The Palisado Cemetery is located behind the First Church of Windsor. The earliest burial was 1640.
Birth: August 27, 1590, Keynsham, England
Death: December 29, 1659, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Born by about 1589 (based on date of first marriage), son of Thomas and Joan (Pyssing) Hull. Came from Crewkerne, Somersetshire to Massachusetts Bay in 1632. First settled in Dorchester; moved to Windsor Connecticut in 1636, and Fairfield Connecticut in 1647. Died in Fairfield Connicut after 26 May 1658 and before 25 August 1659 (date of inventory).
Married: (1) Crewkerne, Somerset, 27 August 1614 Thomasine Mitchell; she died before 1654.
(2) After 11 July 1654 Sarah (_____) Phippen, widow of David Phippen of Boston; she died at Fairfield shortly before 25 August 1659.
George Hull was elder brother of Reverend Joseph Hull who arrived in New England in 1635. In his will George Hull mentioned cousin Jane Pinkney, and his second wife named cousins Jane and Philip Pinkney in her will. In his account of Philip Pinkney, Jacobus supposes that "[h]e and his wife were perhaps drawn to Fairfield by the marriage of their aunt, Mrs. Sarah Phippen, to George Hull," but the exact nature of the relationship is not known.
Spouses:
Thomasine Mitchell Hull (1592 - 1655)
Sarah Phippen Hull (____ - 1659)
Burial: Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Plot: Founders Monument
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Brief Biography of George Hull1635-1659, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Spouses:
Thomasine Mitchell Hull (1592 - 1655)
Sarah Phippen Hull (____ - 1659)
Burial: Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Plot: Founders Monument
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George Hull is reported to have been among the "first comers" and grantees of Dorchester, Massachusetts arriving (according to Robert Charles Anderson) in 1632. He served in Dorchester as of one of the first deputies along with William Phelps and Thomas Stoughton and he must have been a very close associate of the Rev. Mr. Warham, belonging to the latter's church. He was admitted to the Dorchester church prior to 4 March 1632, the date at which he was made a freeman. He was a well educated man as indicated by his signature on his will and by his extensive career in public service. He was a selectman for Dorchester for every year he was in Dorchester, except the first, as well as tax assessor for two years. In addition, he was deputy for Dorchester for the Massachusetts General Court for 1634 and 1635. The association between the Pinney family and the Hulls was likely to have been strong as George Hull's eldest daughter, Mary Hull, married Humphrey Pinney who was also a close associate of the Rev. Warham. George Hull was on the list of those petitioning to move to the settlement on the "Great River," subsequently named Windsor, and either moved with Rev. Warham's group to Windsor in 1636 or in 1637 when he is already active in land transactions and political affairs. He is claimed (by Henry Stiles) to have surveyed Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1636. In 1638 he was granted a monopoly over the beaver trade along the Connecticut River. A land inventory in Windsor in 1640 showed that George Hull held 7 parcels altogether comprising over 58 acres on both sides of the river. He was very active in land speculation and he was able to leave his son Cornelius a handsome gift of land for at the latter's wedding. George Hull was prodigiously involved in the public affairs of the colony, serving as selectman for Windsor, a deputy in the Connecticut General Court in at least two years, and frequently a magistrate. After the death of his wife, Thomasine, George Hull married in 1654 Sarah ( ) Phippen, the widow of David Phippen of Boston, who had left Sarah property in that town. By then he was residing in Fairfield, Connecticut where he was also a magistrate and a deputy to the General Court. Stiles says, "he was "a man of worth and distinction."
The sources for this biographical note: Henry R. Stiles, The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Vol. 2 (Brooklyn, NY: Samuel Stiles, 1859), reprinted by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 [Database on-line] Provo: UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Originally pub. as Vol. 1-3 at Boston: MA: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1995.
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George Hull, born in England, about 1590, married at Crew Kerne, Somerset, England, August 27, 1614, Thamzen Michell, of Stockland, England. With his wife and children, he sailed from Plymouth, Devon, England, March 30, 1629, in the ship Mary and John, Captain Squeb; settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts; was made freeman March 4, 1632, representative for the town to the first Great and General Court held in the colony, May 14, 1634. He was a member of the first board of selectmen of Dorchester, and "appointed to fix the rate, 1633-1634." He moved to Windsor, Connecticut, 1636; surveyed Windsor, and Wethersfield; moved to Fairfield about 1646. His wife died previous to the removal to Fairfield. After 1654 he married, second, Sarah, widow of David Phippen, of Boston. He was a member of the General Court of Connecticut for many terms. He was Associate Magistrate, and with ex-Governor Ludlow, held a monopoly of the beaver trade on the Connecticut River. He died at Fairfield, Connecticut, 1659. His will, admitted to probate October 20, 1659, names his children:
1, Mary, baptized at Crew Kerne, England, July 27, 1618; married Humphrey Pinney, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
2, Josiah, baptized in Crew Kerne, November 5, 1620; married Elizabeth Loomis, at Windsor, Connecticut.
3, Elizabeth, baptized at Crew Kerne, October 16, 1625; married Samuel Gaylord.
4, (2), Cornelius, married at Fairfield, Connecticut, Rebecca Jones, daughter of Rev. John Jones, pastor of the first church established in Fairfield.
5, Martha.
6, Naomi.
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George Hull
Came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony c1631, perhaps on the "Mary and John". Made freeman of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 4 March 1632/3. Member of the first board of selectmen, Dorchester, 1633-1636. Representative from Dorchester to the first General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Boston, 14 May 1634. One of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut, 1636/7. On 5 April 1638, was granted with his friend Roger Ludlow exclusive right to trade beaver with the Indians at Windsor. Deputy to the General Court from Windsor from 1637-1646, attending at least 31 sessions. In 1647 he followed Ludlow to Fairfield, having sold his house in Windsor to Governor John Haynes. In 1648-49 he was representative from Fairfield. In 1653-54 he was assistant magistrate for several towns including Fairfield. Constant assistant to Ludlow, in Ludlow's various offices.
Ancestral File Number: 46VD-27
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2616–2617. George Hull was born in England and died in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, about 1659. Thomasin Mitchell was born in Stockland, England, in 1592, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1655. They were married in Crewekerne, county Somerset, England, on Saturday, August 27, 1614. She took the name Thomasin Hull. He is the son of Thomas and Joane (Peson) Hull. She is the daughter of Robert Mitchell. They had seven children:
i. Josias Hull was baptized in Crewekerne on November 10, 1616, and died in Killingworth, Connecticut Colony, on November 16, 1675. He married Elizabeth Loomis in Windsor, Connecticut, on May 20, 1641.
ii. Mary Hull was baptized in Crewekerne on July 27, 1618, and died in Windsor, Connecticut Colony, on August 18, 1685. She was married to Humphrey Pinney in Dorchester, Massachusetts, by about 1637.
iii. Martha Hull was born in Crewekerne on October 20, 1620. She was mentioned in her father's will but appears in no other records.
iv. Elizabeth Hull was baptized in Crewekerne on October 16, 1625, and died in Windsor on May 2, 1680. She married Samuel Gaylord in Windsor on December 4, 1646.
v. Cornelius Hull [#1308]: He was born in England about 1627, and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, in September, 1695.
vi. Joshua Hull was baptized in Crewekerne. He appears in no known records except his baptism.
vii. Naomi Hull was born in—say—1632. She was mentioned in her father's will but appears in no other records.
His second marriage was to Sarah Pinckney(?). She was born in England and died in Fairfield in August, 1659. They were married in 1655. She was the widow of David Phippen [#1056] who is also an ancestor in the genealogy, an interesting case of two widowed ancestors marrying. They had no children.
The Great Migration Begins has the following entry on George Hull.
ORIGIN: Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England
MIGRATION: 1632 [Note: Others (see below) say that he came in 1630 leaving his children and pregnant wife behind.]
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
REMOVES: Windsor 1636, Fairfield 1647
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 4 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:367].
EDUCATION: Signed his will.
