The Hull Family Genealogy is one of the largest. William Whipple Hull has to be my kin.
John Presco
The Hull family are recorded in the Heralds Distinctions of Devon- shire, 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 at Ply- mouth, five brothers came to Massachusetts from England: John, George, Richard, Joseph and Robert.
The USS Constitution heads to Castle Island in South Boston Wednesday, July 4, 2018, to fire guns in salute and to receive a salute from three military canon there. (Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via AP)
Here is proof I am descended from Commodore Issac Hull. Andrew Westbrook knew his brother, Colonel William Hull. He was introduced to Sally Hull, whom my grandfather, Royal Rosamond, says is his great grandmother, who married John Rose. According to the history books, and the genealogical study of the Harts and Hull family, Issac did not have children. I suspect this fact he had a daughter, was hidden by Anne Hart Hull in order to make her Hart family history appear pristine. These are Puritans. Did Issac have another wife? This renders my genealogical study, one of the most profound one in American History. My Rosy Family Tree is full of Real and True Patriots – and needs to be defended from imposters and jealous monsters who have threatened to do me harm!
John Gregory Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Isaac Hull, (USN)
Birthdate:
March 09, 1773
Birthplace:
Derby, CT, United States
Death:
February 13, 1843 (69) Philadelphia, PA, United States
Place of Burial:
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Tristram Hull immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Tristam Hull was the son of Reverend Joseph Hull and probably Joseph’s first wife whose surname is Unknown. Based on his age in the 1635 passenger list, Tristram was born about 1624,[1] during the time when his father was Rector of St. Giles Church at Northleigh, Devon, England.[2] Tristam came to New England at the age of 11 along with his father, his father’s second wife, and his siblings, Joane, Joseph, Elizabeth and Temperance, Grissell, and Dorothy in 1635. [1] Also in their company was Judeth French, John Wood and Robert Dabyn, servants. Enrolling at Weymouth, their migrating ship was the Marygould.[3]
At Yarmouth, New Plymouth Colony
Tristram first appeared in the New Plymouth Colony records in 1642 as a resident of Yarmouth.[4] He was on the 1643 list of Yarmouth men able to bear arms for Plymouth Colony.[5] Also in 1643 he was elected Constable of Yarmouth.[6]
At Barnstable, New Plymouth Colony
Tristram moved from Yarmouth to Barnstable between 1648 and 1650. Tristram had two daughters named Sarah. The first was born and died at Yarmouth in 1647,[7] the second was born at Barnstable in 1650.[8]
Tristram was propounded for freeman of New Plymouth Colony on 5 June 1651,[9] and admitted and sworn as freeman a year later on 3 June 1652.[10]
Tristam was a mariner; his estate inventory lists two vessels, “the Catch” and a half interest in “the Bark Hopewell.”[11] Plymouth Colony records show him transporting people, liquor, powder and shot.[12]
Marriage and Children
Tristram married Blanche, whose maiden name is unknown, by 1645 when their daughter Mary was born.[3] They had the following children:
Joseph Hull, born June 1652;[18] married Experience Harper Oct 1676;[19] died North Kingstown, RI after 15 July 1728.[20][21][22]
John Hull, born March 1654;[23][24] married Alice Tiddeman, Southwark Friends’ Monthly Meeting, London, 23 Oct 1684;[25] died Jamestown, RI, 1 Feb 1732/3.[26]
Hannah Hull, born February 1656;[27] married Joseph Bliss, 15 Sept 1674;[28] Joseph died 14 June 1730;[29] Hannah died 15 November 1732.[30]
He was empowered to buy land from the Indians, for the improvement of the town. It is recorded that “at a town meeting, ordered on 23d of February, 1662, that N. Bacon and Tristram Hull join with those the Court may appoint to purchase Yannos’ (Indians) lands for the commons for the Town.” Tristram Hull received 10 acres of upland and meadow on January 29, 1667.[31]
