Sarah (Bradlee) Fulton (1740 - 1835)

Born 24 Dec 1740 in Lower Mills, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Fulton — married 25 Jul 1762 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 9 Nov 1835 at age 94 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Sarah (Bradlee) Fulton performed Patriotic Service in Massachusetts in the American Revolution.

Sarah (Bradlee) Fulton is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A042592.

Sarah Bradlee was born on December 24, 1740, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which is now a part of Boston. Sarah married John Fulton on July 25, 1762. They moved to Medford, Massachusetts. Sarah and her husband often visited her brother Nathaniel Bradlee in Boston. Nathaniel was a supporter of American independence. His carpenter shop and his kitchen were gathering places for Boston's patriots.

She tended wounded from the Battle of Bunker Hill even removing a bullet from a soldier's cheek. Sarah delivered dispatches from General Washington to behind enemy lines during the siege of Boston. Washington and Lafayette visited her at her home thanking Sarah for her services.

Sarah was a leading member of the Daughters of Liberty who would become known as the “Mother of the Boston Tea Party.”

On the cold evening of December 16, 1773, Sarah and John Fulton were at Nathaniel Bradlee's house. In the kitchen, Sarah and her brother's wife - whose name is unknown – disguised Nathaniel and John, and their comrades as Mohawk Indians, complete with war paint. At the appointed hour, a large band of patriots disguised as Mohawks burst from the South Meeting House with the spirit of freedom burning in their eyes. The patriots headed toward the three ships. Quickly and quietly, the Sons of Liberty boarded each of the tea ships. Once on board, they went to work, striking the chests of tea with their axes and hatchets. Thousands of spectators watched in silence.

Sarah died 9 Nov 1835 in Medford, Massachusetts.

Burial: Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Plot Along the West wall, which parallels River Street ^[1]

Sources

• Sarah Bradlee Fulton[1]

• The Life Of Sarah Bradlee Fulton[2]

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed April 20, 2015), "Record of Sarah Bradlee Fulton", Ancestor # A042592.

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch [3]: accessed 20 April 2016), John Fulton and Sarah Bradly, 25 Jul 1762; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0896885 IT 2.

• History of the Bradley family : with particular reference to the descendants of Nathan Bradley, of Dorchester, Mass. page 18.[4]

• Wild, Helen Tilden. Medford in the Revolution : military history of Medford, Massachusetts, 1765-1783 : also list of soldiers and civil officers, with genealogical and biographical notes. ( Medford, [Mass.] : J.C. Miller, Jr., printer 1903) pages 4, 58.[5]

• Wikipedia: Sarah Bradlee Fulton

• Wild, Helen T., "Sarah Bradlee Fulton, Dorchester, 1740, Medford, 1835", The Medford Historical Register (Medford Hist. Soc., Medford, Mass., January 1898) Vol. 1, No. 2, Page 53-6

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #7393516

1. "Boston Tea Party Historical Society" Complete list of Participants lists a John Fulton but no Sarah Bradlee-Fulton. [6]