Benjamin Hull, Sr: Robin's Roots

1639 - 1713 (74 years)

TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

Less detail

Generation: 1

Benjamin Hull, Sr was born on 24 Mar 1638/39 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA (son of Rev Joseph Hull and Agnes Hunt); died in Nov 1713 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Hull Family Burial Ground, Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Occupation: Innkeeper.
Residence: 1669, Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
Possessions: 28 Apr 1676, Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; Obtained a patent for 120 acres and meadow in Piscataway
Possessions: 1677, Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; Acquisition of two tracts of land
Civil: 2 Sep 1678, Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; Licensed to keep "an ordinary" at New Piscataway.
Civil: 1683, Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Residence: 1683, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA

Notes:

Birth:
Christening, in Hingham. Born in Barnstable

Possessions:
He obtained a patent for 148 acres in Piscataway on March 27, 1677, and later that same year, he purchased a 70 acre lot fronting on the Raritan River in Piscataway.

Civil:
Purchased a large tract adjacent to Piscataway from the Indan "Cowanken" on behalf of the "proprietors" of Piscataway. Part of the tract became part of the town of Plainfield.

Buried:
GRid=203591670 ; Good biographical information. I'm not sure that the cemetery identification is documented.

Benjamin married Rachel York in 1668 in Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA. Rachel (daughter of Richard York) was born in 1641 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA; died in UNKNOWN in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

Benjamin Hull, Jr was born on 14 Apr 1680 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; died in 1732 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.

Generation: 2

Rev Joseph Hull (son of Thomas Hull and Joane Pysing); died on 19 Nov 1665 in Appledore Island, Isles of Shoals, York County, Maine, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1612, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Education: 1614, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; Graduated from Oxford
Arrival: 1635, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; His party of 20 families left Weymouth, Dorset, England on the Marygould on 20 Mar 1634/5. May not have landed in Weymouth, but settled there immediately.
Residence: 15 May 1639, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; "Mr Hull gave his farewell sermon"
Residence: 1643, York County, Maine, USA
Residence: 1645, England; Returned to England after having trouble with the church authorities in New England.
Residence: 1662, Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA; Accepted a ministerial post after being forced to leave England again
Residence: 1666, Isles of Shoals, York, Maine, USA; His final congregation, and probably a move he undertook on his own (without being fired).

Notes:

Joseph Hull was a distinctly outspoken and controversial minister of the Church of England who was fired from at least six congregations. He began preaching in Colyton, Devonshire, but was expelled in about 1635. At that point, he and some loyal members of his congregation came to Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. But he turned out to be too liberal for his congregation, and sent him packing to a church in Hingham, where and got involved in politics. But he was sufficiently critical of Governor John Winthrop that Winthrop expelled him from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He moved next door to a congregation in Barnstable, in Plymouth Colony, but only lasted a couple of years there. His next congregation was in Yarmouth, and then out of Plymouth Colony altogether to what now York, Maine. When he was replaced there, he went back to England. After a decade in England, he was sent packing again, and returned to America, in Durham, New Hampshire. He finally formed a new (and very small) congregation on the Isles of Shoals, about five miles off the coast on the border between New Hampshire Maine border. This last move was probably his own choice!
See his Wikipedia article

Birth:
Baptism

Joseph married Agnes Hunt on 13 Mar 1633 in Wells, St Cuthbert, Somerset, England. Agnes was born in 1610 in Somerset, England; died after 1666 in York County, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes Hunt was born in 1610 in Somerset, England; died after 1666 in York County, Maine, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1635, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; On the Marygould, which departed Weymouth, Dorset, England on 20 March 1634/5

Notes:

Died:
GRid=163786423; Brief bio with husband & children; notes that her family name has only recently come to light, and attempts to debunk the name "Joanne Coffin" of Joseph Hull's first wife

Children:

Hopewell Hull was born in 1636 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; died in Mar 1693 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.
1. Benjamin Hull, Sr was born on 24 Mar 1638/39 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA; died in Nov 1713 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Hull Family Burial Ground, Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.
Naomi Hull was born on 22 Mar 1640 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA; died on 4 Jul 1682 in Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA.
Ruth Hull was born in 1642; died in 1647.
Reuben Hull was born in 1644 in York, York County, Maine, USA; died on 3 Dec 1689 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA.
Dodivah Hull was born in 1646 in Massachusetts, USA.
Phineas Hull was born in 1648 in Massachusetts, USA; died in 1693 in York County, Maine, USA.
Samuel Hull was born in 1649 in York County, Maine, USA; died in 1743 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.
Priscilla Hull was born in 1650 in Cornwall, England.
Ephriam Hull was born on 13 Feb 1649/50 in Launceston, Cornwall, England.

Generation: 3

Thomas Hull was born in 1547 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died on 29 Dec 1636 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; was buried in St Bartholomew Churchyard, Crewkerne, Somerset, England.

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=67567015; no photo

Thomas married Joane Pysing on 11 Jan 1572 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. Joane was born in 1551 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died on 30 Nov 1629 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; was buried in St Bartholomew Churchyard, Crewkerne, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joane Pysing was born in 1551 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died on 30 Nov 1629 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; was buried in St Bartholomew Churchyard, Crewkerne, Somerset, England.

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=110323093; no photo

Children:

2. Rev Joseph Hull died on 19 Nov 1665 in Appledore Island, Isles of Shoals, York County, Maine, USA.
Robert Hull was born in 1584 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died in 1654 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England.


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