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Persoonlijke gegevens Stephen Bull 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1635 in Kinghurst Hall, Warwickshire, England.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1706 in Ashley Hall, Charleston, South Carolina, hij was toen 71 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Josias Bull

Gezin van Stephen Bull

Kind(eren):

1. William Bull  1683-1755 
2. Burnaby Bull  1689-1754 
3. John Bull  1693-1767 
4. Catherine Bull  1699-1734

Notities over Stephen Bull

Eldest son of Josias Bull of Kinghurst Hall, County Warwick. Born 1635, baptized Nov 30, 1635. A surveyor and attorney at law, Stephen Bull was the personal representative of Lord Ashley, sailed on ship Carolina from England Aug 10, 1669. In the laying out of Charles Towne, "Stephen Bull (afterwards Surveyor General) took and active part. Stephen Bull was next to West and Woodward, the most important of all the emigrants who came with Governor Sayle. He came bringing many servants and at once took up a large bldy of land on Ashley River and named it 'Ashley Hall'. He was Lord Ashley's deputy, a member of Council, master of Ordinance, and held a dozen other important offices. Of most consequence to the colony was, the fact that as an explorer among the Indians he became so friendly with them that they chose him for their Cassique, and he thus was enabled to make an advantageous treaty with them in 1696. A small one-story brick house built by him at Ashley Hall is still standing - the oldest on the river."(Ravenel). He obtained large grants of land on the Ashley and at St. Helena. The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly records in 1702 he was on the Committee to consider how to take St. Augustine and commanded 50 men on the expedition under Gov. James Moore. He received a tie vote in 1700 for Speaker of the House, but Job Howe was chosen. His wife was Unknown. He died about 1706 and was buried on his Ashley Hall Plantation, in an unmarked grave, all trace of which has been lost. The will was written 1701, but has been lost.

Ashley Hall along with lots 276 and 277 at Meeting and Ladson and 17 on East Bay, and other property was left to his oldest son, William, who became successively a member of the Commons House, Captain in the Tuscarora and Yemasee Wars, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Deputy for the Lords Proprietors and member of the last Grand Council of the Province; he was Lt. Gov. 1738, and governed the province until 1744. Ashley Hall next passed to his son, William, Jr., born there 1710. He was educated in England, and graduated in medicine at Leyden, Holland 1734, the first native American to graduate in medicine. Among many public offices, he served as the final Royal Lt. Gov., holding that post on five different occasions between 1759 and 1775. His career ended with the overthrow of royal government and he went into voluntary exile when the British evacuated Charles Town in 1782. He left his Ashley Hall Plantation to his nephew William Bull. At that time it consisted of ca.ll80 A. It subsequently passed to William's son William Stephen, and his son William Izard, the last owner in the Bull family. The house stood until the winter of 1865, when the Federal troops were advancing on Charleston, plundering and ravaging civilian property as the came. Receiving word of their approach, William Izard set fire to the house and burned it to the ground with all its contents to prevent its destruction by the Yankees. In 1871 the property was sold for taxes during Reconstruction.
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