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Bold textAaron Fuller

Author:Italic text "The Life I should Like"

A Massachusetts widower with four small children, Fuller wrote out an account of Italic textThe Life I should Like" in September 1818. The manuscript provides a look into typical rural New England life during the nineteenth century, when many family farmers aspired to competence rather than wealth.

Fuller remarried within two years to Fanny Negus, who took good care of his four children and bore him seven more in the course of their twenty-five years together. The two of them operated a bakery, an inn, and a farm in the Connecticut River valley that sold livestock, cranberries, corn, and dairy products.

The historian Catherine Kelly offers their partnership as an example of "companionate marriage," both emotionally fulfilling and economically productive.