Ancestral Glimpses » Henry Bull (± 1610-1694)

Personal data Henry Bull 

• He was born about 1610 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America.
• He died on January 22, 1694 in Newport County, Rhode Island, British America.
• This information was last updated on March 9, 2015.

Household of Henry Bull

(1) He is married to Elizabeth Eveleth.

They got married about 1636 at Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America.

Child(ren):

1. Amey Bull  ± 1636-????
2. Jireh Bull  1638-1684

(2) He is married to Esther Allen.

They got married about 1666.

(3) He is married to Ann unknown.

They got married on March 28, 1677.

Notes about Henry Bull

Henry Bull - TimeLine

HENRY, b. 1610. Boston, Mass., Newport, R. I. d. 1694, Jan. 22.
m. (1)
ELIZABETH, b. ; d. 1665, Oct. 1.
m. (2) 1666 ±
ESTHER ALLEN, b. 1648, Dec. 8 of Ralph & Esther (Swift) Allen; d. 1676, Mar. 26.
m. (3) 1677, Mar. 28.
ANN EASTON (W. of Nich. Clayton), b. 1628; d. 1708, Jan. 30.

1635, Jul. 17. He sailed in ship James from London, his age being entered
as twenty-five years.
1636. He and his wife Elizabeth joined the church at Roxbury.
1637, May 17. Freeman. The Roxbury church record says of him: "Being weak and affectionate was taken and transported with the opinion of familism." &c.
1637, Nov. 20. He, and others, were warned to deliver up all guns, pistols,
swords, powder, shot, &c, because "the opinions and revelations of Mr.
Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous
error many of the people here in New England."
1638, Mar. 7. Portsmouth. He and eighteen others signed the following
compact. "We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the
presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he
shall help will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, " [quote inexplicably ends here.]

Governor Henry Bull, born in England 1610, died in Newport, R. I., January 22, 1694, was one of the eighteen original proprietors of Aquidneck, who settled Pocasset (later Portsmouth), 1638; joined in the settlement of Newport, 1639, and was Commissioner for Newport to the Court of Commissioners, 1655 to 1657. He was Deputy for Newport eight years, between 1666 and 1690; Governor's Assistant, 1674 and 1675; (Governor of Rhode Island, 1685, 1686, and 1690. The Friends' records make the following mention of his death:
"Henry Bull aged about eighty-four years, he departed this life at his own house in Newport (he being the last man of the first settlers of this Rhode Island), ye 22, 11 mo. 1693-4." He was buried in the Coddington ground.
He joined the church at Roxbury in 1636, with his wife Elizabeth. He married, second, March 28, 1677, Ann, the widow of Governor Nicholas Easton.
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Source: Ancestral Records and Portraits, Volume I, The Colonial Dames of America, New York: The Grafton Press, 1910, pp. 122-123.

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