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land, in 1626. He was a selectman of
Barnstable, a military officer, and left
property to the value of £1150 2s. 5d.,
sterling, a large amount in those days. In
February, 1656, he was fined for reliev-
ing some persecuted Quakers of Boston.
He joined the Society of Friends.
Captain Tristram Hull married, but the
name of his wife is unknown. Issue: i.
Mary, born in Yarmouth, September 16,
1645 ; married Joseph Holley, of Sandwich.
2. Sarah, born in March, 1650, at
Barnstable ; married Robert Burgess, of
Linn. 3. Joseph, of whom further. 4.
John, born in Barnstable in March, 1654;
married, in London, October 23, 1684,
Alice Tidemann. 5. Hannah, born in
Barnstable, February, 1656 ;
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married, Sep-
tember 15, 1674, Joseph Blish, and died
November 15, 1733.
(III) Joseph (2) Hull, eldest son of
Captain Tristram Hull, was born at Barn-
stable, in June, 1652. He was made a
freeman in 1696, and was governor assistant
in 1699 and from 1701 to 1703. He
suffered much persecution because he was
a member of the Society of Friends, of
which community he was a minister. In
1681 he was fined for beating the sheriflF
who had persecuted him as a Quaker. He
died at South Kingston, Rhode Island,
about 1709. Joseph (2) Hull married, in
October, 1676, Experience Harper, daugh-
ter of Robert Harper, who was one of the
first Quakers to suffer in body and estate,
and was in 1660 banished from Boston.
(IV) Tristram (2) Hull, son of Joseph
(2) and Experience (Harper) Hull, was
born in 1677, lived in Westerly, and
owned lands there. He died in 1718.
Tristram (2) Hull married Elizabeth
Dyer, daughter of Charles Dyer, son of
William Dyer, whose wife Mary was
executed on Boston Common, January i,
1660, because she was a Quakeress.
(V) Stephen Hull, son of Tristram (2)
and Elizabeth (Dyer) Hull, was bom at
Westerly, Rhode Island, in 1715. He lived
at South Kingston, and witnessed many
stirring events during the Revolutionary
War. He died in 1798. Stephen Hull
married Martha Clark.
(VI) Latham Hull, son of Stephen and
Martha (Qark) Hull, was born at South
Kingston, Rhode Island, in 1750. He died
at North Stonington in 1807. Latham
Hull married (first) Anna Wheeler. He
married (second) Desire Williams, born
January 24, 1751, a lineal descendant of
John and Elizabeth Tilley, both of whor^
were passengers on the "Mayflower."
Issue : I. Jeremiah, married Keturah
Randall Williams. 2. John W., of whom
further.
(VII) Colonel John W. Hull, son of
Latham and Desire (Williams) Hull, was
born in January, 1789. He lived at North
Stoningfton, Connecticut, and served in
the army, being colonel. John W. Hull
married (first) Elizabeth Smith, of
Waterford, Connecticut, granddaughter of
Charles Stewart and Hannah Williams
Smith. He married (second) Nancy
York. Issue by first marriage : i. Eunice,
married Benjamin Franklin Browning,
brother of John Hazard Browning. 2.
John Pomery, married Harriet Jane
Argall, of New York City. 3. Eliza
Smith, of whom further. Issue by second
marriage : 4. Jesse Y. Lathrop. 5.
Charles S. 6. Ann, married (first) Eras-
tus Hewitt; (second) Latham Stewart.
7. Elmire, married William Argall.
(VIII) Eliza Smith Hull, daughter of
Colonel John W. and Elizabeth (Smith)
Hull, was born May 26, 1812. She was
a woman of great literary accomplish-
ments. She died April 21, 1875. Eliza
Smith Hull married, September 21, 1829,
John Hazard Browning, when she was
seventeen and he was twenty-eight years
old (see Browning VI).