Cornelius Hull (bef. 1628 - bef. 1695)

Born before 14 Apr 1628 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca (Jones) Hull — married 19 Nov 1653 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died before 7 Oct 1695 at about age 67 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Cornelius Hull immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Cornelius Hull was born prior to 14 April 1628, the date that he was baptized in Crewkerne, Somerset, England.^[1][2] He was the son of George Hull and Thamzen Michell.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Cornelius and his father immigrated from England and eventually settled in Fairfield, Connecticut.^[6] Cornelius was on a list of heads of families living in Fairfield between 1639 and 1650.^[6]

He married Rebecca Jones about 1653 in Fairfield, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Rev. John Jones, the first minister of Fairfield.^{[2][3][4][6][7][8]}

They had the following children^{[2][3][4][5][6]}:

1. Samuel Hull, b. about 1654, d. before 18 Aug 1720, 1st m. Deborah Beers, 2nd m. Elizabeth Hubbell, 3rd m. Jane [last name unknown]
2. Theophilus Hull, b. about 1655, d. 5 Jun 1710, m. Mary Sanford
3. Cornelius Hull, b. about 1655, d. 7 May 1740, m. Sarah Sanford
4. Rebecca Hull, b. about 1656, m. John Lyon
5. Sarah Hull, b. about 1658, 1st m. John Knapp, 2nd m. Robert Silliman
6. Martha Hull, b. about 1660, d. before 28 Aug 1727, 1st m. Samuel Smith, 2nd m. Cornelius Stratton, 3rd m. [first name unknown] Adams

Cornelius was a land surveyor and a large land holder.^[5] His name appears 31 times in the Fairfield land records.^[5]

He represented Fairfield as a deputy to the Connecticut General Court during 1656, 1660, 1662 and 1667.^[5][8]

In 1661, he was appointed as a lieutenant for Fairfield County. On 25 February 1675, he was made a lieutenant in Major Robert Treat's Connecticut militia during the King Philip's War. After the war, he was awarded a significant amount of land In recognition of his service.^[5][6][8][9]

His will, dated 16 September 1695,^[5][6] stipulated that his land was to be conveyed to his children as follows:

"To son Cornelius, 75 acres in three plots.

To sons Cornelius and Theophilus, certain meadow lands.

To son Cornelius, two additional tracts.

To daughter Rebecca Hull, his home lot, house and barn.

To daughter Sarah Silliman, 65 acres in two plots.

To daughter Martha Stratton, 20 acres.

To his grandson George, son of Cornelius, a certain farm.

To his daughter Rebecca, his household goods.

To his son Samuel, the gun he called his fowling piece.

To his daughter Rebecca, one cow and a heifer.

To his three sons Samuel, Cornelius, and Theophilus, the remainder of his estate to be divided equally among them."^[2][8]

Cornelius Hull died sometime prior to 7 October 1695, the date when his estate was inventoried for probate.^[3]

Research Notes

Baptism date: Both The Great Migration Begins and The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley show the Cornelius Hull baptism date as 13 April 1628, but, the scanned image of the original parish register clearly shows the date as xiiij th April 1628, where xiiij is 14 in roman numerals (the j is treated like another i).^[1][10] The baptism date in the parish register is also interpreted as 14 April 1628 by The Descendants of Mr. George Hull and Thamzen Michel that had access to the parish records provided directly by the Records Office, Taunton, Somerset, England.^[2]

Birth date: An exact date of birth is not documented in the biography because of conflicting evidence from multiple sources with no way of determining if any of them are correct.^[2][3][8] There are no original sources identified for the birth dates. The dates are all suspected of being speculation based on the baptism date found in the parish register. It would be pointless to include all of these birth dates in this biography if they are likely just estimates based on the baptism date.

