. Hugh R. Fulton, Lancaster, Pa.
Dear Bi- other : I have just received from Guy
a blank entitled "Fulton Genealogy " with a re-
quest to fill out the same and give an outline
sketch of my life. As I do not know how full you
are making the life history of your family, I will
simply give you a skeleton. You can throw out
any bones too long for the collection and any that
are too short, pull up to the proper height and hang
a towel in front. If any are too bare, take a hint
from the most lovely and divine sex and use cotton.
Your loving brother,
James Hutchison Kerr.
Life Outline.
Born near Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pa.,
August 30, 1837. When a year old, took my par-
ents and went to farming near McConnellsburg,
132 GENEALOGY OF THE
Fulton Co., Pa. In 1844 i^ioved to Chester County,
taking the same parents. Here also we engaged
in farming. Until 1850 attended school in winter,
and in summer engaged in the exciting sport of
picking potatoes and gathering stones. When
brother George and I were not gathering stones we
were watching them grow. In those days, father
thought I was cut out for a farmer, and mother
thought I was a born preacher.
In 1847-8 I began, through the stories of the
Mexican War and the Students' Revolution in Ger-
many, to feel the influence of a greater world.
Then came the discovery of chrome in the barrens
of Chester County. I heard much of this ore and
the mining and reduction of the same. I saw
many different kinds of minerals, which were car-
ried around by different persons. Many specimens
were given me ; and I began to look for the beauti-
ful things God has made to beautify this world, and
to give power, and comfort, and a broader, better
and happier ever-growing life, individually and
collectively to mankind.
In 185 1 I was attending school at Elk Ridge
when the teacher was taken sick- and the pupils
selected me as their teacher. This being ratified
FULTON FAMILY. I 33
in the course of a week by the directors, I taught
the remaininor two months. From the first I loved
the work, and I saw that, for me, Hfe's open door
was teaching as a profession. I read everything
I could get on methods, I sought the society of
teachers with experience. I attended institutes,
and took an active part in the same. Above all I
made a study of my pupils. Tried to assist Nature
by giving pupils a chance to grow. One of the
greatest pleasures of my life has been in seeing
the different effects of a question, or a proposition
put to a class of pupils as indicated in their eyes.
The teacher who has not watched and studied the
awakening of human souls may know much of
the drudgery of the profession, but can know little
of its inspirations.
In 1852-53 I attended the Turner Seminary.
In 1853-54-55 attended New London Academy.
1855-56 Westminister College in Lawrence
County, Pa. In 1857 saw something of the South
and later went to Rochester, New York, where I
taught school, engaged in the grocery business,
got burned out, and attended lectures at the Ro-
chester University ; also carried on a systematic
study of the natural sciences under the direction
134 GENEALOGY OF THE
of Rev. Orville Dewey, of Rochester, and Dr.
James Hall, the geologist and paleontologist, of
Albany. During these years my resting hours
were spent in travelling in New England, Canada,
and the West. Had charge of the Academy of
Franklinville, Cattaraugus County, New York, in
1859 and 1860-61.
In 1861 entered Yale College (Classical Depart-
ment). Kept up in geology under the direction of
Prof. James D. Dana, and meteorology under
Professors Loomis, Twining and Newton. In my
senior year had charge of the Department of Natu-
ral Sciences in General Russel Military and Colleg-
iate Institute in New Haven, Conn. During this
year was offered the position of Second Assistant
Geologist and Mining engineer, by the Maximilian
Government of Mexico. Spent college vacations
mostly in making excursions afoot. In sophomore
year went to West Indies and South America in a
sailing vessel. Graduated with honor in 1865,
having had to labor under the misfortune of only a
four months' fit in Greek — several members of the
class having had a preparation of over five years.
After graduating took a two months' tour to Nova
Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador and Greenland.
I
FULTON FAMILY. I35
Returning to New Haven, was offered the position
of principal of Jackson Academy, Jackson, Cape
Girardeau County, Missouri. This I accepted,
and arived at Jackson on the 28th day of Septem-
ber, 1865. Within two months, was appointed
County Superintendent of Public Schools by the
Governor and directed not only to reorganize the
schools of the county, but also to give such as-
sistance as lay within my power in reorganizing
public instruction in the twenty-three counties con-
stituting the Third Congressional District of Mis-
souri.
On Christmas 1866, married Miss Mary Ella
Spear, of Jackson, Mo., who is a Jefferson-Ran-
dolph (of Virginia) through the Criddles and Bollins.
In 1868 was elected County Superintendent of
Public Schools and the same year was appointed
by the Governor one of the Curators of the Univer-
sity* of Missouri at Columbia. Took an active
part in organizing the Mining School at Rolla,
Mo. Was offered the directorship of the same.
In 1869, organized the Fruitland Normal Insti-
tute, 6 miles north of Jackson. This was the first
Normal School in the United States south of St.
Louis, Mo.
136 GENEALOGY OF THE
In 1874 pool" health led me to Colorado and in
1875 was urged to come to the assistance of Colo-
rado College, which had been organized at Colo-
rado Springs the year before. September, 1875, I
became professor in charge at Colorado College,
and was soon joined by my family. In 1876 I re-
signed my position ; but was immediately elected
professor of chemistry and geology, with the un-
derstanding that I was to devote to the College
only such time as I could spare from mining, engi-
neering and metallurgical work. In 1878, became
a member of the Board of College Trustees and
resigned in 1879. ^^ 1880 made an extended visit
with family through the South Bahamas and West
Indies. In 1882 with my son visited Japan and
China. While abroad was elected to the Colorado
Legislature — the Democrats doing me the honor of
putting up no one against me.
In 1884 originated the Pike's Peak railway
scheme. In 1885-6 visited, as a mining engineer,
Central America, South America and England —
taking my wife with me to England. In 1887-8
was the acting president of Colorado College.
In 1888 went to Mexico, as mining engineer and
metallurgist. Became in 1890 mining engineer and
FULTON FAMILY. I37
metallurgist for the British Consul and Minister.
In 1892 to 1894 did considerable engineering
work for several American, English, Mexican and
Spanish companies.
Returning to the United States in 1894, have been
since engaged in the practice of my profession,
principally in Montana and New York. In June,
1899, my wife and I came to Europe for rest,
health, pleasure and study.
From 185 1 until 1880 I taught from four to ten
months of every ^^ear. I hold state teacher certifi-
cates from Connecticut, New York, Penns3'lvania,
Missouri and Colorado.
For twenty years of my life I worked from 16 to
18 hours per day. Notwithstanding the work, the
struggles to get an education, and the coming of
misfortunes over which I had no control, life has
been full of cheer. I have gathered very much
honey and very little poison from the many flowers
that have beautified my life pathway. I have
never cried over spilt milk and never crossed a
bridge until I came to it ; and thus, I have thrown
aside nine-tenths of those troubles and burdens
which a very large per cent, of mankind endure
and carry.
James H. Kerr.
138 genealogy of the
James Hutchison Kerr.* No. 85.
Representative for El Paso County.
Of all the counties in the State, El Paso has
most reason to be proud of her delegation in the
Colorado Assembly. Senator Howbert and Repre-
sentatives Kerr and Ford never flinched from be-
ginning to end ; and Professor Kerr was one of the
last four who voted for Pitkin, the twelve going to
Bowen by an arrangement of the caucus. When
the caucus decided the nomination. El Paso men
were in honor bound to vote for the nominee,
though they voted for Tabor under protest. The
last four who voted for Pitkin were Messrs. Kerr,
Curtice, Wells and Greene. The El Paso men
voted anti-bonanza and anti-monopoly throughout.
Professor Kerr was born near Chambersburg,
Pa. In 1874 he came to Colorado, and in 1875 he
settled at Colorado Springs, becoming professor in
charge of Colorado College. In 1876 he was
elected professor of chemistry and geology in the
college. During his professorship there, he did a
great deal of expert work in Colorado, New Mexico
and Old Mexico.
* Editorial from the Denver (Col.) Weekly, February' 17, 1883.
DR. GEORGE KERR, No 87.
FULTON FAMILY. I 39
This brief account of a life of many vicissitudes,
shows the stuff that Professor Kerr is made of. He
is a positive, energetic man who never quails.
Some portion of every year for twenty-nine con-
secutive years was spent in teaching, and though
he was always more or less an invalid, he has
worked from sixteen to eighteen hours a day -for
twenty years. While studying geology he walked
through every county of the IVCiddle and New Eng-
land States, except some of the counties of Maine.
He has traveled over the greater part of the two
Americas, including most of the West Indies. He
spent some time among the Japanese, and was in
China when a cablegram reached him informing
him of his election as Representative for El Paso.
While in China, he sold the first mine ever sold to
Chinamen.
Professor Kerr returns to Colorado Springs with
a record that stands among the clearest in the As-
sembly. He did his duty to his constituents as well
as to the State.
Dr. George Kerr. No. 87.
Dr. George Kerr', No. 87 (Eliza Jane Hutchison*,
James'', Elizabeth^, John'), was born in East Not-
140 GENEALOGY OF THE
tingham Township, Chester County, Pa., January
9, 1841. Attended New London Academy, grad-
uated at Poughkeepsie Commercial College, taught
school, studied medicine under Dr. D. W. Hutchi-
son, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical
College in 1863. He was appointed Assistant Sur-
geon in the Army Hospital, Philadelphia. He prac-
ticed medicine for a time at Newberg, N. Y. , and Ne-
braska City, Neb., and has for many years enjoyed
a large medical practice in Philadelphia. He has
been president of the Lavalette City Land Com-
pany, and has a winter residence at Pearson,
Volusia county, Fla. He married Christiana Dei-
bert of Schuylkill Haven, March 17, 1864. They
had one child, Minnie L., married to George C.J.
Fleck of the firm of Fleck Brothers, Philadelphia.
Annie died years ago and on February i, 1893, he
married Miss Carrie L. Trout, of Philadelphia.
My son John has saved a clipping from a
Philadelphia paper and because of its merit we in-
sert it here.
' ' The following heart offering is from the pen of
one of Philadelphia's most eminent physicians who
in leisure moments woos the muses, and who han-
dles the poetic pen with the same incisive stroke
that he does the surgical steel.
FULTON FAMILY. I4I
" Dr. Geo. Kerr is as accomplished in the fields
of poesy as he is skilled in that of medicine. —
National Union.
"Friendship's Offering.
" Ah ! what is life to me, without a friend?
One whose heart and love are ever waiting
To chase away the cares of earth ; and mend
The sad, sad heart, that is ever breaking.
" Do others know what it is to suffer
Alone, — the tortures of a blighted life?
Is the grave the only friend to cover
The monstrous wrong, which ends the bitter strife.
" Oh, give me the heart, that has felt the need
Of sympathy, and kindly words to aid ;
From its hidden depths, it will ever plead
Charity and loving kindness, undismayed.
" Yes, — that's the balm, which heals the wounded heart.
That makes this life, happy, joyous and free.
Dear ones let our lives forever impart
To each other, to all, fidelity."
"G. K."
The Kerr Family.
Notes gathered by Lizzie Eleanor Kerr^, No.
86, Eliza Jane H.^ James H.^ Elizabeth^ John\
Notes taken February 15, 1881, at home, Laurel
142 GENEALOGY OF THE
Valley farm, on Big Elk Creek, three miles south-
east of Oxford, Chester Co., Pa.
Father says that his father, George Kerr, was
born January 14, 1762, and died September 11,
1836, was the son of James Kerr, born about 1733,
County Derry, Ireland, who was married to Mar-
garet Glenn between 1 750-1 760. George Kerr
had the following brothers and sisters :
1. John Kerr, born August 4, 1778, owned part
of a vessel and was captain. He ran between sev-
eral points in the United States and the West Indies.
(Unmarried.) The last time he was in Gettysburg he
left a chest, a sword, horn spoon and needle, which
things are now in the possession of John A. Kerr.
He was lost at sea about 1816. His age is in the
Bible which was in the possession of father's
brother James, and now in that of his son James S.
Kerr, Bloomfield, Davis Co., Iowa.
2. Thomas Kerr, born August i, 1768, was
married, never came to this country. Had two
sons, Matthew and James, and one daughter.
{a) Matthew was collector at the port of Liver-
pool, Eng. Heard from him in 1870, at which
time he was a broker and very rich.
{b) James remained and married in Bally Kelly,
County Derry.
FULTON FAMILY. I 43
(c) The daughter married a Scott. She was a
beautiful girl. She had a daughter who married a
Campbell, who came to this countr}-, settled in or
near Pittsburg, Pa.
3. James Kerr, born June 27, 1781, next to
the youngest son and stayed with his father, until
his father died and then came to this country.
Lived at his brother Matthew's, at Wrightsville,
York Co., Pa,, and died there about 1842. Buried
in the old Presbyterian churchyard (unmarried).
He brought the old Bible to this country, which his
nephew got through Margaret Kerr Dickey.
4. Margaret Kerr, born April 8, 1776, married
John Dickey between 1790 and 1800. Their son
James stood in Geo. Kerr's store in Gettysburg
about 1820, when his father and his mother came
to this country. They all went to Pittsburg and
kept store. There were two sons, James and John
or William, and two or three girls, (a) James died
unmarried, also two of the girls. The remaining
son was keeping store in a town near Pittsburg,
about twenty years ago. They were related to
Archibald George, of Baltimore.
5. Hannah Kerr, born December 20, 1777,
married Hanson in Ireland, and came to this coun-
144 GENEALOGY OF THE
try about 1820 and settled in Indiana. "^ They had
one son whom they called David ; was left wealthy,
traveled a great deal. Was an officer on the Texan
side during the early part of its struggle for inde-
pendence ; unmarried ; was killed about 1838.
6. Margary Kerr, died young.
7. Mary Kerr, born August 3, 1765 ; did not
come to this country.
8. Matthew Kerr, born July 5, 1787, died
December 12, 1857. Came to this country and
taught school in York, and became a lumber in-
spector. He married Jane Wilson, a daughter of
Thomas Wilson, Sheriff of York County, about
1810. He had eight sons and one daughter.
Grandfather George Kerr was born in Scotland,
January 14, 1762, and died at Gettysburg, Adams
County, Pa., September 11, 1836, just nine days
before father and mother were married. His father
lived at Bally Kelly many years, and died there
about 1830, being about 96 or 97 ^^ears old. The
mother was about the same age. George Kerr
crossed the ocean five times. He stood in his
fathers store at Bally Kell}^ and was an officer
on the walls of Derry. The first three years after
he came to America he was collector for a man in
FULTON FAMILY. I 45
South Carolina. The second time he came, he
and his cousin, who is the grandfather of David
and Wm. Kerr, of Kerrsville, Cumberland County,
Pa., were partners in a store in Huntingdon. The
third time, he kept store in Gettysburg. Here he
met and married Eleanor Wilson, about 1797. She
died April 27, 1815, being 44 years, 2 months and
II days old. She had a brother, John, who was'
younger than she. The father of Eleanor and
John, whose name was James Wilson, married
Margaret or Mary Sharp, sister of Dr. Sharp, who
preached at Shippensburg, Pa. The Wilsons lived
near Carlisle, on the Walnut Bottom road. By
Eleanor Wilson, George Kerr had eight children.
Mary Clemintine Kerr, born August 27, 1798,
married June 17, 1818, to a druggist, John Byron,
who was born August 15, 1796, and died in 1866
from the bite of a rattlesnake. She died February
28, 1848.
"While Cessford owns the rule of Carr,
While boasts the line of Scott ;
The slaughter'd chiefs, the mortal jar,
The havoc of the feudal war.
Shall never, never be forgot."
The unicorn head was the crest of the Kerrs or
146 GENEALOGY OF THE
Carrs of Cessford, of which Halidon was an ancient
seat, now demohshed.
George Kerr, of Gettysburg, was of the Kerrs
of Cessford.
