Individual Details

Son of John and Abigail Tilton Fillmore.
At a young age he was apprenticed to a ship carpenter in Boston and in 1723 was among the men who boarded the sloop "Dolphin" for an extended fishing voyage. The boat was seized by the pirate John Phillips and Fillmore, with others, was held prisoner for several months with the promise of eventual release which did not come. After about nine months he planned and executed his escape by helping overpower the officers aboard the Dolphin, and reclaimed possession of it. They immediately went to Boston. This was the first and last time John went to sea.
He married first in 1724, Mary Spiller of Ipswich, Massachusetts and removed to Norwich West Farms (present town of Franklin, Connecticut). He later married Dorcas Day.

Birth	18 Mar 1701	Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts
Marriage	28 Nov 1724	Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts - Mary Abigail Spiller
Marriage	26 Jun 1735	Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts - Dorcas Day
Death	22 Feb 1777	Franklin, New London County, Connecticut
Burial		Plains Cemetery, Franklin, New London County, Connecticut

Spouse	Dorcas Day (1715 - 1759)
Child	Dorcas Fillmore (1735 - 1816)
Child	Jemima Fillmore (1737 - 1741)
Child	Miriam Fillmore (1738 - 1807)
Child	Lieut. Nathaniel Fillmore (1739 - 1814)
Child	Ebenezer Fillmore (1740 - )
Child	Comfort Fillmore (1741 - 1814)
Child	Amaziah Fillmore (1743 - 1762)
Child	Mimee Fillmore (1745 - )
Child	Lydia Ann Fillmore ( - 1824)
Child	Luther Fillmore (1749 - 1809)
Child	Calvin Fillmore (1752 - 1753)
Child	Deborah Fillmore (1755 - 1781)
Child	Deliverance Fillmore (1757 - )

Spouse	Mary Abigail Spiller (1707 - 1733)
Child	John Filmore Jr (1726 - 1796)
Child	Abigail Fillmore (1728 - )

Father	John Fillmore (1676 - 1711)
Mother	Abigail Tilton (1679 - 1727)
Sibling	Ebenezer Fillmore (1706 - 1780)
Sibling	Abigail Fillmore ( - 1717)

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