OFFICES: Dorchester selectman, 8 October 1633, 2 November 1635, 27 June 1636, 5 July 1636 [DTR 3, 13, 16, 17]; assessor, 3 November 1633, 2 June 1634 [DTR 4, 7]. Deputy to Massachusetts Bay General Court for Dorchester, 14 May 1634, 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:116, 174]. Deputy to Connecticut Court for Windsor, May 1637, November 1637, March 1638, April 1638, August 1639, September 1639, January 1639/40, April 1640, February 1640/1, April 1641, September 1641, November 1641, April 1642, August 1642, March 1643, April 1643, September 1643, April 1644, September 1644, September 1645, December 1645, April 1646 [CT Civil List 28-29]. Deputy for Fairfield, May 1649, May 1650, May 1651, October 1655, May 1656 [CT Civil List 28-29]. Magistrate at Fairfield, 29 October 1653 [CCCR 1:249]. Assistant magistrate, 6 October 1651, 18 May 1654 [CCCR 1:226, 257; CT Civil List 29]. Beaver trader, authorized 5 April 1638 [CCCR 1:18]. Assistant commissary general, 18 September 1649 [CCCR 1:198]. ESTATE: Ordered to build sixty feet of fence, rated for three cows (as "Mr. Hull"), 3 April 1633 [DTR 1]; granted two acres of meadow, 18 February 1635/6 [DTR 15]; granted meadow "that lies before his door where he now dwells," 27 June 1636 [DTR 17]; received Lot #35, four acres, in the meadow beyond Naponset (and perhaps also Lot #55, six acres) [DTR 321]. In the Windsor land inventory on 16 November 1640 George Hull held seven parcels: homelot of seven acres and a half; sixteen acres in the Great Meade; over the Great River twenty-seven rods in length and three miles in breadth; over the Great River four acres and a quarter of meadow; fifteen acres of upland; ten acres and a half of upland; and five acres in the Great Meade [WiLR 1:13]. On 22 November 1653 Daniel Frost sold to George Hull seven acres in the Old Field at Fairfield [Fairfield LR 1:44]. On 24 November 1653 Charles Tainter sold to George Hull six parcels of land: two acres and a fraction in Sasqua Neck; four acres and a half at Uncaway River; seven acres and eight rods in the Great Meadow; three acres and a quarter in the Old Field; thirteen acres and a half in the New Field; and thirteen acres and a fraction "at the planting field at Uncaway Neck" [Fairfield LR 1:44]. On the same day Robert Woolly sold to George Hull one acre in the Old Field and the town granted to George Hull a homelot of six acres and a half [Fairfield LR 1:45]. On 24 November 1653 George Hull sold to Richard Osborne two acres in the Old Field [Fairfield LR 1:46]. On 21 May 1658 "Mr. George Hull" sold to Moses Hoyt two acres in Sasqua Neck [Fairfield LR 1:116] and to Austin Samfeild two acres in Sasqua Neck [Fairfield LR 1:117]. On 26 May 1658 "Mr. George Hull" sold to "Josua Jennings" two acres at Sasco Hill [Fairfield LR 1:114]. On 29 November 1653 "Georg[e] Hull hath given unto his son Cornelius Hull upon his marriage" several parcels of land [Fairfield LR 1:48]. In his will, date lost (fire damage) and proved 20 October 1659, George Hull bequeathed to "my loving wife" one-third of the estate; to "my son Josyas Hull another third part of my estate"; to "son Cornelius Hull one little featherbed which is at Boston" and "forty shillings to be paid out of the last third of my estate"; to "my cousin Jane Pinkny" twenty shillings; "my son Josyas Hull and Sarah my loving wife" to be executors; residue to "my four daughters equally to be divided that is to Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Naomy" [Fairfield PR 1:56]. The "invoice of the estate of Georg[e] Hull late deceased in Fairfield" was taken 25 August 1659 and totalled £58 14s. 4d., with no real estate included [Fairfield PR 1:56-58]. In her will, dated 1659 (day and month lost to fire damage) and proved 20 October 1659, "Sarah [Hull ...] wife unto George Hull late deceased" bequeathed "my house at Boston equally to be divided betwixt all my children"; to "my son Gamaleell" a cupboard; to "my son Georg[e] Phippin" furniture in house at Boston; to "my daughter Rebecca Vickers and my daughter Sarah Yow" moveables; to "my cousin Jane Pinkny" 30s.; residue to "my four sons (to wit) Beniamin Phippin, Joseph, Gamaleell and Georg[e] Phippin"; "my cousin Phillip Pinkny" to be overseer [Fairfield PR 1:61]. The inventory of "the estate of Sarah Hull late deceased in Fairfield" was taken 25 August 1659 and was untotalled; no real estate was included [Fairfield PR 1:61-62].
BIRTH: By about 1589 (based on date of first marriage), son of Thomas and Joan (Pyssing) Hull [Evans Festschrift 44, 49-50; Dawes-Gates 2:453].
DEATH: Fairfield after 26 May 1658 [Fairfield LR 1:45] and before 25 August 1659 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) Crewkerne, Somerset, 27 August 1614 Thomasine Mitchell [Ackley-Bosworth 78]; she died before 1654. (2) After 11 July 1654 Sarah (_____) Phippen, widow of David Phippen of Boston [TAG 17:5]; she died at Fairfield shortly before 25 August 1659.
CHILDREN (first six baptized Crewkerne [TAG 20:supplement 18; Ackley-Bosworth 78]):
1. JOSIAS, baptized 10 November 1616; married Windsor 20 May 1641 Elizabeth Loomis [Grant 46].
2. MARY, baptized 27 July 1618; married Dorchester by about 1637 HUMPHREY PINNEY [Grant 58].
3. MARTHA, baptized 29 October 1620; named in father's will in 1659; no further record.
4. ELIZABETH, baptized 16 October 1625; married Windsor 4 December 1646 Samuel Gaylord [Grant 42], son of WILLIAM GAYLORD .
5. CORNELIUS, baptized 13 April 1628; married about November 1653 Rebecca Jones, daughter of Rev. John Jones (George Hull deeded land to his son Cornelius on 29 November 1653 "upon his marriage" [Fairfield LR 1:48]; in his will of 17 January 1664/5 John Jones made a bequest to his daughter Rebecca Hull [FOOF 1:344]). (In some sources the date of this marriage is given as 19 November 1652, but there is no record of the event in Fairfield vital records; the date would seem to be a misreading and a misuse of the gift of land from father to son on 29 November 1653, which must have been very close to the date of marriage.)
6. JOSHUA, baptized 5 November 1630; no further record.
7. NAOMI, born say 1632; named in father's will in 1659; no further record.
ASSOCIATIONS: George Hull was elder brother of Reverend Joseph Hull who arrived in New England in 1635 [Evans Festschrift 44-51, which summarizes earlier work by the author (John Insley Coddington) and others on the Hull family, and presents new evidence on the ancestry of Joan Pyssing, mother of George and Joseph]. In his will George Hull mentioned cousin Jane Pinkney, and his second wife named cousins Jane and Philip Pinkney in her will. In his account of Philip Pinkney, Jacobus supposes that "[h]e and his wife were perhaps drawn to Fairfield by the marriage of their aunt, Mrs. Sarah Phippen, to George Hull" [FOOF 1:482], but the exact nature of the relationship is not known.
COMMENTS: George Hull has been included in some lists of passengers on the Mary and John, but his son Joshua was baptized in Crewkerne on 5 November 1630 and the first record of him in New England is his admission as freeman of Massachusetts Bay on 4 March 1632/3, which makes an arrival date of 1632 far more likely. On 5 March 1639[/40] George Hull and other men returned the appraisal of the estate of the children of Thomas Newberry [RPCC 9]. William Hill named him an overseer in his will, 9 September 1649 [Manwaring 1:128]. George Hull and Alexander Knowles took the inventory of William Cross of Fairfield, 7 September 1655 [Manwaring 1:111].
History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield ... has:
George Hull first appears in America in 1630 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He became a freeman in 1633. He served as Deputy to the Massachusetts Legislature from Dorchester in May, 1634. He moved to Windsor, Massachusetts, with the first settlers. Here he served as Deputy to the Legislature 22 times between May, 1637, and April, 1646. He moved to Fairfield about 1647 and again served as Deputy to the Legislature five times, from May, 1649, to May 1656. He was Magistrate for Fairfield in May, 1654. In 1653 he purchased land in Fairfield from Charles Taintor.
His will mentions: wife Sarah; sons Josias and Cornelius; cousin Jane Pinkney; four daughters, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, and Naomi.
Searching for Passengers of the Mary and John ... has:
George Hull—Born about 1590, possibly Crewkerne, Somerset, England. He died, 1655. He married (1) Thamzen (Thomasene) Michell, 17 August 1614, Crewkerne, Somerset, dau of Robert Michell of Stockland, Dorset. She died Before 1655. He married (2) Sarah _______, widow of David Phippen. She died August 1659.
George Hull was the son of Thomas Hull and Joan Peson of Crewkerne. His father-in-law was a well-to-do yeoman of Stockland, six miles from Crewkerne. His older brother, William Hull, graduated from St. Mary's Hall, Oxford and was the vicar of Colyton, Devon and died in 1627. Jonathan Gillett of the "Mary and John" returned to England and married Mary Dolbiar in Colyton in 1634. George's youngest brother, Joseph, also graduated from St. Mary's and was a minister in the Church of England.
George Hull came on the "Mary and John" in 1630 alone, leaving behind his wife with six children, ages 3 to 11. She was pregnant when he left and she had a son, Joshua, who was baptised, 5 November 1630 in Crewkerne. His wife came over, with her children, sometime after 1630. George first settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts where he was one of the first selectman. He also represented the town in the first general court in Massachusetts in 1634. In 1636 he moved to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was a surveyor and Indian trader. In 1638, the general court granted him and Humphrey Pinney a monopoly of the beaver trade on the Connecticut River. Pinney later became his son-in-law. George was a personal friend and political adherent of Roger Ludlow and followed him to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he was selected as his assistant in 1651, 1653 and 1654. He was a public spirited, active and intelligent man and he helped establish both the Massachusetts and Connecticut commonwealths.
Sources:
Anderson, Robert Charles;The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol I–III found on the web site of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society. Citations within the item include:
[MBCR]: Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 1628–1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853–1854)
[DTR]: Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883)
[CCCR]: The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636–1776, 15 volumes (Hartford 1850–1890)
[CT Civil List]: Jacobus, Donald Lines; List of Officials Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical of Connecticut Colony... and New Haven Colony..., (New Haven 1935)
[WiLR]: Windsor, Connecticut, Deeds (microfilm of original at Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut)
[Fairfield LR]: Fairfield Connecticut Deeds
[Fairfield PR]: Fairfield County, Connecticut, Probate Records
[Evans Festschrift]: Brook, Lindsay L. Brook, ed.; Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, (Salt Lake City 1989)
[Ackley-Bosworth]: Park, Nathan Grier, II; The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley
[TAG]: The American Genealogist, vol. 9 to present (1932)
[Grant]: Matthew Grant Record, 1639–1681, in Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to The Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639–1703 (Hartford 1930)
[FOOF]: Jacobus, Donald Lines, comp. and ed.; %History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, 3 volumes (Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930; rpt. Baltimore 1976, 1991)
[RPCC]: Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639–1663, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Hartford 1928; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1987)
[Manwaring]: Manwaring, Charles William, comp.; A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635–1700 (Hartford 1904)
Jacobus, Donald Lines, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (reprinted with corrections), Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991 (1930); vol. 1, p. 307
The Mary and John Clearinghouse, Search for the Passengers of the Mary and John, 1630, vol. 17, p. 93
The International Genealogical Index (source of the dates and places for Thomasin/Thomasen Mitchell).
