Caledonia

FULLER, Thomas

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 332 (extracted from a 
section on the history of Hardwick, Caledonia County, Vermont)

Thomas FULLER was a native of Cape Cod* [Barnstable County, Massachusetts], 
and early left an orphan. At the age of sixteen he went to Hardwick 
[Worcester County], Massachusetts, where some years after he married Lydia, 
daughter of Colonel PAGE, and in 1798 removed to Hardwick [Caledonia County], 
Vermont. He was of Puritan descent, and strictly carried out their 
principles in the training of his family, and matters pertaining to the 
church and society generally. His public spirit and capability to serve the 
town gave him frequent offices and the confidence of the people. He aided in 
the organization of the first Congregational Church, and was elected its 
first Deacon, an office he held until his [Thomas FULLER's] death, in 1823. 
[* Cape Cod is today comprised of fifteen towns: Barnstable, Bourne, 
Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Falmouth, Harwich, Mashpee, Orleans, 
Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Wellfleet, and Yarmouth.]

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