Captain Joseph Hull

Brief Life History of Joseph

When Captain Joseph Hull was born on 28 May 1694, in Paugasset, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Dr. Joseph Hull Sr. Esq., was 26 and his mother, Mary Nichols, was 30. He married Sarah Bennett in 1725. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 12 June 1778, in his hometown, at the age of 84, and was buried in Paugasset, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

Captain Joseph Hull
1694–1778
Sarah Bennett
1705–1739
Marriage: 1725
Benjamin Hull
1726–1782
Sarah Hull
1726–1808
Sarah Bassett
1726–1823
Joseph Hull
1728–1775
Elizabeth Hull
1731–1738
Anna Hull
1736–1776

Sources (16)

  • Joseph Hull, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Joseph Hull, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
  • Joseph in entry for Sarah Hull, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Hulle, a pet form of Hugh or of its common diminutives Hulin, Hulot (see Hewlett and Huling ).

English: in southwest England and the west and central Midlands sometimes a topographical or habitational name for someone who lived on or by a hill (Middle English atte hulle, from Old English hyll), or from a place with this name. However, this word and the derived names will have usually assumed the standard form Hill in modern times, as in the case of Hill (Gloucestershire), which was usually spelt Hull or Hulle during the Middle Ages. Hull with this origin was also once the name of two other places, now lost, one in Great Budworth (Cheshire), and the other in Inkpen (Berkshire). See also Hell .

English: perhaps a habitational name from Kingston upon Hull in East Yorkshire, which takes its name from the river Hull (perhaps related to Danish hul ‘hole, hollow’, or perhaps a British name based on the root seul- ‘mud’).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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