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Captain Thomas Bull
b.Cal 1610
d.Bet 20 Apr 1684 and 24 Oct 1684
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Captain Thomas Bull |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Cal 1610 |
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| Marriage |
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to Susanna _____ |
| Emigration[1] |
1635 |
On the Hopewell. |
| Residence[1] |
1635 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[1] |
1636 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Will[1][2] |
19 Apr 1684 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Occupation[1] |
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Soldier |
| Death[1] |
Bet 20 Apr 1684 and 24 Oct 1684 |
Between date of will and date of inventory. |
| Burial[3] |
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Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Estate Inventory[2] |
24 Oct 1684 |
£1132-11-10 |
| Probate[1] |
25 Nov 1684 |
Will proved. |
Capt. Thomas Bull, born ab. 1605, according to his testimony, April, 1681, that he was then aged ab. 75; be was first at Boston or Cambridge; accompanied Hooker to Hartford in 1636 ; served in the Pequot War, 1637. He became familiar with the Indian habits and language, and was therefore peculiarly useful to the early settlers. He was an original proprietor, and in 1640 his homelot was on the south side of the road from George Steele's to the South Meadow, his lot being bounded N. by that road, E by Richard Lyman's land, S. by Stephen Post. W. by Philip Davis, or Ward's lot. He was master of a vessel at Curacoa 1647-8; juror, Hfd., 1648-9; Winthrop calls him "a godly and discreet man." He received, with others, grants of land from the General Court, at Nihantecutt, in 1650, and in March, 1651-2, the Court granted to him, and the rest of the five soldiers of Capt. Mason, 200 acres of upland, which lay northward, and adjoining to the remainder of the land before laid out to them. He was appointed Lieut. of a company raised in 1653, by order of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, to fight the Dutch. In May, 1662, he was appointed one of the Grand Jurors of the colony ; chosen List and Rate Maker, 1668; Townsman, 1663. He was in command of the fort at Saybrook, when Sir Edmund Andrus attempted to gain the place for his master, the Duke of York, in 1675. The bravery and wisdom which he displayed in his resistance to Andres greatly endeared Capt. Bull to the people of the colony as a gallant and intrepid officer. He and his wife, Susanna, were original members of the South Church, Feb. 12, 1670. His wife d. 1680, aged 70. He d. 1684; will dated April 19; inv. Oct. 24, £1,248. 11. [2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Thomas Bull, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
1:469-76.
ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Hopewell.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Based on the two surviving baptismal records for their sons, either Thomas Bull or his wife had been admitted to Hartford church by 1649.
FREEMAN: "Lt. Tho[mas] Bull" appears in the October 1669 "list of freemen on the south side of Hartford" [CCCR 2:518].
BIRTH: About 1610 (aged 25 in 1635 [Hotten 130]).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
1:281-83.
"Probate Records. Vol. IV, 1677 to 1687. Page 196-7.
Bull, Capt. Thomas, Hartford. Invt. £972-06-00 in Hartford. Taken 24 October, 1684, by Joseph Whiting, Nathaniel Stanly and Stephen Hosmer. £276-05-00 in Saybrook, and £76-00-00 in Joshua's gift of Land. Total, £1322-11-10. Taken 29 February, 1700.. Will dated 19 April, 1684.
I Thomas Bull of Hartford, being weake in body Butt in good measure of health and memory, doe make this my last Will and testament: Impr. My will is that all my Just Debts be payd to whom I am Indebted.
It. I give unto my son Thomas Bull of ffarmington That lott att ffower-mile Hill in Hartford Bounds, yt about one Hundred Acres; also I give my sayd son ffifteen pounds of my personal Estate and Two Cows.
Itt. I give unto my son David Bull of Saybrook all That I bought of good Wife Towsland in houseing and Land in Saybrook; And I give unto my said son David £20 out of my personal Estate, and also two of my best Coats for his use.
Itt. I give unto my daughter Ruth Boardman of Cambridge £10, to be paid in 18 Months after my decease.
Itt. I give unto my Daughter Bunts in Hartford £10, to be paid in 18 months after my decease.
Itt. I give unto my Grand Childe Susannah Bunts £5.
Itt. I give unto my daughter Abigail Bull £90 Besides what she hath Received already, to be paid wthin 18 Months after my Decease, of wch sum I doe Appoint my son Joseph Bull to pay £40 out of the best of my household Goods, and I doe apoynt my son Jonathan Bull to pay £50 out of what he shall receive out of my Real and personal Estate, both wch sums to be payd In 18 months after my Decease.
I give unto my son Jonathan Bull Two Acres of my six Acar Lott In the South Meadow In Hartford, and likewise I give him 3 Acars of Meadow out of that 8 Acars that was Capt. Cullett's, Abutting on Goodman Stocking's Lott by the great River's side; alsoe I give him My Two Acar Lott Lying by the Indian ffort by the great River's side. Alsoe I doe give my sayd son Jonathan 6 Acars of my land that I bought of Mr. Hopkins, Lying next Mr. Hooker's Land; Also I give him 3 Acars of
Meadow at Hockanum that I bought of Mr Robert Webster, and I give him that Acar of Land that is over against My now Dwelling house that I bought of Thomas Whaples, Deceased; also I give him half that Lott yt I bought of Capt. Cullett of 14 Acars, Abutting on the Land of Steeven Hopkins and Land of Eliezer Way of Hartford; also I give him my Lott and House that I bought of William Warren neare the New Meeting hous In Hartford; also I give him my 18 Acar Lott lying at Rocky Hill, Abutting on the Land of Steven Hopkins; also I doe give unto my son Jonathan Bull the one half of my Land at Nahantick, with half the houseing privileges and apertenances; also I doe give unto my son Jonathan half my Land at Cedar Swamp that I Receved of the Country. And if the lord shall pleas to take my son Jonathan out of this Life before he hath A son, then my will is that All the land he hath Received of me, excepting what is Recorded to him before my death, shall Return to my then surviving Children, to be devided equally amongst them.
Itt. I give unto all my Grand children £20, to be divided equally amongst them.
Itt. I give unto Mr. John Whiting £3, and desire him to be Overseer of this my will.
Itt. I give the Rest of my Estate, both Real and personall, unto my son Joseph Bull, whom I doe Appoynt to be sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament. And alsoe that my son Joseph doe lett my Daughter Abigail have the use of the Chamber she now Lodgeth In so long as she shall see caus. In witness of the premisses I have heare unto sett my hand this 20 August, 1684.
THOMAS BULL.
Witness: Eliezer Way, Sarah Way.
A Codicil made about 2 days before the death of Capt. Bull: In consideration that his daughter Bunce had deceased, he gave the £10 devised to her to her daughter Susanna Bunce.
Test: Abigail Bull & Mr. John Whiting, upon oath before John Allyn, Sect. 25 November, 1684."
- ↑ Capt Thomas Bull, in Find A Grave
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