Individual Details
Stephen Fuller
(22 Jan 1755 - 3 Jul 1778)
Stephen Fuller was killed in an Indian Massacre in Wyoming, Pennsylvania.
He, with others taken by the Indians in the Wyoming battle, July 3, 1778, was led to a wheat field, where the Indians piled around them stieaves 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. A few escaped by flight, Mrs Fuller, with some others, went in boats down the Susquehanna to Northumberland, and in about fourteen days returned to the battle-field to seek the body of her husband. She found the heads of the men scalped, and their bodies so cut, bruised and torn, and altered by the summer heat, that she could not recognize an individual.
From this distressing scene she went to her house, hoping to obtain some clothing and provision ; but the Indians and Tories had been there. The feathers of her bed were emptied on the floor, and her bedding, clothes, furniture and provisions all taken away. About the evening twilight she went to the river, and called to the boatmen to take her across; but they, fearing there might be Indians or Tories lying in wait to kill them, would not go
for her. She therefore passed alone the anxious, fearful night. Soon after she returned to Hampton, Ct. on horseback, accompanied only by her daughter, two or three years old, who afterwards married Judge Ebenezer Griflin, of Hampton, Ct. She afterwards married 5 Asa Abbot.
Abbott Genealogy book, p 55
He, with others taken by the Indians in the Wyoming battle, July 3, 1778, was led to a wheat field, where the Indians piled around them stieaves 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. A few escaped by flight, Mrs Fuller, with some others, went in boats down the Susquehanna to Northumberland, and in about fourteen days returned to the battle-field to seek the body of her husband. She found the heads of the men scalped, and their bodies so cut, bruised and torn, and altered by the summer heat, that she could not recognize an individual.
From this distressing scene she went to her house, hoping to obtain some clothing and provision ; but the Indians and Tories had been there. The feathers of her bed were emptied on the floor, and her bedding, clothes, furniture and provisions all taken away. About the evening twilight she went to the river, and called to the boatmen to take her across; but they, fearing there might be Indians or Tories lying in wait to kill them, would not go
for her. She therefore passed alone the anxious, fearful night. Soon after she returned to Hampton, Ct. on horseback, accompanied only by her daughter, two or three years old, who afterwards married Judge Ebenezer Griflin, of Hampton, Ct. She afterwards married 5 Asa Abbot.
Abbott Genealogy book, p 55
Events
| Birth | 22 Jan 1755 | Windham, Windham, Connecticut | |||
| Marriage | Abt 1777 | Sarah Bidlack | |||
| Death | 3 Jul 1778 | Wyoming, Luzerne, Pennsylvania |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Bidlack (1756 - ) |
| Child | Mary Fuller (1778 - 1800) |
| Father | Stephen Fuller (1730 - 1813) |
| Mother | Mary Abbott (1732 - 1803) |
| Sibling | Abigail Fuller (1752 - 1834) |
| Sibling | Thomas Fuller (1757 - 1778) |
| Sibling | Mary Fuller (1759 - 1810) |
| Sibling | John Fuller (1762 - 1817) |
| Sibling | Reuben Fuller (1769 - 1837) |
| Sibling | Hannah Fuller (1772 - 1817) |