An American Family History

Fulkerson Family

Derick Fulkerson was born about 1720 and married Eleanor Sharp.

Sarah Elizabeth Fulkerson (1748, married John Stewart),
Maria Catharina Fulkerson (1752, married Nicholas Fleenor)

Frederick Fulkerson was born in Somerset County, New Jersey. He was the son of Volkert Volkerson.

Frederick married Anna Middlesworth in Hunterdon County, New Jersey about 1740.

Frederick and Anna's children included:

Susannah Fulkerson (married Thomas Bledsoe and John Stewart), and
Frederick Fulkerson

In 1758 Frederick Fulkerson appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in Rowan County, North Carolina to give security for his daughter Susannah's administration of the estate of her husband, Thomas Bledsoe.

Frederick had 1,446 acres in Rowan County, North Carolina.

He moved to Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Virginia by 1761 and had more than 800 acres along S. Mayo River in Virginia by 1766.

His holdings included a grant of 40 acres on the south side of Sandy Creek.

Granville Grant to Frederick Fulkerson
9 May 1756;
then divided
& 200 ac conveyed by Fulkerson to Susannah Stuart in her widowhood under the name of Susannah Bledsoe;
by John Stuart & sd Susannah to Henry Manadue, Senr;
from sd Manadue, Senr. to Henry Manadue, Junr; to Wm. Robertson
29 Dec 1771.
The other 300 ac by sd Fredr. Fergason to Susannah Bledsoe; from John Stuart & sd Susannah to William Robertson 1765

John Reed
s/William Robertson
Elijah Smallwood.

Captain James Fulkerson was born on June 22, 1737 in Somerset County, New Jersey. He was the son of Volkert Volkerson.

He married Mary Van Hook.

Peter Fulkerson (1764, married Margaret Craig),
Dinah Fulkerson (1766,
Jacob Fulkerson (1766, married Catherine Ewing),
Hannah Fulkerson (1769, married Benjamin Sharp),
James Fulkerson (1771),
John Fulkerson (1774, married Jane Hughes daughter of Archelaus Hughes,
Isaac Fulkerson (1776, married Rebecca Neil),
Frederick Fulkerson (1779, married Sally Bradley),
Mary Fulkerson (1781, married Abram Bradley),
Catherine Fulkerson (1783, married Jerry Clapp),
Thomas Fulkerson (1786, married Margaret Bradley), and
Abram Fulkerson (1789, married Margaret Vance).

In 1762, James received a grant for 261 acres on the "watery branch of North Hyco River" which is presently in Caswell County, North Carolina and a grant for 609 acres on both sides of Crooked Creek next to the Virginia border.

In 1764, James bought 290 acres on the west side, west fork Tararat or Stuart's Creek from Andrew Ferguson.

In 1765, James sold 408 acres of his grant to his brother, Abraham, and the rest to his nephew, Abram, son of Derick Fulkerson.

In 1767 James entered for 400 acres on the head drafts of Stewart's Creek.

About 1770, James and Mary settled in a part of Washington County, Virginia that is now Scott County. They lived near present day Burson's Corner in Washington County.

In 1772 James was one of congregation who called Reverend Charles Cummings to be the pastor of the Sinking Springs Presbyterian Church.

In 1774 the court ordered Benjamin Logan to open a road from James Fulkerson's to the wagon road at Joseph Black's (now Abingdon).

In 1777 James became a Lieutanant in the Washington County militia and served on a grand jury.

In 1777

on the motion of John Anderson for a Road to be cut from George Blackburns by James Fulkisons to the forks of the path leading to Kentucky and the mouth of Reedy Creek. It is ordered that Gilbert Christian, James Elliott, James Fulkison & William Roberts being first sworn to view the land whereon the said proposed Road is to go and make report to the next Couirt of the convenience and inconvenience of the said Road.

In 1777 James ssigned the 1777 petition of men living on the north Holston River complaining about the division of Fincastle County. They felt the line was not equitable and the court house was too far away.

In 1778 and 1780 he was on the Commission of Peace.

In 1779 he became a captian in the militia and was in the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780.

In 1781 he bought 267 acres on the Hoston River.

In 1782 he was granted a license to build a mill. In the 1782 Washington County tax list he had 22 horses and 44 cattle. He had enslaved seven people who were named Peg, Ellen, Bob, Sam, Zelph, Nannie, and Jude.

In 1784 he was a judge.

In 1786 he was bondsman for sheriff James Montgomery.

In 1789 James was sheriff.