Dickey Family.
Samuel D. came over the sea, and settled on the
James Ramsey farm. His children were John,
who married Bettie H., and Samuel D., who mar-
ried Jane H., daughters of Samuel Hutchison.
Rev. Ebenezer Dickey, D.D., married Jane
Miller; David M., Ann Moffit ; Margaret, a Ross;
Hannah, a MofRt ; Jane was married to mother's
great-grandfather. John Fulton lived near Pitts-
burg.
Fulton Family.
Mother's great-grandfather on Grandmother
Hutchison's side of the house was John Fulton.
He, John, married Jane Dickey ; James married
Margaret Miller; Elizabeth married James Hutchi-
son (grandfather) ; Jane married Matthew Wilson
(Frank Wilson's grandfather ; Susan Fulton mar-
ried Rev. James Clarkson, of York Count}') ; Mary
married Rev. James Proudfoot, of Salem, N. Y.,
FULTON FAMILY. I47
James' son. John, junior, died single, also Rachel
and Miller ; Joseph married Martha Watt ; Eleanor
married Fulton Hutchison ; Jefferson married
Nancy Ramsey. They have four children : James
Fulton, M.D., Wm. T. and Hugh R., practicing
law, Joseph, druggist.
The Watt Family.
David Watt, of Scotland, married Mary
1. Susan, his daughter, married Faulkner, Nor-
thumberland Co., no childi^en
2. Martha married Robert Cunningham. Chil-
dren : John, who married Mrs. Douglas; James,
Miss Stewart, parents of John James Francis and
Leander Cunningham, of Gettysburg.
3. David, died young. Betsie married Samuel
Cobean ; children: Samuel, Jane, Alexander, Betsy,
Robert who married Susan Watt ; their children
Lizzie and James.
John Watt married Elizabeth Calvin. John was
in the Revolutionary War, and got 500 acres of land
in West Virginia. Children are Susan, married
James Hutchison (Jane Patterson's parents), Ohio.
Esther married James Watt, not related, Irish
(Jackson's grandmother). Watt is Scotch.
148 GENEALOGY OF THE
Elizabeth married James Hutchison, March 19,
1807. He was born 1775 ; wife died 1784.
Martha married Joseph Fuhon, March 20, 1809.
John Watt's second wife, McCully, children.
Fannie married David Hutchison.
Margaret married Samuel Ankrim, July 15,1824.
Charlotte married John Wilson, August, 182 1.
Amy married Nathan Thompson, June 8, 1824.
Mary married Joseph Miller Thompson, 1826.
Jane Humphry Hutchison died 17, 1763,
aged 68 years, wife of James H., son. They with
their children, Agnes, David, James, Gilbert,
Robert, Joseph and Samuel, joined the Presbyterian
Church of New London, but remained members
but a short time owing to the introduction of Watt's
Psalms and Hymns. They settled in New London
Township on a farm now owned by James Eves,
containing 186 acres of land.
James Hutchison married in 1767.
Grandfather James Hutchison, born October 24,
1774, died December 25, 1857.
John, born 1780, died December i, 1843, aged
63. Fulton H. was born April 11, 1786, and died
April I, i860, aged 74 years.
David Wilson married Jane Manifold.
FUI.TON FAMILY. I49
Margaret Wilson married John Collins.
Jane H., died 1826, not married.
Bettie died 1855, not married, 83 years old.
James Hutchison, mother's father, married Eliz-
abeth Watt. She died 1844 ; he in 1857.
David, married Fannie Watt D.'s H.'s mother.
Fulton married Eleanor Fulton, eleven children,
Ellen and Ankrim's parents. Fulton died, i860.
John H., died in 1839, was in the State Legis-
lature of Pennsylvania. Mary and Nancy died
young.
The Hutchison Family.
Copied by L. E. Kerr, from notes gathered by
James Hutchison Kerr, son of John A. Kerr, who
married Eliza Jane Hutchison, Sept. 20, 1836, at
the home of her father, James Hutchison, Esq.,
one-half mile above the forks of Big Elk Creek,
near Oxford, Chester County, Pa. These notes are
chiefly from my mother, Eliza Jane Kerr, and her
brother James Hervy Hutchison, near Elk Dale,
Chester County, Pa.
James Hutchison, the first of our forefathers of
the Hutchison name who came to this country, was
the son of David Hutchison who with his brother
150 GENEALOGY OF THE
James, to escape persecution, fled from southwest
Scotland to Ireland. James was never married.
It is not known how many children David Hutchi-
son had. His son James, who was born about
1694, married Jane Humphrey. They had eight
children, all of whom, except Michael, who died
in Ireland, came to this country in 1754 or 1755,
landed at New Castle, Delaware.
This James H. died December, 1766; buried at
New London, Presbyterian Church yard, in Chester
County, Pa.
The Hutchison family came from the north of
Ireland, either Antrim or Armagh.
James H. had only one daughter, Agnes Hut-
chison. She married a Mr. Rowan ; moved to
Legonia Valley, Washington County, Pa. Mary
Lockhart and Mother Potter, now of New Wilming-
ton, Lawrence County, Pa., are their decendants.
David Hutchison, the oldest son of James Hutch-
ison, is buried at New London, Pa., died 1807,
88 years old. He owned the farm now owned b}^
James Hervy Hutchison, 220 acres adjoining his
father's farm, where James Eves lives. He,
David, was not married. He was a linen mer-
chant, and never worked any in this country. He
FULTON FAMILY. I5I
was very rich, and went back and forth to Ireland.
Gilbert Hutchison died September 19, 1755, and
lies in New London.
Samuel Hutchison, the father of old Uncle
Joseph Hutchison, who lived below Oxford, toward
the Brick Meeting House, owned and died on this
place February, 1822, aged 83 years.
Samuel Hutchison married Jane Ross, who was
an aunt of Samuel Ross, who married his first
cousin Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Jane
Hutchison. Samuel Hutchison had five boys and
five girls. James H. married Susan Watt, mother's
Aunt, and moved to Belmont County, Ohio,
1802, seven miles from Wheeling, on McMahon's
Creek. Samuel's second wife was Elizabeth
Hutchison, a second cousin. Children of first
wife : Susan, who married Rev. Josiah Alexander.
Their children : James and Susan to Samuel John
Watt, James Ross, Eliza Colvin, who married Finey
McCall, and Jane, who married Rev. James Patter-
son, D.D. Second son, Joseph Hutchison, married
Sarah Hawthorn. Children : Samuel died in Illi-
nois, James W. Hutchison married Jane Andrew,
Ann married Samuel Mofiit ; Jane died in Oxford,
Pa., John died in Colorado, Joseph lived in Colo-
152 GENEALOGY OF THE
rado, now deceased, Wm. R. H., a minister in
Kansas U. P., Sarah E., married Mr. Webster,
Ebenezer in Ohio. (3) Samuel was drowned
in the Ohio while bathing, aged 22 years.
(4) William settled not far from New Athens,
Ohio (large family). Fifth was a bachelor, and
died about 1855. Betsy H., married John Dickey.
Little Ebenezer and Aunt Nancie were J. Hervy
Hutchison's wife's parents. Jane married Samuel
Dickey. Their children were Samuel Jackson
Dickey, who married Susan Noble. Ebenezer
married Margaret Noble. Jane married James F.
Hutchison. Mary married James Ramsey. David
married Nancie Wilson. Elizabeth and Hannah
died young.
Mary E. Hutchison married Samuel Bahill, John
M. Bahill's father, who lived near Lancaster.
Samuel Bahill had four children: (i) Jane R.
Bahill married John Barr ; (2) John M. Bahill ;
(3) Mary E. Bahill; (4) Samuel H. Bahill.
Robert and Joseph Hutchison went to Ligonier
Valley, near Cla3^sville, Washington County, Pa.
James Hutchison, Sr., married Elizabeth, and
had nine children, and seven lived to be old. He
was killed by a horse June 12, 181 2, in the stable
on the James Eves farm.
REV. JOHN FULTON PATTERSON, M.D., No.
J25.
i
FULTON FAMILY. 1 53
Eleanor Hutchison married James Wilson, of
York County, their children were John, who married
Charlotte Watt, mother's aunt, James H. Wilson
married Susan E. Hutchison, mother's sister.
Rev. John Fulton Patterson, M.D. No. 125.
Rev. John Fulton Patterson, M.D.^ (Eliza A. H.*,
Eleanor M. F.'^, James, ^ John^), was born near
Cherokee, Logan County, O., May 27, 1842. His
father was an Elder in the Associate Reformed
Church of Bellefontein. In 1861 he came to live
with his grandfather, Fulton Hutchison. He
studied medicine with Dr. D. W. Hutchison, of
Oxford, Pa. He was graduated from the Medical
Department of the University of Pennsylvania in
1865. He practiced his profession in Clifton, O.
Through the counsel of Rev. E. T. Jeffers and
other Christian friends he decided to enter the min-
istry ; became a student at the Xenia Theological
Seminar}' in 1870 ; took one term at Princeton Sem-
inary, and on April 16, 1872, was licensed to
preach; ordained in 'Philadelphia on September 27,
1872, and on November 2, 1872, sailed for Damas-
cus, Syria, as a Missionary.
154 GENEALOGY OF THE
Failing health required him to relinquish this
work in 1877. He returned to Xenia, O.
He was married, December 21, 1865, to Eliza-
beth Hutchison, daughter of J. Hervey Hutchison.
She died August 8, 1869.
Just before embarking for his mission work in
Syria, he was married to Charlotte Isabella Mc-
Dowell, daughter of Capt. Austin McDowell, of
Xenia, O.
Mrs. Patterson accompanied the doctor through
his missionary journeys and aided him in his work.
He died March 22, 1882, in his fortieth year, leav-
ing the widow and one son, Austin McDowell Pat-
Ross A. Hutchison. No. 132.
Ross A. Hutchison\ No. 132 (Wm. G/, Eleanor
M.'^, James^, John^), attended school atNew Prospect
and Oxford Academy, Chester County, Pa., and
worked on the farm during vacations. He entered
Lafayette College in class of '83, Classical Course.
During his college course he 'was the college re-
porter for the Easton J^ree Press, college corre-
spondent for the College Department of the New
HON. WILLIAM EASTON HUTCHINSON, No. 134.
FULTON FAMILY. I 55
York World, was Editor of College Journal and
Assistant Custodian of the College Reading Room,
and was graduated, Classical Course. Studied for
the ministry and died during his term in the Theo-
logical Seminary.
Hon. William Easton Hutchison. No. 134.
Hon. William Easton Hutchison'', No. 134 (Wm.
G.^ Eleanor M.^ James", John^), Garden City,
Kansas.
Occupation, Judge of the Courts.
Born at Oxford, Chester County, Pa., July 14,
i860.
Married to Miss Reba Anderson, daughter of
Rev. David Anderson, on August^6, 1895. Date
of her birth. May 31, 1S65.
Father's name, William G. Hutchison.
Born November 9, 1825, at New London, Pa.,
died February 4, 1893.
Mother's maiden name, Ann Eliza Campbell.
Born July 5, 1826, at Bart, Pa., died October i,
1886.
Grandfather's full name, Fulton Hutchison.
Grandmother's maiden name, Eleanor M. Fulton.
156 GENEALOGY OF THE
Names of father's children in full, and dates of
birth :
1. Sarah Fulton Hutchison, born July 14, 1855,
at New London, Pa., died June 6, 1859, ^^ New
London, Pa.
2. Ross Alexander Hutchison, born August 25,
1857, New London, Pa., never married, died De-
cember 20, 1885, at Easton, Pa.
3. William Easton Hutchison, born July 14,
i860, at Oxford, married Miss Reba Anderson.
4. Joseph Cooper Hutchison, born July i, 1863,
married Miss Essie Mosier.
Judge Hutchison laid the foundation for a broad
and liberal education at the public schools at New
Prospect, Chester County, and with suitable prep-
aration at Oxford and Easton, entered Lafayette
College, Easton, Pa., in the class of 1883. He
was graduated in 1887 classical course, studied
law, and located for the practice of his profession
in Kansas.
His professional career has been remarkably suc-
cessful. He was elected by his people to the posi-
tion of Judge of the Courts of his district.
At the expiration of his first term, he was re-
elected by a strong majority, and is now serving
REV. HUGH K. FULTON, No. 149.
FULTON FAMILY. I57
his second term. He resides at Garden City,
Kan.
Dr. J. C. Hutchison. No. 135.
Dr. J. C. Hutchison•^ No. 135 (Wm. G.^ Elea-
nore M.^, James', John^), attended school at same
district school. When he came to Easton he en-
tered the Grammar School ; then, instead of enter-
ing High School for four years' course, prepared
for College at Trach's Academy, and entered the
class of '85 in general scientific course of Lafay-
ette College. After graduating, he studied medi-
cine, and is now engaged in the practice of his
profession at Florrisant, Colo.
Hugh Kerr Fulton. No. 149.
Hugh Kerr Fulton', No. 149 (Hugh K.\ James
J.^, James^ John^), born in Lancaster, Pa., April
18, 1875 ; was graduated from the Lancaster High
School in 1891, and took the classical course in
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, gradu-
ating with the class of 1895.
I He organized and taught the Octoraro Academy
in 1895 and 1896. During this period he attended
158 GENEALOGY OF THE
part of a term in the German Reformed Theological
Seminary at Lancaster, and assisted in the organi-
zation of Bethany Presbyterian Mission in the west-
ern part of the city. He then entered the Princeton
Theological Seminary, and was graduated in the
class of 1899. He was licensed to preach by the
Westminster Presbytery on January 3, 1899, ^^^
is now minister of the Presbyterian Church at Per-
rineville, Monmouth County, N. J., being ordained
and installed as Pastor of the Church on October
24, 1899.
Guy Manning Kerr. No. 162.
Guy Manning Kerr'', No. 162 (James H.^, Eliza
J.*, James^, Elizabeth^, John^), was born at Jackson,
Cape Girardeau County, Mo., May 20, 1870.
When five years of age, the family moved to
Colorado Springs, Colo., where they resided for
about eighteen years. His early education was
received at Cutler Academy and Colorado College.
At nineteen years of age he went to Mexico, as
assayer in a silver lixiviation works, at San Juan
de Guadalupe Duranga, where he remained some
thirteen months. He was afterwards employed in
the same capacity in mines in southern Mexico.
GUY MANNING KERR, No. 162.
FULTON FAMILY. I 59
When about twenty-one he decided to continue the
study of chemistry, and for that purpose spent four
years at the University of Gottingen, Germany,
where he graduated October 15, 1895, receiving
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
After graduation, he returned to America, and
was employed in gold mines near Helena, Mont.
Since September, 1898, he has been a resident of
Glen Falls, N. Y. On April 5, 1899, he married
Miss Bertha Thompson, of New Bedford, Mass.
Memoranda by Austin McDowell Patter-
son*^ (No. 176), Xenia, O. (John F.%
Eliza A.^ Eleanore M.^
James", John^)
The Fultons.
John Fulton came from Scotland (Lanarkshire)
about 1753. He settled in Maryland, resided there
seven years, came to East Nottingham Township,
and died there about March 24, 1796. He had a
farm, fulling mill and paper mill. Children: sons,
James and John : daughters, Elizabeth (m. James
Hutchison), Jane (m. Matthew Wilson 'i, Susan
l6o GENEALOGY OF THE
(m. Alexander Clarkson, minister), Martha (m.
Rev. Proudiit) and Mary (m. Reed and went to
New York State).
James Fulton entered the Colonial Army in
1776; held First Lieutenantship, and was unani-
mously given the rank of Captain. He married
Margaret Miller, a sister of the wife of Dr. John
Banks.
John Fulton, Jr., married Margaret (?) Dickey,
who died, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth (m.
David Lefever) . He married again and removed
to Beaver, Pa.
