This collection of family papers contains a book of receipts, 1759-1763, apparently kept by Captain John Anderson, who family tradition connects with Alexander Hamilton. Anderson's daughter Affie Brower Anderson (b. 1753) married Sylvester Fuller (1753-1815) in 1776.
Their son, Alfonso Theodore Poster Fuller (1792-1857) and his wife Mary Swain, had thirteen children. The eldest son, Emelius Woods Fuller, a steamboat Captain, was captured and held prisoner by the Union army in 1863, where he wrote letters to his wife Mary B. Fuller on the blank leaves in Mrs. Wirt's Flora's Dictionary. His sister, Adela Romaine Fuller, married a Cox who was Earl Blake Cox's grandfather.
Captain E. W. Fuller's daughter, Mary Rozealia Anderson Fuller, who died in 1922, had married Nathaniel Pritchard Millard (1819-1879) on November 18, 1857. Millard was a sawmill operator in Louisiana and kept a diary from 1856-1859. His daughter married Adela Cox's son Edward Wirt Cox and their children were Earl Blake and Edna L. Cox. In this manner both A. T. F. Fuller and his son E. W. Fuller were E. B. Cox's great-grandfathers.
The collection contains: Receipt book, 1759-1771, New York, presumed to be John Anderson's; Diary of Nathaniel P. Milliard, 1856-1859, Louisiana sawmill operator; Letters of E. W. Fuller, 1863, while in Union prisoner of war camps; Fuller's portrait; Donor file; and Flora's Dictionary, by E. W. Wirt, interleaved with Fuller's letters.
The letters of E. W. Fuller written in Flora's Dictionary by Elizabeth Washington Wirt
(Baltimore: F. Lucas, Jr., 1837) have been digitized and are available as
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This collection is open and available for research use. (Restrictions on viewing, originally placed in 1969, have since expired.)
Copyright restrictions apply. Publications rights were retained by Earl B. Cox and Edna L. Cox.
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Earl Blake Cox Family Papers, 1759-1863 (Cage 93)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Earl B. and Edna L. Cox donated these materials to the WSU Library, 1962-1969.
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