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GEORGE HULL
ORIGIN: Crewkerne, Somersetshire
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor 1636, Fairfield 1647
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 4 March 1632/3 [ MBCR 1:367].
EDUCATION: Signed his will.
OFFICES: Dorchester selectman, 8 October 1633, 2 November 1635, 27 June 1636, 5 July 1636 [ DTR 3, 13, 16, 17]; assessor, 3 November 1633, 2 June 1634 [DTR 4, 7]. Deputy to Massachusetts Bay General Court for Dorchester, 14 May 1634, 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:116, 174]. Deputy to Connecticut Court for Windsor, May 1637, November 1637, March 1638, April 1638, August 1639, September 1639, January 1639/40, April 1640, February 1640/1, April 1641, September 1641, November 1641, April 1642, August 1642, March 1643, April 1643, September 1643, April 1644, September 1644, September 1645, December 1645, April 1646 [ CT Civil List 28-29]. Deputy for Fairfield, May 1649, May 1650, May 1651, October 1655, May 1656 [CT Civil List 28-29]. Magistrate at Fairfield, 29 October 1653 [ CCCR 1:249]. Assistant magistrate, 6 October 1651, 18 May 1654 [CCCR 1:226, 257; CT Civil List 29]. Beaver trader, authorized 5 April 1638 [CCCR 1:18]. Assistant commissary general, 18 September 1649 [CCCR 1:198].ESTATE: Ordered to build sixty feet of fence, rated for three cows (as "Mr. Hull"), 3 April 1633 [DTR 1]; granted two acres of meadow, 18 February 1635/6 [DTR 15]; granted meadow "that lies before his door where he now dwells," 27 June 1636 [DTR 17]; received Lot #35, four acres, in the meadow beyond Naponset (and perhaps also Lot #55, six acres) [DTR 321]. In the Windsor land inventory on 16 November 1640 George Hull held seven parcels: homelot of seven acres and a half; sixteen acres in the Great Meade; over the Great River twenty-seven rods in length and three miles in breadth; over the Great River four acres and a quarter of meadow; fifteen acres of upland; ten acres and a half of upland; and five acres in the Great Meade [ WiLR 1:13]. On 22 November 1653 Daniel Frost sold to George Hull seven acres in the Old Field at Fairfield [ Fairfield LR 1:44]. On 24 November 1653 Charles Tainter sold to George Hull six parcels of land: two acres and a fraction in Sasqua Neck; four acres and a half at Uncaway River; seven acres and eight rods in the Great Meadow; three acres and a quarter in the Old Field; thirteen acres and a half in the New Field; and thirteen acres and a fraction "at the planting field at Uncaway Neck" [Fairfield LR 1:44]. On the same day Robert Woolly sold to George Hull one acre in the Old Field and the town granted to George Hull a homelot of six acres and a half [Fairfield LR 1:45]. On 24 November 1653 George Hull sold to Richard Osborne two acres in the Old Field [Fairfield LR 1:46]. On 21 May 1658 "Mr. George Hull" sold to Moses Hoyt two acres in Sasqua Neck [Fairfield LR 1:116] and to Austin Samfeild two acres in Sasqua Neck [Fairfield LR 1:117]. On 26 May 1658 "Mr. George Hull" sold to "Josua Jennings" two acres at Sasco Hill [Fairfield LR 1:114]. On 29 November 1653 "Georg[e] Hull hath given unto his son Cornelius Hull upon his marriage" several parcels of land [Fairfield LR 1:48]. In his will, date lost (fire damage) and proved 20 October 1659, George Hull bequeathed to "my loving wife" one-third of the estate; to "my son Josyas Hull another third part of my estate"; to "son Cornelius Hull one little featherbed which is at Boston" and "forty shillings to be paid out of the last third of my estate"; to "my cousin Jane Pinkny" twenty shillings; "my son Josyas Hull and Sarah my loving wife" to be executors; residue to "my four daughters equally to be divided that is to Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Naomy" [ Fairfield PR 1:56]. The "invoice of the estate of Georg[e] Hull late deceased in Fairfield" was taken 25 August 1659 and totalled £58 14s. 4d., with no real estate included [Fairfield PR 1:56-58]. In her will, dated 1659 (day and month lost to fire damage) and proved 20 October 1659, "Sarah [Hull ...] wife unto George Hull late deceased" bequeathed "my house at Boston equally to be divided betwixt all my children"; to "my son Gamaleell" a cupboard; to "my son Georg[e] Phippin" furniture in house at Boston; to "my daughter Rebecca Vickers and my daughter Sarah Yow" moveables; to "my cousin Jane Pinkny" 30s.; residue to "my four sons (to wit) Beniamin Phippin, Joseph, Gamaleell and Georg[e] Phippin"; "my cousin Phillip Pinkny" to be overseer [Fairfield PR 1:61]. The inventory of "the estate of Sarah Hull late deceased in Fairfield" was taken 25 August 1659 and was untotalled; no real estate was included [Fairfield PR 1:61-62].BIRTH: By about 1589 (based on date of first marriage), son of Thomas and Joan (Pyssing) Hull [ Evans Festschrift 44, 49-50; Dawes-Gates 2:453].
DEATH: Fairfield after 26 May 1658 [Fairfield LR 1:45] and before 25 August 1659 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) Crewkerne, Somerset, 27 August 1614 Thomasine Mitchell [ Ackley-Bosworth 78]; she died before 1654. (2) After 11 July 1654 Sarah (_____) Phippen, widow of David Phippen of Boston [ TAG 17:5]; she died at Fairfield shortly before 25 August 1659.
CHILDREN (first six baptized Crewkerne [TAG 20:supplement 18; Ackley-Bosworth 78]):
i JOSIAS, baptized 10 November 1616; married Windsor 20 May 1641 Elizabeth Loomis [ Grant 46].
ii MARY, baptized 27 July 1618; married Dorchester by about 1637 HUMPHREY PINNEY [Grant 58].
iii MARTHA, baptized 29 October 1620; named in father's will in 1659; no further record.
iv ELIZABETH, baptized 16 October 1625; married Windsor 4 December 1646 Samuel Gaylord [Grant 42], son of WILLIAM GAYLORD.
v CORNELIUS, baptized 13 April 1628; married about November 1653 Rebecca Jones, daughter of Rev. John Jones (George Hull deeded land to his son Cornelius on 29 November 1653 "upon his marriage" [Fairfield LR 1:48]; in his will of 17 January 1664/5 John Jones made a bequest to his daughter Rebecca Hull [ FOOF 1:344]). (In some sources the date of this marriage is given as 19 November 1652, but there is no record of the event in Fairfield vital records; the date would seem to be a misreading and a misuse of the gift of land from father to son on 29 November 1653, which must have been very close to the date of marriage.)
vi JOSHUA, baptized 5 November 1630; no further record.
vii NAOMI, born say 1632; named in father's will in 1659; no further record.
ASSOCIATIONS: George Hull was elder brother of Reverend Joseph Hull who arrived in New England in 1635 [Evans Festschrift 44-51, which summarizes earlier work by the author (John Insley Coddington) and others on the Hull family, and presents new evidence on the ancestry of Joan Pyssing, mother of George and Joseph]. In his will George Hull mentioned cousin Jane Pinkney, and his second wife named cousins Jane and Philip Pinkney in her will. In his account of Philip Pinkney, Jacobus supposes that "[h]e and his wife were perhaps drawn to Fairfield by the marriage of their aunt, Mrs. Sarah Phippen, to George Hull" [FOOF 1:482], but the exact nature of the relationship is not known.
COMMENTS: George Hull has been included in some lists of passengers on the Mary and John, but his son Joshua was baptized in Crewkerne on 5 November 1630 and the first record of him in New England is his admission as freeman of Massachusetts Bay on 4 March 1632/3, which makes an arrival date of 1632 far more likely. On 5 March 1639[/40] George Hull and other men returned the appraisal of the estate of the children of Thomas Newberry [ RPCC 9]. William Hill named him an overseer in his will, 9 September 1649 [ Manwaring 1:128]. George Hull and Alexander Knowles took the inventory of William Cross of Fairfield, 7 September 1655 [Manwaring 1:111].The Great Migration BeginsSketches
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George Hull
GEORGE HULL. George Hull, probably born at or near Krewkerne, Somerset, England, about 1590; married at Krewkerne, England, Thamzen Micbell, of Stockland, August 27, 1614. Sailed from Plymouth, March 30, 1629-30, in ship "'Mary and John," with a notable company. Among others by same ship were Roger Ludlow, Mason, the destroyer of the Pequots, Underhill, Southcote, Smith, Ministers Maverick and Wareham, also Humphrey Pinney, who married Hull's daughter Marie, and a goodly company. Settled at Dorchester; made Freeman of Massachusetts March 4, 1632; representative to General Court, May, 1634; one of first Selectmen of Dorchester. Removed to Windsor, Connecticut, 1636. Surveyed that place, also Weathers- field ; was Representative to the General Court which met at Hartford, May 1, 1637, and declared war against the Pequot Indians. In 1638, he, jointly with Roger Ludlow, was granted by the General Court a Monopoly of the Fur trade on the Connecticut River; was member of the General Court from 1637 to 1646, when he removed to Fairfield ; was Repre- sentative of that place to General Court from 1649 to 1654. The historian Trumbull places his name among those Worthy of Perpetuation ; and Stiles, in his History of Windsor, tells us that he was a citizen of Worth and Distinction. After the death of his first wife, he married, about 1646, Sarah, widow of David Phippen, of Boston. His will was admitted to probate November 20, 1659.
