Jacob Bull (1735 - 1811)

Born 6 May 1735 in Dover, Dutchess Co., New York Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Washburn) Bull — married 17 Nov 1762 in Kent, Litchfield Co., Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 19 Jul 1811 at age 76 in Kent, Litchfield Co., Connecticut

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Biography

Jacob was a Friend (Quaker)

Connecticut Colony

• From John Maltby:

Mary Washburn, sixth daughter of Ebenezer Washburn and Patience Miles, baptized in Kent, Litchfield Co., CT, in 1742, possibly the Mary Washburn who married Jacob Bull, son of Isaac and Rebecca (Browning) Bull,^[1] on 17 Nov. 1762 in Kent, Litchfield Co., CT.^[2] He was born on 6 Mar. 1734/5 in Dover, Dutchess Co., NY.^[3]

Jacob Bull was living in Kent, Litchfield Co., CT, in the 1790,^[4] 1800,^[5] and 1810 federal censuses.^[6] He died testate on 19 July 1811 in Kent, CT, aged 81 years,^[7] his will dated 4 May 1811, and probated on 17 Aug. 1811 in New Milford, CT, mentioned his wife Mary, son Isaac Bull and his three sons Norman N., Buel B., and Madison W. Bull, son Jeremiah Bull, daughter Ruth Brown, wife of Joseph Brown, daughter Betsey, wife of Benjamin Stone, daughter Polly, wife of Calvin Drake, daughters Millsypena Bull and Philomelia Bull, daughter Philippene, wife of Jonathan Brown, and sons Jacob Bull and Jackson T. Bull, whom he named as executors of his estate. (See Appendix (A) for a full transcription of his will.) Mary (Washburn) Bull died intestate on 8 Apr. 1816 in Kent, CT, aged 75 years,^[8] and they were both buried in Upper Merryall Cemetery in New Milford, Litchfield Co., CT. Her son Jackson T. Bull, of Kent, was granted administration of her estate on 28 Jan. 1819, and her inventory, appraised by Alpheus Fuller and Russell Judd, totaled $81.60, no real estate.^[9]

Mary Washburn and Jacob Bull supposedly had 20 children, order uncertain, including:

Birth and Siblings

Children of Isaac Bull & Rebecca:^[10]

• John Bull b. 15 of 3m, 1732
• Jacob Bull b. 6 of 3m, 1735
• Thomas Bull b. 31 of 3m, 1737
• Abraham Bull b. 9 of 3m, 1740
• Martha Bull b. 20 of 6m, 1743
• Isaac Bull b. 13 of 3m, 1746
• Mary Bull b. 17 of 11m, 1748
• Rebecca Bull b. 30 of 4m, 1751
• Esther Bull b. 20 of 3m, 1754

Notes

• Quaker Calendar - There has been much confusion over the dates in Quaker records. Friends used numbered months and days rather than what they considered pagan names for them (i.e. "Thursday" coming from "Thor's Day"). Thus, when the secular calendar was changed in 1752, making January the first month instead of March, Friends began calling January "First Month".

Sources

1. ↑ His parents per Ancestry.com World Family Tree of Joyce A. King.
2. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Kent 1739-1852, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999, [hereinafter White, Barbour Index to Kent VRs], p. 151. Hers was the only Washburn marriage recorded in Kent according to the Barbour index.
3. ↑ Per Ancestry.com World Family Trees of Joyce A. King, Brent Schlottman, and others.
4. ↑ Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Connecticut, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 58, Kent Town, Litchfield County, the Jacob Bull household had 3 free white males aged 16 or older, 1 free white male under 16, and 6 free white females.
5. ↑ 1800 Federal Census, Litchfield Co., CT, p. 94, the Jacob Bull household had 1 male aged 10-15 years, 2 males aged 26-44 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female aged 10-15 years, 2 females aged 16-25 years, and 2 females aged 45 or over.
6. ↑ 1810 Federal Census, Kent, Litchfield Co., CT, p. 208, the Jacob Bull household had 1 male aged 16-25 years, 1 male aged 26-44 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 2 females aged 16-25 years, and 1 female aged 45 or over.
7. ↑ Per the Ancestry.com World Family Tree of Joyce A. King; www.findagrave.com, memorial #34947728, from his gravestone in Upper Merryall Cemetery in New Milford, Litchfield Co., CT.
8. ↑ Per the Ancestry.com World Family Tree of Joyce A. King.
9. ↑ New Milford District Probate Vol. 8, p. 5, from FHL microfilm #7627395.
10. ↑ [Quaker Births From Oblong Monthly Meeting], Dutchess County, New York, LDS Film # 873511, Records of Josephine Frost, Transcribed by Debbie Axtman, pp. 33-36.

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