Tristam Hull made his will on December 20, 1666 as “Mr. Thristum Hull of Barnstable, naming his wife, “Blanch Hull.” [3]It was proved March 12, 1666 at Barnstable. He left a large estate for one of his age and times. In the inventory of his estate we find record, in addition to the lands and ships he left 36 head of cattle assessed at 118 pounds, 5 shillings; cash, 105 pounds, and due the estate, exclusive of an undefined amount ‘in hands of the Indians,’ 300 pounds. His will provides that his son Joseph shall have the homestead and lands attached and six acres more; that his wife Blanche shall have the use of new portion of house and 150 pounds; that his three daughters (Mary Holley, Sarah Hull, and Hannah Hull) shall each have 100 pounds; that his son John shall have a certain lot and 30 pounds; that Robert Davis shall have 3 pounds, and that the residuary estate be divided equally, share and share alike, among his wife and children.[11]
His inventory was taken, and on 8 April 1667, his widow Blanch took oath and John Holley took oath for the inventory on 7 March 1666.[11]
A short time after Tristram’s death his widow, Blanche, was married to William Hedge, whom she abandoned before June 30, 1670.[32]
Research Notes
Records of The Colony of New Plymouth
4 May 1652 Elected freeman under Plymouth Gov Bradford, Treasurer Miles Standish, and alongside John Alden.[33] {revise}
2 March 1651/1652 – “Wheras John Willis, of Duxborrow, complained that his daughter in law, Rebeckah Palmer, was molested and hindered in performing faithfull service vnto her mr, viz, Samuall Mayo, of Barnstable by the wife of Trustrum Hull, of Barnstable aforsaid, the Court haue sent downe order by Roger Goodspeed, grand juryman, of Barnstable aforsaid, to wrarn the wife of ye said Trustrum Hull to desist from such practises any further, as shee or any other that shall soe doe will answare for her not appeering at this Court nor her attornie, to answare the suite comenced against her by the said John Willis.”[34]
5 Mar 1655 – John Gorum fined 40 shillings for “vnseamly carriage towards Blanch Hull att vnseasonable time, being in the night,” and Blanch fined 50 shillings “for not crying out when she was assaulted by John Gorum in vnseeemly carriage towards her vpon her own relation.”[35]
5 Mar 1656-57: Tristrum ordered to convey Nicholas Vpsiall out of government. [36]
5 June 1658: Trustrum Hull was on a twelve-member inquest jury investigating the death of two-year-old Simon Davis, son of Nicholas Davis of Barnstable. On 15 March 1657/8, the jury issued its report: Simon’s body was recovered from the creek on 13 February. His neck was displaced but the jury found no evidence his death had been the result of violence.[37]
5 Mar 1660-61: “Controversy” between Tristram and Thomas Bourne over a horse. He was allowed 10 shillings. [38]
7 June 1665: sworn in at the General Court as a member of The Grand Enquest for the year.[41]
9 June 1665: took a barrel of rum to Eastham, sold it, and gave no account of it, so William Walker & John Done reported it.
2 Dec 1665: elected 1 of the selectmen of Barnstable
5 June 1666: impaneled on a jury to hear the complaint made by Elizabeth Williams against her husband John
31 Oct 1666: witnessed a formal apology
5 Mar 1666-7: letters of administration granted to Joseph Holley and Marke Redley to administer the estate of Mr Tristrum Hull of Barnstable, deceased.
Sketches of Tristram Hull appear in 19th-and-early-20th-century genealogies. For the most part these genealogies are not documented, mixing factual information, unverifiable statements, and false assertions. Authors of the sketches are also guilty of a tendency to romanticize their subject. Because they have been in print for more than a century, direct quotes from the sketches (typically without attribution) frequently appear in online genealogies. While these sketches are useful in pointing researchers to topics for study, they are not reliable sources as called for in Wikitree’s Puritan Great Migration Project and Pre-1700 profile guidelines. Here is a discussion of the sketches by Oliver Hull, Amy Eleanor E. Hull, and Charles H. Weygant. Many other sketches appear in localized genealogies.
Hull, Amy Eleanor E. “Chapter XX: Hull.” Ancestral Records and Portraits: a compilation from the archives of Chapter I., the Colonial dames of America, Vol 1. New York: Grafton Press, 1910, pages 296-97.