James Fulton's children : sons, John, Miller,
Joseph and Jefferson ; daughters, Rachel and Elea-
nor.
Eleanor Fulton married Fulton Hutchison, her
full cousin (son of Elizabeth), and had eleven chil-
dren : Margaret, Eliza Ann, Rachel, James, John,
Mary, Fulton Ankrim, Eleanor Miller, David,
Joseph and William.
Eliza Ann Hutchison married John Patterson
and had one son, John Fulton, and died aged
forty-four.
John Fulton Patterson, No. 125, married Lizzie
Hutchison, daughter of J. Hervey Hutchison, no
FULTON FAMILY. l6l
children. Second marriage with Charlotte Isabella
McDowell, of Xenia, O., one son, Austin Mc-
Dowell Patterson, No. 176.
Dr. Banks' sons : Joseph, John (M.D.), William
(M.D.), Ebenezer (merchant) and Gus. William
married Miss Duncan, of Xenia, O.
Copy of FAxMily Register taken from the old
Family Bible of James Jefferson Fulton.
Marriages .
James J. Fulton and Nancy Ann Ramsey, married
June 7, 1827. James J. Fulton, born February 18,
1801. Nancy Ann Ramsey, born August 22, 1802,
died January 7, 1870.
Births.
Rachel Maria Fulton, born March 30, 1828.
Margaret Jane Fulton, born October i, 1830.
James Fulton, born November 12, 1832, at
Eshleman's, now David W. Jackson's mill, in Bart
Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
William Thompson Fulton, born February 27,
1835-
l62 GENEALOGY OF THE
Joseph Miller Fulton, born January ii, 1840.
Hugh Ramsey Fulton, born November 16, 1843.
Deaths.
James J. Fulton, died April 28, 1864, aged 63
years.
Nancy Ann Fulton, died January 7, 1870, aged
68 years.
Margaret Jane Fulton, died August 16, 183 1,
aged 10 months and 16 days.
Rachel Maria Fulton, died June 19, 1832, aged
4 years, 2 months and 19 days.
Jane Thompson, born October 8, 1760, died May
12, 1836, aged 76 years.
John Ramsey, departed this life May, 1815, aged
31 years.
Hugh Ramse}^ Sr., departed this life March 25,
1825, aged 76 years.
Hugh Ramsey, Jr., departed this life April i,
1826, aged 30 years and 10 months.
Mary Lowry, died February 17, 1829, aged 35
years and 10 months.
Margaret Thompson, departed this life August
7, 1834, aged 54 years.
FULTON FAMILY. 163
Jane Thompson Ramsey, Sr., departed this life
May 12, 1836, aged 75 years, 7 months and 4 days.
Elizabeth Ramsey, departed this life July 23,
1844, aged 57 years.
Thompson's Bible.
From another very old Bible found among the
books and papers of James J. and Nancy Fulton.
Thompson was born on the 8th day of Oc-
tober, 1760, at 2 o'clock p. m.
Robert Thompson was born August 27, 1762, it
being Friday about 10 o'clock in the morning.
John Thompson was born October 31, 1764, it
being Tuesday about eight o'clock at night.
John Thompson was born August 11, 1766, it
being Monday about 9 o'clock at night.
William Thompson was born Nov. 22, 1768, it
being on Tuesday about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Mary Thompson, born Nov. 16, 1772, on Mon-
day at one o'clock in the afternoon.
Elizabeth Thompson was born on Monday, May
20, 1778.
164 genealogy of the
Old Ramsey Bible.
Marriaores.
Hugh Ramsey and Jane Thompson, married
March 30, 1779.
Dr. William Thompson and Peggy Ramsey,
married October 15, 1807.
William Ramsey and Martha McVey, married
February 18, 1813.
John Thompson's Memoranda.
Jane T. Ramsey, died May 25, 1875, aged 77
years.
Hugh Ramsey, died March 25, 1825, aged 76
years.
Jane, his wife, died May 12, 1836, aged 76
years.
Elizabeth Ramsey, died July 23, 1844, aged 57
years.
Sarah Ramsey, born May 10, 1806, died Sept.
25, 1865.
William Lowry and Mary Ramsey, married
May 6, 1813.
Thompson Ramsey and Martha Scott, married
November 19, 18 13.
fulton family. i 65
Memoranda from Memorial worked and
FRAMED BY RaCHEL FuLTON, LATE IN
possession of Mrs. Eliza
Hutchison.
James Fulton and Margaret Fulton, married No-
vember 25, 1781.
John Fulton, born March 23, 1783.
Joseph Fulton, born March 3, 1785.
Rachel Fulton, born April 9, 1787.
Eleanor Fulton, born November 23, 1793.
Miller Fulton, born December 13, 1797.
James J. Fulton, born February 13, 1800.
Memoranda from an Old Bible in posses-
sion OF Mrs. Eliza Hutchison.
Joseph and Martha Fulton were married March
2, 1809.
Joseph Fulton died December 27, 1844.
Miller Fulton died September 16, 1859. Aged
sixty-one years nine months and three days.
Joseph Fulton was born March 3, 1785.
Martha Fulton was born January 15, 1786.
1 66 genealogy of the
Abstracts From Ancient Court House Rec-
ords, Lancaster, Pa.
Register's Office.
Will of David Fulton, late of Drumore Town-
ship, deceased, 1757.
Will of Samuel Fulton, late of Donegal Town-
ship, deceased, 1760.
Will to son James, 160 acres of land and house.
To son John, 4 acres and mother's share.
To son Samuel, 139 acres of land.
Will of John Fulton, Lancaster County, 1765.
Property to sons Alexander and John Fulton.
Will of Richard Fulton, of Paxtang Township,
Lancaster County, November 11, 1774, Province
of Pa.
To son William Fulton, 300 pounds, provided he
lives on the plantation and acts as guardian of
young children.
Will of Hugh Fulton, deceased, February 25,
1820.
I, Hugh Fulton, late of North Milford Hundred,
Cecil County, Md., now resident of Little Britain
Township, Lancaster County, Pa., to wit., I give
FULTON FAMILY. 1 67
and bequeath to my oldest son, William Fulton,
the land he now lives on in Little Britain Town-
ship.
Intestate Estates.
William Fulton, 1741 ; Thomas Fulton, 1747 ;
Thomas Fulton, 1748 ; Robert Fulton, 1774; Wil-
liam Fulton, 1818, Hugh Fulton, 1820; Thomas
Fulton, of Columbia, 1830 ; Thomas Fulton, 185 1 ;
Daniel Fulton, 1865.
Recorder's Office.
Deed Index. Grantees.
Robert Fulton from Peter Worrall, book F (1760),
page 30.
Robert Fulton from John Young, book F, page
103.
Richard Fulton from Richard Peters, book H,
page 17.
James Fulton from Samuel Fulton, book K, page
100.
Robert Fulton from William Foulk (1774), Q^
page 78.
Robert Fulton from William Foulk, book Q^,
page 90.
1 6b THE FULTON FAMILY.
Robert Fulton from Alex. Work, et al. (1795),
book Y Y, page 518.
Hugh Fulton from Peter Hill, book G, Vol. 3,
page 42.
James Fulton, ct al., from John Hartman, book
No. 8, page 35.
Joseph Fulton from Alex. Andrews, book No.
i7> page 512.
Daniel Fulton from James Fulton, book No. 20,
page 386.
William Fulton from Hugh Fulton, book G, Vol.
5, page 121.
Thomas Fulton from Benj. Herr, book H, Vol.
5, page 406.
Daniel Fulton from Felix Sweigart, adm., book
S, Vol. 5,46.
William Fulton from Hugh Fulton's heirs (1838),
book O, Vol. 6, page 298.
Joseph Fulton, Jr. from Jacob Swartzwelder,
adm., book A, Vol. 8, page 140.
WILLIAM FULTON, No. 139-
CHAPTER VI.
The Ramsey Family.
Hugh Ramsey, No. i, married Jane Thompson,
daughter of William Thompson, March 30, 1779.
Hugh Ramsey was born in Ireland in 1749, came
to America from the north of Ireland in 1768 when
nineteen years of age, and settled in Bucks County,
Pa., where he lived when married. He built the
east end of Hilaman's hotel and store building in
East Nottingham Township, Chester County, in
1794, several years after leaving Bucks County.
He died March 25, 1825, 76 years of age. He is
said to have owned 500 acres of land in Notting-
ham Township, at the time of his decease.
Jane Thompson, No. i, a daughter of William
Thompson, was born October 8, 1760, died Sep-
tember 16, 1832.
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Watson has informed us that
during the Revolutionary War, John Thompson
was a man of famil}^ and property ; that he was
raided by the enemy, and a large amount of prop-
erty taken from him.
170 GENEALOGY OF THE
William Thompson, her father, came from Ire-
land to this country with his widowed mother,
Mollie Thompson, and three brothers, John, Hugh
and Robert Thompson. The mother's maiden
name was McGraudy. The family were religious
people, as it is stated that the father of Mollie
Thompson came with them on board the ship when
about to leave with her four boys for America,
kneeled down with them and prayed that the living
God would keep the widow and children.
Hugh Ramsey, the father of Nancy Ann
Ramsey Fulton, wife of James
J. Fulton. No. 20.
Hugh Ramsey was said to have been the last
man in this section who wore knee breeches.
Many years since he kept tavern in the old stone
building at Ramsey's Corner, afterward Hilaman's,
and now Chrome, East Nottingham. He was a
man of quiet mind, and after age had advanced
upon him and while sitting in his great chair medi-
tating over the past, he would pull one long white
hair after another from his head. " This habit of
pulling his hair," says my informant, " grew so
Chart No. 6 ; ist, 2d and 3d Generations.
GENEALOGICAll
HUGH RAMS^
I. Margaret, 2 (Peggy).
m. Dr. Wm. Thompson.
I
I. John, 12.
II. Mary, 13.
III. Dr. Thomas H., 14.
IV. Elizabeth, 15.
4th Generation.
John Thompson, 12.
m. Mary Jane Kirk.
I. Margaret, 24.
II. Esther Reynolds, 25.
III. William John, 26.
IV. Thomas Huston, 27.
V. Fulton, 28.
VI. Mary Mitchell, 29.
VII. John Kirk, 30.
5th Generation.
E. Reynolds Thompson, 25.
m. David E Shea.
I
I. Mary, 55.
5th Generation continued.
Margaretta R. Clark. 36.
m. Rev. Lindley C. Rutter.
I
I. Louisa Potts, 74.
II. Thos. Chichester, 75.
III. Harry R., 76.
IV. Mary Thompson, 77.
V. Undley C, 78.
II. John, 3.
Mary Thompson, 13.
m. Thomas A. Clark.
I
I. Wm. Thompson, 31.
II. Robert J. (M.D.), 32.
III. Agnes S., 33-
IV. John Alexander, 34.
V. Charles H., 35.
VI. Margaretta, 36.
Wm. T. Clark, 31.
m. Jane P. Evans.
I
I. James E., 56.
II. Mary F., 57.
III. Thomas A., 58.
IV. Gertrude B., 59.
V. Jennie, 60.
Mary Thompson, 38.
w. Harry A. Menough.
I. J. Fred., 79.
II. Norman S , 80.
III. Clyde H., 81.
IV. Gertrude, 82.
V. Harry Alexis, 83.
III. Willian.^
vt. Martha Mi'j
I
I. Hugh, 16.
II. Harriett, 17.
III. Hannah Ma:
IV. Wm. Thomi )i
V. Amy Ann, 2.
VI. John Benjanfi
IV. Mar
vt. Wm. Lor
Dr. Thos. H. Tho;}*
m. Annie Tt'i
I
I. Margaret, 37;
II. Mary, 38. J
III. Ella, 39. '
IV. Annie, 40. '
V. Carrie, 41.
Dr. Robert J. Clr
m. Etta R. \-^
I
(. Louise, 61.
EUaThompsi
m. G. Reney
I
I. Edward T. S."^
.—Ramsey Family.
i.NE THOMPSON.
V. Thompson, 6.
n. Martha Scott.
liza, 22.
hn, 23.
I VI. Hugh, 7.
VII. Elizabeth, 8.
VIII. Jane Thompson, 9.
IX. Nancy Ann, 10.
X. Sarah, 11.
irriett Ramsey, 15.
lev. Wm. H. i,ipton.
I
lary E., 42.
Dhn W., 43.
lartha Jane, 44.
[arriett E., 45.
Amy A. Ramsey, 20.
w. Nicolas Milburn.
I
I. Martha Jane, 46.
II. Virginia, 47.
Jno. B. Ramsey, 21.
m. Judith R. Miller.
I
I. Annie, 48.
II. William, 49.
Eliza Ramsey, 22.
w. Pollock.
I. Mary, 50.
John Ramsey, 23.
m. Mary Bye.
I. William, 51.
II. Emma, 52.
III. Jennie, 53.
VI. Annie, 54.
rnes S. Clark, 33.
fhos. E. Nicholson.
I
•y, 62.
John A. Clark, 34.
M. Margaret E. Simes.
I
I. Samuel A., 63.
II. Marion T., 64.
III. Charles S., 65.
IV. Sarah E , 66.
V. Margaret S., 67.
VI. Thomas W., 68.
VII. John A., 69.
VIII. Jean S., 70
Chas. H. Clark, 35.
m. Miriam K. Peterman.
I
I. Helen Thompson, 71.
II. Mildred Vaughn, 72.
III. Cathryn, 73.
rtha J. Tipton, 44.
Horatio M. Belt.
I
jraL., 85.
'm. Leslie, 86.
. C, 87.
Virginia Milburn, 47.
m Levi Plank.
I
I. Amy Virginia, 88.
II. William Ramsey, 89.
FULTON FAMILY. 17I
great that he pulled nearl}^ all out and his head be-
came bare before its time." His face bore the fur-
rows of time and care and he was well known near
and far. Once behind the partition of slats that
divided the landlord from the customer he would
say to those who had entered the room to drink :
"And is it a half pint ye want, gentlemen? for
there's very little drinkin' in a gill ; a half pint will
cost a levy and a gill a fipnybit." During his time
fox hunting was indulged in to some extent in that
vicinity. The hunters would arrive from miles
around, and Nathan Harris and Emory Knight,
from near Rising Sun, would generally lead the
riders. After the chase had ceased and the tired
and hungry hounds were resting near the tavern
door, the usual "big dinner " would be partaken
of by the huntsmen who gathered around the board
prepared by the landlord and his good lady. Upon
the death of Hugh his wife, Jenny, conducted the
tavern for some time. She was a sharp business
woman and managed things in a successful way.
She was known to have said that " a tailor was the
ninth part of a man." One day Samuel Mclntire,
a tailor, who lived within six miles of Elkton,
was journeying toward Oxford and he stopped at
172 GENEALOGY OF THE
Ramsey's to slake his thirst. His request for a
half pint caused Jenny to remark : " Half a pint is
a good bit for the ninth part of a man to drink."
After tossing it down Sam said: "Well, then,
Jenny, wait till the other eight-ninths come along
and they'll pay for it." He then left the room
without paying for the liquor. Mclntire was well
known for his wit and jovialness. He was a yoe-
man in the " ould country " and afterwards a right
clever tailor in this land.
John Thompson. No. 12.
John Thompson^ No. 12 (Margaret ^ Hugh
Ramsey^), was born at Nottingham Township,
Chester Count}-, Pa., December 27, 1809. He
married Mary Jane Kirk. They had issue as fol-
lows :
(i) Margaret, died young ; (2) Esther Reynolds,
deceased, married David E. Shea ; (3) William
John, deceased ; (4) Thomas Huston, deceased ; (5)
Fulton Thompson; (6) Mary Mitchell; (7) John
Kirk.
John Thompson was for many years one of the
most progressive public-spirited farmers in his end
of Chester County.
^
JOHN THOMPSON, No. 12.