In August, 1797, the Fulkersons hosted the future king of France, 24-year-old Louis Philippe, Duc d'Orleans (1830-1848). He wrote in Diary of Travels in America:

We dined at Major Fulkinson's 12 miles from Abingdon. The countryside we passed through was one great forest with a few bogs and almost no houses. The major has a handsome property of 150 acres that he cleared himself. He has been settled there for 24 years. There is a copious spring near the house. He is 8 miles from the main branch of the Holston River. There is a shorter road that starts up at Captain Craig's. On a further 450 acres Fulkinson thinks he has a thousand sugar maples. This sugar is excellent. There are no others in this area, and they export very little. Everyone sees to his own supply. After dinner much forest again and few houses ...

In 1797 he sold land to William Smith.

James died on on September 6, 1798.

Abraham Fulkerson was born about 1739 in Somerset County, New Jersey.

He married Sarah Gibson in Rowan County on July 2, 1766. Sarah was born about 1743.

Abraham's heirs included:

James Fulkerson (1768, married Elizabeth McMillan),
Dinah Fulkerson (1770, married James McMillan),
John Fulkerson,
Richard Fulkerson (1780, married Susannah Livingston)
Elizabeth Fulkerson (1784, married Peyton Wilcox),
Sarah Fulkerson (1786)
Nancy Fulkerson (1792, married John Hilton),
Mary Fulkerson (1794, married Nathan Livingston), and
Frederick Fulkerson (1798).

It is unlikely that Sarah is the mother of the younger children. She would have been 55 when Frederick was born.

About 1770, Abraham and his brother, James, moved their families to the part of Washington County, Virginia that became Scott County in 1814.

In 1780, Abraham fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain.

In 1782, he had land surveyed in Washington County, Virginia.

...44 ac...on both sides of a small branch of the waters of the north fork of Holston River...Beginning in a gap of the river knobs...on the south side of the Poor Valley knobs...October 23, 1782

...540 ac...Preemption Warrant...in the Poor Valley and on the waters of the north fork of Holstein [Holston] River...Beginning in a gap of the Poor Valley knobs on the west side of the Big Lick Branch...up the branch through the gap in the above valley...along the foot of the knobs...cross the valley at the foot of Clynch Mountain...on the side of the Mountain above Tally's Lick...leaving the mountain and across the valley on the north side of the Poor Valley Knobs...October 22, 1782

The 1782 property tax rolls for Washington County show that he had 16 horses, 27 head of cattle, and no slaves.

About 1783, Abraham built his house.

In 1786 Abraham was commissioned as an agent for a property sale.

15 Aug 1783. 50 acres on a branch of Clinch River, beginning &c on the south side of Newmans Ridge.
15 Aug 1783. 177 acres on the north side of Clinch River beginning below the mouth of a branch being the fourth below the Old Waggon Ford.
15 Aug 1783. 100 acres on both sides of the North fork of Clinch River adjoining Rowlers land.
1 Sep 1785. 295 acres on the north side of the North fork of Holstein [Holston] River and on the Poor Valley Knobs.
2 Jan 1794. 70 acres on the south side of the North fork of Holstein [Holston] River adjoining Anthony Bledsoe.
4 Jan 1794. 99 acres in the Poor Valley on the waters of the North fork of Holstein [Holston] River.
11 Oct 1796. 86 acres on the head of Little Stock Creek including a large Cove.
14 Jan 1800. 150 acres on both sides of Big Lick Branch in the Poor Valley, adjoining his own land.
14 Jan 1800. 116 acres on the south side of the North fork of Holstein [Holston] River adjoining Anthony Bledsoe.
6 Mar 1811. 25 acres on the north side of the North fork of Holstein [Holston] River.

On November 24, 1814, Abraham was appointed as a commissioner in Scott County.

John Fulkerson was born about 1755.

He served in the American Revolution. On September 1, 1777 he was assigned to Major James Shelby's command. They marched from Virginia to Fort Mackintosh in the Ohio Valley, then back to Virginia for the winter, and returned in the spring of 1778 "with pack horses loaded with flour to supply the soldiers stationed at Forts Pitt and Mackintosh." He was discharged in May, 1778, but reenlisted later in 1778, again driving pack horses from Virginia to North Carolina and from Virginia to Tennessee, for another nine or ten months.

In 1780 he was among the overmountain men who fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain.

He married. Elizabeth King on September 8, 1789 in Washington County, Virginia.

Abraham Fulkerson (1792),
Alexander Fulkerson (1793),
Thomas Fulkerson (1794),
James Fulkerson (1797, married Elizabeth Waddell),
Allen S. Fulkerson (1801, married Ruth Gott),
Isaac Fulkerson (1802).

They moved to Tennessee by 1793.