"The Cisco Kid"

AND THE MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS OF RUTH FULLER FRANCISCO

 (Author's note: There is a thin line between research and destiny. I realized I was crossing it when I went searching for Jefferson County, Indiana, Records, for an ancestor of Paige's -- and found a digital trail -- one that shared my name: Jeff Record. (www.myindianahome.net/gen/jeff/records/bio/biosf.html) The link is defunct now—a ghost of a website haunting the archives—but the irony remains. There is a certain kismet (and regrettable vanity) in a man named Jeff Record hunting for the "Cisco Kid" in the records of Jeff County. The link may have gone cold, but the investigator in me hasn't.)

Unapologetically, unedited.

                                     PART III

Clark was dead. 

Yes, last we left off, Clark Cisco was dead. I know, I know! Who would have ever believed it so? But yes, last we left off Paige's ancestor, Clark Cisco, was indeed, most certainly dead. I'd managed to track him and his family from Cincinnati to Jefferson County, Indiana. And I'd managed to link him to his parents, John Francisco and Anna Belle Kyle. But dang... the records have been scant. I'd had to rely heavily on the obituaries, death certificates, and tax records of his siblings, they being Alonzo, Calvin, Harriet, and Mary Ophelia, to link Clark to "mom and dad"  and to put "them" all together. These seemingly random missives and vitals proved to be a veritable potpourri of Cisco/Sisco/Francisco paraphernalia. I also had to rely heavily on the family's recurring occupation as the town butchers in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana. And overall, I think I got the job done. 

But as to the circumstances of Clark's death...

However, before I forget and get too far into Clark's tale ... here's the link - in case you need to get caught up:

https://atroubledsage.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-second-step-and-mayflower-effect-of.html

You see...I've been working to establish a genealogical trail from Our Boy Clark to his ancestors Old Henry Francisco, and to Old Henry's wife, Ruth Fuller Francisco - a woman with a preponderance of circumstantial evidence linking her to the Mayflower Fullers, and with the goal of establishing a complete Mayflower line from Ruth to my friend Paige. (Paige, who has shown a keen interest in documenting the possibility of her Fuller Mayflower ancestry.)

Images above and below: "Sisco Correspondence and Family Records" (Genealogical Sidebar: To any of you naysayers about this not being a valid Mayflower line, well, you can just "shut it" for now. We will circle back in the end.) 

BUT As usual, I digress.

You see, Paige's ancestor, Clark Cisco, well, is a HUGE part of the line, and well he ("Clark") simply hasn't been cooperating. 

I managed to pull a date of birth for Our Boy Clark, that of August 31, 1829 - from a letter written by his uncle, Dr. Elon Francisco in 1886. It's a letter still housed in the D.A.R. records - and in records of one of Clark's sisters, Harriet (Cisco) Leas's descendants (No other Bible record, gravestone, cemetery, transcription, etc. exist for Clark), and not much more. I did learn via newspaper records that Clark Cisco was definitely deceased by 1888 when movement was made on his descendant's pension application for an increase in pay. Still though, the dates have been soggy. And regardless, I'm pretty sure that we would need a whole lot more if we ever plan to beseech the Tribunals of Plymouth Rock to review Paige's ancestry in connection to those tumultuous events of days gone by.

Above: The Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis, Indiana), 26 September 1888, page 6; digital images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 20 January 2026).

But just when the trail went cold in the butcher shops of Jefferson County, Indiana, a dusty index card and an enlistment record from the Mexican-American War started whispering a different story...

II.

And just like that the plot thickened...

Yes, this enlistment record for "Clarke Siscoe" appeared.

Above: U.S., Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914," Clark Cisco, age 18, enlisted March 24, 1847, Cincinnati, Ohio; page 48, line 6; National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, roll 23; digital image, Ancestry.com (accessed 20 January 2026).

Now you could say that I didn't need this record. But the record does confirm Clark's age (18) and place of birth as Cincinnati, so it isn't useless. It also tells us he was a little bitty dude at just over 5 foot 3. Nah, for me it's good in that the enlistment record helps establish Clark's timeline from Cincinnati to Madison County, and helps lead us up to his life there.

