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New
Amsterdam is too often overlooked or overshadowed in
American colonial history — by the earlier Viriginia
settlement which gave birth to the Southern plantation
economy, and by the Massachusetts Bay Colony which bred
religious extremism that rivaled today's Islamic
radicalism. New Amsterdam, in fact, contributed far
more to the American culture than either of them.
New Amsterdam gave us bowling, Christmas and New Year
celebrations, cookies, cole slaw, the first organized
church in America, ice skating, log cabins, magicians,
pancakes, property ownership for women, public education
for both sexes, religious tolerance, the right of dissent,
the rule of law, street paving, and tennis.
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The
Colonial Period
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The
Pilgrims gave us Thanksgiving. For
many of us, that's all we know about Colonial American
history. But the good Pilgrims also spent decades
persecuting
peaceful Quaker men and women –
hanging some from an elm
tree on Boston Common, others at Gallows Hill. On
occasion the Pilgrims were merciful – they merely
escorted the Quakers to the Connecticut border....but at
every little town along the route, they stripped them
naked and whipped them in the public square. That part of
Massachusetts history never got into our school books,
and so we spent every November during our childhood
idolizing the Pilgrims.
In
the meantime, our
Fulkerson ancestors labored to create more progressive
and democratic colonies in New Jersey, New York, North
Carolina and Virginia.
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A
Quaker man and wife are led to execution in Boston.
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 Early
New York and New Jersey Records -
FULKERSON (and some VIGNE) family baptisms, marriages,
property, livestock, etc.
The
Harlingen Tract - maps of
where we lived, about 300 years ago
Pop-up
Window
Harlingen
Tract Photos - views of
the land our family occupied
1733
Letter - concerning an
inheritance of Philip VOLKERSE and wife Mettie
1740
Will of Philip VOLKERSE
Witchcraft
- Caleb and Joseph FULKERSON's great
grandmother Sarah GODFREY accused her neighbor of murdering
her brother using witchcraft.
1752
Will of Derrick
VOLKERSON
Family
Migrations - during the
American Colonial Era
 The
First Cherokee War -
Hannah Fulkerson's husband Benjamin Sharp describes the
peril of frontier life in Southwest Virginia
The
American Revolution
Fulkersons
in the Revolution -
Privates, Sergeants, Lieutenants and Captains: 20
Fulkersons and Fulkerson descendants on the
roster, plus a
map and brief history of Somerset County's role in the
Revolution
Updated
Jan 2008
Captain
James Fulkerson - an
"Overmountain" citizen and patriot
Updated
Oct 2007 with images of 12 documents from the 1780s and
1790s
Caleb
FULKERSON - marching
forward and backward for his life
Revolutionary
War Pension Document Images New
- October 2007
[NOTE:
Most of the images are reduced to fit your computer screen,
but retain a high quality resolution for printing.]
Captain
Philip FULKERSON - in the
American Revolution
Joseph
FULKERSON's 1832 Statement -
about his brother Caleb's Revolutionary War service
UPDATED -
January 2005
Revolutionary
War Rosters - some of the
sources from which the foregoing was gleaned
NEW -
2009
Early
Days of a New Nation
The
1793 Will of Frederick FULKERSON -
a Planter and Slave Owner of Patrick County, Virginia
Hostilities
on the Frontier - Two
Fulkersons signed a letter requesting protection from Indian
raids
Frontier
Medicine in 1812 - Jacob
FULKERSON of Kentucky elected to have surgery
FULKERSONS
in the War of 1812 - 11
Fulkersons known to have served in this almost forgotten and
nearly catastrophic war
Log
Cabins on the Frontier -
Peter Graham FULKERSON tells about ingenuity and survival
beyond the reaches of civilization
Daniel
BOONE - a friend of the
family
Slavery:
People Owning People -
the Fulkerson family shared much in common with historical
American institutions, including slave ownership
List
now includes 32 Fulkersons
Catherine
FULKERSON Ross - the
Governor's Mom
Horace
FULKERSON - the Agent
Lt.
Col. Wm. H. FULKERSON -
Andrew Jackson, the Pony Express & more
Recollections
of Ralph Judson FULKERSON -
about his grandparents, Philip Adam FULKERSON (1814-1904)
and Mary Jane FULKERSON in 1850's Missouri
Sarah
FULKERSON and Ambrose CAIN -
on the Texas frontier in 1859, and their 1880 journal of a
train trip to Oregon
The
American Civil War
Cousins
Fighting Cousins
- a roster of 216
Fulkersons who took sides - and 35 who died - during the
most significant event in our nation's history.
FULKERSON
STATISTICS in the Civil War -
a state by state reckoning of how many Fulkersons served —
both Union and Confederate — including the number of
officers, POWs and deaths.
FULKERSON
Records from the US War Office -
service and pension records for some of the Fulkersons who
served in the Civil War (includes a few records from later
19th Century service).
New
- September 2009
Col.
Abram FULKERSON - of
Chickamauga and the 47th Congress
Col.
Abram FULKERSON - comes
alive in the 21st Century
Isaac
D. FULKERSON - he had her
oiled and tarred before firing her
Quantrill's
Raid - two Fulkersons die
in Lawrence, Kansas raid
Kate
FULKERSON - some people
just weren't on the guest list
Col.
Samuel V. FULKERSON - he
rode with Stonewall Jackson
Updated
2008
Saml.