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George Hull Information
George was a "surveyor, Indian trader, magistrate, statesman and founder of a prominent branch of the Hull family in America". (Weygant). His brothers, Joseph and William both graduated from St. Mary's Hall at Oxford and were ministers of the Church of England. Further evidence of his background, his wife was daughter of a "well-to-do yeoman of Stockland" (Ibid) in Dorsetshire.
George sailed for the American colonies from Plymouth 30 Mar 1629 / 30 on the "Mary and John"; his youngest son, Joshua was baptised at Crewkerne 7 months after this date, indicating Thomasene and the young family were left in England while George became part of the "Great Migration". He shared the voyage with friends George and John Ludlow and future son-in-law Humphrie Pinney. He was a short time in Boston and went on to help settle the town of Dorchester where he was on the first board of selectmen and was made a freeman 4 Mar 1632/3 and was town's first repres to the General Court.
In 1636 he moved to Windsor Connecticut and surveyed both Windsor and Wethersfield. In exchange for this service, he received his choice of home lots in Windsor where he again represented his town in the General Court. It was here in 1638 that he and Pinney, through the graces of the General Court, received a monopoly on the beaver trade on the Connecticut River.
In 1638 he followed his friend (Stiles, too says that he was "a citizen of worth and distinction.") and George Ludlow, now governor of Connecticut, to Fairfield where he became the General Court designated assistant to the governor. In 1651, '53, '54 he was appointed by the governor as associate magistrate for the towns by the seaside. He was apparently well connected on the political scene of the blossoming colonies; Cotton Mather mentions him as does Connecticut state historian Trumbull who groups him "with those whose names are worthy of perpetuation.
Sources: The Hull Family in America, Col Weygant; History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, with biographical sketches of its prominent men, Beers, J.B. and Co. - 1884; Some Notes on the Wellman and Bump families of Barry County Michigan, Harthy, Charles O. - 1992; Ancient Windsor - Stiles; Pioneers of Massachusetts, Pope, Charles Henry - 1900. Jacobus, History of Fairfield County; "The Mary and John" by Chas. Tuttle, 1971
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Will:
I George Hull, being feeble in body, yet of good and perfect mind do now ordain this my last Will and Testament as followeth. Imprimus - I give and bequeath unto my loving wife the third part of my estate, yf shee relinquish the twenty pounds which I promised her yf I died before her.Item - I give and bequeath unto my son Josias Hull anothe r third part of my estate.Item - I give and bequeath unto my son Cornelius Hull, on e little feather bed now in Boston.Item - I give and bequeath also unto Corelius Hull forty shillings to be paid out of the third of my estate.Item - I give unto my cousin Jane Pinkney twenty shillings Item - I doe by these presents ordayne, constitute and make my son Josias Hull and Sarah, my loving wife, the executors of this my last Will and Testament.George Hull (seal) In presence of Alexander Knowles and Phi lip PinckneyItem - The rest of my estate, my debts and funeral expense s being payd, I give to my four daughters, equaly divided, that is to Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Naomy George Hull (seal) In presence of Alexander Knowles and Phi lip Pinckney inventory.......Taken by us, William Hill, Alexander Knowles, Anthony Wilson; The second day of November, 1659. This inventory was attested by Cornelius Hull to be true inventor y of his Father Hull his Estate to the best of his knowledge. Before me, Nathan Gold found on ancestry.com
Hull Family history from the History of Redding, Connecicut
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The Hull family are recorded in the Herald's Distinction of Devon as a very ancient family of Devonshire, but the original name, De La Hulle, in Shropshire, in the reign of Edward II., indicates that they went from the Continent to England, probably from Normandy. Shortly after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, five brothers named Hull came to Massachusetts from England, viz., John, George, Richard, Joseph, and Robert.
George, who was the ancestor of the Hulls of Redding, appears in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630; removed to Windsor, Connecticut, and afterward to Fairfield; died in August, 1659. His will, dated August 25, 1659, mentions sons: Josias and Cornelius, and several daughters. His son Cornelius married Rebecca, daughter of Rev. John Joanes, the first minister of Fairfield, who was of Welsh origin. His will, of the date September 16, 1695, mentions three sons, Samuel, Cornelius, and Theophilus; and three daughters, Rebecca, Sarah, the wife of Robert Stillman, and Martha, wife of Cornelius Stratton. The children of Cornelius were: George, Sarah, Rebecca, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, John, Martha, Eleanor, and Cornelius. Deacon George Hull was one of the fathers of the infant settlement. He was the moderator of the first parish meeting, a member of the first parish committee, and first deacon of the church in Redding. He also appears on numerous committees. He and his wife, and Theophilus and wife were among the original church members in 1733. John Hull was admitted April 18, 1736. All of them removed here from Greenfield Hill. George, Ebenezer, and Cornelius must have come to Redding prior to 1733, for their names appear in a petition to fix upon a site for a meeting-house in 1725. By a deed dated Danbury, May 19, 1729, a tract of land lying in Chestnut Ridge, between Danbury and Fairfield, is conveyed to George Hull and heirs by Jonathan Squires.
George Hull 's children recorded in Redding are: Seth, baptized July 29, 1733; and Rebecca, May 25, 1735. He died February 9th, 1769, aged 83. Seth Hull married Elizabeth Mallory, his niece. Children recorded in Redding are: Abigail, born January 28th, 1762; Jonathan, October 25, 1763, Eliphalet, December 18, 1765; Walter, November 21, 1767; Lazarus, January 16, 1770; Hezekiah, March 24, 1792; and Martha, April 28, 1794. Besides these were Elizabeth and Sarah; Martha married David Belden, an Episcopal clergyman; Jonathan married Eunice Beach, and was the father of Rev. Lemuel B. Hull, former rector of Christ Church in Redding. Seth Hull died April 5, 1795.
Nathaniel Hull was born in 1695, and reared Sarah, Elizabeth, Esther, Stephen, Nathaniel, Peter, Ezekiel, David, Aaron, Silas, and Hannah.
The children of Silas Hull were: Hannah, Huldah, and Bradley. Bradley's children were: Burr, Pamelia, Charry, Silas, Aaron B., Charles, Mary, Bradley H., Chapman, Le Grand, and Cornelia.
The children of Ebenezer were: Daniel, Ebenezer, Nehemiah, and Abigail. Daniel married Mary Betts, and removed from Redding to Berlin, Rensselaer County, N.Y., in 1770, and was one of the first settlers of that town. He died August 26, 1811, aged 89 years. He had ten children, ciz., Martha, Hezekiah, Justus, Abagail, Peter, Esther, Daniel, Stephen, Harry, and Ebenezer.
Of these children all but the two last named were born in Redding. Justus was one of the first ministers of the Second Baptist Church in Danbury, and is reputed to have been a preacher of more than ordinary ability. He was in the minister fifty-six years, and died at Berlin, New York, May 29, 1833, at the age of 78. His children were: Justus P. Emmerson, Polly Ann, and Alonzo Grandison. The last named is a physician, and resides in New York. He was a successful practitioner in London twelve years. Ebenezer married and emigrated to the West. his descendants reside in Iowa, Nebraska, and other Western states. Nehemiah died a bachelor.
John Hull removed to Redding when in middle life. He went with the Provincial troops in the expedition against Cuba in 1641, and fell victim to the yellow-fever with nearly a thousand others of the sturdy sons of New England. He directed that his musket, carried in the wars, should be sent home to his eldest son Timothy; he to leave it to his eldest son, and that it should descend in this manner to the eldest son as long as it existed. Thus it has fallen in regular descent to Aaron B. Hull, of Danbury, the great grandson of the original owner. Before enlisting, Mr. Hull made his will, dated September 16, 1740, in which he mentions sons Timothy, James, and John, and daughters Anna, Abagail, and Esther. Timothy was born September 4, 1726, and married Anna, daughter of John Gray, December 14, 1749. He died April 29, 1800. His children were Hannah, born July 27, 1751, married Samuel Mallory, and died in Danbury,
September 4, 1836. Sarah, born February 5, 1754, married John Fairchild and emigrated West. Ezra, born April 5, 1756, and died in Redding, March 5, 1837. He settled in Boston school district. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Onesimus Coley. His children were: Eunice, born July 6, 1785, married Hiram Jackson; died in Kingston, New York, May 3, 1862. Laura, born August 4, 1788, married John Eckert, and died in Springfield, Otsego County, New York, November 17, 1865. Polly, born November 29, 1798, died in Kingston, New York, September 28, 1876. Elizabeth, the wife of Ezra Hull, died February 28, 1809; he married Widow Mary Bradley, daughter of Gershom Banks, of Fairfield, June 20, 1810; she died in Wilton, April 17, 1854. The children of this marriage were: Ezra Bradley and Charles, who both died young, and Aaron B.
Ezra Hull served in the Revolutionary War, and participated in those events which transpired during Governor Tryon's expedition to and the burning of Danbury. Eunice, fourth child of Timothy Hull, was born August 26, 1757, married George Perry and removed to Kentucky. John, born June 26, 1759, married Sarah Fairchild; died April 7, 1838. (His children were Aaron, Ezekiel, Hezekiah, Abraham, and Polly.) Abraham, born March 30, 1761, died in Danbury, October 29, 1831. David, born March 22, 1763, died in Redding, March 19, 1847; he married Chloe Lee, and had children, Daniel, Harry, and Lucy. Samuel, born June 22, 1766. (He married Anna Wakeman, and had a daughter Eliza, who married Horace Staples, President of the Westport National Bank. Samuel Hull died in Redding, July 19, 1846.) Hezekiah, born October 22, 1769, died in Danbury, July 26, 1852. Anna, born December 7, 1771, married Lemuel Burr; died in Redding, December 20, 1840. Abigail, born November 17, 1775, married Timothy Perry; died in Miamisburg, Ohio, March 16, 1844.