Above: 1860 U.S. census, Jefferson County, Indiana, population schedule, Madison Ward 4, p. 129 (penned), dwelling 949, family 1008, Clark Cisco; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 270; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 January 2026).

Yeah, it feels like we need all of these "parts" if we are going to get answers about Clark. We will need all of these parts if we are going to get here, to the next image below. It's this next image that will take us to the next stop on our Mayflower journey.

Above: Mexican War Pension Index, Clark Cisco (Co. C, 16th U.S. Inf.); "Organization Index to Pension Files, 1833-1902," FamilySearch (Image 3022 of 4344).

You see the Mayflower line (or indeed Clark's line) to Paige goes directly through "Annie King," AKA "Annie Cisco King." Further, we need to establish that the Annie listed in the pension index card above is "one and the same" as Clark's daughter. I know, like you I think this is kind of a foolish exercise. I mean we know that Annie Cisco married Robert King, but do we know for certain that it was this Annie Cisco? The census records are vague to non-existent for Clark or Clark and his family. Clark shows up in the 1860 Census for Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, but Annie, his alleged daughter via this pension card (who is said to have been born in 1858) doesn't show up in Clark's household. There is a daughter "Susan Cisco" two years old in the household that year, and yes, perhaps this "Susan" is some dim-witted or nefarious census taker mis-recording "Annie" or "Ann." We know sure as Hell that won't fly with the Good Folks at Plymouth Rock.

And we don't really want to try to "prove Annie as Clark's daughter through her siblings" like we had to with Clark. We can - but it will and would prove to be much harder.

SO - We've got to prove Clark had a daughter Annie Cisco - which this pension index card definitely indicates. BUT, without something more this line will fall into question - and worse - genealogical purgatory. And more so, we haven't even gotten into the next generation - Annie Cisco herself. Indeed she may be the real "Cisco Kid" to this story. Think about it: Annie has no birth record, appears in no census records with her father Clark Cisco (that I have found thus far) and she has no death or cemetery record. 

Nada. Zip. Zilch.

We might - and believe me I said "might" be able to connect this all together - but only if we can connect Our Boy Clark Cisco to his daughter Annie somehow - and again connect her back to being "one and the same" as "Annie Cisco King."

To do so, I've gone full monty here. (Bad visual, I know) and I will be going to The Great Halls of Washington D.C.. I have ordered the complete and unadulterated Mexican-American pension file on Clark. We're gonna track down that Cisco kid - and his kid Annie too.

The Cisco Kid ain't gettin' away.

The worst part of this - well for me anyway - is the wait. It may take up to 120 (UGH!) days to get the full pension file back from the "Washington City" on Clark Cisco. Full disclosure too, is Clark may not have much in his file, or the family history in it may be lacking. Still it is the best course outside of guardianship or estate papers for Clark or his widow, Sarah (Hurley) Cisco, a lady who also remains a bit if a mystery.

We've got to get to Annie Cisco King.

We've got to get to the next generation: The Mayflower "Kings."

Stay tuned.

PS: Regrets to the reader for the repetitive stumblings of this old man in the telling of this tale. 

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 The Second Step

AND THE MAYFLOWER EFFECT OF RUTH FULLER FRANCISCO

Above: A descendant of Ruth Fuller Francisco -  Mrs. Amanda Francisco Brown, of Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, and late of Baton Rouge. 

                                                        ~ PART TWO ~

(Author's note: Genealogy is a process.)

As always, relatively, unedited.

I.

Okay, I've introduced you to Ruth.

https://atroubledsage.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-fuller-effect-mayflower-line-of.html

And yes, I introduced you to Ruth Fuller, wife of legendary supra-centenarian Henry Francisco of Whitehall, New York, and how she (and they) connect to Paige. I've explained how it is that "the Henry who married Ruth" is the same legendary Henry and that all the evidence (limited though it is) points to Henry's Ruth being the daughter of Aaron Fuller and his wife Ruth (Sawyer) Fuller of "Silver Book" and Mayflower descent. 