V. FULKERSON Letters -
writing from the battlefields of the Civil War
Six
Brothers in the Civil War -
a first-hand tale of one family
The
1864 Brandy Raid - yes,
war can be ruthless
Maj.
Gen. William S. ROSECRANS -
Abe Lincoln thought Bill was a duck
Jacob
THOMPSON - "Yo-ho-ho
and a bottle of mint juleps"
...or is this GONE WITH THE WIND ???
Tennessee
Civil War Veterans Questionnaire -
- Peter Graham Fulkerson responds to questions about the
War...and about life in a slave state before the War
Fighting
for Freedom - former
Fulkerson slaves joined the Union Army
Into
the Wild West
Fulkersons
on the Oregon Trail - a
roster of Fulkersons who made the crossing, in chronological
order by decades
James
Monroe FULKERSON - life
and death on the Oregon Trail
in 1847
Monroe
FULKERSON - left medical
school to return to the Old West
Thomas
HARRIS - my
ggg-grandfather's daily journal of Montana pioneer life
Sarah
FULKERSON and Ambrose CAIN -
from Texas to Oregon by train in 1880
A
Daughter Remembers -
Sarah FULKERSON's daughter Emma CAIN wrote a memoir about
growing up on the Texas frontier in the 1860s. When she was
23 she wrote a diary of her trip to Oregon by train and
steamship.
New
- September 2009....courtesy
of Norma Reynolds of Oregon
California
"Wine Country" Fulkersons -
vines spring from Kentucky roots
G-String
Jack FULKERSON - that's
why they called it the Wild West
Dead
on the Plain - "With
naught but the storm around him"
More
Gold
Pirates!!!
- the privateers in our family from the New
Amsterdam days through the Revolution and Civil War
NEW
2003
Current
Special - The
Fulkerson Winery, in a 57-second video showing the vineyards
and tasting room.
New
March 2010
Historical
Figures - our family
connections to some famous people
Updated
March 2006
The
Fulkerson Family Coat of Arms -
because every week is scam prevention week
Chase
Fulkerson, American Doughboy in WWI -
a story long forgotten, but endlessly
repeated
The
Fulkerson Birthday Tradition -
you can spend your first 79 years dreading this day!
Our
Norwegian Heritage - you
can't fight the INS
The
2005 Fulkerson Farm Bicentennial ~
Pictures from the Trip
Just
A Little More ~ SP4
Robert Fulkerson, US Army Medical Corps, Vietnam
Era....speaking out on the homefront
Life's Mysteries Solved
Here:
"A discriminating irreverence is
the creator and protector of human liberty."
Mark Twain
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Can't
find your ancestors in the pages below? Help is usually just
an E-MAIL
away.
My
FULKERSON Branch - names,
dates, places and a story or two
The
First American-born Generation of FULKERSONS
- more than 350 years ago
Updated
September 2009 to list one family's 26 children
Family
Tree Diagram - a
fast-loading look at the first six Fulkerson generations and
how they migrated, in an INTERACTIVE family tree format.
The
FULKERSONS in 18th-Century New Jersey
- This is the CORE page for the genealogies
listed below. It
also follows some of the smaller branches Westward into many
states, including those listed below.
Updated June
2010
Volkert
VOLKERTSON - to the
hostile frontiers in Virginia and North Carolina,
then West to
Kentucky, Missouri and other states.
Updated
June 2010
Descendants
of Captain James FULKERSON -
in Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri and points West
Updated
May 2010
Descendants
of Abraham FULKERSON - in
Virginia, Missouri and on the Oregon Trail. Also includes
photographs of his 1783 house.
Updated
June 2010
Fulkard
FULKERSON went to
Kentucky and founded the largest branch
of Fulkersons. Descendants
went on to settle in Indiana, Illinois and the California
wine country in the 1800s.
Updated
May 2010
Research
on the BRUNER wives of his sons John and Philip.
NEW February 2010
Descendants
of Captain Philip FULKERSON -
in Kentucky. Later
generations appeared in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and
Texas.
Updated
May 2010
Illinois
FULKERSONS - from New
Jersey and Virginia
Updated
May 2010
Upstate
New York FULKERSONS -
many took a northern detour before heading West
Updated
June 2010
FARLEY
- through their mother, two New York FULKERSON
brothers, Caleb and Joseph FULKERSON descended from the
English FARLEY family that emigrated to Massachusetts
HUNGERFORD
- these FARLEY ancestors were knights and
barons, going back to the 1300s
Ohio
FULKERSON Branches -
emigrating from New Jersey and New York.
Some went on
to Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa and Oregon.
Updated May
2010
Early
Pennsylvania FULKERSONS -
known branches, plus 20+ unknown
FULKERSONS . Later
descendants are found in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Updated
May 2010
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Reality Check:
"The
man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious
ancestors, is like a potato - the only good belonging to
him is underground."
Thomas Overbury
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need to help these cousins find their way
back to New
Amsterdam!
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR:
Bob
Fulkerson has lived in northern
California, southern Illinois, New York City, Oklahoma,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. He
attended West Valley College and San Jose State
University, served in the Army medical corps during the
war, and went on to assist veterans for more than two
decades in VA hospitals. In recent years he became a
licensed journeyman electrician.
Beginning in
1995, Bob learned that there WAS a Fulkerson family
history, but found it was in small pieces scattered
across the country. With the help of more than 500
cousins, he built this site to gather, research and
organize the family history in one place where you could
easily find it. Bob and your cousins sincerely hope you
enjoy your visit to the site. .
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