Hello Cousin!
I am Kevin Fuller in Rochester New York. My niece, Nicole, and I began to work on our lineage in 2020. We are attempting to break through a brick wall that has befuddled our family genealogists for decades.
This website is brand new, as of January 2023. We are going to keep the site “live” as we build it and there will be many changes in the coming weeks and months. Just as we are constantly updating our Ancestry.com trees with new finds, so shall this website change.
In November 2022, I submitted a FamilyTreeDNA Big Y 700 sample to determine once and for all that my Y DNA descended from a Mayflower Passenger. I joined the Mayflower DNA and Fuller Family Finder Projects to connect my results to other confirmed Mayflower descendants. On January 10th, I received the Big Y results which linked me with 37 other Fuller descendants. By the next day, the Mayflower and Fuller projects had already sorted my results and confirmed that my family does, in fact, descend from Edward Fuller of the Mayflower.
Click here to see the MayflowerDNA Fuller Big Y results. My lineage closely matches those in this line: Edward, Samuel, John. We’ll need many other Fuller males from eastern to northern New York state in order to identify additional generations. These limited results leave us with a big gap from John3 to my gggrandfather, George Washington Fuller b1841 in Henderson NY. George’s parents were probably George W Fuller b1782 and Charlotte Post b1795. He had at least 3 brothers: Benjamin b1824, Abner b1836 and Lyman b1838. This family was very closely tied to the Henry Post family and Benjamin Henry Post (Charlotte’s brother) in the 1850s. George’s b1841 wife was Marcia Adell Bucklin b1845 and they married in 1866. The Fullers, Posts and Bucklins all appear to know each other through the decades and they share several given names, including “Ambert.”
We currently have six or seven very active family genealogists with decades of research experience and mounds of records trying to break through that brick wall. We have made some recent gains in proving the next one or two generations and hope to prove them soon. I am hoping to find other Fullers whose families moved from Barnstable to Connecticut to Shelbourne, MA to Washington and Montgomery counties NY to Rutland, Adams, Barnes Corners, Pamelia, Lyme and other areas around Watertown NY. The collective, hive-mind of many families should root out all the missing family members in our line. Everything we find indicates they are all related, and I wouldn’t be surprised if every single Fuller settler family in Jefferson County NY is related. Please contact us if any of your ancestors are from Jefferson County NY from years 1800-1900. The towns of that geographical area were settled by pioneers about 1800-1805. Many of them came to northern New York from Massachusetts and Vermont. The generations before them came from Connecticut and Plymouth Colony.
A Word of Caution…
This website is NOT designed to be a resource for factual citation. We use this website to research and promote our family line to potential cousins and/or genealogists possessing data to help us complete our lineage. Individual family member pages may include theories, hints, guesses or complete leaps of faith. We will present facts and citations as needed for our own research, however, you should always rely on the source material instead of referencing this website.