Individual Details

Military

*Peter Fuller: Monson (Roxbury) MA, services as follows: Capt. Freeborn Moulton's (Monson) Co. of Minutemen, Col. Danielson's regt. which marched on the alarm of Apr 19, 1775; Corporal, Capt. Joseph Thompson's Co., Col. Timothy Danielson's regt, also private Capt. Nathan Rowle's co, Col. John Jacob's regt. DAR Lineage Book Vol LXXX, 1910, 79883 p 323 per Mary Ellen Wright, Illinois.


FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

The following information from:
A History of Hampden County Massachussetts, Our Country and Its People,
Editor, Alfred Minot Copeland, Vol. II, Century Memorial Publishing, 1902.

Expedition Against Canada, 1758
PRIVATE in Captain Daniel Burts Company, ibid. pg. 470.
In this company, Peter served with his future brother-in-law Samuel Mighell who was also a private.

CORPORAL in Captain Trustram Davis' Company, 1760, ibid. pg. 471.
In this company, Peter served with two future brother-in-laws, Sergeant Samuel Mighell, and Private Aaron Mighell.

The following information was included regarding a member of Peter Fuller's company:
"Rueben Townsley [of Captain Davis' Company] was taken captive by the Indians, and was subjected to their favorite ordeal of running the gauntlet. Despite this trying reception, he became a favorite with his captors, was adopted into the tribe, and lived with the red men for ten years. He then returned to Brimfield, but finding civilized life distasteful, went back to the forest, where he passed the rest of his days.", ibid pg. 471

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

The following information from:
DAR Lineage Book, Vol. LXXX, 1910, 79883, pg. 323.

PRIVATE in Capt. Freeborn Moulton's (Monson) Company of Minutemen, Col. Timothy Danielson's Regiment. Marched in the alarm of April 19, 1775. Left Cambridge May 6, 1775; service 21 days.

PRIVATE, Nathan Rowles Company, Col. John Jacobs Regiment.

CORPORAL, Capt. Joseph Thompson's Company, Col. Timothy Danielson's Regiment; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 12, 1775; service two months, 25 days; company return dated Roxbury, Oct. 6, 1775; order for bounty coat or its equiv. in money Nov. 10, 1775.

The following taken from:
Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 - 1783, John E. Goodrich, 1904.

Listed as SERGEANT, then LIEUTENANT, Lemuel Hyde's company of Militia, Col. Webster's Regiment, who were called out in the defense of this state by order of Maj. Clark in Oct. 1780. IBid pg. 223

Listed as LIEUTENANT, Capt. Lemuel Hyde's company of Militia, Col. Warren's Regiment for service done in Alarm of Oct. 1781.
Ibid, pg. 518

In Lemuel Hyde's Company, Peter served with William and John Meacham. Peter's son Alvan married John Meacham's daughter, Sarah Meacham.

DAR record

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 80 page 323

Mrs. Mamie Bourquin Hicks.
Born in Shreveport, La.
Wife of S. B. Hicks.
Descendant of Peter Fuller.
Daughter of G. A. Bourquin (1842-89) and Margaret Iler (b. 1847), his wife, m. 1869.
[p.323] Granddaughter of William Iler (1812-1903) and Delinda Fuller (1817-1903), his wife, m. 1836.
Gr-granddaughter of Marvin Fuller (1787-1838) and Margaret Harmon (1790-1823), his wife, m. 1811.
Gr-gr-granddaughter of Peter Fuller and Submit Mighells (d. 1810), his wife, m. 1760.
Peter Fuller responded to the Lexington Alarm in Capt. Joseph Thompson's company, Col. Timothy Danielson's regiment, Massachusetts troops. He resided in Roxbury, Mass., during the Revolution; died 1811.