Re: Samuel E. Hull b. CT. 1813
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Samuel E. Hull b. CT. 1813
pat lagerquist 10/25/00
Pat,
I'm descended from Samuel E. Hull and Abi Adams and have been researching them for several years (since the 1970s). A bit of luck came when I discovered one of Samuel's grandsons living in the home of a distant cousin, and by doing so discovered the link to the Hulls of colonial New England. Samuel was a brother of John Pennfield Hull, who settled in Branch County, MI, at about the same time Samuel settled in Wisconsin.Here's what I have on Samuel:
Samuel E. Hull [Elijah, Isaac, Eliakim, Thomas, Thomas, Josias, George, Thomas, Richard] b. August 25, 1813, New Britain, Hartford County, Connecticut, a child of Elijah Hull and Lucy Pennfield; m. Abi A. Adams, March 7, 1837; d. December 9, 1878, Onekama, Manistee Co., MI.
Samuel's middle name was listed as Eson by family tradition and as Elijah by two land records in Wisconsin.
Samuel was born August 25, 1813, in Hartford County, Connecticut, into a family long established in the New England colony. His ancestry can be traced to George Hull, magistrate and statesman of Crewkerne, England, who set sail for Connecticut around 1631 and, according to Weygant, because the founder of a large portion of the Hull family in America. No doubt, the prominence of the Hull family was significant in Samuel’s early childhood.
His father Elijah Hull died between 1816 and 1820, leaving his motherin charge of the family. Samuel was still only a young lad and likely grew up without much of a recollection of his father. Lucy Pennfield Hull, Samuel’s mother, kept the younger children together. While the older children eventually married and moved away, Lucy remained in Hartford County, Connecticut, for awhile. But in her later years, she finally joined her son, John Pennfield Hull, in Sherman, NY (by 1850).
Samuel’s whereabouts are unknown between the time of his birth and the birth of his son in Wisconsin in 1838. In fact, pinpointing him is still difficult until he showed up in the 1860 federal census of Manitowac, Wisconsin. From the births of his children, we know that he was in the Territory of Wisconsin in 1838, 1840, and 1843; in Illinois in 1845; in the State of Wisconsin in 1848; in Michigan in 1850; and finally in Wisconsin in 1853, 1857, and 1862. It is possible he was a soldier in the Black Hawk War (1832) and later helped police the newly-created Territory of Wisconsin (1836). His potential involvement in the military may help explain why he moved around so much between 1838 and 1853.
According to the Bureau of Land Management, on March 3, 1843, Samuel Elijah Hull and his brother-in-law, Dean S. Adams, secured land patents for land in Waukesha County, Wisconsin . In October that year, Samuel’s son Dean was born. September 10, 1844, Samuel bought forty more acres in another part of the county , though he did not remain there for long. In fact, both land records claimed he resided in Milwaukee. Abi was already pregnant with their son, George, who would be born in Illinois in 1845.
The Hulls returned to Wisconsin by 1848, though, when Julius was born. Between 1848 and 1851, Samuel purchased land in the region .
Samuel‘s Wife
Abi A. Adams was born December 15, 1819, in Hennicker, NH, a daughter of George Adams and Olive Alexander.
A railroad was opened in 1851 that connected Waukesha and Milwaukee. Within six years (1857), the railroad cut clear across the state to Prairie du Chien on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The 1860 federal census of Manitowac, Wisconsin, shows Samuel "D" Hull (sic) at the age of 45, b. CT, with his wife Abi, age 40, b. NH. Also in the home were George A. (14, b. IL), Julius (12, b. WI), Demeret A. (9, b. MI), Emma (7, b. WI), and Abby (2, b. WI). Samuel was a farmer. Nearby was the home of their daughter, Agnes, and her husband, Sylvester Cole. Oscar was working in the home of Pliny Peirce in Manitowac Rapids.
The War Between the States broke out in 1861 and several of their sons joined the Union Army at Manitowac, WI.
