Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

22 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
There is no record of the excommunication of his wife, but the
following record makes it certain that she was, and for the same
offence.
"Our syster Hull renewed her covenant with, renouncing her
joyneing with the [not legible] at Yarmouth confessing her evil in
soe doeing with sorrow March 11, 1642."
"Mr. Hull in the acknowledgeing of his sin, and renewing his
covenant
1643."
was received againe into fellowship with us Aug. 10,
March 7, 1642-3, the Plymouth Colony Court "ordered that a
warrant shall be directed to the constable of Yarmouth, to apprehend
Mr. Joseph Hull, (if he do either exercise the ministry amongst
them or administer the seals,) to bring him before the next magistrate,
to fynd suffieient sureties for his appearance, the next General
Court, to answere his doings, (being an excommunicant.)"
Mr. Hull desisted from his attempt to preach in Yarmouth, and
that spring removed to Dover. Gov.
May 10, 1643, when the articles of
Winthrop under the 'date of
confederation of the United
Colonies were adopted, says :
' 'Those of Sir Ferdinando Gorge his
province beyond Pascataquack, were not received nor called into the
confederation, because they ran a different from us both in their ministry
and civil administration ; for they had lately made Acomenticus
(Dover) a poor village a corporation, and had made a taylor
their mayor, and had entertained one Hull, an excommunicated person
and very contentious, their minister."
Mr. Hull after his settlement returned to Barnstable, where as
above stated he was again received into fellowship, and no proceedings
were had against him on the warrant which had been issued for
his arrest.
His daughter Joanna had in 1639 married Mr. John Bursley
who traded with the Eastern Indians at Dover and in that vicinity.
On his return Mr. Hull removed bis family, and thereafter did not
reside in the Plymouth Colony.
Precisely how long he remained at Dover I am unable to state.
Governor Winthrop speaks of him as the minister at Dover in the
beginning of the year 1646, and names circumstances not creditable
to a son of Mr. Hull. Cotton Mather, in his Magnalia Book VII,
describing the perils of the "Widow Elizabeth Heard at the famous
assault of the Indians on Cocheco, in 1689, calls her "a daughter of
Mr. Hull, a reverend minister."
Bishop, in his New England Judged, part 1, page 386, in his
relation of the persecutions of the Quakers at Dover and that vicinity
previous to 1660, speaks of Mr. Hull as being then the minister
at Dover or Oyster River. He does not clearly state at which place
he was settled, but that the two places were not distant. He says
Mary Tompkins and Alice Ambrose on the Sabbath attended Mr.
Hull's place of worship, and both standing up "before the old man