John Hull (1624 - 1683)

Born 18 Dec 1624 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England

Husband of Judith (Quincy) Hull — married 11 May 1647 in Boston, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1 Oct 1683 at age 58 in Boston, Massachusetts

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Biography

John Hull was born about 18 December 1624 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England.^[1][2][3][4] He was the son of Robert Hull, a blacksmith, and Elizabeth Storer, widow of Paul Storer.^[1][2][3][4]

At age 11, John and his parents emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They departed Bristol, England on 28 September 1635 aboard the ship George. They arrived in Boston on 7 November.^[1][2][3][4]

John married Judith Quincy on 11 May 1647 in Boston. She was the daughter of Edmund Quincy and Judith Pares Paine.^[1][2][3] John and Judith had the following children^[2]:

1. Elizabeth Hull, b. 23 Jan 1653 (twin), d. 1 Feb 1653 as an infant
2. Mary Hull, b. 23 Jan 1653 (twin), d. 31 Jan 1653 as an infant
3. John Hull, b. 3 Nov 1654, d. 14 Nov 1654 as an infant
4. Hannah Hull b. 14 Feb 1658, d. 1717 m. Samuel Sewall
5. Samuel Hull, b. 1 Aug 1661, bap. 4 Aug 1661, d. 20 Aug 1661 as an infant

He was well known as a merchant, goldsmith, silversmith and a minter of coins for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[3][5] He is sometimes called the "Mint-Master" or the "Silversmith".^[3][5]

John died on 1 October 1683.^[2][3] He was buried in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts on 5 October 1683.^[2]

Records of Francis Higginson Atkins has John being born 1626 and passing 1695.^[6]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Anderson
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Archaeologia Americana
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Clarke
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Jordan
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} 'Robert Hull and Son John Hull, "the Silversmith"'
6. ↑ Information obtained by Mary Atkins

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2003) Vol. 3, Pages 460 - 462

• Archaeologia Americana (American Antiquarian Society, 1857) Vol. 3, Page 109 - 316: "The Diaries of John Hull, Mint-master and Treasurer of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay"

• Clarke, Hermann F. "John Hull--Colonial Merchant," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 46, Issue 2, Oct. 1936 Page 197 - 218

• Jordan, Louis. "Studies on John Hull, the Mint and the Economics of Massachusetts Coinage" (Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2002) Page 1

• "Robert Hull and Son John Hull, "the Silversmith," Massachusetts Bay Colony," Hull Family Association (HFA) Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 2018, Pages 3 - 7

• John Hull, “the Mintmaster” or "the Silversmith" (1624–1683), The Hull Family Association

• "John Hull, The Coiner of the Pine Tree Shillings", American Journal of Numismatics, and Bulletin of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, January, 1893, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 49-54

See also:

• Atkins, Francis Higginson. Joseph Atkins The Story of a Family (D. Atkins, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1891)

• Bowen's Boston News-Letter and City Record (Abel Bowen, Boston, May 13, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 249

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 November 2019), memorial page for Judge John Hull (18 Dec 1624–1 Oct 1683), Find A Grave: Memorial #60381936, citing Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8). The information on this web page is unsourced and it does not provide an image of a gravestone. However, it may provide leads for further research.

• Jacobson, Judy. Massachusetts Bay Connections, (Genealogical Publishing Com, 2009) Page 61 - 65

• Johnson, Rossiter and Brown, John Howard. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, (The Biographical Society, Boston, 1904) Vol. 5, Pages 1842 - 1843

• Wikipedia contributors, "John Hull (merchant)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed November 13, 2019).