Marriage date: The marriage date in this profile has intentionally been left as "about 1653" because of conflicting evidence. One source shows the marriage occurring on 19 November 1652^[2], but this date appears to potentially in conflict with two real estate transactions dated 1653 that were connected to the occasion of his wedding. One was a grant of 3 acres from the Town of Fairfield to Cornelius in 1653 and the second was a gift of 40 acres from George Hull to his son Cornelius in 1653.^[8] Perhaps the real estate transactions were not completed until weeks or months after a November 1652 wedding which could have placed them in the year 1653 and still be consistent with a wedding in 1652. A third set of sources states that the gift of land from his father occurred on "November 29, 1653^[10], ten days after the marriage of his son Cornelius".^[11]

Burial: No credible evidence can be found for the burial location of Cornelius Hull. Find A Grave attempts to place his burial in Greenfield Hill Cemetery^[12], but there is no gravestone or other record to support this. There are several other cemeteries within Fairfield where Cornelius could have been buried, including the Old Burying Ground, located within a few hundred feet of where Cornelius lived.^[2][8] It is also possible that he could have been privately buried on property that he had owned.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Church of England Baptisms...
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Hull
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Jacobus
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Parke
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6} Todd
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5} Schenck
7. ↑ Torrey
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6} Weygant
9. ↑ The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} The Great Migration Begins
11. ↑ Ferris
12. ↑ Find A Grave

• Ferris, Mary. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (Privately Printed, 1943) Vol. 2, Pages 460 - 461
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 April 2019), memorial page for Cornelius Hull (6 Apr 1628–16 Sep 1695), Find A Grave: Memorial #40492265, citing Greenfield Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by JKK (contributor 46959203). There is no gravestone photo in this record. There is also no evidence that this Cornelius Hull was buried in Greenfield Hill Cemetery as indicated by this record. Biographical information displayed in the record is from Donald Line Jacobus [Families of Old Fairfield] and The Hull Family in America which are already cited by this WikiTree profile.
• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995) Vol. 2, Page 1042
• Hull, Robert E. The Descendants of Mr. George Hull and Thamzen Michel (Hull Enterprises, Saratoga, California, 2009) Vol. 1, Pages 19 - 20, 36 - 40
• Jacobus, Donald Lines History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1930) Vol. 1, Page 308
• 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) Pages 78 - 79
• The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford, Brown & Parsons, 1850) Vol. 1 contains the following three entries:

1. Page 279: "Captn Jonathan Silleck was chosen Captn for Fayrefeild county, and Cornelius Hull Lnt"
2. Page 327: "This Court grants Lnt Cornelius Hull one hundred acres of land, provided he take it up where it may not prejudice any former grant to any plantation or perticular person"
3. Page 411: "At a meeting of the Councill, Feb: 25, 1675,… Cornelius Hull was appoynted Lnt of the Honoured Major Treat's Life Guard"

• Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell. The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut (J.J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York, 1889) Vol. 1 contains the following four entries:

1. Page 67: Cornelius Hull in list of heads of families living in Fairfield during 1639 - 1650.
2. Page 190: "On the 25th, Cornelius Hull, of Fairfield, was appointed by the council, lieutenant of Major Treat's life guard."
3. Page 382: Cornelius s. of George Hull b. in England in 1626, accompanied his father to F. & was granted a home-lot of 3 acres, adjoining that of his father's. He m. Rebecca d. of Rev. John Jones.
4. Page 387: Rev. John Jones became the first minister of Fairfield in 1644.

• Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Anglican Parish Registers. Somerset Archives & Local Studies, South West Heritage Trust, Taunton, England. Crewkerne Parish Register, 1558-1650, Page 245, image 122 "Cornelius sonne of George Hull was baptized the same daye" The previous entry was dated "the xiiij th of April [1628]".
• Todd, Charles. The History of Redding, Connecticut, 2nd edition, (Grafton Press, New York, 1906) Page 240
• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) Page 400: "Hull, Cornelius (1626, 1628-1695) & Rebecca Jones (?1633-), ?m/2 Joseph Thrale; 19 November 1652; Fairfield, CT"
• Weygant, Charles H. The Hull Family in America (Sun Printing Co., Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1913) Page 20 - 21

See also:

• Gregath, Ann Cochrane and Cook, Fredea Gregath. Early New England Families and Some of Their Descendants (The Gregath Publishing Company, Wyandotte, Oklahoma, 1992)