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Our first ancestor to reach American soil was John "the Mariner" Fillmore, who reached Massachusetts around 1700. He is felt to be the common ancestor to all the Fillmores in the United States. His son, Captain John Fillmore, became widely known for his encounters with the pirate John Phillips before settling in Norwich, Connecticut, where he lived the rest of his life. He had a total of sixteen children through two marriages and his descendants spread all over New England and into Canada. The Fillmore family of Guthrie, Oklahoma are direct descendants of Capt. Fillmore's eldest son, John. John moved to New Brunswick, Canada in early adulthood and married there in 1742. His descendants remained in Canada throughout the last half on the eighteenth century and most of the nineteenth century until John Edward Fillmore moved to Oklahoma in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. One of John Edward Fillmore's sons was Clark H. Fillmore, who ultimately became the grandfather of the late Raymond Glen Fillmore of Guthrie, Oklahoma.
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