Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

FULLER.
Samuel Fuller, son of Edward and Ann Fuller, came over in
the Mayflower, in 1620. His parents died soon after they came
came on shore,* and he resided at Plymouth with his uncle Samuel,
the first physician who came to settle in our country. He
had throe shares at the division of lands in 1624, Mr. Savage
presumes out of respect to his father and mother. He was executor
of his uncle's will in 1633, and was a freeman of the Colony
in 1634. From Plymouth he removed to Scituate, where he married,
April 8, 1635, Jane, daughter of Rev. John Lothrop. Nov.
7, 1636, he joined the church at Scituate, having a letter of dismission
from the Plymouth church, of which he had been a member.
He built, in 1636, the fifteenth house in Scituate, on Greenfield,
the first lot abuting on Kent street. He had twenty acres
of land on the east of Bellhouse Neck, in that town. Mr. Deane
calls him "a man of Kent," from which country many of the first
settlers in Barnstable came.
Samuel Fuller, as appears by the church records, was in
Barnstable as early as 1641, but it does not appear that he was
inhabitant of the town till after the 1st of Januarj' 1644. His
brother, Capt. Matthew, the earliest regular physician in Barnstable,
came a few years later. They bought of Secunke, Indian,
Scorton or Sandy Neck, that is, so much of it as lies within the
boundaries of the town of Barnstable. The arable land in the
purchase was set off to the Fullers, the remainder, including the
meadows, was reserved as town's commons and afterwards divid-
ed.
Samuel Fuller also bought meadow of his brother Matthew
that was Major John Freeman's, and meadow of Samuel House,
and owned land on Scorton Hill. He had a good estate for those
*This ifc the expression used by Gov. Bradford, who knew the parties. Mr. Z. Eddy
says the "Wid. Ann Fuller died in Barnstable in 1663, aged 79 years. I find no corroboration
of the latter statouirut.