FULTON FAMILY. I 73
He was an elder and a member of the Board of
Trustees of the West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church, and Superintendent of the Nottingham
Sunday-school. He was liberal and kind to the
poor, and loved and honored by all who knew him.
He owned the large farm near Hilaman's Tavern
at Chrome Post Office.
He died August 6, 1882, mourned by the com-
munity in which he had lived.
A Chart of the Ramsey Family.
FIRST GENERATION.
(i) i Hugh Ramsey, d. March 35, 1S35, aged 76
years; m. Jane Thompson, March 30,
1779, b. October 8, 1760, d. May 13,
1S36, aged 75 years, 7 months and 4 days.
SECOND GENERATION.
Children of Hugh Ramsey (No. i) and
Jane Thompson.
(2) i Peggy (Margaret) Ramsey, b. August 7,
17S0, d. August 7, 1S34, ^g^d 54 years ;
m. Dr. William Thompson, October 15,
174 GENEALOGY OF THE
1807, b. November 22, 176S, d. Septem-
ber 16, 1832.
(3) ii John Ramsey, d. May 181 5, aged 31 years.
(4) iii William Ramsey, d. March 14, 1856, aged
75 years ; m. Martha McVey, February
18, 1813, b. December 14, 1792, d. March
15, 1834.
(5) iv Mary Ramsey; m. William Lowry, May 6,
1813, d. February 17, 1829, aged 35 years
and 10 months.
(6) V Thompson Ramsey; m. Martha Scott, No-
vember 19, I 8 13.
(7) vi Hugh Ramsey, Jr., b. June i, 1795, d. April
I, 1826, aged 30 years and 10 months.
(8) vii Elizabeth Ramsey, d. July 23, 1844, aged 57
years.
(9) viii Jane Thompson Ramsey, u., d. May 25,
1875, aged 77 years.
(10) ix Nancy Ann Ramsey; m. James Jefferson
Fulton.
(11) X Sarah Ramsey, b. May 10, 1806, d. Septem-
ber 25, 1S65.
THIRD GENERATION.
Children of Peggy Ramsey (No. 2) and Dr. Wil-
liam Thompson.
(12) i John Thompson, b. December 27, 1809, d.
August 6, 18S2; m. Mary Jane Kirk, b.
August 28, 1836, d. September 27, 1880.
FULTON FAMILY. 1 75
(13) ii Mary Thompson, b. March 28, 1812, d.
August 9, 18S4; m. Thomas A. Clark, b.
December 15, 1805, d. July 21, 18S5.
(14) iii Dr. Thomas H. Thompson, b. 1816, d.
August 2, 1877; m. Anna M. Thomas,
b. January i, 1818, d. September 17, 1892.
(15) iv Elizabeth Thompson, m. William W. Wat-
son, Esq.
Children of William Ramsey (No. 4) and
Martha McVey.
(16) i Hugh Ramsey, b. November 13, 1813, d.
October 23, 1S33.
(17) ii Harriet Ramsey, b. August i, 181 9; m.
Rev. William W. Tipton, March 15, 1838 ;
moved to Muskingum County, O. He
died October 9, 1854.
(18) iii Hannah Maria Ramsey; m. Stephen Atkin-
son, N. E. P. O., Cecil County, Md.
(19) iv William Thompson Ramsey, b. April 25,
1826, d. January 15, 1888.
(20) V Amey Ann Ramsey, b. May 4, 1828; m.
January 7, 1847, ^^ Nicholas Milburn,
Bay View, Cecil County, Md., N. M., b.
June 14, 1817, d. April 26, 1S93.
(21) vi John Benjamin Ramsey, b. August 11, 1832,
d. August 22, 1SS7; m. Judith R. Miller,
Cambridge, Pa.
176 GENEALOGY OF THE
Children of Thompson Ramsey (No. 6) and
Martha Scott.
(22) i Eliza Ramsey ; m. Pollock.
(23) ii John Ramsey, b. October 15, 1S20, d. March
6, 1S91 ; m. Mary Bye, b. May 13, 1S19.
FOURTH GENERATION.
Children of John Thompson (No. 12) and
Mary Jane Kirk.
(24) i Margaret Thompson, b. March 31, 1S64, d.
August 10, 1866.
(25) ii Esther Reynolds Thompson, b. August 27,
1865, d. January 34, 1893 ; m. David E.
Shea.
(26) iii William John Thompson, b. February 24,
1S6S, d. April 19, 1875.
(27) iv Thomas Huston Thompson, b. August 27,
1867, d. April 20, 1875.
(28) V Fulfbn Thompson, b. June 13, 1S71.
(29) vi Mary Mitchell Thompson, b. September 10,
1874.
(30) vii John Kirk Thompson, b. March 25, 1S77.
FULTON FAMILY. I 77
Children of Mary Thompson Clark (No. 13)
AND Thomas A. Clark.
(31) i William T. Clark, b. July iS, 1S36; m.
Jane P. Evans, January i, 1S68, b. March
25, 1S40.
(32) ii Robert J. Clark, b. July 3, 1839; m. Ettie
T. R. Wood, b. July 5, 1S39.
(33) iii Agnes S. Clark, b. July 3, 1S42 ; m. Thomas
S. Nicholson, November 19, 1S79.
(34) i^ John A. Clark, b. June 14, 1845; m. Mar-
garet E. Simes, August 5, 1S75, b. May
31, 1856.
(35) ^ Charles H. Clark, b. January 15, 1S48; m.
Miriam K. Peterman, October 24, 1S74,
b. April 10, 1853.
(36) vi Margaretta R. Clark, b. June 13, 1S50; m.
Rev. Lindley C. Rutter, December i, 1870,
b. November 7, 1847.
Children of Dr. Thomas H. Thompson (No. 14)
AND Annie M. Thomas..
(37) i Margaret R. Thompson, b. July 23, 1840.
(38) ii Mary L. Thompson, b. October 28, 1853;
m. Harry A. Menough.
(39) iii Ella Thompson, b. January 12, 1856; m. G.
Reney Dickey.
(40) iv Annie Thompson; m. Thomas D. Alex-
ander.
1^8 GENEALOGY OF THE
(41) V Carrie Thompson ; m. Dr. Charles P. Gra-
ham.
Children of Harriet Ramsey (No. 17) and
Rev. William H. Tipton.
(42) i MaryE. Tipton; m. William T. Kirkpatrick.
(43) ii John W. Tipton, deceased.
(44) iii Martha Jane Tipton ; m. Horatio N. Belt,
Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, 111.
(45) iv Harriet E. Tipton; m. William Wilson.
Children of Amey Ann Ramsey (No. 20) and
Nicholas Milburn.
(46) i Martha Jane Milburn, b. June iS, 1S4S; m.
Isaac Rogers, August 16, 1S77.
(47) ii Virginia Milburn, b. September 3, 1S51 ; m.
Levi Plank, January 16, 1873.
Children of John Benjamin Ramsey (No. 21)
AND Judith R. Miller.
(48) i Annie Ramsey.
(49) ii William Ramsey, deceased.
Children of Eliza Ramsey (No. 22) and
Pollock.
(50) i Mary Ramsey Pollock.
fulton family. i79
Children of John Ramsey (No. 23) and
Mary Bye.
(51) i William S. Ramsey, b. July 2, 1849; "^•
Lidie A. Fitzgerald on December 24,
1S74.
(52) ii Emma E. Ramsey, b. October 13, 1844, u.
(53) iii F. Jennie Ramsey, b. November 23, 1851 ;
m. William T. McGaw, March 11, 1878;
d. November 21, 1885.
(54) iv Annie M. Ramsey, b. June 5, 1863; m.
David H. Cooper, May 4, 1882.
FIFTH GENERATION.
Children of William T. Clark (No. 31) and
Jane P. Evans.
(56) i James E. Clark, b. December 25, 1868; m.
January 11, 1899, to Annie B. Nesbit.
(57) ii Mary T. Clark, b, February 24, 1871.
(58) iii Thomas A. Clark, b. March 21, 1872.
(59) iv Gertrude B. Clark, b. February 6, 1874.
(60) V Jennie Clark, b. May 16, 1885.
Children OF Robert J. Clark, M.D. (No. 32), and
Etta T. Rutter Wood.
(61) i E. Louisa Clark.
\
l8o GENEALOGY OF THE
Children of Agnes S. Clark (No. 33) and Thomas
E. Nicholson.
(62) i Mary T. Nicholson, b. April 14, 1883.
Children of John A. Clark (No. 34) and Mar-
garet E. SiMES.
(63) i Samuel Alexander Clark, b. May 19, 1876.
(64) ii Marion Thompson Clark, b. November 14,
1877.
(65) iii Charles Scott Clark, b. August 21, 1879.
(66) iv Sarah Elizabeth Clark, b. August 7, 18S2.
(67) V Margaret Simes Clark, b. January 17, 1886.
(68) vi Thomas Walter Clark, b. January 4, 1888.
(69) vii John Alexander Clark, b. December 27,
1S92.
(70) viii Jean Stevenson Clark, b. November 28,
1897.
Children of Charles H. Clark (No. 35) and
Miriam K. Peterman.
(71) i Helen Thompson Clark, b. July 20, 1875.
(72) ii Mildred Vaughn Clark, b. April 14, 1880.
(73) iii Kathryn Clark, b. Januaiy i, 1890.
FULTON FAMILY. ibl
Children of Margaretta R. Clark (No. 36),
AND Rev. Lindley C. Rutter.
(74) i Louisa Potts Rutter, b. February 19, 1872.
(75) ii Thomas Chichester Rutter, b. September 5,
1873-
(76) iii Harry R. Rutter, b. May 23, 1875.
(77) iv Mary Thompson Rutter, b. November 4,
1S77.
(78) V Lindley C. Rutter, b. February 3, 1883, d.
September 22, 1893.
Children of Mary Thompson (No. 38) and Harry
A. Menough.
(79) ^ J- Fred Menough, b. December 22, 1874;
m. Elizabeth N. Wilson, January 4, 1899.
(80) ii Norman T. Menough, b. January 10, 1875.
(81) iii Clyde H. Menough, b. December 14, 1880.
(82) iv Gertrude Menough, b. July 27, 1887.
(83) V Harry Alexis Menough, b. July 12, 1895.
Children of Ella Thompson (No. 39) and G.
Renev Dickey.
(84) i Edward Thompson Dickey, b. November
16, 1896.
l82 GENEALOGY OF THE
Children of Martha Jane Tipton (No. 44) and
Horatio N. Belt.
(85) i Cora L. Belt.
(86) ii William Leslie Belt.
(87) iii H. C. Belt.
Children of Virginia Milburn (No. 47) and
Levi Plank.
(88) i Amy Virginia Plank, b. January 13, 1874.
(89) ii William Ramsey Plank, b. January 17, 1881.
Memoranda by Mrs. Elizabeth T. Watson^.
No. 15. (Margaret^ Hugh Ramsey^)
Mrs. Molly Thompson emigrated from Ireland
to America long before the Revolution, in what
year I never heard, but in the war of the Revolu-
tion her son John was a man of family and prop-
erty, as he was robbed of a large amount at that
time. When Mrs. Thompson was about to leave
Ireland her father kneeled down with her, and her
FULTON FAMILY. I 83
boys, and prayed that the Living God would keep
the widow and children. I think his last name
was McGraudy. The boys were William, John,
Hugh and Robert. They were young and after
getting to America, the captain of the ship they
came over in, was going to sell them (as some
were) but they proved that their passage was paid
before they left. I do not know whether I have
the names in the order of their ages or not. I be-
lieve Hugh or Robert left no male children but I
think female. The Thompsons of Bucks County
and Chester County are descendants of Wm. and
John Thompson. John Thompson's children were
Elizabeth, born January 7, 1763 ; Hugh, born No-
vember 29, 1764, died August 10, 1847; Jane
Thompson, born October 26, 1766; John, born
January 16, 1769; Robert, born March 9, 1771,
died August 17, 1849; John, born July 11, 1773;
Thomas Miflin, born December 21, 1775, died
September 4, 1847; James, born June 15, 1778,
died September 11, 1857 ; William, born Decem-
ber 17, 1780, died September 16, 1832.
The children of Wm. I. were Jane, married to
Hugh Ramsey ; Mary, married to James Scott ;
Elizabeth, married to Jonathan Kirk ; Wm. M.D.,
184 GENEALOGY OF THE
Esq., married to Mary Johnson; Robert, a dissi-
pated character; John, who emigrated to Virginia.
These were all I ever remember to have seen or
heard of. Hugh Ramsey came to America when
about 19 years of age. He built the east end of
Hilaman's house in East Nottingham in 1794, sev-
eral years after leaving Bucks County where he
had been married to Jane Thompson.
Alexander Ramsey, a half brother of Hugh
Ramsey, went to Minnesota and is supposed to
have settled Ramsey County, in which St. Paul,
the State capital, is located.
By Wm. Thompson Ramsey. No. 19.
Cecil County, Md., October 11, 1877.
H. R. Fulton, Esq.:
On or about the year 1814, William Ramsey,
son of Hugh and Jane Ramsey, of Chester County,
Pa., came to Cecil County, Md., and married
]V[artha McVey, daughter of Jacob and Amy Mc-
Vey. She died in the year 183 1, leaving seven
children, as follows : Hugh, who died in the fall
FULTON FAMILY. I05
of 1832 ; Harriet, who married Rev. William Web-
ster Tipton, went west and died in 1854 leaving
four children, all married; Hannah M., who mar-
ried Stephen Atkinson. She had eleven children,
two living ; William Thompson, unmarried ; Amy
A., who married Nicholas Milburn, who has two
children, both married; John B., who married in
Pennsylvania, who has two children, and Absalom
M., who died at the age of six years.
The writer, William Thompson Ramsey, was
born on the 25th of April, 1826. I lived with my
father until after I was twenty-one years of age.
The only means of education was such as I could
obtain at the common schools. In 1850 I went to
the State of Virginia, joined a corps of engineers
on the survey and location of the Orange and
Alexander Railroad, now called the Virginia Mid-
land Railroad. I was there for five years, or until
the completion of the line to Lynchburg. I with
care saved some money, and came back to Cecil
County in 1855. On the 14th day of March, 1856,
my father died and I bought out the other heirs in
the home property, put up a stone house at Bay
View, started a business with wonderful success,
and in the fall of 1867 the County Convention at
Elkton gave me the nomination for County Com-
missioner and on the 3d day of November, follow-
ing, I was elected by a majority of 957 votes over
the strongest man the opposition could obtain.
1 86 GENEALOGY OF THE
I stand six feet six inches in height and weigh
two hundred and eighty pounds.
My grandfather, Jacob McVey, first settled on
600 acres of land near Bay View, Cecil County,
Md., a part of which I own.
The aforesaid tract of land, at the time of the
Revolutionary war, was the finest timber land in
the county. He built up extensive saw mills, cut
the timber into shipstuff, bought a tract of land at
the head of the bay for wharfage, and shipped a
vast amount of lumber to Baltimore for the purpose
of shipbuilding. He, in addition, carried on store-
keeping. His mother's maiden name was Mattie
Passmore. The Passmores of the present day are
all descendants from the same stock. Jacob had
seven brothers ; six of them went west about the
year 1770. Passmore remained here until the time
of his death, which occurred in 1824. He owned
the " Beacon Hill " farm, the old stone house built
by him ninety years ago still stands in a good state
of preservation. The Old Ferry Post Road passes
by the house, also the P. W. & B. Railroad through
the farm.
Respectfully Yours,
W. T. Ramsey.
fulton family. 187
John Benjamin Ramsey. No. 21.
Name, John Benjamin Ramsey^, No. 21 (Wil-
liam", Hugh^), now deceased.
Residence and postoffice, Cambridge P. O.,
Lancaster County, Pa.
Occupation, a sawyer and rake manufacturer for
33 years.
