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An American Family History |
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Captain Matthew Fuller |
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Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts
By William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams
Published by Lewis historical publishing company, 1910 |
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Captain Matthew Fuller, who is believed to have been a son of Edward Fuller, who, with his son Samuel and his brother, Samuel Fuller, came over in the "Mayflower." Among genealogists of the Fuller family, however, there is a difference of opinion, a recent compiler denying that Captain Matthew was a son of Edward, while at the same time he gives no satisfactory evidence to the contrary. Captain Matthew Fuller was first of Plymouth about 1640, and removed to Barnstable in 1652, where he died in 1678. He was appointed surgeon general of the Provincial forces raised in Plymouth colony in 1673. He was sergeant under Captain Myles Standish in 1643 ; lieutenant at Barnstable in 1652; lieutenant in Captain Standish's expedition against Manhattoes colony in 1654; chairman of council of war; lieutenant of the forces against the Saconet Indians in 1671 and captain in King Philip's war. He was one of the first purchasers of the town of Middleboro about 1662. |
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