The 1870 federal census shows Samuel and "Abie" were living in the town of Manitowac with their daughters, Demerett (19), Emma (17), Abbie (12), and Adie (8). Samuel was a farmer with an estate valued at $2000. His personal estate was worth $1500. Next to them in the census was the home of Justice and Martha Ramsdale of Vermont, whose home included two other families: Hattie Kurrigey and George Hull (63, b. CT). George Hull, Samuel's older brother, was working as a laborer. Samuel and Abi's children, Demerett and Emma both were born in Michigan.
There is no indication of why he moved to Michigan. It may have had something to do with the grasshopper swarms that destroyed crops in the Great Plains and Midwest in the summer of 1874. Perhaps it had something to do with the Granger Laws that gave the state of Wisconsin the right to regulate railroad freight rates (though that was more of a benefit to farmers than a curse). Three of Samuel's sons had made the trek around 1865 and settled in Onekama, Michigan. Perhaps he simply wanted to live closer to his family. His son, Oscar, specifically may have needed attention because of tuberculosis. Nevertheless, on April 6, 1874, Samuel moved with his family from Manitowac, Wisconsin, across Lake Michigan. He bought the W/2 SE/4 of Section 11 of T23N-R16W in Manistee County, Michigan, from his son, Dean A. Hull, for $800.The same day, he bought from Henry M. Wilson an adjoining 12-acre parcel in the SE/4 SW/4 for $72.
The May after Samuel's move, Samuel's son, Oscar, died, followed by Oscar's wife, Sarah in 1876. Both had died of "consumption," or tuberculosis. Oscar's children then came to live with Samuel. It was perhaps this connection to Oscar and his family that led to Samuel's death. In 1877, Samuel purchased land from James Hull in Section 11; but the disease was already spreading through Samuel's body. Samuel died on December 9, 1878 after a bout with a congestive chill (a sympton of TB) and was buried in the Bertelsen Cemetary, Manistee County, Michigan, just east of Onekema. It is possible also that Samuel had had a mild form of tuberculosis for several years and had brought the disease to his son's home in 1874 -- thus spreading it to his son and daughter-in-law.
Samuel's land was claimed by his heirs and sold on June 22, 1880, to his son Julius Hull for the sum of $800.All those living on the land at that time, according to the 1880 federal census, were Abi (60), children Julius (31), Emma (27), and Adda (13), and grandchildren William (12) and Ruth (5). Next to the Hull home in Onekama was the home of widow Catherine Hilliard, which included a boarder, Henry Cole (21), who was born in Wisconsin (his mother was born in Wisconsin also). This may have been a son of Francena Agnes (Hull) Cole.
Abi died January 18, 1883 in Onekama and was buried next to her husband east of Onekema.Years later, a monument was erected to them at the family plot in the Conway Cemetary in Arcadia.
Children:
Oscar Wallace Hull, b. May 16, 1838, Wisconsin; m. Sarah Ann Garnet, August 6, 1864; d. May 6, 1875
Francena Agnes Hull, b. March 14, 1840, Wisconsin; m. Sylvester Cole
Dean Alexander Hull, b. October 26, 1843, Wisconsin; m. (1) Mary Boss, 1866; (2) Mathilda Anderson, June 25, 1883; d. January 22, 1927, Arcadia, MI
George A(dams?) Hull, b. January 12, 1845, Illinois; d. July 26 ____
Julius H. Hull, b. July 15, 1848, Wisconsin; m. Alice A. Smith, around 1886; d. December 22, 1894, Onekama, MI
Demette Hull, b. August 31, 1850, Michigan
Emma J. Hull, b. February 26, 1853, Wisconsin; d. May 30, 1890
Abbie Demonst Hull, b. September 21, 1857, Wisconsin; m. Oliver Anderson Rounds, 1878, Manistee Co., MI
Addie Hull, b. around 1862, Wisconsin
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Re: Samuel E. Hull b. CT. 1813
pat lagerquist 4/17/03