George Hull (1590-1659) and his family emigrated in 1630 from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts, moving in 1636 to Windsor, Connecticut. Joseph Hull (1596-1665), his brother, emigrated in 1635 and died at York, Maine. Richard Hull (1599-1662), not a relative, immigrated before 1636 to Massachusetts, moving to New Haven, Connecticut in 1639. Descendants of these three immigrants lived mainly in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Tennessee and California.

Excerpt from A Record of the Descendants of Richard Hull of New Haven Conn: Containing the Names of Over One Hundred and Thirty Families and Six Hundred and Fifty-Four Descendants and Extending Over a Period of Two Hundred and Sixty Years in America Among the early New England colonists there were five persons by the name of Hull, or Hulls, as it was then spelled, who are supposed to be brothers, and came from Derbyshire, England. Their names were John, George, Richard, Joseph and Robert. John Hulls was made freeman by the General Court of Mass. in 1632; was Captain of the Artillery Co.; died in 1670. George Hulls, of Dorchester, Mass., was freeman in 1633: was representative to the Gen'l Assembly; moved to Connecticut and was Ass't Governor of that State in 1637. Richard Hulls was made a freeman in 1634; sold his house in Roxbury to Philip Sherman, in 1637; moved to New Haven, Conn., in 1639. Joseph Hulls of Hing-ham, was freeman in 1638; representative to Gen'l Assembly of Mass., in 1638-39. The town of Hull, Mass., is said to have been named after him. Robert Hulls, of Boston, was freeman in 1637; he died in 1666; his son John, was freeman in 1649; he was a goldsmith and a highly respected citizen of Boston; his children all died except Hannah, who married Judge Samuel Sewall, Chief Justice of the Province, in 1676. He (John) became Treasurer and master of the Mint, in 1652; he died in 1683, leaving a large estate; when Hannah was married, her father put her on the scales and balanced her weight with silver coin, for her dowry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.