Sarah Fuller, Sarah Hull

Female

April 27, 1759

August 21, 1826

Newton, MA

William Hull (1781)

Sarah Fuller Hull was born in Newton, MA in 1759 to Judge Abraham Fuller and Sarah Dyer Fuller. She married William Hull in 1781. A biographical work about women of the Revolution indicates that Sarah was one of the women who traveled with her husband to the front, and notes her presence at the Battle of Saratoga, which occurred prior to her marriage. The couple had nine children and adopted a nephew.

"Judge Fuller and Lady were well. Mrs Fuller desir’d me to tell you that she sent her most affectionate regards to you and hop’d to see you again in your own country. She was with her Daughter who is in a poor State of health her lungs are dissorder’d. She has three children two Daughters and a son, but the poor little Fellow was very sick. He is a Beautiful Boy about six months old. The colln. has a fine countinance and is a fine Figure. They appear to be very happy. She has an excellent temper and inherites her mamas benevolence. They live near Watertown Bridge, have a very hansome house, and tis very well furnish’d. She is much improv’d by her camp life."
Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams Braintree September 24th 1786 regarding a visit to the Hull's house. Accessed at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-07-02-0129 ...March 19, 2024
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Campbell, Maria Hull, Mrs. Revolutionary services and civil life of General William Hull. D. Appleton & Co, 1848, https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/revolutionaryse00camp accessed on March 19, 2024

Cranch, Mary Smith to Abigail Adams, September 24th 1786
Massachusetts Historical Society
Accessed at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-07-02-0129 March 19, 2024.

Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) The women of the American Revolution 1848, accessed at https://archive.org/details/womenofamericanr11848elle/page/146/mode/2up?q=fuller March 19, 2024