Hannah (James) Fuller (1629 - aft. 1697)

Born 1629 in England

Wife of John Wilson Sr. — married about 1650 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 21 Jun 1697 after age 68 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Hannah _____ (only perhaps Hannah James)^[1] was born, probably England, about 1629 (assumes she was aged 21 at the date of her first marriage). She may have been from Hingham, Norfolk, England.((citation needed))

She married (1) in England, about 1650/1, John Wilson. They were the parents of at least one child - John Jr. - before emigrating to Massachusetts in 1652. Their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1653 either in Massachusetts or Connecticut but not in Woburn, Mass. (Woburn birth records show 9 sons & daughters of John Wilson born between 1658 - 1679 but no Sarah Wilson).^[2]

John and Hannah were the parents of the following children:^[1]

1. John, born about 1652 (calculated);
2. Sarah, born about 1653, married Samuel Snow. (see Stevens for a discussion of the possibility she is the first child);
3. Daughter born about 1655 and killed by lightening;
4. Dorcus, born 29 Jan 1657, married Aaron Cleveland;
5. Samuel, born 29 Dec 1658;
6. Francis, born about 1660;
7. James, born about 1663;
8. Abigail, born 8 Aug 1666 and married Joseph Hildreth;
9. Elizabeth, born 6 Aug 1668 and married Isaac Hildreth;
10. Benjamin, born 15 Oct 1670;
11. Hannah, born 31 May 1672, married Jonathan Peirce; and second, married James Proctor.

Hannah was married secondly to Thomas Fuller of Danvers, Massachusetts.^[3][4]

Descendants of John Wilson of Woburn, MA, by Ken Stevens, 1991, agrees that her second husband was Thomas Fuller of Salem Village. After their marriage, Hannah "decided to forsake her husband, leave Salem village and return to Woburn. Under the date of 21 June 1697 the Woburn Town Records noted "Ye selectmen met and called James Proctor to account for entertaining Hannah Fuller, his mother-in-law, without leave of ye selectmen,"

Subsequently a bond for 80 pounds was given by James Wilson, Sr. of Billerica, Samuel Wilson, Aaron Cleveland and James Proctor, all of Woburn, to free the town of any charge resulting from "Hannah Fuller, ye wife of Lt. Thomas Fuller of Salem Village, who is come to this Towne of Woburn to live with her children."

Hannah's death date and place are unknown. She was still living June 21, 1697 in Woburn, Massachusetts when the town records showed that James Proctor was entertaining his mother-in-law, Hannah Fuller, without "leave of ye selectmen". She was not listed in the will of her second husband, Thomas Fuller, who died June 3, 1698.^[5]

Research Notes

Disputed Parents: The PGM project is monitoring this profile because she keeps getting attached to PGM immigrant Edmund James. There is no evidence that Edmund had any children.^[6]

Disputed name: No source is given, but she is sometimes seen with a middle name "Harnet."

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Stevens, Ken Descendants of John Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts, published 1991. Reference page 1
2. ↑ Johnson, Edwin, Woburn, Massachusetts, Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages From 1640 to 1873, 3 vols. (Woburn, MA: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1891) Part I, p. 276.
3. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. Print.
4. ↑ "The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families", Edmund James Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, Hartford, Conn.1899
5. ↑ Stevens, page 4
6. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (1995), pages 1071-1072 (Edmund James); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.

See also:

• "The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families", Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, (Name: Name: Hartford, Conn.1899;;)

• Kuehn-Davis-Kite-Williams Family Trees

• Nora E Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, the author, Hillburn, N.Y., 1939

• George Burwell Snow, The Richard Snow Family, typescript, Long Beach, Calif., c.1923 FHL Call Number: 929.273Sn61sg &2055208/22

• Find A Grave: Memorial #103204540