Penelope (Fones) Hull (abt. 1732 - abt. 1795)

Born about 1732 in Conanicut Island, Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Wife of Oliver Hull — married 19 May 1751 in Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island

Descendants

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Biography

Penelope Fones was born about 1732 on Conanicut Island, Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island. (source needed) She was the daughter of Joseph Fones and Penelope Remington.^[1][2][3]

She married Oliver Hull on 19 May 1751 in Jamestown.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} They had the following children^[1][4]:

1. Abigail Hull, b. 7 Feb 1752^[6], m. Solomon Lockwood
2. Joseph Hull, b. 8 Nov 1753^[7], d. 30 Sep 1781
3. Henrietta Hull, b. 1 Aug 1755^[8], m. Thomas Burling
4. Katherine Hull, b. 19 Feb 1759, m. Thomas Clark
5. John Hull, b. 11 Aug 1762, d. 11 Aug 1840
6. Penelope Hull, b. 29 May 1764, d. 16 Sep 1848, unmarried

Penelope died on 1 March 1795.^[1][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Weygant
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Colonial Dames of America
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Arnold
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Hull
5. ↑ Jordan
6. ↑ Rhode Island Births, Abigail Hull
7. ↑ Rhode Island Births, Joseph Hull
8. ↑ Rhode Island Births, Henrietta Hull

• Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. , Providence, R.I., 1895) Vol. 4, Newport County, Jamestown, Marriages, Page 10: "Oliver [Hull], of John and Damarias, and Penelope Fones, of Joseph and Penelope; m. by Joseph Clarke, Warden, May, 1751."

• Colonial Dames of America. Ancestral Records and Portraits (New York, The Grafton Press, 1910) Vol. 1, Pages 300 – 302

• Hughes, Phyllis J. Pankonin Hulls in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 (Published privately, Boulder, Colorado, 1997) Page 55

• Hull, Oliver Book of the Hulls (Peter Eckler, New York, New York, 1863) Pages 27 – 30

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1913) Vol. 1, Page 272

• Weygant, Charles H. The Hull Family in America (Sun Printing Co., Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1913) Pages 283 - 284

• "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VK1J-8PL : 22 January 2020), Penelope Fones in entry for Oliver Hull, May 1751, Jamestown, Rhode Island.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F87V-HBG : 17 December 2019), Penelope in entry for Abigail Hull, 7 Feb 1752; citing Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 908,270.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F87V-CQK : 17 December 2019), Penelope in entry for Henrietta Hull, 1 Aug 1755; citing Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 908,270.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F87K-LMY : 17 December 2019), Penelope in entry for Joseph Hull, 8 Nov 1753; citing Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 908,270.