| Name |
Joseph HULL [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] |
| Birth |
16 Jun 1652 |
, Barnstable, Massachusetts  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Note |
- Joseph was a planter, cooper, merchant, and shipper by occupation. He was a prominant Quaker. According to the Hull Family History, 'at about the time that Joseph Hull and Experience Harper were married, the magistrates of Massachusetts undertook without due process of law to release bondservants and cancel articles of apprenticeship, where the masters were Quakers. In the execution of some such ex-party order, the sheriff was soundly thrashed by Joseph Hull, who, for so diong was fined seven pounds. This fine, for some unstated reason, was abated at a subsequent session. Soon after the occurance about noted, Joseph Hull sold the estate at Barnstable, which had been devised to him by his father, to one John Lathrop, and settled on land he had purchased at Little Harbor, South Kingston, RI. In 1768 he increased his holdings at Little Harbor by an additional tract for which he paid one hundred and five pounds, and in 1685 he and his father-in-law were granted authority to take up additional tracts in the eastern section of the town. At the election held 3 May 1699, he was chosen Assistant in the Government of Rhode Island, an office corresponding in dignity with that of State Senator at the present time. On 6 May 1701, he was again chosen the same office. At the General Assembly helf 22 March 1709, the sum of sixteen pounds and ten shillings was voted him as a gratuity for the good service and charge he had been at in promoting the interest of the colony. The first houses of any pretention built in the Narragansett country were at Tower Hill, the capital of King's Province, which was at one time called Rochester, and which became and remained South Kingston. One of the first and largest of these dwellings was that of Joseph Hull. The Narragansett Monthly Meeting of Friends residing in the territory embracing Providence, Warwick, Greenwich and Kingston, was established in 1699. Joseph Hull had now become a speaker or preacher, and the First day and weekly meetings were held in his spacious dwelling uintil the latter part of the following year, when the society's Meeting House, though not yet finished, was ready to worship in. There is a tradition connected with this old Hull house at Narragansett which runs to this wise: A daughter of the host had been married during the day, and when in the evening the friends were celebrating the event, a rejected suitor approached in the darkness and window where the newly wedded couple stood conversing, and placing the muzzle of his gun within a few feet of the bride, sent a bullet through her heart.'
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| Immigration |
1677/78 |
- Moved to Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1677-1678. At about the time that Joseph Hull and Experience Harper were married, the magistrates of Massachusetts undertook without due process of law to release of bond servants and cancel articles of apprenticeship, where the masters were Quakers. In the execution of some such ex-party order the sheriff was soundly thrashed by Joseph Hull, who, for so doing was fined seven pounds. This fine, for some unstated reason, was abated at a subsequent session of the court. Soon after the occurrence above, Joseph Hull sold the estate at Barnstable, which had been devised to him by his father, to one John Lathrop, and settled on land he had purchased at Little Harbor, South Kingston, R. I. In 1678 he increased his holdings at Little Harbor by an additional tract for which he paid one hundred and five pounds, and in 1685 he and his father-in-law were granted authority to take up additional tracts in the eastern section of the town. At the election held May 3, 1699, he was chosen Assistant in the Government of Rhode Island, an office corresponding in dignity with that of State Senator at the present time. On May 6, 1701, he was again chosen to the same office. At a General Assembly held March 22, 1709, the sum of sixteen pounds and ten shillings was voted him as a gratuity for the good service and charge he had been at in promoting the interest of the colony. The first houses of any pretension built in the Narragansett country were at Tower Hill, the capital of King's Province, which was atone time called Rochester, and which became and remained South Kingston. One of the first and largest of these dwellings was that of Joseph Hull. The Narragansett Monthly Meeting of Friends residing in the territory embracing Providence, Warwick, Greenwich and Kingston, was established in1699. Joseph Hull had now become a speaker or preacher, and the First day and weekly meetings were held in his spacious dwelling until the latter part of the following year, when the society's Meeting House, though not yet finished, was ready to worship in. There is a tradition connected with this old Hull house at Narragansett which runs in this wise: A daughter of the host had been married during the day, and when in the evening the friends were celebrating the event, a rejected suitor approached in the darkness a window where the newly wedded couple stood conversing, and placing the muzzle of his gun within a few feet of the bride sent a bullet through her heart. Somewhere on Tower Hill farm there is said to be a burial plot, which can not now be located with any certainty, in which Joseph Hull's body rests surrounded by those of several generations of his descendants. The ancient Friends' records have been lost and we have learned the names of but five of his large family of children. (Hull Gen.)
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| Death |
1710 |
, South Kingstown, Rhode Island |
| Burial |
, South Kingstown, Rhode Island |
| Person ID |
I8617 |
Ancestral Trails |
| Last Modified |
13 Apr 2024 |
| Family |
Experience HARPER, b. Nov 1657, , Sandwich, Massachusetts d. 23 Aug 1715, , South Kingstown, New Hampshire (Age ~ 57 years) |
| Marriage |
Oct 1676 |
, Barnstable, Massachusetts [6, 8] |
- They were married in a Friends (Quaker) Meeting House. Joseph and Experience had a number of other children, but the records are lost.
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| Children |
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| Family ID |
F1655 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
13 Apr 2024 |
1652 - 1710 (57 years)