Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Archippus Fuller

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 140 
  • Father:
  • Seth Fuller 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Wright   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 May 1721 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 May 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • Hartford, Windsor, Vermont 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Christian Street Cemetery, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Maria Rider
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Sep 1753 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Consider Fuller (Ahnentafel No:70 )

  Seth Fuller

  Samuel Fuller

  Polly Fuller

  Mariah Fuller

  • Notes: 

  • Published sources, including some of the Mayflower Silver books, give Archippus Fuller's birthdate as 27 MAY 1721, while others have it as 17 MAY 1721. However, a look at the original handwritten entry in the Plympton town records clearly shows the date as 17 MAY 1721.

• Additional marriages for Archippus Fuller

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Pratt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Aug 1748
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Archippus Fuller

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/07/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Archippus Fuller.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plympton, Vol. 1, p. 103, Birth record for Archippus Fuller.
  • ⁴ Dana, Henry Swan, History of Woodstock, Vermont, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1889), 599.
  • ⁵ Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 56.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 323-324.
  • ⁸ Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 10, Samuel Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 16, 40-41.
  • ⁹ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 23, 66-67, gives Archippus's birth date as 27 MAY 1721.
  • ¹⁰ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 39.
  • ¹¹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 194, 492-493.

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