Tristram Hull

Tristram married Elizabeth Dyer 9 Feb 1698/99, Newport, RI. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles Dyer and Mary Waitt) was born Abt 1682, Little Compton, RI; died Jul 1719, Westerly, RI. [Group Sheet]

1. Mary Hull was born Abt 1700.
2. Samuel S. Hull was born Between 1702 and 1704; died 1717.
3. Joseph Hull was born 1 Oct 1706; died 1771.
4. Hannah Hull was born Abt 1708.
5. Bathsheba Hull was born Abt 1710; died Aft 1774.
6. Charles Hull was born Abt 1712.
7. Stephen Hull was born 1715; died 21 Feb 1798.
8. Elizabeth Hull was born Abt 1717.
9. Sarah Hull was born Abt 1719.

Notes:

The following notes are excerpted from "The Hull Family in America" by Charles H. Weygant (available online at the Godfrey Memorial Library):

Joseph was of Barnstable, MA, & South Kingstown, RI. He was a planter, cooper, merchant, & shipper. His wife was of a prominent Quaker family which had been banished from Boston.

Due to measures enacted in MA against Quakers, whereby apprentices and bondservants of Quakers were released without due process of law, Joseph Hull thrashed the sheriff who had come to enact some provision of the law. He was fined seven pounds. Shortly after this he sold land in Barnstable which he had received from his father, and settled in South Kingstown, RI.

At least twice Joseph was chosen Assistant in the Government of RI, somewhat like a state senator of today.

It is thought that he built a house in the Tower Hill area of North/South Kingstown. Quaker meetings were held in his home before the meetinghouse was built.

Joseph married Experience Harper Oct 1676. Experience (daughter of Robert Harper and Deborah Perry) was born Nov 1657, Sandwich, MA; died Aft 4 Oct 1706. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Experience Hull signed North Kingstown land evidence dated 4 October 1706.

Tristram married Blanche Unknown 1643, Yarmouth, ME. Blanche was born Abt 1628. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Notes from "The Hull Family in America" by Charles H. Weygant, p. 260: "Robert Harper was a Quaker of prominence. In 1660 he stood under the scaffold and caught in his arms the body of his friend William Leddra, the martyr preacher, when cut down by the Boston hangman. For this act Harper and his wife were the same year banished."

Robert — Deborah Perry. Deborah was born Abt 1633. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to me, Lois Sorensen, and to all other sources as noted herein:

The following notes are adapted from "Genealogies of RI Families," Vol. II, Some Notes on Eighteenth Century Block Island, pp. 354 & 355:

Rev. Joseph Hull was born in Crewkerne, County Somerset, England, to Thomas & Joanna (Peson) Hull. On 22 May 1612 he started at St. Mary's, Oxford, as a 17-year-old. After graduation from Oxford he was teacher and curate at Colyton, County Devon, and later rector of Northleigh, Exeter, from 1621 to 1632. As an Episcopalian with moderate Puritan views, he decided to emigrate to New England, where he came with his family in 1635. He was admitted a Freeman of Massachusetts Bay in 1635, and became a minister at Weymouth, MA. Because of his Episcopalian leanings, in 1639 he moved to the more tolerant Plymouth Colony, but left there and moved to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, ME. He preached at York, ME, for several years, but finally returned to England, leaving his family in Maine. From 1652 to 1662 he was a minister in Cornwall, England; he then returned to New England and preached at Durham, NH, where he died in 1665. Several of his sons became Quakers, including Hopewell and Samuel, who settled in New Jersey, and Tristram, who returned to Yarmouth and Barnstable, MA. There Tristram was a prominant citizen and a sea captain. By his wife Blanche he had several children, including John who became Captain John Hull of Jamestown, RI, a well-known sea captain in his own right.

According to Charles H. Weygant, writing in "The Hull Family in America," (Hull Family Association, 1913), Rev. Joseph Hull came in March 1635 with his second wife, 7 children, and three servants, along with about 90 other people. When he relocated to Plymouth Colony he founded the present town of Barnstable, MA.

Joseph married Joanne Coffyn 1618, Somerset, England. Joanne was born 1597, England; died Abt 1632, England. [Group Sheet]