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Richard Hulse (abt. 1642 - abt. 1698)

Richard Hulse
Born about in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York Colonymap
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of — married about 1686 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New Yorkmap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 56 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York Colonymap
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Biography

Richard Hulse, was born about 1640/1645, possibly in England, and died between 4 July and 21 August 1696 in Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. His first wife's name is unknown, but was the mother of his four sons Thomas, Richard, Joseph, and John. She died between 1675 and 1680. He then was married for the second time, before 6 June 1681, to Hannah Beardsley (also recorded as Hannah Dayton in the 1692/3 will of Walter Jones who left Richard a portion of his estate.) No issue is known by this latter marriage. Richard first appeared in local records, 21 September 1670, as a witness to the deed for land at Brookhaven sold by Andrew Miller to Richard Smith. Land was granted to him by the town in 1676, but no other record of him has been found until he appeared in the will of Walter Jones when his four children were specifically mentioned. Seversmith. Colonial Families of Long Island and Connecticut, 1952.

It is stated that on August 2, 1687 John Howell, Clerk of the County o f Suffolk, certified that a conveyance form Andrew Miller and his wife to Richard Smith dated 21 September, 1670 was void. One of the witnesses was Richard Hulse, and this seems to be the first record of this ancestor in America.

Six years later he was given a half accommodation in the town of Brookhaven, 18 December, 1676. It was at this time that Nathaniel Norton a greed with the town that notwithstanding he had upland granted to him at the east side of Mount Misery by the Old Mans Harbor, he would give it proportionally to those who would settle on it. In the associated list of settlers Richard Hulse was the fifth. On 5 February 1677, Andrew Miller was his neighbor to the south, and on 2 April 1677 he is referred to by inclusion as one of the young men to whom land was lately granted.

In 1677 he filed his earmark in the town records. About this time he had apparently removed to another locality in the town, for William Williams, who obtained land in the foregoing locality adjacent to that held by Richard Hulse, exchanged land with Jospeh Davis which was next to that of Richard Hulse.

Richard Hulse on 4 August, 1679 bought form Benjamin Gould his house, land and orchard which the latter had had of Thomas Higham. Richard Hulse was to pay the equivalent of twenty-five pounds---that is, to build for Gould a frame of a house with clapboards and shingles and to pr ovide nails therefor. Everything apparently went well, for Gould confirmed the sale 14 November, 1682. On 24 September, 1680 William Jayne sold to Richard Hulse the home lot that he (Jayne) had bought of Andrew Miller.

Not only house carpenter and builder, Richard Hulse called himself a planter 27 May, 1681, when he sold his original three acre lot to John Indian of New York City, and further agreed to satisfy the latter's account to the amount of five pounds, eleven shillings before 15, April, 1682; the account was to be paid in good merchantable whale oil, whale bone, beef, pork, winter and summer wheat and Indian corn. He sold property 3 August, 1681 in George's Neck which he had from his firs t settlement, to Robert Gouldsbury. Sixteen days later Richard Hulse was of Newtown in Brookhaven.

On 27 July, 1682, then calling himself yeoman, mortgaged his homestead, lands and cattle to Andrew Gibb to save the latter harmless in an in debtness incurred wherein Captain Edmund Cantwell was the creditor. The debt was satisfied.

Richard Hulse was 11 Dec, 1684 one of the inheritors of the estate of Joseph Beardsley, a brother of his second wife Hannah Beardsley. Articles of agreement were concluded on this date between Abraham Dayton and Richard Hulse, to divide Beardsley's estate. Hulse received thirty acres of land and a small house near Floyd's swamp; fifteen acres of upland and a share of meadow which had been Richard Starr's; a fifty acre lot at The Old Man's; and other property.

He was chosen a trustee of the town of Brookhaven on 5 May, 1696, for one year; but evidently he never attended a meeting.

Richard Hulse died between 4 July,1698 and 21 August, 1698. There is no record of a will or administration. The names of his children are established from the will of Walter Jones of Brookhaven, dated 11 January, 1692/3, proved 3 June, 1699.

The name of the first wife and mother of his children has not been found. He married second, Hannah Beardsley, step-daughter of Samuel Dayton of Brookhaven and daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Harvey) Beardsley of Stratford, Connecticut. This wife was single as late as December 24, 1675, but had married Richard Hulse before 6 June, 1681. After his death she married second, Samuel Swayze, son of John and Katherine (King) Swayze. She was still living in 1709.



Alt birth location: Berthersden, Kent, England
Alt death location: Brookhaven, Suffolk, Long Island, New York

Sources

Seversmith. Colonial Families of Long Island and Connecticut, 1952. Brookhaven town records and land deeds.





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Hulse-440 and Hulse-68 appear to represent the same person because: Both Richards appear to be the father of John Edgar Hulse-281
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