Hopewell Hull

Abt 1636 - 1693  (~ 57 years)

• Name	Hopewell Hull  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1636  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 26 Mar 1693 and 8 May 1693	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I39272	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Rev. Joseph Hull,   b. 24 Apr 1596   d. 19 Nov 1665, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Agnes   d. Aft 5 Dec 1666
  Marriage	Bef 1635  [3]
  Family ID	F23107	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Martin   d. Aft 13 Jul 1693
  Marriage	Bef 1669  [3]
  Divorce	29 Dec 1669  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Hull,   b. 10 Aug 1670, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey d. 2 Feb 1757, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F23057	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2023

  
  

• Notes

  From Volume XXI of the archives of New Jersey (citation details below), page lxxix: [Presumably the Governor in question, in 1669, was Sir George Carteret, co-proprietor (with his fellow royalist John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton) of New Jersey. --PNH] As the Governor's jurisdiction in licensing marriages was recognized by the foregoing statute, so, conversely, he was admitted to have power in granting divorces, as appears by this instrument, in 1669: "These are to Give Notice to all persons Whome It may Concerne that Whereas I am Informed that Hopewell Hull hath VnLawfully taken to Wife the Daughter of John Martin of Woodbridge, Without Observing the Lawes and Customes of England Or these parts of America, I the Governor of this province doe declare that the Mariage & that all others that are or shall be Comitted In the same Manner to be null Void and of none Effect, And they that doe Live In that VnLawfull Estate of Matrimony May be Prosecuted as such as doe Live In the Estate of fornication, And that the Children begotten by them are to be accompted Bastards and not Capable of Inheritance. Given vndr my hand and Seale the 29th day of Decembr 1669." A footnote on the same page reads: "It is probable that Hull remarried his wife, Mary Martin, with all due ceremony, for John Martin, in his will, March 17. 1687-8, names his 'son' Hopewell Hull as one of the overseers and assistants of his executrix."

  
  

• Sources

  [S6991] Bonham and Related Family Lines by Howard E. Bonham. 1996. [S3212] Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Volume XXII: Marriage Records, 1665-1800 by William Nelson. Paterson, New Jersey: Press Printing and Publishing Company, 1900. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S3741] New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, on ancestry.com. [S7040] Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, volume XXI, ed. William Nelson. Paterson, New Jersey: The Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1899.