Agnes (Unknown) Hull (1610 - aft. 1666)

Born 1610 in England

Descendants

Died after 1666 after age 56 in Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Disputed Surname

A Case Against 'Agnes Coffin'

'Agnes Coffin' , is said to have married Rev. Joseph Hull, approx. 1633, England; his second wife. Unfortunately, the record does not support a maiden name of 'Coffin' .

The arrival of Rev. Hull and his wife, Agnes, is dated ‘’1635’’, Massachusetts; the ship being that of Rev. Hull’s Company, which is of record, in the Immigrant Ships, Transcribers Guild, The Rev. Hull Company^[1] Agnes was aged 25 years, and that she was Mr. Hull’s second wife. Agnes birth year and arrival date match this record. But her maiden name is never given.

Assessment of Agnes: The Coffin maiden name should be removed from Agnes' profile, and Unknown be put in its place.

Joanna is named as Rev. Joseph Hull's first marriage in England in the year ‘’1618’’. The spouse’s birth year is given as 1594, which matches that of Rev. Hull.^[2]

Assessment of Joanna: A better case for Joanna's maiden name being 'Coffin' is more tenable, in that there are several records that support this.

Biography

On the Marygould,^[3] bound for New England, at Waymouth 20 March 1634/5^[4][5]

Joseph Hall of Somerset, a minister, aged 40 years,

Agnis Hall his wife aged 25 years,

Joane Hall his daughter aged 15 year

Joseph Hall his son age 13 year

Tristram his son aged 11 years

Elizabeth Hall his daughter aged 7 years

Temperance his daughter aged 9 years

Grissell Hall his daughter aged 5 years

Dorothy Hall his daughter aged 3 years

Judeth French, servant, age 20 years

John Wood, servant, age 20 years

Robt Dabyn, servant, age 28 years

Agnes was born in 1610, based on her age of 25 given on the ships list.^[4] She may have been from Somerset where her husband originated.

The life of Agnes, follows the career of her husband. The Hull Company reached Boston, May 6, 1635. Winthrop's Journal for July 8 1635 says: "At this court Wessaguscus was made a plantation and Mr. Hull, a minister of England, and twenty-one families with him allowed to sit down there." Wessaguscus soon became the town of Weymouth. There was a brief stay in Nantasket, then a part of Hingham, where one of their children was baptized. Mr. Hull, magistrate and member of the General Court of of Massachusetts Bay Colony was frequently at odds with the Boston Puritanical Party, and eventually moved in 1639 to the Plymouth Colony, and there founded the town of Barnstable, at a place called by the Indians, Mattakeese. The family were in Yarmouth in 1641 and Hull was excommunicated for this move. Plymouth Colony was not much more congenial than Massachusetts had been, so Hull and his followers moved to the Episcopal Colony of Sir Ferdinando Gorges in Maine. There he served as minister at Accomenticus (now York, Maine), and the Isles of Shoals. 1653 Massachusetts Bay took the provinces of Maine into their jurisdiction, 1653. Mr. Hull and his wife returned to England, where he was Rector of St. Burien in Cornwall, near Lands End. Hull returned from England, was minister at Oyster River for a short period, and then settled at his old parish at Accomenticus, (York, Maine) where he died in 1665.^[6]

Mistress Agnis Hull was granted administration of her husband, Joseph Hull's estate, on 12 June 1666. She was still living 5 Dec 1666.^[7]

Children of Joseph and Agnis^[7]

1. Hopewell Hull b. say 1636 m. Mary Martin
2. Benjamin Hull bp Hingham 24 Mar 1638/9
3. Naomi Hull bp Barnstable 23 Mar 1639/40
4. Ruth Hull bp. Barnstable 9 May 1641
5. Dodovah Hull b. say 1643 m. Mary Seward
6. Samuel Hull b. say 1645 went to Piscataway New Jersey
7. (Possibly) Phineas Hull b. about 1646
8. Reuben bp Launceston, England 23 Jaun 1648/9
9. Ephraim Hull bp Launceston 13 Feb 1649/50
10. Priscilla Hull bp Launceston 30 mar 1651.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: http://www.immigrantships.net/v3/1600v3/hullcompany16330320.html The Coming of the Hull Company
2. ↑ Source: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
3. ↑ Great Migration Newsletter Vol 7 #2 p. 9. (NEHGS, 1998)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Hotten, John Camden (editor). 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 Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874 p. 283
5. ↑ Source: Immigrant Ships: Transcribers Guild: The Rev. Hull Company; URL: http://www.immigrantships.net/v3/1600v3/hullcompany16330320.html p. 73
6. ↑ Weygant, Charles H. The Hull family in America. [Pittsfield, MA : Sun Printing Co. : Hull Family Association], 1913
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} 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. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB116/i/7118/453/22096967

See Also:

• Whittemore, Henry. Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America. (1898) p. 274
• Austin, John; "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island" 1887
• Torrey, Clemence;"New England Marriages Prior to 1700" 1985
• Savage, James;"Gene.Dictionary of First Settlers of New England" 1860
• American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Author: Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data - Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Gen Note: APID: 1,3599::0
• Edward Norris Wentworth, Jr; Title: The Genalogy of Edward Norris Wentworth Junior; Publication: Location: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Date: June 1928; * Repository: #R2 NOTE: Special Project Submitted in Courses in Community Life and Advance Biology at the University High School, University of Chicago; Repository Heritage Quest
• Source: https://familysearch.org # LZN5-BL8

Index Type Sources

• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc APID: 1,3824::0
• Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Author: Gale Research Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passe Note: APID: 1,7486::0