Charles Hull Jr (1755)

Born 26 Jan 1755 in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island

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Biography

Charles Hull was born on 26 January 1755 in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island.^[1][2] He was the son of Charles Hull and Abigail Slack.^[1][2]

Research Notes

Charles Hull of RI and Tolland, MA

What We Know about Charles Hull of Tolland

• On 1 January 1806, Charles Hull purchased a mortgaged-33-acre farm in Granville, Mass.
• The final payment was due in 1810. The land bordered “the west line of the Slocum farm.”
  • David Slocum (1740-1818) and his brother, Eleazer Slocum, owned an 800-acre farm in Granville, given to them by their father in 1769.
  • David and Eleazer Slocum’s mother was Bathsheba Hull, daughter of Tristram Hull and Elizabeth Dyer.
  • David’s first-cousins, Gideon Hull and Sarah (Hull) Stedman, likewise grandchildren of Tristram and Elizabeth, lived on neighboring farms.
  • Eleazer Slocummoved to Canada as a Loyalist in 1783.
  • Yet another grandchild of Tristam Hull and Elizabeth Dyer, Samuel Hull, brother of Gideon, owned land in Granville from 1774 to 1778 when he sold some of it to Gideon.
  • Charles Hull, Sr, father of Gideon, Samuel and their younger brother, Charles, died in Granville in 1788.^[3]
• The 1810 census of Tolland lists Charles Hull, age 45 or older.^[4]
  • His household included an adult woman (26-44) and four younger males, two under 10, one between 10 and 15, and one between 16 and 25. They are probably sons.
  • I have discovered no sightings of Charles after 1810.
  • He probably died between 1810 and 1820.

Children of Charles Hull

Samuel, Hazard and Prosper Hull, born between 1794 and 1800, appear in Tolland records between 1815 and 1831. The three are connected to each other through property deeds. Census records show Hannah (Hull) Peck was the sister of Hazard Hull and that their mother was Judith.

HAZARD HULL (1796-1867)

• Hazard Hull married Marilla Mitchell in Tolland in 1822.^[5]
• Hazard was listed in the 1830 Tolland census.^[6]
• In 1833 Hazard purchased land in Greenfield, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.
  • The farm was next to Francis Hull (1804-1878) who grew up in Tolland. Francis was the son of Robert Hull. Francis witnessed the deed.
  • IF Hazard is the son of Charles Hull (son of Charles Hull and Abigail Slack) he and Francis are 1st cousins, once removed.
• Hazard Hull was in the 1840 census of Greenfield, Pennsylvania.
  • The 1840 household includes a woman the age of Marilla (30s) and one the age of Hazard's mother, Judith (80s).
• In 1843 Hazard sold his Greenfield farm to his brother, Samuel Hull.
• By 1850 Hazard and Marilla moved to Windsor, CT where they lived with former Tolland neighbors.
• In 1854 Hazard and Marilla moved to Fabius, NY. In the 1855 census, Hazard and Marilla lived with their nephew Elias Peck (1815-1880). Elias Peck's parents, Moses Peck and Hannah (Hull) Peck. lived next door. Hannah’s mother, Judith Hull (age 95), lived with Moses and Hannah..
• In 1860 Hazard and Marilla lived in Fabius on land Marilla purchased in 1858.
• Hazard died in 1867 and is buried in Fabius, New York.
• Marilla died in Fabius in 1892.

SAMUEL HULL (1794-1870)

• Samuel first appeared in Tolland records in 1815 as witness to a deed for Charles Hull, Jr (son of Robert Hull and Sarah Slocum).
• In 1824, Samuel and Prosper Hull purchased a 14.5-acre, mortgaged property. They were the grantors in the mortgage deed which states, “I Samuel and Prosper Hull of Tolland” suggesting the two were brothers.
• Samuel and Propser sold their Tolland farm in 1828. By this time Prosper had married and moved to Wolcott, CT. The deed also lists their wives (Nancy in Tolland MA and Betsey in Wolcott CT).
• Samuel married Nancy Tucker by 1824.
  • Their known children were Nathan (1824-1862), Prosper (1827-1862) and Coreth
• In 1830, Samuel is listed in the federal census of Tolland with four children and a woman who is almost certainly Nancy. A woman in her 60s, probably Judith Hull, lived with them.
• By 1840 Samuel and Nancy moved to the neighboring town of Sandisfield, Berkshire, MA.
• In 1843 they moved to Greenfield, Luzerne County, PA where Samuel purchased Hazard Hull’s farm. The Tolland and Greenfield deeds do not prove the two were brothers, but the documents strongly suggest that relationship.
• In 1850 Samuel and Nancy appeared in the federal census of Greenfield with their children, Nathan (1824-1862), Prosper (1827-1862) and Coretha Grace (1833-1863).
• In the 1850s Samuel and Nancy moved to Clifford, PA, just across the county line from Greenfield.
• Samuel and Nancy's son, Nathan, married in 1856; son Prosper married in 1857. Both died in 1862, Nathan in Alfred, NY and Prosper in Carbondale, PA.
• Coretha, daugher of Samuel and Nancy, died unmarried in 1863.
• With their children dead, Samuel and Nancy moved back to Berkshire County, MA and are in the 1865 census of Tyringham, MA.
• By 1870 they had moved to Allegany County, NY where they lived with their widowed daughter-in-law, Hannah J (Blevins) Hull, and grandson, Charles E Hull.
• Samuel died in 1870, Nancy in 1871. They are buried in Alfred Rural Cemetery in Allegany County, New York.