I've reiterated my belief that Ruth (Fuller) Francisco was not the daughter of Aaron's erstwhile and definitely not Mayflower cousin Daniel Fuller and his wife Mehitable (Broughton) Fuller. I've reconnoitered the biographies of the sons of Aaron Fuller living in Whitehall, those being Ruth's brothers, Ephraim, Henry, Judah, and Aaron, as a means of better connecting the dots, and I've retold the simple geographic and census records of Whitehall, New York, that connect our girl Ruth Fuller to this Mayflower Fuller family. 

 

I've demonstrated that there's nothing found linking her elsewhere as a daughter of "Daniel and Mehitable," save a few "unsourced mentions" in Doherty's work, Beekman's Patent, and elsewhere (that I could find) that imply the false positive that our boy Henry married this other random Ruth. I've even shown that there really isn't any confusion over just "which Henry Francisco was which" or who. I think I've built a reasonable case (with the help of other researchers) for the "preponderance of evidence" of this Fuller Mayflower line.

I've at the very least cast doubt on the other accounts.

                

Doubtless, the tribunals of Plymouth will likely disagree.

                

But I'm gonna put all that in the back burner here for a bit. You see, I'm trying to prove out a whole Mayflower line and not just Henry and Ruth's part of the story. I need to prove the line right on down to my friend Paige. And while I think the line is there, there are some spots in the line that still need work. 

Let's start by looking at the each section of the line, at what we know for certain, and where the line is weakest. Let's take it apart and highlight the generations that need better "connectors."

II.

The first set:

1. "Old" Henry Francisco = Ruth Fuller

2.  Solomon Francisco = Mary Freeman

3.  John Francisco = Anna Bell Kyle

Getting from "Old Henry" and Ruth through to John is fairly easy at least in terms of published sources. For the most part we're safe with "Page 69" from the work below. (Forgive me for repeating myself and using this image again borrowed from my previous post - it's the easiest reference for the generations above.)

 

       

Above: Edna W. Townsend and Charles D. Townsend, editors, Missing Links: Genealogical Clues, no. 4 (November 1962): 69, Solomon Francisco entry; Burlington, VT: Chedwato Service.

Now watch. Here is where we get the next "one of two" genealogical problem generations:

4.) Clark Cisco = Sarah Hurley 

The trouble with Clark Cisco, son of John Francisco and Anna Belle (Kyle) Francisco, is connecting him back to his parents "John and Anna." (Notice how the name begins to get shortened here from Francisco to Cisco at least in this branch). There's no "dots."

On the surface, and outside of an IGI record through FamilySearch, and a copy of his marriage record to Sarah Hurley, I haven't seen much else. There are records of his service in the Mexican-American War, and census records, but outside of the service records possibly linking him to his parents there (thus far) hasn't been much. 

The census records are too linited to reveal much of his relationships, or otherwise too early in time.

I also haven't resolved why he is sometimes called "Shelton Clark Francisco" and "Clark" elsewhere. I have found no other record aside from the IGI above with the name Shelton Francisco. The Fairmount Cemetry record for "Clark Cisco" is also extremly vague and not cooborated any place else - though likely it's a true one.

Clark's parents (John and Anna Belle) died when Clark was a kid. They left a lot of other children, some minors, and ideally I should be able to find some record of guardianship filed for them in, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. I've got some e-mails out to different libraries and genealogcial societies but so far nothing back. You know, the usual "the fire at the court house" story is all I've been getting back.

I am crossing my fingers to get lucky here.

 

Above: Ohio, County Court (Hamilton County), "Hamilton, Ohio, United States records," image 431 of 811, DGS 005446001, FamilySearch, accessed January 15, 2026, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9MP-721N.

In the mean time, I have had to take the long way around to link Clark Cisco to his parents. To do this, I've need to take a look at his brothers and sisters.

