Richard Pysing

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Abbotsbury, Dorset, England

Notes:

Also, it is claimed, spelled Peson. In Crewkerne by 1563.

Family/Spouse: Margery. Margery died after 25 Jun 1588. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1553 and 1554
• Alternate birth: Abt 1554

Notes:

Also (supposedly) spelled Peson.

Joan married Thomas Hull on 11 Jan 1573 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. Thomas (son of Richard Hull and Alice) was born about 1550 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died before 29 Dec 1636; was buried on 29 Dec 1636 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1590
• Alternate death: Bef 25 Aug 1659, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

George married Thomasine Mitchell on 27 Aug 1614 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. Thomasine (daughter of Robert Mitchell) died before 1654. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Sarah after 11 Jul 1654. Sarah died before 25 Aug 1659 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 25 Apr 1596, Crewkerne, Somerset, England
• Alternate death: Aft 30 Dec 1666

Notes:

B. A., St. Mary's Hall, Oxford University, 1614. Ordained 1619.

Rector of Northleigh, Devon, 1621-32; curate of Broadway, Somerset, 1633-34.

Emigrated in 1635, with his second wife Agnes and his children Joan, Joseph, Tristram, Elizabeth, Temperance, Grissell, and Dorothy, plus their servants Judith French and John Wood, on the Marygould. First at Weymouth, then Hingham by 1638, Barnstable 1639, Yarmouth 1641, York 1643, Oyster River, then the Isles of Shoals.

He returned to England by 1648 and was back in New England soon after 1662, having been ejected from his parish of St. Buryan, Cornwall.

A good brief bio:

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/hull/joseph.html

And a very well-done three-part article, putting his eventful life into its historical context:

http://ascendingthestairs.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/neither-fish-nor-fowl-rev-joseph-hull-part-i/

http://ascendingthestairs.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/reverend-hull-part-ii-stranger-in-a-strange-land/

http://ascendingthestairs.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/rev-hull-part-3-integrity-comes-with-a-price-1643-1665/

From Wikipedia (accessed 16 May 2021):

The Reverend Joseph Hull [...] led a company of 106 which sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1635 and was known as the Hull Colony.

Hull was born in Crewkerne, Somerset, and graduated from Oxford in 1614. He was ordained in 1619, and served as teacher, curate and minister of Colyton, Devonshire. He became disaffected from the Church of England, and was expelled from the church in 1635.

He led his congregation to what is now Weymouth, Massachusetts. Apparently his "liberal views" led to his dismissal from his parish, and he moved to Hingham, where he served as its representative in the General Court (Massachusetts legislature). He was the political and religious opponent of Gov. John Winthrop, with the "very contentious" Hull apparently siding more with the Anglicans than the Puritan governor. Winthrop eventually expelled Hull from the colony.

Hull moved to the Plymouth Colony, and then to Barnstable. A memorial tablet was dedicated there in 1939 (the 300th anniversary of the town's founding) marking the site of his home there, and the rock from which he preached still stands in the middle of the highway there.

Hull came into disfavor in the Plymouth Colony. He moved to Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and later to Accominticus (present-day York, Maine), becoming minister there. However, a Puritan minister was sent there to replace him, and he returned to England. He remained there for a decade, when he was ejected from the parish. He returned to America, settling at the Isles of Shoals in New Hampshire, where he preached until his death in 1665.

