Joseph Hull (1652 - aft. 1728)

Born 2 Jun 1652 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Experience (Harper) Hull — married Oct 1676 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died after 15 Jul 1728 after age 76 in North Kingstown, Kings, Rhode Island

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Biography

Joseph Hull, the son of Tristram Hull and his wife Blanche, was born in June 1652 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony.^[1]

Joseph Hull married Experience Harper, October 1676, in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, New England.^[2]

Moved to Falmouth MA in 1677-1678

At about the time that Joseph Hull and Experience Harper were married, the magistrates of Massachusetts undertook without due process of law to release bondservants and cancel articles of apprenticeship, where the masters were Quakers. In the execution of some such ex-party order the sheriff was soundly thrashed by Joseph Hull, who, for so doing was fined seven pounds. This fine, for some unstated reason, was abated at a subsequent session of the court. Soon after the occurance above noted, Joseph Hull sold the estate at Barnstable, which had been devised to him by his father, to one John Lathrop, and settled on land he had purchased at Little Harbor, South Kingston, R. I. In 1678 he increased his holdings at Little Harbor by an additional tract for which he paid one hundred and five pounds, and in 1685 he and his father-in-law were granted authority to take up additional tracts in the eastern section of the town. At the election held May 3, 1699, he was chosen Assistant in the Government of Rhode Island, an office corresponding in dignity with that of State Senator at the present time. On May 6, 1701, he was again chosen to the same office. At a General Assembly held March 22, 1709, the sum of sixteen pounds and ten shillings was voted him as a gratuity for the good service and charge he had been at in promoting the interest of the colony. The first houses of any pretention built in the Narragansett country were at Tower Hill, the capital of King's Province, which was at one time called Rochester, and which became and remained South Kingston. One of the first and largest of these dwellings was that of Joseph Hull. The Narragansett Monthly Meeting of Friends residing in the territory embracing Providence, Warwick, Greenwich and Kingston, was established in 1699. Joseph Hull had now become a speaker or preacher, and the First day and weekly meetings were held in his spacious dwelling until the latter part of the following year, when the society's Meeting House, though not yet finished, was ready to worship in. There is a tradition connected with this old Hull house at Narragansett which runs in this wise: A daughter of the host had been married during the day, and when in the evening the friends were celebrating the event, a rejected suitor approached in the darkness a window where the newly wedded couple stood conversing, and placing the muzzle of his gun within a few feet of the bride sent a bullet through her heart. Somewhere on Tower Hill farm there is said to be a burial plot, which can not now be located with any certainity, in which Joseph Hull's body rests surrounded by those of several generations of his descendants. The ancient Friends' records have been lost and we have learned the names of but five of his large family of children. (Hull Gen.)

Joseph, born June, 1652, married, October, 1676, Experience, the daughterof Robert Harper, who was one of the first Quakers to suffer in body and estate, and was banished from Boston in 1660; he removed to South Kingston, R. I., where he died about 1709.

Biographical sketch in Weygant, The Hull Family in America^[3]

28. JOSEPH HULL, 1652-1709 or 1719, of Barnstable, Mass., and SouthKingston, R. I., son of (4) Capt. Tristram Hull and his wife Blanche, was by occupation a planter, cooper, merchant and shipper. He doubtless joined the Society of Friends previous to his marriage in October, 1676,to his Quaker wife, Experience Harper, 1657——, daughter of Robert Harper and his wife Deborah Perry of Sandwich, Mass.

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.

At about the time that Joseph Hull and Experience Harper were married,the magistrates of Massachusetts undertook without due process of law to release bondservants and cancel articles of apprenticeship, where the masters were Quakers. In the execution of some such ex-party order the sheriff was soundly thrashed by Joseph Hull, who, for so doing was fined seven pounds. This fine, for some unstated reason, was abated at a subsequent session of the court.

Soon after the occurance above noted, Joseph Hull sold the estate at Barnstable, which had been devised to him by his father, to one John Lathrop, and settled on land he had purchased at Little Harbor, South Kingston, R. I. In 1678 he increased his holdings at Little Harbor by an additional tract for which he paid one hundred and five pounds, and in1685 he and his father-in-law were granted authority to take upadditional tracts in the eastern section of the town.