Now there is no published record of John and Anna Belle Francisco's children other than submitted family trees to go off of here. Each of those family trees varies too, that is they vary in which children they list as John and Anna Belle's kids - and Clark's brothers and sisters. 

I'm going to start here by listing only some of them. I'm not going to list children that died young, or have little to no record beyond being listed as one of John and Anna Belle's kids. I'm only going to list any of the kids that "connect together" - and that will connect back to Clark - and connect them all to their parents, John and Anna Belle. Locations and occupations will be very important here also. Pay special note to Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, and the notion that after John and Anna Belle died their chidlren were farmed out with most of them ending up here. 

Anyway, here goes. Remember - We're trying to "Prove Out Clark Cisco"

4 a.) ALONZO FRANCISCO - Said to be the oldest son of John and Anna Belle (Kyle) Francisco. Let's look at his obituary. What does it tell us?

                           

Here we learn that Alonzo Francisco came from Cincinnati, settled in Madsion, Jefferson County, Indiana, and that he was a butcher. We also learn that he was the brother of "City Marshall Calvin Cisco." This record is also good because it shows the different spellings for the two brother's surnames. However, the record does not name his parents. So, going further on, what do we know about his said brother, Calvin Cisco?

4 b.) CALVIN CISCO - said to be an additional son of John Francisco and Anna Belle Kyle, here is his obituary

   

                                                 Above: Calvin Cisco

Again, we learn he is from Madison, and his occupation is generally confirmed from with what is in brother Alonzo's obituary. We also learn that his son (likely named after his grandfather) was the mayor of Madison. In his son the mayor's biography, we learn a little bit more:

We learn that Calvin was also, like Alonzo, a butcher. So we have connected the two brothers via their published occupations and can safely note that they are "one and the same" as the brothers mentioned in Alonzo's obituary.

So what else do we have? Well, we have the girls of course - their sisters. For these we got a little bit lucky, insofar as we have death certificates.

4 c.) MARY OPHELIA (FRANCISCO) HUNTER:

While not exactly a smoking gun, Mary's death certificate does name her father as "John Francisco." Mary isn't from (or doesn't live in) Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, She certainly is included in the submitted family trees as a daughter of John Francisco, but it's too unclear who her mother was or if she (Mary) connects to Alonzo of Calvin. We may have to put Mary on hold and circle back.

But we do still have Harriet.

4 d.) HARRIET (FRANCISCO) LEAS

In many ways, Harriet is the "smoking gun" that connects all the siblings, or at least  (she) connects back to Calvin, and then to their parents John and Anna Belle (Kyle) Francisco. Her death certificate really says it all:

 

It names her parents.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner! 

We also know that Harriet was married in, wait for it, Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana. (Image of marriage certificate not shown) Harriet's lineage is even spelled out in an old DAR application - all the way back to Old Henry. Still, we need to be able to connect her to her brothers to confirm the same parents, -  and we need to be able to connect Clark Cisco - to all of them for Paige's line to hold.

 

     Above: Cincinnati Enquirer, April 8, 1894,

But hey, that's all well and good, but indeed what about our boy Clark Cisco? 

We still need Clark!

Hang in there... we're getting closer.

The above Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, in the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper article does the job pretty well connecting the "sibling dots." In it, Harriet is visiting her brother Calvin Cisco. So now we've connected Alonzo to Calvin, and Calvin to Harriet, and with Harriet naming her parents. As we don't believe John Francisco had any other wives aside from Anna Belle Kyle, and because he pre-deceased her, we are safe to assume that they are the parents of at least three of the four children named above.

And then, I did found this:

Above: "Indiana, United States records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WM-GJ3L?view=fullText : Jan 16, 2026), image 368 of 496; United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Image Group Number: 007109564

The above are Indiana state tax records for 1864 listing Clark "Sisco" and his brother Calvin. It's pretty good as now we can (once again I hope) link all of the siblings together.

But...