Born August 11, 1832, at Bay View, Cecil
County, Maryland.
Married November 8, 1853, to Judith Rebecca
Miller of Cambridge, Salisbury Township, Lan-
caster County, Pa.
Names and age of children in full, two children,
William McVey Ramsey, born February 6, 1856,
and Annie Rebecca Ramsey, born October 25,
i860.
Joined the Methodist Church, October, 1850.
William Thompson Clark. No. 31.
William Thompson ClarkS No. 31 (Mary^
Margaret", Hugh^), was born at Chestnut Level,
Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pa., on
July 18, 1836. He attended the public schools
I (5(5 GENEALOGY OF THE
and Chestnut Level Academy. He married Jane
P. Evans. They have issue as follows : James E.,
Mary T., Thomas A., Gertrude B. and Jennie.
His father was Scotch-Irish. William T. served
as a sergeant and commissary in the 79th Regiment
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers in the war for
the Union, and was severely wounded in the battle
of Perryville. He was in a large number of en-
gagements during his four years of service, and
was with Sherman on the march to the sea, and in
the grand review in Washington at the close of the
war. He is a member of George H. Thomas
Post 84, G. A. R., and an elder of the Presby-
terian Church of Chestnut Level.
Robert James Clark, M.D.
Robert James Clark, M.D.^ No. 32 (Mary^
Margaret^, Hugh^), Chestnut Level, Lancaster
County, Pa., physician and farmer.
Birth-place and date of birth, Chestnut Level,
July 3, 1839.
Attended ChestnutLevel Academy and Pennsyl-
vania Medical University.
FULTON FAMILY. 1 89
Married September 8, 187 1, to Ettie T. Wood
nee Rutter. One child, Ettie Louise Clark, born
March 7, 1873.
Father's name, Thomas Alexander Clark.
Mother's maiden name, Mary Thompson.
Grandfather's name, Dr. William Thompson and
Robert Clark.
Grandmother's maiden name, Margaret Ramsey
and Agnes Scott.
Nationality, Scotch Irish by Clark and Scotch by
Thompson.
Forefathers emigrated from the north of Ireland,
London Derry.
First settled, I think, in Faggs Manor, Chester
County.
Dr. Wm. Thompson was several times elected
to the Legislature in Pennsylvania.
Belong to Presbyterian Church.
Elizabeth Thompson (nee McGreggor) came to
this country with four sons — youngest four years
old. He married Mary Huston and was my great-
grandfather. The oldest son of the woman named
perhaps William, was your great-grandfather.
The names of these four boys were William, Rob-
ert, Hugh and John.
190 THE FULTON FAMILY.
One was lost at sea, either Robert or^Hugh, and
the daughter of the other married Wm. Neely.
Hugh Ramsey, your grandfather, and my great-
grandfather, came to this country when 18 years
old from the north of Ireland, and married Jane
Thompson.
The father of the above Elizabeth Thompson,
quite an old man, came with his daughter to the
landing and prayed with her. She settled on the
Neshameny.
John Thompson, brother of your grandmother,
went to the Valley of Virginia many years ago,
and perhaps was grandfather of Gen. Jefferson
Thompson of Rebel fame.
One of the ancestors was in Derry at the time of
the Siege of Protestants, when the place was held
against the Catholics until aid came from Scotland.
Chart No. 7 ; ist, 2d and 3d Generations.
GENEALOGICAL
JOS
I. Margaret, 2.
m. James Fulton
(No. 4 of Chart i ).
4th Generation.
Joseph Miller, 8.
m.
I
II. Stewart, 3.
I. Harriett Walker, 7.
II. Joseph, 8.«
III. Mary, 9.
nt. Wm. Pickel.
IV. Rebecca, 10.
m. Geo. H. Pickel.
V. William, 11.
VI. Augustus Banks, 12.
m. Mary Trout.
Joseph M. Thompson, 13.
m. Mary Watt.
III. Hannah,
ni. I,augheadi
I. Mrs. Kells, 22 (of Ohio). I. John, 23.
II. Jane, 24.
m. J. Marshall Wilson.
Aug. B. Miller,
m. Mary Troi
I
I. Mary, 25.
m. Isaac L. B;
II. John, 26.
III. Naomi C, 27.
IV. Winslow A., 2
nt. Emma Dn
Sth Generation.
Mary Miller, 25.
m. Isaac L,. Bauman.
I
I. Walter, 29.
II. Elsie, 30.
Winslow A. Miller, 28.
m. Emma Drenen.
I
I. Paul, 31.
II. Harold Fulton, 32.
III. Arthur Pattison, 33.
■Miller Family.
^, I-
IV. Jane, 5. V. Mary (Polly), 6.
fathan Thompson, m. Rev. John Banks, D.D.
I I I
iseph Miller, 13. I. Dr. John, 17.
[ary Watt, sister of II. Ebenezer, 18.
Hutchison's wife. III. Rev. Joseph, 19.
achel, 14. IV. Dr. William Y., 20.
leanor, 15. V. Augustus North, 21.
John Gibson,
athan, 16.
Emma Watt.
;ieph Miller's parents died when he was a child. Being left an orphan he
is sister Mary were reared in the family of Grandfather James Fulton.
: the great friendship always manifested between Joseph Miller and James
iOn Fulton.— H. R F.
CHAPTER VII.
A Chart of the Miller Family.
FIRST GENERATION.
Joseph Miller (No. i).
Margaret Miller, wife of James Fulton (No. 4), was
the daughter of Colonel Joseph Miller, who owned the
John Kennedy farm property, near Bartville, Colerain
Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
SECOND GENERATION.
Children of Joseph Miller (No. i).
(2) i Margaret Miller; m. James Fulton (No. 4).
(3) ii Stewart Miller, d. April 21, 1S22 ; m. Martha
Baird, d. May 6, 1821.
(4) iii Hannah Miller ; m. Longhead.
(5) ^^' J'^'"^^ Miller; m. Nathan Thompson.
(6) V Mary (Polly) ; m. Rev. John Banks, D.D.
THIRD GENERATION.
Children of Stewart Miller (No. 3) and
Martha Baird.
(7) i Harriet Miller; m. Walker, of Ohio.
(8) ii Joseph Miller, with grandfather.
192 GENEALOGY OF THE
(9) iii Mary Miller; m. William Pickel, George-
town.
(10) iv Rebecca Miller; m. George H. Pickel.
(11) V William Miller.
(12) vi Augustus Banks Miller, b. September 21,
I Si 7, d. March 25, 1889; m. Mary Trout,
b. June 13, 1820, d. September 15, 1891.
Children of Jane Miller (No. 5) and
Nathan Thompson.
(13) i Joseph Miller Thompson; m. Mary Watt, a
sister of Squire Hutchison's wife.
(14) ii Rachel Thompson, u.
(15) iii Eleanor Thompson ; m. John Gibson.
(16) iv Nathan Thompson ; m. Emma Watt.
Children of Rev. John Banks, D.D., and
Mary Miller (No. 6).
(17) i Dr. John Banks.
(18) ii Ebenezer Banks.
(19) iii Rev. Joseph Banks.
(20) iv Dr. William Y. Banks.
(21) V Augustus North Banks.
I
I
FULTON FAMILY. I93
FOURTH GENERATION.
Children of Joseph Miller* (No. S).
(22) i Mrs. Kells, of Ohio.
Children of Augustus Banks Miller (No. 13)
AND Mary Trout.
(23) i Anna Mary Miller, b. August 39, 1S46; m.
Isaac L. Bauman, May 24, 1869, b. Au-
gust 3, 1845.
(24) ii Naomi Catharine Miller, b. October 9, 1849.
(25) iii John Walker Miller, b. August 23, 1853, d.
December 27, 1S86.
(26) iv Winslow A. Miller, b. April 6, 1857; m.
Emma J. Drennen, January 2, 18S4, b.
May 9, 1 86 1.
Children of Joseph Miller Thompson (No. 13)
AND Mary Watt.
(27) i John Thompson.
(28) ii Jane Thompson; m. J. Marshall Wilson.
^Joseph Miller's parents died when he was a child. Being
left an orphan he, Joseph, and Mary Miller were reared in the
family of Grandfather James Fulton, hence the great friendship
always manifested for Joe Miller by father James Jefferson
Fulton. H. R. F.
194 GENEALOGY OF THE
FIFTH GENERATION.
Children of Anna Mary Miller (No. 23)
AND Isaac L. Bauman.
(29) i Waltei- M. Bauman, b. January 29, 1S83.
(30) ii Elsie M. Bauman, b. July 23, 1884.
Children of Winslow A. Miller (No. 26) and
Emma J. Drennen.
(31) i Paul Drennen Miller, b. October 16, 1887.
(32) ii Harold Fulton Miller, b. June 16, 1891.
(33) iii Arthur Patterson Miller, b. May 13, 1896.
Winslow A. Miller. No. 26.
Winslow A. MillerS No. 26 (Augustus B.^ Stew-
art', Joseph^), born in Lancaster, Pa., April 6, 1857,
He was educated in the public schools of Lancaster,
and learned the business of wholesale notions with
R. J. Houston. He married Emma J. Drennen on
January 2, 1884. She was born at Buena Vista,
Alleghany County, Pa., on May 9, 1861.
They have issue as follows : (i) Paul Drennen
Miller ; (2) Harold Fulton Miller ; (3) Arthur Pat-
terson Miller.
WINSLOW A. MILLER, No. 28.
f
FULTON FAMILY. I 95
He has for years resided in Steelton, Dauphin
County, Pa., where he holds the position of clerk
in the auditing department of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company.
He is a thorough business man, and an active
member of the Steelton Presbyterian Church.
APPENDIX.
Robert Fulton.
The man who first successfully applied steam
to navigation — Robert Fulton — was a native of
Lancaster County. He was born in 1765, in
that part of the township now named after him,
but which was then a part of Little Britain
Township. He was the third child of Robert and
Mary Smith Fulton, his father dying when he
was three years old. At the age of seventeen he
went to Philadelphia, where he practiced drawing
and portrait-painting with skill and profit for sev-
eral years. In 1786 he went to London, where he
devoted himself to painting under the tuition of the
great Benjamin West, who was a native of Chester
County, Pa., and who was then President of the
Royal Academy. In 1796 he published in Lon-
don a Treatise on Canal Navigation. At Paris
he resided with the American poet, Joel Barlow,
from 1797 to 1804, where he displayed his inge-
nuity in various projects and inventions and in the
study of the sciences and modern languages. He
GENEALOGICAL
Ty
I. ROBERT FU
Robert and Mary Smith Fulton had
ssue two sons, Abrahai
ROBERT FULTON'
Chart No. 8.
Hi
Robert Barlow Fulton, 4.
Julia Fulton, 5.
Born Oct. 16, 1808.
Born April 13, 1810.
Died unmarried.
m. Charles Blight.
Has issue as follows
1
10. R. Fulton Cr
1
Charles Blight, 8.
1
Robert Fulton Blight,
ary, I
m. — ; .
Died 1899.
m. Agnes Boyd Va:
No issue.
m. Ella Still.
Reside at Poughk
No issue.
N. Y.
Mary Fulton Blight, 9.
m. Francis. Macrea.
No. issue.
1
Amy Crary, 17.
Alice Crary, 19.
Edith Livings
ton C
m. C. H. Van B. II
Cornelia Fulton Crary, 18.
Ella Crary, 20.
1
Deceased.
Fulton C
rary.
bbert Fulton Family.
: MARY SMITH.
3 2 ; Robert Fulton, 3 ; and three daughters (names unknown).
ilET LIVINGSTON.
ivs :
Cornelia Liv'ton Fulton, 6. Mary Livingston Fulton, 7
Born August 6, 1812. m. Robert M. Ludlow.
m. Edward Chas. Crary. Had issue as follows :
Had issue as follows : I
i Francis Crary, 12. Lena Herbert Crary, 15. Robert Fulton Ludlow, 16.
Harried, deceased. w- Catelena Philip.
''ranklyn Crary, 13.
Cornelia Crary, 14.
H. H. Cameron.
Reside Claverack, N. Y.
^Zrary Cameron, 23. H. Muhl'b'g Cameron, 25. H. Schuyler Cameron, 26.
Deceased.
fulton Cameron, 24.
Deceased.
THE FULTON FAMILY. 1 97
was the proprietor of the first panorama exhibited
in Paris. In 1804 Fuhon accepted an invitation
from the British government, which appointed a
commission and made trials with his torpedo. In
1806 Fulton returned to New York, where, with
Robert R. Livingston's help, he perfected his great
project of steam navigation. In 1807, his boat,
the Clerfnont^ was launched at New York, and
made the trip to Albany in fifteen hours ; but this
rate was soon increased by improved machinery.
The number of steamboats rapidly multiplied on
American rivers. Several larger vessels were
built under Fulton's direction. In 1806 he married
Harriet, daughter of Walter Livingston. He died
on the 24th of February, 18 15, at the age of fifty
years. His death was universally regarded as a
national calamity, and appropriate honors were
paid to his memory by the General Government
and by many of the State and municipal govern-
ments of the Union. He was buried from his resi-
dence. No. I State Street, on the 25th of February,
and his body was placed in the vault of the Liv-
ingston family, in Trinity church-yard. He left a
widow and four children.
In person, Fulton was tall and handsome. His
ipS GENEALOGY OF THE
manner was polished, cordial and winning. He
made friends rapidly, and never failed in his ef-
forts to enlist capital and influence in support of
his schemes. He was manly, fearless and inde-
pendent in character, and joined to a perfect in-
tegrity a patience and indomitable resolution which
enabled him to bear up under every disappoint-
ment, and which won for him in the end a glorious
success.
A Chart of the Robert Fulton Family.
FIRST GENERATION.
( 1 ) i Robert Fulton married Mary Smith.
SECOND GENERATION.
Children of Robert Fulton (No. i) and Mary
Smith.
(2) i Abraham Smith Fulton.
(3) ii Robert Fulton, b. 1765; m. Harriet Livings-
ton in 1S06. They also had three daugh-
ters. Names unknown.
FULTON FAMILY.
THIRD GENERATION.
■99
Children of Robert Fulton (No. 3) and Har-
riet Livingston.
(4) i Robert Barlow Fulton, b. October 16, 180S.
Died unmarried in 1841.
(5) ii Julia Fulton, b. April 13, iSio, d. 1S48;
m. Charles Blight.
(6) iii Cornelia Livingston Fulton, b. August 6,
181 2; m. Edward Charles Crary.
(7) iv Mary Livingston Fulton; m. Robert M.
Ludlow.
FOURTH GENERATION.
Children of Julia Fulton (No. 5) and Charles
Blight.
(8) i Charles Blight ; married . No issue.
(9) ii Mary Fulton Blight; m. Francis Macrea.
No issue.
(10) iii Robert Fulton Blight, d. 1S99; m. Ella Still.
No issue.
Children of Cornelia L. Fulton (No. 6) and
Edward C. Crary.
(ii) i Rev, Robert Fulton Crary, D.D. ; m. Agnes
Boyd Van Kleeck. Resides in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.
200 GENEALOGY OF THE
(12) ii Edward Francis Crary, deceased, u.
(13) iii Charles Frankly n Crary.
(iz|) iv Ella Cornelia Crary; m. H. H. Cameron,
Esq.
(15) V Lena Herbert Crary, deceased.
Children of Mary Livingston Fulton (No. 7)
AND Robert M. Ludlow.
(16) i Robert Fulton Ludlow ; m. Catelena Philip.
Reside in Clav^erack, N. Y.
FIFTH GENERATION.
Children of Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, D.D.
(No. 11), AND Agnes Boyd Van Kleeck.
(17) i Amy Crary.
(iS) ii Cornelia Fulton Crary.
(19) iii Alice Crary.
(30) iv Ella Crary, deceased,
(21) V Edith Livingston Crary; m. Charles H. Van
B. Roberts.
(22) vi Fulton Crary.
