Joseph Hull, Sr.

Male 1652 - Aft 1709  (> 57 years)

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  • Name Joseph Hull 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Birth 2 Jun 1652  Barnstable, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Death Aft 22 Mar 1708/09  [1] 
    Person ID I11150  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Captain Tristram Hull,   b. 1624, Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Feb 1666/67, Barnstable, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Mother Blanche Unknown,   b. Abt 1628 
    Marriage 1643  Yarmouth, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Family ID F04376  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Experience Harper,   b. Nov 1657, Sandwich, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 4 Oct 1706 (Age > 49 years) 
    Marriage Oct 1676  [1] 
    Children 
     1. Tristram Hull,   b. 8 Oct 1677, Barnstable, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1718, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
     2. Joseph Hull, Jr.,   b. 1679, Barnstable, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 29 Nov 1758 (Age > 79 years)
     3. Mary Hull,   b. 1681   d. Bef 1736 (Age < 54 years)
     4. John Hull,   b. 1687
     5. Alice Hull,   b. 1692   d. Bef Dec 1751 (Age < 59 years)
     6. Hannah Hull,   b. 1696   d. Aft 10 Mar 1730/31 (Age > 35 years)
    Family ID F04377  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012573] Alden G. Beaman, Ph. D., editor, RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 14, 223.

    2. [S013288] Charles H. Weygant, The Hull Family in America, (Hull Family Association, 1913), 252.

    3. [S013273] Hull genealogy from Trish Harmon.