Person:Rebecca Baldwin (14)

The wife of this Eliphalet Hull is the one who died the 2 Sep 1778, noted as the wife of Eliphalet Hull, aged 31 years (Source: Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934; and Hale Cemetery Inscriptions, Newtown, Village and Town Plot Cemeteries, pg. 50, buried between the Beers family and the Botsford family).

Rebeckah Baldwin and her brother, Abel, children of James Baldwin, Jr., [and Lydia, maiden name unknown], were both baptized at Newtown on 5 Nov 1749. (Barbour Collection)

Rebekah Baldwin Hull, wife of Eliphalet Hull, is listed in the estate of her father, James Baldwin, on 13th January 1775, with her mother, Lydia, widow, and her brother, eldest and only son, Abel Baldwin. It was an agreement for the division of the real estate between the heirs, attested to in Newtown in front of a Justice of the Peace and filed in a Probate Court in the district of Danbury. Their signatures are on the document, and she spelled her name as Rebekah. Newtown records consistently spell it as Rebeckah.

Rebekah Baldwin Hull's tombstone is a loving tribute to her from her husband, Eliphalet. It includes a beautiful gravestone inscription that states:

     In Memory of Mrs. Rebekah the Loving and Defirable Wife 
     of Mr. Eliphalet Hull.  She Departed this life 
     September Ye 2d AD 1778 in the 31st Year of her age 
     Leaving Six Small Children Behind her.

Eliphalet Hull and Rebecca Baldwin had their 6th child (6 daughters) on 17 Aug 1778 (Barbour Collection, Newtown Vital Records, pg. 110). All six daughters were baptized in the Newtown 1st Congregational Church.

Their youngest child, Baby Rebeckah, was cared for by a young mother who had recently lost an infant child, as noted in "The Foote family: The descendants of Nathaniel Foote," by Nathaniel Goodwin, published in 1849 in the family of George Foote and Charity Stillson. "Child, not named, born 1778. Died in infancy, when Mrs. Foote adopted an orphan child, Rebecca Hull, who was born in Newtown, (Conn.,) August 17, 1778. and, to the close of her own life, as kindly cared for her as for her own children. She was married to Beach Stevens, March 29, 1801. He was born April 10, 1779, and died at Harpersfield, (N. Y.,) June 5, 1812. They had 6 children."

Eliphalet Hull (d. 28 May 1800) is listed in Hale Cemetery Inscriptions between his daughter, Lydia Hull Northrup (d. 9 Jan 1860) and her first husband, Alanson Northrup who died 18 Apr 1812. The estate of Eliphalet Hull was administered by Alanson Northrop and Samuel Agur Judson, appointed 10 Jun 1800, with bond set at "two thousand dollars." The heirs to his estate as recorded at the Danbury District Probate Court in 1800 and 1801, are five (5) daughters. No mention is made of a widow living or of a widow's dowry.

Which Rebekah Hull Died in 1778 or Which Rebecca Hull Died in 1813/1814?

Robert E. Hull erroneously states in Ancestors and Descendants of George Hull that Eliphalet's wife, Rebecca Hull died 25 May 1814 at Newtown, and cites the Barbour Collection. There truly is a listing for Rebecca Hull in Barbour's Collection with a death date of 25 May 1814, but there is no reference to her husband's name, and no listing in Hale Cemetery Inscriptions for a Rebecca Hull with a death date of May 25, 1814. I suspect this date is a transcription error:

HULL, Rebecca, wid., d. May 25, 1814, Vol. 2, pg. 159

HOWEVER, in the Hale Cemetery Inscriptions, there is a listing for Rebecca Hull, d. May 25, 1813, age 78 years, buried next to Elijah Hull (who died March 14, 1811, age 78 yrs). There is NO entry in the Barbour Collection for a Rebecca HULL with a death date of May 25, 1814 that I can find. This Elijah Hull was a brother to Eliphalet Hull. Elijah Hall married Rebecca Sommers on 31 Jan 1760 at Newtown, Fairfield County, CT.

--RWMeyer 17:33, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

1.   Hull, Robert E. (Robert Edwin). The ancestors and descendants of George Hull (ca. 1590-1659) and Thamzen Michell of Crewkerne, Somerset, England, Dorchester, Massachusetts, Windsor and Fairfield, Connecticut. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Gateway Press, 1994)
   160.

   Eliphalet Hull...married 30 October 1765 {Barbour Collection}, Rebecca Baldwin, daughter of James Baldwin {HFA} and Lydia -- of Newtown. Eliphalet Hull and wife were admitted to the church in 1766 {Parish Records}, 1st Congregational Church, Newtown. Eliphalet died, 28 May [1800] {Barbour Collection}, at Newtown. Rebecca Hull, widow, died 25 May 1814 {Barbour Collection} at Newtown.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Find A Grave.

   Rebecca Baldwin Hull

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
   pg. 50, Newtown, Village & Town Plot Cemeteries.

   Hull, Rebekah, wife of Eliphalet, died Sept 2, 1778, aged 31 yrs.

4. ↑ Goodwin, Nathaniel. The Foote family, or, The descendants of Nathaniel Foote, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Conn: with genealogical notes of Pasco Foote, who settled in Salem, Mass., and John Foote and others of the name, who settled more recently in New York. (Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1849)
   pg. 148.

   Child, not named, born 1778. Died in infancy, when Mrs. Foote adopted an orphan child, Rebecca Hull, who was born in Newtown, (Conn.,) August 17, 1778. and, to the close of her own life, as kindly cared for her as for her own children. She was married to Beach Stevens, March 29, 1801. He was born April 10, 1779, and died at Harpersfield, (N. Y.,) June 5, 1812. They had 6 children.