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About Jireh Bull
Bull, Jireh, 1638 - 1684
Jireh Bull was son of Rhode Island Governor Henry Bull. He acquired a tract of five hundred acres of land at Pettaquamscutt (South Kingston) Rhode Island where he became a ship builder and a Quaker. In 1657 Bull constructed a stone block house which was used as an Indian trading house, meeting house, and garrison. He was appointed a commissioner to the Indians in 1669, served as the town’s commissioner of peace (1669, 1670, 1678, and 1683) and promoted to lieutenant of the local militia. His garrison house burned by the Indians in 1675, Bull temporarily removed to Newport, where he served on a court-martial to try Indians in August 1676. After the war, he returned to Pettaquamscutt where five hundred acres were laid out to him in 1679. Tunis Garret Bergen, Genealogies of the State of New York, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), 494-495.
Born: September 1638
Died: 1684
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https://yipp.yale.edu/bio/bibliography/bull-jireh-1638-1684
The Jireh Bull Blockhouse (RI-926, also known as the Jireh Bull Garrison House or Jireh Bull Block House) is an historic archaeological site on Middlebridge Road in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. In 1657 a blockhouse was built on the site by Jireh Bull, son of Rhode Island Governor Henry Bull. The stone garrison house was burned by the Native Americans in King Philip's War on December 15, 1675, and fifteen of its defenders were massacred. The site was acquired by the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1925.
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Jireh Bull's Timeline
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September 1638
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Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
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| 1659 |
September 26, 1659
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North Kingstown, Washington Co., RI
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September 26, 1659
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Portsmouth, Rhode Island
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1669
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Kingston, Rhode Island
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1684
Age 45
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Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
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