Cornelius Hull (1655 - 1740)

Born 1655 in Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Sanford) Hull — married about 1685 in Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 7 May 1740 at about age 85 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Cornelius Hull was born about 1655 in Fairfield, Connecticut.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He was the son of Cornelius Hull (1628 - 1695) and Rebecca Jones.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Cornelius married Sarah Sanford about 1685 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Ezekiel Sanford and Rebecca Whelpley.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} They had the following children^[4][5][6][8]:

1. George Hull, b. about 1686, d. 9 Feb 1769, m. Martha Gregory
2. Sarah S. Hull, b. about 1690, d. before 1720, m. David Meeker
3. Rebecca Hull, b. about 1693, m. Joseph Meeker
4. Nathaniel Hull, b. Mar 1695, d. 16 Jul 1749, m. Elizabeth Burr
5. Ebenezer Hull, b. about 1697, d. about 1745, 1st m. Martha A. Bradley, 2nd m. Grace Williams
6. Elizabeth Hull, bap. 15 Oct 1699, d. 26 Nov 1760, m. Stephen Burr
7. Martha Hull, b. 15 Jun 1701, d. 19 Sep 1782, m. Daniel Sherwood
8. John Hull, b. about 1703, will processed 15 Sep 1741, 1st m. unknown, 2nd m. Abigail Prindle
9. Eleanor Hull, b. about 1706, d. before 2 Mar 1762, m. Ebenezer Ferry
10. Cornelius Hull, b. about 1710, d. 26 Dec 1787, m. Abigail Rumsey

The Cornelius Hull of this profile was a lieutenant in the Fairfield trainband.^[3]

He established a hamlet within the Town of Fairfield called Hull's Farms. It was situated on a large parcel of land that his father acquired.^[5] Several generations of his descendants as well as households of several prominent early Fairfield families resided in Hull's Farms.^[3]

He was a founding member of the Greenfield Hill Congregational Church which was established in 1725.^[5]

Cornelius Hull died on 7 May 1740 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut.^{[1][2][9][10]} He was 85 years old.^[10] He was buried in Greenfield Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut.^[9][10][11]

The will that he signed on 21 January 1735 was proven on 12 August 1740.^[1][12] It mentions daughters Rebecca Meeker, Elizabeth Burr, Martha Sherwood, Eleanor Pherrey [sic]; granddaughter Sarah Sanford; and sons George, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, John and Cornelius.^[1][12]His inventory was taken on 11 December 1740.^[13]

Research Notes

The Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records shows his death date as 8 May 1740.^[11] However, this date appears to have been transcribed incorrectly since a photograph of his gravestone posted at Find A Grave clearly shows his death date as "May ye 7th 1740" when the image is displayed at full resolution in a photo editor and the contrast is enhanced.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Jacobus
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Hull
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Weygant
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Parke
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} Todd
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Sanford
7. ↑ Torrey
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Greenfield Hill Church Records
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Find A Grave
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} MacRury
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Hale
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records
13. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 6-8, 1717-1750”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-T2MB : 8 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627301, image 749-750, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 8, 1725-1740, Page 528-530.

• “Greenfield Hill Church Records, Vol. 1, 1668-1833, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3F-J9FW-M : 11 April 2022), , FHL microfilm 007626803, image 36, Fairfield, Connecticut, Greenfield or Northwest Society and Church, Volume 1, Part III, Page 20.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 April 2019), memorial page for Cornelius Hull (1655–7 May 1740), Find A Grave: Memorial #32117779, citing Greenfield Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by JKK (contributor 46959203).
• Greenfield Hill Church Records, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1915) Vol. 69, Page 40
• Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library. Vol. 15, Headstone Inscriptions, 407-4 Greenfield Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Page 122: "Hull, Cornelious, died May 8, 1740, age 85." Hale Collection of Cemetery Records has recorded the death date incorrectly as 8 May instead of 7 May.
• Hull, Robert E. The Descendants of Mr. George Hull and Thamzen Michel (Hull Enterprises, Saratoga, California, 2009) Vol. 1, Pages 40, 51 – 53
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1930) It contains the following three entries:

1. Vol. 1, Page 308: "Cornelius [Hull], b. abt. 1655"
2. Vol. 1, Page 310: "Hull, Cornelius s. of Cornelius. Born about 1655; d. at Greenfield, 7 May 1740 ae. 85 (g.s.). Married Sarah Sanford, dau. of Ezekiel… Will 18 Apr. 1734, signed 21 Jan. 1734/5, proved 12 Aug. 1740"
3. Vol. 2, Page 498: "Cornelius (1655-1740) m. Sarah Sanford."

• MacRury, Elizabeth Banks. More about the hill: Greenfield Hill (City Print Co., North Haven, Conn., 1968) Page 60, Inscriptions from [grave]stones in the Cemetery on Greenfield Hill, Conn., copied by R. P. Wakeman, 1908; Revised in Nov. 1951 by E. S. Overbaugh and R. C. Middlebrook, “Hull, Cornelius, d. May 7, 1740, ae 85 yrs.”
• North American Cemetery Transcriptions from NEHGS Manuscripts, 1642-1977, New England Historic Genealogical Society, americanancestors.org

Volume Name: CT, Fairfield: Weston (CT WES 40)

Pages: 46, 64

• Parke, Nathan. The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (The Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vt., 1960) Page 79 - 80
• Sanford, Carlton. Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England; ancestry, life,and descendants, 1632-4 (Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont, 1911) Page 100
• Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell. The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut (J.J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York, 1889) Page 382
• Todd, Charles. The History of Redding, Connecticut, 2nd edition, (Grafton Press, New York, 1906) Pages 240 - 242, Page 265
• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) Page 400
• Weygant, Charles H. The Hull Family in America (Sun Printing Co., Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1913) Page 21, Pages 24 – 26
• Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.Will of Cornelius Hull Written 18 Apr 1734, signed 21 Jan 1735, proved 12 Aug 1740. The Will mentions wife Sarah, daughters Rebecca Meeker, Elizabeth Burr, Martha Sherwood, Eleanor Pharreh [Ferry], grand daughter Sarah Sanford. Sons George, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, John, Cornelius.