The will of James, the second son of John Hull, of the date of April 26, 1799, mentions no children. He died February 20, 1805, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. John married Mollie Andrews, February 3, 1763. His children recorded are Eleanor and Mollie. His will, bearing date June 24, 1815, mentions no children, but names his "grandson John Goodyear, and the son of his grandson Hull Goodyear;" also two other names not given, but which were undoubtedly Munson Goodyear and Ellen, wife of Harry Meeker.
Cornelius, the youngest son of Cornelius Hull, 2d, and Abagail, daughter of robert Rumsey, were married August 24, 1731. Their children were: Jedediah, Eunice, Grace, Eliphalet, Abigail, Sarah, and Ruey. Jedediah Hull was second lieutenant under Colonel David Wooster in the army which invaded Canada in 1758. His children were: Denny, Eunice, Chapman, Molly, Cornelius, and Jedediah. Denny and Chapman settled in Redding. The children of the first named were: Mary, Denny, Isaac Platt, and Eunice. Chapman's were: Morris, Henry C., and George.
The will of Theophilus Hull, of Fairfield, the youngest son of Cornelius, 1st, dated June 4, 1710, gives the names of sons Theophilus, Eliphalet, John, and Jabesh, and two daughters, Mary and Ann. Theophilus, his oldest son, married Widow Martha Betts, of Redding, January 25, 1759. His will, of the date December 1, 1785, names son Zalmon, and daughters Sarah and Lydia. Zalmon's sons were: Hezekiah, Theophilus B., Henry L., and his daughters, Lydia and Sally.The Redding records contain the marriage of Nehemiah Hull and Grizzle Perry, February 5, 1767. Nehemiah, probably a son of the above, married Sarah Jackson. Twin children were born to them, December 7, 1792, and were named Sally Betsey, and Betsey Sally. The first named married Theophilus B., son of Zalmon Hull, and the other Morris, son of Chapman Hull
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The sources for this biographical note: Henry R. Stiles, The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Vol. 2 (Brooklyn, NY: Samuel Stiles, 1859), reprinted by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 [Database on-line] Provo: UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Originally pub. as Vol. 1-3 at Boston: MA: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1995.
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George Hull, born in England, about 1590, married at Crew Kerne, Somerset, England, August 27, 1614, Thamzen Michell, of Stockland, England. With his wife and children, he sailed from Plymouth, Devon, England, March 30, 1629, in the ship Mary and John, Captain Squeb; settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts; was made freeman March 4, 1632, representative for the town to the first Great and General Court held in the colony, May 14, 1634. He was a member of the first board of selectmen of Dorchester, and "appointed to fix the rate, 1633-1634." He moved to Windsor, Connecticut, 1636; surveyed Windsor, and Wethersfield; moved to Fairfield about 1646. His wife died previous to the removal to Fairfield. After 1654 he married, second, Sarah, widow of David Phippen, of Boston. He was a member of the General Court of Connecticut for many terms. He was Associate Magistrate, and with ex-Governor Ludlow, held a monopoly of the beaver trade on the Connecticut River. He died at Fairfield, Connecticut, 1659. His will, admitted to probate October 20, 1659, names his children:
1, Mary, baptized at Crew Kerne, England, July 27, 1618; married Humphrey Pinney, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
2, Josiah, baptized in Crew Kerne, November 5, 1620; married Elizabeth Loomis, at Windsor, Connecticut.
3, Elizabeth, baptized at Crew Kerne, October 16, 1625; married Samuel Gaylord.
4, (2), Cornelius, married at Fairfield, Connecticut, Rebecca Jones, daughter of Rev. John Jones, pastor of the first church established in Fairfield.
5, Martha.
6, Naomi.
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George Hull
Came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony c1631, perhaps on the "Mary and John". Made freeman of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 4 March 1632/3. Member of the first board of selectmen, Dorchester, 1633-1636. Representative from Dorchester to the first General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Boston, 14 May 1634. One of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut, 1636/7. On 5 April 1638, was granted with his friend Roger Ludlow exclusive right to trade beaver with the Indians at Windsor. Deputy to the General Court from Windsor from 1637-1646, attending at least 31 sessions. In 1647 he followed Ludlow to Fairfield, having sold his house in Windsor to Governor John Haynes. In 1648-49 he was representative from Fairfield. In 1653-54 he was assistant magistrate for several towns including Fairfield. Constant assistant to Ludlow, in Ludlow's various offices.
Ancestral File Number: 46VD-27
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2616–2617. George Hull was born in England and died in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, about 1659. Thomasin Mitchell was born in Stockland, England, in 1592, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1655. They were married in Crewekerne, county Somerset, England, on Saturday, August 27, 1614. She took the name Thomasin Hull. He is the son of Thomas and Joane (Peson) Hull. She is the daughter of Robert Mitchell. They had seven children:
i. Josias Hull was baptized in Crewekerne on November 10, 1616, and died in Killingworth, Connecticut Colony, on November 16, 1675. He married Elizabeth Loomis in Windsor, Connecticut, on May 20, 1641.
ii. Mary Hull was baptized in Crewekerne on July 27, 1618, and died in Windsor, Connecticut Colony, on August 18, 1685. She was married to Humphrey Pinney in Dorchester, Massachusetts, by about 1637.
iii. Martha Hull was born in Crewekerne on October 20, 1620. She was mentioned in her father's will but appears in no other records.
iv. Elizabeth Hull was baptized in Crewekerne on October 16, 1625, and died in Windsor on May 2, 1680. She married Samuel Gaylord in Windsor on December 4, 1646.
v. Cornelius Hull [#1308]: He was born in England about 1627, and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, in September, 1695.
vi. Joshua Hull was baptized in Crewekerne. He appears in no known records except his baptism.
vii. Naomi Hull was born in—say—1632. She was mentioned in her father's will but appears in no other records.
His second marriage was to Sarah Pinckney(?). She was born in England and died in Fairfield in August, 1659. They were married in 1655. She was the widow of David Phippen [#1056] who is also an ancestor in the genealogy, an interesting case of two widowed ancestors marrying. They had no children.
The Great Migration Begins has the following entry on George Hull.
ORIGIN: Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England
MIGRATION: 1632 [Note: Others (see below) say that he came in 1630 leaving his children and pregnant wife behind.]
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
REMOVES: Windsor 1636, Fairfield 1647
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 4 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:367].
EDUCATION: Signed his will.
OFFICES: Dorchester selectman, 8 October 1633, 2 November 1635, 27 June 1636, 5 July 1636 [DTR 3, 13, 16, 17]; assessor, 3 November 1633, 2 June 1634 [DTR 4, 7]. Deputy to Massachusetts Bay General Court for Dorchester, 14 May 1634, 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:116, 174]. Deputy to Connecticut Court for Windsor, May 1637, November 1637, March 1638, April 1638, August 1639, September 1639, January 1639/40, April 1640, February 1640/1, April 1641, September 1641, November 1641, April 1642, August 1642, March 1643, April 1643, September 1643, April 1644, September 1644, September 1645, December 1645, April 1646 [CT Civil List 28-29]. Deputy for Fairfield, May 1649, May 1650, May 1651, October 1655, May 1656 [CT Civil List 28-29]. Magistrate at Fairfield, 29 October 1653 [CCCR 1:249]. Assistant magistrate, 6 October 1651, 18 May 1654 [CCCR 1:226, 257; CT Civil List 29]. Beaver trader, authorized 5 April 1638 [CCCR 1:18]. Assistant commissary general, 18 September 1649 [CCCR 1:198]. ESTATE: Ordered to build sixty feet of fence, rated for three cows (as "Mr. Hull"), 3 April 1633 [DTR 1]; granted two acres of meadow, 18 February 1635/6 [DTR 15]; granted meadow "that lies before his door where he now dwells," 27 June 1636 [DTR 17]; received Lot #35, four acres, in the meadow beyond Naponset (and perhaps also Lot #55, six acres) [DTR 321]. In the Windsor land inventory on 16 November 1640 George Hull held seven parcels: homelot of seven acres and a half; sixteen acres in the Great Meade; over the Great River twenty-seven rods in length and three miles in breadth; over the Great River four acres and a quarter of meadow; fifteen acres of upland; ten acres and a half of upland; and five acres in the Great Meade [WiLR 1:13]. On 22 November 1653 Daniel Frost sold to George Hull seven acres in the Old Field at Fairfield [Fairfield LR 1:44]. On 24 November 1653 Charles Tainter sold to George Hull six parcels of land: two acres and a fraction in Sasqua Neck; four acres and a half at Uncaway River; seven acres and eight rods in the Great Meadow; three acres and a quarter in the Old Field; thirteen acres and a half in the New Field; and thirteen acres and a fraction "at the planting field at Uncaway Neck" [Fairfield LR 1:44]. On the same day Robert Woolly sold to George Hull one acre in the Old Field and the town granted to George Hull a homelot of six acres and a half [Fairfield LR 1:45]. On 24 November 1653 George Hull sold to Richard Osborne two acres in the Old Field [Fairfield LR 1:46]. On 21 May 1658 "Mr. George Hull" sold to Moses Hoyt two acres in Sasqua Neck [Fairfield LR 1:116] and to Austin Samfeild two acres in Sasqua Neck [Fairfield LR 1:117]. On 26 May 1658 "Mr. George Hull" sold to "Josua Jennings" two acres at Sasco Hill [Fairfield LR 1:114]. On 29 November 1653 "Georg[e] Hull hath given unto his son Cornelius Hull upon his marriage" several parcels of land [Fairfield LR 1:48]. In his will, date lost (fire damage) and proved 20 October 1659, George Hull bequeathed to "my loving wife" one-third of the estate; to "my son Josyas Hull another third part of my estate"; to "son Cornelius Hull one little featherbed which is at Boston" and "forty shillings to be paid out of the last third of my estate"; to "my cousin Jane Pinkny" twenty shillings; "my son Josyas Hull and Sarah my loving wife" to be executors; residue to "my four daughters equally to be divided that is to Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Naomy" [Fairfield PR 1:56]. The "invoice of the estate of Georg[e] Hull late deceased in Fairfield" was taken 25 August 1659 and totalled £58 14s. 4d., with no real estate included [Fairfield PR 1:56-58]. In her will, dated 1659 (day and month lost to fire damage) and proved 20 October 1659, "Sarah [Hull ...] wife unto George Hull late deceased" bequeathed "my house at Boston equally to be divided betwixt all my children"; to "my son Gamaleell" a cupboard; to "my son Georg[e] Phippin" furniture in house at Boston; to "my daughter Rebecca Vickers and my daughter Sarah Yow" moveables; to "my cousin Jane Pinkny" 30s.; residue to "my four sons (to wit) Beniamin Phippin, Joseph, Gamaleell and Georg[e] Phippin"; "my cousin Phillip Pinkny" to be overseer [Fairfield PR 1:61]. The inventory of "the estate of Sarah Hull late deceased in Fairfield" was taken 25 August 1659 and was untotalled; no real estate was included [Fairfield PR 1:61-62].