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Rev. Joseph Hull (1596-1665) = (unknown first wife)
Joanna Hull (b. ~1620) = John Bursley (d. 1660)
Deacon Shubael Dimmock (1644-1732) = Joanna Bursley (1643-1727)
Thankful Dimmock (1682-1757) = Edward Waldo (1684-1767)
Zacheus Waldo (1725-1810) = Talitha Kingsbury (1726-1789)
Zacheus Waldo (1756-1834) = Esther Stevens (1758-1825)
Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861) = Deliverance Catherine Mapes (1797-1865)
Howard Waldo (1832-1922) = Isabelle Hoe (1838-1894)
Howart Lovett Waldo (1860-1914) = Clara Waldo Sullivan (1852-1920)
Edward Molineaux Waldo (1884-1964) = Christine Hamilton Dicker (1897-1962)
Theodore Hamilton Waldo (Theodore Sturgeon) (1918-1985)

Rev. Joseph Hull (1596-1665) = (unknown first wife)
Joanna Hull (b. ~1620) = John Bursley (d. 1660)
Deacon Shubael Dimmock (1644-1732) = Joanna Bursley (1643-1727)
Thankful Dimmock (1682-1757) = Edward Waldo (1684-1767)
Zacheus Waldo (1725-1810) = Talitha Kingsbury (1726-1789)
Zacheus Waldo (1756-1834) = Esther Stevens (1758-1825)
Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861) = Deliverance Catherine Mapes (1797-1865)
Clara Waldo (1829-1861) = Charles Sullivan (1823-1902)
Clara Waldo Sullivan (1852-1920) = Howart Lovett Waldo (1860-1914)
Edward Molineaux Waldo (1884-1964) = Christine Hamilton Dicker (1897-1962)
Theodore Hamilton Waldo (Theodore Sturgeon) (1918-1985)

Joseph married (Unknown first wife of the Rev. Joseph Hull) before 1620. (Unknown died before 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Agnes before 1635. Agnes died after 5 Dec 1666. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He served as deputy for Windsor and Killingworth, and was appointed lieutenant of the Killingworth trainband in October 1666.

Josiah married Elizabeth Loomis on 20 May 1641 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White) was born about 1620; died after 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married John Bursley about 28 Nov 1639 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. John was born about 1600; died before 21 Aug 1660 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tristram married Blanche before 1645. Blanche died after 20 Dec 1666. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Temperance married John Bickford before 1650. John died after 12 Feb 1685 in Oyster River, now Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1626, England

Notes:

Cotton Mather, in his Magnalia Christi Americana:

"Mrs. Elizabeth Heard, a Widow of a Good Estate, a Mother of many Children, and a Daughter of Mr. Hull, a Reverend Minister formerly Living at Piscataqua, now lived at Quochecho. Happening to be at Portsmouth, on the Day before Quochecho was cut off, She Returned thither in the Night, with one Daughter and Three Sons, all masters of Families. When they came near Quochecho, they were astonished, with a prodigious Noise of Indians, Howling, Shooting, Shouting, and Roaring, according to their manner in making an Assault. Their Distress for their Families carried them still further up the River, till they Secretly and Silently passed by some Numbers of the Raging Salvages. They Landed about an Hundred Rods from Major Waldern's Garrison; and running up the Hill, they saw many Lights in the Windows of the Garrison, which they concluded the English within had set up, for the Direction of those who might seek Refuge there. Coming to the Gate, they desired entrance; which not being readily granted, they called Earnestly, and bounced, and knocked, and cried out of their unkindness within, that they would not open to them in this Extremity. No Answer being yet made, they began to doubt, whether all was well; and one of the young men then climbing up the wall, saw a horrible Tawny in the Entry, with a Gun in his Hand. A grievous Consternation Seiz'd now upon them; and Mrs. Heard sitting down without the Gate, through Despair and Faintness, unable to Stir any further, charged her Children to Shift for themselves, for She must unavoidably There End her Days. They finding it impossible to carry her with them, with heavy hearts forsook her; but then coming better to herself, she fled and hid among the Barberry-bushes in the Garden: and then hastning from thence, because the Day-Light advanced, She sheltered herself (though seen by Two of the Indians) in a Thicket of other Bushes, about Thirty Rods from the House. Here she had not been long, before an Indian came towards her, with a Pistol in his Hand: the Fellow came up to her, stared her in the Face, but said nothing to her, nor she to him. He went a little way back, and came again, and Stared at her as before, but said nothing; whereupon she asked what he would have? He still said nothing, but went away to the House Co-hooping, and Returned unto her no more. Being thus unaccountably preserved, She made several Essays to pass the River; but found herself unable to do it; and finding all places on that side the River filled with Blood, and Fire, and hideous Outcries, thereupon she Returned to her old bush, and there poured out her ardent Prayers to God for help in this Distress. She continued in the Bush, until the Garrison was Burnt, and the Enemy was gone; and then she Stole along by the River side, until she came to a Boom, where she passed over. Many sad Effects of Cruelty she Saw left by the Indians in her way; until arriving at Captain Gerish's Garrison, she there found a Refuge from the Storm; and here she soon had the Satisfaction to understand, that her own Garrison, though one of the first that was assaulted, had been bravely Defended and maintained against the Adversary. This Gentlewoman's Garrison was the most Extream Frontier of the Province, and more Obnoxious than any other, and more uncapable of Relief; nevertheless, by her presence and courage, it held out all the War, even for Ten Years together; and the Persons in it have Enjoy'd very Eminent preservations. The Garrison had been deserted, if She had accepted Offers that were made her by her Friends, of Living in more safety at Portsmouth; which would have been a Damage to the Town and Land: but by her Encouragement this Post was thus kept: and She is yet Living in much Esteem among her Neighbours."

