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Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
about Ephraim Fuller
Name: Ephraim Fuller
[Ephraim Ffuller]
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 8 Sep 1711
Birth Location: East Haddam
Parent Name: Shuball
Parent Name: Hannah



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Dear List:
At present, nothing is known about Ephraim Fuller's birth nor
family.
In the Hart Genealogy, by Alfred Andrews, it was noted that Ephraim's
daughter Mary, married Benjamin Hart in 1772. There it was stated
that her father, Ephraim came from Berlin. I surmise that he came from a
Fuller family in the early Town of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Later a
part of that Town became part of Berlin, Connecticut., in the North-east s ection of
Berlin, known as "Beckley Quarter" See "History of Berlin, Connecticut ", by Katherine M.
Norton, Published by Tuttle & Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1915. "Sgt Beckley
first settler of Berlin came from New Haven to Beckley Quarter, which was
part of Wethersfield in 1660." In 1670 Wethersfield confirmed the Grant, b ut
officially Berlin was organized in May of 1783 from Farmington,
Middletown and Wethersfield. "Fuller, Ephraim Weth. bot ld in Tyringham [ Mass] Equivalent
in 1770". Conn. Quarterly Vol. II. pg 397. A check on this transaction in
the County Court of Records in Pittsfield shows that Tyringham Equivale nt was
a section of land that eventually became East Otis, Massachusetts. It was
called an" Equivalent" because two different groups of early colonists wer e
given the same land in Tyringham. Today that is swamp land, but in the
Colonial times that area was valuable for it was a supply area for wood us ed in
basketry and in keg manufacture, and for the growing of Hops, for the la nd is
called "Hoplands" to this day. As a settlement of the dispute, "Tyringham
Equivalent", land now in East Otis, Massachusetts, was offered and
accepted by a group of Colonists. The survey of the area was made by a
Wethersfield man, Joale ? Griswold, Surveyor for Hartford County, and t he land
was then known as "Louden". Ephraim had, indeed purchased "Lott" # 7 on
the survey on March 1, 1770 from Return Holcomb of Tyringham for £25 [Vo l. 6
Pg 535].
Later in 1795 he sold a part for £10 to Jacob Cook and his son
Jacob Jr. I find no record of the rest of the land being sold. or transfer red.
Ephraim Fuller ran "Fuller's Tavern" located on Berlin Street
in that Town. See Katherine Norton. Where it was stated: "Elisha Cheny
probably came to Berlin as early as 1793,....they lived for a time on Berl in
Street in the house known as Fuller's Tavern, now owned by the Atwater
family". This Tavern is mentioned in "Washington's Travels in New England ", by
Charles Eugene Cleghorn III "The president lodged the night of Nov. 9-10
[1789] in Hartford, then had breakfast on the 10th at 7:00 AM in the taver n
of Ephraim Fuller in Berlin, constructed in 1769 and standing at 1055
Worthington Ridge Road".
Census Records for Hartford County for 1790 discloses an Ephraim Fuller i n
Berlin. His # therein was 449.
.
Who is Ephraim Fuller?

Ken Larsen

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