BIRTH: By about 1589 (based on date of first marriage), son of Thomas and Joan (Pyssing) Hull [Evans Festschrift 44, 49-50; Dawes-Gates 2:453].
DEATH: Fairfield after 26 May 1658 [Fairfield LR 1:45] and before 25 August 1659 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) Crewkerne, Somerset, 27 August 1614 Thomasine Mitchell [Ackley-Bosworth 78]; she died before 1654. (2) After 11 July 1654 Sarah (_____) Phippen, widow of David Phippen of Boston [TAG 17:5]; she died at Fairfield shortly before 25 August 1659.
CHILDREN (first six baptized Crewkerne [TAG 20:supplement 18; Ackley-Bosworth 78]):
1. JOSIAS, baptized 10 November 1616; married Windsor 20 May 1641 Elizabeth Loomis [Grant 46].
2. MARY, baptized 27 July 1618; married Dorchester by about 1637 HUMPHREY PINNEY [Grant 58].
3. MARTHA, baptized 29 October 1620; named in father's will in 1659; no further record.
4. ELIZABETH, baptized 16 October 1625; married Windsor 4 December 1646 Samuel Gaylord [Grant 42], son of WILLIAM GAYLORD .
5. CORNELIUS, baptized 13 April 1628; married about November 1653 Rebecca Jones, daughter of Rev. John Jones (George Hull deeded land to his son Cornelius on 29 November 1653 "upon his marriage" [Fairfield LR 1:48]; in his will of 17 January 1664/5 John Jones made a bequest to his daughter Rebecca Hull [FOOF 1:344]). (In some sources the date of this marriage is given as 19 November 1652, but there is no record of the event in Fairfield vital records; the date would seem to be a misreading and a misuse of the gift of land from father to son on 29 November 1653, which must have been very close to the date of marriage.)
6. JOSHUA, baptized 5 November 1630; no further record.
7. NAOMI, born say 1632; named in father's will in 1659; no further record.
ASSOCIATIONS: George Hull was elder brother of Reverend Joseph Hull who arrived in New England in 1635 [Evans Festschrift 44-51, which summarizes earlier work by the author (John Insley Coddington) and others on the Hull family, and presents new evidence on the ancestry of Joan Pyssing, mother of George and Joseph]. In his will George Hull mentioned cousin Jane Pinkney, and his second wife named cousins Jane and Philip Pinkney in her will. In his account of Philip Pinkney, Jacobus supposes that "[h]e and his wife were perhaps drawn to Fairfield by the marriage of their aunt, Mrs. Sarah Phippen, to George Hull" [FOOF 1:482], but the exact nature of the relationship is not known.
COMMENTS: George Hull has been included in some lists of passengers on the Mary and John, but his son Joshua was baptized in Crewkerne on 5 November 1630 and the first record of him in New England is his admission as freeman of Massachusetts Bay on 4 March 1632/3, which makes an arrival date of 1632 far more likely. On 5 March 1639[/40] George Hull and other men returned the appraisal of the estate of the children of Thomas Newberry [RPCC 9]. William Hill named him an overseer in his will, 9 September 1649 [Manwaring 1:128]. George Hull and Alexander Knowles took the inventory of William Cross of Fairfield, 7 September 1655 [Manwaring 1:111].
History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield ... has:
George Hull first appears in America in 1630 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He became a freeman in 1633. He served as Deputy to the Massachusetts Legislature from Dorchester in May, 1634. He moved to Windsor, Massachusetts, with the first settlers. Here he served as Deputy to the Legislature 22 times between May, 1637, and April, 1646. He moved to Fairfield about 1647 and again served as Deputy to the Legislature five times, from May, 1649, to May 1656. He was Magistrate for Fairfield in May, 1654. In 1653 he purchased land in Fairfield from Charles Taintor.
His will mentions: wife Sarah; sons Josias and Cornelius; cousin Jane Pinkney; four daughters, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, and Naomi.
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George Hull—Born about 1590, possibly Crewkerne, Somerset, England. He died, 1655. He married (1) Thamzen (Thomasene) Michell, 17 August 1614, Crewkerne, Somerset, dau of Robert Michell of Stockland, Dorset. She died Before 1655. He married (2) Sarah _______, widow of David Phippen. She died August 1659.
George Hull was the son of Thomas Hull and Joan Peson of Crewkerne. His father-in-law was a well-to-do yeoman of Stockland, six miles from Crewkerne. His older brother, William Hull, graduated from St. Mary's Hall, Oxford and was the vicar of Colyton, Devon and died in 1627. Jonathan Gillett of the "Mary and John" returned to England and married Mary Dolbiar in Colyton in 1634. George's youngest brother, Joseph, also graduated from St. Mary's and was a minister in the Church of England.
George Hull came on the "Mary and John" in 1630 alone, leaving behind his wife with six children, ages 3 to 11. She was pregnant when he left and she had a son, Joshua, who was baptised, 5 November 1630 in Crewkerne. His wife came over, with her children, sometime after 1630. George first settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts where he was one of the first selectman. He also represented the town in the first general court in Massachusetts in 1634. In 1636 he moved to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was a surveyor and Indian trader. In 1638, the general court granted him and Humphrey Pinney a monopoly of the beaver trade on the Connecticut River. Pinney later became his son-in-law. George was a personal friend and political adherent of Roger Ludlow and followed him to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he was selected as his assistant in 1651, 1653 and 1654. He was a public spirited, active and intelligent man and he helped establish both the Massachusetts and Connecticut commonwealths.
Sources:
Anderson, Robert Charles;The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol I–III found on the web site of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society. Citations within the item include:
[MBCR]: Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 1628–1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853–1854)
[DTR]: Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883)
[CCCR]: The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636–1776, 15 volumes (Hartford 1850–1890)
[CT Civil List]: Jacobus, Donald Lines; List of Officials Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical of Connecticut Colony... and New Haven Colony..., (New Haven 1935)
[WiLR]: Windsor, Connecticut, Deeds (microfilm of original at Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut)
[Fairfield LR]: Fairfield Connecticut Deeds
[Fairfield PR]: Fairfield County, Connecticut, Probate Records
[Evans Festschrift]: Brook, Lindsay L. Brook, ed.; Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, (Salt Lake City 1989)
[Ackley-Bosworth]: Park, Nathan Grier, II; The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley
[TAG]: The American Genealogist, vol. 9 to present (1932)
[Grant]: Matthew Grant Record, 1639–1681, in Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to The Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639–1703 (Hartford 1930)
[FOOF]: Jacobus, Donald Lines, comp. and ed.; %History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, 3 volumes (Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930; rpt. Baltimore 1976, 1991)
[RPCC]: Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639–1663, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Hartford 1928; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1987)
[Manwaring]: Manwaring, Charles William, comp.; A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635–1700 (Hartford 1904)
Jacobus, Donald Lines, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (reprinted with corrections), Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991 (1930); vol. 1, p. 307
The Mary and John Clearinghouse, Search for the Passengers of the Mary and John, 1630, vol. 17, p. 93
The International Genealogical Index (source of the dates and places for Thomasin/Thomasen Mitchell).
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GEORGE HULL
ORIGIN: Crewkerne, Somersetshire
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor 1636, Fairfield 1647
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 4 March 1632/3 [ MBCR 1:367].
EDUCATION: Signed his will.
