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ROBERT FULTON
Boston, Massachusetts
Compiled by Norma Jennings1997-1998
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Generation One

1. Robert Fulton⁽¹⁾, (son of Hugh and Elinor Johnson Fulton) was baptized 1685, went to America in 1730 with his three sons and was in Boston, Massachusetts, as late as 1754, when he sold land on Orange Street, where he lived, which he had purchased in 1751.
 

2. i. John was married in 1732, by the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Boston which was organized in 1728 and later became the Arlington Unitarian Church.
3. ii. Samuel
+ 4. iii. Robert

4. Robert Fulton was born in 1713 in Ireland and died at Colrain, Massachusetts in 1 December 1776.  He was married to 1)Hannah Ellis and married 2) Margaret McGee  (Correct date and names of wives, additional children were provided by: [email protected]  Sources at bottom.)

Children of Robert Fulton and Hannah

    5. Robert, Jr.⁽²⁾
 + 6. John born 1746

 + 7. James Fulton b. 24 May 1749.  Died 20 March 1834
 + 8. Moses Fulton b. about 1750,
+  9. William Fulton b. about 1752

 


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Generation Three

+ 10. John

8. Moses Fulton Married Martha ______ and had the following children:
 

11. Daniel Fulton was born on 5 March 1784 in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts
12. William Fulton was born about 1786. He died on 20 March 1787.

13. Sarah Fulton was born on 19 August 1778 in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts
14. Margaret Fulton was born on 11 August 1780 in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts
15. Lydia Fulton was born on 15 May 1782 in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts.

9. William Fulton born about 1752, married Elizabeth and had the following children:
 

16. Andrew Fulton was born on 5 May 1782 in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts.
17. William Fulton was born on 3 September 1783 in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts.

10. John Fulton of Hartford, Conn. 1793-1823, married Clarissa Daniels.
 

+ 8. William Goodrich,⁵

8. William Goodrich, who was born at Hartford 31 August 1819, was married at Chesterfield, Massachusetts on 1 October 1851, to Eliza Edwards who was born at Chesterfield, 11 November 1828. William G. Fulton died at Brooklyn, New York on 30 December 1900. Eliza Edwards was the daughter of Oliver and Laura (Starkweather) Edwards and died at Brooklyn on 31 January 1914.

+ 9. William Edwards⁶

9. William Edwards who was born 8 August 1852 in Brooklyn New York was married 23 October 1877 to Ida Eleanor Lewis, who died 8 January 1921. She was the daughter of Edwin Coffin and Harriet Maria (Phippeney) Lewis. William Edwards Fulton died 2 July 1930.

10. William Shirley Fulton, who was born 23 November 1880, B.A. (Yale, 1903)
11. Irving Kent Fulton who was born 1882; married 1810 to Elizabeth Warner.
12. Lewis Edwards Fulton, who was born 1879; B.A. (Yale, 1901); died 1 September 1917; and as a memorial to him, his parents gave the Lewis Fulton Memorial Park to the City of Waterbury.

1. ¹Title Page lost. pp. 220-221 Memoirs dated April 1932. Contains obituary and genealogical sketch of William Edwards Fulton elected a Pilgrim Tercentenary member, February 1926. William Edwards Fulton of Waterbury, Connecticut, born in Brooklyn, N.Y. 8 August 1852.

2. Reported to be the progenitor of Robert Fulton, the inventor.

3. DAR Revolutionary War Index.

4. Early Vital Records of Colrain, Mass.  - listed in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register. Volume 73 - 1919 (pgs. 246-260; Edward Adams to Rominer Smith) & Volume 74 - 1920 (pgs 7-13; Oren Smith to Daniel Workman). p. 251 Date and location.

5. The Early Settlers of Colrain, Massachusetts, by Charles H. McClellan, W. S. Carson Printer, Greenfield, Mass. 1885. p. 25 - Name of Second Wife