Rev. Joseph HULL ⁴⁸¹²

  General Notes:

Joseph Hull, born in Somerset, England, about 1594, became a prominent, controversial minister in New England. After graduating from Oxford at the age of nineteen and becoming ordained by the Anglican Church, he married and sired seven children before burying his first wife and marrying Agnes Coffin [incorrect], by whom he had at least seven more.
In April 1635, soon after his second marriage, he emigrated to Boston with his bride, seven children, three servants and flock of sixteen accompanying families (more than one hundred people), who became known as 'Hull's Colony'. In Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine he was regarded as an Episcopalian with moderate Puritan views, though he tangled with the Puritans as well. He was for a time excommunicated.
In 1652, leaving his family behind, he returned to England for a decade, where he preached comfortably under the Cromwell regime until he was ejected for Puritan leanings upon the Restoration of the monarchy. He resumed his ministry in New Hampshire but died there three years later, leaving Agnes 'his books'. Several of his children became Quakers. A daughter was tragically disgraced as an unwed mother.



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Joseph married Agnes on 20 Mar 1634. (Agnes was born in 1610 in , , , England and died in 1665 in , , New Hampshire, USA.)