| 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 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. |
| A Quaker man and wife are led to execution in Boston. |
 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
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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."
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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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The Fulkerson DNA Project - Begun in 2007, it is seeking interested participants.
Buy An Ancestor Online - Is your ancestry tired and sluggish? Maybe you need to UPGRADE!!!
(This is the most popular page on the Fulkerson site....sometimes reaching up to 1,000 visits in a single day.)
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 |
We need to help these cousins find their way
back to New Amsterdam!
Theodore ROOSEVELT - Third from the left
Thomas Alva EDISON - Invented or made practical many of our modern conveniences: electricity, electric light, the telephone, audio recording, X-ray fluoroscopy and motion pictures
Anna Eleanor ROOSEVELT - First Lady
Franklin D. ROOSEVELT - Sustained America through the Depression and WWII
The BOGART Connection - It's the stuff that dreams are made of.
John CHANCELLOR - NBC Nightly News Anchorman from 1970 to 1982
Gary TRUDEAU - the first "comic strip artist" to win a Pulitzer Prize (1975)
A FINAL NOTE ABOUT DISTINGUISHED COUSINS: In my own FULKERSON-FARLEY branch from Somerset County, New Jersey, we are cousins to three of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore - Roosevelt, Washington and Jefferson - and also to President Barack Obama.
PRIVACY POLICY
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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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