Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

28 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
diflScult in some cases to discriminate between his and Mr. Benjamin
Hull's children.
His daughter Naomi was baptized in Barnstable, 22 March,
1640, and Ruth 9th of May 1641. Beside these he had other children.
His daughter Joanna, born in England, married 28 Nov.
1639, Mr. John Bursley, and afterwards Dolar Davis. Elizabeth,
who married John Heard, of whom Mather gives so full an account
of her escape from the Indians in 1689, I am confident was his, not
Benjamin Hull's daughter, as stated by Mr. Savage. She was the
mother of eleven children, among which the names of Joseph and
Tristram occur. He had a son to whom reference has already been
made. Josias, of Windsor, Conn., tradition says, was his son.
Reuben, of Portsmouth, was probably another son. He had a large
family, and it is of no profit to guess at their names. Tristram, of
Yarmouth and Barnstable, I feel confident was the son of Rev.
Joseph, though there is no record by which to establish the fact.
Tristram Hull, probably a son of Rev. Joseph Hull, went to
Yarmouth with his father in 1641, but does not appear to have returned
to Barnstable till 1644, all his children are recorded as born
in Barnstable.
His houselot containing ten acres was bounded northerly by the
meadow, easterly partly by the land of Barnabas Lothrop and partly
by William Casely, southerly by the highway, and westerly by the
land of Mr. Thomas AUyn, formerly Mr. Mayo's. This land is
now owned by Mr. Isaiah Hinckley, and was a part of Dr. Hersey's
farm. He also owned three acres of meadow on the north of his
homelot, and four acres at Sandy Neck, at a creek yet known as
Hull's creek.
Tristram Hull was a prominent man in Barnstable. He was of
the board of Selectmen, and held other offices of trust. His wife
was named Blanch, and is frequently named on the records as a
woman whose reputation was not creditable to herself, her family or
her friends. In 1656 she married for her second husband Capt.
William Hedge of Yarmouth, but the change in her residence did not
improve her manners. Capt. Hedge cut her off with a shilling in
his will, full eleven pence more than she deserved.*
Children of Tristram Hull born in Barnstable :
I. Mary,' Sept., 1645.
II. Sarah, March, .
III. Joseph, June, 1652.
IV. John, March, 1654.
V. Hannah, Feb., 1656.
*A question may arise whether it is right to publish such passages as this. Some
squeamish persons object. I think it not only clearly light ; but unjust to suppress them.
Is it r^ht that the reputations of such persons as Martha Foxwell, Capt. John Gorham, and
Capt. William Hedge, should suffer because they \maToidably came in contact with a bad
woman? I think not. BUstory is of no value when the exact truth is suppressed. No line
of distinction can be drawn between not telling; the whole truth and the wilful misstatement
of facts.