From "Elizabeth Heard: Native American Friend" by Maggie MacLean, at History of American Women:

"Elizabeth Hull, daughter of Reverend Joseph Hull, was born in 1626 in England, and married Captain John Heard at York, Maine in 1642. Soon after their marriage, they settled at Dover, New Hampshire. The leader of the colonists at Cochecho (near Dover) was Richard Waldron (Walderne), an Englishman who had emigrated in 1635. In 1642, Waldron owned a large tract of land at the Lower Falls of the Cochecho River where he built a sawmill. That spot became the foundation of the settlement known as Cochecho.

"In 1652, Captain John Heard had grants of land 'under the Great Hill of Cocheco,' and he and Elizabeth built their house on the brow of the Great Hill.

"By 1666, a total of 41 families lived and worked there. Indians became a familiar sight around town when Richard Waldron opened a large trading post, but there were occasional problems with the Indians, because Waldron was not above breaking the laws that forbade selling liquor or firearms to Indians.

"For over half a century following Dover's founding in 1623, the English settlers had co-existed peacefully with the local Pennacook tribe. The Indians helped the colonists to develop the fishing, hunting, and farming skills necessary to survive in New England.

"The Indian chieftain, Passaconaway, was responsible for forming the Penacook confederacy, a unification of local tribes against the hostile Mohawks. Passaconaway's 50 year reign marks one of the most peaceful periods in the New Hampshire province. His son Wonalancet took over leadership of the tribe in 1665 and continued his father's peaceful ways.

"In 1676, many Indians fled Massachusetts due to bloody fighting between a confederation of Indian tribes and English settlers. By September, over 400 Indians were at the Cochecho settlement. Half of them were strangers, the other half were Wonalancet's people. Two companies of Massachusetts soldiers arrived to recapture the escaping Indians. They were ready to fight the Indians, but Major Waldron intervened.

"Waldron agreed that the Massachusetts Indians should be returned to Boston for punishment, but he did not want local, loyal Indians to be harmed in the process. The Indians were invited to assemble close to town for a day of war games. The unsuspecting Indians were surrounded by four militia companies who separated out the local Indians. Over 200 of the Massachusetts Indians were taken back to Boston. Some of them were hanged or sold into slavery.

"Elizabeth Heard saved the life of a young Indian boy that day by concealing him until his would-be slayers had left her house, and then helped him to escape.

"For the next eleven years, tensions mounted between the settlers and the Penacook Indians. The peaceful Chief Wonalancet was replaced by the warlike Kancamagus, who bitterly resented the injustices meted out by English settlers to his people. More and more land was seized from the Indians for paltry payments like a 'peck of corn annually for each family.'

