The New Amsterdam Days
New Amsterdam is too often overlooked or overshadowed in American colonial history — by the earlier Virginia 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, coleslaw, 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.
- Dirck Volckertszen De Noorman – the 1st Fulkerson, in Dutch New Amsterdam
- Guillaume and Adrienne VIGNE – Walloons in Dutch New York
- Jan VIGNE – a first in New Netherland
- A Bad Apple on the Family Tree – he decimated Manhattan…twice
- New Netherland in 1644 – a French priest’s description of the colony
- The Flying Angel – she was banished from North America
- In Their Own Words – quotes from and about New Amsterdam
- OUR New York Real Estate – Carl Sagan was looking at this picture — not at the sky — when he said, “Billions and billions and billions.”
Maps
- 1639 Map of New Amsterdam Region – including Dirck’s Long Island property
- 1660 Map of New Amsterdam – plan of the city, showing locations of Fulkerson and Vigne properties
- 1675 Map of New York – showing “De Normans Kill” where Dirck Volckertszen De Noorman lived
The Colonial Period
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.
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
- Captain James Fulkerson – an “Overmountain” citizen and patriot
- Caleb FULKERSON – marching forward and backward for his life
- Captain Philip FULKERSON – in the American Revolution
- Joseph FULKERSON’s 1832 Statement – about his brother Caleb’s Revolutionary War service
- Revolutionary War Rosters – some of the sources from which the foregoing was gleaned
Revolutionary War Pension Document Images
[NOTE: Most of the images are reduced to fit your computer screen, but retain a high quality resolution for printing.]
- Caleb FULKERSON….of upstate NY (28 pages)
- Henry FULKERSON….of NJ (16 pages)
- John FULKERSON….of Grayson Co., KY (22 pages)
- John FULKERSON….of Washington Co., TN (15 pages)
- John FULKERSON….of Beaver Co., PA (14 pages)
- John FULKERSON….of Northumberland Co., PA (12 pages)
- Joseph FULKERSON….of Ohio (21 pages)
- William FULKERSON….of NJ (15 pages)
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
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).
- 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
- 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
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.
- 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”
Pure Gold
- Pirates!!! – the privateers in our family from the New Amsterdam days through the Revolution and Civil War
- Current Special – The Fulkerson Winery, in a 57-second video showing the vineyards and tasting room.
- Historical Figures – our family connections to some famous people
- 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