John Trayton Fuller

Father of Augustus Elliott Fuller and father-in-law of John Hamilton of Dover (both of whom q.v.). No evidence has been found to date of direct slave-owning by John Trayton Fuller, but he reportedly inherited significant wealth from his father Thomas Fuller, described as a West India merchant, in 1780.

1. Will of John Trayton Fuller of East Grinstead [made in 1808] proved 13/06/1811. The will is extremely brief, leaving everything to his wife to dispose to the best advantage of his family and creditors, with his wife as executrix and his son Augustus Elliott as executor, requesting his brother Rose Fuller and Mr T.C. Lamb of Rye to assist her with their good advice, and leaving to his daughter Cordelia Eliona [sic] 'any two lives she may chuse out of my Tontine from Government in lieu of the hundred pound 3% consols sold in 1808 which produces £64 7[s] 6[d] to dispose of as she sees fit, whether by will or otherwise.'

Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon, The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Johns Hopkins, 2006), p.141.

1. PROB 11/1523/172.