Robert Hull

Not related to Thomas Hull, the Younger

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hull-770

Robert Hull was born about 1599. He was a blacksmith in in Market Hareborough, Leicestershire, England.[1]

He married widow Elizabeth Storer in Market Hareborough, Leicestershire, England. She was a widow of Paul Storer.[1] They had the following children:

1. John Hull[1]. Married Judith Quincy
2. Edward Hull[1]. Married Elinor Newman

Robert and his family emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635. They departed Bristol, England on the ship George on 28 September and arrived in Boston on 7 November.[1]

After Robert's wife Elizabeth Storer died on 7 May 1646, he married Judith (Pares) Quincy. Judith was the widow of Edmund Quincy and Moses Paine, and also the mother-in-law of Robert's son John.[1]. She died about 29 Mar 1654 in Boston (citation needed).

Robert died 28 July 1666.[1] at Boston.

• 9 Robert Hull, 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)
• 3:460-462.
• ORIGIN: Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
• MIGRATION: 1635 on the George ("my father removed to New England, with whom I came, by way of Bristol, the the ship George, Mr. Nicholas Shapley, master. We set sail from Kingsrode, in Bristol, upon the 28th of September, 1635; and by the 7th of November … we arrived at Boston" [Hull 142]).
• OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [BChR 21]. Chandler [SLR 3:300]. His inventory included "candle tools with scales and weights valued at £2 [SPR 5:9].
• CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On 29 May 1636, "Robert Hull, blacksmith," was admitted to Boston church. On 23 June 1639, "Elizabeth Hull, the wife of our brother Robert Hull," was admitted to Boston church (BChR 24]. On 15 October 1648, "John Hull, the son of our brother Robert Hull," was admitted to Boston church [BChR 50].
• FREEMAN: March 9, 1636/7 [MBCR 1:373]. On 12 February 1666[/7], administration on "the late Mr. Rob[er]t Hull" was granted to "Mr. John Hull his eldest son & now only son. [SPR 5:10].

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References

1. Hughes, Phyllis J. Pankonin."Estate Inventory of John Hull I of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts" Hull Family Association (HFA) Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, Autumn 1996, Page 49. The article describes John's origins in Market Hareborough, Leicestershire, England and his relationship to his brother Robert, nephew John (son of Robert) and wife Margaret Butterfield. https://www.hullfamilyassociation.org/journal.shtml
2. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~silversmiths/genealogy/makers/silver...
3. John Hull was the brother of Robert Hull.[1] They originally lived in Market Hareborough, Leicestershire, England.[1] About 1635 they immigrated to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1]
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hull-770 cites
   1. "The Diaries of John Hull, Mint-master and Treasurer of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay", Archaeologia Americana (American Antiquarian Society, 1857) Vol. 3, Page 109 - 316.
   2. Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. featured name.subscription site
   3. "John Hull, The Coiner of the Pine Tree Shillings", American Journal of Numismatics, and Bulletin of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, January, 1893, Vol. 27, No. 3, Pages 49 - 54.
5. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Hull_%2833%29