Elijah Fuller of Fayetteville, N.C., was active in the mercantile firm of Hart & Fuller, circa 1834 until his death in 1853. In addition to his activities as a merchant, Fuller was a Revolutionary War pension agent and an assignee in bankruptcy court for Cumberland County, N.C. Elijah Fuller married Mary Ann McKay, daughter of Edward and Ann McKay, in 1846. They had two children, Edward P. and Sallie. Business papers and personal correspondence, chiefly of Elijah Fuller. The business items include account books, receipts, promissory notes, and other materials relating to Hart & Fuller as merchants and cotton factors and to other business ventures. At some point, Fuller's partner, James Hart (d. 1840), relocated to Mobile, Ala., and opened another drygoods business, called Hart, Anderson, & Co., in Mobile. Several items relate to trade between Hart & Fuller and the new Alabama firm. Many items pertain to Fuller's pension agent and bankruptcy work. There are also some business records for other Fayetteville merchants: Mary Ann McKay Fuller's grandfather, William MacLennan (d. 1819), chiefly from the 1780s to around 1820; Thomas Curtis, who served as mayor of Fayetteville after the Civil War and who may have worked for Hart & Fuller, 1840s-1860s; and an unknown blacksmith, 1820s-1850s. Also included are a few items relating to the temperance movement in Fayetteville and to the militia. Personal correspondence includes letters from Fuller and his wife to family members, including Fuller's brothers and various nieces and nephews in Franklin and Wake counties, N.C. These letters focus on family activities. McKay family mateirals are chiefly from the 1820s.