It was after seeing the above information on our dear Harriet that I decided to go back to the D.A.R. records. I recalled that particular descendant of Harriet's who had joined the D.A.R. through her mother and the line to Old Henry. I wondered if there wasn't some other genealogy in there that might help. What I found in the D.A.R. records was frickn' amazing. 

Twenty-six pages worth of Francisco family history dating from the 1880s to 1950.

Now remember, that these records are likely no good for our august and occasionally myopic friends at the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. While there is some repetition in the documents I think you will agree that after seeing all of them en toto that they definitely connect all the siblings together.  (I wish there was room for all of them here.) AND frankly, to Hell with the GSMD if they don't find it to be a "preponderance of proof" - proof that Paige's ancestor, Clark Cisco, is a direct descendant of Old Henry - and of course, also from Ruth Fuller, daughter of Aaron Fuller of the Mayflower Fullers. :)

Check this sh*t out!!! Note this letter from 1886.

I have not included the full letter - just the top to show you it's age and who it was written by - a grandson of Old Henry.

The "meat" of it (the letter) is at the bottom:

And further, there's Clark - Right there in a letter from a grandson of Old Henry's spelling out the family line ~ and written in 1886!!!!

Above: Daughters of the American Revolution, "Ancestor Database," database, Genealogical Research System, s.v. "Francisco, Henry (A041636).

The Bible transcription misses brother Alonzo spelled out in the obituary for him above, but it does include Mary Ophelia, (Mary Ophelia (Francisco) Hunter) and given the prior statement in the 1886 letter from Cousin Elon Francisco, I think we've answered a little bit more about Shelton Clark "Clark" Cisco/Sisco/Sciscoe/Francisco. 

And there’s the ‘smoking gun’ for the name: Cousin Elon’s 1886 letter identifies John’s son as ‘Shelton’—finally giving a first name to the man we’ve known only as Clark, and proving that Shelton Clark Cisco is one and the same."

Even better, in the depths of all this, was a sweet cookie in the D.A.R. document mix:

Any of those name look familiar? Maybe someone like "AARON FULLER" - of Mayflower descent?

~ Was Clark's grandfather Solomon Francisco married by his own grandfather, or great-uncle, Ruth Fuller Francisco's brother, Aaron Fuller?

So I should probably stop here. I would ask that if you're curious, go back and re-read my previous post (see link at the top above) just so you'll know where we're at in the line.      

The next generation, that of Clark's daughter, Generation 5 - Anna Belle (Cisco) King, will be the "near next brick wall" or "Plymouth Rock" to move.

We're making progress in proving the Mayflower line to Paige. 

To be continued...

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The Fuller Effect

~ THE MAYFLOWER LINE OF RUTH (FULLER) FRANCISCO

                  

(Author's note: This is a straight-up genealogical exercise. And yes, it is incomplete. If it's not your cup of tea no one will blame you if you go mall walking instead or prune the rosesbushes. Peace out)

                                                      ~ PART ONE ~

    APOLOGIES FOR ANY ERRORS OR TYP*S .

                        I AM AN OLD MAN.

I’ll admit it: I have a genealogical addiction. 

I am drawn to the "riddles of the line" even when they seem unresolvable. Are they though, really? Currently, I am focused on a mystery that has stumped better researchers than I: the true parentage of Ruth Fuller, wife of the legendary Henry Francisco. (As you may recall from an earlier post, Henry Francisco is in Ripley's Believe it or Not and reputed to have lived to the ripe old age of 134!)

As shown here: https://atroubledsage.blogspot.com/2025/06/believe-it-or-not-believe-it-or-not.html

Henry Francisco is an ancestor of an acquaintance of mine, an amazing lady by the name of Paige Munch. :)

While the records point toward a Mayflower descent for Ruth (Fuller) Francisco through Edward Fuller, the online "consensus" tries to tell a very different story.

Anyway, here goes me trying to unravel it...

The Case of Two Ruth Fullers and Their Dueling Identities

To begin this exploration into the "dueling Ruths," I believe we have to look at "The Proximity Principle"—the idea that people lived, moved, and married in clusters—rather than necessarily on their own, or as recently betrothed - or, as in the case of modern genealogy by just clicking "accept" on a rando digital hint. 