Oliver Hull (1863) falsely claimed Joseph Hull was one of five brothers who emigrated to America. He did not know how Tristram Hull is related to Joseph.[42] His niece, Amy E. E. Hull (1904), repeated the five brothers trope[43] but knew Tristram was the son of the Rev. Joseph.[44]
From Amy Hull we learn “Captain Hull was a ‘chip of [sic] the old block,’ and cared for neither King nor Kaiser when either interfered with that which he wanted to do.“[45] She cited a pamphlet by Colonel Robert H. Hull for a story demonstrating Tristram was a friend to persecuted Quakers. It is not clear Tristram violated the law, as Amy Hull (and presumbaly Col. Robert Hull) claimed. Amy Hull did not name the “old church-member” aided by Tristram.[46]
From Plymouth Colony Records, not cited by Amy E. E. Hull, we learn Nicholas Upsall was the man transported by Tristram Hull.
Weygant had learned the Rev. Joseph and George Hull were brothers, born in Crewkerne, unrelated to the other immigrant Hulls. Weygant expanded Tristram Hull’s role in aiding persecuted Quakers without, however, explaining exactly what Tristram did. Weygant seems to have exaggerated this aspect of Tristram’s life: In the government’s fanatical and inhuman persecution of the Quakers his sympathies were with the latter, and he boldly rendered them assistance and succor whenever and wherever occasion offered. For this he was subjected to much annoyance and heavy fines.[47]
Sources
Citations
↑ 1.01.1 John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold For a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and others who sent from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874; reprinted New York: Empire State Book Co.: p. 283, “Bound for New England, Waymouth” 20 March 1635.
↑ 3.03.13.2 Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Sketch of Joseph Hull. pp 453, 455, 458 & 459 (comments).subscription site
↑Shurtleff: Vol 8: 194, Tristame Hull, Yarmouth. The list is also at NEHGR 4 (1850):258. Weygant: page 251, goes beyond the evidence, romantically stating Tristram “was enrolled and mustered in the little army of which Miles Standish was ‘Captain-General`.”
↑ “Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001”, FamilySearch, citing Barnstable Town Records, Vol 1: 346 Joseph Blish Sr, 14 Jun 1730.
↑ Oliver Hull. “Book of the Hulls: Being a Genealogy of the Hull Family”, New York: Peter Eckler, 1863,pages 11-13
↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). p. 905.subscription site
Allen, Devere. The Allen Families and 83 Connected Families. Wilton, Connecticut, January 1947
Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol3 (G-H). Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2003, pp. 453, 455, 459, Tristram Hull in sketch of his father, Joseph Hull. Accessed online at Ancestry.com. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. subscription site. Also available at AmericanAncestors.org (subscription site of New England Historic Genealogical Society).
Hughes, Phyllis J. “The Myth of Joanna Coffin, Given as First Wife of the Rev. Joseph Hull, 1635 Immigrant.” Hull Family Association Journal, vol 12, no. 1 (spring 2001): p 23. https://www.hullfamilyassociation.org/journal.shtml [Back issues are online for members of the Association, non-members may order], WorldCat
Stackpole, Everett S., and Winthrop S. Meserve. History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation). Vol 2, 1913: pp. 224-25, Joseph & Agnes lived at Oyster River in 1662-63. Information about their children needs to be verified.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183528811/tristram-hull: accessed May 9, 2024), memorial page for CPT Tristram Hull (1623–22 Feb 1667), Find A Grave: Memorial #183528811; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Johnny History (contributor 49654896). Note: as of 9 May 2024, the memorial includes an unsourced biographical sketch with details that are largely supported by primary sources (not included in the sketch).
Massachusetts. Probate Court (Barnstable County) (Main Author), compiler, Probate records, 1686-1894, Barnstable County, Massachusetts (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972), vol. III, Part I, 20, pp. 299-300.
Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-6. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1999-2009. Vol 3 (G-H), [pp. 453, 455, 459, Tristram Hull in sketch of his father, Joseph Hull]. Accessed online at Ancestry.com. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. subscription site. Also available at AmericanAncestors.org (subscription site of New England Historic Genealogical Society).
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