OFFICES: Dorchester selectman, 8 October 1633, 2 November 1635, 27 June 1636, 5 July 1636 [ DTR 3, 13, 16, 17]; assessor, 3 November 1633, 2 June 1634 [DTR 4, 7]. Deputy to Massachusetts Bay General Court for Dorchester, 14 May 1634, 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:116, 174]. Deputy to Connecticut Court for Windsor, May 1637, November 1637, March 1638, April 1638, August 1639, September 1639, January 1639/40, April 1640, February 1640/1, April 1641, September 1641, November 1641, April 1642, August 1642, March 1643, April 1643, September 1643, April 1644, September 1644, September 1645, December 1645, April 1646 [ CT Civil List 28-29]. Deputy for Fairfield, May 1649, May 1650, May 1651, October 1655, May 1656 [CT Civil List 28-29]. Magistrate at Fairfield, 29 October 1653 [ CCCR 1:249]. Assistant magistrate, 6 October 1651, 18 May 1654 [CCCR 1:226, 257; CT Civil List 29]. Beaver trader, authorized 5 April 1638 [CCCR 1:18]. Assistant commissary general, 18 September 1649 [CCCR 1:198].ESTATE: Ordered to build sixty feet of fence, rated for three cows (as "Mr. Hull"), 3 April 1633 [DTR 1]; granted two acres of meadow, 18 February 1635/6 [DTR 15]; granted meadow "that lies before his door where he now dwells," 27 June 1636 [DTR 17]; received Lot #35, four acres, in the meadow beyond Naponset (and perhaps also Lot #55, six acres) [DTR 321]. In the Windsor land inventory on 16 November 1640 George Hull held seven parcels: homelot of seven acres and a half; sixteen acres in the Great Meade; over the Great River twenty-seven rods in length and three miles in breadth; over the Great River four acres and a quarter of meadow; fifteen acres of upland; ten acres and a half of upland; and five acres in the Great Meade [ WiLR 1:13]. On 22 November 1653 Daniel Frost sold to George Hull seven acres in the Old Field at Fairfield [ Fairfield LR 1:44]. On 24 November 1653 Charles Tainter sold to George Hull six parcels of land: two acres and a fraction in Sasqua Neck; four acres and a half at Uncaway River; seven acres and eight rods in the Great Meadow; three acres and a quarter in the Old Field; thirteen acres and a half in the New Field; and thirteen acres and a fraction "at the planting field at Uncaway Neck" [Fairfield LR 1:44]. On the same day Robert Woolly sold to George Hull one acre in the Old Field and the town granted to George Hull a homelot of six acres and a half [Fairfield LR 1:45]. On 24 November 1653 George Hull sold to Richard Osborne two acres in the Old Field [Fairfield LR 1:46]. On 21 May 1658 "Mr. George Hull" sold to Moses Hoyt two acres in Sasqua Neck [Fairfield LR 1:116] and to Austin Samfeild two acres in Sasqua Neck [Fairfield LR 1:117]. On 26 May 1658 "Mr. George Hull" sold to "Josua Jennings" two acres at Sasco Hill [Fairfield LR 1:114]. On 29 November 1653 "Georg[e] Hull hath given unto his son Cornelius Hull upon his marriage" several parcels of land [Fairfield LR 1:48]. In his will, date lost (fire damage) and proved 20 October 1659, George Hull bequeathed to "my loving wife" one-third of the estate; to "my son Josyas Hull another third part of my estate"; to "son Cornelius Hull one little featherbed which is at Boston" and "forty shillings to be paid out of the last third of my estate"; to "my cousin Jane Pinkny" twenty shillings; "my son Josyas Hull and Sarah my loving wife" to be executors; residue to "my four daughters equally to be divided that is to Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Naomy" [ Fairfield PR 1:56]. The "invoice of the estate of Georg[e] Hull late deceased in Fairfield" was taken 25 August 1659 and totalled £58 14s. 4d., with no real estate included [Fairfield PR 1:56-58]. In her will, dated 1659 (day and month lost to fire damage) and proved 20 October 1659, "Sarah [Hull ...] wife unto George Hull late deceased" bequeathed "my house at Boston equally to be divided betwixt all my children"; to "my son Gamaleell" a cupboard; to "my son Georg[e] Phippin" furniture in house at Boston; to "my daughter Rebecca Vickers and my daughter Sarah Yow" moveables; to "my cousin Jane Pinkny" 30s.; residue to "my four sons (to wit) Beniamin Phippin, Joseph, Gamaleell and Georg[e] Phippin"; "my cousin Phillip Pinkny" to be overseer [Fairfield PR 1:61]. The inventory of "the estate of Sarah Hull late deceased in Fairfield" was taken 25 August 1659 and was untotalled; no real estate was included [Fairfield PR 1:61-62].BIRTH: By about 1589 (based on date of first marriage), son of Thomas and Joan (Pyssing) Hull [ Evans Festschrift 44, 49-50; Dawes-Gates 2:453].
DEATH: Fairfield after 26 May 1658 [Fairfield LR 1:45] and before 25 August 1659 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) Crewkerne, Somerset, 27 August 1614 Thomasine Mitchell [ Ackley-Bosworth 78]; she died before 1654. (2) After 11 July 1654 Sarah (_____) Phippen, widow of David Phippen of Boston [ TAG 17:5]; she died at Fairfield shortly before 25 August 1659.
CHILDREN (first six baptized Crewkerne [TAG 20:supplement 18; Ackley-Bosworth 78]):
i JOSIAS, baptized 10 November 1616; married Windsor 20 May 1641 Elizabeth Loomis [ Grant 46].
ii MARY, baptized 27 July 1618; married Dorchester by about 1637 HUMPHREY PINNEY [Grant 58].
iii MARTHA, baptized 29 October 1620; named in father's will in 1659; no further record.
iv ELIZABETH, baptized 16 October 1625; married Windsor 4 December 1646 Samuel Gaylord [Grant 42], son of WILLIAM GAYLORD.
v CORNELIUS, baptized 13 April 1628; married about November 1653 Rebecca Jones, daughter of Rev. John Jones (George Hull deeded land to his son Cornelius on 29 November 1653 "upon his marriage" [Fairfield LR 1:48]; in his will of 17 January 1664/5 John Jones made a bequest to his daughter Rebecca Hull [ FOOF 1:344]). (In some sources the date of this marriage is given as 19 November 1652, but there is no record of the event in Fairfield vital records; the date would seem to be a misreading and a misuse of the gift of land from father to son on 29 November 1653, which must have been very close to the date of marriage.)
vi JOSHUA, baptized 5 November 1630; no further record.
vii NAOMI, born say 1632; named in father's will in 1659; no further record.
ASSOCIATIONS: George Hull was elder brother of Reverend Joseph Hull who arrived in New England in 1635 [Evans Festschrift 44-51, which summarizes earlier work by the author (John Insley Coddington) and others on the Hull family, and presents new evidence on the ancestry of Joan Pyssing, mother of George and Joseph]. In his will George Hull mentioned cousin Jane Pinkney, and his second wife named cousins Jane and Philip Pinkney in her will. In his account of Philip Pinkney, Jacobus supposes that "[h]e and his wife were perhaps drawn to Fairfield by the marriage of their aunt, Mrs. Sarah Phippen, to George Hull" [FOOF 1:482], but the exact nature of the relationship is not known.
COMMENTS: George Hull has been included in some lists of passengers on the Mary and John, but his son Joshua was baptized in Crewkerne on 5 November 1630 and the first record of him in New England is his admission as freeman of Massachusetts Bay on 4 March 1632/3, which makes an arrival date of 1632 far more likely. On 5 March 1639[/40] George Hull and other men returned the appraisal of the estate of the children of Thomas Newberry [ RPCC 9]. William Hill named him an overseer in his will, 9 September 1649 [ Manwaring 1:128]. George Hull and Alexander Knowles took the inventory of William Cross of Fairfield, 7 September 1655 [Manwaring 1:111].The Great Migration BeginsSketches
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George Hull
GEORGE HULL. George Hull, probably born at or near Krewkerne, Somerset, England, about 1590; married at Krewkerne, England, Thamzen Micbell, of Stockland, August 27, 1614. Sailed from Plymouth, March 30, 1629-30, in ship "'Mary and John," with a notable company. Among others by same ship were Roger Ludlow, Mason, the destroyer of the Pequots, Underhill, Southcote, Smith, Ministers Maverick and Wareham, also Humphrey Pinney, who married Hull's daughter Marie, and a goodly company. Settled at Dorchester; made Freeman of Massachusetts March 4, 1632; representative to General Court, May, 1634; one of first Selectmen of Dorchester. Removed to Windsor, Connecticut, 1636. Surveyed that place, also Weathers- field ; was Representative to the General Court which met at Hartford, May 1, 1637, and declared war against the Pequot Indians. In 1638, he, jointly with Roger Ludlow, was granted by the General Court a Monopoly of the Fur trade on the Connecticut River; was member of the General Court from 1637 to 1646, when he removed to Fairfield ; was Repre- sentative of that place to General Court from 1649 to 1654. The historian Trumbull places his name among those Worthy of Perpetuation ; and Stiles, in his History of Windsor, tells us that he was a citizen of Worth and Distinction. After the death of his first wife, he married, about 1646, Sarah, widow of David Phippen, of Boston. His will was admitted to probate November 20, 1659.
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George Hull Information
George was a "surveyor, Indian trader, magistrate, statesman and founder of a prominent branch of the Hull family in America". (Weygant). His brothers, Joseph and William both graduated from St. Mary's Hall at Oxford and were ministers of the Church of England. Further evidence of his background, his wife was daughter of a "well-to-do yeoman of Stockland" (Ibid) in Dorsetshire.
George sailed for the American colonies from Plymouth 30 Mar 1629 / 30 on the "Mary and John"; his youngest son, Joshua was baptised at Crewkerne 7 months after this date, indicating Thomasene and the young family were left in England while George became part of the "Great Migration". He shared the voyage with friends George and John Ludlow and future son-in-law Humphrie Pinney. He was a short time in Boston and went on to help settle the town of Dorchester where he was on the first board of selectmen and was made a freeman 4 Mar 1632/3 and was town's first repres to the General Court.
In 1636 he moved to Windsor Connecticut and surveyed both Windsor and Wethersfield. In exchange for this service, he received his choice of home lots in Windsor where he again represented his town in the General Court. It was here in 1638 that he and Pinney, through the graces of the General Court, received a monopoly on the beaver trade on the Connecticut River.
In 1638 he followed his friend (Stiles, too says that he was "a citizen of worth and distinction.") and George Ludlow, now governor of Connecticut, to Fairfield where he became the General Court designated assistant to the governor. In 1651, '53, '54 he was appointed by the governor as associate magistrate for the towns by the seaside. He was apparently well connected on the political scene of the blossoming colonies; Cotton Mather mentions him as does Connecticut state historian Trumbull who groups him "with those whose names are worthy of perpetuation.