(Hey, we've all done it.)

Anyway - First off:

1. The Silver Book Template: Our Starting Point We begin with the occasionally tarnished "Gold Standard" of Mayflower research for our first picture of the presumed Ruth Fuller in question, the GSMD Silver Books: 

[Image 1: Silver Book Page 167 (MacGunnigle, Vol. 4)] The excerpt showing Aaron Fuller (#194) and daughter Ruth.

   

 

The Silver Book lists Ruth's parents as Aaron Fuller and his wife Ruth Sawyer, but it leaves a trail of breadcrumbs that stops abruptly that might take her forward or leave much of any clues about our dear Ruth. The Silver Book states Aaron "died probably at Cornwall, CT, ca. 1762." As I’ve learned, even the Silver Books are fallible when they rely on vague 19th-20th century assumptions. This "probable" death date for Ruth's father Aaron Fuller feels a wee bit problematic itself. Is it a brick wall that we might climb over using any other records than those that don't exist? LOL. Maybe for instance New York (or other) census records?

Just maybe?

The Silver Books leaves daughter Ruth (and her named brothers) like dangling participles. (I get it. They can only go so far...)

But just a wee bit more would be nice.

Okay, Ruth Fuller, daughter of Aaron, just who are ya?

2. The "Hearsay" Wall Moving past the Silver Book account of the family:

Most family trees claim that our dear Ruth in question, wife of Henry Francisco, was not the daughter of Aaron Fuller and Ruth Sawyer, but rather the daughter of Daniel (?) Fuller, Jr. and Mehitable Broughton - and not a Mayflower descendant.

Say what??!

I believe this is wrong.     

They believe this instead:       

[Image 2: Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 5, pp. 443–44] The section where Doherty discusses the Fuller family settlers in the Beekman Patent.

Doherty’s work and Carol Clark Johnson’s research place this Daniel and Mehitable firmly in Dutchess County, New York.

[Image 3: Carol Clark Johnson, Fullers, Sissons, and Scotts] The snippet showing the Daniel/Mehitable claim.

 

The problem? Dutchess County is over 120 miles away of where (I believe) our dear Ruth was actually living. (AND it kinda looks like somebody copied off somebody else's homework here - with sources that say nothing about Ruth???

Are there any sources in either book here at all tying Ruth Fuller to Henry Francisco???

 Hello???? Crickets.

The Daniel/Mehitable Fuller theory is a genealogical echo chamber offering no proof about Ruth. No doubt they had a daughter named Ruth - just not Henry's wife. (I'm kinda disappointed in author Frank Doherty) Did they just get some gal and fit her into the narrative for Henry Francisco - who near as I can tell never even lived in Dutchess County, New York. (???) 

It asks us to believe that Ruth was plucked out of a family cluster in western New York and dropped back into the east entirely alone, (or with Henry Francisco) only to coincidentally settle next to a different group of Fullers she supposedly was (or wasn't) related to. And yes, I get the whole supposes "Pittstown Fullers" connection - but is it really?

Right.

But wait, there's more.

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The True Ruth

To find the "True Ruth," we have to follow her husband, our hero, the legendary Henry. Henry Francisco’s obituary places him "near Whitehall, NY." 

This Henry Francisco married our Ruth Fuller.

You see, when we consider the 1790 Census for Whitehall, Washington County, New York (Henry Francisco's his e) to these two theories, the Daniel and Mehitable claim pretty much completely falls apart based on regular old-fashioned Kinship Geography.

As you can see here this author in the image below is "tepid" about our Ruth (Fuller) Francisco being a Mayflower descendant, but still, she gets it:

Above image: Townsend, Edna Waugh. "Missing Links: Genealogical Clues." No. 4 (November 1962): 53-59. Burlington, VT: Chedwato Service. (Accession/Call No. CS42 .M56).