PROSPER HULL (1800-1847)

• Prosper was born 10 April 1800, probably in Rhode Island. His father, Charles, moved to Tolland about 1805 and purchased property there in 1806.
• The date (April 10) comes from a church record in Wolcott, Connecticut.
• Prosper and Samuel Hull purchased a 14 ½ acre farm with house and barn in Tolland in 1824. Prosper and Samuel sold the property in 1828. (See details under Samuel.)
• On 28 August 1825, Prosper married Betsey Atkins (1807-1847), daughter of Levi Atkins and Eunice Smith, in Waterbury, Connecticut.
• On 20 March 1827, Prosper Hull of Tolland, Massachusetts, and his brother-in-law, Erastus Atkins of Wolcott, Connecticut, purchased a 6-acre mortgaged property in Wolcott for $160. The loan was payable in April 1828.
• In April 1829, Prosper was admitted as a freeman in Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut.
• On 24 September 1832, Prosper Hull of New Haven County, Connecticut, sold 37 acres to Jarvis R. Bronson of Wolcott for $450.
• On 27 March 1834, Prosper Hull sold an undivided half-interest in two pieces of property totaling 33 acres to his brother-in-law, Erastus Atkins, for $500. The properties were in the center of Wolcott and were split by the highway.
• Prosper was involved in numerous transfers of property in Wolcott up to 18 October 1847, two weeks before his death.
• Prosper was listed as a subscriber to the Congregational Church in Wolcott in 1831 and 1837.
• In 1840 Prosper Hull appeared in the U.S. census of Wolcott. A male and female in their 30s (Prosper and Betsey) along with an unknown girl between 5 and 9 were in the household. Levi Atkins, Betsey’s father, was listed on the previous line.
• Prosper died 2 November 1847 in Wolcott. His wife, Betsey, died three days earlier on 30 October. The couple did not leave any children. They are buried in Edgewood Cemetery in Wolcott.

HANNAH (HULL) PECK (1790-1874)

• Hannah married Moses Peck (1790-1862) about 1810.
• The 1855 census of Fabius, Onondaga, New York, lists Moses and Hannah next door to their son Elisha (named in Moses Peck’s will as their oldest son).
• Judith Hull, who lived with Moses and Hannah, is specified as her mother in 1855.
• Hazard Hull was in Elisha’s household and was named his uncle.
• The 1855 census thus confirms Judith was the mother of Hannah (Hull) Peck and Hazard Hull.
• Moses lived in Colebrook, CT in 1810 and New Berlin, NY in 1820, before moving to Fabius, NY in 1829.
• Moses was a mason and farmer.
• Hannah and Moses had at least six children and spent the rest of their lives in and around Fabius, NY.

JUDITH (1760-1856), WIFE OF CHARLES

• Judith Hull was born in Rhode Island in 1760. (1850-census, 1855-census, Find A Grave)
• In 1850 Judith Hull, age 90, lived with Moses and Hannah Peck in Fabius.
• In 1855, Judah Hull, age 95, lived with Moses and Hannah. She was specified as Hannah Peck's mother.
• Find A Grave memorial in Old Fabius Cemetery.
  • Inscription: Hull, Hannah July 1, 1760-Mar. 19, 1856, widow of Charles
  • No photo of the marker is attached. It is not clear whether Hannah is a misreading or an alternate name.
• Probable evidence for Judith before 1850 in the household of relatives:
  • 1810 census, female (26-44) in Charles Hull family in Tolland, MA.
  • 1830 census, female (60s) in son Samuel Hull's family in Tolland.
  • 1840 census, female (80s) in son Hazard Hull's family in Greenfield, PA.
• Possible location in 1820:
  • 1820 census, Gideon Hull family in Tolland has two females over 45. One is Gideon's wife, Bathseha. The other could be Judith.
  • If Judith's husband was Charles Hull, son of Charles Hull and Abigail Slack, Gideon was her brother-in-law.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Rhode Island Births
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Weygant: Page 281
3. ↑ #VR_Granville, [page 206]
4. ↑ #1810-census-Charles
5. ↑ #VR_Granville, [page 130], [page 138]
6. ↑ #1830-census-Hazard

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch, Charles Hull, 26 Jan 1755; citing South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 908,271.

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

• VR_Granville. Henry Edwards Scott, ed. Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston: NEHGS, 1914) [[1]]

• 1810-census-Charles "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH21-QFL : 2 Jul 23), Charles Hull, Tolland, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States; citing image [page 306,line 400] microfilm publication M252: roll 19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• 1830-census-Hazard "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5V-9HW : 2 Sep 2023), Hazard Hull, Tolland, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States; citing image [page 59, line 25], NARA microfilm publication M19: roll 145, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).