Children of Ella Cornelia Crary (No. 14) and
H. H. Cameron.
(33) i Edward Crary Cameron.
(24) ii Robert Fulton Cameron, deceased.
FULTON'S FIRST AMERICAN BOAT.
(By permission of The Chautauqua Press.)
FULTON FAMILY. 201
(25) iii Hermann Muhlenberg Cameron, deceased.
(26) iv Herbert Schuyler Cameron.
David Ramsey.
The first great American historian was Dr.
David Ramsey, who was born in Drumore Town-
ship, Lancaster County, Pa., April 2, 1749. -^
part of the old-fashioned chimney of the house in
which he was born is still standing on the Shoe-
maker place, near Bethel meeting-house. He
was the son of James Ramsey, a farmer, who emi-
grated from Ireland. David graduated at Prince-
ton College, N. J., in 1765, and at the Medical
College of Philadelphia in 1772. He removed to
Charleston, S. C, in 1773. He was a member of
the South Carolina Legislature during the Revo-
lution, and took an active part in the patriot cause.
In 1782 he was elected to the Continental Con-
gress, afterward reelected to that body, and was
chosen president ^ro tempore during the illness of
John Hancock. He became a great historian and
was the first person who took out a copyright under
the laws of the United States. His historical
202 GENEALOGY OF THE
works were : a History of the Revohition in South
Carolina, published in 1785 ; a History of the
American Revolution, published in 1790; a Life
of Washington, published in 1801 ; a History of
South Carolina, published in 1808 ; a Universal
History, and a History of the United States. He
was mortally wounded by a maniac, and died May
1, 1815.
It is worthy of note that the first book Abraham
Lincoln, the distinguished President, ever owned
was Ramsey's L,fe of Washington.
He had borrowed the book from a school-teacher,
Mr. Crawford. Reading it late at night he left it
on an exposed place in their humble cottage. A
storm came up in the night, and the rain beat in
and stained the book, so that it was not fit to be
returned.
Lincoln went to Crawford and told him the
whole story, and, while he had no money to pay,
he offered to do work to pay for it. Crawford took
him at his offer, and Lincoln pulled cornshocks
three days, and in that way paid for it, and owned
his first book.
That book was written by Dr. Ramsey, who was
born on the old Showalter (now Shoemaker) farm
FULTON FAMILY. 203
here in Drumore township, near Fulton House,
this county.
There is, therefore, reason to believe that Lan-
caster County produced the man who wrote the
book that inspired the greatness of the greatest
man the country has developed.
Letter of Rev. S. C. Fulton, Scranton, Pa.
I belong to the Canadian branch of the family
tree. I am certain that the Fultons there and here
are from the same stock. The last time I saw my
grandfathei- Fulton — not long before his death —
he was ninety-four years old. He told me that a
great uncle of his came to Pennsylvania in the
early history of this country, and was Government
surveyor of the State in colonial times. He said
that there were the traditional "Three Brothers ''
in the family. One settled in Canada ; one in the
United States ; and one remained either in Scot-
land or Ireland, I don't remember which. My
grandfather was a tall, broad-shouldered, athletic
man — very much of a man every wa}^ His sons
were among the foremost men of their town and
country.
My uncle, Stephen Fulton, represented his
county for many years until his death in the Pro-
204 GENEALOGY OF THE
vincial Legislature. He was elected again and
again, even with such a political opponent in the
field as Sir Charles Tupper. He was a man who
had the unlimited confidence of the people.
I am a Methodist Episcopal minister. I have a
brother who is an Episcopal clergyman.
Yours very truly,
S. C. Fulton.
Dover, October 12, 1882.
Dear Sir:
I have filled up the enclosed blank as best I could.
My ancestors being settlers in a comparatively new
country seem to have lost their interest in their
family history, and I have very meagre informa-
tion. I remember my grandfather Fulton often
talking about some of his relations of the same
name in Pennsylvania. I think one was called
Andrew, and another Gilbert. Of the first I feel
quite sure, but not so sure of the second. There
are quite a large number of Fultons in Indiana,
Fayette and Allegheny counties. Among them are
preachers, lawyers, farmers and merchants. There
is an A. M. Fulton residing, I think, in or near
Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pa., who is a man of
some local prominence, and who has represented
his county several terms in the Legislature. There
FULTON FAMILY. 205
is a Rev. Fulton rector of an Episcopal church at
Salisbury, Md.
For myself, I might add to what I have said in
answer to your questions, that I am author of a lit-
tle work, published by The Orange Judd Com-
pany, New York, entitled " Peach Culture," which
is the only work of the kind, and is regarded as a
standard on that subject. It was published in 1870,
and a revised edition in 1882.
I shall be very much pleased to hear of your
success in what I esteem a very proper and laud-
able undertaking, and if I can render you any fur-
ther assistance will cheerfully do so. I suppose a
reunion will be called at some future time, if you
are sufficiently encouraged.
Yours very truly,
James Alexander Fulton.
Hugh R. Fulton, Esq^
James Alexander Fulton.
James Alexander Fulton, October 11, 1882,
Dover, Delaware. Occupation, Lawyer, peach
grower, and farmer. Birth-place and date of
birth, Allegheny township, Armstrong County, Pa.,
November 11, 1822. Married Mary A. Rice.
206 GENEALOGY OF THE
Names and ages of children in full, Isadore For-
est, born August 7, 1849, died July 6, 1850; Mary
E., born May 14, 185 1 ; Clara A., born April 19,
1853 ; Cecil Clement, born January 27, 1855 ;
Willie Rice, born May 19, 1858, died April 15,
1875 ; Nannie Belle, born December 8, 1862 ;
Alexander, born July 22, 1866; Edith, born Sep-
tember 7, 1873, died March 23, 1879. Only one
of the children married at this date : Cecil Clement
was married October 13, 1881, to Anna Watson
Meredith, of this state.
Cecil was educated at home, Hudson River In-
stitute, Claverack, N. Y., and at Princeton College,
N. J.; Mary E., at Wesleyan Female College,
Wilmington, Delaware ; Clara A., at St. Mary's,
Burlington, N. J. ; Nannie Belle and Alexander,
at the Wilmington Conference Academy, Dover,
Delaware.
Their residence and occupation : Cecil resides
in Dover, Delaware, and is assistant Secretary of
the Kent County Insurance Company. Father's
full name, Thomas Fulton.
Mother's maiden name, Eleanor Neely.
Grandfather's full name, on father's side, William
Fulton ; on mother's side, James Neely.
FULTON FAMILY. 207
Grandmother's maiden name, on father's side,
Mary Wilson ; on mother's side, Rachel Taylor.
Nationality, Norman French, and the name is
said to denote as much, but I have no authentic
information.
Forefathers emigrated from England to Scotland,
thence to Ireland ; certainly from Ireland to Amer-
ica. Were called Scotch-Irish by some. They
first landed in America at New York or Philadel-
phia, I think.
They first settled in Pennsylvania, but am not
sure in what county. Father was born in Centre
county. Grandfather Neely settled in Armstrong
County in 1797.
I was a member of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives from Armstrong County in 1853.
Am a trustee of Delaware College, and a member
of the Governor's Staff with the rank of Colonel.
This is by positive statute, and there are but three
in the State, one for each county. I am a Presby-
terian.
Fulton Family Record.
Name, John Lockhart Fulton.
Residence and postoffice, No. 382 Beaver Ave.,
Allegheny, Pa.
208 GENEALOGY OF THE
Occupation, clergyman and pastor of Second
Presbyterian Church, Allegheny.
Birthplace, Hanover Township, Washington
County, Pa.
Graduate of Monmouth College, Monmouth,
111., and attended Seminary at the same place.
Name of wife, Fredonia Johnson, Chilicothe, O.
Names of children in full, David Lucian, Sarah
Alta, Lucy Bell, James Ernest, Monica, John
Lockhart and Emma.
Father's full name, James Fulton.
Mother's maiden name, Sarah Russell.
Grandfather's full name, John Fulton.
Grandmother's maiden name, Jane Lockhart.
. Nationality, Irish.
I am a Presbyterian.
Letter of Robert B. Fulton, Chancellor
OF the University of Mississippi.
January 5, 1898.
Hugh R. Fulton, Esq^, Lancaster, Pa.
My Dear Sir: I have recently been making
some investigations regarding my paternal an-
FULTON FAMILY. 2O9
cestry and family connection, and have reached a
point which I can not settle with the information at
hand. My ancestry in the Fulton line I trace back
through my father (William F.), grandfather [Paul
(2)], great-grandfather [Paul (i)], and to his
father, John Fulton, who was prominent in south-
ern Georgia in the revolutionary period, and was
a captain in the Revolutionary War. My knowl-
edge of this John Fulton (supposed to be authenti-
cated) begins with him about 1770 as the father of
a large family in what was known as the Midway
settlement, near Dorchester, Ga., in what is now
Liberty County.
This man was one of the leaders in the move-
ment which carried the Province of Georgia with
the other colonies into the War of Independence.
Fulton County, in which the capital of Georgia is
situated, was named for him. Our family tradi-
tion makes him a captain in the Revolutionary
War, but does not tell of his life before that time.
The presumption is that he came from the North
of Ireland with the tide of Scotch-Irish immigra-
tion that was strongest from 1730 to 1750. Pos-
sibly he followed the current of this immigration
through Pennsylvania, western Virginia and the
Carolinas into Georgia. Of this I do not know.
In my inquiries I have come across a statement
of your line of ancestry, given me by Joel Man-
sell's Sons, Albany, N. Y., as follows :
2IO GENEALOGY OF THE
John Fulton, of Oxford, Pa. Emigrated 1750.
Captain Revolutionary War.
James, of West Nottingham, Pa. Farmer.
James J., married Nancy A. Ramsey.
William T., of Oxford, Pa.
Joseph M.
James.
Hugh R., Lancaster. Lawyer.
The point which I wish to settle by this corre-
spondence with you relates to the John Fulton at
the head of the list. Could he be the same as the
Johii Fulton of Georgia, mentioned by me? Both
were captains in the Revolutionary War. If your
ancestor John lived in Pennsylvania in 1775 and
later, then they were different men. Can you in-
form me on this point?
With the meagre information I now have there
appears to be no inconsistency in supposing that
John Fulton, your ancestor, might have lived in
Oxford, Pa., in 1750, and might have followed
afterward, the drift of the Scotch-Irish southward
into Georgia, leaving in Pennsylvania his son
James, your ancestor. The name James does not
appear among the descendants of John Fulton, of
Georgia. His descendants were Samuel, Paul,
Margaret, Mary, Jane and Elizabeth.
There were, as you doubtless know, many
original settlers of the Fulton name. There is one
family descended from Robert F., who settled at
FULTON FAMILY. 211
Colerain, Mass., another line from Richard of
Paxtang, Pa., and doubtless there are other lines.
I would thank 3'ou to write me what you may-
know of the places of residence of the John Fulton
in your line mentioned above stating any facts
tending to prove or disprove the supposition that he
could have resided in Georgia in 1775 and later.
Trusting that you will pardon this trespassing
on your time by me who has no claim but identity
of name,
Yours very truly,
R. B. Fulton.
Note. — I answered this letter that they must have
been different men as John remained in Chester
County during the war, and that Mansell is in error
in giving John as the Revolutionary soldier, as
James Fulton was the captain in the army.
H. R. F.
Rev. Justin D. Fulton, D.D.
Rev. Justin D. Fulton, D. D., 225 Carlton Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., writes February 13, 1883.
My father's name was John I. Fulton, born in
Nova Scotia, had four children, S. I. Fulton,
212 GENEALOGY OF THE
Nineveh, N. Y. ; Justin D. Fulton, Brooklyn, N.
Y. ; Mrs. H. A. Middlebrook, Binghamton, N.
Y. ; Mrs. Clara L. Looddeever, Binghamton, N.
Y.
I was born March i, 1828, at Shurburne, New-
York.
A notice of Dr. Fulton's lecture on the subject
"The Garfield That Lives," by the Cleveland
Leader says :
" The lecture was replete with effective anec-
dotes, beautiful illustrations, comparisons and
figures, and abounded in examples drawn from the
lives of successful or self-made men in all walks
of life. Dr. Fulton's utterance is like the flow of
a mighty river, with force enough to turn all the
mills for miles. His voice is clear, pleasant and
ringing. He is admirably fitted for out-of-door
speaking. He is determined to win men and
women from sin. He calls himself young ; has
seen only fifty-three 3"ears, it is said, so there is
time left him. Our memory runs back twenty-
six years, when he was pastor of the Baptist
Church in Sandusky, a very young minister, fear-
less, self confident, the author of the ' Outlook of
Freedom,' hating slavery." — Cleveland Leadei'.
fulton family. 213
John M. Fulton.
Name, John M. Fulton.
Residence and postoffice, West Willow, Lancas-
ter Co., Pa.
Occupation, surveyor, conveyancer and dealer
in leaf tobacco.
Birthplace, Lancaster Count}-, Pa.
Attended common and graded schools, Millers-
ville Normal School and Iron City, Pittsburg, Pa.
Married.
Name of wife, Lizzie Fulton.
Names of children in full, John G., Annie G.
and Joseph E.
Father's name, Daniel Fulton.
Mother's maiden name, Catherine Bergdolt.
Grandfathers' names, James Fulton and Daniel
Bergdolt.
Grandmother's maiden name, Catharine Kreider,
wife of Daniel Bergdolt.
Annie Fulton Lane.
Name, Annie Fulton Lane.
Residence and postoffice, 141 East James street,
Lancaster, Pa.
214 GENEALOGY OF THE
Occupation, before marriage was a teacher.
Birthplace and date of birth, Ireland, April 21,
1854.
Attended several public schools in Lancaster
County, also in Trenton, N. J.
Name of husband, George A. Lane, Esq.
Name of child in full, Anna May Lane.
Father's name, James Fulton.
Mother's maiden name, Rosanna Higgins.
Grandfather's name, James Fulton.
Grandmother's maiden name, also Fulton.
Nationality, Scotch-Irish.
First landed in America, at New York.
They first settled in Philadelphia.
Belong to First Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Dr. A. P. Davis (nee Fulton), 6335 Howe
Street, corner Denniston Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.,
born July 19, 1841, in New Derry, Westmore-
land County, Pa. ; married Augustus Plummer
Davis, of Gardiner, Me., June 22, 1876, at Pitts-
burg, Pa., born May 10, 1835, ^hed May 21, 1899.
Have no children.
Father's name, Benjamin Fulton. Born in
New Derry, Westmoreland County, Pa., about
1794, died July 29, 1859, ^^ Derr}^, Pa. ; married
FULTON FAMILY. 215
Jane Ayres, of New Deny, Pa., 1834, born 1800,
died September 22, 1872.
Name of father's first child, James Ayers Fulton,
born 1835, died March 31, 1894; married Nancy
S. Shields, 1865. His wife and family, consisting
of six sons and daughters, live at New Florence,
Pa. He graduated in medicine in 1858. The next
two children died in infancy. I, m3^self, am the
fourth child, my sister Violet E. Fulton is the fifth
and the youngest of the family, she being unmar-
ried and makincr her home with me.
Grandfather's name, James Fulton.
Grandmother's maiden name, Sarah Cochrane.
Date of grandfather's birth, about 1747.
Born in Articlave, London Derry County, Ire-
land.
Wife born in Articlave, London Derry County,
Ireland.
He died at New Derry, Westmoreland County,
Pa., about 1834.
Buried at Old Salem Presbyterian Church, near
Derr}^, Pa.
His wife was buried at the same place.
Names of grandfather's children, Abraham,
Cochran, John, James, Robert, Benjamin, Mary
2l6 GENEALOGY OF THE
and Martha. My father (Benjamin Fulton) was
the youngest of the family.
Great-grandfather's name, Abraham Fulton.