"In 1684, the Governor ordered that the meeting house at Dover be fortified against Indian attacks. Every neighborhood developed at least one fortified blockhouse where people could flee to safety if Indians attacked.

"Five homes at the Cochecho settlement were garrisoned at public expense, including Elizabeth Heard's, which became known as Heard's Garrison. These five sites were chosen because of their locations on the highest knolls of the town. The garrisons were built with foot-thick squared logs impenetrable to bullets and a second story that projected over the lower story by two to three feet.

"This overhang feature was designed to combat Indians who customarily attacked with fire or smoke. A loose board in the overhang could be removed in order to pour boiling water on marauders or on fires below. Each wall also had narrow slits for firearms. The garrisons were also surrounded by an eight foot palisade of large logs set upright in the ground.

"The settlers at Cochecho became frightened by the large number of hostile Indians now living with the local tribe. The settlers took refuge at the blockhouse each night, and during the day, guns were kept close to hand in the fields.

"Advance word that the Pennacooks were massing for an attack on Cochecho was known as far away as Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The vendetta against Waldron was described in a warning letter from Chelmsford. Waldron, aware of the tensions, reportedly laughed it off, telling his townsfolk that he could assemble 100 men simply by lifting his finger.

"On the evening of June 27, 1689, several Indian women asked for shelter at each of the garrison houses, a common practice in peacetime. They were shown how to open the doors and gates in case they wanted to leave in the night. No watch was kept as all the Cochecho families retired for the night.

"During the early hours, the Indian women quietly opened the gates to several hundred Pennacook. Waldron, then 74, is said to have wielded his sword in defense. He was tied to a chair and cut across the chest repeatedly as each warrior symbolically 'crossed out' his trading account with the distrusted merchant. Waldron was forced to fall on his sword, the garrison was burned, and his family killed or captured.

"Elder William Wentworth* was guarding the Heard property while Elizabeth was away. He was awakened by a barking dog and managed to close the gates against attack. Elizabeth Heard--by then a widow--her three sons, her daughter, and their families were all returning from their voyage to Portsmouth with the dawn tide. The smell of smoke and the chilling sound of Indian cries alerted them to their peril. Mrs. Heard was so overcome with fright that she could not go on. She pleaded with her family to flee for their lives, and they left her hidden in some nearby bushes.

"As daylight broke, an Indian spotted Elizabeth in the thicket. He raised his gun and aimed it at her. He stared hard at her face, then silently ran away, never revealing her to his tribesmen. In a curious twist of fate, Elizabeth Heard had saved the life of this Indian in 1676. He had never forgotten her kindness and took this opportunity to repay the favor.

"Mrs. Heard remained hidden in the thicket until all the Indians had left Cochecho. She wearily returned to her home expecting to find burnt ruins. Thanks to her courageous neighbor, William Wentworth, she found her home and family intact.

"Several years passed before Cochecho fully recovered. Houses and mills were rebuilt, but the loss of so many persons (about 25% of the population) was a severe blow to the settlement's prosperity. By 1700 however, the town had begun to resume its former importance. Although Cochecho was occasionally harassed by Indians, it was never again the target of so destructive a raid.

"Elizabeth Hull Heard died at Dover, New Hampshire, on November 30, 1706."

* William Wentworth (1616-1687), also an ancestor of TNH.

More about these events:

Cocheco Massacre, at SeacoastNH.com.

The History of New Hampshire, volume 1, by Jeremy Belknap and John Farmer. Dover, New Hampshire: S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, 1831. Page 128.

Elizabeth married John Heard in 1642 in York, York, Maine. John was born about 1610; died on 17 Jan 1689 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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 vnd^r my hand and Seale the 29th day of Decemb^r 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."

Hopewell married Mary Martin before 1669, and was divorced on 29 Dec 1669. Mary (daughter of John Martin and Esther Roberts) died after 13 Jul 1693. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]