At the election held May 3, 1699, he was chosen Assistant in theGovernment of Rhode Island, an office corresponding in dignity with that of State Senator at the present time. On May 6, 1701, he was again chosen to the same office. At a General Assembly held March 22, 1709, the sum of sixteen pounds and ten shillings was voted him as a gratuity for the good service and charge he had been at in promoting the interest of the colony.

The first houses of any pretention built in the Narragansett country were at Tower Hill, the capital of King's Province, which was at one time called Rochester, and which became and remained South Kingston. One of the first and largest of these dwellings was that of Joseph Hull.

The Narragansett Monthly Meeting of Friends residing in the territory embracing Providence, Warwick, Greenwich and Kingston, was established in 1699. Joseph Hull had now become a speaker or preacher, and the First day and weekly meetings were held in his spacious dwelling until the latter part of the following year, when the society's Meeting House, though not yet finished, was ready to worship in.

There is a tradition connected with this old Hull house at Narragansett which runs in this wise: A daughter of the host had been married during the day, and when in the evening the friends were celebrating the event, a rejected suitor approached in the darkness a window where the newly wedded couple stood conversing, and placing the muzzle of his gun within a few feet of the bride sent a bullet through her heart.

Somewhere on Tower Hill farm there is said to be a burial plot, which cannot now be located with any certainity, in which Joseph Hull's body rests surrounded by those of several generations of his descendants.

The ancient Friends' records have been lost and we have learned the names of but five of his large family of

CHILDREN

86. Tristram Hull, b. Oct. 8, 1677; d. 1718; m. 1699, Elizabeth Dyer.

87. Joseph Hull, b. 1679; d. 1748; m. (1st) 1700, Ann Gardiner, (2nd) Susanna Green.

88. Mary Hull, b. about 1681; m. John Hoxie.

89. John Hull, b. about 1685; m. 1709, Jean Canada.

90. Alice Hull, m. 1708, John Sager.

Baptism

Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Marriage

Joseph Hull married Experience Harper, October 1676, in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, New England.^[4]

OCT 1676 Barnstable, Barnstable, Ma

Source: #S174::: Page: 259

Source: #S16::: Page: Harper 1

Sources

Citations

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-PVKV : 10 Mar 2024), Entry for [Joseph Hull born in June 1652].
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-PVKV : 10 Mar 2024), Entry for [Joseph Hull and Experience Harper, Oct 1676].
3. ↑ #Hull 259-261
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-PVKV : 10 Mar 2024), Entry for [Joseph Hull and Experience Harper, Oct 1676].

Source List

• Hull, Oliver Book of the Hulls. New York: Peter Eckler, 1863. Page 13

• Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island. New York: Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1903. Page 90

• Weygant, Charles H. The Hull Family in America. Pittsfield, MA: Sun Printing Co., 1913. Pages 259-261

• Dyer, William Allan, Compiler. By the Name of Dyer: A Genealogical Record. Syracuse, NY, 1940, typescript.

Source S14

Title: The Name of Dyer, A Genealogical Record

Author: William Allan Dyer

Publication: 1940

Abbreviation: The Name of Dyer, A Genealogical Record

Source S16

Title: The Allen Families and 83 Connected Families

Author: Devere Allen

Publication: Wilton, Connecticut, January 1947

Source S227

Title: American Ancestry, Columbia County, New York State

Author: Thomas P. Hughes

Publication: Vol. II. Local Series, Columbia County, State of New York, 1887

Source S607

Title: Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Author: John Osborne Austin

Publication: Gen. Publishing Co. Inc., 1978

Source S382

Title: Ancestral Record and Portraits

www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/3364/index.html

Source S383

Title: Hull: http://genforum.genealogy.com/hull/messages/109.html

Abbreviation: Hull Family electronic file

Source S384

Title: Hull: http://www.angelfire.com/fl/Sumter/pafg14.html#2581

Abbreviation: Hull electronic file

Source S446

Title: Barnstable Town Records

Abbreviation: Barnstable TR