Sources: The Hull Family in America, Col Weygant; History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, with biographical sketches of its prominent men, Beers, J.B. and Co. - 1884; Some Notes on the Wellman and Bump families of Barry County Michigan, Harthy, Charles O. - 1992; Ancient Windsor - Stiles; Pioneers of Massachusetts, Pope, Charles Henry - 1900. Jacobus, History of Fairfield County; "The Mary and John" by Chas. Tuttle, 1971
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Will:
I George Hull, being feeble in body, yet of good and perfect mind do now ordain this my last Will and Testament as followeth. Imprimus - I give and bequeath unto my loving wife the third part of my estate, yf shee relinquish the twenty pounds which I promised her yf I died before her.Item - I give and bequeath unto my son Josias Hull anothe r third part of my estate.Item - I give and bequeath unto my son Cornelius Hull, on e little feather bed now in Boston.Item - I give and bequeath also unto Corelius Hull forty shillings to be paid out of the third of my estate.Item - I give unto my cousin Jane Pinkney twenty shillings Item - I doe by these presents ordayne, constitute and make my son Josias Hull and Sarah, my loving wife, the executors of this my last Will and Testament.George Hull (seal) In presence of Alexander Knowles and Phi lip PinckneyItem - The rest of my estate, my debts and funeral expense s being payd, I give to my four daughters, equaly divided, that is to Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Naomy George Hull (seal) In presence of Alexander Knowles and Phi lip Pinckney inventory.......Taken by us, William Hill, Alexander Knowles, Anthony Wilson; The second day of November, 1659. This inventory was attested by Cornelius Hull to be true inventor y of his Father Hull his Estate to the best of his knowledge. Before me, Nathan Gold found on ancestry.com
Hull Family history from the History of Redding, Connecicut
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Hull
The Hull family are recorded in the Herald's Distinction of Devon as a very ancient family of Devonshire, but the original name, De La Hulle, in Shropshire, in the reign of Edward II., indicates that they went from the Continent to England, probably from Normandy. Shortly after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, five brothers named Hull came to Massachusetts from England, viz., John, George, Richard, Joseph, and Robert.
George, who was the ancestor of the Hulls of Redding, appears in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630; removed to Windsor, Connecticut, and afterward to Fairfield; died in August, 1659. His will, dated August 25, 1659, mentions sons: Josias and Cornelius, and several daughters. His son Cornelius married Rebecca, daughter of Rev. John Joanes, the first minister of Fairfield, who was of Welsh origin. His will, of the date September 16, 1695, mentions three sons, Samuel, Cornelius, and Theophilus; and three daughters, Rebecca, Sarah, the wife of Robert Stillman, and Martha, wife of Cornelius Stratton. The children of Cornelius were: George, Sarah, Rebecca, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, John, Martha, Eleanor, and Cornelius. Deacon George Hull was one of the fathers of the infant settlement. He was the moderator of the first parish meeting, a member of the first parish committee, and first deacon of the church in Redding. He also appears on numerous committees. He and his wife, and Theophilus and wife were among the original church members in 1733. John Hull was admitted April 18, 1736. All of them removed here from Greenfield Hill. George, Ebenezer, and Cornelius must have come to Redding prior to 1733, for their names appear in a petition to fix upon a site for a meeting-house in 1725. By a deed dated Danbury, May 19, 1729, a tract of land lying in Chestnut Ridge, between Danbury and Fairfield, is conveyed to George Hull and heirs by Jonathan Squires.
George Hull 's children recorded in Redding are: Seth, baptized July 29, 1733; and Rebecca, May 25, 1735. He died February 9th, 1769, aged 83. Seth Hull married Elizabeth Mallory, his niece. Children recorded in Redding are: Abigail, born January 28th, 1762; Jonathan, October 25, 1763, Eliphalet, December 18, 1765; Walter, November 21, 1767; Lazarus, January 16, 1770; Hezekiah, March 24, 1792; and Martha, April 28, 1794. Besides these were Elizabeth and Sarah; Martha married David Belden, an Episcopal clergyman; Jonathan married Eunice Beach, and was the father of Rev. Lemuel B. Hull, former rector of Christ Church in Redding. Seth Hull died April 5, 1795.
Nathaniel Hull was born in 1695, and reared Sarah, Elizabeth, Esther, Stephen, Nathaniel, Peter, Ezekiel, David, Aaron, Silas, and Hannah.
The children of Silas Hull were: Hannah, Huldah, and Bradley. Bradley's children were: Burr, Pamelia, Charry, Silas, Aaron B., Charles, Mary, Bradley H., Chapman, Le Grand, and Cornelia.
The children of Ebenezer were: Daniel, Ebenezer, Nehemiah, and Abigail. Daniel married Mary Betts, and removed from Redding to Berlin, Rensselaer County, N.Y., in 1770, and was one of the first settlers of that town. He died August 26, 1811, aged 89 years. He had ten children, ciz., Martha, Hezekiah, Justus, Abagail, Peter, Esther, Daniel, Stephen, Harry, and Ebenezer.
Of these children all but the two last named were born in Redding. Justus was one of the first ministers of the Second Baptist Church in Danbury, and is reputed to have been a preacher of more than ordinary ability. He was in the minister fifty-six years, and died at Berlin, New York, May 29, 1833, at the age of 78. His children were: Justus P. Emmerson, Polly Ann, and Alonzo Grandison. The last named is a physician, and resides in New York. He was a successful practitioner in London twelve years. Ebenezer married and emigrated to the West. his descendants reside in Iowa, Nebraska, and other Western states. Nehemiah died a bachelor.
John Hull removed to Redding when in middle life. He went with the Provincial troops in the expedition against Cuba in 1641, and fell victim to the yellow-fever with nearly a thousand others of the sturdy sons of New England. He directed that his musket, carried in the wars, should be sent home to his eldest son Timothy; he to leave it to his eldest son, and that it should descend in this manner to the eldest son as long as it existed. Thus it has fallen in regular descent to Aaron B. Hull, of Danbury, the great grandson of the original owner. Before enlisting, Mr. Hull made his will, dated September 16, 1740, in which he mentions sons Timothy, James, and John, and daughters Anna, Abagail, and Esther. Timothy was born September 4, 1726, and married Anna, daughter of John Gray, December 14, 1749. He died April 29, 1800. His children were Hannah, born July 27, 1751, married Samuel Mallory, and died in Danbury,
September 4, 1836. Sarah, born February 5, 1754, married John Fairchild and emigrated West. Ezra, born April 5, 1756, and died in Redding, March 5, 1837. He settled in Boston school district. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Onesimus Coley. His children were: Eunice, born July 6, 1785, married Hiram Jackson; died in Kingston, New York, May 3, 1862. Laura, born August 4, 1788, married John Eckert, and died in Springfield, Otsego County, New York, November 17, 1865. Polly, born November 29, 1798, died in Kingston, New York, September 28, 1876. Elizabeth, the wife of Ezra Hull, died February 28, 1809; he married Widow Mary Bradley, daughter of Gershom Banks, of Fairfield, June 20, 1810; she died in Wilton, April 17, 1854. The children of this marriage were: Ezra Bradley and Charles, who both died young, and Aaron B.
Ezra Hull served in the Revolutionary War, and participated in those events which transpired during Governor Tryon's expedition to and the burning of Danbury. Eunice, fourth child of Timothy Hull, was born August 26, 1757, married George Perry and removed to Kentucky. John, born June 26, 1759, married Sarah Fairchild; died April 7, 1838. (His children were Aaron, Ezekiel, Hezekiah, Abraham, and Polly.) Abraham, born March 30, 1761, died in Danbury, October 29, 1831. David, born March 22, 1763, died in Redding, March 19, 1847; he married Chloe Lee, and had children, Daniel, Harry, and Lucy. Samuel, born June 22, 1766. (He married Anna Wakeman, and had a daughter Eliza, who married Horace Staples, President of the Westport National Bank. Samuel Hull died in Redding, July 19, 1846.) Hezekiah, born October 22, 1769, died in Danbury, July 26, 1852. Anna, born December 7, 1771, married Lemuel Burr; died in Redding, December 20, 1840. Abigail, born November 17, 1775, married Timothy Perry; died in Miamisburg, Ohio, March 16, 1844.
The will of James, the second son of John Hull, of the date of April 26, 1799, mentions no children. He died February 20, 1805, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. John married Mollie Andrews, February 3, 1763. His children recorded are Eleanor and Mollie. His will, bearing date June 24, 1815, mentions no children, but names his "grandson John Goodyear, and the son of his grandson Hull Goodyear;" also two other names not given, but which were undoubtedly Munson Goodyear and Ellen, wife of Harry Meeker.
Cornelius, the youngest son of Cornelius Hull, 2d, and Abagail, daughter of robert Rumsey, were married August 24, 1731. Their children were: Jedediah, Eunice, Grace, Eliphalet, Abigail, Sarah, and Ruey. Jedediah Hull was second lieutenant under Colonel David Wooster in the army which invaded Canada in 1758. His children were: Denny, Eunice, Chapman, Molly, Cornelius, and Jedediah. Denny and Chapman settled in Redding. The children of the first named were: Mary, Denny, Isaac Platt, and Eunice. Chapman's were: Morris, Henry C., and George.
The will of Theophilus Hull, of Fairfield, the youngest son of Cornelius, 1st, dated June 4, 1710, gives the names of sons Theophilus, Eliphalet, John, and Jabesh, and two daughters, Mary and Ann. Theophilus, his oldest son, married Widow Martha Betts, of Redding, January 25, 1759. His will, of the date December 1, 1785, names son Zalmon, and daughters Sarah and Lydia. Zalmon's sons were: Hezekiah, Theophilus B., Henry L., and his daughters, Lydia and Sally.The Redding records contain the marriage of Nehemiah Hull and Grizzle Perry, February 5, 1767. Nehemiah, probably a son of the above, married Sarah Jackson. Twin children were born to them, December 7, 1792, and were named Sally Betsey, and Betsey Sally. The first named married Theophilus B., son of Zalmon Hull, and the other Morris, son of Chapman Hull
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