And now - the evidence that supports it:

The Whitehall Fraternal Cluster:

 Keeping in mind the obituary of Henry Francisco...  

In 1790, the names associated with the Mayflower Aaron Fuller line—Aaron, Ephraim, Judah, and Henry— the exact same names found in the Fuller Silver Book entry for Aaron Fuller and wife Ruth Sawyer (see above) show up in Whitehall, Washington County, New York. They are nowhere to be found near Daniel Fuller and Mehitable (Broughton) Fuller in Dutchess County, New York.

Those names simply do not appear in that family group.

However, in Whitehall, we find them clustered together. These men—Henry, Ephraim, Judah, and Aaron Fuller, likely Jr.—are likely the same brothers (or at the very least nephews) of Ruth Fuller [Francisco] shown in the Silver Book shown above and the sons of Aaron Fuller and Ruth Sawyer named in the Silver Books. 

They didn't just happen to live in the same town; they migrated as a single family unit - AND all happen to live in the same town.

They're Ruth (Fuller) Francisco's kinsmen:

See below:

[Image 4: 1790 Census - Henry Sisco (Francisco)] The census crop showing Henry Sisco on page 214.

Now, look at the neighbors listed in the same district:

• Henry Fuller (Brother)

• Ephraim Fuller (Brother)

• Judah Fuller (Brother)

• Aaron Fuller, likely Jr. (Brother)

[Image 5: 1790 Census - The Fuller Cluster] The census crops showing the fraternal group.

The presence of Henry Francisco alongside his Fuller brothers-in-law, Henry, Ephraim, Judah, and Aaron, Jr. is the vital piece of the puzzle. These likely brothers were a tight-knit unit who settled the Skenesborough (later Whitehall) area together. The fact that this specific fraternal kinship group is standing next to Henry Francisco in Whitehall—while Daniel and Mehitable are at least 120 miles away with none of these family members in sight—creates a "geographic anchor" that the hearsay theory simply cannot unseat.

Bridging the Gap: The Roylance Notes:

Ward J. Roylance’s research tracks this specific branch—the sons of Aaron—as they moved from Connecticut into the Upper Hudson Valley, bypassing the Dutchess County lines entirely.

All of them - these "Whitehall boys" listed as sons of Aaron Fuller and Ruth (Sawyer) Fuller

 

[Image 6: Ward J. Roylance, Notes on the Fuller Family, Page 69] Pages 56, 63, 69, detailing the migration of Aaron's sons into New York.

And all (along with Henry) in the above Whitehall census records. And no, the author above does not mention Ruth (Fuller) Francisco - but the census records sure mention Henry her husband. 

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Conclusion

While the "popular" family trees remain anchored to Daniel and Mehitable in Dutchess County, the weight of primary census evidence shifts the narrative entirely toward the Aaron Fuller branch. By prioritizing the Kinship Geography of the 1790 Census, we see a physical reality that hearsay can't overcome: our Ruth was living in the center of a fraternal stronghold in Whitehall, surrounded by her likely brothers Henry, Ephraim, Judah, and Aaron Jr. This concentrated cluster of the Aaron Fuller line, and miles away from the Daniel/Mehitable group, provides the 'location proof' necessary to give a preponderance of "one and the same" to Ruth (Fuller) Francisco - and her true Mayflower origins.

Ultimately, the path to Edward Fuller and the Mayflower is not found in the echo chambers of unverified digital family trees, but by looking at the specific family of brothers standing next to Henry and Ruth in Whitehall.

  

Above: The start of Paige's line from Henry and Ruth...                    

   

Above: FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS8M-DS5X-P?view=explore : Jan 6, 2026), image 700 of 1279; . Image Group Number: 007949717

We know that Paige is a descendant of Henry Francisco and Ruth Fuller. I believe, based on this geographical evidence, and her apparent ancestry from Henry's wife, Ruth, that Paige Dunham is also more than likely a descendant of Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller.

And certainly not some genealogical echo chamber.

Unless someone has some other proof to the contrary.

The truth is out there - in Whitehall. lol.

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