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9 Great Grandfather

Samuel Gorton (1593–1677) was an early settler and civic leader of
the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the
towns of Providence and Warwick. He had strong religious beliefs which
differed from Puritan theology and was very outspoken, and he became the
leader of a small sect of converts known as Gortonists or Gortonites. As a
result, he was frequently in trouble with the civil and church authorities in
the New England colonies.
Samuel Gorton

9th Great Uncle

Rip Van Dam (c.1660 – 10 June 1749) was born in Holland and emigrated to
New York where he became a merchant. In 1702, he became a provincial
council member, and as the senior was appointed as the acting governor of
the Province of New York from 1731 to 1732. When the Royal governor,
William Cosby, finally arrived he demanded that Van Dam split the salary he
received for serving as acting governor. Van Dam responded by demanding
that Cosby give him half of the perquisites Cosby had received after his
appointment as governor, but before his arrival in America. This incurred
Claes Ripsen VanDam
the governor’s wrath and resulted in a lawsuit and a series of events that
contributed to the growing discontent of Colonial Americans in the area.

10th Great Uncle

Edward Fuller (1575 – winter of 1620/21) was a passenger on the historic
1620 voyage of the ship Mayflower. He was a signatory to the Mayflower
Compact and perished with his wife soon after the passengers came ashore
to their new settlement at Plymouth. After he and his wife died, their
children Samuel (age 12) and daughter Alice (age one month) were taken
into the household of his brother Dr. Samuel Fuller. They were buried in
the Coles Hill Burial Ground in Plymouth as did nearly half of the new

Edward Fuller arrivals who also died that winter.

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