FULTON  , a

city of Oswego county, New York, U.S.A., on the right bank of the Oswego river, about Io m . S. by E. of Oswego . Pop . (1900) 5281; (1905, state census) 8847; (1910) 10,480 . Fulton is served by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the New York Central & Hudson River, and the New York, Ontario & Western railways, by electric railway to Oswego and Syracuse and by the Oswego Canal . The city has a Carnegie library . Ample water-power is furnished by the Oswego river, which here flows in a series of rapids, and the manufactures are many in kind . On the 3rd of July 1756, on an island (afterward called Battle Island) 4 M . N. of the present city of Fulton, a British force of about 300 under Captain John Bradstreet (1711—1774) defeated an attacking force of French and Indians (numberingabout 700) under De Villiers . Soon after this, Bradstreet built a fort within the present limits of Fulton . The first civilian settler came in 1793, and the first survey (which included only a part of the subsequent village) was made in 1815 . Fulton was incorporated as a village in 1835, and in April 1902 was combined with the village of Oswego Falls (pop. in 1900, 2925) and was chartered as a city .