Great-grandmother's name before marriage,
Margaret Guthrie.
Born in Articlave, London Derry County, Ire-
land.
His wife was born, as far as is known, at the
same place as the above.
They died at Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland
County, Pa., and were buried at the same place as
the above, in the Presbyterian burying grounds of
the church to which they belonged.
The Fultons are noted for the number of minis-
ters in their connection.
James McFarland Fulton.
James McFarland Fulton ; Residence and post-
office, 170 Arch Street, Allegheny City, Pa.
Occupation, Minister.
Birth-place and date of birth, Belmont County,
Ohio, August 31, 1849.
Attended Westminster College and Allegheny
Theological Seminary.
FULTON FAMILY. 21*]
Married Mary Hay Shafer.
Children, Charles Shafer Fulton, and Alexander
Harper Fulton.
Father's name, Charles Fulton.
Mother's Maiden name, Jane Brown.
Grandfather's name, Wm. Fulton.
Grandmother's maiden name, Jane McClarren.
Nationality, Scotch-Irish.
Forefathers emigrated from Ireland, Six Mile
Cross.
First landed in America at Qiiebec.
First settled at Belmont County, Ohio.
Belong to United Presbyterian Church.
Nebraska City, November 23, 1871.
Hugh Fulton, Esq^
Dear Si'r : — Learning through a young lady
teaching school here, that a gentleman of my name
had just married a sister of a Dr. Kerr, formerly
of this place, I naturally feel some curiosity to
know more of you. I have never known any per-
son of my name before. My parents were Irish,
and the family names are William, Samuel, John,
Emma, and your subscriber, Hugh.
Yours very truly,
Hugh Fulton,
Box 29, Nebraska City,
Nebraska.
215 the fulton family.
John Fulton.
Name, John Fulton : residence and post office,
Knob P. O., Beaver County, Pa. ; occupation,
farmer ; birth-place and date of birth, north of
Ireland, Derry County, born August 15, 1824.
Married Mary J. McClure.
Names of children in full : John, Robert, Mary,
Alexander D., Ada, Emma, Carrie, Lydia, Jessie.
John married to Jennie M. Palmer ; Mary married
to Dr. J. C. Sloan.
Their residence and occupation : John, New
York, wholesale druggist ; Robert, telegraph
operator, Colorado ; Alexander, Allegheny City,
Pa., editor.
Father's full name, John Fulton.
Mother's maiden name, Mary McLean.
Grandfather's full name, John Fulton.
Nationality, Scotch.
First landed in America, in New York in 1848.
First settled in Pittsburg, Pa.
Belong to Baptist Church.
My grandfather and two of his brothers came to
America before the Revolution and my grandfather
went back to Ireland and his brothers settled in
Philadelphia.
INDEX.
Anderson, David Ross '. . No. I59|4f
Anderson, Harry M. . *.
Anderson, J. Ellen . . .
Anderson, John H. . . .
Anderson, Joseph Clay .
Anderson, Nora . . . .
Anderson, Reba . . . .
Alexander, Thomas . .
Arnold, J. S
Atkinson, Stephen . . ,
Armstrong, George W. .
Armstrong, Chailes . .
Armstrong, Christian S.
Armstrong, James B. . .
Bair, Lizzie
Baird, Margaret . . .
Baird, Martha ....
Banks, Augustus North
Banks, Ebenezer . . .
Banks, Dr. John . . .
Banks, Dr. William Y.
Banks, Rev. John . . ,
Banks, Rev. Joseph . .
Barclay, Isabella . . .
Bauman, Elsie M. . .
Bauman, Isaac L. .
Bauman, Walter M. .
Belt, Cora L
Belt, H. C
Belt, Horatio N. . . .
Belt, William Leslie .
77 •
76.
159K
134 •
40 .
241 .
18 .
219
246 .
247 .
24S .
Page.
• 47
• 47
38-47
3S-47
. 47
• 47
. 42
. 177
. 44
• 175
36-45
• 45
• 45
. 45*
190 50-52
24
3
21
18
17
20
.... 34
. . .191
.... 192
.... 192
.... 192
.... 192
6 191-192
19 192
231K 43-51
30 194
23 193-194
29 194
85 182
87 182
44 178-182
86 182
220
INDEX.
Betz, Amelia No
Birch, Anna M
Blackmer, Henry M
Blackmer, Margaret Gray
Blackmer, Myron Kerr
Blanchard, Harriet
Bergdolt, Daniel -
Blight, Charles "
Blight, Mary F
Blight, Robert F
Brown, Sarah Anna "
Buchanan, Martha "
Bye, Mary "
Boies, Andrew Fulton "
Boies, David B. "
Boies, George W "
Boies, James Franklin "
Boies, Matilda "
Boies, William Brice "
Boies, James F "
Boies, Ella C "
Cameron, Edw. C
Cameron, H. S
Cameron, H. M
Cameron, Robert F
Cameron, H. H "
Campbell, Mrs. Harriet T "
Campbell, Ann Eliza "
Clarkson, Andrew "
Clarkson, Eliza "
Clarkson, Rev. James "
Clarkson, John Fulton "
Clark, Agnes S "
Clark, Charles H "
Clark, Charles Scott "
Clark, Gertrude B "
Page.
232X 44-51
208 34-44
161 47-52
193 52
192 52
198 (28a) . . . 30-36
App 213
5 " 199
App. ... 199
" • • • • 199
64 • . . -33. 43. 115
55 32-41
23 176-179
230 37
228 36
227 36
229 37-46
203 34
199 (28b) .... 36
257 46
258 . 46
App 200
" .... 201
" .... 201
" .... 200
14 " .... 200
72 37
59 • 33-42
71 37-46
159 46-50
7 • • 30
31 30-37
33 177-180
35 177-180
65 180
59 179
INDEX. 221
Page.
Clark, Helen Thompson No. 71 ...... . 180
Clark, James E " 56 179
Clark, Jean Stevenson " 70 180
Clark, Jennie " 60 ^179
Clark, John Alexander " 69 iSo
Clark, John A " 34 177-180
Clark, Kathryn " 73 180
Clark, E. Louisa " 61 179
Clark, Margaretta R " 36 177-181
Clark, Margaret Simes " 67 iSo
Clark, Mildred Vaughn " 72 180
Clark, Marion Thompson " 64 180
Clark, Mary T " 13 177
Clark, Mary T " 57 179
Clark, Robert J " 32 , . 177, 179, 188
Clark, Samuel Alexander '' 63 180
Clark, Sarah Elizabeth " 66 180
Clark, Thomas A " 13 I75-I77
Clark, Thomas A " 58 ...... 179
Clark, Thomas Walter " 68 180
Clark, William T. . " 31 . . 177, 179, 187
Collins, David " 84 38
Collins, Eleanor " 81 38
Collins, Elizabeth " 83 38
Collins, James " 82 38
Collins, John " 36 31-38
Collins, John " 80 38
Collins, Margaret Jane " 81 J4 38
Cooper, David H " 54 179
Cooper, Esther " 5 29-74
Cooley, Emma " 106 40
Cra^vford, Ella Mary " 232;^ 44
Crawford, William D " 260 50-52
Crawford, George B " 261 ....... 50
Crawford, Rebecca J " 231 43-51
Crawford, Rebecca " 265 51
Crawford, Margaret " 266 51
222 INDEX.
Page.
Crawford, Thos. B No. 267 51
Crawford, William D "232 44-51
Crawford, William A " 268 51
Crawford, Jno. S " 269 51
Crawford, David L " 270 51
Crawford, Robert F "271 51
Crawford, Joseph I " 272 . 51
Crawford, David I " 232^ 44-51
Crawford, Mary A. L " 273 51
Crawford, Martha N " 274 52
Crawford, David L " 275 52
Crawford, Wm. D *' 276 52
Crawford, Geo. B "277 52
Crawford, Geo. B. . "261 50-52
Crawford, Geo. S " 27S 52
Crawford, Albert " 202^2 34-44
Crawford, Harriet R " 231^^ 43
Crawford, Dr. John S " 22,i){ 43-51
Crawford, Robert G , " 23234; 44
Crawford, William " 202 34-43
Crawford, David Lafevre " 230^^ 43-50
Crowl, Ida Mary " I53 46
Crouch, Addie " 229 37-46
Crouch, Kate " 230 37
Crary, Rev. Robert Fulton and family App 200
Crary, Edward Charles " .... 199
Crary, Rev. Robert Fulton " .... 199
Crary, Edward Francis " .... 200
Crary, Charles Franklyn " ■ . . 200
Crary, Ella Cornelia " .... 200
Crary, Lena Herbert " .... 200
Crary, Amy " .... 200
Crary, Cornelia Fulton " .... 200
Crary, Alice " .... 200
Crary, Ella " .... 200
Clary, Edith Livingston " .... 200
Clary, Fulton " .... 200
INDEX.
223
Davis, Mrs. Dr. A. P App.
Davis, M. D., August Plummer . . .
Deibert, Christiana No. 87
Dickey, G. Renie " 39
Dickey, Jane H " 43
Dickey, Margaret " 5
Dickey, Nancy " 40
Dickey, Edw. T. " 84
Dil worth, Andrew F " 244
Dil worth, Paul F "243
Dilworth, Dr. Samuel "211
Drennen, Emma J " 26
Eckles " 2[>^
Evans, Jane P " 31 .
Eves, Albert D "164.
Eves, Anna H " 173 .
Eves, Dr. James S " 94
Eves, Elizabeth H " 165 .
Eves, James " 171 .
Eves, IMadge D " 172 .
Eves, Martie S " 166 .
Eves, William " 96 .
Fitzgerald, Lidie A " 51 .
Fleck, Geo. C.J " 163 .
Fombelle, Ella " 222 .
Fulton, Abraham Smith No. 2 . . . . App.
Fulton, Ada
Fulton, Alexander
Fulton, Alexander D
Fulton, Alexander Harper
Fulton, A. M
Fulton, Alfred Miller ... . . " 147 .
Fulton, Andrew " 26 .
Fulton, Andrew " 216 .
Fulton, Andrew " 239 .
Fulton, Andrew App.
224 INDEX.
Page.
Fulton, F. Andrew No. 244 45
Fulton, Andrew Clarkson " 188 50
Fulton, Andrew F " 237 44
Fulton, Annie App 213
Fulton, Annie Margaret " 225 ...... 36
Fulton, Annie E "143 42-50
Fulton, Anna W. Meredith App 206
Fulton, Benjamin " .... 214
Fulton, Blanchard " 251 45
Fulton, Carrie " 140 42
Fulton, Carrie App 218
Fulton, Carrie " 249 .... 45-50
Fulton, Cecil Clement App 206
Fulton, Charles " .... 217
Fulton, Charles Shafer " ... 217
Fulton, Christopher M "212 35
Fulton, Clara A App 206
Fulton, Chester Courtney " 255 ....... 45
Fulton, Cornelia L, App 199
Fulton, Daniel App 213
Fulton, David Lucian " .... 208
Fulton, Edith " .... 206
Fulton, Eleanor " i 1-27
Fulton, Eleanor Jane " 144 43
Fulton, Eleanore Jane " 150 43
Fulton, Eleanor Neely App 206
Fulton, Eleanor R. . " 199 (28b) . . . 30-36
Fulton, Eleanor R "219 45
Fulton, Eleanor M " 19 29-32
Fulton, Eliza M "217 35
Fulton, Elizabeth " 3 .. 2, 27, 28, 54
Fulton, Elizabeth E " 220 36
Fulton, Elizabeth " 22 .... 29, 33, 85
Fulton, Eleanor Richmond .... " 219 36-45
Fulton, Emma App 208
Fulton, Emma " . . . . 21S
Fulton, Etta Lawrence " I45 43
INDEX.
225
1, Florence No
., Francis McAllister "
1, Frederic Jefferson ..... "
1, Fredonia Johnson
1, George "
1, George W "
., George W "
1, Gertrude "
1, George Frederick "
1, George Henry "
., Gilbert
1, Henrietta "
1, Harriet Jane "
1, Hugh Hodge "
1, Hugh Kerr "
1, Hugh Ramsey "
., Isadore Forrest
I, James "
1, Dr. James "
1, James "
1, James
1, James ■
1, James
I, James
1, James Alexander
1, James Ayers
1, James Baird "
1, James C "
1, James C "
1, James Cooper "
1, James Edward "
1, James Ernest
1, James Jefferson "
1, James Jefferson "
1, James McFarland
1, James Sample "
1, James Sample "
Page
185 50
213 35
146 43
App 20S
226 36
I98(28a) 30, 36, 74, 86
218 ■. . 35
141 42
250 45
256 46
App 204
214 35
223 36
184 ...... , 50
149 43, 157
65 • • • -33. 43, 116
App 206
4 . 2, 27, 28, 55, 73
62 .... 33, 42, 97
137 42
App 20S
" .... 213
" .... 214
" .... 214
" .... 204
" .... 215
203 34
25 29-34
186 50
236 44
253 45
App 208
10 174
21 29-33
.... 216
196 . • 52
159 46-50
226
INDEX.
ilton, James Wilson No.
iltou, Jane McClarren
iltou, Jane . . "
ilton, Jane Ayers . ,
alton, Jane Brown
ilton, Jane Lockhart
ilton, Jane Magee "
alton, Jane M "
ilton, Jemima "
alton, Jennie M. Palmer
alton, Jean Magee "
ilton, Jessie . . . •
alton, Jefferson C "
alton, Jennett "
ilton, John "
alton, John "
alton, John "
ilton, John "
alton, John "
alton, John
alton, John .
alton, John
alton, John
alton, John
alton, John C "
alton, John C "
alton, John Farquahar "
alton, John Clarkson "
ilton, John G
ilton, John I
alton, John Lockhart
alton, John Lockhart, Jr
alton, John M
ilton, Joseph . . "
ilton, Joseph E
ilton, Joseph Miller "
ilton, Julia
Page.
207 34
App 217
6 .... 27, 30, 77
App 215
" .... 217
.... 208
211 35-45
240 44
27 29
App 21S
234 44
App 21S
28 30-35
182 50
I 1-27
5 . . . . 27, 29, 73
16 28-So
23 29-85
151 43
App 208
" .... 209
.... 218
.... 218
.... 218
189 50
209 35
191 50
195 ..••.• • 52
App 213
.... 211
" .... 207
" .... 208
" • . . .213
18 .... 29, 73, 83
App 213
64 . 33. 43. 114, 115
App 199
INDEX.
227
1, D. D., Rev. Justin D. . . . .
1, Kathleen No
1, Katbryu Bergdolt
., Kirk "
1, Lizzie
1, Louis B "
1, Louisa A "
1, Lucy Bell
1, Lydia
1, Margaret Jane "
1, Margaret Jane "
1, Margaret M "
1, Margaret M "
1, Mary "
1, Mary "
1, Mary "
1, Mary
1, Mary E
1, Mary Livingston
1, Mary Hay Shafer
1, Mary J. McCIure
1, Mary McClean
., Matthew H "
1, Mary Wilson
1, Matilda Jane "
., Miller "
1, Monica
1, Matthew Wilson "
1, Matthew Percj' "
X, Nannie Bell •
1, Norman Brown "
., Paul
1, Plenny A "
., Rachael "
1, Rachael Maria "
,, Rebecca "
1, Robert "
Page.
App 211
197 52
App 213
142 42-50
App 213
20S . . . . 34, 44, S7
1S7 50
App 208
. . . . 21S
238 44
61 33
215 34-35
241 ....... 44
2 . . . . -I, 27, 53
2I_^ 29
138 42
App. . . 199-21S
" .... 206
" . . 199-200
.... 217
. . . . 21S
. . . . 21S
221 . . . .36, 45, 12S
App 207
205 34
20 ....... 29
App 20S
200 (2Sc) .... 30
252 45
App 206
148 43
App 209
235 44
17 28-165
60 33
136 42-49
183 50
INDEX.
