When Ensign Stephen Burr Hull was born on 25 July 1724, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathaniel Hull Sr, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Burr, was 28. He married Hannah Elizabeth Wakeman in May 1746. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1803, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 79.