Stephen Fuller, Jr

DAR Ancestor #: A042422 Private

Asa Abbott was born in Hampton, Connecticut, on May 25, 1756, died September 6, 1834.  He married Sarah Bidlack Fuller and they had 7 children.  He was her second husband.  Her first husband, Stephen Fuller, “with others taken by the Indians in the Wyoming battle on July 3, 1778, was led to a wheat field, where the Indians piled around them sheaves of wheat, and burned them to death.”  “The fort was surrounded and taken, the men cut to pieces, and the women and children perished in the flames of the barracks.”

• Find A Grave Memorial# 66122703
  • The Historical record of Wyoming Valley, Volume 2 edited by Frederick Charles Johnson, p.4. Captain In Wyoming Milita in 1775. (NB: that's his Grandfather]
• History of Ancient Windham, Ct. Genealogy: Containing a Genealogical Record of All the Early Families of Ancient Windham, Embracing the Present Towns of Windham, Mansfield, Hampton, Chaplin and Scotland. Part I. A-Bil, Part 1.  Weaver & Curtiss, 1864 - Windham (Conn. : Town) - 112 pages. page 28-29
• A History of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: From Its First Beginnings to the Present Time, Including Chapters of Newly-discovered Early Wyoming Valley History, Together with Many Biographical Sketches and Much Genealogical Material, Volume 5.  Oscar Jewell Harvey.  Raeder Press, 1909 - Wilkes-Barre (Pa.).  Page 718
• Abbott Family Genealogy