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- "Joseph Fuller, third son of John Fuller, and know as Capt. Fuller, was born in 1652, and married December 13, 1680, Lydia, daughter of Edward Jackson of Newton. His father-in-law* gave him twenty acres of land, from the west end of the Mayhew farm of five hundred acres, which he bought of Gov. Simon Bradstreet in 1646 for $140,-- which Bradstreet bought of Thomas Mayhew of Watertown in 1638, with the building and six cows. This tract commenced near what is now the division line between Newton and Brighton, and extended westward, including what is now Newtonville, and covering the site of General hull's place, now owned by Governor Claflin. Here Joseph Fuller built his house, and this twenty acres , together with about two hundred inherited from his father, formed the farm which descended to his son Joseph, his son Abraham, and his great-granddaughter Sarah, who married William Hull. In 1814 William Hull built a new house, on the same spot where Joseph Fuller's stood for one hundred and thirty years. The house built by Gen. Hull was, after the death of his widow and the sale of the estate, removed to the vicinity of the railroad station once called "Hull's Crossing," now Newtonville, to make room for the house built by Governor Claflin, who bought the property, and who is the third bearing that title who has owned it,--Gov. Bradstreet, Gov. Hull and Gov. Claflin. The large elm tree still standing near the house was, according to a family tradition, a riding switch, planted by Joseph Fuller the first; and there remained until about 1830, in the hall, a pair of deer's horns, the original wearer of which was shot from his front door by the same Joseph. He was captain of the Newton Horse Company, and it was he who in 1735 gave a traning field to them, which was used for this purpose for several years. Mr. Jackson says, "The town discontinued both the training field and the old road which led to it, in 1787, and laid out a straight road near it, and the old road and the Common reverted to Judge Fuller, and he paid the town two pounds". Joseph Fuller died january 5, 1740, aged eighty-eight years; his wife Lydia, in 1726, aged seventy years. *Deed of gift.--Edward Jackson to Joseph and Lydia Fuller, 1680. This present witnesseth that I, Edward Jackson, have given to Joseph Fuller, and to my daughter Liddia his wife, Twenty accers of land lying and being vppon the South West corner of the farme which I bought from Mr. Bradstreete, and also I have sold some tenne accers more alloyning to the forsayd Twenty, as it is layd out and Bounded by David Fiske of Cambridgee bounds Surveyor; also I doe by these presentd acknowledge that I receaved the sume of six pounds in money in, and his father John Fuller is to pay sixeteene more as followeth, upon the first of March in the year 1681, and five pounds in the first of March, 1682, and the last five pounds on the first of March 1683, the which somes beeing so payd as above expressed, I doe by these presents assigne and make over to the above named Joseph Fuller and to his heires forever, to have and to hold without any just mollestation of me, my heires, Executors and Administrators, or any of vs: In witness hereof, I have set to my hand and seale. Edward Jackson witnessed by John Mason and Isaac Bacon. " page 781
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