Robert and family No. i . .
Robert and family No. 3 . . .
Robert Warnock No
Robert B
Rosanna Higgins
Sadies "
Rev. S. C
S. I •
Samuel Martin "
Samuel Magee "
Sarah Alta
Sarah Cochrane
Sarah Russell
Sarah S "
Stephen
Susanna "
Susanna "
Thomas Cooper "
Thomas Cooper "
Thomas "
Thomas Denman "
Thomas Kennedy "
Thomas
Thomas C "
Violet K
William "
William • . .
William
William F
William Morrow "
William Rice
William S
William Thompson
Gerst, Eugene
Gibson, Dora .
Gibson, John .
Page.
App. . . 196-198
" . . 198-199
222 36-46
App. . . 199-208
" .... 214
245 45
App 203
.... 211
190 50-52
210 35-44
App 208
" ... .215
" .... 208
245 45
App 203
7 . . . .27, 30, 78
194 52
203K 34
233 44
24 29-34
254 45
224 36
App 206
204 ... . 10, 34, 44
App 215
139 42-168
App 206
" .... 217
"• .... 209
206 34
App 206
242 44
63 . . . .33, 42, 104
263 51
95 39-4S
15 192
INDEX.
229
Goddard, Josephine .
Graham, Dr. Charles
Green, William . .
Grittinger, Elizabeth
Amelia ....
'Anna M. . . .
C O. Jennie ,
David
David C. . . .
David W. . . .
David W. . . .
David Watt . .
David Stephen
Eleanor M. . .
Eliza A
Eliza Jane . . .
Elizabeth . . .
Elizabeth . . ,
Elizabeth . . .
Ellen Cornelia
Ellen M. . . .
Fannie W. . .
Fannie W. . .
Francis P. . .
Fulton ....
Fulton ....
Fulton Ankrim
Fulton C. . . .
H. Agnew . .
Helen ....
Hervey ....
Ida C
James ....
James . . .
James Banks .
James F. . . .
. No. 218
41
163
103
Page.
. 35
. 178
. 48
40-49
120 .
96.
117 .
109 .
14 .
45 .
106 .
57 •
40
. . . 39-48
41
40
40
.... 2S-32
. 32, 40, 89, 92
40
..2
9 28-31
50 32-41
37 31-38
II 28
91 39-41
116 40
128 41
56 32
113 40
118 40
III 40
15 28-32
131 41
55 .... 32, 41, 95
47 32
115 • • 40
170 48
167 48
97 39
3 27
12 28-31
52 32
43 32-40
230
INDEX.
Hutchison, James Hervey No.
Hutchison, James M "
Hutchison, Jane "
Hutchison, Jane Dickey "
Hutchison, Jennie D "
Hutchison, J. Hervey A "
Hutchison, John "
Hutchison, John Reed "
Hutchison, John W "
Hutchison, Josephine "
Hutchison, Joseph Cooper "
Hutchison, Joseph L. "
Hutchison, Joseph M "
Hutchison, Lizzie Martha "
Hutchison, Maggie "
Hutchison, Maggie D "
Hutchison, Maggie Dickey "
Hutchison, Margaret Charlotte . . . "
Hutchison, Margaret Jane "
Hutchison, MargarettaK "
Hutchison, Martha A "
Hutchison, Mary Amanda "
Hutchison, Mary F "
Hutchison, Melville "
Hutchison, Nancy Lavina ..... "
Hutchison, Rachael "
Hutchison, Ralph Cooper "
Hutchison, Ross Alexander "
Hutchison, Samuel D "
Hutchison, Sarah Ann "
Hutchison, Sarah Fulton "
Hutchison, Susan Eleanor "
Hutchison, Susan Ellen "
Hutchison, Susan Noble "
Hutchison, William "
Hutchison, William Easton .... "
Hutchison, William G "
Page.
40 31-39
95 . ... 39-48
10 28
92 39
107 40
112 40
13 ....... 28
53 32
44 • 32
121 40
135 . . 42, 49, 156, 157
5S. ...... 33
46 32-40
130 41
119 40
94 39-48
114 40
41 31
49 32
48 32-41
39 31
42 31-39
54 32-40
169 48
129 41
51 32-41
176K 49
132 42-132
105 40
131^ 41
133 42
38 31-39
93 31
no 40
168 48
134 42-155
59 33, 42, 96
INDEX. 231
Page
Hutchison, William Noble No. 108 40
Irwin, Mary "105 40
Johnson, Anna M • ... " 62 ... 33, 42, loo
Kells, Mrs. . . ' " 22 193
Kennedy, Mary Ann " 198 (28a) . . .30-36
Kerr, David Fulton "124 41
Kerr, Elizabeth Eleanor " 86 39-14^
Kerr, Fannie Watt "123 41
Kerr, Guy Manning " 162 47-158
Kerr, Helen May "161 47-52
Kerr, James Hutchison " 85 . 38, 47, 131, 138
Kerr, J. Cyrus " 48 32-41
Kerr, John Alexander " 37 .... 31, 38, 87
Kerr, M.D., George " 87 . . . 39, 4S, i39
Kerr, John Hervey " 89 39
Kerr, Minnie Love " 163 48-141
Kerr, M. Lizzie "122 41
Kerr, Sallie Thomson " 88. . 33. 39. 43. "^
Kerr, Susan Margery " 90 39
Kimble, Sarah ■"142 42-50
Kirk, Hannah A " 63 33-42
Kirk, Mary Jane " X2 174-176
Kirkpatrick, William T " 42 178
Kreider, Kathryn . App 213
Lamb, Rev " 48 32
Lane, Esq., George A App 214
Lane, Anna May " .... 214
Lafevre, David " 22 ....... 33
Lafevre, Jacob " 201 33
Lafevre, Jane "202 34-43
Lafevre, Mary Ann " 202>^ 34-44
Livingston, Harriet, " 3 App. . . 198-199
Looddeever, Clara L " .... 212
Longhead, married Hannah Miller . " 4 191
232 INDEX.
Page.
Lowry, William No. 5 174
Ludlow, Robert Fulton " 16 App 200
Ludlow, Robert M " 199 200
MaCrea, Francis App 199
Manifold, Jane " 34 31-38
Martin, Royle S " 174 49
Martin, William R " 98 39-49
McAlister, Blanche N " 16034" 47
McAlister, Jennie W " 160^ 47
McAlister, Mary E " i6o>^ 47
INIcAlister, Nellie I " 160^^ 47
McAlister, W. N " 79 38-47
McCartney, Eliza " 28 35
McDowell, Charlotte Isabelle .... " 125 41-49
McGaw, William T " 53 172
Magee, Jane " 26 35
Mclntire, Rebecca C " 67 37-46
McKillips, Bertram Galbraith .... "178 49
McKillips, Charles E " 136 42-49
McKillips, Charles Edward " 177 49
McKillips, Helen Rebecca . • ... " 180 49
McKillips, James Fulton " 179 49
McKillips, William Kerr "181 49
McVey, Martha " 4 174-175
Mechem, Lydia " 74 38
Menough, Harry A.* " 38 1 77-181
Menough, J. Fred " 79 181
Menough, Norman T " 80 iSr
Menough, Clyde H " 81 181
Menough, Gertrude " 82 181
Menough, Harry Alexis " 83 181
Milburn, Martha Jane " 46 178
Milburn, Nicholas " 20 175-178
Milburn, Virginia • " 47 178-182
Miller, Anna Mary " 23 193-194
Miller, Arthur Patterson " 33 . 194
INDEX. 233
Pagk.
Miller, Augustus Banks No. 12 192-193
Miller, Hannah " 4 191
Miller, Harold Fulton .."....." 32 194
Miller, Harriet Walker , . " 7 191
Miller, Jane " 5 191-192
Miller, John Walker . " 25 193
Miller, Joseph " i 191
Miller, Joseph " 8 191-193
Miller, Judith R " 21 175-178
Miller, Margaret " 2 191
Miller, Mary (Polly) " 6 191-192
Miller, Mary " 9 192
Miller, Paul Drennen " 31 194
Miller, Rebecca " 10 192
Miller, Stewart " 3 191
Miller, Naomi Catharine " 24 193
Miller, William . ........" 11 192
Miller, Winslow A " 26 193-194
Mitchell, Sarah "186 50
Montooth, Miller " 231^ 43
Morrow, Eliza Jane " 25 34
Mosier, Essie " I35 4^-49
IMiddlebrook, H. A App 212
Neeper, Annie E " 63 .... 33, 43, no
Negly, Mrs. E. C "231 43
Negly, E. C "231 43-51
Negly, Jennie L " 262 51
Negly, Kate E "263 51
Negly, R. Herberton " 264 51
Neillie, Martha •' 230)^ 43-50
Nesbit, Annie B. . . " 56 179
Nicholson, Mary T " 62 180
Nicholson, Thomas S " 33 177-180
Noble, Jane A " 45 32-40
Patterson, Austin McDowell .... " 176 49-^59
Patterson, John " 50 32-41
234
INDEX.
Patterson, M.D., John Fulton ,
Peterman, Miriam K
Philip, Katelena
Phillips, Isabelle
Phillips, John Eaton
Pickei, George H
Pickel, William
Plank, Amey Virginia , . . ,
Plank, Levi
Plank, William Ramsey . . .
Pollock, Mary Ramsey ....
Pollock, married Eliza Ramsey
Proudfit, Rev. Alexander . . .
Proudfit, Rev. James
Proudfit, Mary . .
Ramsey, Amey Ann
Ramsey, Annie R
Ramsey, Annie M
Ramsey, Dr. David
Ramsey, Eliza
Ramsey, Elizabeth
Ramsey, Emma E
Ramsey, F. Jennie
Ramsey, Hannah Maria . . .
Ramsey, Harriet
Ramsey, Hugh
Ramsey, Hugh
Ramsey, Jr., Hugh
Ramsey, Jane Thompson .
Ramsey, John
Ramsey, John .
Ramsey, John Benjamin . . .
Ramsey, Mary
Ramsey, Nancy Ann
Ramsey, Nancy Ann
Ramsey, Peggy (Margaret) . .
Page.
No. 125 . . 39, 41, 49, 153
" 35 177-180
App 2GO
259 50
249 45-50
10 192
9 192
88 182
47 178-182
89
50
22
2
2
8
. 182
. 178
. 176
• 54
28-53
. 28
20 175-178
48 178
54 179
App 201
22 176-178
8 174
52 179
53 179
18 175
17 175-178
I 169-173
16 175
7 174
9 174
3 174
23 176-179
21 . . . 175, 178, 187
5 174
10 174
2 173-174
INDEX.
''35
Ramsey, Sarah No.
Ramsey, Thompson "
Ramsey, William . "
Ramsey, William "
Ramsey, William S "
Ramsey, William Thompson .... "
Reed, "
Rice, Mary A
Roberts, Chas. H. Van B
Rogers, Isaac "
Rutter, Harry R "
Rutter, Rev. Lindley C "
Rutter, Lindley C "
Rutter, Louisa Potts "
Rutter, Mary Thompson "
Rutter, Thomas Chichester "
Scott, "
Scott, Martha "
Scott, Mary "
Schlagel, Louise . . . .' "
Shea, David E "
Sherer, Elizabeth Watt "
Sherer, Ella Rachael "
Sherer, Lina R "
Sherer, Martha A "
Sherer, Mary Elizabeth ...... "
Sherer, Marj- Ramsey "
Sherer, Robert "
Sherer, Esq., James Hervey "
Sherer, William "
Sherer, William John "
Sherer, William John "
Simes, Margaret E "
Sloan, Dr. J. C.
Smith, Agnes R "
Smith, Marie "
Smith, Mary
Page.
II 174
6 174-176
4 . ... 174-175
49 178
51 179
19 .... 175-184
8 28
App 205
" .... 200
46 178
76 i8r
36 177
78 i8r
74 181
77 iSi
75 181
120 40
6 174-176
26r 50-52
232 44-51
25 176
98 ..... 39-49
100 39
102 40
loi 39
175 49
99 39
175^^ 49
104 40
42 31-39
103 40-49
i75>^ 49
34 . . 177-180
App 218
210 44
216 . 35-45
App 198
236
INDEX.
Speer, Mary Ella No.
Stevenson, Elizabeth Eleanor .... "
Stevenson, Rev. Ephraim "
Stevenson, Ephraim F "
Still, Ella
Swingly, Kate N "
Taylor, Rachael .
Thomas, Annie
Thomson, Agnes E
Thompson, Annie
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Thompson
Bertha
Carrie
Eleanor ....
Elizabeth ....
Ella
Esther Reynolds
Fulton
Jane
Jane
Jane Miller . , .
John
John
John Kirk . . .
Joseph Miller . .
Margaret ....
Margaret R. . .
Mary
Mary L
Mary Mitchell .
Nathan
Nathan
Rachael . . . .
S. Elizabeth . .
Thomas H. . . .
Thomas Huston .
Dr. William . .
Page.
85 38-47
127 41
51 32-41
126 41
App 199
221 36-45
App 207
14 175-177
69 37-46
40 177
162 47
41 178
15 192
15 175
39 177-181
25 176
28 176
1 169-173
28 193
72 37
12 . . . 172, 174, 176
27 193
30 176
13 192-193
24 176
37 177
13 175
38 177-181
29 176
5 191-192
16 192
14 192
70 37
14 175-177
27 176
2 173-174
INDEX.
^37
Thompson, William John No
Tipton, Harriet E
Tipton, John W
Tipton, Martha Jane
Tipton, Mary E
Tipton, Rev. William W
Trout, Carrie L,
Trout, Mary
Van Kleeck, Agnes Boid
Warden, W. Kersey . . .
Watson, Elizabeth T. . . .
Watson, Esq., William W.
Watt, Charlotte
Watt, Elizabeth
Watt, Emma
Watt, Fannie
Watt, Martha
Watt, Mary
Wheaton, Edith
Wier, Mary
Wiley, Miss
Wilson, Amanda J
Wilson, Ann Elizabeth . .
Wilson, David
Wilson, David Alexander .
Wilson, David Reed . . .
Wilson, Eleanor
Wilson, Elizabeth . . . .
Wilson, Elizabeth M . . .
Wilson, Elizabeth N. . . .
Wilson, Ella F. . . . . .
Wilson, Henry M
Wilson, James
Wilson, James
Wilson, James Marshall .
Page.
26 176
45 178
43 178
44 17S-182
42 178
17 175-178
87 39
12 193
App. . . 199-200
68;^ 37
13 ... . 175-182
15 175
32 31-37
12 31
16 192
14 . 32
18 29
13 192-193
191 50
260 50-52
78 38
79 38-47
156 46
34 31-38
77 38-47
160 47
79K 38
35 ••.... 31
76 38-47
78 181
154 46
75 38
9 31
74 38
28 37-192
238 INDEX.
Page
Wilson, James H No. 33 31
Wilson, John " 29 30
Wilson, John " 32 31-37
Wilson, John " 70 37
Wilson, John David " 73 37
Wilson, John H " 78 38
Wilson, Lydia " 30 30-37
Wilson, Lydia Jane " 155 46
Wilson, Matthew " 6 30-77
Wilson, Margaret " 36 31-38
Wilson, Matthew James " 67 .... 37, 46, 128
Wilson, Martha Jane ' 82 38
Wilson, Phoebe " 68 37
Wilson, Robert , " 30 30-37
Wilson, Robert Franklin " 69 .... 37, 46, 129
Wilson, Robert B " I53 46
Wilson, Robert Thomson " I57 46
Wilson, Tamar Jane " 68>^ 37
Wilson, William " 45 178
Wilson, William Jeffers ....... "158 46
Winans, Jacob S "220 36
Winans, Elizabeth E. F "220 126
Wood, Ettie T. R " 32 .... I77-I79
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