John Casper Fulmer

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military. ^497,498 I enlisted in General Wayne's army and fought at Lundy's Lane. Loosing interest in the war, John and Mary relocated to Essex County, Ontario, Canada. They first settled in Mersea Township. He continued to acquire land eventually settling in Concession #3. At the time of his death, John Jr. owned 700 acres of land.

John married Margaret Ann Fox, daughter of Philip Adam Fox\Fuchs and Catherine Lamer (Lamarche). (Margaret Ann Fox was born on 23 Apr 1775 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland and died on 9 Oct 1838 in Gosfield Township, Essex County, Ontario, Canada.)

  Marriage Notes:

b. 27 Sep 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. October 9, 1840 Essex County, Ontario, Canada

Father: John Fulmer b. 1750 Germany

Children: Catherine Amelia Fulmer b. 2 Jan 1798 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada d. January 6, 1893 John Casper Fulmer b. 25 Oct 1806 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada d. October 11, 1856 Margaret Fulmer b. 1809 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada Adam Fulmer b. 9 Aug 1809 in Grosfield Twp, Esses County, Ontario, Canada d. July 19, 1881 Grosfield Township Essex County, Ontario, Canada Susan Fulmer b. 1811 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada d. before 1902 George Fulmer b. 7 Apr 1811 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada d. January 15, 1897 Cochester Township, Oxley, Ontario, Canada Henry Fulmer b. 6 Jun 1813 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada d. 1870 Judith Fulmer b. 1813 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada d. before 1902 Rockford, Ill. Elizabeth Fulmer b. 1815 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada d. January 6, 1893 Lewiston, Cache, Utah Mary Polly Amelia Fulmer b. 18 Jun 1817 in Mersea Twp, Essex County, Ontario, Canada d. January 6, 1893 Lewiston, Cache, Utah

John Casper Fulmer , an only son of John Fulmer , was b . in Philadelphia . He enlisted in Gen . Wayne's army and fought at Lundy's Lane . He relocated to Essex Co . where he d . 1840. He married Margaret A . Fox , dau . of Philip and Catherine Fox , and had several children listed. There is no more info on this family before USA . Perhaps some reference in his military listing or from census in Philly ???

George Setterington


Arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts on the Mayflower, this adventurous family eventually settled in Philadelphia. They proliferated and around 1760, a child named John Casper Fulmer was born. Sometime during the Revolutionary War of 1776, he settled in Mersea Township, in the County of Essex. He moved further north to Concession 3 and eventually owned around 700 acres of land. He found a local girl to his liking named Ann Fox and they married and had seven children.

A son of theirs named John married Betsy Wilkinson, who bore him four children. Their son, Francis Casper Fulmer, was born in 1835. At the age of 16, he took over his father’s farm and then moved to Windsor in 1871 to start a livery business and a hack and sale stable. He did very well buying and shipping horses to the United States for use in the calvary. Phoebe Jane McQueen became his bride in 1856.

Previous to this, Victoire Maisonville, whose husband had served in the War of 1812, received a Crown grant of land in what was to become Walkerville. One of their daughters, Eliza Grier, married Captain Thomas Chilver, a prominent figure in early "border city" days. He was owner of the ferry "Gem" which ran between Detroit and the Canadian side.

Almina Elizabeth Fulmer, first-born daughter of Francis and Phoebe, married Charles Lewis Chilver, son of the captain and Eliza in 1879. They had seven children: Henry Lewis, Frances Warren, Charles Alonzo Grier, Florence May, Mildred Priscilla, Lettie Elizabeth and Almina Jane.

Charles Lewis Chilver was the owner of the Chilver Land and Building Company and subdivided his grandmother Victoire’s grant, which had become the family farm (farm plot #23), and extended from the Detroit River south to Tecumseh Road along the line now defined as Chilver Road.

Among Chilver’s buildings were the commercial buildings on Wyandotte between Chilver and Jubilee Park (Peerless Ice Cream is in the corner unit), the commercial building at the corner of Chilver and Ottawa going east, the terrace homes on Chilver just north of Cataraqui (named after two daughters: May and Mildred) and the large frame house on Chilver and Cataraqui on the northwest corner.

http://www.walkervilletimes.com/chilver.html

Arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts on the Mayflower, this adventurous family eventually settled in Philadelphia. They proliferated and around 1760, a child named John Casper Fulmer was born. Sometime during the Revolutionary War of 1776, he settled in Mersea Township, in the County of Essex. He moved further north to Concession 3 and eventually owned around 700 acres of land. He found a local girl to his liking named Ann Fox and they married and had seven children.

The Chilver Family of Walkerville http://www.walkervilletimes.com/chilver.html